... at New York but she was let go due to financial problems with the company. She then moved all the way to Italy to replace a reporter at the salary of ninety dollars a month. She loved her job and didn't care where she had to go to do it. She was very determined to succeed. After that job fell through she and a friend moved all the way to Shanghai. When she arrived at Shanghai she only had 25 dollars to her name. Within only a few days she found a job with The Evening Star. There she met her future husband. When they married she was almost late to her own wedding because she was working on something for the paper. As I said before she was very determined. ...

... creations become reality because he passed away at the age of 72 in 1992. He will be greatly missed by the readers of science fiction, although he leaves behind him a legacy, he has forever altered the future of humanity. Isaac coined the term “Robotics” in 1950, he gave the world laws to govern the robots, most importantly, he greatly influenced the world’s vision of future robots for all time, and he did this at a time when not even the simplest one existed. Asimov is a human writing machine, who has published more than 500 books, and has at least one book in each of the major divisions of the Dewey decimal system. Although, his most influent ...

... influence on a woman. She requested her husband John, who was a delegate to Congress and later a U.S. president, to draft into law a commitment to supporting education for women. John was in full agreement with Abigail¹s views on this subject. Abigail made her strongest appeal for women¹s rights in 1776, when John was in Philadelphia serving in Congress. As members drafted laws to guarantee the independence for which the colonist were fighting, Abigail wrote to John begging him to remember that women also needed to be given the right of independence. She sensed the struggles that were to come and understood the unfairness of making one group subject to ...

... he joined a political protest movement. By 1928, as secretary of the Kikuyu Central Association, he was chief advocate for Kikuyu land rights. From 1931 to 1946 he worked and studied in Western Europe and Moscow. While in London, Kenyatta studied under the British anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski and wrote his influential book Facing Mount Kenya (1938). On returning to Africa, Kenyatta was elected president of the new Kenya African Union (later, Kenya African National Union, or KANU). In 1952 he was charged with leading the Mau Mau Rebellion against the British, and, despite his denials, he was sentenced to seven years in prison and two years in exile. Re ...

... When they got home, Rosa spoke about her time in jail. She had stood up to get a drink of water and the guard told her the drinking fountain was only for white people. This made her furious. On December 5, 1955 Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. and JoAnn Robinson looked out of their windows, and stood on street corners watching all of the yellow buses drive by. There were hardly any black riders since Rosa Park's arrest. It was a miracle. People stopped riding the buses all because of Rosa Parks. Soon, the police were informed of the people standing on the street corners watching the buses drive by. The police watched the streets to make sure that the black peop ...

... in Grenwich Village. She was charged with conspiracy to bomb several New York public locations and had just had her bail revoked. In Incan dialect, his name Tupac Amaru means "shining serpent" and Shakur is Arabic for "thankful to God." For most of his childhood his crack-addicted mother shuffled Tupac between the ghettos of Harlem and the Bronx. Young Tupac began his performance career with the 127th Street Ensemble and then enrolled Baltimore School for the Arts where he was educated in ballet and acting. Tupac was forced to drop out of the school and move to California where his criminal career began. Tupac began selling drugs ...

... his father in 1847, Twain joined his brother Orion's newspaper, the Hannibal Journal. During this time he became accustomed with much of the frontier humor of the time. From 1853 to 1857, Twain worked in many cities as a printer, and wrote articles for his brother's newspapers under various nicknames. After a visit to New Orleans, he learned how to pilot a steamboat. That became his job until the Civil War closed the Mississippi River, and it set him up for "Old Times on the Mississippi" and "Life on the Mississippi." In 1861, Twain traveled to Carson City, Nevada, with his brother Orion. After attempts for silver and gold mining had failed, he cont ...

... largest European empire, whose language she never learned to speak correctly and without accent. At the age of 33, Catherine was not only a handsome woman (whose numerous love affairs dominate the popular accounts of her life), but also unusually well read and deeply involved in the cultural trends of her age. She was a tireless worker and knew how to select capable assistants--for example, Nikita PANIN in foreign affairs, Aleksandr SUVOROV in the military, and Grigory POTEMKIN in administration. Imbued with the ideas of the Enlightenment, Catherine aimed at completing the job started by Peter I-- westernizing Russia--but she had different methods. Unlike Pe ...

... on to become one of the most respected observers of our time, penning sports books including "The Summer of '49" (reissued in 1997) as well as political jewels like "The Best and the Brightest" (1973, and a 20th-anniversary edition in 1993). Now he's paying tribute to some of the top sports reporting ever put on paper. His most recent project was to serve as guest editor of "The Best American Sports Writing of the Century" (Houghton Mifflin), part of an annual series edited by Glenn Stout. This latest installment, published in May, covers the century, an encompassing look at the development of sports writing that parallels the burgeoning popularity of sport in ...

... with friends on a small frozen pond. He wanted to play hockey for life. Gordie played for the Toronto Maple Leafs for a couple of years then he went to the Detroit Red Wings for around twenty-five years. He played four Detroit Stanley Cup championships. He was the league's leading scorer six times. He was also named “Mr. Hockey.” He is in the Hockey Hall of Fame for all kinds of high records. He had 1,518 assists, 1,071 goals; he scored 2,589 points, and played in 2,421 games. He also received the Hart Trophy as NHL'S most valuable player six times. He managed to came back and play a few more games in his life. Gordie got married and had a daught ...