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Term Papers on Biographies
William Shakespeare
Number of words: 339 - Number of pages: 2.... Folio"
-"He was not of an age, but for all time." Ben Johnson
His Life in the Theatre
-considered to be the greatest dramatist in the world
-only the Bible is read more than Shakespeare's plays
-from 1593 - 1613 he wrote 37 plays, acted, helped manage an acting troup and was part owner of the "Old Globe Theatre"
-1593-1594 the theatres were closed because of the plague and Shakespeare wrote his narrative poetry
-little is known about Shakespeare because he did not write about himself, nor did he publish his own plays, he made his money by writing plays that .....
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Biography Of Karl Marx
Number of words: 940 - Number of pages: 4.... as a youth he still faced discrimination because of his Jewish background. (Marx may have seen from this discrimination that religion wasn’t necessary and was “ the opium of the masses)
In October 1835 Marx matriculated at the University of Bonn. The courses he attended were exclusively in the humanities, in subjects such as Greek and Roman mythology and the history of art. He participated in the usual student activities got involved in a fight and spent a day in jail for being drunk and disorderly.
Mark left the University and enrolled at the Berl .....
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Thomas_Jefferson
Number of words: 814 - Number of pages: 3.... which met to consider the colonies' grievances against Great Britain. Virginia leaders instead adopted a more legalistic set of instructions,, and Summary View was published anonymously as a pamphlet. As Jefferson's authorship became widely known, however, he moved suddenly into the front rank of American political theorists. In the pamphlet, Jefferson argued that the original settlers of the colonies came as individuals rather than as agents of the British government. The colonial governments they formed therefore embodied the natural right of expatriate .....
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Langston Hughes
Number of words: 345 - Number of pages: 2.... the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing, as in "Montage of a Dream Deferred." His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. , for most of his adult life the unofficial Poet Laureate of the race, accepted as his vocation "to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America." His personal credo, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," became the credo of a generation of Aframerican poets. Hughes' poetry drew from traditional sources and individual voices; his expe .....
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Joan Of Arc
Number of words: 342 - Number of pages: 2.... of military succcess, during which the king was able to enter Rheims and be crowned with her by his side.
As she was attempting to relieve Compienge, she was captured by the burgundians and sold to the English when Charles and the French did nothing to save her.This was in May, 1430. After months of improsinment, she was tried at Rouen by a tribunal presided over by Peter Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, who hoped that the English would help him to becaome archbishop. She was not familiar with the technicalities of theology, so Joan was trapped into making damagi .....
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Evita: Saint Or Sinner?
Number of words: 1401 - Number of pages: 6.... thrown upon young Eva through no fault of her
own, would not be forgotten nor forgiven.3
At age fifteen, Eva Duarte set out to become a radio actress. She knew
she could be like the women in the movie magazines she either stole or borrowed
from her friends. Eva met singer Agustin Magaldi, and, packed her bags and
sneaked out of her mother's boarding house to the city of Buenos Aires.
Once Eva learned the rules of the 'casting couch,' she dropped Magaldi
and began her ascent to stardom. For years she wandered the streets, auditioned,
and did whatever she .....
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A Reflection On Herman Melville's Accomplishments
Number of words: 2516 - Number of pages: 10.... though the General died six years before
Melville was born, Melville still put him in his book, Pierre.
On the outer side of the blood line there was Major Melville. The Major
was a wealthy Boston merchant who was one of the famous "Mohawks" who boarded
the ship of the East India Company that night of 1773, and dumped the cargo in
to the Boston Harbor. Later Major Melville became the Naval Officer of The Port
of Boston, a post given to him by Gorge Washington. It is like the two blood
lines fitted together perfectly to create Herman Melville. Herman .....
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A. A. Milne
Number of words: 710 - Number of pages: 3.... that his father ran. Milne was never terribly close to
his mother and would often eschew her. Milne referred to her as “restfully
aloof.” (Page at Pooh Corner) His parents had three children, all sons. Milne
was the youngest and often wished he had a sister. At the school he
attended, Henley House, he had teachers that included H. G. Wells, who
undoubtedly helped ignite his flame for writing. (The Oxford Companion to
English Literature) As you can see, he was exposed to writing influence
even from an early age.
In 1915, Milne went into the a .....
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