... of dance. She was so good that she won a dance college scholarship in high school. This was the main reason she continued onto college. In the beginning of her college education, she enjoyed going to school on a daily basis. In addition, she enjoyed learning and meeting new friends. However, she began to get bored with her college education and her stay in college was brief. Within the next two years she dropped out of the University of Michigan and decided to pursue a career elsewhere. She knew that she wanted to either continue in the field of dance or somewhere in the music industry. She believed that she had greater opportunities in these careers in ...

... teacher, Mary Perkins, ran the school. Perkins offered a new image of womanhood to Susan and her sisters. She was independent, educated, and held a position that had been traditionally been reserved to young men. Susan was sent to a boarding school in Philadelphia. She taught at a female academy boarding school, in up state New York when she was fifteen years old intill she was thirty. After she settled in her family home in Rochester, New York. It was here that she began her first public crusade on behalf of temperance. This was one of the first expressions of feminism in the United States, and it delt with the abuses of woman and children who suffered f ...

... oxygen theory of combustion, his classification of substances is the basis of distinction between chemical elements and compounds. With other French chemists he devised a system of chemical nomenclature that now serves as the basis of the modern system of elements. He clarified the concept of an element as a “simple substance that could not be broken down by any formation of chemical compounds.” He once said, “ If, by the term elements, we mean to express the simple and indivisible molecules that compose bodies, it is probable that we know nothing about them; but if, on the contrary, we express by the term elements or principles of bodies the idea of the last point ...

... trouble, they decided to pursue this as a test case. A local engineer recommended that the ACLU help Scopes. Scopes was arrested in school and sent to a appear before a grand jury. Three-time Democratic Presidential candidate and religious fundamentalist, William Jennings Bryan, was sent to work for the prosecution with A.T. Stewart. Clarence Seward Darrow, a well-known attorney, in fact, the most famous in the country at the time, was the defense attorney. He was only interested in the case after he learned of Bryan's involvement. During the case, Tennessee got much recognition. People fled from across the country and filled up hotels just to witness this trial. I ...

... Jerry Voorhis (1901-84). Nixon campaigned vigorously, tabbed the liberal Voorhis as a dangerous left-winger, and won by 16,000 votes. In 1948 and 1949 Nixon achieved a national reputation in the U.S. House of Representatives as a member of the Committee on Un-American Activities during its investigation of what became known as the Hiss case. In 1950 Nixon ran for the U.S. Senate against Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-80), whom he labeled th e for what he alleged to be her pro-Communist sympathies. He won the election, but his campaign tactics were widely criticized. Vice-President In 1952 the Republicans nominated Nixon to be the running mate of pres ...

... contacts in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta Taylor, known as "Lady Bird." A warm, intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and schooling. It confirmed Johnson's faith in the positive potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas. In 19 ...

... midwest and gets the experience to write The confidence man. 1841 Sails to the pacific where he hears the tails of the killer Mocha Dick. 1842 Deserts and lives with the natives of nukuheva. He is later rescued by the whaler Lucy Anne. 1843 Ships for boston aboard the native vessel for the U.S. White-Jacket was based upon this experience. 1846 Publishes typee. 1847 Publishes Omoo 1849 Feb. 16: His son, Malcom melvelle is born. 1850 Publishes white jacket. Moves to Arrowhead farm in Pittsburg, massachustettes. 1851 Publishes the famous moby-dick. Oct. 22 Stanwix Melville is born. 1852 Publishes Pierre which prompted one newspaper made ...

... mechanized the planning process by introducing "linear programming". Linear programming is used to allocate resources, plan production, schedule workers, plan investment portfolios and formulate marketing (and military) strategies. The versatility and economic impact of linear programming in today's industrial world is truly impressive. Dantzig became a research mathematician with the RAND Corporation in 1952, and then in 1960 he was appointed professor at Berkeley and Chairman of the Operations Research Center. While there he wrote Linear Programming and Extensions (1963). In 1966 he was appointed Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science at ...

... victory, kept them from ambush, and his own fame in turn reflected glory on the regiment. Buffalo Bill thought himself to be lucky too. Cody was very fortunate to be wounded in action only once, and that one time it was only a minor wound. Most of all, he was most gracious for always being in the right place at the right time. Buffalo Bill Cody appeared on stage for the first time in 1872. He played himself in a play titled “Scouts of the Prairie”. Following this, he kept acting in the winter and he worked for the army in the summer. The Wild West show began in 1883 in Omaha. When this began, real cowboys and real Indians showing how life really w ...

... to God in all aspects of his life. Hudson trained himself to live on just the necessities, and nothing more in order that he depend upon God for everything and even his very meal everyday. He lived in a most humble and poor conditions to show his dependence upon God in every day life and activity. He was obedient and listened to the call of God. He was described as many of the fruits of the Spirit that God shows in the Word. Sacrifice became a daily thing for Hudson, as God molded and shaped Hudson for His will. was just that sort of man, one who you could call a saint. He would go where no one would want to go. And do what no one would want to do. He wille ...