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Term Papers on Biographies
David Hume
Number of words: 926 - Number of pages: 4.... for it. Hume writes, “When
we reason a priori, and consider merely any object or cause, as it appears
to the mind, independent of all observations, it never could suggest to us
the notion of any distinct object, such as its effect; mush less, show us
the inseparable and inviolable connexion between them. A man must be very
sagacious who could discover by reasoning that crystal is the effect of
heat, and ice and cold, without being previously acquainted with the
operation of these qualities.” Therefore, cause and effect is learned
through experience.
2. The c .....
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Grace Hopper Biography
Number of words: 523 - Number of pages: 2.... the New York University English teacher Vincent Hopper. Her computer technology life would soon begin following her graduation.
Upon graduating, Grace was accepted to the Bureau of Ordinance at Harvard University. That is when she was introduced to and assigned to work on Mark I -- the first large-scale U.S. computer and precursor of electronic computers. Her first assignment with Mark I was to "have the coefficients for the interpolation of the arc tangents completed [in about one week]"… not a problem for Grace. She would then be the third person ever t .....
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Saint Bernadette Soubirous
Number of words: 1053 - Number of pages: 4.... work they could find for
themselves. Francois Soubirous recalled that another relative owned a building
in the Rue des Petits Fossés - this building was the former Lourdes jail. The
old jail was locally known as "the Cachot". The Soubirous were allowed to remain
there rent-free. Each evening, the family gathered around the old fireplace for
family prayers. This concluded with the recitation of the Rosary - often led by
one of the Soubirous girls, Bernadette.
BERNADETTE
The marriage of Francois Soubirous and Louise Casterot produced .....
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Neal Cassady
Number of words: 2683 - Number of pages: 10.... of isolated creatures who haunted the streets of lower downtown Denver there was not one so young as myself. Of these dreary men who had committed themselves, each for his own good reason, to the task of finishing their days as pennyless drunkards, I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood to which their vision could daily turn, and in being thus grafted onto them, I became the unnatural son of a few score beaten men.
( The First Third)
With him as not only the legendary driver of On The Road but also as the driver of the .....
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The Impact Of Frederick Douglass
Number of words: 991 - Number of pages: 4.... and he soon learned to read well.
“At 7, Frederick was sent to his master, Captain Aaron
Anthony, at a nearby plantation. There he first met a
brother and two sisters. He later recalled sadly that
"slavery had made us strangers." (Compton’s Interactive
Deluxe 1)
At the age of 13 he read “The Colombian Orator”, a book
of speeches denouncing slavery and oppression deepened his
hatred of slavery.
“In 1833 Frederick was sent to work for Auld's brother,
Thomas, at a plantation near St. Michael's, Md. Frederick's
pride angered his new master, who plac .....
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Rosa Parks
Number of words: 286 - Number of pages: 2.... Martin Luther King, Jr. leading the movement.
In spite of harassment the boycott continued, and in 1956 segregated seating was challenged in a federal law suit. Parks' personal history has been lost in the retelling of the event. Prior to her arrest, Mrs. Parks had a firm and quiet strength to change things that were unjust. She served as secretary of the NAACP and later Advisor to the NAACP Youth Council, and tried to register to vote on several occasions when it was still nearly impossible to do so. She had run-ins with bus drivers and was evicted from buses.
Forty years later, despite tremendous ga .....
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Colin Powell
Number of words: 1137 - Number of pages: 5.... Morris High School in 1950. He was good in high school; he never got into any fights or any sort of trouble. He completed High school in 1954 (source 1, page 29, 30, 32). Powell applied to two colleges City College of New York (CCNY) and New York University (NYU). Both accepted him but he went to CCNY because it only ten dollars a semester as opposed to seven hundred and fifty dollars a semester at NYU. Powell majored in Engendering. He finished college in 1958 (source 1 pages 32, 36). While in college Powell joined the Recruit Officer Training Corps (ROT .....
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Timothy Leary
Number of words: 1002 - Number of pages: 4.... They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation. ‘Tune in’ means to harness and communicate these new perspectives in a harmonious dance with the external world. ‘Drop out’ means to detach yourself from the tribal game." (Marwick 312). This was not the first time his methods were questioned. Leary was first publicly noticed, and criticized by then fellow Harvard professors, for his interest in LSD when he and friend, Robert Alpert, wrote an article for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientist. In the article they described a circumstance that in the event of war, t .....
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