Despite this, he became the first conscientious objector to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. Desmond Doss was born February 7, 1919 in Lynchburg, Virginia, and grew up living with his mother, father, sister and brother. The family were Seventh Day Adventists, meaning they observed the Sabbath (Saturday) as their day of worship, and would not work on that day. Doss was strongly influenced by a copy of the Ten Commandments that hung on the living room wall. The Commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill” featured a picture of Cain killing his brother Abel, and Doss vowed that since he loved his brother, he would never kill.
Camilla Dons Dons 1 Theodor Geisel Trying and not succeeding is not failure; it is part of the process of discovering what works. Theodor Geisel, born on March 2, 1903, was born and raised in Massachusetts. He had a sister named Marnie who, just like Geisel, was made fun of for their parents participation in the pro-American campaign of WW1 (“Dr.”). Their father and grandfather were brewmasters and had a large financial success. Their father’s family were also German-immigrants (“Dr.”).
Raised by his single mother, Rud developed a very close relationship with his brilliant sister, Fanny Hayes, who encouraged him to achieve the prominent career denied to her because she was a woman. With the help of his wealthy uncle, Sardis Birchard, Hayes went to Harvard Law School and then made a name for himself as a successful criminal defense lawyer in Cincinnati. There he married Lucy Ware Webb. Lucy advocated temperance and abolition, and was a strong Methodist who placed more emphasis on good works than on being "born again." Without nagging, she influenced her husband.
William Hunt Bill Gross This Brief Essay introduces how Willam Hunt Bill Gross had become one of the worlds greatest investors and biggest mutual funds. William Hunt Bill Gross was born on April 13, 1944, in Middletown, Ohio United States. His career is still an American financial manager and author as well. Bill has 43 years of investment experience were he became and discovered that he was made to do this, Bill Gross came up with a name called “the Warren Buffett of bonds of peace” and “the Warren Buffett of the bond world”). These names represent how his unique and world view with an insightful economic and market outlook.
BiographyChristian Wirth was born on 24 November 1885 in Oberbalzheim, Baden-Württemberg, part of the German Empire. During the First World War, he served as a non-commissioned officer in the Heer on the Western front, distinguished himself in battle, and was highly decorated. Wirth was one of the original members of the Nazi Party, joining for the first time in 1923, before it was outlawed briefly in Germany following the unsuccessful Hitler Beer Hall Putsch. [3][4] He again joined the Nazi Party as an "old fighter" on 1 January 1931 (#420,383). [5] He joined the Sturmabteilung (SA) on 30 June 1933.
Avery Brundage (/ˈeɪvri ˈbrʌndɨdʒ/; September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), serving from 1952 to 1972. The only American to attain that position, Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism, and for his involvement with the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, both held in Germany. Brundage was born in Detroit in 1887 to a working-class family; when he was five years old, his father moved his family to Chicago and subsequently abandoned his wife and children. Raised mostly by relatives, he attended the University of Illinois to study engineering and became a track star. In 1912, he competed in the Summer Olympics, contesting the pentathlon and decathlon, but did not win any medals; both events were won by Jim Thorpe.
Ralph Nader was raised to be socially responsible. His mother stated to Newsweek magazine on January 22, 1968 that Ralph had been brought up to, “understand that working for justice in the country is a safeguard of our democracy.” Nader graduated from Princeton University in 1955 and received a law degree from Harvard in 1958. Even in college Nader was known as a nonconformist. He often refused to wear the uniform white buck shoes of the era to an unsuccessful campaign to campus trees from being sprayed with DDT. During this period in his life, Nader continued to edit the Harvard Law Record.
Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th President of the United States, until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led the country through the American Civil War, ended slavery, and promoted economic modernization. He also became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives but later failed in two attempts at a seat in the United States Senate. Although Lincoln is most remembered for what he has done, He was also a loving husband and father of four children. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809.
He was old enough to serve in the German Army in 1918 and saw out the last days of World War One. After the war, he became a salesman for a fertiliser company. He joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and quickly developed a reputation for thoroughness and efficiency. From 1925 to 1930, he was propaganda leader for the Nazis in Bavaria, Swabia and
Britain was leading the world in industry and commerce, so, it was felt, education must somehow be taking care of itself. Today, however, education is one of the most frequent subjects for public debate in the country. Schools and other educational institutions (such as universities) existed in Britain long before the government began to take an interest in education. When it finally did, it did not sweep these institutions away, nor did it always take them over. In typically British fashion, it sometimes incorporated them into the system and sometimes left them outside it.