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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Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison was born in Florida on December 8th, 1943. His father, a high ranking naval officer, brought up his children under strict discipline and the relationship between the two was problematic. Perhaps because of this, the sensitive child became somewhat withdrawn and isolated. Jim would later express extreme hostility towards his family and the traditional values it stood for. "A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself." At the
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Jim Morrison Biography
Jim Morrison once said, “I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh and I'm gone...and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me- ever.” Jim Morrison was not only the songwriter and singer for one of the most influential psychedelic rock groups of the 60’s, but also a powerful writer, poet and
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Jime Skinner
INTRODUCTION The fast-food industry is developing not only in the developed countries, but also in the developing nations. In this field of business, Mac Donald's Corporation was the pioneer with the successful worldwide fast-food restaurant franchise system and the global prestigious brand name. Therefore, many people consider that the successful development and growth of this corporation which are associated with the talent leadership of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in the organizational management of business activities.
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Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix, possibly the greatest guitarist in rock history changed the sound of rock. In 1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience rocked the nation with their first album Are You Experienced?. Hendrix had a short life because of drugs in 1970 when he was only 27 years old. In a few years, rock and roll changed a lot and Jimi's guitar playing was a big influence. Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle Washington on
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Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix Biography Jimi Hendrix was and American guitarist, singer and songwriter who may be considered as one of the most influential guitarists in rock history. Throughout this biography, the highs and lows of Jimi’s life and career will be accounted. Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington, USA and was named Johnny Allen Hendrix. His mother had put him in the temporary care of friends after birth. When released from the
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Jimi Hendrix
Widely recognized as one of the most creative and influential musicians of the 20th century, Jimi Hendrix pioneered the explosive possibilities of the electric guitar. Hendrix's innovative style of combining fuzz, feedback and controlled distortion created a new musical form. Because he was unable to read or write music, it is nothing short of remarkable that Jimi Hendrix's meteoric rise in the music took place in just four short years. His musical language continues
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Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix, possibly the greatest guitarist in rock history changed the sound of rock. In 1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience rocked the nation with their first album Are You Experienced?. Hendrix had a short life because of drugs in 1970 when he was only 27 years old. In a few years, rock and roll changed a lot and Jimi’s guitar playing was a big influence. Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle Washington on
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Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix once said "When the power of love over comes the love of power, the world will finally find peace". Im here to day to tell you of his journey to try and make that clear to every 1 else. Yes, Jimi did more than just play guitar. This is the love and times of Mr. James Marshall Hendrix. James Marshall Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle Washington. James
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Jimi Hendrix: A True Legend of Music
Jimi Hendrix: A true legend of music Jimi Hendrix, the greatest guitarist in rock history, revolutionized the sound of rock. In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience rocked the nation with their first album, Are You Experienced?. Hendrix's life was cut short by the tragedy of drugs in 1970, when he was only twenty seven years old. In these three years the sound of rock changed greatly, and Hendrix's guitar playing was a major influence.
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Jimi Hendrix: Rock 'n' Roll Legend
Jimi Hendrix: Rock 'n' Roll Legend The extraordinary performances, recording, and lyrics of James Marshall Hendrix have made him impossible to forget. This American rock music guitarist made a legendary mark not only in the history of rock 'n' roll but also on the pop culture as a whole (Ross 32). With unique techniques never seen before and blatant sex-related performances on stage, he became one of the most influential music figures of the 60s
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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Jimmy Cater, America’s thirty-ninth president, was born on October first 1924. He was born to James Earl and Lillian Carter in southwest Georgia. Surprisingly, he was the first president to be born in a hospital. He was the oldest of four children. He had a younger brother, Billy and two sisters: Gloria and Ruth. The Carters grew up on a farm in Plains Georgia where they farmed for peanuts. His dad was a
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Jjp Oud
Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud was born in Purmerend, North Holland in 1890. He began his education at Amsterdam’s Quellinus School of Decorative Arts and later began working with the architectural firm of Jeseph Cuypers and Jan Stuyt in 1907. Oud was interested in architectural theory, and found his lack of knowledge in that area frustrating. He left the firm after only six months to study at the National School for Art Education in Amsterdam. He
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Joan Lowery
Biography Joan Lowery Nixon was first published when she was just ten. A poem she wrote appeared in a children's magazine. She sold her first article to a magazine when she was seventeen. Joan majored in journalism at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. There were few jobs for journalists at this time, so she found another way to make a living at the other thing she loved to do. She took a
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Joan Lowery
Biography Joan Lowery Nixon was first published when she was just ten. A poem she wrote appeared in a children's magazine. She sold her first article to a magazine when she was seventeen. Joan majored in journalism at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. There were few jobs for journalists at this time, so she found another way to make a living at the other thing she loved to do. She took
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Joan of Arc
JOAN OF ARC (Fr. Jeanne Darc), the Maid of Orleans, was the daughter of respectable peasants, and was born in 1412, in the village of Domreny, in the department of Vosges, France. She was taught like other young women of her station in that age, to sew and spin, but not to read or write. She was distinguished from other girls by her greater simplicity, modesty, industry and piety. When about thirteen years of
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Joan of Arc Report
Bravery, determination, leadership, who do you think of when you hear these words? Joan of Arc had all of these qualities, and many more. By the end of this journey through Joan’s life, you will know all about Joan, from the day she was born, to the day her ashes were thrown into the river Semile. In 1412, in the village of Dormery, a girl was born who would change the world forever. Jeanne
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Joan Sebastian Bach - Summary of His Life
Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in Western musical history. More than 1,000 of his compositions survive. Some examples are the Art of Fugue, Brandenburg Concerti, the Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord, the Mass in B-Minor, the motets, the Easter and Christmas oratorios, Toccata in F Major, French Suite No 5, Fugue in G Major, Fugue in G Minor ("The Great"), St. Matthew Passion, and Jesu Der Du Meine Seele. He came from
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Joe Dimaggio
Joe DiMaggio DiMaggio steps up to the plate, he hits the bat off his cleats, he spits out his chewing tobacco, his dead skin shredding off from the wooden, worn out bat. The adrenalin is pumping the, and crowd is roaring, the stadium seems to be shaking from the fans excitement. The daylight staring down on Joe, as if it was a spotlight on a stage. The pitcher gets the signal, and the pitch. The
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Joe Louis "the Brown Bomber"
Joe Louis “The Brown Bomber” Joe Louis was born and raised in Detroit Michigan. Although throughout his life he lived in many places including Las Vegas and Chicago, he still always considered Detroit home. Officially Joe Louis Barrow, Joe was born in the foothills of Alabama to his mother Lillie and father Muroe Barrow on May 13, 1914. Munroe was a sharecropper, but was committed to an asylum when Joe was only two, and died
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Joe Montana
Joseph Clifford Montana, Jr., (born June 11, 1956 in the Monongahela 'pocket suburb' New Eagle, Pennsylvania) was widely considered one of the best football quarterbacks in the history of the National Football League. The western Pennsylvania and West Virginia hills around the Monongahela river drainage basin are famed in sports circles (esp. scouting) for the number of college and pro-NFL caliber players produced in the greater region, and Montana is perhaps archetypical in that manner.
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Joe Namath
Joe Namath Biography November 2010 Joe Namath was an important person because he was an inspiration to America. This can be seen in Joe Namath’s childhood, about his career of football, and how he was also an actor. Joe was something other than a football player and an actor… he was also a “ladies Favorite”. Joe Namath’s childhood had an effect by how he was an inspiration to America because his dream was to be
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Joe Namath
Joe Namath Biography November 2010 Joe Namath was an important person because he was an inspiration to America. This can be seen in Joe Namath’s childhood, about his career of football, and how he was also an actor. Joe was something other than a football player and an actor… he was also a “ladies Favorite”. Joe Namath’s childhood had an effect by how he was an inspiration to America because his dream was to be
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Joeseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was a man who had many accomplishments in his lifetime. He was a family man, a business man, and a political leader of one of the worlds largest super powers. He is noted for having control over more people for a greater amount of time than anyone before or since his time. He is compared to Ghengis Kahn and Ivan the terrible. Stalin had a unique way of thinking and governing this
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Joeseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was a man who had many accomplishments in his lifetime. He was a family man, a business man, and a political leader of one of the worlds largest super powers. He is noted for having control over more people for a greater amount of time than anyone before or since his time. He is compared to Ghengis Kahn and Ivan the terrible. Stalin had a unique way of thinking and governing this
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Joesph Ncnamara
Joseph D. McNamara was chief of police for the city of San Jose, California for fifteen years, as well as Kansas City, Missouri. He is recognized as an expert in criminal justice, police technology and management systems, crime prevention, and international drug control policies. He was appointed a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, in 1991. McNamara was a pioneer in criticizing the way Police Departments and the government “ fought the
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Joey Jordison
Joey Jordison is a very talented person. He is not only in a platinum album band playing drums, but also plays guitar on a side project. Despite growing up in an area considered out of the music scene he has become a spectacular drummer. Joey Jordison (Nathan Jonas Jordison) was born on April 26, 1975 in Des Mones, Iowa. He says he has been surrounded by music his whole life. When he was little his
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was born in Zurich, Switzerland, on January 12, 1746. During his childhood, he suffered many hardships. Four of his six siblings died at an early age, and his father died when Pestalozzi was only five years old, leaving his mother to raise her three remaining children in poverty. Poor living conditions, combined with the trauma of losing her children and husband, caused his mother to devote her life to
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Johann Pachelbel Mark Jose
Johann Pachelbel Mark Jose (1653 - 1706) 02/06/06 Period 4 German composer and organist. He studied music with Heinrich Schwemmer and G. C. Wecker, attended lectures at the Auditorium aegidianum and entered the university at Altdorf in 1669, where he also served as organist at the Lorenzkirche. He was forced to leave the university after less than a year owing to lack of funds, and became a scholarship student at the Gymnasium poeticum at Regensburg,
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in Western musical history. More than 1,000 of his compositions survive. Some examples are the Art of Fugue, Brandenburg Concerti, the Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord, the Mass in B-Minor, the motets, the Easter and Christmas oratorios, Toccata in F Major, French Suite No 5, Fugue in G Major, Fugue in G Minor ("The Great"), St. Matthew Passion, and Jesu Der Du Meine Seele.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in Western musical history. More than 1,000 of his compositions survive. Some examples are the Art of Fugue, Brandenburg Concerti, the Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord, the Mass in B-Minor, the motets, the Easter and Christmas oratorios, Toccata in F Major, French Suite No 5, Fugue in G Major, Fugue in G Minor ("The Great"), St. Matthew Passion, and Jesu Der Du Meine Seele.
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