Social Theorist Karl Marx The social theorist I chose to do my paper on is Karl Marx. Marx was born in Trier‚ Rhenish Prussia‚ on May 5‚ 1818. Marx was the son of Heinrich Marx‚ a lawyer‚ and Henriette Marx. Heinrich and Henriette Marx were descendants from a long line of Jewish rabbis. His father was banned from practicing law because he was a Jew. Marx’s father converted his family to Lutheranism. Marx attended a Lutheran elementary school and later became an atheist and materialist‚ rejecting
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Biography: Mary Rowlandson was born circa 1637-1638 in England. With her parents John and Joan White‚ she sailed for Salem in 1639. Joseph Rowlandson became a minister in 1654 and two years later he and Mary were married. They had a child‚ Mary‚ who lived for three years; their other children were Joseph‚ b. 1661; Mary‚ b. 1665; Sarah‚ b. 1669. At the time of their capture‚ the children were 14‚ 10‚ and 6. In 1675 Joseph Rowlandson. went to Boston to beg for help from the Massachusetts General
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Alessandro Volta Biography Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Volta was an Italian scientist that is known for inventing the first battery. Volta was born into a noble family in Como‚ Italy on February 18‚ 1785. When Volta was twenty-nine years old he became a physics professor at the ‘Royal School’ in Como‚ Italy. He studied chemistry gases in the years of 1776 through 1778. By 1778‚ Volta managed to make an electrical spark using methane‚ which he discovered in 1776 by collecting the gas from
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Cited: “Audrey Hepburn Biography (1929-93).” Biography.com. 1996-2000. Accessed 3 April 2008. http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9335788 Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund. “Audrey Hepburn: The UNICEF Years.” 2006. Accessed 3 April 2008. http://www.audreyhepburn.com/html/unicef/index.html “Audrey Hepburn Falls into The Gap.” Msnbc.msn.com. 4 Oct. 2006. Accessed 3 April 2008. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14854161/ Jackson‚ Denny. “Biography for Audrey Hepburn.” The Internet Movie
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Biography of Allan Pinkerton Malina Wiese CJS 250 May 5‚ 2013 Robyn Ring Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton was born on August 25‚ 1819 in Glasgow‚ Scotland. He was the founder of a famous American private detective agency called the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (biography.com). Pinkerton prevented an assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln. He was a man with great power of observation and courage. Allan Pinkerton’s achievements and those of the organization he shaped from
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Biography of Allan Pinkerton Jasmine Acevedo CJS/250 April 20‚ 2014 Ann Meek Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish that was born in August 25‚ 1819 in Glasgow‚ Scotland and died in July 1‚ 1884‚ in Chicago‚ Illinois. He has been well known for his career as a detective and for being a founder of a famous American private detective agency called Pinkerton Detective Agency. As a child‚ Allan Pinkerton suffered the loss of his father‚ a police sergeant‚ resulting his life
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The deaf-mute John Singer could not communicate with most of the world because he couldn’t speak. He strove to break out of his isolated existence because he desperately needed to communicate his feelings with somebody who understood him. The isolation from which John Singer suffered was a combination of a personal individual control and environmental factors. John Singer‚ a tall man with gray eyes‚ and his friend Spiros Antonapoulos was an obese man of Greek descent. Both men were deaf and dumb
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Mary Pleasant‚ A Biography Mary Pleasant‚ also widely referred to as “Mammy Pleasant”‚ is the considered Mother of Civil Rights in California due to her work with the Civil Rights movement during the 1860s. She was an icon during the Gold Rush and Gilded Age San Francisco because of her political power‚ mainly due to her large fortune and as well as her influence‚ in the cause and in her fellow citizens. Her achievements as an abolitionist went unmatched until the late 1960s‚ during which other
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Biography of Ogden Nash Fredric Ogden Nash was an American humorist who lived from 1902 to 1971. He was born in 1902 in Rye‚ New York‚ where he grew up with well educated parents. Microsoft Encarta 95 said that his parents names were Edmund Strudwick Nash and Mattie Nash. During his childhood years‚ Nash was educated at several private schools. At these schools‚ he enjoyed writing his own comical and dramatic free verse poems. After graduating out of grammar school‚ Nash moved on to one of
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Emily Hilyard Intro 6th hr Frakes 12/16/11 Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most influential and beautiful artists in history. During the 1920s and beyond‚ she made her ground as a great modernist painter‚ gaining the attention of many artists and critics‚ even as a woman. In her time she established a new type of art with her style of colorful canvases filled with flowers and landscapes and skulls‚ and she has painted over 1‚000 works dating from 1901 to 1984. But it isn’t just
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