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Study the biographies of people who have significantly influenced global change. Such people have appeared at all times throughout human history to give the world something new and unexplored.

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  • Biography of Henry Ford

    Biography of Henry Ford

    Henry Ford was one of the most brilliant entrepreneurs in creating the automobile assembly line, it was his controversial characteristics and unorthodox approach towards administrating the Ford Motor Company which resulted in the conglomeration of one of the most successful corporations in the world. At the turn of the century everything was booming! The growth of the economy and stock market increased the job opportunities as well as morals. As a result of this industrial

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Bred
  • Biography of Henry Ford

    Biography of Henry Ford

    Biography of Henry Ford Henry Ford was one of the most brilliant entrepreneurs in creating the automobile assembly line, it was his controversial characteristics and unorthodox approach towards administrating the Ford Motor Company which resulted in the conglomeration of one of the most successful corporations in the world. At the turn of the century everything was booming! The growth of the economy and stock market increased the job opportunities as well as morals. As a

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Victor
  • Biography of Ibn Abdul Wahhaab

    Biography of Ibn Abdul Wahhaab

    SHAYKH MUHAMMAD IBN ABDUL-WAHHAAB (RA) In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. All praise is to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Peace and blessings of Allah be upon his slave and Messenger and the best of Creation, our leader and guide, Muhammad Bin Abdullah, and upon his family, Companions and followers. A great man, an outstanding reformer and a zealous preacher who appeared in the Arabian peninsula in the twelfth century A.H -

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Biography of John Madden

    Biography of John Madden

    Born on the 10th of April 1936 in Austin, Minnesota, John Madden moved to Daly City, California with his family at an early age. He was always an avid athlete and sports enthusiast as a child, playing several sports throughout high school. At California Polytechnic College, Madden played on both the offensive and defensive lines for its football team and was a catcher for the school's baseball team. In terms of schooling, Madden received his

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Bred
  • Biography of Kim Jong-Un

    Biography of Kim Jong-Un

    Drinking Age The debate about whether the drinking age in the United States was set too high is getting hot and hotter every day. Interestingly, the US considers 18-year olds as adults but one wonders why keep the same adults up to the age of twenty-one to seep a glass of beer. The recent arrest and prosecution of the twin daughters of former President Bush aged 19 years in Texas for violating alcohol regulations has

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    Submitted: November 30, 2015 By: izakskip
  • Biography of Mahatma Gandhi

    Biography of Mahatma Gandhi

    BIOGRAPHY OF MAHATMA GANDHI : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India. He became one of the most respected spiritual and political leaders of the 1900's. GandhiJI helped free the Indian people from British rule through nonviolent resistance, and is honored by Indians as the father of the Indian Nation. The Indian people called Gandhiji 'Mahatma', meaning Great Soul. At the age of 13 Gandhi married Kasturba, a girl the

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Biography of Mahatma Gandhi

    Biography of Mahatma Gandhi

    BIOGRAPHY OF MAHATMA GANDHI : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India. He became one of the most respected spiritual and political leaders of the 1900's. GandhiJI helped free the Indian people from British rule through nonviolent resistance, and is honored by Indians as the father of the Indian Nation. The Indian people called Gandhiji 'Mahatma', meaning Great Soul. At the age of 13 Gandhi married Kasturba, a girl the

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: David
  • Biography of Mozart

    Biography of Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756. His first two names (Johannes Chrysostomus) belonged to a saint and Theophilus was given to him by his godfather and changed to Amade or Amadeus later in his life. Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, and his only sibling was an older sister called Maria Anna. Mozart's father Leopold Mozart was one of Europe's

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    Submitted: May 9, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Biography of Oprah Gail Winfrey

    Biography of Oprah Gail Winfrey

    1.0 Biography of Oprah Gail Winfrey Oprah Gail Winfrey is a very famous and familiar name worldwide. Born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States, to unwed teenage parents was initially named Orpah based on the Book of Ruth in the Bible and later changed into Oprah for easier pronunciation. Her mother, Vernita Lee, an eighteen-year-old housemaid and her father, Vernon Winfrey was twenty and in the armed forces when Oprah was

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    Submitted: May 12, 2010 By: Steve
  • Biography of Oprah Winfrey

    Biography of Oprah Winfrey

    Oprah Gail Winfrey, a famous black writer, talk show host, and actress, was born on January 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi .She was born to unwed, teenage parents. Her mother Vernita Lee was eighteen and a housemaid. Her father Vernon Winfrey was twenty and in the armed forces. Winfrey was named Orpah from the Book of Ruth in the Bible, but her name was later changed to Oprah because it was easier to pronounce. As

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    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Biography of Paul Taylor

    Biography of Paul Taylor

    Paul Taylor Biography Paul Taylor was born July 29, 1930 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He lived a very lonely childhood during the depression-era in America and was often separated from his parents. After attending Syracuse University on scholarships in painting and swimming, he began to study dance. Two years later he joined the Martha Graham Dance Company, where he performed in a number of pieces, including Clytemnestra, Alcestis, and Phaedra. Taylor established his own dance company

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Janna
  • Biography of Rizal

    Biography of Rizal

    Travels Rizal's life is one of the most documented of the 19th century due to the vast and extensive records written by and about him.[15] Most everything in his short life is recorded somewhere, being himself a regular diarist and prolific letter writer, much of these materials having survived. His biographers, however, have faced the difficulty of translating his writings because of Rizal's habit of switching from one language to another. They drew largely from

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Biography of William Shakespeare

    Biography of William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare Biography HЬ_2004-06-13 William Shakespeare was born to John Shakespeare and mother Mary Arden April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. There is no record of his birth, but his baptism was recorded by the church. His father was a prominent alderman in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, and was later granted a coat of arms by the College of Heralds. Shakespeare attended the Stratford Grammar School, and did not proceed to Oxford or Cambridge. The next record

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Biography on Julius Caesar

    Biography on Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar A Man of Great Stature Julius Caesar was a strong leader of the Romans who changed the course of the history for the Roman world decisively and irreversibly. With his courage and strength, he created a strong empire and guided the empire for almost 20 years. His life was short, but had many adventures. I will tell of some of this man's remarkable life. He did many things, therefore, I will only discuss

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    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Jack
  • Biography on Julius Caesar

    Biography on Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar A Man of Great Stature Julius Caesar was a strong leader of the Romans who changed the course of the history for the Roman world decisively and irreversibly. With his courage and strength, he created a strong empire and guided the empire for almost 20 years. His life was short, but had many adventures. I will tell of some of this man’s remarkable life. He did many things, therefore, I will only discuss

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Jon
  • Biography on Plato

    Biography on Plato

    Plato Plato was born in Athens, in May or December into a moderately well to do family. His father was named Ariston and his mother Perictione. His family claimed descent from the ancient Athenian kings. Plato's own real name was Aristocles. however, his nickname, Plato, originated from wrestling. Since "Plato" means broad, it is thought that it refers either to his physical appearance or to his wrestling stance or style. Plato became a pupil

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Edward
  • Biography: George Orwell

    Biography: George Orwell

    George Orwell was the pen name of British author Eric Arthur Blair, born on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, India where his father, Richard Walmesley worked as a civil servant for the British Empire. Orwell’s mother, Ida Mabel Blair, moved him and his sister Marjorie to England a year later as that they could be brought up in a more traditional Christian environment. Orwell went to prep schools and went on to Eton College. Orwell

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Biology Review

    Biology Review

    Look up test banks and worksheets Ch 6 Cell and Organelles 1. Functions of the organelles Ch 7: Cell membranes 2. Composition of the membrane 3. Orientation of the phospholipids 4. Movement of solutes down gradients=_________ 5. Movement of water down gradients=_________ 6. Movement of solutes up gradients = _________ transport 7. Facilitated diffusion 8. Animals cells in hypotonic, hypertonic & isotonic solutions 9. Plant cells in hypotonic, hypertonic & isotonic solutions 10. Bulk transport

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    Submitted: February 24, 2015 By: emcjail
  • Birth and Upbringing - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    Birth and Upbringing - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    Birth And Upbringing MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, a small town on the western coast of India, which was then one of the many tiny states in Kathiawar. He was born in middle class family of Vaishya caste. His grandfather had risen to be the Dewan or Prime Minister of Porbandar and was succeeded by his son Karamchand who was the father of Mohandas. Putlibai, Mohandas's mother, was a

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Jack
  • Birthmark

    Birthmark

    The Birth-mark IN THE latter part of the last century, there lived a man of science--an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy--who, not long before our story opens, had made experience of a spiritual affinity, more attractive than any chemical one. He had left his laboratory to the care of an assistant, cleared his fine countenance from the furnace-smoke, washed the stain of acids from his fingers, and persuaded a beautiful woman to

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    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Jack
  • Bismarck

    Bismarck

    Bismarck Bismarck, Prince Otto Edward Leopold von (1815-1898), Prusso-German statesman, who was the architect and first chancellor (1871-1890) of the German Empire. Bismarck was born on April 1, 1815, at Schönhausen, north-west of Berlin, the son of a landowning nobleman (Junker) and a prosperous bourgeois mother: his multifaceted background accounts for the blend of intellectual subtlety and Junker parochialism in his character. He studied law, and in 1836 entered government service. Unhappy in his subordinate

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    Submitted: December 20, 2008 By: Jessica
  • Black

    Black

    For decades, American citizens have been complaining about how outsourcing has ruined their lives and that it is only going to harm America and its economy. Unfortunately, jobs are going to be lost and the unemployment rate may rise due to globalization. However, the benefits of globalization are infinite. People in other parts of the world will achieve a greater life than they ever thought possible due to the factories built in their countries. Due

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    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Black like Me

    Black like Me

    John Howard Griffin, both author of Black Like Me and prominent journalist, sets out to discover what life was really like as a black man in the Deep South. He darkened his skin, using sunlamps and medication, in order to study just that. He was most likely not ready for what he was about to embark upon, including harsh discrimination and denied civil rights. Griffin encounters many racial barriers that exist between whites and

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Jon
  • Blacks in the 80’s

    Blacks in the 80’s

    Ronald Ervin McNair, was born on October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina to Carl and Pearl McNair. He attended North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, where, in 1971, he graduated magna cum laude with a BS degree in physics. In 1976 he earned his Ph.D. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. McNair's many distinctions include: Presidential Scholar (1967-71), Ford Foundation Fellow (1971-74), and National Fellowship Fund Fellow (1974-75).

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Yan
  • Blaise Pascal

    Blaise Pascal

    Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He had many important contributions to the mathematics and physics such as: the construction of mechanical calculators, considerations on probability theory, the study of fluids, concepts of the pressure and vacuum, and the Pascal Triangle. After a divine experience in 1654, he devoted himself to meditating and writing philosophy. His many discoveries in the field of mathematics have made him one of the

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Mike
  • Blake’s Cry for a Voice

    Blake’s Cry for a Voice

    Franklin Garcia Professor Castillo English 1302.013 November 4, 2002 Blake’s cry for a voice William Blake had a vision. It was a thought that changed the way poetry and writing would be viewed from here to eternity. Blake’s point of views and associations with the characters represents a change in the way the reader dictates who the victim is really and who is not. In Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” from the Songs of Innocence and

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Anna
  • Blank

    Blank

    structure, culture and human resource/diversity issues for international strategy development • Demonstrate and evaluate the theories of internationalisation • Show an appreciation of the problematic aspects of analysing organisational and national culture along with gaining understanding of managing values inherent in delivering CSR strategies. 4.2 COGNITIVE AND INTELLECTUAL SKILLS Students will develop intellectual skills, such as: • A critical awareness to undertake analysis of complex, incomplete or contradictory areas of knowledge and communicate their

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    Submitted: May 8, 2011 By: jokiaho
  • Bloom

    Bloom

    Boston Globe, September 24, 2003 Dumbing down American readers, By Harold Bloom THE DECISION to give the National Book Foundation's annual award for "distinguished contribution" to Stephen King is extraordinary, another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life. I've described King in the past as a writer of penny dreadfuls, but perhaps even that is too kind. He shares nothing with Edgar Allan Poe. What he is is an immensely inadequate

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Blues Boy King

    Blues Boy King

    Riley B. King better known as B.B. King was born on September 16th 1925 to a family of sharecropping farmers near a small town named Itta Bena in the Mississippi Delta. King’s parents Albert and Nora Ella King separated when he was five years old and shortly after his mother moved to Kilmicheal Mississippi where Riley spent most of his time living with is grandmother. By age seven King was now working the field

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    Submitted: May 22, 2010 By: Andrew
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    Submitted: May 5, 2011 By: fdsfdghgfg
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