Vitals Name: Gordon Parks Birth Date: November 30‚ 1912 Place of Birth: Fort Scott‚ Kansas‚ United States of America Nationality: American Ethnicity: African American Gender: Male Occupations: photographer‚ composer‚ filmmaker‚ writer Awards Julius Rosenwald Award for photography‚ 1942; Syracuse University School of Journalism Award‚ 1961; Frederic W. Brehm Award‚ 1962; Newhouse Citation‚ Syracuse University‚ 1963; Philadelphia Museum of Art Award‚ 1964; New York Art Directors Club Award
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Case 02 Gordon Bethune and the complete transformation of Continental Airlines Overview When Gordon Bethune left his job at Boeing in February 1994 to accept the position of chief operating officer (COO) of Continental Airlines‚ the company was struggling to survive. Even though it was the fifth largest commercial airline in the United States‚ with revenues of nearly 6 billion dollars‚ the company had reported a net loss every year since 1985‚ and was ranked the last among the top ten commercial
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Charlie Gordon showed us that surgerys are very risky and we should really think before we do risky things. In the science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keys‚ Charlie has a passion to get intelligent but in my perspective the surgery was useless and risky. Charlie Gordon should not have had the Artificial Intelligence surgery because i was risky and it wasn’t permanent. Charlie Gordon lost his friends because of the AL surgery. His “friends” didn’t like how smart he get and I
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Boxing is a violent sport full of hate where the only objective is to knock your opponent unconscious. This is a very quick and biased view of boxing because if you study boxing closer it helps teach the person about their moral character. Boxing helps teach people to “get off the canvas and roll with the punches” (Marino‚ 2010‚ para 8) and to face their fears‚ two important lessons to get through life. Throughout the article written by Marino‚ he educates about Aristotelian ethics
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JEFF GORDON FOUNDATION Jeff Gordon‚ the famous philanthropist‚ has been a former NASCAR champion. In addition‚ he has dedicated his time and effort to the children for his foundation. He formerly drove the No. 24 Chevrolet for Hendrik motors in 23 full-time NASCAR sprint season seasons between 1993 and 2015‚ and served as a substitute driver for Dalen Ernest Jr. in the No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in select races during the 2016 season. But portraying Gordon solely in terms of his driving
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Ernest Gordon was a stalwart young man who fought and belonged to the Scottish regiment of the Allied POW during World War II. Soon‚ however‚ he was captured by the Japanese military and got sent to the Chong-Kai Prison Camp in Myanmar. At the prison camp‚ Gordon was forced to labor to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Gordon experienced the most extreme pain that humans can ever endure. The situation was getting
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Have you ever thought of what it would be like to be the smartest person in the world or to just simply be smarter than you already are. This is what the mentally challenged man Charlie Gordon from the science fiction book “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes had always wanted. So one day Charlie had decided to volunteer have an experimental A.I. Surgery to increase his Intelligence and to allow him to be like everyone else. Charlie Gordon’s life was increased by a substantial amount for
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Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could increase his or her intelligence? In the story “Flowers for Algernon‚” by Daniel Keyes a man with a very low IQ of 68 can have this done. This man is 37 years old and can hardly spell. This mans name is Charlie Gordon and he is getting an operation to make him temporarily smarter. Charlie should get this operation because of many different reasons but the ones that will be gone over are as following‚ Charlie is tired of being dumb and wants to be smart‚ he gets
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In Gordon S. Wood’s novel‚ The Radicalism of the American Revolution‚ Wood challenges an idea produced by many consensus historians over many years. That idea being the American Revolution was just a colonial fight for independence from our mother country. Instead‚ Wood believes the revolution as not that‚ but a genuine social transformation. While one class of people did not overthrow another‚ the social relationships of our country were permanently changed for the rest of time. One-way Wood support
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In “The American Revolution: A History”‚ Gordon S. Wood takes readers through the significance of every event leading up to the American Revolution‚ a chapter on the war itself‚ and post-war events. Wood begins by describing the migration to North America‚ and the shift of main exports and imports‚ and British Reform. As the colonies begin to resist British Reform‚ Wood describes the reaction of Great Britain and the debate of imperialism. The fight for independence is discussed‚ as well as the
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