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Term Papers on Biographies
Edgar Allan Poe
Number of words: 3420 - Number of pages: 13.... 171) Poe did offer to posterity one tale with a moral. Written in 1841 at the dawn of Poe's most creative period, Poe delivers to his readers a satirical spoof, a literary Bronx cheer to writers of moralistic fiction, and to critics who expressed disapprobation at finding no discernible moral in his works. The tale "Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale with a Moral" presents Poe's "way of staying execution" (Poe 487) for his transgressions against the didactics. The story's main character is Toby Dammit, who from infanthood, had been flogged left-handed, whi .....
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Jeffrey Dalhmer
Number of words: 2043 - Number of pages: 8.... to intervene.
"It is a portrayal of parental dread... the terrible sense that your child has slipped beyond your grasp, that your little boy is spinning in the void, swirling in the maelstrom, lost, lost, lost."
Lionel seems to be fairly straightforward in recognising the negative influences in Jeff's life. No family is perfect. Jeff's mother had various physical ailments and appeared to be high strung, coming from a background in which her father's alcoholism deeply affected her life.
Lionel, a chemist who went on to get his Ph.D., stayed at .....
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Law And Politics
Number of words: 885 - Number of pages: 4.... laws are just and which ones are not.
If a nation were founded on this basis, it seems that order would prevail among the people. Furthermore, such a nation would have the simplest, easiest to accept, most limited, nonoppressive, just, and enduring, government imaginable – whatever its political form might be. Under such an administration, everyone would understand that they possessed all the privileges as well as all the responsibilities of their existence. No one would have any alliance with the government. When successful we would not have to thank th .....
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Miller's Incident At Vichy
Number of words: 497 - Number of pages: 2.... of psychiatry and captain in the French army, Von Berg, an Austrian
prince, and Ferrand, a cafe proprietor.
What a profound insight Arthur Miller has given us on these
characters who all lead very different lives and were thrown together in
similar circumstances.
What was similar amongst these characters were that they were put
in a holding house awaiting their sentence, to be set free or to be called
a Jew and die. Every one had fear inside of them. But in particular,
Lebeau showed his aggression on that very cold and dreary day. The great
author broug .....
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Harry Elmer Barnes
Number of words: 2763 - Number of pages: 11.... (2)
Barnes had discovered that a more nearly accurate version of the history of the First World War was only possible after the fighting had ended and the emotional excesses had lessened. He was unable to predict that similar corrections of Allied propaganda and popularized conceptions of the methods of warfare in the Second World War would meet even sterner resistance.
Today - half a century after the conclusion of the Second World War - it would be fair to expect a less emotional environment, one in which historians, researchers and writers were free .....
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Number of words: 577 - Number of pages: 3.... in 1497. At that time he, was living at the home of mathematics professor, Domenico Maria de Novara. Copernicus astronomical and geographical interests were greatly inspired by Novara (Westman). Around 1500 Copernicus gave speeches on astronomy to people in Rome. Later that year he gained permission to study medicine at Padua University. Copernicus, without completing his medical studies, received a doctorate in canon law from Ferrara in 1503, after which he returned to Poland to take up his administrative duties (Smith 1039).
From 1503 to 1510, Copernicus .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
Number of words: 4751 - Number of pages: 18.... do athletically. When he first entered school, the other children mocked him for his weak stature.
This incident molded the future president. He became obsessed with strength and the “macho” attitude of men. He constantly worked out by lifting weights and boxing. He believed that if he grew up muscular he would somehow compensate for his weakness as a child. He believed that strength and power were synonymous. Thus if he became the macho man, like those he surrounded himself with, he would be manly virtuous and great. There was no greater accomplish .....
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Salinger's Writing Style
Number of words: 311 - Number of pages: 2.... them. He also writes in a way as if he was talking to you
directly. I can almost hear Holden in my mind telling the story to me.
This makes it much more real and it seems as if I was taking part in the
story. I also like how the story moves on and does not stay on an incident
or topic for more than one chapter. The story has a fast pace and I like
it that way. It makes is less difficult to follow and read. As a result
from the fast pace, I was more tuned into the story and did not want to
skip ahead when it got boring. I can definitely say that I liked .....
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