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Essays on Biographies
Title: Charles Wang
Details: Words: 317, Pages: 2... years, or even decades. The employees that work for Wang
get to experience the different aspects of a company, until they reach the
quality of an executive worker. At that point, the are promoted and re-
trained by Wang to insure excellence.
Wang's method of running his company could help him to succeed in a
variety of situations. For example, when Wang wants to retire, he would
not have to worry about the way his company was run. Since he taught his
own executives exactly how to run the company, they will most likely
continue this, even after Wang is working at the company. Also, if Wang
became low on funds, he wouldn't have to fire any of his employees.
Beca ...
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Title: Thomas P. O'Neill
Details: Words: 1788, Pages: 7... something of O'Neill he gave it to them. When
anyone asked him a favor, he would do it. O'Neill served fifty years in public
life and retired with only fifteen thousand dollars to his name. He devoted his
life and his money to the people of Boston.
Tip came of age in the Great Depression, arrived in congress from
Massachusetts in 1952 and "came to power amid the plenty of the '60s and '70s."
(Woodlief 4) He was a rampant liberal who "would usually vote yes on any bill
that helped people (he once voted to put money into an appropriations bill to
study knock knees)." (Gelzinas 6) When Reagan came into office in 1980 big
government began to feel the pinch and ...
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Title: Luciano
Details: Words: 1640, Pages: 6... the legendary Al “Scar-face” Capone, with himself as the Chief Executive Officer. ’s presence demanded respect from everyone and aided in the creation of the American Mafia, a malignant but far-reaching underworld force that, to this day, continues to flourish (Nash 251).
Born to the name Salvatore Luciana on November 24, 1897 in Lercardia Friddi, Sicily, the third child in the Luciana family, little Charles had a penchant for hanging around older kids that contributed to his mischievous behavior. The Lucianas set out for a better life in the great land of America in 1906, where they soon found it to be not so great. He logged his first arrest just a few ...
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Title: Mahatma Gandhi
Details: Words: 457, Pages: 2... and conviction to stand for his beliefs. In short, he/she could be called the guiding light for peace in this world. Gandhi’s concept of nonviolent resistance liberated one nation and sped the end of colonial empires around the world. His marches and fasts fired the imagination of oppressed people everywhere. Millions sought freedom and justice under Mahatma’s guiding light. He proclaimed the power of love, peace and freedom. He fought for the rights of the Indians, for their freedom from the British. His principles surely made a difference in this world. In spite of being treated rudely and paying all sorts of penalties, he was never deterred. Many peopl ...
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Title: Thomas Edison
Details: Words: 2330, Pages: 9... a dull student, and was terrible in math. After three months of school his teacher called him "addled," which means confused or mixed up. Thomas stormed home.(minot, pg1) The next day, Nancy Edison brought Thomas back to school to talk to Reverend Engle. He told her that Thomas couldn’t learn. His mother became so angry at the strict Reverend that she decided to home-school him.(minot 1) After a while his mother, a former teacher herself, recognized his un usual abilities to reason. She quickly got him interested in History and Classic books. Thomas however was strangely attracted to the subject of science. By the age of ten had already been experimenting and ...
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Title: Arnold Schönberg
Details: Words: 264, Pages: 1... In 1902, he received on Richard Strauss' recommendation the popular Liszt-scholarship as well as a, apprenticeship at the Stern conservatory. Before returning to Vienna in 1903, he composed the symphonic poem "Pelleas und Melisande" op 5, where the limits of tonality were appreciably extended.
Schönberg revolutionized modern music by establishing the 12-tone technique of SERIAL MUSIC as an important organizational device. After the end of the war, Schönberg founded the "Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen" (society for private music performances), a new forum for modern music. The goal was to create ideal preconditions for the performance of contempora ...
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Title: Aristotle
Details: Words: 936, Pages: 4... compared to the stars, and in contrast to the celestial bodies, always at rest. For one of his proofs of this latter point, he referred to an empirically testable fact: if the earth were in motion, an observer on it would see the fixed stars as moving, just as he now observes the planets as moving, that is from a stationary earth. However, since this is not the case, the earth must be at rest. To prove that the earth is a sphere, he produced the argument that all earthly substances move towards the center, and thus would eventually have to form a sphere. He also used evidence based on observation. If the earth were not spherical, lunar eclipses would not show segme ...
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Title: Nelson Mandela
Details: Words: 888, Pages: 4... but already two years later he was expelled because he participated in a student strike. Luckily Mandela got a job at daytime so he could study in the evenings, and in 1942 he received his university degree. Mandela has been politically involved since he was a teenager, nad already as a twentysix year old he started his political career in the African National congress - ANC (Black people established the African National Congress in 1912 to fight against apartheid and for civil disobedience). Nelson early became one of the most important leaders in the party because ofhis strong opposition against aparheid. Mandela was jailed for the first time in 1952 for havi ...
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Title: Bill Gates
Details: Words: 1635, Pages: 6... was
expensive. "This is what drove me to the commercial side of the software
business"(Gates 12). Gates, Allen and a few others from Lakeside got entry-level
software programming jobs. One of Gates early programs that he likes to brag
about was written at this time. It was a program that scheduled classes for
students. "I surreptitiously added a few instructions and found myself nearly
the only guy in a class full of girls"(Gates 12).
In 1972 Intel released their first microprocessor chip: the 8008. Gates
attempted to write a version of BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code) for the new Intel chip, but the chip did not contain enough
transistor ...
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Title: Mahatma Gandhi: Man Of Peace
Details: Words: 2145, Pages: 8... that
Gandhi lived there were over two dozen religions. Gandhi learned to accept all of the
different religions at a very young age. Gandhi’s child hood was not very different from
that of a normal child, the only exemption is that Gandhi always felt a sense of
responsibility and duty. When Gandhi was seven years old his father got a new job as
prime minister of Rajkot. Gandhi continued his education and his life as if nothing had
ever changed, until he was married at the age of thirteen in 1882.
Kastura Makinji was Gandhi’s first wife. They were both the same age, and just
like Gandhi’s’ mother Kastura could not read or write. She w ...
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