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Term Papers on Biographies
Walt Disney
Number of words: 714 - Number of pages: 3.... and the Seven Dwarfs. He went on to introduce many more innovations to movie making, including stereophonic sound (Fantasia, 1940) and 360-degree projection (Disneyland’s circle-Vision 360, 1955). This remarkable man’s many achievements also include the longest-running prime time television series (1954-1983), the Academy Award-winning true-life adventure nature films. Walt had many great ideas that he needed to share with others. The was a great persuading leader, he had to make others believe in him and accept his ideas. Walt knew how to tell his ideas to .....
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Gandhi
Number of words: 480 - Number of pages: 2.... protesting, fasting, and the boycotting of British goods. To accomplish the last he made his own clothes that were simple and made from hand-woven wool. The spinning wheel was one of the symbols used in his fight for India.
gave new life to the old idea of nationalism indeed. He helped to spark the fire that once was weak and now burned brightly. By his actions and protests and rallies for nationalism, he helped to try to unite Muslim and Hindu against their oppressors. gave speeches on god attempting to show him as one entity as opposed to being se .....
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Robert Frost And His Life
Number of words: 835 - Number of pages: 4.... of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal.
After his father's death in 1885, when young Frost was 11, the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. Frost attended high school in that state, entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taughtschool and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to The Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Elinor .....
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Johann Sabastian Bach
Number of words: 872 - Number of pages: 4.... after, 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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John Dalton
Number of words: 796 - Number of pages: 3.... his first book, Meteorological Observations and Essays. In it he said that each gas exists and acts independently and purely physically, rather than chemically. Meaning, that gases act according to mechanical repulsion rather than chemical attraction. As a chemistry tutor, John taught from Lavoisier's Elements of Chemistry. After six years John resigned to conduct private research supported by tutoring.
In 1802, in his essay entitled "Experimental Essays on the Constitution of Mixed Gases; on the Force of Steam or Vapor from water and other liquids in diffe .....
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Emilie Du Chatelet
Number of words: 770 - Number of pages: 3.... birth to a boy and a girl, and
later at the age of 27 the birth of another son followed. Neither the children
or her husband deterred her from fully grasping and indulging in the social life
of the court.
Some of Emilie's most significant work came from the period she spent
with Voltaire, one of the most intriguing and brilliant scholars of this time,
at Cirey-sur-Blaise. For the two scholars this was a safe and quiet place
distant from the turbulence of Paris and court life. She started studying the
works of Leibniz but she then started to analyze the di .....
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The Comparison And Contrasting Of The Masters Of Fredrick Douglass
Number of words: 923 - Number of pages: 4.... Douglass was very young at the time. I believe this
was one of meanest men in his life. The importance of this relationship
was that Douglass would gain stronger view towards slavery and it’s
misfortunes. This would also drive his want for freedom.
Douglass eventually becomes the property Thomas Auld of who loans
him to his brother Hugh Auld. Keep in mind Lucretia could be Douglass’s
sister. This was a good thing for Douglass because he would start to learn
how to read and write. Sophia Auld began teaching him the ABC’s in her
spare time. This went on .....
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941)
Number of words: 1422 - Number of pages: 6.... but there
never was any doubt that he would pass."
World War I
While he was still in school, World War I started. In the spring of
1915, his name was enlisted in the Canadian Army. However, his commanding
officer, arranged him for his education. Hours after the successful
completion of his final exams in December 1916, he was back in uniform.
Within a few months, he was serving in the Canadian Army Hospital at
Ramsgate, England. He then voluntarily transferred to the front line near
Cambrai, France because he felt he was not doing enough. He used his
int .....
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