... was banned, which meant he could only see one person at a time, and he could not leave the country for at least five years. During his ban, Biko was caught going to a white area and he was arrested. While in prison, Stephen was severely beaten to death, but the police said that his death took place because he went on a hunger strike. Stephen Biko achieved many great feats during his life. One of these feats was his acceptance to the University of Natal. He entered the institute to study medicine, though he did not complete the course because of his political activities. Mr. Biko also put forth many ideas to help the black people understand what the whites w ...
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... what it is, simple English, make it rhyme and put a backbeat on it, and express yourself as simply [and] straightforwardly as possible." His most fully realized statement, as a solo artist was 1970's /Plastic Ono Band. Lennon's first solo album, it followed several avant-garde sound collages recorded toward the end of the Beatles era with his wife and collaborator, Yoko Ono. The raw, confessional nature of Plastic Ono Band reflected the primal-scream therapy that Lennon and Ono had been undergoing with psychologist Arthur Janov. There were, in fact, numerous facets to Lennon's character captured in the ongoing diary of his life in song. Many of his post-Beatles com ...
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... told him that he was a writer. He believed her, and continued to think of himself as one. Later, a teacher at Fitchburg State College was so impressed with one of Cormier's stories that she submitted it to a magazine; it became his first published work. After college, Cormier went on to write commercials for a local radio station, and soon switched to newspaper work. He was a writer and editor at the Fitchburg Sentinel for 23 years, where he won three major journalism awards. He later wrote short stories for popular magazines such as McCall's and the Saturday Evening Post. Cormier married in 1948, and despite his own childhood experiences, he and his wife sent t ...
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... and the new natural philosophy that treated nature as a complicated machine. Almost immediately, still under the age of 25, he made fundamental discoveries that were instrumental in his career science. The Fluxional Method, Newton's first achievement was in mathematics. He generalized the methods that were being used to draw tangents to curves and to calculate the area swept by curves. He recognized that the two procedures were inverse operations. By joining them in what he called the fluxional method, Newton developed in 1666 a kind of mathematics that is known as calculus. Calculus was a new and powerful method that carried modern mathematics above the leve ...
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... by Catulus as pater patriae, "father of his country". This was the climax of his career. At the end of 60, declined Caesar's invitation to join the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, and also Caesar's offer in 59 of a place on his staff in Gaul. When Publius Clodius, whom had antagonized, became tribune in 58, was in danger, and in March fled Rome. In 57, thanks to the activity of Pompey and particularly the tribune Milo, he was recalled on August 4. landed at Brundisium on that day and was acclaimed all along his route to Rome, where he arrived a month later. Pompey renewed his compact with Caesar and Crassus at Luca in April 56. then ag ...
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... first essay, "The Seasons," at the tender age of ten, while attending Concord Academy (Derleth 4). In 1833, at the age of sixteen, Henry David was accepted to Harvard University, but his parents could not afford the cost of tuition so his sister, Helen, who had begun to teach, and his aunts offered to help. With the assistance of his family and the beneficiary funds of Harvard he went to Cambridge in August 1833 and entered Harvard on September first. "He [Thoreau] stood close to the top of his class, but he went his own way too much to reach the top" (5). In December 1835, Thoreau decided to leave Harvard and attempt to earn a living by teaching, ...
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... for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th. But soon after, a family tradgedy that would change him forever. On the 5th of July in 1844 his father became ill and was hospitalized. It was unknown what he had. From that day Chris was dedicated to fighting illness'. He has cured 3 illness' in his life, one that belonged to his father, Ratestia. The other two, emphasema and lung elestia. He also played a big role in the treatment of cancer. Even though they did not have much technology back then, he still played a major role in he exposing of its effects and how it works. When he was 35, he had a masters and 2 doctors! He also went to 2 more collage and earned a nobel prize! When he wa ...
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... Indians in South Africa suffered many disabilities. For instance, an Indian “had to carry a pass if he appeared on the streets after 9 p.m.”(Pg. 24). Gandhi felt this was completely unfair and by the time he had finished his campaign against colour prejudice in South Africa, “the three pound tax on farm indentured labourers was annulled, Hindu, Muslim and Parsi marriages were declared valid; free Indians and their wives could continue to come into the country from India” (Pg. 47-48). Gandhi achieved this status for Indians in South Africa by a method called “Satyagraha” or “passive resistance”. This involved a non-violent means of refusing to co-operate with the ...
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... Nicomedes of Bithynia. During the conquest of the island Lesbos, Caesar gained a prize for bravery. Later he was captured by pirates and paid the usual ransom of 25 talents (500 kg) of silver. When Sulla (the dictator in Rome) died, Caesar felt safe to return to Italy where he started a career as a criminal lawyer. In 75 BC he went to Rhodes for more education and was once again captured by pirates, who asked the usual tariff. Caesar demanded it doubled and threatened to kill them. After the ransom was paid, he defeated the bandits and had them crucified. After continuing his studies, they were quickly interrupted when Mithridates of Pontus attacked Asia Min ...
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... in Huntingdon, England in 1599. His father, who was active in local affairs, had been a member of one of Queen Elizabeth's parliaments. Robert Cromwell died when his son was 18, but his widow lived to the age of 89. Oliver went to the local grammar school and then for a year attended Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After his father died he left Cambridge to go care for his mother and sisters but it is believed that he studies at Lincoln's Inn in London, where gentlemen could acquire a smattering of law. In 1620 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Bourchier, a merchant in London. They had five sons and four daughters. (Kathe, 1984) Both his father and moth ...
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