John Toone‚ the Builder John Toone was born at Mount Nod‚ England on June 14‚ 1787. He was the father of John Toone the cello playing pioneer. He was apprenticed at Baggington‚ with a Mr. Gunn; afterward went to Leamington‚ and became acquainted with his future wife Elizabeth Masters. He started to walk to London with only seven-shillings-and-sixpence in his pocket‚ which sum was spent before he arrived at his destination. A man met him on the way and asked him to help get hay; he thereby obtained
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Hobbes speaks of humanity as a horrid thing and that people need a ruler to be in control. On the other hand‚ John Locke adopts a positive tone about the goodness of people and how we should live our lives freely. Based on human nature‚ I most identify with John Locke because of his belief on self government and that everyone should have the lawful right of existence and independence. John Locke’s ideology states that everyone is born equal and that we should live freely. That is to say‚ Locke
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an author of the ages. He didn’t just inspire adults but also the youth. He didn’t just write but helped the children in the hospital and their families. This is on John Green. As a child John suffered from anxiety and insecurity. During school he had trouble making friends. Poolos stated in the book he wrote on John Green that “ he said that he was bullied in school” (8). He stated that he graduated from kenyon college. He left with a major in religious studies. Before leaving he
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John Caldwell Holt was born April 14‚ 1923. After finishing his studies‚ he served in the 2nd World War as part of the submarine service in the U.S.Navy. His experience in the war and what nuclear weapons did convinced him that nuclear weapons were the world’s greatest danger‚ and he saw world government as the only means to prevent such a catastrophe. This moved him to join the United World Federalists (UWF)‚ which he believed could help accomplish world governance. I agree with a blogger that this
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Bright Star The Romantic Movement brought along a change in literacy and art. It also introduced many prominent poets to the time period‚ one of these poets being John Keats. He “wrote some of the greatest English language poems including” Bright Star (Merriman 1). Although his life was very short‚ he left an imprint for poets such as Lord Alfred Tennyson and Wilfred Owen (Ziraldo 1). His work has been characterized as containing “elaborate word choice and sensual imagery” (1). Additionally‚ his
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Bibliographical Review#2 John Marshall was born on September 24‚ 1755. He was an American jurist and statesman who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. John Marshall was born in a log cabin near Germantown‚ a rural community on the Virginia frontier‚ in what is now Fauquier County near Midland‚ Virginia to Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. The oldest of fifteen‚ John had eight sisters and six brothers. Also‚ several cousins were raised with
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John Turner was a Canadian prime minister who was born on the 7th of June 1929‚ in Richmond‚ England to an English father and a Canadian mother‚ and still alive to this day at the age of 85. However‚ his father passed away when he was only three years old‚ so his mother decided to move to Canada with John. They first lived in Rossland‚ British Colombia. However‚ she worked her way up in the civil service until she got promoted‚ which required moving to Ottawa (CanadaHistory). Turner was a brilliant
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John Basilone John Basilone was the only enlisted Marine in World War II to receive the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross. Basilone‚ the son of Sicilian Napoli immigrants Salvatore Basilone and Dora Bencivenga‚ was born on November 4‚ 1916 in Buffalo‚ New York‚ and was raised in Raritan‚ New Jersey. At age fifteen‚ he completed middle school but did not go on to high school. Enlisting in the Marine Corps in July 1940‚ Basilone was trained at Parris Island in South Carolina. He was stationed at Guantanamo
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including touch-lip reading‚ Braille‚ speech‚ typing and finger-spelling. With the help of Sullivan and Sullivan’s future husband‚ John Macy‚ Keller wrote her first book‚ The Story of My Life. It covered her transformation from childhood to 21-year-old college student. Keller graduated‚ cum laude‚ from Radcliffe in 1904‚ at the age of 24. In 1905‚ Sullivan married John Macy‚ an instructor at Harvard University‚ a social critic and a prominent socialist. After the marriage‚ Sullivan continued to be
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Peter and so on and so forth. The authority of the men that have held the said position has been challenged repeatedly. Before the time of the Poststent Reformation‚ the authority of the Pope was being held in question by a man by the name of John Wycliffe. John Wycliffe was born in the United Kingdom in 1320. Wycliffe attended Oxford University‚ becoming one of Oxford’s leading philosophers and theologians. Soon after Wycliffe became the rector of the parish Lutterworth. After about a year of not
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