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Term Papers on Biographies
D.h. Lawrence
Number of words: 766 - Number of pages: 3.... flowed from his own experience of nature in the southwestern U.S. and the Mediterranean region. Also, the most significant of his early fiction, Sons and Lovers, dealt with life in a mining town. Another
wonderful example of the nature in ’s writing would come from The Shadow in the Rose Garden. In this book, the images he has given to a person, make it seem like they really are there. “She closed her sunshade and walked slowly among the many flowers. All around were rose bushes, big banks of roses, then roses hanging or tumbling from pillars .....
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Harriet Tubman
Number of words: 2620 - Number of pages: 10.... from the blow is narcolepsy. She would sleep and appear to be lazy which, got her in trouble on more than one occasion.2
She escaped Slavery by running to Philadelphia in 1849, after hearing that she would be sold, since the owners of her plantation had died. Harriet at the time, had a husband who was a free man named John Tubman. They were married in 1844 and she was allowed to sleep in his cabin at night. Harriet had mentioned the idea of escaping and John told Harriet that he had no interest in leaving his home in the south. He even threatened Harriet that .....
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Louis Pasteur
Number of words: 1348 - Number of pages: 5.... he was fascinated by a chemistry professor, Monsieur Jean-Baptist Dumas. He wrote home excitedly about these lectures, and decided that he wanted to learn to teach chemistry and physics, just like his favorite professor.
In 1847 he earned a doctorate at the Ecole Normale in Paris, with a focus on both physics and chemistry. Becoming an assistant to one of his teachers, he began research that led to a significant discovery. He found that a beam of polarized light was rotated to either the right or the left as it passed through a pure solution of .....
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How Raphael Personifies The Renaissance
Number of words: 1191 - Number of pages: 5.... Giovanni, the first actual master of Raphael, taught him about the arts and all of the components of painting. For the first ten years of his life his father influenced his feelings on the arts. In 1494, he traveled to Perugia to study under Peitro Perugino. Just as his father influenced his early life, his study in Perugia shaped his adolescence and young adulthood even further.
In Perugia, Raphael began to take a particular liking to the field of art. Perugino influenced the way that Raphael thought about art and also helped him form a style of h .....
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Charles Darwin
Number of words: 527 - Number of pages: 2.... arose from a single original life form through a branching process called "specialization." (Which seems like a very shifty idea.) He set these his theories forth in his book called, "On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life" or "The Origin of the Species" for short. After publication of Origin of Species, Darwin continued to write about botany, geology, biology and zoology until his death.
Darwin's work had a tremendous impact on religious thought. Many people strongly opposed .....
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Vincent Van Gogh 2
Number of words: 776 - Number of pages: 3.... paintings of peasants and potato diggers.
He became really obsessed with art when he was 27. His early drawings were dark and somber, sometimes crude, but strong and full of feelings. In 1881, at age 28, he moved to Etten. Van Gogh liked the pictures of peasant life and labor that were first to be painted by Jean-Francois Millet, who had great influences on Van Gogh. His first paintings were crude but improving. In order for him to come up with the most important painting of his pre-impressionist period he had to make a number of studies of peasant hands an .....
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Leonhard Euler
Number of words: 639 - Number of pages: 3.... academy in 1730 and professor of mathematics in 1733. He
married and left Johann Bernoulli's house in 1733. He had 13 children
altogether of which 5 survived their infancy. He claimed that he made
some of his greatest discoveries while holding a baby on his arm with
other children playing round his feet.
The publication of many articles and his book Mechanica (1736-37), which
extensively presented Newtonian dynamics in the form of mathematical
analysis for the first time, started Euler on the way to major
mathematical work.
In 1741, at the .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Good Influence Or Bad Influence
Number of words: 503 - Number of pages: 2.... would be many people that believe in it.
Another of Emerson's ideas is that of the oversoul. The oversoul is Emerson's name for God. He sees God as an entity and inside it is the world, as we know it including humans, animals and everything that exists. This leads to further prove that we are divine, seeing as we are part of God and God is divine. Again this thought was very criticized because God was always thought to be a separate entity and Emerson suggests that we are part of him. Again this causes a lot of controversy and these types of theories a .....
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