... the loss of its most talented player, the NBA could crumble, but that is what they said would happen when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson left the league. Another route that may be taken is that he may actually enhance the sport of basketball by walking away from it. Other young stars may want to work harder to be “The Next .” This, however, seems a tad less likely to happen than the latter. Michael was more than just a basketball player, he is also a talented businessman. This man has the ability to sell $100 shoes to kids in the ghetto and then possesses the genius to turn around and sell cologne to Wall Street stockbrokers. This is a man who is so recognizab ...

... important role in the life of Anne Boleyn. Anne has many passions for many things in the course of her life. Her first love was with the court chancellor, it was abruptly ended when Henry decided that he had other plans for Anne's life. He carried out these plans by not allowing Anne to marry the man that she truly loved. Anne was bitter about this decision that she had no say in. Anne's second love was the love of being queen. Being queen seems to be one of her childhood dreams, which is understandable, because many girls dream of being a princess or a queen when they get older. Anne's final and strongest love was the love for her daughter. Elizabeth was the ...

... 1951 and won a graduate fellowship. Then in 1955 he received a Ph.D. in theology. In Boston Martin met Coretta Scott. Then later in 1953 martin and coretta got married and had four children, Martin Luther III, Dexter Scott, Yolanda Denise, and Bernice Albrtine. In December 1958 Martin became the president of the group, Southern Christian Leadership Conference that was formed to carry on civil right activities in the south. But later in 1963 he was put into jail during a successful campaign to achieve the desegregation of many public facilities in Birmingham, Alabama. Martin later became the youngest person ever to get the Nobel peace prize. In 1965 . led a drive to ...

... life for her own amusement and control. She lives in a male dominance society and environment which caged her and made her lose her freedom. Her desire to escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom come to the surface as she discovers her father’s pair of pistols. Comparing Hedda with the other women of the play we can see that thea wasn’t the woman with the more control. She also had an unhappy marriage because of Eilert’s work. Aunt Julia is different; she likes to help people, she raised George and took care Rina. As far as Berda is concerned, there is not much to say because she is the servant of the house and she just takes care of everyb ...

... was born in San Antonio, Texas. His age and date of birth are being withheld due to security reasons. He attended school in Philmont, New York and later enrolled into the United Sates Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. As graduation neared, North chose the path of being a Marine Corps leader. He was later called into duty in Vietnam, where he was station with K Company of the Third Battalion, Third Marine Regiment, Third Division from December 3, 1968 to August 21, 1969. During his service, North led many covert operations, and was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts. He was a "marine's marine", and was a one-of-a-kind leader. ...

... She also made Alexander believe that he was a descendant of Achilles. Because of the affiliation that Alexander thought he had with Achilles, Alexander carried a copy of the Iliad with him wherever he went. It is also supposed that Olympia played a part in the assassination of Alexander's father Philip. Within Alexander's childhood lay the beginning's of a true warrior's career. His favorite literature, the Iliad, was an epic battle that gave Alexander insight into the eyes of past heroes. His teacher, Aristotle, made him an amazing strategist. This later helped him immensely when faced with insurmountable odds. Aristotle also showed him that leaders must have com ...

... Many people say that he was a very wild and robust child who was not interested in any type of school work (Schwartz 11). In the neighborhood where Gershwin grew up, anyone who was interested in music was known as a sissy. So after passing by a penny arcade and discovering a mechanical piano, George would go to homes of friends who had pianos and secretly tap out the popular tunes of the day (Peyser 21). One day his parents purchased a piano for Ira, the eldest, and as soon as it was moved in George sat down and began to play. The family was flabbergasted! They had no idea he was interested in music or where he learned how to play the piano (Adam 12:08). Geor ...

... repeated by two of Ernest's siblings, and later himself. When he was 18 he was put on a mentorship with the Kansas City Star. It is said that much of his writing style was learned there. Later in his life he wanted to be in the Army, but his eyesight was bad and the American Army rejected him. He than went to Italy to be an ambulance driver for the Italian army. On July 8, 1918, he was injured when a shell landed 3 feet from him. In the hospital he met a girl and fell in love with her, but she threw him over for another guy. He later met Elizabeth Hadley and married her on September 3, 1921. Later that year he went to France as a correspondent for the Toronto Sta ...

... experiences, and who tried to lift his fellow men above life's trivialities. These are the points to be discussed on these pages. To know the essence of , you would have to understand the heart of his writing. For he is in his pen. was born in West Hills, Long Island, New York, on May 31, 1819 . He did not have much opportunity for education in his early life. His parents were mostly poor and illiterate- his father a laborer, while his mother was a devout Quaker. Whitman was one of nine children and little is known about his youth except that two of his siblings were imbeciles. No wonder he demonstrated such an insight for life in his poems. In 1830, at the age o ...

... American publications. The Rutherford government was framing a law to give women certain dower rights, and Mrs. Murphy disapproved of some of its provisions. Single- handed she went before the (( p. 68 )) committee on legislation and argued with such success that the bill, when passed, was substantially as she wished. It was on this occasion that Mrs. Murphy, most hapily married to the Reverend Arthur Murphy, received a letter from a grateful but misinformed pioneer woman who wrote:"God bless you, Janey Canuck, I have a troublesome husband too." ((p. 71)) Not content with vague anticipation of benefits to be conferred in some shadowy future, Mrs. McClun ...