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Term Papers on Biographies
Robert Browning
Number of words: 2151 - Number of pages: 8.... to believe the unexplained mysteries of the Christian faith(Miller, 1953). His mother, who had strong ties to the congregational church, took great time to instruct Robert in his religious studies. With this open atmosphere, however, Browning exhibited signs of disinterest in religion during his early childhood. The town preacher, in fact , found it necessary to publicly scold "for restlessness and inattention Master "(as cited in,Miller, 1953, p.9). 's tendency toward skepticism was recorded early on. 's first deviation from his faith was at the age of .....
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The Life Of Michael Jordan
Number of words: 804 - Number of pages: 3.... appearances) in 1998 after leading the eastern conference in voting.
Jordan holds the record for most career scoring titles with eight, including 7 straight, also a record. He scores so many points that it is almost unfair to compare him with other players. On November 6, 1996, Michael scored 50 points for the 36th time in his career! Jordan eclipsed the 25,000 career points total, and he continues to dominate in that statistical category. He was the tenth player to score that many points, accomplishing the feat against San Antonio on November 30, 1996, with .....
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Will Rogers
Number of words: 736 - Number of pages: 3.... Indian friends. Later he became active in Native-American issues and was a major spokesman for Native-American rights in the U.S. Above all,though, Will was a "regular guy." His shy grin, easy manner, and total absence of sham endeared to Americans of all backgrounds. He had no pretensions, and his pleasures were simple: he liked to ride horses, rope cattle, and read the papers. In fact he often said, "I only know what I read in the papers." In this way, he tried to show that he wasn't a Washington insider; he got his information out of the newspapers, j .....
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Andrew Jackson
Number of words: 1369 - Number of pages: 5.... most of the capitol city of Washington was burned by the British, the Americans were badly in need of cheering up. Jackson became a United States Major General- this was very different from a state militia Major General. He continued to have military successes, though in his invasion of Spanish Florida, he got the reputation of being a kind of Caesar. In 1821, Jackson, at the age of 54 was in a very dangerous state of health. He, like many other southerners had defended his “Honor” in 2 or 3 duels and 1 shoot-out. He took two bullets. One lodged beside his hear .....
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Vladimir Ilyich
Number of words: 590 - Number of pages: 3.... faculty of St Petersburg University and got work as assistant to a justice of the law in Samara. In August 1893 he moved to St Petersburg. In Autumn 1895 he set up the St Petersburg "Union for the liberation of the working class". At the beginning of December 1895 he was arrested and in February 1897 exiled to Siberia for three years. In 1900 he went abroad, where together with G.V. Plekhanov he began to publish the newspaper "Iskra" ("Spark").
At the 2nd conference of the Russian Social Democratic Working Party (1903) Lenin was instrumental in setting up a n .....
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Drew Barrymore
Number of words: 733 - Number of pages: 3.... Soon Drew started smoking, sneaking sips of her older friends’ drinks, and experimenting with drugs. As her drug use and drinking grew more addicting, she could hardly hide it from the outside world. Drew first started using cocaine when she was 13 years old, at the time she didn’t think she would become addicted to the drug. But she was mistaken, before long she found herself using increasingly large quantities of the drug. Drew’s mother became concerned and dragged Drew to a Family Treatment Center, in Van Nuys, California. Drew attended many therapy se .....
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Fidel Castro
Number of words: 476 - Number of pages: 2.... Raul, and coconspirator Abel Santamatia split into three sections. Abel and Raul took up positions in nearby buildings. The whole plan failed though when Fidel's section was attacked by a timed patrol. The soldiers retreated as many of them were cut down by soldiers with let's just say "very large weapons." Fidel escaped into the wooded mountains of the Sierra Maestra. Patrols were launched around Santiago and Abel Santamtia and his men were backed into there building and slaughtered. Castro was finally caught and sentenced to 15 years in prison but was .....
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Christopher Lathrop: Autobiography
Number of words: 598 - Number of pages: 3.... him from me; for his own entertainment.(If you know what I mean?)
Anyway; a few years later when I became a shambala monk. (many degrees
above a standard monk.) I ran away to America and joined circus Vargus as the
head clown. When the Circus came too my hometown of Olympia My mother witnessed
my performance, and decided too let me move back home. Living at home was worse
than I had hoped. I decided to venture, as I called it; on a long and hopefully
successful quest to find an answer to one of mans most pondered questions. "If
a cow laughs, does milk c .....
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