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Term Papers on Biographies
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Number of words: 1154 - Number of pages: 5.... trouble it was her father they turned to. The fact that Fitzgerald's mother, rather than his father, was the financial foundation for their family influenced Fitzgerald greatly. Even as a young boy he was aware of this situation. The theme that arose from this about a wife's inherited money appears frequently in Fitzgerald's writing (Magill 679). When the Fitzgeralds fell into financial trouble, the family had to depend on Mollie's family's money. When times like that came Mollie "abandoned the attempt to Tarleton 2 keep up her personal appearance (ne .....
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Louis Pasteur
Number of words: 1342 - 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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Jesse Jackson: A Brief Biography
Number of words: 277 - Number of pages: 2.... million new voters. In 1988 he received over seven million
votes, and registered over two million new voters.He never got one electoral
vote. He sees himself as the leader of African-Americans, women, unionists, the
homeless, the unemployed, and the underemployed. He is offended that Bill
Clinton has a large amount of minority supporters. He has been known to get
overly excited and emotional when speaking, and sometimes offends people. In one
speech he said that the Christian Coalition is made up of "Nazis, slave owners,
and segregationists." Another time he publicly remarked, "In Germany, they call
wh .....
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Sir Wilfrid Laurier Of Canada
Number of words: 1033 - Number of pages: 4.... than in the former." Remembering the past Laurier would
carefully develop the politics of reconciliation rather than conflict.
In the year 1854 the young lad went to college, De L'assomption. In
his studies he took subjects such as Latin, Latin classics, pre-
revolutionary French literature, Greek, English and some philosophy. The
education which Laurier got from this school was to prepare him for
priesthood but he decided to study law in Montreal at McGill University.
At the University Laurier was very hard working and serious to try to
accompli .....
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Andrew Carnegie The Rise Of Bi
Number of words: 1249 - Number of pages: 5.... the looms fell through for them, they realized that they didn't have much of a choice of what to do. So, they borrowed the money for the voyage from Scotland to New York in the hopes of having a fresh start. Losing everything they had didn't sit well with Andrew or his mother. The family left in shame and determined to make it in there new environment. Upon arriving they immediately set out for work. Will found door-to-door work with a loom, Margaret with shoe binding, and Andrew found work as a bobbin boy in a local textile mill. Andrew was a hard worker and ha .....
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Johann Bach
Number of words: 872 - Number of pages: 4.... he took the job of organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other musicians - for example, the church choir - rubbed his colleagues the wrong way, and he was embroiled in a number of hot disputes during his short tenure. In 1707, at the age of 22, Bach became fed up with the lousy musical standards of Arnstadt (and the working conditions) and moved on to another organist job, this time at the St. Blasius Church in Muhlhausen. The same year, he married his cousin Maria Barbara Bach.
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Golda Meir
Number of words: 650 - Number of pages: 3.... her help, The Israeli's would have
possibly never survived as a state. In the beginning, Israel hardly had any
weapons. Golda Meir once again decided she wanted to help Israel so she went to
the United States and She went to other countries to try to help Israel out with
this problem by raising money. In the US, she gave speeches at universities and
she contacted the head government officials to try to borrow some money. The US
government turned her down but the college students gave her all the money they
could spare. The government also refused to help I .....
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