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Term Papers on Biographies
Walter Whitman
Number of words: 1692 - Number of pages: 7.... writing. For he is in his pen.
was born in West Hills, Long Island, New York, on May 31, 1819 . He did not have much opportunity for education in his early life. His parents were mostly poor and illiterate- his father a laborer, while his mother was a devout Quaker. Whitman was one of nine children and little is known about his youth except that two of his siblings were imbeciles. No wonder he demonstrated such an insight for life in his poems.
In 1830, at the age of eleven, he worked as an office boy for a lawyer, where he learned the printing trade. Whitman .....
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Stalin
Number of words: 1662 - Number of pages: 7.... from snow capped peaks, course through fertile valleys. His father was a very aggressive low life drunk cobbler. His mother was a housecleaner. His father died in a bar from wounds he got from a bad brawl. His town was a very aggressive town that liked to show each other their power by beating one another. Young Joseph was the one and only survivor out of his four siblings.
In 1888 began attending the Gori Church School, where he learned Russian, and excelled at his studies, winning a scholarship to the T’bilis Theological Seminary in the Georgian cap .....
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Eva Peron
Number of words: 2023 - Number of pages: 8.... cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there mere people who were rich”. This was maybe one of the first time’s that Eva felt the injustice of the world, that she felt that there had something to be done for those who did not have enough to eat.
In 1930 Juana Ibarguen decide to leave Los Toldos and left to Junin with all her family seeking for a better fortune. Evita had this dream of someday becoming an actress and she believed in herself saying that she indeed has vocation. She participated in some recitals and plays from scho .....
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Malcolm X
Number of words: 774 - Number of pages: 3.... and became a drug addict himself. A rival drug dealer named “West Indian Archie” ran him out of New York. And he ended up back in Boston. Where he started a burglary ring, which consisted of friend named Shorty, a pretty boy type of fellow named Rudy, a woman that Malcolm dealt with named Sophia and one of her friends (Alex Haley 168). He soon found out that crime does not pay, when he soon got arrested and stolen items were found in his possession. The Negroes of that group was sentenced to eight years, while the whites of the group were sentenced to only two. T .....
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Joel Poinsett
Number of words: 540 - Number of pages: 2.... by the consideration of relative power, American mass ideology,
and Public opinion. In 1845 President Polk began, cofidentially from the
public, considering the annexation of California. Polk's initial desire was
to simply purchase California, attempting to maintain peace. He soon
learned this would be impossible. When Polk ordered General Taylor to cross
the Nueces River and eventually to fortify on the Rio Grande, he fully
understood the possilble consequences of these actions. In fact, by
deploying Taylor and his troops, Polk putting a slow s .....
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Bob Dylan
Number of words: 962 - Number of pages: 4.... songs drew upon every style of American music, including rock and roll, blues, gospel, folk and country. Dylan's life as a singer-songwriter captured the public's attention from a time of mass confusion until today, opening up the expressive possibilities of rock.Composing over 100's of songs, performing worldwide including Woodstock 1969, following his own path and believing in his own causes, Dylan has become an idol, young artists everywhere can admire.
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in Duluth Minnesota to Beatrice and Abraham Zimmerman, Dylan w .....
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Mark Twain: Racist Or Realist?
Number of words: 1914 - Number of pages: 7.... of Huckleberry Finn. Both the characters Tom and Huck are similar to Twain in their spirit of adventure (Unger 193). Throughout his writings Twain wrote about the opression of the rich and poor, the strong and weak, and the proud and humble (Baxter 1). In his autobiography he wrote “All negroes were friends of ours and those of our own age were inface comrades (Neider 5).” Mark Twain could not find the realistic acceptance of friendships, loyalty, and courage in the adulthood of societies, and because of this he would always use a boyhood view of the w .....
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Columbus
Number of words: 466 - Number of pages: 2.... it with primitive equipment. He was able to find his way to the New World and back to Spain using only a compass, and astrolabe. He did have caravel ships with Lateen sail, but it was a miracle that he did what he did. was accused of cruelty to animals and humans, but so was everyone else at his time. Just like today everyone goes to school, everyone in ’ time was cruel. Yes, wanted to enslave the Native Americans, but other people also wanted to enslave Africans. He should not be condemned because he was a man of his time when he was able to do .....
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