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- 1941: W.E.B Du Bois
- W.E.B Du Bois "One ever feels his two-ness. An American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." This was how William E. B. Du ... Negroes of Philadelphia. After living in the slums of Pennsylvania, he published Philadelphia Negro about the lifestyle of a Negro in Philadelphia. Du Bois spent the next 13 years teaching history and economics at Atlanta University, writing many books including: The Negro in Business, The Negro Artisan, Notes on a Negro Crime, and many others. All his books at this time dealt with Negro history and their living conditions in the late 1890's to 1910's. In 1900, W.E.B. Du Bois attended the first Pan-African Conference in London. After attending ...
- 1942: Lyndon Johnson
- ... his ranch in Texas. Also, Lyndon and his wife Claudia (Lady Bird) Johnson held formal and informal dances at the white house. His presidency left added a lot in the history books. If it were not for his leadership and ideas, many parts of society today would not exist.(Peter Lisagor, 148-152) "We have suffered a loss that cannot be ... S. planes to bomb North Vietnam's torpedo boat bases. In the spring and summer of 1965, he ordered the first U.S. combat troops into South Vietnam to protect American bases there and to stop the Communists from overrunning the country. America stepped up the bombing of North Vietnam. Casualties and the cost of the war increased sporadically. By 1968 ... have been near the top of the list. Unfortunately everything started to collapse near the end mainly because of his involvements with Vietnam. His many achievements left a mark in history. If it were not for him, many civil rights would not exist. He added on two whole cabinet departments and appointed two of the first Negro government officials. These ...
- 1943: Ty Cobb
- ... better stay out of it. It's...a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest" (Ward and Burns 64). Although Ty Cobb was possibly the greatest player in baseball history, many people would consider him its worst person. Tyrus Raymond Cobb was born December 18, 1886 in The Narrows, Georgia. His parents named him after the ancient Phoenician city of ... him into the dugout and then tried to strangle the man's wife when she came to his aid (Ward and Burns 64). In 1926 retired pitcher Dutch Leonard told American League president Ban Johnson that near the end of the 1919 season, Leonard and Tiger teammate Cobb, along with two Cleveland Indians, had arranged to throw a game and bet ... most players around the league, and on October 9, 1910, he found out just how much. Cobb and Cleveland's Nap Lajoie were in a dead-heat tie for the American League batting title. Cobb sat out that day's doubleheader. His teammates were angry at him, knowing he was just trying to keep his average high by sitting out. ...
- 1944: Herman Melville
- ... which had destroyed his leg, Melville created one of the great figures of literature; in the book as a whole, he produced one of the finest novels written by an American, comparable to the best in any language. As Melville's work became more profound, it lost its appeal to the average reader, and its originality and symbolic meaning escaped most ... He kept on writing until his death in 1891 but was virtually ignored. Only in the 1920s did the critics rediscover him and give him his merited place in the history of American literature. His "Billy Budd, Foretopman," now considered one of his best stories, was not published until 1924.
- 1945: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... 1910 with the passing of Haley’s comet. Clemens often used prejudice as a building block for the plots of his stories. Clemens even said,” The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” There are many other instances in which Clemens uses prejudice as a foundation for the entertainment of his writings such as this quote he ... boondocks used to talk, Clemens only applied the argot to Blacks and not to Whites throughout the novel. There is not one sentence in the treatise spoken by an African American that is not comprised of broken English. The but in spite of that, the broken English does add an entraining piece of culture to the milieu. The second way Clemens ... differentiates people in the novel of different skin color is that all Blacks in the book are portrayed as stupid and uneducated. The most blatant example is where the African American character Jim is kept prisoner for weeks while he is a dupe in a childish game that Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn play with him. Clemens spends the last ...
- 1946: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
- ... member and fellow of the Indian Academy of Science, the Chinese Physical Society, the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the National Institute of Sciences in India, the American Physical Society, the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in India, the Royal Danish Academy, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of ... predictions made by Dirac are still untested because his theoretical work was so far reaching, but many other predictions have been verified, assuring him of a special place in the history of physics.[6] Dirac was three years old when Einstein published his famous papers on relativity in 1905 and a year old when his predecessor Joseph Larmor began his tenure ... Dirac's successor to the Lucasian Chair. Dirac offered the first course in quantum mechanics in Britain, entitled Quantum Theory (Recent Developments) . Among his students was J. R. Oppenheimer, an American, who later on was in charge of the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bomb.[10] Dirac's work should be understood in the context of the development ...
- 1947: Winston Churchill
- ... 1874. His father was Lord Randolph Churchill, who descended directly from the 1st duke of Marlborough, of whom Winston was to write a biography. His mother was Jennie Jerosme, an American. Churchill's childhood was unhappy. He spent most of his time at school, something he didn't really love. His teachers caracterized him as bright, but stubborn and obstinate. He loved to read history and poetry, however, and was fascinated by soldiers and battles. From childhood he had an extraordinary memory. Winston Churchhill didn't want to go to university. Instead, he enrolled in ... minister of Great Britain. Sir Winston's last ten years, marked by a worse and worse health, were occupied by occasional travel, a little painting, and the publication of his "History of the English Speaking People" (1956-58). This was the last of his many notable writings, which included "Lord Randolph Churchill" (1906), "The World Crisis" (1923-29), "My Early ...
- 1948: Grand Avenue Masks
- ... in the novel Grand Avenue, by Greg Sarris, are wearing masks. Masks that conceal themselves and their culture in an attempt to fit into the world that has enveloped their history and stifled their heritage. The key to these masks is the eyes. The eyes of the characters in the novel tell stories. The dispair of the Native Americans is first ... was seeing something she didn t want to see and couldn t look away from (p.4) Faye, like many inhabitants of the novel, seems helplessly focused on the sordid history of her family and the poison that seems to infect their very souls. She is obsessed to the point of madness and this poison is best described by Jasmine when ... dispair of the Indians, it is the eyes of Alice, as told by Nellie Copaz in the story The Water Place, that show the pride and honor of the Native American people. There is nothing there, nothing in her eyes that gets between me and that picture. No stories about Nellie Copaz. If she s heard the stories, the haven ...
- 1949: Winston Churchill: A Biography
- ... 1874. His father was Lord Randolph Churchill, who descended directly from the 1st duke of Marlborough, of whom Winston was to write a biography. His mother was Jennie Jerosme, an American. His inspirational life brings hope and guidance, he was a martyr for democracy in a time when Europe was in shambles, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill is the person of the ... tediousness. He spent most of his time at school, something he didn't take seriously. His teachers characterized him as bright, but stubborn and obstinate. He avidly loved to read history and poetry, however, and was fascinated by the glories of battle. From childhood he had an extraordinary memory, that he frequently used to memorize stanza after stanza of poetry. Winston ... minister of Great Britain. Sir Winston's last ten years, marked by a worse and worse health, were occupied by occasional travel, a little painting, and the publication of his "History of the English Speaking People" (1956-58). This was the last of his many notable writings, which included "Lord Randolph Churchill" (1906), "The World Crisis" (1923-29), "My Early ...
- 1950: William Henry Gates III
- ... in China alone. In 1996, while redeploying Microsoft around the Internet, Gates thoroughly revised The Road Ahead to reflect his view that interactive networks are a major milestone in human history. The paperback second edition has also become a bestseller. Gates is donating his proceeds from the book to a non-profit fund that supports teachers worldwide who are incorporating computers ... jeans, and spend each day, from morn till night, tapping away at personal-computer keyboards. As I myself have often experienced of late, when you exchange business cards with an American you nearly always see, imprinted on the card along with the phone and fax numbers, an e-mail number, as well. When the person inquires, "What is your e-mail ... be. Because with his economic stature, and powerful ideas, he will be able to change the world. I believe he is one of the most magnificent men in our recent history, to be compared to Hitler, Rockefeller, Martin Luther King, and many other influential people. He has influenced me personally, just with the use of computers in our everyday lives, ( ...
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