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Term Papers on Biographies
Alexander The Great
Number of words: 1179 - Number of pages: 5.... due to an illness that claimed his life at the young age of 33.
Alexander was born in 356 B.C. He was born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia. He was the son of Philip II, king of Macedonia, and of Olympias, a princess of Epirus. At the age of 13, Aristotle was hired to be Alexander’s private tutor. Aristotle inspired interests of politics, other races of people and countries, plants and animals, and a great love for literature in Alexander (“Overview of .” 1). He was an outstanding athlete and excelled in every sport of his .....
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Fray Junipero Serra
Number of words: 2329 - Number of pages: 9.... Serra was known as bright, articulate, scholar, a moving speaker, and a clear precise writer. He did not remain long in the academic venue. His dream was to become as missionary and in 1749 he responded to the call for Franciscan missionaries to the New World. His dream became a reality. He left his family and friends and sailed off to a "New World."
Nearly 200 years earlier, Spain had established a colony called New Spain, the region known today as Mexico. Successful colonization was the result of collaboration by Spanish imperial staff and the Ca .....
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The Life Of George Armstrong Custer
Number of words: 568 - Number of pages: 3.... of selective
obedience. He was always on the brink of dismissal, but he was able to
control himself when it was necessary. Custer knew what he could get away
with without being dismissed from the academy, and he enjoyed going to the
edge but not over it. The fellow cadets loved Custer for his fun-loving
and joking ways. Though Custer was frequently punished for his behavior,
he understood why he was at the Academy, and wanted to make something of
himself. At the Academy, Custer became a good writer. He felt the need
to write throughout his lifetime, an .....
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Karl Marx
Number of words: 1207 - Number of pages: 5.... it. The paper was banned in March of 1843. At this time, it had more than 3,400 subscribers from all over Germany. was married to his childhood friend Jenny von Westphalen, in 1843. Later in the fall of that year Marx along with another Left Hegelian, Arnold Ruge, moved to Paris and began publication of a radical journal entitled Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbucher. However due to the problems in publishing such a radical paper, only one issue appeared. Karl met his closest friend in September of 1844, when Frederick Engels arrived in Paris. Together they partici .....
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Domitian
Number of words: 677 - Number of pages: 3.... Marcia Furnilla, daughter or niece of Vespasian’s amicus Barea Soranus, was an excellent choice, with consular senators in her father’s and mother’s family.” (Jones, 1992)
was an educated person, although it is unknown where he got his education. He loved to write and wrote poetry. His poems were very sensitive no matter what the topic. Later on even wrote and published a book about baldness. Apparently, was interested in many different types of literature. People often said that he spoke intelligently, and made memorable comments. .....
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The Works And Influence Of Christopher Marlowe
Number of words: 2065 - Number of pages: 8.... against the Queen. The
Privy Council then ruled to give Marlowe his degree because of his good
service to the Queen as a government agent”(“Christopher Marlowe (1564-
1593)” par. 2).
“After receiving his degree in 1587, he moved to London to begin
his career as a playwright. All of his plays were believed to be written
between 1587 and 1593. His works include Tamburlaine, parts one and two,
the Jew of Malta, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Edward II, Queen
of Carthage, and the Massacre at Paris. He also wrote the great poems, Hero
and Leander and the .....
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Mozart: Portrait Of A Genius
Number of words: 1285 - Number of pages: 5.... tour to Munich. At twelve, he wrote his first opera called La finta semplice. In 1762, Mozart, his father, and his sister, went to Vienna, where they played at the imperial court and other places. He played the piano like an adult, and “performed all the tricks that were asked of him, playing with the keyboard covered or with one finger,” as stated by Elias.
At an early age, Mozart learned to dress in the court manner, including the wig, and also learned the correct way to walk and turn a compliment. The normal social situation of a musician in Mozart’s .....
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Benjamin Banneker
Number of words: 984 - Number of pages: 4.... work was so reliable that the Bannaky’s crops flourished even in dry spells. The family of free blacks raised good tobacco crops all the time.
There was no school in the valley for the boys to attend. Then one summer, a Quaker school teacher came to live in the valley and he set up school for the boys. The schoolmaster changed the spelling of Benjamin’s last name to Banneker. He had the equivalent of an eighth-grade education by the time he was fifteen, with much of what he knew coming from his grandmother, Molly. She taught him and his brothers how to read .....
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