Thomas Alva Edison Born February 11‚ 1847 Milan‚ OH Died October 18‚ 1931 West Orange‚ NJ 1859-1862 Works as a newsboy and candy butcher on the trains of the Grand Trunk Railroad 1863-1867 Works as an operator in telegraph offices in various Midwest cities and conducts experiments with telegraph apparatus. 1868 Works as an operator at the Western Union Telegraph Company’s main office in Boston and receives support from local entrepreneurs for his electrical inventions. 1869 (Boston)
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Thomas Cook Thomas Cook‚ one of the market leaders in the UK travel sector has reported that the company’s performance remains disappointing. Also‚ the company announced 2‚800 jobs loss and may reach 15% of company’s staff due to the merger with MyTravel which will result in cost savings of £2.8bn and it is thought to achieve over £94.8m predicted in the merger. The firm also assured that it will support many affected employees and will offer redeployment within the company. As the holiday
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Name_________________________________________________________________Date___________________________ Thomas Paine AP Argument Prompt Essay Student Samples Sample 1: A Throughout American history there have been many theories as to the makeup of this diverse nation. One of the most popular refers to America as the “great melting pot‚” suggesting that America is a place where all kinds of different cultures and beliefs combine to form a uniquely American identity. Thomas Paine here‚ however‚ seems to be more in accord with the “tomato
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Thomas Edison was a man who influenced America more than anyone else. Some of the inventions he pioneered are still used to this day. He was a man who spent almost his entire life working as a scientist‚ and receiving more than 1‚200 patents in his lifetime. (Anderson pg.7) Thomas Edison’s life was probably twice as productive as a modern day chemist‚ he was a firm believer of an eight hour work day‚ eight hours in the morning‚ and eight in the afternoon. Aside from his amazing history as an adult
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THOMAS WOLFE Thomas Clayton Wolfe (3 Oct. 1900-15 Sept. 1938)‚ novelist and short story writer‚ was born in Asheville‚ the eighth child of William Oliver‚ a stonecutter from Pennsylvania‚ and Julia Elizabeth Westall Wolfe‚ a native North Carolinian. In 1904 he went with his mother and some of the other children to St. Louis‚ where his mother kept a boardinghouse during the World’s Fair and where his brother Grover died‚ an event that he was to use with distinction in his fiction. In 1905 he began
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October 8‚ 2014 Thomas Paine Who was Thomas Paine? Thomas Paine is a British‚ American born on January 29‚ 1737. He was born in Thetford‚ England. He was a political activist‚ philosopher‚ and revolutionist. Throughout his early lifespan‚ he had different jobs but he wasn’t known until he became a journalist. In 1774‚ he moved to America and during his time in Philadelphia‚ he became a journalist. He then published “Common Sense” in 1776 which remains one of the most important documents written
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Thomas Jefferson United States President 1801-1809 Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13‚ 1743‚ at Shadwell Plantation outside of Charlottesville‚ Virginia. He was born into one of the4 most prominent families of Virginia’s planter elite. He inherited from his father 50000 acres of land and from his mother he inherited a Randolph‚ high social standing. As a boy Jefferson’s favorite activities included reading‚ practicing the violin and playing in the woods. Jefferson had five
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Baldwin 14.3 In the letters that Thomas Paine wrote he stood up for the Americans and called the British government absurd. Paine begins by distinguishing between government and society. Society to Paine is everything constructive and good that people join together to accomplish. Government is an institution whose sole purpose is to protect us from our own voices. Paine says that government’s purpose is to protect life‚ liberty and property. Thomas believed that every man should have rights
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"necessity is the mother of invention". Thomas Edison statement was based on the dependence of society using technology. This statement means that items that are invented based off of what people need. This is because no one will be able to appreciate an item that has no use. An example in today’s day an age is the iPhone which was invented so people didn’t have to carry both a phone and an iPod. That is making an invention due to the necessity of the people. Marshall McLuhan flipped this statement
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14. Who is Thomas a Becket? Why do you think he was important? Thomas a Becket was the archbishop of Canterbury. He was a close friend of Henry II and this is how he accomplished to become the archbishop of Canterbury. He was important because as Archbishop of Canterbury‚ Thomas Becket stubbornly resisted the efforts of King Henry II to include members of the church clergy in his reformation of the English court system and later became a saint. "Thomas Becket." UXL Biographies. Detroit: U*X*L‚
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