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Term Papers on Biographies
Charles Dickens
Number of words: 2045 - Number of pages: 8.... child in many
novels. His schooling ended at 15, and he became a clerk in a solicitor's
office, then a short hand reporter in the lawcourts (where he gained much
knowledge of legalities which he used in his novels), and finally like
other members of his family, a newspaper reporter. Here, he got his first
taste of journalism and fell in love with it immediately.
Drawn to the theatre, Charles Dickens almost pursued the career of an
actor In 1833, he began sending short stories and descriptive essays to
small magazines and newspapers. These writin .....
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Sir Isaac Newton
Number of words: 1521 - Number of pages: 6.... avoid the plague, Newton returned to Trinity, which elected him to a fellowship in 1667. He received his master's degree in 1668. Newton ignored much of the established curriculum of the university to pursue his own interests: mathematics and natural philosophy. Proceeding entirely on his own, he investigated the latest developments in mathematics and the new natural philosophy that treated nature as a complicated machine. Almost immediately, he made fundamental discoveries that were instrumental in his career in science.
The Fluxional Method
Newton's first achi .....
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy And His Accomplishments In Office
Number of words: 1581 - Number of pages: 6.... was one of the shortest speeches ever given by a newly inaugurated president. In his speech, he
Offered the country not simple solutions, but the challenge of working for a better life.
“Let every nation know that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty,” he stated. He finished with this now-famous call to the country, “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
In the beginning of h .....
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Number of words: 925 - Number of pages: 4.... a perfectly coherent whole. Mozart wrote from some excellent libretti, yet the music is always the dominant element, giving the action inflections of meaning the words alone couldn’t reflect. Furthermore, until Mozart’s emergence, operatic characters where generalized and typical. Mozart was the first to put real people up on the stage, people who had real emotions that were inconsistent and whose personalities were evolutionary.
In 1767, the Mozarts went to Vienna where Wolfgang was commissioned to compose his first opera, La finta semplice, K .....
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John F. Kennedy
Number of words: 1926 - Number of pages: 8.... (Sorensen
28). After his dangerous operation he researched and wrote a book, about
democracy. The next year narrowly missing the Vice Presidential nomination of
his party, Kennedy emerged as a national figure in large demand.
"John Kennedy was not one of the Senate's great leaders" (Sorensen 43).
Very few laws of great importance bear his name. Even after his initial “
traditionally' inactive freshman year in the Senate, his chances for major
contributions to the Senate excluding his stances on fair labor reform and
against rackets, were constantly di .....
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Gaius Marius: Savior.. Or Destroyer?
Number of words: 2481 - Number of pages: 10.... as offering la nd to
veterans and accepting army volunteers from the capita censi, while saving
Rome in the short run, ultimately led to the downfall of the Republic.
Born into an unimpressive equestrian family, Marius found himself
better suited to the life of a warrior than that of a philosopher. He had
little tolerance for the aesthetic, finding more use with the sword than
the pen. He cut his military teeth under Scipio Aemilianus in the
Numantine war In Spain c.134, making an excellent impression on his
commander as did another up-and-coming young office .....
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Orson Welles
Number of words: 1179 - Number of pages: 5.... in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them." [To Kennety Tynan, 1967]
is often referred to as a "Renaissance man", an individual who’s ambitious and concerned with revolutionizing multiple aspects of life. He was a prolific writer and talented actor who often appeared in his own productions. A gifted artist, Welles, coupled his abundant energy with an enthusiasm for life. He tried everything and was not afraid to take risks and to suffer the consequences of failures as well as the ac .....
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Karl Marx: Communism
Number of words: 649 - Number of pages: 3.... how to make something better than the next guy. Poor people many times come up with million dollar ideas. Money keeps being transferred from rich to poor, poor to rich. These ideas of Karl's are wrong about economics and don't work.
Karl Marx's ideas on communism are incorrect based on his ideas of society. Karl believed that all people will react the same. It has been proven that everyone reacts just a little different from the next person. People all have different ideas, that makes us human. Another of Karl's ideas that is wrong is that the rich control soc .....
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