Biographies
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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Bill Gates: Entrepreneur
"Bill Gates is a modern business phenomenon: the greatest of the cyber-tycoons. His is not simply a story of technical brilliance and enormous wealth; it is one of remarkable business vision and an obsessive desire to win. It is also about a leadership style that is radically different to anything the business world has seen before." Dearlove, D. (1998) William Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington, US, on October 28, 1955. His father, William
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Bill Keane
Bill Keane Kaushal Desai Bill Keane was born in New York and from upper middle class. He studied at Govt College and then he pursued MBA from Stanford University. His Initial job was with international Consulting firm. His first assignment was with Lyon, Churchman and Associates (LCA), West Coast importers of Diamonds. After his first assignment he joined the same company. After some years he became the managing director of Szabo Diamonds in Szabo. Szabo
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Bill Watterson
Bill Watterson was born on July 5, 1958, to the loving parents of Kathryn and James G. Watterson. Bill has a younger brother named Thomas, who was a great contributor to Bill’s imagination. When Bill was six years old, he moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Here is where most of the Calvin and Hobbes adventures would take place. In 1980 Bill graduated from Kenyon College. He graduated with a BA in political science. Once he
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Billie Holiday
Billie was born to the name, Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915. She was born in Philadelphia but grew up in the Fell's Point section of Baltimore. Her mother, was just 13 at the time of her birth; her father, was 15. Holidays' teenage parents, Sadie Harris (aka Fagan) and probable father, Clarence Holiday, never married, and they did not live together for a long time. Clarence, a banjo and guitar player worked with Fletcher
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Billy Joel
Billy Joel, an excellent pianist, became an exrodinary success due to his sensational and upbeat tempo. “They’re sharing a drink they call loneliness, but it’s better than drinking alone.” A simple but yet meaningful quote uttered by a great man, music geniuse and much more. The man who said this was Billy Joel; the quote was first heard in one of his most famouse songs “Piano Man” Born on the ninth of May 1949 in
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Bio
My name is Guillermo Molina. I'm 38 years old. I live in San Salvador, El Salvador. This is my third online class, I just finished my second yesterday (CIS/319) and I enjoyed too much. I enjoy watching TV, listen 80's old songs, play soccer, and play video games with my daughter and my little child. I Work for Calleja, the biggest supermarket retail business company in my country. I'm MIS and my usually activities are
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Bio
Hello my name is Isaac Perez a student at The University of Phoenix. There are many aspects that make up who I am. First are the physical aspects the traits you can make out through sight. The other part of me is the inner me the part you may not see but is here all the same. The last part that makes me is events that have formed my life, which has shaped me to
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Bio
Pastor Jamerson is a servant at Christ Temple Baptist Church under the leadership of Overseer, Dr. Devay Myatt, Sr. where he serves as Pastor of Youth Ministries. On November 5, 2000 at the age of 26, Elder Jamerson accepted his call to the ministry. God confirmed the call on his life during an intercessory prayer session. For the next few years Elder Jamerson served as a Deacon of the New Jerusalem Full Gospel Baptist Church,
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Bio Silent Spring
The modern environmentalist movement was launched at the beginning of June 1962, when excerpts from what would become Rachel Carson’s anti-chemical landmark Silent Spring were published in The New Yorker. "Without this book, the environmental movement might have been long delayed or never have developed at all," declared then-Vice President Albert Gore in his introduction to the 1994 edition. The foreword to the 25th anniversary edition accurately declared, "It led to environmental legislation at every
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Biochemistry
Imran Arif BIO 203.03 Pre-lab 7 Vocabulary Systole- The time at which ventricular contraction occurs. Atrium- The upper chambers of the heart. Ventricles- The lower chambers of the heart which pump blood to the body. Pacemaker- An object or substance that influences the rate at which a certain phenomenon occurs, often used alone to indicate the natural cardiac pacemaker. Sinoatrial Node- The impulse generating (pacemaker) tissue located in the right atrium. Sinus Venosus- An enlarged
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Biografia De Jorge Ramos
Biografia de Jorge Ramos En primer lugar Jorge Ramos es una importante persona en Latino América. Jorge Gilbert Ramos Ávalos nació en la ciudad de México el 16 de Marzo 1958. Ramos nunca siento en casa en ningun lado, fue por los noches presentando unos noticieros, trajeados y encorbatados, podría suponer que su vida resultaba. Personas critican porque no hablaba el castellano aprobado por la Real Academica de la Lengua Española, dijeron que hablaba espanglish.
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Biographical Influence Steven Pressfield
Gates of Fire With numerous ties, between Pressfield and his Spartan character Xeo, Steven Pressfield somehow turns his own life experiences into a historically based novel. After the tragic death of his parents, Xeo wonders off with his cousin, whom he loves, in hopes of finding a way to redeem his mother and father. After hurting his hand, because he was caught stealing, therefore he was stabbed right through the hands in a sacrificial manner,
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Biographical Report: Count Basie
William James Basie: A Brief History of the Count o’ Swing During the heyday of the swing era, many big bands flourished. Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, and Chick Webb fronted big bands that could swing, but none of these legends could swing like the Count Basie Orchestra. Count Basie proved that a big band could still swing, without losing the spontaneity so essential to jazz. William James Basie was born August 21, 1904
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Biography
Michael Schumacher was born January 3, 1969, to parents Rolf and Elisabeth Schumacher, in Hurt-Hermulheim, Germany. When Schumacher was 4 years old, his father gave him a pedal kart that he fixed up for him, inspired by some men in the Schumachers' neighborhood who put a kart together themselves. This became Rolf Schumacher's hobby, much to the advantage of son Michael. Schumacher's luck continued. He crashed into a lamppost, something that would otherwise seem like
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Biography
During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became President. He told reporters, "I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me." Truman was born in
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Biography - Cesc Fabregas
Biography- Cesc Fabregas The rise to stardom of a young soccer sensation by the name of “Francesc Cesc Fabregas Soler” has been nothing short of remarkable. Better known as Cesc Fabregas, Cesc has achieved more in his career at the slender age of 20 years old then most soccer players have achieved in their whole careers, and yet his skills and stardom can only increase with more seasons behind him Cesc Fabregas was born on
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Biography - John Graunt
Biography - John Graunt John Graunt was born April 24th1620 and died April 18th 1674 of jaundice. He was the oldest of seven or eight children. His father Henry was a draper who had moved to London from Hampshire and his mother was named Mary. In February 1641 he married Mary Scott, they had one son and three daughters. He was educated in English, then he learned his father's profession at age 16.He taught himself
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Biography Alice Walker
Nicole Johnson EN102 Professor Erin Severs World Famous novelist, poet and feminist Alice Walker, She is best known for her work in the Civil Rights department as well as several feminist Movements. Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the youngest in a family of eight children. Her father lee Walker, worked as a sharecropper, her mother as a maid to support their family only taking in Seventeen dollars each week. In
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Biography of Abraham Maslow
There have been many great psychologists, psychoanalysts, immunologists, endocrinologists, and psychotherapists that have made a name for themselves here in America. Sigmund Freud, Carl Rogers, Stanley Milgram, Walter Cannon, and Janice Glaser are just a few. However, the one who piques my interest more than Freud or any other person who has extensively studied psychology as in depth and thoroughly as the ones above mentioned is Mr. Abraham Harold Maslow. Out of all psychologists in
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Biography of Albert H.
Finale words of Albert h. Where do we all go when "It" happens? I dare not mention it, it happened 1 year 3 months and 15 days ago. They left me everything, all the money, fame and problems. I don’t blame them for dying, who would want to live with me anyway. My name is Albert and I lived on 100 Washburn rd. in a town 4 kilometers off of Dublin, Ireland; a dead
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Biography of Andree Putman
Biography of Andree Putman Andree Putman, one of the world best known contemporary designers was born in Paris, 1925. Every career that Ms. Putman has attempted she has excelled in. Therefore, many would say her style is eclectic ranging from interiors to perfume. Throughout all of her projects she has “worked with the idea of making beautiful things accessible to everyone”. Ms. Putman is a one of a kind designer who has reached beyond the
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Biography of Benjamin Franklin
Biography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was a modest man who had many jobs in his lifetime. This may help explain his large array of inventions and new methods of working various jobs. He did everything from making cabbage-growing more efficient to making political decisions, to being the first person to study and chart the Gulf Stream movement in the Atlantic Ocean. Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706. He was the
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Biography of Booker T. Washington
BIOGRAPHY OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON This African-American prominent, was well known for his contributions on education for African-American children. Booker T. was born on April 5th, 1856 in Franklin county Virginia. He was raised by his mother, who was a slave that belonged to James Burroughs, a small farmer in Virginia. Brooks Washington got his name from his step-father, who was named Washington Ferguson. Booker’s family moved to Malden, Virginia after the civil war,
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Biography of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born February 7, 1812 in Landport, Portsea, to a middle-class family. His father John Dickens worked as a clerk in the local Navy Pay-Office, and his mother was Elizabeth. Soon after his birth, Charles moved to Norfolk, temporarily, and then to London and finally to Chatham. (Bloom 1-3) A few years later, in 1821, the Navy made internal reforms, and Charles's father lost his job, leaving the family poor and without steady
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Biography of D. H. Lawrence
English novelist, story writer, critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. Lawrence's doctrines of sexual freedom arose obscenity trials, which are still part of the relationship between literature and society. He saw sex and intuition as a key to undistorted perception of reality and a way unburden individual's frustrations and maladjustment to industrial culture. In 1912 he wrote: "What the blood feels, and believes, and says, is always true."
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Biography of Emily Dickinson
Biography Text One of the finest lyric poets in the English language, the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a keen observer of nature and a wise interpreter of human passion. Her family and friends published most of her work posthumously. American poetry in the 19th century was rich and varied, ranging from the symbolic fantasies of Edgar Allan Poe through the moralistic quatrains of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to the revolutionary free verse of Walt
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Biography of Ernest Miller Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls By Ernest Hemingway Biography of Ernest Miller Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was born in July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was a doctor, and his mother was musically trained. Ernest was the second of six children. His mother hoped Ernest would be influenced by her musical interests but he preferred fishing and hunting trips with his father, this love of adventure trips would later be reflected in many
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Biography of Fidel Castro
Cuban leader, Fidel Castro (Ruz) was born in either 1926 or 1927 - depending whom you believe. Castro has survived nine US presidents, and is the third-longest serving head of state (after the Queen and the King of Thailand). In August 2006 Castro give up power temporarily (to his younger brother Raul) because of a suspected stomach ulcer and internal bleeding. In his younger days Fidel Castro was a lawyer in Havana fighting cases for
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Biography of Genghis Khan
Biography of Genghis Khan The old world had many great leaders. Alexander the Great, Hannibal and even Julius Caesar met with struggle on their rise to power. Perhaps Genghis Khan was the most significant of all these rulers. To prove that Genghis Khan was the greatest ruler, we must go back to the very beginning of his existence. We must examine such issues as; Genghis№s struggle for power/how his life as a child would affect
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Biography of Genghis Khan
Biography of Genghis Khan The old world had many great leaders. Alexander the Great, Hannibal and even Julius Caesar met with struggle on their rise to power. Perhaps Genghis Khan was the most significant of all these rulers. To prove that Genghis Khan was the greatest ruler, we must go back to the very beginning of his existence. We must examine such issues as; Genghis№s struggle for power/how his life as a child would affect
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