Joe Louis 10 facts 1. Joe Louis was born on May 13‚ 1914‚ in Lafayette‚ Alabama 2. Joe Louis went on to become the heavyweight champion of the world‚ holding the title for nearly 12 years and through 25 challenges‚ the longest reign in professional boxing. 3. In 1942‚ Joe served in a segregated unit with Jackie Robinson in the U.S. Army‚ who later became the first African American to play major league baseball. 4. Joe won the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union 175-pound championship in
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The most important scientific invention of the nineteenth century was braille. Braille is the only written language available for the visually impaired. When Louis Braille invented braille‚ a window opened up to sightless individuals everywhere; they were no longer at disadvantage to peers who could easily read written language. In 1829‚ Louis Braille published the first braille book entitled‚ "The Method of Writing Words‚ Music and Plain Song by Means of Dots‚ For Use by the Blind and Arranged by
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KITCHEN BEST: ETHICS WHEN DOING CROSS-BROUNDARY BUSINESS IN SOUTHERN CHINA CASE SUMMARY * Brief background and context Henry Chan‚ inherited Kitchen Best Appliance Co. Ltd---a home electrical appliance company from his father Chan Dong-hwa‚ is facing the challenge of establishing a more efficient internal control mechanisms of the company to ensure its future success. Kitchen Best Appliance Co. Ltd belongs to small- and medium-sized enterprises and is based in Hong Kong with its own manufacturing
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Louis Pasteur was an incredible man who changed much of history that led to the improvement of public health. He was born on December 27‚ 1822 in Dole‚ Jura in France. He was the third child of parents‚ Jean-Joseph and Jeanne Roqui. His father had always dreamed for Louis to have a good education and apply that to his future career. Pasteur was only an average student skilled at drawing and painting‚ which would help him illustrate what he saw in the microscope later on in life. In a college exam
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Rebecca Huang Louis Armstrong I. Early Life A. Childhood B. Family C. Armstrong’s natural talent from God II. Performance Career A. Experiences in New Orleans and Mississippi B. Chicago and Jazz Band C. Life from 1924 to 1930s III. Late Stage A. Armstrong’s 1950 life B. The end of Louis Armstrong’s Music Life IV. Music History A. Trumpet and Early Jazz B. Collaborators and Followers C. Armstrong’s Music Style 1. A Jazz musician
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impersonal (Gere). Louis’ skepticism in the traditional medical practice arose when he found himself helpless during the mid of an epidemic of diphtheria (Gere). Eventually‚ Louis grew to become a therapeutic nihilist and came up with an experimental design to seek for the numeric evidences‚ indicating the inefficiency of the traditional healing method (Gere). The first clinical trial that Pierre Louis conducted involves the testing of the common healing method of bloodletting. Louis used his numerical
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Case 14: Louis Vuitton in Japan American Military University Abstract Established in France in 1854‚ Louis Vuitton‚ known as the oldest supplier of French luxury fashion goods‚ became known for its exquisite leather bags and trunks. Louis Vuitton opened its first overseas location in 1885 located in London‚ England. In 1888‚ Louis Vuitton developed the Canvas Damier Pattern which provided brand recognition and a symbol of product excellence. In 1977‚ Louis Vuitton expanded into the Japanese
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Dave Barry: Lost in the Kitchen Lost in the Kitchen by Dave Barry is a modern social commentary on where gender roles are at right now. The main piece of this essay is a personal anecdote that takes place on a Thanksgiving Day where the women are stereotypically cooking in the kitchen whereas the men are told to simply “keep an eye on the children” (Barry). The synopsis of the story is that the men watch football and forget to watch the children while the wives cook Thanksgiving dinner .Dave uses
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The “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963)‚ the author‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ was written in response to a critical "Call For Unity" by a group of clergymen in Birmingham. His comparison would seem to indicate that he shares the same life as them. Martin Luther King’s work devoted to a single objective: the protection of civilization as a form of protest that the Civil Rights Movement could continue. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter he uses the rhetorical appeal of ethos. He starts off the letter
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Louis Vuitton Presentation of the company Louis Vuitton is an international luxury French fashion house specialized in trunks and leather goods‚ founded by Louis Vuitton in 1854. As an emblem of the French luxury‚ Louis Vuitton knew how to make way on the international scene‚ by advancing an image of quality‚ elegance and refinement. Today‚ Louis Vuitton is one of the most recognizable and powerful brands in the world with more than 300 stores in 44 countries around the world and 2‚7 billion of
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