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Term Papers on Biographies
Davy Crockett
Number of words: 328 - Number of pages: 2.... Davy was the best at telling stories. He got to know a lot of people liked
him. They elected him to the legislature. He was successful. He had 2 terms.
Davy wanted to go fight with the Creeks. But his wife, Finley begged him
not to go. The Creeks fought only for there homes. Davy could under stand that.
He fought in Alabama and Georgia. Davy and other men went into Florida to fight
the Creeks.
Davy Crockett took his rifle "Old Betsy" and fought for Texas against
Mexico at the Alamo.He fought with James Bowie and William Travis in San Antonio .....
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Thomas Jefferson: A Product Of His Times Or A Hypocrite?
Number of words: 676 - Number of pages: 3.... fear the Native Americans in the way he feared black slaves. Jefferson believed that the Native Americans had higher order of intelligence and imagination than he found in Afro-Americans. The Native Americans seemed to Jefferson to be happier than the oppressed and degraded peasantry of Europe.
Jefferson compared the studies of Native American languages and came to a conclusion that there were twenty basic languages and that the Native Americans had lived in the New World for a far longer period than anyone had thought.
The native Americans had proved that st .....
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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
Number of words: 725 - Number of pages: 3.... “sakharization” whereby fusion released neutrons that enabled the fission of uranium. In 1950, Sakharov was assigned to work in a secret city with other scientists to further develop the bomb. It was there that he designed a plasma that would help produce energy from sustained fusion. In 1953, Russia tested its hydrogen bomb and it proved to be successful. At the age of 32 he was elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Sakharov continued his work on improving the bomb. He worked with another scientist to develop a bomb that had unlimited yield. The bomb was .....
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Shirley Temple: Black Hollywood's Youngest Star
Number of words: 336 - Number of pages: 2.... she became less
popular.
Shirley liked to be competitive in everything. She decided to be
the first person in her class to become engaged. On September 19, 1945 Shirley
married John Black and 12,000 people waited outside the church to see her.
When Shirley stopped making movies, she got busy with politics.
President Nixon chose Shirley to become the U.S. Representative of the United
Nations.
Shirley is a kind and gentle girl to other people. She is special
to me because she is a good friend to people if they are sad or f .....
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The Life Of Edvard Munch
Number of words: 1803 - Number of pages: 7.... more interested and more serious with the art of painting and sculpting, so he left the Technical College. In 1881, he enrolled in the Royal School of Drawing. There Munch studied the old masters, attended courses in painting of the nude, and he learned the skills of freehand and modeling. He was instructed by Norway's leading and finest artist, (at that time) Christian Krohg.
Munch rented a studio apartment with six other young artists, in 1882. Their work was supervised by Munch's teacher Christian Krohg. In May of 1885, Munch was awarded a state gra .....
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Tupac Shakur
Number of words: 1490 - Number of pages: 6.... made some songs and music videos with them that made it big on the Billboard charts. This really helped his popularity. He released a double CD with the songs on it and a lot of his own songs and sold millions of copies (u.a., n.t., n.p. letter code D) More people were influenced to buy his CD. People listened to the music and did what he said he did. So Tupac was influencing all of these people. Tupac was rich and famous now. He was showing off his own style now and didn't need his popular friends. This is the time that many people saw the real Tupac and loved .....
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Cark Gauss
Number of words: 1515 - Number of pages: 6.... to read aloud, he also taught himself the meanings of number symbols and learned to do arithmetical calculations.
When Carl Gauss reached the age of seven, he began elementary school. His potential for brilliance was recognized immediately. Gauss's teacher Herr Buttner, had assigned the class a difficult problem of addition in which the students were to find the sum of the integers from one to one hundred. While his classmates toiled over the addition, Carl sat and pondered the question. He invented the shortcut formula on the spot, and wrote down the correct .....
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Walter Johnson - A Pitcher
Number of words: 644 - Number of pages: 3.... time before he would be drafted for the majors. He was drafted by the Washington Senators in 1907 for $9. His first year wasn't so good but in his second year he earned the name 'the big train' with an amazing won loss record.
Back when Walter pitched they had no Cy Young awards or league MVP awards but if they had, Walter would have won a dozen of each. On a team with a won loss record of around 60 and 94 Walter usually had half of their wins. He would frequently lead the league in wins, E.R.A., and strikeouts, but even the lackluster of the Senetors had some .....
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