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Term Papers on Biographies
Booker T. Washington: Fighter For The Black Man
Number of words: 1245 - Number of pages: 5.... and
putting blame on others, but instead through hard work.
Booker T. Washington cleared the way for the black community to fully enter
the American society. Washington was born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in
Franklin County, Virginia, on a small tobacco plantation. His only true
relative was his mother, Jane, who was the plantation's cook. His father was
probably the white son of one of the neighbors, though it is not known for
sure. Washington spent his childhood years on the plantation, but since he
was so young he never had to do the heavy work. He di .....
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George Washington Carver
Number of words: 606 - Number of pages: 3.... State, Carver found that he was especially gifted in plant hybridization and the study of fungi. In 1894, Carver earned a bachelor of science degree and, in 1896, a Master of Science degree in agriculture and bacterial botany. That same year, Booker T. Washington offered Carver a job teaching at Tuskegee Institute. During his first few years at Tuskegee, he made many improvements in the agricultural program. With the help of other colleagues, he created the Farmers’ Institute. This was a group of farmers who met monthly to acquire agricultural advice from .....
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Charles Goodyear
Number of words: 977 - Number of pages: 4.... both Amasa and were bankrupt because they would extend credit to customers and the customers would never pay back the money that they owed. Charles’s health started to decline and both father and son owed tens of thousands of dollars. For the next thirty years was thrown in prison over ten times because he didn’t pay his debts. In 1834 when he was in New York, on a business trip, the Roxbury India Rubber Company caught his eye. He decided to go inside the store and take a look around. While he was in the store he saw an India rubber valve on one of the products .....
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Charlie Chaplin 2
Number of words: 1171 - Number of pages: 5.... pathos this time
The Gold Rush. This 1925 film was a favorite of Chaplin’s. Charlie plays a lone prospector on a gold seeking quest in the Sierra Nevadas. Seeing shelter, he stumbles into a cabin where the villainous Black Larson lives. Black Larson doesn’t like this new guest and tells him to leave, rifle in hand. Charlie tries to leave, but a hilarious wind keeps blowing him back into the cabin. During this escapade in blows another luckier prospector, Big Jim McKay. Jim and Larson fight, and Larson goes off to find food for the trio. Mean .....
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Ramses
Number of words: 969 - Number of pages: 4.... as many secondary wives. With these wives he had over one-hundred children. Thirty of the children were thought to be daughters. married his first wife Nefertari in 1267 B.C., even before he took the throne. She was his first and greatest love.
appointed Nefertari, after his father's death, as the "Great Royal Wife" and the "Mistress of Upper and Lower Nile". She had born his first son. went as far as to construct an enormous statue of his beloved wife next to his statue in Abu Simbel. Unfortunately, Nefertari died when was only 48 years old. He then marri .....
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Mark Twain
Number of words: 674 - Number of pages: 3.... first step toward his career as a writer. In 1857 he apprenticed himself to a riverboat pilot. He became a licensed pilot and spent two and a half years at his new trade. The river swarmed with traffic, and the pilot was the most important man aboard the boat. He wrote of these years in 'Life on the Mississippi'.
The Civil War ended his career as a pilot. Clemens went west to Nevada and soon became a reporter on the Virginia City newspaper. Here he began using the pen name . It is an old river term meaning two fathoms, or 12 feet (4 meters), of water depth.
In .....
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Byron's Don Juan
Number of words: 795 - Number of pages: 3.... experienced poverty, the ill-temper
of his mother, and the absence of his father. By 1798 he had inherited the
title of 6th Baron Byron and the estate of Newstead Abbey. Once hearing
this news, he and his mother quickly removed to England.
All of Byron's passions developed early. In 1803 he had his first
serious and abortive romance with Mary Chaworth. At the age of15 he fell
platonically but violently in love with a young distant cousin, Mary Duff
(Parker 10). He soon had another affair with a woman named Mary Gray.
Soon hereafter he was involved with man .....
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The Legend Of Baby Doe
Number of words: 1499 - Number of pages: 6.... Her
sisters were jealous of her most of the time. Even their parents lavished
affection on her. To put it plainly, Elizabeth was spoiled. She always
went her own way and damned anyone who tried to stop her.
After winning an ice skating contest with an incredibly revealing
costume, a man named Harvey Doe began courting her. Soon after, they
decided to be married.
There were disapproving glances at the wedding from both mothers.
The wedding was on June 27, 1877. After honeymooning in Denver, Colorado
for two weeks, they went down to Central City where the .....
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