… effect the lives of millions, but there is one thing that really stands out from the others, “The Power of One”. The important thing about the power of one person is that we need to look at what that one person is doing that is making a difference.…

… Washington Carver developed crop rotation methods for conserving nutrients in soil and discovered hundreds of new uses for crops such as the peanut, which created new markets for farmers, especially in the South. Born of slave parents in Diamond…

… Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on July 19, 1918, near Umtata, Transkei. To pursue a political career, he renounced his right to succeed his father as chief of the Tembu tribe. He studied law by correspondence. In 1944, he joined the African…

… I chose to do my research paper on Pete Sampras is because I love to play tennis, and Pete is the greatest tennis player alive. I have always made him my role model, and I hope to one day meet him. I try and model my tennis game after his and it…

… Austria. His father, Alois, was an officer in the Austrian customer service, and his mother, Klara, was a peasant girl who’d worked as Alois’s maid before their marriage. Adolf grew up with an extremely strict father, which motivated him to rebel.…

… as a recurring and ambiguous symbol of sacrifice: of the sacrifice demanded of and offered up by the fighting soldier and also of Christ’s sacrifice for man’s redemption. Blood, sacrifice, guilt are at the heart of INSPECTION. Owen wrote it in…

… in Dorset, England on June 2, 1840 to Jemima Hand and Thomas Hardy Sr. who were only married for six months. Thomas was the oldest of four children who included Mary, Henry and Kate. Hardy attended school for only eight years between 1848 and 1856.…

… was a major player in the unification of Germany. This Prussian junker, or aristocrat, was a Prussian nationalist and later a German nationalist. As Chief Minister to Wilhelm I of Prussia, he devised and executed a "klein-deutsch" (excluding…

… ruler Over the course of history there have been many rulers who have ruled over various lands. Some excelled, others just did the job, while many have failed miserably. The rulers have good and bad traits. Niccoló Machiavelli analyzed rulers…

… mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” (Albert Einstein, What I Believe) Science. I was sitting in the last row in biology class, pretending to take notes. I was trying to listen to the teacher, but what she was saying sounded…