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Term Papers on Biographies
Ulysses S. Grant’s Leadership And Simplicity
Number of words: 342 - Number of pages: 2.... morally re-unified his men (Fuller, 72-73).
Grant also showed an amazing combination of tenacity and innovation in Vicksburg and elsewhere. In the fall of 1863 Grant was sent to Chattanooga to lead a besieged army. Within a month Grant had turned the tables and had defeated the enemy forces. Grant was much more than just an incredible battlefield commander. He produced the foundation of the modern American army. Grant emphasized a strategy of maximum firepower with maximum mobility (Perret, 28).
Simplicity was the basis of Grant’s nature. He saw the war .....
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Ernest Hemingway
Number of words: 1486 - Number of pages: 6.... life he wanted to be in the Army, but his eyesight was bad and the American Army rejected him. He than went to Italy to be an ambulance driver for the Italian army. On July 8, 1918, he was injured when a shell landed 3 feet from him. In the hospital he met a girl and fell in love with her, but she threw him over for another guy. He later met Elizabeth Hadley and married her on September 3, 1921. Later that year he went to France as a correspondent for the Toronto Star. InFrance he made friend with several expatriates, such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein.
He .....
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Led Zeppelin
Number of words: 6917 - Number of pages: 26.... it needed a paint job.
Page had something else on his mind. A representative of their record company, he said, had just called to report that the sales of the new album, Houses of the Holy, were spectacular. Page had been officially told that were the biggest-selling group in the whole world. A silent moment of triumph passed between Plant and Page. Across the hall, an Al Green record played on Jones's portable stereo.
"Well," said Jimmy Page, turning to the visiting writer. "What do you want to know?"
I wanted to say "everything." As a fledgling journalist .....
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J.p. Morgan
Number of words: 2967 - Number of pages: 11.... the country's wealth in an era of little government regulation.
The wealth of the Morgan family did not begin with Pierpont but with his grandfather Joseph Morgan. Joseph prospered as a hotelkeeper in Hartford, Connecticut. He helped to organize a canal company, steamboat lines and the new railroad that connected Hartford with Springfield. Finally he became one of the founders of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company. Joseph's first son was Junius Spencer Morgan, also destined for the life of a businessman. He spent a number of years as a dry-goods merchant befor .....
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Walt Whitman 3
Number of words: 1019 - Number of pages: 4.... plagued mankind of his generation.
The human self was comprised of physical and spiritual annex which both contained a self and soul as was characterized by Whitman.
The self that Whitman spoke of was a man’s own individual identity, which has a distinct quality and being, different from the selves of other men, but could be utilized to identify other men. The soul is another type of identity of mankind, which finds its niche in a human, and begins to amplify its personality. This self and soul that embodies every man on this celestial body is a portion .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright 2
Number of words: 701 - Number of pages: 3.... of Sullivan. Wright’s houses had low, sweeping rooflines hanging over uninterrupted walls of windows. His plans were centered on massive brick or stone fireplaces at the heart of the house. His rooms became wide open to one another and the overall configuration of his plans became more and more alike, reaching out toward some real or imagined expansive horizon.
In contrast to the openness of those houses and as if in conflict with their immediate city environment, Wright’s urban buildings tend to be walled in with light entering primarily fro .....
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Duke Ellington 2
Number of words: 960 - Number of pages: 4.... and eventully gain historic jazz notoriety from their times with Duke (Holmes). Such players as Jimmy Blanton, the “doomed young virtouoso of the stringed bass”, and Ben Webster, adding to the sax section that already housed Jonny Hodges, Harry Carney, and Barney Bigard
(Holmes).
The trumpet section during this time in Duke’s orchestra comprised such
legends as Rex Stewart and Cootie Williams. Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol, and Lawrence
Brown comprised the monster trombone section, and Sonny Greer rounded out the
orchestra on drums (Holmes). .....
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The Life Of Edgar Allen Poe
Number of words: 1934 - Number of pages: 8.... fit as a teen. Poe was supposedly a very fast swimmer and runner. It is reported that Poe once as a teen swam the James river from Lundhams Wharf to Warwick Bar which is six miles against a strong current (Woodberry 20). At 15 Poe was the Lieutenant of the Junior Morgan Riflemen. Poe was then reviewed by the famous Marquis De Lafayette. Poe’s grandfather General Poe is where Poe most likely got his military influence from.
In 1826 Poe enrolled into the University of Virginia. Poe wanted to become a translator. Poe was considered to be "precisely correct" ( .....
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