… Rockefeller was born in Richford, New York, on July 8, 1839, and educated in the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio. He became a bookkeeper in Cleveland at the age of 16. In 1862 he went into business with entrepreneur Henry Flagler and with…

… clover, but who was he? What was his story? Why did he go to Ireland, and what was the significance of that? What did he actually do there? Patrick is said to be a type of role model and is a Christian saint, but why was he important? Patrick was…

… the Chinese Americans are divided between the highly educated and the poorly educated. -The second generation Chinese Americans who went through four years of college were pretty intelligent and were taking up more professional and technical…

… Buddha There have only been a handful of people in our society who have made such an incredible impact and contribution to our world, purely on the strength of their philosophy and enlightened state of mind. Siddartha Gautama was one…

… 1926. He was an illegitimate child of Angel Castro y Argiz, an immigrant worker from spain and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Fidel grew up in the mountainous region of Oriente province. As a boy, Fidel worked in the family?s sugar cane fields and, at 6 years…

… that affects many of the teenagers of the world today. Society offers many misleading advertisements that seem to lead teens in all the wrong directions. If the youth of today are more educated, the future of our world will be a lot better off (Dobson).…

… Sir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas day, in 1642, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, Newton was so small and premature that he was not expected to live, yet, he lived to the age of 85. As a child, he spent much of his time alone, interested…

… has contributed greatly to our societies ideals. His ethics and morals helped shape the American nation. Washington made many contributions in the early development of America. His battles during the Revolution, the work he did in at the Constitutional…

… day instructed me. Wiping my mouth after my first CPR attempt, I began to learn that on-the-job reality doesn't always follow the formal rules. Twenty years ago, just a couple of months after taking a course to become an emergency medical technician…

… because of the Watergate scandal: stagflation, the Iranian hostage crisis, and defeat in Southeast Asia in 1975. People were suffering from the worst inflation crisis in American history and started to believe that they were stuck in a world of…