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Term Papers on Biographies
Roy Jones Jr.
Number of words: 495 - Number of pages: 2.... materials.
Local kids watched as Roy’s father taught him the fundamentals of boxing.
Soon they got interested and a boxing club was formed. Roy Sr. used his
own money to buy boxing equipment and at one point sold the family’s
tractor to finance the boxing club. This wasn’t enough though because he
had to ask others that he knew for money to take the kids to boxing
tournaments in neighboring states. The only form of transportation was an
old rickety van, which doors were held with metal wire.
By the time Roy was 19 he had a amatue .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Number of words: 625 - Number of pages: 3.... Club was formed for authors that were part of this historical movement. Emerson was a big part of this and practically initiated the entire club. As we know he was already a major part of the movement and know got himself involved more. Many people and ways of life throughout his career including Neoplatonism, the Hindu religion, Plato and even his wife influenced Emerson. He also inspired many Transcendentalists like Thoreau. Emerson didn’t win any major awards, but he did win the love and appreciation of his readers. Literary Information Emerson wrote many g .....
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Hernan Cortes
Number of words: 1074 - Number of pages: 4.... sailed along the east coast of Yucatan and in March 1519 landed in Mexico. Cortes neutralized the town of Tabasco. The artillery, the ships, and especially the horses awed the natives. From these people of Tabasco Cortes learned about the Aztecs and their ruler Montezuma II.
Cortes took lots of captives one of which they baptized and renamed Marina. She became his lover and out of loyalty to him became his interpreter, Translator, Guide, and Counselor. Finding a better harbor a little North of San Juan they established a town called La Villa Rica De La Vera C .....
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Prince William
Number of words: 4966 - Number of pages: 19.... 's life will be detailed along with his influences in his life like Princess Diana, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Henry, and Alexandria "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke. "History-to-History" will include another member of the royal family born in 1066 named William I "the Conqueror," who was as famous during his ruling period as much as is in the 1990s. This essay will cover the above topics.
of Whales is second in line of inheritance to the British throne after Prince Charles of Whales, who is first. He was born June 21, 1982 at 9:03 p.m. weighing seven p .....
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Harper Lee
Number of words: 388 - Number of pages: 2.... popular novels, and screenplays, in the world. The surprise is, she submitted the work for publication in 1957, and it was rejected. She spent the next 2 years in the rewriting and revising the book, which was eventually published in July, 1960.
Later that year, the book that was originally rejected for publication, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished fiction by an American author. This marked the first time in nearly twenty years that a female author recieved the award. The book also recieved the Paperback of the Year Award and the National Co .....
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Costly Mistake
Number of words: 1190 - Number of pages: 5.... the nights events started. I remember thinking to myself that I was going to be in trouble If I didn't slow down on the liquid courage, a feeling that I was very accustomed to, but something wasn't right to night I felt a foreign feeling that I quickly dismissed and chased with another drink.
Finally 10:30p.m. rolled around, A little over seven hours since we had started drinking. Like drunken fools we wandered out the door of the house and figured out the driving situation to the bowling ally. I didn't volunteer, refusing to drive knowing that it would onl .....
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Bonnie And Clyde
Number of words: 1133 - Number of pages: 5.... down. After some years the Barrow’s found it impossible to provide for their children and sent them to live with relatives in east Texas. At one relatives home Clyde developed two interests that remained with him to the end of hid life: a passion for music, and an obsession with guns. Even as Clyde drove along the lane in Louisiana to his death, he carried a saxophone and reams of sheet music, as well as an arsenal of firearms. Clyde loved and named his guns, and regarded them as tokens of his power.
At the age of sixteen, Clyde dropped out of school .....
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Albert Einstein
Number of words: 1621 - Number of pages: 6.... Maja, and they could often be found in the lakes that were scattered about the countryside near Munich.
As a child, Einstein's sense of curiosity had already begun to stir. A favorite toy of his was his father's compass, and he often marvelled at his uncle's explanations of algebra. Although young Albert was intrigued by certain mysteries of science, he was considered a slow learner. His failure to become fluent in German until the age of nine even led some teachers to believe he was disabled.
Einstein's post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium whe .....
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