Marshall Applewhite‚ was a music professor at first known for his musical and dramatic talents‚ he sang opera‚ and was a very good public speaker. Applewhite had a wife and two kids‚ but in 1972 he left his family. He lived Houston‚ Texas‚ when he had to go to the hospital because he had heart problems and reportedly had a near-death experience. One of his nurses‚ Bonnie Lu Nettles‚ told him that he was put on this planet for a reason‚ she recruited Applewhite into the Heaven’s Gate cult. It seems
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charismatic preaching of Marshall Herff Applewhite‚ and his companion‚ Bonnie Lu Nettles‚ a former nurse. It enjoyed a short-lived burst of notoriety‚ during which time they referred to themselves as Bo and Peep‚ before the couple took it underground in 1976. After existing in deep seclusion in various Southwestern cities‚ the group surfaced again briefly in 1994‚ when members sought out recruits with a series of public lectures. In the group’s documents‚ Applewhite and Nettles are described
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members believed that Hale-Bopp‚ a rare bright comet‚ was the sign that they were supposed to shed their earthly bodies or containers and join a spacecraft traveling behind the comet that would take them to a higher plane of existence. Marshall Herff Applewhite or the “DO“ as he was referred to‚ the leader of the cult‚ recruited members through the internet and newspaper ads‚ and maintained members by brain-washing them about the end of the world and the only chance of survival. The Heaven’s Gate
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Brent Thomas U.S. History Since 1877 27 June 2012 John Marshall John Marshall‚ whose most notable political role of Chief Justice of the United States‚ played a major role in defining the American legal system‚ he was also known as one of the best Chief Justices that ever lived. For 34 years as Chief Justice‚ Marshall made significant contributions to the development of the U.S. Constitution through his high profile Supreme Court cases‚ such as Marbury v. Madison‚ McCulloch v. Maryland
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Thurgood Marshall was a great African American Civil Rights activist who changed a lot of lives in the United States. As a passionate lawyer and prominent Supreme Court justice he fought for Civil Rights and social justice in the courts and believed that racial integration is best for all schools. Very early in his professional life Marshall broke down racial barriers and overcame resistance despite the odds. He then became a role model of the disciplined leader‚ although he didn’t have the
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| | |How did the Marshall plan influence the development of Great Britain and other Western European countries after the Second World War? | |History internal assessment | |
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Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was probably the most significant of these foundations. This was the same organization that Thurgood Marshall became the leading lawyer of. Thurgood Marshall was born in the year of 1908 in Baltimore‚ Maryland. He was prepped and raised by his mother‚ Norma Arica Marshall‚ and his father‚ William Canfield Marshall. Thurgood’s mother was one of the first African Americans to graduate from Colombia University and his father was the first black person to serve
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“We Are Marshall” Olivia Avery 7/16/14 English 101 Boose The movie “We Are Marshall” is a movie about football. The movie isn’t just a normal football movie. It’s a movie that shows how a town and a college rebuilds after the tragedy that they went through. The town of Huntington‚ West Virginia and Marshall University went through the tragedy of a plane crash that killed seventy-five people‚ including football players‚ coaches‚ fans‚ boosters‚ mothers‚ fathers‚ doctors‚ lawyers
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The Marshall Plan The Truman doctrine largely concerned itself with military aid in defence of ‘freedom’‚ but communists could gain power by means other than outright aggression. Europe’s economic sityation in 1945 was desperate. Many countries were facing severe food shortages‚ disrupted communications‚ low production and unemployment. Like after the First World War‚ it would take the world and individual economies some time before they could recover. Many believed that‚ as in 1917/8‚ these were
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Marshall Islands By the beginning of 1944‚ United States Marine forces had already made a start on the conquest of areas overrun by the Japanese early in World War II. Successful American assaults in the Southwest Pacific‚ beginning with Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in August 1942‚ and in the Central Pacific at Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands in November 1943‚ were crucial battles to mark the turn of the Japanese conquest. The time had now come to take one more decisive step: assault of the
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