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Beggar In Jerusalem American Citizen Medal
458 wordsEliezer Wiesel was born in 1928, a native of Sight, Transylvania (Romania) which is near the Ukrainian border; He grew up experiencing first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust, this started when at fifteen years old Wiesel and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perished there, his two older sisters survived. Wiesel and his father were later transported to Buchenwald In 1945, at the end of the war, Elie moved to Paris, where he studied literature, phi...
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World War Ii Middle Eastern
549 wordsThis is Audie Murphy's life story. At the tender age of 12, he becomes the head of the family after his father deserts them. He joins the army at the age of 18 and through the course of the war is decorated for valor nine times thus becoming the most decorated combat soldier in World War II. Audie does one of the bravest acts any soldier ever did during the war. He climbs aboard a burning tank destroyer and single handedly keeps the enemy from advancing on his position. He spends almost an hour ...
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University Of London Sir Alexander
607 wordsSir Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland on August 6 th, 1881. He attended Louden Moor School, Darvel School, and Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London where he attended the Polytechnic. He spent four years in a shipping office before entering St. Mary's Medical School, London University. He qualified with distinction in 1906 and began research at St. Mary's under Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy. He gained M. B. , B. S. , (London), with ...
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Greco Roman Gold Medal
1,243 wordsSYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Rulon Gardner did the unthinkable. He beat the unbeatable. He proved that Alexander Karelin isn't perfect -- and he won a gold medal that virtually nobody in the world thought he could win. Gardner, never an NCAA champion, never a world medalist, ended Karelin's string of three Olympic gold medals and 13 -year unbeaten streak by winning the Olympic super heavyweight wrestling gold medal 1 - 0 Wednesday. Miracle on ice? This was the miracle on the mat. ''When did I think...
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Gold Medal Role Model
683 wordsToday when you talk about women and sports no one really makes a big deal about it, because it has grown to be a huge part of our society in this time of day. Women sports have grown rapidly in the past decade due to such success stories as the women's world cup soccer team and all the recent Olympic gold medal winners. The first and most important historical moment that impacted the growth on women's sports was the 1996 gold medal basketball team. This team showed everyone that the United State...
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Academy Of Sciences Quantum Mechanics
1,357 wordsPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac Patrick Ennis Mrs. Carter Research Monday, December 9, 1996 Physical Laws should have mathematical beauty. This statement was Dirac's response to the question of his philosophy of physics, posed to him in Moscow in 1955. He wrote it on a blackboard that is still preserved today Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902 - 1984), known as P. A. M. Dirac, was the fifteenth Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933 with Erwin Schrod...
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American Civil War Washington D C
2,342 wordsThroughout his life Ralph Bunche worked to improve race relations and further the cause of civil rights. For 22 years he served on the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, earning its highest honor, the Spingarn Medal, in 1949. He participated in several civil rights demonstrations, including the 1963 March on Washington. That same year, U. S. President John F. Kennedy awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian award. Sojourner Truth, Ameri...
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General Mills Gold Medal
786 wordsIn the following executive summery of General Mills Incorporated I will provide you the reader with the following information. History of General Mills from its first flour mill to its present day status, including key events and people relating to the company. The major negative and positive events, how they effected the company, and what General Mills has learned from them. And what present day employees of General Mills need to know about their employers history, and why. After I have done th...
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Margaret Atwood Handmaids Tale
1,393 words" There is so much silence between the words" SOCI 4019 September 29, 1999. An Overview of Works, Styles, and Themes Margaret Atwood has written a great number of novels and other forms of literature. The major press editions are as follows: ~ WORKS~ Poetry? 1964, The Care Game? 1968, The Animals in That Country? 1970, The Journals of Susanna Moodie? 1970, Procedures for Underground? 1971, Power Politics? 1974, You are Happy? 1978, Selected Poems? 1978, Two-Headed Poems? 1981, True Sto...
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Published His First Bell Atlantic
1,621 wordsMaurice Sendak was born June 10, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were poor immigrants from Poland who came to America before World War I. Many of his relatives died in the Holocaust, and this was an important influence upon his childhood. His parents were always upset about the relatives they had lost and the cloud of death was always in the air. He even drew the faces of some of his relatives who died in the Holocaust in Isaac Bashevis Singer s Zlateh the Goat. Sendak is the youngest of...
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Gold Medal Los Angeles
836 wordsOlympic Olympic Legends Tristan Yapuncich Olympic Legends 9 / 21 / 00 Olympic Legends There are many important Olympic athletes. Three of the most amazing, however, are probably Jim Thorpe, Florence Griffith Joyner, and Mark Spitz. These legends were super athletes as well, as amazing people. Jim Thorpe was born on May 28, 1887 in a one-room cabin in Oklahoma. Although there is much confusion on Thorpe's date of birth, this is the date according to his estate. The career biography of Jim Thorpe ...
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Academy Of Sciences Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
1,075 wordsBiography of Robert Burns Woodward Robert Burns Woodward was born in Boston on April 10 th, 1917, the only child of Margaret and Arthur Woodward, of English antecedents. Roberts father Arthur died in October of 1918, at an early age of only thirty-three years old. Robert Woodward was attracted to chemistry at a very early age, and indulged his taste for the science in private activities throughout the period of his primary and secondary education in the public schools of Quincy, a suburb of Bost...
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Bodily Harm Deadly Force
5,727 wordsLAPD SWAT TEAM HISTORY The concept of special weapons and tactic teams originated in the late 1960 s as a response to several sniping incidents against civilians and police forces throughout the U. S. The most notable incident being the Texas Tower Massacre. During this time Los Angeles experienced many problems of its own. Escalated violence toward police and civilians became all too common. Realizing that an effective response to these dangerous situations were virtually non-existent, LAPD off...
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