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Term Papers on Biographies
Mikhail Lermontov
Number of words: 632 - Number of pages: 3.... This is our first clue to history. Russia just like any other European nation was trying to expand to gain new markets and raw materials. However this could only be done at the expanse of Eastern Tartar tribes and south of the Ural Mountains. At this moment we can see two theories emerging in the 19th century. The first one is nationalism provides by the fearsness that Tartar tribes were resisting Russian aggression. The second important characteristic trait is chauvinism portrayed by the fact hat the girl was killed upon being taken to the homeland. This .....
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Donald Trump
Number of words: 1276 - Number of pages: 5.... from World War II. The Trump family was very wealthy but despite their money, Fred Trump demanded his children’s success in school. Donald’s parents were always teaching them the value of money. Even though they did not have to, all of the children worked. The girls worked in banks and the boys worked with their father on various construction sites. Donald was not the best student and was a handful for teachers. At the age of thirteen, Donald was not meeting his parent’s expectations so he was sent away to military school. He did
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Number of words: 432 - Number of pages: 2.... almost all his basic mathematical discoveries between
the ages of 14 and 17. In 1791 he began to do totally new and innovative work in
mathematics. In 1793-94 he did intensive research in number theory, especially
on prime numbers. He made this his life's passion and is regarded as its modern
founder.
Gauss studied at the University of Gottingen from 1795 to 1798. He soon
decided to write a book on the theory of numbers. It appeared in 1801 under the
title 'Disquisitiones arithmeticae'. This classic work usually is held to be
Gauss's greatest accomplishme .....
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Pythagoras
Number of words: 897 - Number of pages: 4.... is stated that he was a disciple of Anaximander, his astronomy was the natural development of Anaximander's. Also, the way in which the Pythagorean geometry developed also bears witness to its descent from that of Miletos. The great problem at this date was the duplication of the square, a problem which gave rise to the theorem of the square on the hypotenuse, commonly known still as the Pythagorean proposition (Euclid, I. 47). If we were right in assuming that Thales worked with the old 3:4:5 triangle, the connection is obvious.
argued that there are three kin .....
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Thomas Jefferson
Number of words: 2147 - Number of pages: 8.... George Wythe. In January of 1772, he married Martha Wayles
Skelton and established a residence at Monticello. When they moved to
Monticello, only a small one room building was completed. Jefferson was
thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia
House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill
allowing owners to free their slaves.
The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine
affairs of legislature. In 1774, the first of the Intolerable Acts closed
the port of Boston until Massach .....
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William Henry Gates
Number of words: 1326 - Number of pages: 5.... and were hired by Tandy to develop software for its radio shack computers. Gates and Allen then moved their headquarters to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, Gates re-wrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS, which stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System. Microsoft would eventually sell the rights of MS-DOS to IBM, making it a major computer corporation. Other computer companies wanted Microsoft to produce software for their computers, including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple computers. With the operating system established, Gates and Micro .....
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Moll Flanders 2
Number of words: 734 - Number of pages: 3.... they; and tho' the masters were not appointed to teach me, yet I learn'd by imitaion and enquiry, all that they learn't by instruction and direction.". Here she learns many different skills that could help her through out her life span but not once does she use these skills to make a good living.
In this wealthy house she falls in love with a gentleman (older brother). Not once but in many different occasions she lets him make love to her and then takes the money that he offers to her as if it was job not love. In the end things don't turn out to the way .....
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DR Daniel J Boorstin
Number of words: 785 - Number of pages: 3.... College, at Cambridge University. He has been director of the National Museum of American History and the Librarian of Congress Emeritus. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and has practiced law. He has received more than fifty honorary degrees and has been honored by the governments of France, Belgium and Portugal. In 1989 he received the National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters by the NationalBook Foundation.
Dr. Boorstin's many books include the trilogy The Americans: The Colonial Experience, which won the Bancroft Prize, .....
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