was as crucial to the economic rights of ballplayers as Jackie Robinson was to breaking the color barrier. A three-time All-Star and seven-time winner of the Gold G…
Kurt Donald Cobain was the leader of Nirvana, the multi-platinum grunge band that redefined the sound of the nineties.
Cobain was born on the 20th of February 1967 in Hoqu…
National Park
The Cuyahoga River Valley is biologically unique–a “botanical crossroads” situated in the transition zone between the Central Lowlands to t…
Beginning of a Whistleblower
Bernie Ebbers, Scott Sullivan, and other members of top management intentionally led Mississippi’s pride and joy, WorldCom, on a 5-quarter cha…
Beginning of a Whistleblower
Bernie Ebbers, Scott Sullivan, and other members of top management intentionally led Mississippi’s pride and joy, WorldCom, on a 5-quarter char…
(1928 – ….)
Cynthia Ozick was born in New York City on April 17, 1928. She was the second of two children. Her parents, Celia (Regelson) and Wiliam Ozick imm…
Every generation has its own heroes that display, what they believe to
be, ideal characteristics. While each is different in their own way, many of
these…
An English novelist and poet, D.H. Lawrence was born September 11, 1885, in Nottingham, England. He was the son of a coal miner and a school teacher. His mother, the school…
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The Navajos Indians were a peaceful simple people. D.H. Lawrence found this culture a wonder, and he portrays it in “Mornings in Mexico.” D.H. traveled all around…
“To me, the earth rolls ponderously, superbly Coming my way without forethought or afterthought. To me, men’s footfalls fall with a dull, soft rumble, ominous and lovely, Co…
Perhaps no other director has generated such a broad range of critical reaction as D.W. Griffith. For students of the motion picture, Griffith’s is the most familiar name in f…
Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in the small Tuscan town of Vinci, near Florence. He was the son of a wealthy Florentine notary known as Ser Piero, and a peasant woman na…
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Innovation, Future Earnings, and Market
Efficiency
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This study examines whether patent citation impact, a leading indicator
of technology firms’ innovation…
With over 15 years of upward growth in the entertainment industry and the Latin music scene, Daddy Yankee has developed to be one of the most respected and influential reggaet…
In my childhood years, my father taught me how to play baseball. I played shortstop and third base on a little league in Beirut, Lebanon, where we used to live before we moved…
One of the most unique things about the play Hamlet (with Hamlet playing the main character) is the way relationships between the main and lesser characters have not changed f…
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer came into the world at 4.34pm on the 21st of May at the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Milwaukee 1960. Little did his parents know at the time of his…
grew up in automotive racing. Ever since he was a kid that is what his family did, and now his family carries on that legacy.
Dale Earnhardt grew up in Kan…
Born Lucille Wood Smith in Uvalde, Texas her name was changed in infancy to Frances Octavia Smith. She had a tumultuous early life, eloping at age 14 with her first husband Th…
The life of Salvador Dali was one of much eccentricity, but he was also one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century. The story of his life is an extremely in…
Salvador Felip Jacint Dali Domenech was an important Catalan painter, best know for his surrealist works. His art shows a dream world in which normal objects are transformed i…
“Daliism”
Salvatore Dali was a Spanish artist who redefined a genre with new ideas and styles of painting. Dali’s work is often described as surrealist art, which is,…
was born on June 22 in 1964. Brown grew up in Exeter, in a place called New Hampshire. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1982. His mother Constance, also…
From the late 1950’s, when his career started, to when he retired in 2005, a lot has changed for Dan Rather. However, the most significant has been the changing dynamic of the…
As I stand in my starting pose, after the judges have called the name of my dance group, and we have walked out to onto the stage. I can hear the people in the audience appla…
Daniel Defoe used realism to enhance his novel, Robin Crusoe. Many critics agree with this statement, while some think that he should have been more accurate with his realis…
was born on January 18, 1856 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania to Daniel and Sarah Williams. Daniel was the fifth out of eight children. His father was a b…
is a guitar player. He was born
in 1979. He has blonde hair and is 16 years old. One day
he heard a song on the radio with a guitar solo in it. He
thought it w…