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The Accomplishments of Admiral Cheng Ho

the chore of building one of the worlds most impressive naval fleets. This fleet of ships, and admirals like Cheng Ho brought Chi...

Air Conditioning 'Father' Dr. Willis H. Carrier

to Ingels work, words written by Cloud Wampler, a banker who essentially helped Carrier and his company during the Depression. He ...

Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Crete

encouraged their initial growth and continued development overtime, which also served to contribute to their unique characters. I...

English Language Learners and Direct Instruction

students with concepts and ideas that are presented in a disorganized fashion (Stein, Carmine and Dixon, 1998). When this occurs, ...

American Leadership as Personified by Steve Jobs and Virginia Henderson

CP/M, which was shortly to be succeeded by MS/DOS (Alsop 188). The Macintosh operating system offered an icon-driven system that a...

Student Accomplishment and the Principal's Role

relationship, however (Hallinger, Bickman and Davis, 1996). The principals actions shape and affect the learning climate, which, i...

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Spirituality

the individual. For one to realize his best self he had to first discover himself and to learn to trust himself. He believed in ...

Similarities of Ancient Egypt and Early Mesopotamia in Terms of Rule and Structure

also stand in testament to the fact of the existence and power of a central government and a strong social stratification. The ru...

Electricity and Benjamin Franklin

2005). It is interesting to note that Benjamin Franklin often invented things that he felt were good for all people and thus sho...

The World Health Organization

both monetarily and in health (The WHO agenda, 2007). The WHO agenda addresses the unethical and unfair status that limits access...

Ronald Reagan: Nomination for a Twentieth Century Genius Award

in 1999, for example, ranks Reagan eleven out of a list of forty-one U.S. presidents. His name is only topped by such greats as A...

Don Benito Juarez

then continued his studies in law (Blancke, 1975). Seven years later, he had his degree in law and took his first job as an attor...

Great Entrepreneurs: Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, Oprah Winfrey, and Sir Richard Branson

one of the more notable entrepreneurs whose work spanned the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Whitney is most rem...

Albert Einstein: Life and Accomplishments

patent office located in Bern ("Albert Einstein"). It was during his employment here that Einstein began to write about theoretica...

"The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin" - Leadership

a pertinent example of Franklins (1996) fundamental attitude for meeting a challenge. Hard work, he contended, was the lifeblood ...

“The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”

and vision. The problem that immediately presents itself, as might be expected, is that many of these concepts are less than self...

Servant Leadership: Application in Organizations

qualities of the ultimate Christian service leaders (Jesus and Paul) as including "personal sacrifice, humility, risk taking, and ...

The Positive and Negative Effects of Using Cloning to Treat Genetic Disease

Switching around an embryos mitochondria might appear innocent enough but we must realize that mitochondrial genes act well outsid...

Alan Turing: Life and Accomplishments

"whether accordingly it could be released from matter by death" (Hodges, 1995). These reflections led him into concepts of 20th ce...

Evaluating the James K. Polk Presidency

did accomplish was staggering; much of it good, some of it questionable, but a considerable body of work. He came to the White Hou...

Ronald Reagan, the Most Effective President Since 1950

federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. All of us... need to be reminded that the federal government...

Quanah Parker

advantage of the Comanche. Quanah grew up a Comanche warrior. Even then, however, he knew of the world of the...

Navajo Code Talkers

Philip Johnston, a member of a missionary family that had been raised on the Navajo reservation, realized that those facts made th...

Chester Nimitz

associated with authority and above all a very real accountability" (Morton, 2003, p. 20). He believed "very strongly" that the "j...

Procopius/The Secret History

was a counselor to Belisarius and accompanied him on several of his campaigns and he may have been a prefect of Constantinople (Ha...

Lady Bird Johnson

her husband. That man, of course, was Lyndon B. Johnson. They were married less than a year after they met and she began the uph...

Psychological Aspects Of Motivation

- serves to stimulate better performance. Special populations require adapted motivational techniques in order to achieve the des...

Spain’s Philip II and the Colonization of the Philippines

far one of the more interesting chapters of Philip IIs life, in fact, revolved around that innocuous group of islands now known as...