conglomerate since 1965. Its interests run from railroads to ice cream. In 2006 he pledged to give away 99 percent of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and family charities. So far he has given $8 billion to the Gates Foundation. 4. Bernard Arnault (France) - $41 billion‚ LVMH Arnault‚ 62‚ a friend of
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Cited: Brown‚ Larry A. "Aristotle_Tragedy." Larryavisbrown. Jan. 2005. Web. 30 Nov. 2010. .>. Hyde‚ Isabel. "The Tragic Flaw: is It a Tragic Error?" The Modern Language Review 58.3 (1963): 321-325. JSTOR. St. Louis University Library‚ St. Louis. 29 Apr. 2008. Scheepers‚ I. "FATE AND DIVINE WORKING IN SOPHOCLES ’ OEDIPUS REX." 137-144. Akroterion‚ 2005. Humanities International Complete. EBSCO. Web. 30 Nov. 2010. Sophocles‚ Robert Fagles‚ Bernard MacGregor Walker. Knox‚ and Sophocles
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Herbert Hoover‚ led the nation with a hands-off approach. He believed in letting problems fix themselves. This method‚ while initially successful‚ led to his downfall when nothing was done about the regulation of the stock market‚ which in turn crashed‚ causing the Great Depression. This failure resulted in Hoover struggling to gain support during the election. His opponent‚ former friend and partner‚ Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ made promises of a “New Deal” that would fix the problems Hoover helped
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written at the discretion of J. Edgar Hoover‚ and begins with a forward written by Hoover himself. Barry Denenberg. The True Story of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. New York: Scholastic‚ 1993. Denenberg details the career of Hoover and his significant impact on the role of the FBI. Denenberg breaks the book up into two sections: one being the “Years of Growth” and the other titled “The Years of Controversy.” In addition to including analyzing the actions of Hoover‚ Denenberg also includes authentic
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Copper Fish I have been lucky enough during my few years as a human to travel through remote parts of this wild planet. North to South‚ on foot or by plane‚ I have seen firsthand how nations have either protected the land they possess or stomp it into the ground. My favorite trip of all time took place this last spring of 2013 on a road trip from California‚ through Canada and into Alaska. To say the least‚ it was a humbling trip to witness the vast expanse of untouched land I only dreamed of
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Herbert Hoover was born in West branch Iowa being the second of three children on August 10‚ 1874. jessie Hoover was his dad and he was a blacksmith and owned farm tool stores. Herberts dad moved to Iowa from Ohio 20 years before he was born. Hoover’s mom‚ hulda Randall Minthorn was born in Canada. both of his parents were Quakers‚ A religious Society and Christian movement. at age 2‚ he had croup. croup is a respiratory infection that makes the windpipe swelled up and makes it hard to breathe
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The beginnings of mechanical television can be traced back to the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby Smith in 1873‚ the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884 and John Logie Baird’s demonstration of televised moving images in 1926. As 23-year-old German university student‚ Paul Nipkow proposed and patented the first electromechanical television system in 1884.[1] Although he never built a working model of the system‚ variations of Nipkow’s
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Hoover Dam Bypass: The Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge The bridge was built to be take the traffic away from the Hoover Dam which had just turned 75 years old and cannot hold the traffic anymore. The Hoover Dam was not able to hold the 14‚000 thousand cars that drive across the dam every day. To help preserve the dam Arizona and Nevada built The Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. This was a huge project between both states that would end up cost them $240 million. The
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became J. Edger Hoover’s "favorite SAC [Special Agent-in-Charge]" (PE 65) "To Hoover‚ Melvin Purvis personified everything he wanted in his new breed of agent" (V 6). Hoover became attracted to Purvis and sent him letters addressing him as "Mel" and signing as "Jayee". (v 6) on one occasion. This informality and familiarity between the men demonstrate the development of a close and personal relationship between Hoover and Purvis. Their relationship extended beyond the office based on Hoover’s desires
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