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Term Papers on Biographies
Indira Gandhfemalei
Number of words: 3231 - Number of pages: 12.... Nehru had come into contact with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who became the leader of India’s freedom struggle. Both Jawaharal and Motilal were drawn to Gandhi. They believed in Gandhi’s nonviolent noncooperation. The family also supported Gandhi’s policy of promoting domestic cottage industries by boycotting all foreign goods(Jayakar 67-68).
Motilal’s involvement with the Congress made his home the hub of the freedom movement. It became the place where earnest, khadi-clad men came and went at all hours of the day and night; it became a place that ra .....
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Al Gore For President
Number of words: 552 - Number of pages: 3.... causing problems when it comes to raising children. Many single parents are struggling to work and raise their children. Some parents can’t afford childcare and healthcare for their children. In order to reduce these problems, gore has decided that he wants to put care giving, support groups in many small communities. As well as after school childcare that is high quality and low cost.
He also has some changes to make on our health insurance benefits. All children and parents will receive health insurance, small businesses will receive the same rate as the .....
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Marilyn Monroe
Number of words: 1611 - Number of pages: 6.... by Marilyn Monroe in the 1950's. Monroe is Hollywood's
archetypical sex symbol, where the cultural phenomena she creates,
instigates her immortal and legendary status. The first ever issue of
Playboy magazine features Marilyn Monroe as the covergirl. By decoding
meaning from this magazine cover, the visual and written text becomes a
communicator for both obvious and subtle meaning conveyed through her image.
Marilyn Monroe's image is communicated through signs and their codes. The
paradigm (her facial expression, gesture, body language, positioning,
writt .....
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Walt Whitman
Number of words: 295 - Number of pages: 2.... using these objects as representing war. Whitman starts
off each stanza with the same line every time. “Beat! Beat! drums! - blow!
bugles! blow!” He uses this symbolism of war to show the effects it has on the
world. The drums and the bugles are always interrupting things. This is seen
clearly in the first stanza. The drums and bugles are interrupting the church
and the farmer can't be peaceful. Whitman continues this symbolism throughout
the rest of the poem. Whitman also speaks of how he doesn't like the war in
other poems of his. He does this in “The Wound-Dresser.” He speaks of the war
as his str .....
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Sir Francis Bacon
Number of words: 445 - Number of pages: 2.... he devoted himself to writing and
scientific work.
Philosophically, Bacon wrote marks such as the Instauratio Magna (Great
Restoration), setting forth his concepts for the restoration of humankind to
mastery over nature. It was intended to contain six parts: first a
classification of sciences; second a new inductive logic; third a gathering of
empirical and experimental facts; fourth examples to show the effectiveness of
his new approach; fifth generalization derivable from natural history; and a new
philosophy that would be a complete science of nature.
B .....
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Christ Is The Answer - John Saward
Number of words: 2306 - Number of pages: 9.... of daily life, Christ has been and will always be the answer to life. That answer can easily be forgotten and pushed aside by routines. Even if it is forgotten or lost in the fog, Christ's work is still very visible to this day. This is visible through the work of John Paul II. From the very beginning of Pope John Paul II's Pontificate, he stressed the importance of Christocentricity. "The opening words of his first encyclical state the truth upon which all his teaching is built: ' The Redeemer of man , Jesus Christ is the centre of the universe and o .....
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Benjamin Banneker
Number of words: 468 - Number of pages: 2.... eclipse in 1789.
There were many white scientists in Bannekar’s day that taught themselves astronomy and published their own almanacs. They didn’t think it was possible for a black man-free or slave-to be smart enough to calculate the movements of the stars the way Banneker did. Banneker was determined to create an almanac that would be the first of its kind. Therefore, he spent close to a year observing the sky every night. He plotted the cycles of the moon and made careful notes. He began publishing the ‘Pennsylvania, Delaware, Marylan .....
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Al Capone
Number of words: 1257 - Number of pages: 5.... for many boys in the community. Capone, like many other boys his age, earned pocket money by running errands for Johnny Torrio. Over time, Torrio came to trust the young Capone and gave him more to do. Meantime, young Al learned by observing the wealthy successful respected racketeer and the people in his organization. In 1909, Torrio moved to Chicago and young Al fell under other influences.
At this point in his life, nobody would ever have believed that Al would go on to be the criminal czar that he ultimately became. For approximately six years he worked .....
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