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Term Papers on Biographies
Emily Dickinson 6
Number of words: 1078 - Number of pages: 4.... married Emily's best friend, Susan Gilbert. Lavinia was Emily's younger sister. She didn't marry anyone so she stayed in the family house. The three siblings shared a very close relationship. Their parents didn't have a close relationship with them, but they did love and care for them. Emily's parents made sure she had a good education. She went to a primary school for four years then she attended Amherst Academy from eighteen hundred forty through eighteen hundred forty-seven. After that she went to Mary Lyon's Female Seminary ( Mount Holyoke Female Sem .....
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Benjamin Franklin 2
Number of words: 2325 - Number of pages: 9.... for his brother, James, who was the printer of the New England Courant. The brothers didn't have a good relationship. Benjamin thought his brother didn't pay him enough money and James was difficult to get along with.
After four years when he was about 16, he wrote some letters to his brother's paper and signed them Silence Dogood. The letters were funny and sometimes made fun of the Boston authorities and society. His letters became very popular and everyone tried to figure out who Silence Dogood was.
In 1722, James was sent to prison for making stateme .....
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Queen Victoria
Number of words: 870 - Number of pages: 4.... progressive command on the political thinking of the sovereign.
Marriage
In 1840 Victoria married her first cousin, Albert, ruler of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who she had known for about four years. Although this was a wedlock of state, it was a highly extravagant and prosperous one, and Victoria was devoted to her family responsibilities. The first of their nine children was Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, later queen of Germany. Their first son, Albert Edward, prince of Wales and later monarch of Great Britain as Edward VII, was born in 1841. When the cautious Prince A .....
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Author Obsessed Over Love
Number of words: 437 - Number of pages: 2.... McCullough attended twelve years in a convent school. She then went on to Holy Cross College and obtained honors in English, chemistry, and botany. Next she began to attend the University of Sydney to become a physician. McCullough eventually dropped out due to her father’s opposition to women having medical careers. The author has had a variety of jobs varying from librarian to bus driver and schoolteacher. McCullough returned to the University of Sydney to become a medical technician specializing in neurophysiology. After accomplishing that she went to L .....
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
Number of words: 1114 - Number of pages: 5.... mistakes made by Beethoven (Schmit, 17). Beethoven, then, went to
Neffe who himself started composing at the age of 12.
In the late 1700's, Beethoven began to suffer from early symptoms of
deafness, and by 1802, Beethoven was convinced that the condition was not only
permanent but was getting much worse. The cause of his deafness is still
uncertain (Comptons, 1). He was determined to prove that deafness was not a
handicap to him (Thompson, 25). Beethoven's deafness started to be noticeable,
and by 1818 Beethoven was completely deaf (Schmit, 28).
In the year .....
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Life Of Shakespear
Number of words: 333 - Number of pages: 2.... of the Blackfriars, which at that time was the only theater within the limits of London. Shakespeare was a shareholder in both of these theaters. This suggests that Shakespeare might have been a businessman as well as an actor and playwright. In Shakespeare began to write plays for his troop Lord Chamberlains Company. In writing his plays he had to take several things into account. Some examples are the skills of the actors in his troop, and also that all of the actors were men, because of the fact that no women were allowed to perform at that time. By 1592 he .....
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George Washington
Number of words: 826 - Number of pages: 4.... there.
George grew up a tall, strong young man, who liked music and theatrical performances, and was awkward with girls but fond of dancing. His ambition was to gain wealth and to do well whatever he set his mind to.
His first real adventure as a boy was going to a surveying party to the Shenandoah Valley of northern Virginia and rising the Shenandoah River by canoe. An earlier suggestion that he should be sent to sea seems to have been discouraged by his uncle Joseph Ball, who described the consequences of a unknown colonial youth in the British Navy of that .....
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Sergei Grinkov And Ekaterina Gordeeva
Number of words: 1610 - Number of pages: 6.... his high height at age 15, it was very difficult for him to perform high maneuvers, and twists. So in 1982 Sergei's coach and mother decided to pair him with Ekaterina Gordeeva, who at the time was 10 years of age.
Ekaterina was born on March 20, 1972 to Alexander and Elena Gordeeva. Ekaterina's mother Elena was a computer specialist and a swimmer, and her father, Alexander was a member of the military- dance theater ensemble.
As a child Ekaterina showed the same interest in figure skating as Sergei had done. Since Ekaterina's father, Alexander, was a membe .....
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