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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Malcolm X - the Struggles of a Leader
In 1965 Malcolm X, one of the greatest black leaders in America, published his autobiography with the help of Alex Haley, a former writer for the Washington Post. In this autobiography Malcolm tells of the many struggles he had to endure in his lifetime. Things such as hate crimes, drugs, and prison. The autobiography begins with an incident his mother (Louise Little) told him about that occurred while she was still pregnant with him.
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Malcolm X Biography
Malcolm X Being an African American in the United States during the civil rights movement was one of toughest times to live through. The African American felt as if they were treated as non-humans being sent to the United States as slaves, being deprived of their education, forced to live in separate segregated areas, and given the careers that were the lowest paying jobs. They also had no political rights or legal protection. After the
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Malcolm X in Society
Born as Malcolm Little, Malcolm X began his real education after prison where he was serving time for robbery. After his release, he joined the Nation of Islam (NOI), whose leader Elijah Muhammad believed that “The black race was superior to the white, and that the white race was evil, and that total separation was the only way to achieve racial equality.” Intelligent and articulate, Malcolm was and still is one of the highest recognized
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Malcolm X Thesis
Malcolm X The history of the United States has in it much separation or segregation due to race. For a long time our country has seen racism as a large problem and this has caused ethnic groups to be looked down upon or forced into a lifestyle of difficulties and suppression. Due to this, races, particularly African-Americans, have been forced to deal with unequal opportunity and poverty, leading to less honorable ways of getting by
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Malcolmx
Throughout history there have been many people who have stood out and made an impact in the way we think and comprehend things. During the late 1950's and early 1960's, Malcolm X was no exception. His militant views that Western nations were inherently racist and that black people must join together to build their own society and value system had an important influence on black nationalist and black separatist movements of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Malcom X
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louise Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Earl's civil rights activism prompted death threats from the white supremacist organization Black Legion, forcing the family to relocate twice before Malcolm's fourth birthday. Regardless of the Little's efforts to
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Malcom X Essay
Racism is a problem that the American people have grappled with since colonial times. The 1960's saw the rise of Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm X, who not only influenced the civil rights movement but attempted to solve the problem of racism in this country. On February 16, 1965, Malcolm X gave a speech called Not Just An American Problem, but a World Problem. In his speech he provides a theory on the relationship
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Mandela
Mandela Early on, that Nelson Mandela’s political awareness began to take shape, and he steeled himself to resist such indoctrination while he immersed himself in the very real cultural practices of his own Xhosa people. He remembers the harsh rigors of his initiation, when he was prepared for the trials of manhood that lay ahead. He remembers emerging from his long seclusion, coated in red ochre, and receiving two cows and four sheep, which made
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Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
Mandela was born in Umtata, South Africa, in what is now Eastern Cape province; Mandela was the son of a Xhosa-speaking Thembu chief. He attended the University of Fort Hare in Alice where he became concerned in the political struggle against the racial discrimination practiced in South Africa. He was expelled in 1940 for participating in a student demonstration. After moving to Johannesburg, he completed his course work by correspondence through the University of South
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Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
Mandela was born in Umtata, South Africa, in what is now Eastern Cape province; Mandela was the son of a Xhosa-speaking Thembu chief. He attended the University of Fort Hare in Alice where he became concerned in the political struggle against the racial discrimination practiced in South Africa. He was expelled in 1940 for participating in a student demonstration. After moving to Johannesburg, he completed his course work by correspondence through the University of South
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Manet, Monet Comparison Essay
Manet & Monet It is evident that two great impressionistic artists that both influenced each other are Edouard Manet and Claude Monet. Despite the peculiar similarity in their names, they were very good friends, and both learned from each other to improve their art. They were both successful painters who we can all learn from even today. They both had very similar lives, even before they knew each other. Edouard Manet was born in Paris
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Mann Deshi Bank: Banking on Rural Women
By: Neha Jain Prateek Keshwani https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTL-8XESzc5NVC5LnoiNhtaphvxPGOlHzgNo7w1PwShcF00XPG6Tg Mann Deshi Bank: Banking on Rural Women BORROW FOR THE MORROW: Salunke took a low-interest loan and started her business of making metal tools. The Harsh Reality Shown above is the picture of Kanta Bai, who is an iron-smith, and lives on the roads of a small village of Maharashtra, Mhaswad. It all started in 1995, when she went up to Mrs. Chetna Gala Sinha after struggling a lot
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Mao
Mao was born in 1893 the village of Shaoshan in Hunan province. well-to-do peasant in the village of Shaoshan in the Hunan province.Even so, Mao did not escape village life until the age of 17 when he went to middle school in Changsha, the capital of Hunan. That year, 1911, the revolution led by Dr Sun Yat-Sen overthrew the imperial government and Mao became caught up in the political instability. He left his studies at
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Marcus Auerilius
The illegitimate son of a 25-year-old notary, Ser Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, just outside Florence. His father took custody of the little fellow shortly after his birth, while his mother married someone else and moved to a neighboring town. They kept on having kids, although not with each other, and they eventually supplied him with a total of 17 half sisters and brothers..
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Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead did so much and was so many things including, a great scientist, an explorer, a writer, and a teacher, who educated the human race in numerous and diverse ways. Margaret Mead affected our society in many many different ways, and for this reason her name will be respected in the anthropological fields possibly forever. She was born in Philadelphia on December 16, 1901, and was educated at Barnard College and at Columbia University.
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Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger “Women are too much inclined to follow in the footsteps of men, to try to think as men think, to try to solve the general problems of life as men solve them…The woman is not needed to do man’s work. She is not needed to think man’s thoughts…Her mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a
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Margaret Sanger
Nearly 70 years ago, one woman pioneered one of the most radical and transforming political movements of the century. Through the life that she led and the lessons she taught us, many know her as the “one girl revolution”. Though Margaret Sanger's revolution may be even more controversial now than during her 50-year career of national and international battles, her opinions can teach us many lessons. Due to her strong influence in history, our society
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was born as Margaret Hilda Roberts on Octobers 13, 1925 in Grantham, England, which is famous by Nuton and Cromvil. Her father was Alfred Roberts, who owned a family grocery store and the family often helped him at the store, but at the same time he was the active in local politics. He was a very strict man; nobody has right to joke, to have a rest during the work hours. Margaret watched
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Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori was considered ahead of her time. She was born in Chiaravalle, in the province of Ancona, Italy in 1870 to an educated but not wealthy family. Despite her father’s wishes and society’s conservative ways at the time, she studied science. She was the first female physician in Italy when she graduated medical school in 1896. She worked mostly with the poor because she saw vast potential in them. She was an unselfish person
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Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori was born in Chiaraville, Ancona, Italy in 1870. She became the first female physician in Italy after she graduated from medical school in 1896. During the time that she was a physician, she observed children and analyzed how they learn. She concluded that they build their self from what they learn in their environments. Children learn themselves. That is how to sum up Montessori's philosophy on early childhood education. She believed in children's
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Maria Skladowska Curie
Marie Sklodowska Curie was born in Poland to a very poor family. She was the youngest of five children. Her parents were teachers, so her thirst for learning came from them. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. Because she was a girl, she was not allowed admission into any university in Poland. Marie was forced to find a job. In 1891, with help of her sister,
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Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is diva. Her hits have spanned two decades and have broken records long held by music heavyweights like the Beatles and one Elvis Presley. Her concerts have grown exponentially and she consistenly sells out venues across the globe. Her success has allowed her to throw millions and millions of dollars around as if it were petty cash. But she insists, she's still just a girl from New York. Mariah grew up on Long
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Mariah Carey
Every year there is a new addition to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The nominee’s requirements is mostly based on hardships they have , popularity, and their influences on things and people around them. Sp my nominee for this years Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist is someone that has filled all those requirements above and beyond what has been needed, and still has the power and strength to still be even
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Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey, the biggest-selling female recording artist of the 1990's was born and raised in New York by her mother, a former opera singer with the New York City Opera and a vocal coach, Mariah Carey began singing at age four. By the time she was in junior high school, she had begun to write songs. After her high school graduation, she got her fist big break, singing backup for Brenda K. Starr, a break
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Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is diva. Her hits have spanned two decades and have broken records long held by music heavyweights like the Beatles and one Elvis Presley. Her concerts have grown exponentially and she consistenly sells out venues across the globe. Her success has allowed her to throw millions and millions of dollars around as if it were petty cash. But she insists, she's still just a girl from New York. Mariah grew up on Long
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Marian Anderson
Amanda Malayil 2/12/15 Mrs. Bellusci/ Social Studies 8-4 Marian Baby Contralto, prodigious, committed, and modest Daughter of John Berkeley Anderson, sister of Ethel Anderson. Lover of the Lincoln Memorial Concert, singing, and Gospel music Who feels glad because she sang at President Kennedy’s inauguration, fearful for the future of African Americans, grateful for the Marian Anderson Fund Who needs a father’s love and support, money for high school and, singing lessons Who fears being separated
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Marie and Pierre Curie
Marie and Pierre Curie More than hundred years passed since Marie and Pierre Curie won the Nobel Prize for discovering radioactive elements polonium and radium. The scientific world was excited with the newly discovered force of nature, but they soon realized that that the discovery was not the best for human race. They soon learned that the great discovery was a threat to health. Unfortunately, long time went by until their concerns were taken seriously.
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Marie Curie
As her famous words go, “One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” Indeed, that probably was what made Marie Curie the only person to have won two noble prizes in the science field. Born in the year 1867, this remarkable woman was a chemist and physicist of polish upbringing. Subsequently, she took up French citizenship and was the first female professor in the University of Paris.
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Marijuana
Marijuana Marijuana is an illegal narcotic drug and is a green or gray mixture of dried, shredded flowers and leaves from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. It is also known by its many slang names like pot, weed, Mary Jane, dope and chronic. The main active chemical in marijuana is THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol). The THC causes a series of cellular reactions with protein in certain nerve cells that lead to the high the user experiences. Most
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Marilyn Monroe
“ I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful” Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Baker on June 1, 1926. Her mother’s name was Gladys Baker Mortensen. Baker being the name of her other two children and Mortensen the name of her last husband who disappeared just months after their marriage in 1924. Although Edward Mortensen was Gladys’ husband at the time of Norma’s birth, he was not her father. No
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