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Term Papers on Biographies
Malcolm X
Number of words: 783 - Number of pages: 3.... drugs 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 sent .....
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Lee De Forest
Number of words: 894 - Number of pages: 4.... for him to follow him in a career in the clergy, but Lee wanted to go to school for science and, in 1893, enrolled at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, one of the few institutions in the United States then offering a first-class scientific education. (Kraeuter, 74). De Forest went on to earn the Ph.D. in physics in 1899, with the help of scholarships, and money his parents made by working odd jobs. By this time he had become interested in electricity, particularly the study of electromagnetic wave propagation, then being pioneered chiefly b .....
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Dorothy Parker
Number of words: 935 - Number of pages: 4.... lack of emotional range displayed in her verse.
The techniques and topics that many of her verses tackle are as follows: "bitterness, humor, wit, and love" (Adams 519), together with an absolute foreknowledge of their futility. Love, especially, plays a major role as a theme of Parker's verse. Many poems are relating to love and loneliness or death as results of love. Parker once said of an actress in a review of a play that she "runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." The same could almost be applied to the author herself (Bloom 2537). Her more .....
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The Marriage
Number of words: 390 - Number of pages: 2.... again to work on another computer, only to find that he had deleted more than one file and a few more things. He had also changed the ports on the computer as well . I reset everything and headed back for the shop.
And of course we have the wild one ,Sam . Now Sam has mice.And as mice go, they love to eat. The mice had eaten almost all of Sams I.D.E. cables and tinkled over the rest.which in fact ruined most of her computer.Sam and I sat talked and decided to rebuild what she had . The parts that she did not have the money for I loaned to her.Everyday when the .....
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Anne Boleyn
Number of words: 375 - Number of pages: 2.... he had other plans for Anne's life. He
carried out these plans by not allowing Anne to marry the man that she
truly loved. Anne was bitter about this decision that she had no say in.
Anne's second love was the love of being queen. Being queen seems to be
one of her childhood dreams, which is understandable, because many girls
dream of being a princess or a queen when they get older. Anne's final and
strongest love was the love for her daughter. Elizabeth was the most
important thing in Anne's life, and she would have done anything that she
could for her .....
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The Life Of Kurt Vonnegut
Number of words: 1821 - Number of pages: 7.... the Battle of the Bulge. On the night of February 13, 1945 exactly
100 American P.O.W.'s and five German soldiers took shelter in a meat
locker while the Royal Air Force joined by U.S bombers attacked and
successfully annihilated the city of Dresden in one of the most vicious air
raids ever. The firestorm left over 130,000 people dead and many more
missing. This event became a major influence in his writing career ("The
Biographies of Kurt Vonnegut" 775).
Vonnegut started writing novels in 1947, when he went to work for
General Electric Research .....
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Chief Seattle
Number of words: 1582 - Number of pages: 6.... He became Chief of the Suquamish, Duwamish, and allied Salish speaking tribes by proving his leadership qualities in a war that pitted his and other saltwater tribes against those of the Green and White Rivers. (1) He was considered to be Duwamish since his mother was the daughter of a Duwamish chief and the line of descent passed matrilineally. This was sometimes the case when fathers died while their son's were was still young and the mother would return to her tribe to raise the children. The Duwamish lived on the Duwamish River and various islands across the .....
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David Livingstone
Number of words: 2826 - Number of pages: 11.... few friends. Others described him as quiet, sulky, and unremarkable. Yet despite this, David was a tireless worker, and extremely motivated toward his goals.
By age 17, Livingstone had decided he wanted to leave the mill and become a
doctor. Livingstone’s father, a deeply religious man, wanted him to go into a
religious field, and would not allow him to go. Livingstone eventually convinced
his father to let him go to school and become a missionary in China. After
finishing school, Livingstone had planned to go to China to perform his missio .....
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