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Term Papers on Biographies
William Marshall
Number of words: 1282 - Number of pages: 5.... the future of his outstanding career both as a soldier and a courtier.
At age thirteen William was sent to William De Tancarville, to begin his military training for the knighthood. William De Tancarville was known throughout Europe as one of the grander patrons of knighthood. In the Tancarville household, William would learn courtliness in addition
to all other prerequisites found in a professional soldier of the day. After six years of being a squire in the Tancarville Household, Marshall was knighted in 1166.
In 1170, King Henry II appointed Willi .....
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Colleen McCullough: 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 .....
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Thoreau As A Prophet
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have far more clothing than necessary. We have become a society whose
focus points to materialism.
According to Thoreau, the necessities of life are food, shelter,
clothing, and fuel. (1495) “When he has obtained those things which are
necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the
superfluities” (Thoreau 1496). Thoreau is saying that it is a choice to
obtain more than the necessities of life. We choose to buy excess clothes
and excess technology. What happened to being content with what God has
given us? “But if my .....
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Profiles Of Courage
Number of words: 581 - Number of pages: 3.... thought the Embargo Bill would instigate another war. Support of such subject caused his party-mates and constituents to re-think their view of the Massachusetts Senator. Daniel Webster, House of Representatives member, was a Federalist and was most famous for is "Seventh of March" speech. While slavery seemed to be the main issue of the time, the speech spoke mainly of preserving the Union. Although he was opposed to slavery, he seldom brought it up in his political activities. These pressures haunted him around the time he was fighting to be re-elected. Thomas .....
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Neve Campbell
Number of words: 627 - Number of pages: 3.... contribution to her career was when Neve was involved in the theatre. After her quitting dancing, she had turned out to be the Degas girl in “The Phantom of the Opera”. She preformed at the Pantages theatre in Toronto. Neve had preformed in over 800 shows when she was done in “The Phantom of the Opera” Neve says she likes the theatre because she gets an automatic response from the audience. It was this part of her career that Neve found the love of acting, not only on a stage but to reach higher in her career and be a movie star.
Neve’s career as a movie st .....
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Minor White
Number of words: 578 - Number of pages: 3.... but lives on in his books, either written by himself or written about him.
's style was to use realistic natural images in an abstract way as to make the viewer think about and try to "read" the photograph. Often, Minor compared his work to religious or spiritual events that have happened throughout history. Sometimes he would express his thoughts in his poetry and publish the poem along with the photograph and display them together.
Being proclaimed as one of the most creative photographers of our time would not be far off. Every photograph he took was su .....
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Shakespeare
Number of words: 497 - Number of pages: 2.... long William remained at the Stratford Grammar School but it is believed that an assistant of John forced him to withdraw William from thence. His later education must be the ways of business he would have learned around his father’s shop. Spectators said they have seen William give speeches to the calf before slaughtering them for his father’s leather work.
William married Ann Hathwey in 1582. She was also from Stratford where William was born. Even though she was eight years older than he, their marriage was a success. Ann was three months in pregnancy when .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson 3
Number of words: 752 - Number of pages: 3.... of people who think the same and act the same. People need to practice aversion and escape the conformity that society strives on. Of course, it is very had for people to get themselves out of this phase of conformity, but as Emerson says, "whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist." For years only great men have been able to break away from society's grasp to form their own ideas and live their own lives. These few examples are the ones people need to follow (149).
Much of the reason people conform to society is that they do not know themselves enough t .....
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