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Term Papers on Biographies
Hitler
Number of words: 2006 - Number of pages: 8.... to Vienna, the capital of Austria, where the Academy of arts was located. He failed the first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907, he tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he faileor to all and was destined to rule the world. The paper blamed Communists and Jews for all their problems and agreed with those views. agreed with most of the points made in the news paper. He continued to live a poor life in Vienna and then eventually in 1913 decided to move to Munich. Still living in Vienna and being Austrian by birth .....
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Mohandas Gandhi
Number of words: 1020 - Number of pages: 4.... When the Britain
government failed to make amends, Gandhi established an organized campaign of
noncooperation. Through India, streets were blocked by squatting Indians who
refused to rise even when beaten by the police. He declared he would go to jail
even die before obeying anti-Asian Law. Gandhi was arrested, but the British
were soon forced to release him. Economic independence for India, involving the
complete boycott of British goods, was made a result of Gandhi's self-ruling
movement. The economic aspects of the movement were serious, for the .....
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Muddy Waters
Number of words: 820 - Number of pages: 3.... went to school until he was old enough to work in the fields. Much like all of the other field laborers hollered in the fields to pass time or just to get things off of your chest. Waters would also teach himself to play instruments. When he was fifteen he knew how to play the harmonica and he would later teach himself the guitar. The young Waters followed in his fathers musician footsteps. He was part of a band at fifteen, with Scott Bowhandle on guitar and Sonny Simms playing the violin. They would play some Saturday nights in downtown Clarksdale and others .....
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Charles Darwin
Number of words: 1138 - Number of pages: 5.... he
quit school and went to live with his Uncle Josiah Wedgewood. After he
abandoned medicine, his father urged him to attend Cambridge University to
study to be a clergyman. At Cambridge he met John Steven Henslow who
helped him regain his interest in nature. It was Henslow who was
influential in getting Darwin the position of naturalist on the boat The
Beagle. In April of 1831, he graduated from the University.
In the fall following his graduation, the government decided to
send the H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, to complete
a .....
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Peter The Great
Number of words: 846 - Number of pages: 4.... a ship. Peter became very interested in nautical things. Peter soon left Russia and plundered Europe for knowledge, inventions, and great minds to bring back to Russia. His voyage ended in the rich and luxurious city of Amsterdam. Peter began to study Holland’s ships and navy, and hired ship builders to go home with him, and help him prepare a sea power. Peter, wanting to really learn how to build a ship, signed on as a carpenter to hide his true identity, because he wanted to work without that being a distraction. After 4 months, Peter had built a ship of .....
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Terry Fox
Number of words: 1236 - Number of pages: 5.... lives. At the end of his first year of university there was a new pain in his knee. One morning Terry woke up to see that he could no longer stand up. A week later Terry found out that it was not just an ache he had a malignant tumor; his leg would have to be cut off six inches above the knee. Terry’s doctor told him that he had a chance of living but the odds were fifty to seventy percent. He also said that he should be glad it happened now fore just 2 years ago the chance of living was fifteen percent. The night before his operation a former coach brough .....
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Kobe Bryant
Number of words: 694 - Number of pages: 3.... school.
Kobe jumped directly from high school to the pros in 1996 and had an impressive rookie season with the Los Angeles Lakers. He won the Nestle Crunch Slam Dunk and was the lead scorer in the Schick Rookie Game during the NBA All-Star Weekend. Then, in his second season, he was voted a starter for the 1998 All-Star Game, becoming at 19 the youngest All-Star in NBA history.
He was the all time leading scorer in southeastern pennsylvania history with 2,883 breaking the marks of former Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlan and of Carlin Warly. As a senior at Lower .....
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Mother Teresa
Number of words: 1216 - Number of pages: 5.... after attending a political meeting. said, “ We were all very united, especially after the death of my father. We lived for each other and made every effort to make one another happy.” On September 26, 1928, set out on her trip to Dublin by train. She arrived at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto. Here she went through two months of intensive English language studies. Then December 1, she set sail on a thirty-seven day trip to India. She stayed in Calcutta for one week and then went to Darjeeling where she began her novitiate. After tw .....
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