Garrett Morgan was an inventor and businessmen born in Paris Kentucky‚ best known for inventing the earliest model of the gas mask‚ named the Morgan Safety Hood and Smoke Protector‚ and the traffic light. His additions to the scientific world and to everyday life still help us today. Morgan was born in Kentucky on March 4‚ 1877. He only attended elementary school‚ but later hired a private tutor to take care of the rest of his schooling. When Morgan was 18 he left his family to move to Cleveland
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Goldblum Frankenstein of Fraud Stanley Goldblum was a genius‚ but only to an extent. Much like many of the other cases we’ve studied‚ Goldblum got too greedy. In order to increase is profits more and more‚ Goldblum and Levin created more fake policies as well as created bonds. Equity Funding fraud was created by Goldblum. This is where he gave life insurance to 64‚000 fake policyholders‚ and eventually “killed” some of his phony holders to help keep the $2 billion fraud alive. Gordon McCormick
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friends‚ you might try a few other ways of getting the money‚ and as last resort‚ I know I can go get some money [by committing an armed robbery]. (Wright 447) I agree with this idea because I truly don’t believe the first instinct a person gets is to rob. I feel they get trapped in a situation which is either they have no income ‚ they no financial resources that can help them so they become desperate and think of quick fixes and get driven off the thrill and adrenaline it causes so therefore it becomes
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prospered‚ giving way to a more in depth knowledge and understanding of people’s social interactions with one another and what drives those connections. 20th century psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram‚ executed a series of Obedience to Authority test on random participants. As seen in the YouTube videos online and in class‚ Milgram’s study found that over 65% of the participants carried out the experiment‚ despite potentially hurting someone‚ due to the authority figure urging them to continue. This poses the
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Sharkwater Report The documentary‚ Sharkwater was an eye-opening and was an amazing film to watch. It showed how if one is truly determined‚ he/she will gain success. A big example of that person is Rob Stewart‚ the producer of the film‚ which were also accompanied by Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd. The documentary was mainly about sharks‚ along with the secrets behind killing them (shark-fin soup industry)‚ the corrupt governments‚ and the perseverance one will need to accomplish their big
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Have you wondered how mature you’ll be in the future? According to Rob Lowe’s Quote’’ I think part of maturity is knowing who you are’’. In other words‚being mature will make you an outstanding person later in life.Therefore‚ while someone in class or grade is having a stunning conduct the others are misbehaving. Developing will make you think or react different than others. In other words I’m now a courteous‚excellent‚ and cheerful person. Do you love your enemies company when they
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Morgan Freeman Actor‚ director‚ narrator. Morgan Freeman was born on June 1‚ 1937 in Memphis‚ Tennessee. As a kid‚ Freeman spent a good portion of his time scraping together enough money to see movies‚ where he gained an early admiration for actors like Gary Cooper‚ spencer Tracy‚ and Sidney Poitier. It was luck that Freeman himself got into acting. He was in junior high and‚ as punishment for pulling out a chair from underneath a girl he had a crush on‚ Freeman was ordered to participate in the
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(John Pierpont) Morgan (1837-1913) born on April 17‚ 1837‚ in Hartford‚ Connecticut. fall of 1848‚ Pierpont transferred to the Hartford Public School and then to the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire‚ Connecticut After graduating from high school in Boston in 1854‚ he then studied in Europe‚ where he learned French and German and returned to New York in 1857 to begin his finance career. 1861‚ Morgan married Amelia Sturges‚ 1864‚ Morgan became a partner in the firm of Dabney 1865‚ Morgan married Frances
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Rob Sitch’s The Castle (1997) remains an incredibly popular film that portrayed the ‘Aussie Battler’ family in suburbia. The Castle is the story of a working class family‚ the Kerrigans‚ who live a modest life in Melbourne suburbia. Despite their removal from the central city they love every bit of their simple suburban life‚ including the airport in their backyard. Their life and home is threatened when the government tries to attempt to acquire their house for the expanding Melbourne airport. Suburbia
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friend Rob‚ pointing to the straggler in our hallway. Point Pleasant High School is filled with tons of puny‚ peculiar‚ and ponderous kids that don’t know how to socialize with each other. As a matter of fact‚ they pretty much go home everyday after school and divert to video games until school begins the next day. The straggler looks at me with his hazy ocean-blue eyes and I return with my glare. “Banjo why don’t we teach this itty-bitty freshman how we run our school around here!” says Rob with
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