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Term Papers on Biographies
John Cabot
Number of words: 383 - Number of pages: 2.... Columbus, and Portugal had plans
for a voyage to Asia around the southern tip of Africa. Joh Cabot then
went to England where he recieved the financing from a group of merchants
and the English King, Henry VII.
John Cabot sailed from Bristol, late in May 1497, with a crew of 18,
on a small ship named "The Matthew." On June 24th, he landed somewhere on
the coast of North America, probably New Foundland or Cape Brenton Island,
in what is now know as Canada. John Cabot was positive that he had reached
the Northeast coast of Asia and excitedly sailed back .....
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Immanuel Kant
Number of words: 2238 - Number of pages: 9.... He was appointed to a regular chair of philosophy at the University at the age of 46 in 1770. He was made the professor of logics and metaphysics. He was the first great philosopher to be a professional academic. He came into conflict with Prussia's government due to his unorthodox religious teachings. In 1792, the king of Prussia, Frederick William II, forbade Kant to teach or write on religious teachings. He obeyed the king's order until William II died. In 1798, the year following his retirement fromt the University, Kant published a summary of his reli .....
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Number of words: 1015 - Number of pages: 4.... of numerous styles, ranging from the Renaissance to his own times.
At the age of sixteen he was sent to study law at a university, but would have more gladly read classics at another university. After ten years he was invited by Duke Karl August to come to Weimar (this city would be his actual home until his death there on March 22, 1832). He was already a good lawyer and had written the novel Werther. His work in Weimar caused him to observe the natural world around him and led him towards science. He would yet write fourteen volumes on the subject. At th .....
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Heinrich Himmler
Number of words: 850 - Number of pages: 4.... he had already expanded the SS to 50,000 men by 1933
By 1936, he had consolidated police power in Germany and was named Chief of the German police on June 17 of that year. With all organs of the police, especially the Gestapo (secret state police), now under his control, his power was virtually without limit. In addition to his other responsibilities, he was also responsible for the security services (Sicherheitsdienst) and the concentration camps, which up to that time housed prisoners of the state.
Himmler's men staged the phony border incident that Hitler us .....
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Francisco Franco
Number of words: 707 - Number of pages: 3.... of the Spanish foreign legion in 1923. Franco became a national hero for his role in
suppressing revolts in Morocco, and at the age of 33 he was made brigadier
general. Having quelled a leftists revolt in Austria in 1934, he became army
chief of staff in 1935.
In February of 1936 the leftist government of the Spanish republic exiled Franco to an obscure command in the Canary Islands. The following July he
joined other right-wing officers in a revolt against the republic. In October they
made him commander in chief and head of state of their new Nationa .....
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Karl Marx 3
Number of words: 635 - Number of pages: 3.... paper Rheinische Zeitung, and as editor, wrote editorials on socio-economic issues such as poverty, etc. He soon made editor-in-chief, but was quickly forced to step down due to his radical writings and social views. In 1843, he married Jenny Von Westphalen. In 1844, Marx met the man who would change his life forever. Both Engles and Marx had gone through the German Philosophic school and had come to the same conclusions but while Marx arrived at an understanding of the struggles an demands of the age basis of the French Revolution, Engles did so on the basis of .....
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Harriet Tubman
Number of words: 947 - Number of pages: 4.... sugar cubes. (www.teleport.com p.1)
As was the custom on all plantations, when she turned eleven, she started wearing a bright cotton bandana around her head indicating she was no longer a child. She was also no longer known by her “basket name”, Arminta. Now she would be called Harriet, after her mother. (www.teleport.com p.1) By her early teens, Harriet was no longer allowed to work indoors and was hired out as a field hand. Although she was a hard worker, she was considered defiant and rebellious. At age 15, Harriet tried to help a runaway slave, b .....
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John F. Kennedy
Number of words: 271 - Number of pages: 1.... and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1952.
In 1953 he married Jacqueline Bouvier. During recuperation from spinal surgery,
Kennedy completed Profiles in Courage (1956), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize
in 1957. Kennedy attempted to win the Vice-president presidential nomination and
failed; Kennedy began to plan for the presidential election in 1960. He won the
nomination on the first ballot. He campaigned with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
his running mate, against Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican
nominee. The issues of defense and economic standards were raised in four
televised debate .....
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