Career Officer Essays and Term Papers
A Lesson From OliverLike any other morning I was up at four, the day Oliver met with his
violent death.
At four in the morning the grass is wet.
Now, it's still wet at 6 a.m. and even at seven, and these tend to
be the hours of choice for most people wishing to appreciate the phenomenon
of grass ...
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Rocky MarcianoOn Sept. 1, 1923 Mr. and Mrs. Pierino Marchegiano of Brockton, MA became the proud parents of a lively twelve pound baby boy. The child was named Rocco Marchegiano, but the world would one day know him as the legendary boxer .
When \"bambino Rocco\" was 18 months of age, he contracted pneumonia. ...
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Edgar Allan Poe EesayEdgar Allan Poe was born at 33 Hollis Street, Boston, Mass., on January 19, 1809, the son of poverty stricken actors, David, and Elizabeth (born Arnold) Poe. His parents were then filling an engagement in a Boston theatre, and the appearances of both, together with their sojourns in various places ...
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William Henry Gates IIIChairman and Chief Executive Officer
Microsoft Corporatio
William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft
Corporation, the leading provider, worldwide, of software for the personal
computer. Microsoft had revenues of $8.6 billion for the fiscal year ending June
1996, ...
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EisenhowerWhat do you think of when you hear the name, Dwight D. ? For most they think of him as just a president and nothing else, but he was also one of or maybe the greatest general of all time.
In 1909, Dwight D. graduated from Abilene High School, Abilene, Kansas. After he got out of high school, he ...
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The Caine Mutiny: Willie Keith - A Life ChangedSometimes it takes an event in one's life to change a person. In
Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, it took the navy to change the life of
Willie Keith.
Before Willie joined the navy he was living the easy life. His
mother came from a wealthy family so Willie had no problems financially.
He never ...
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Bill Gates: BiographyWilliam H. Gates Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Microsoft Corporation
William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft
Corporation, the leading provider, worldwide, of software for the personal
computer. Microsoft had revenues of $8.6 billion for the fiscal year ...
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Jackie RobinsonAudra Bass
Mrs. Bradburn
10 Honors Lit. /Comp.
May 13, 2013
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson performed through many challenges and gave everything he had for the game of baseball. Not only did he change American baseball forever, but as well as the lives of African-American athletes. ...
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Admission To Law SchoolIntegrity, discipline, selfless service, loyalty, courage, and competence are a few of the values and traits the military has instilled in me. Many of my successes in life can be attributed to those values and traits. I believe for the most part it is because these values and traits where built ...
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Napoleon BonaparteCorsica is a rugged island in the Mediterranean, which lies sixty miles off the coast of Italy. The Corsicans are proud and independent people. In 1768, when the French took over the island from Genoa, an Italian state, the Corsicans rebelled and fought for their freedom. But they were ...
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Muhammad AliThe greatest mystery of the 1996 Olympic summer games in Atlanta, was solved at
28 minutes past midnight the day of the opening ceremony. The crowd erupted when
the Olympic torch was passed to . The Olympic gold medal boxer
lifted the torch and trembled before a crowd screaming ‘Ali'. He
then ...
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Gaius Marius: Savior.. Or Destroyer??
Gaius Marius was the Janus-faced savior of Rome. On one hand his
sweeping military reforms intensified Rome's might at a crucial time,
during the Jugurthine war, saving Rome from the steady advance of their
Italian enemies. On the other, his no-frills military-minded personality
drove him to ...
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Harper Lee: Introduction To Harper LeeEarly Life
Born in Monroeville, Alabama, on April 28, 1926, Nelle Harper Lee is the
youngest of three children of Amassa Coleman Lee and Francis Lee. Before
his death, Miss Lee's father and her older sister, Alice, practiced law
together in Monroeville. When one considers the theme of honor that ...
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The Life Of Adolf HitlerAt 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889, he was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria.
Adolf Hitler would one day lead a movement that placed supreme importance on a person's family tree even making it a matter of life and death. ...
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General William Tecumseh Sherman
General William T. Sherman, one of the greatest Civil War generals, proved to be an extremely significant factor for the Northern cause due to his mastery of military warfare and thus notable contribution to the South's defeat. Despite of the fact that early on his military career looked quite ...
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To Kill A MockingbirdBorn in Monroeville, Alabama, on April 28, 1926, Nelle Harper Lee is the youngest of three children of Amassa Coleman Lee and Francis Lee. Before his death, Miss Lee's father and her older sister, Alice, practiced law together in Monroeville. When one considers the theme of honor that runs ...
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Napolean BonopartCorsica is a rugged island in the Mediterranean, which lies sixty miles off the coast of Italy. The Corsicans are proud and independent people. In 1768, when the French took over the island from Genoa, an Italian state, the Corsicans rebelled and fought for their freedom. But they were ...
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Joseph Conrad“. . . No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream—alone. . . .,”(Conrad 71). With this thought consuming verse, along ...
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David BeckhamThe Golden Boy of English Football
In order to reach the highest point of greatness a man has to endure and overcome unexpected obstacles placed on the way to the peak. David Beckham, also known as England’s Golden Boy of the 20th century, has achieved God like status in the football world not ...
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Gaius Julius CaesarGaius Julius Caesar (July 13, 100 BC - March 15, 44 BC) was a Roman military and political leader whose conquest of Gallia Comata extended the Roman world all the way to the Oceanus Atlanticus and introduced Roman influence into modern France, an accomplishment whose direct consequences are visible ...
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