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Term Papers on Biographies
Martin Luther King And Malcolm X Comparison
Number of words: 1325 - Number of pages: 5.... his name to Malcolm X while in prison.He went to prison because of a robbery and was serving ten years. Also while in prison he became a follower of Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad was the leader of an organization called the Nation of Islam. During the 1950's, Malcolm became the primary spokesman for the Nation. He also came of the surveillance of the FBI along with Elijah Muhammad. As was Dr. King's, Malcolm's every move was followed and documented.
Malcolm became a powerful speaker in the movement. As King captured the spirit of the Southern Black, Malcolm became .....
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Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
Number of words: 1560 - Number of pages: 6.... the next two years on his
ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory. There he slowly got over the
loss of his wife as he lived in the saddle, driving cattle, hunting big
game, and even capturing an outlaw. He returned east in the fall of 1886 to
run for mayor of New York against Congressman Abram S. Hewitt and the
economist Henry George. Hewitt, a Democrat, won easily with Roosevelt
finishing a poor third.
Roosevelt then married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow, in
London. Edith was an intelligent and cultivated, yet private woman. She
bore him fou .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Number of words: 1215 - Number of pages: 5.... ’s life truly was a work of art.
Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. His early influences include his clergyman father's playing of Bach and Beethoven and his mother's gift of geometric blocks. Growing up, Wright spent much of his summers at a farm owned by his uncles; here, his favorite pastime was building forts out of hay and mud. In 1882, at the age of 15, he entered the University of Wisconsin as a special student, studying engineering because the school had no course in architecture. Wright left Madison in 1887 to work as a .....
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Wilhelm Roentgen
Number of words: 2002 - Number of pages: 8.... because back then they didn’t have dormitories for students. On March 17, 1865 a fraternity called "Placet hic requiescere Musis" (May the Muses rest here) selected him as a member of their fraternity. Then on May 9 he joined a scientific society called "Natura Dux nobis et auspex" (Nature is our leader and protector).
Wilhelm didn’t like keeping house so, he found a room with the family of a cabinetmaker. There he started writing his first book, called "Question for the Inorganic Part of the Chemistry Textbook", und .....
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Thomas Jefferson
Number of words: 1530 - Number of pages: 6.... 1743 at Shadwell in Goochland (now in Albemarle) Co., Virginia, which was at the time considered a western outpost and was to remain as Jefferson¡¦s lifelong home. He was the son of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph Jefferson. His father, Peter, was a surveyor, a cartographer, and a plantation owner and he was also largely self-educated. His mother, Jane was from the prominent Rudolph family of colonial Virginia. Jefferson¡¦s intense interest in botany, geology, cartography, North American exploration, and love of Greek and Latin are due largely from his fa .....
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Michael Jordan
Number of words: 1680 - Number of pages: 7.... Juanita, who was a loan officer at Chicago Bank before marring Jordan, Michael and Juanita, have two sons; Jeffrey Michael and Marcus James.
Jordan’s friends admired him and value his friendship because he is a considerate and noble man. The Jordan’s are "pretty laid-back people". (Naughton, 1997, Pg. 19) Fred Whitfield, a friend of Jordan states, "he was just a real clean-cut guy with his head on straight." (Naughton, 1992, Pg. 18) "He hates to be embarrassed, he can’t take that. He can dish it out all the time, though. "If .....
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Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent Into Metaphorical Hell
Number of words: 1653 - Number of pages: 7.... Florentine schools but also continued learning on his
own. He seemed to be influenced greatly by Brunetto Latini, who has a large
part in The Divine Comedy. His early writings attracted the attention of Guido
Cavalcanti, a popular Italian poet of the day, as Dante's skill became more
defined the two became friends. It is also thought that Dante studied at the
university in Bologna around the year 1285.
He became involved in some political altercations, he joined the Guelphs,
as opposed to the Chibellines, and he was involved in a battle and emerged
vic .....
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Jean De La Fontaine
Number of words: 1434 - Number of pages: 6.... of Charles de la Fontaine, a royal government official who inspected forests and waterways. His mother Françoise Pidoux, who came from a nobler family from Poitou. He also had a younger brother who was born two years after La Fontaine. He also had an older step sister named Anne de Jouy on his mothers side of the family. (Carter, pg. 46)
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The education and formative years of young la Fontaine are not documented. Most biographers state that, in all likelihood, he attended château-
Thierry "college". This is a secondary institution where .....
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