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Term Papers on Biographies
Joseph Stalin
Number of words: 724 - Number of pages: 3.... West and that they had to catch up as quickly as possible. This is where the idea of his "Five Year Plan," came about. The five-year plan basically got the people involved and motivated them into a modern life. From the 5-year plan, 25 million farms were produced which were only big enough to feed the families that were harvesting them. The more successful peasants were called the Kulaks. Along with the five-year plan, Stalin launched a campaign for the "collectivization of agriculture,’’ where millions of peasants were recognized as part of the .....
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The Life Of Benjamin Franklin
Number of words: 564 - Number of pages: 3.... from the townsfolk. However, his father said his verse was poor, and urged him to become more educated before composing again.
After much difficulty with his brother James, Franklin ran away to New York. He could find no work for printers in the city, so he struggled on to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, he found work at an old press owned by a gentleman named Keimer. Keimer loved arguing about religion, and discussed many things with Franklin. Franklin approached and answered Keimer’s questions with such tact, Keimer was impressed with his natural skills .....
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Jon Philip Sousa
Number of words: 419 - Number of pages: 2.... music career grew rapidly. Throughout 1880-1892 he conducted "The Presidents Own", serving under presidents Hayes, Garfield, Arthur and Harrison. After two successful, but limited tours with the Marine Band in 1891 and1892, promoter David Blakely convinced Sousa to resign and organize a civilian concert band.
The first Sousa Band Concert was preformed on September 26, 1892 at the Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1895 Sousa's first successful operetta, El Capitan debuts.
In 1895 Sousa's first big tragedy hit. While on vacation with his wife .....
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Benito Mussolini
Number of words: 818 - Number of pages: 3.... general. He wrote articles that would get the people's blood racing on church issues. One thing was not afraid of was the rage of other men. For these articles he spent time in prison and was then deported back to Italy.
In Italy he persisted and gave public speeches, the people loved his ideas. He became one of Italy's most intelligent and menacing young Socialist. In November 1914 he published, Il Popolo d'Italia, and the prowar group Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria. Mussolini's lifeblood went into Il Popolo d'Italia. became a national force; groups sup .....
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John Woo
Number of words: 945 - Number of pages: 4.... his greatest talent, and perhaps that is why he will become known as one of the greatest directors in the years to come.
’s style is definitely fast paced an exciting. Mostly throughout all of his movies his themes are good against evil. It is always the case of a standoff between the good guy and the bad guy, in their last battle, always to the death. Woo’s would often use montages to make time go faster, as in Face/Off when the swat team breaks into the house and where Castor Troy kills the men that he once commanded.
Most of the movie is very dark as the sub .....
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Yasir Arafat
Number of words: 1048 - Number of pages: 4.... and his supporters to
leave their in northern Lebanon, but Arafat remained chairman of the PLO.
The PLO did not recognize Israel's rights to exist. Bur in 1988,
Arafat persuaded the PLO it accept Israel's rights to exist along side an
independent Palestinian state in territories in Palestine Israel had
occupied after 1967 arab-isreali war. The territories are the Gaza strip
and the west bank. the PLO declared the existence of the state and elected
Arafat it's president. But Israel continued to occupy and in effect govern
the area. In 1993, the PLO-under A .....
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Henry VIII
Number of words: 1044 - Number of pages: 4.... that, Henry would marry his first wife, his brother (Arthur's) widow, Catherine of Aragon. Many wifes would follow after her.
During most of his early reign, Henry relied on Thomas Cardinal Wosley to do much of the political and religious activities. Henry soon got tired of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon, so he decides that he doesn't want to be married to her anymore, so he tells Thomas Wosley to talk to the pope so he can divorce Catherine. But, Cardinal Wosley wasn't able to convince the pope, so in 1529 Henry took Wosley's authority away from him. .....
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Albert Einstein
Number of words: 503 - Number of pages: 2.... paper to the University
of Bern and became lecturer there. The next year Einstein received a regular
appointment as associate professor of physics at the University of Zurich. By
1909, Einstein was recognized throughout Europe as a leading scientific thinker.
In 1909 the fame that resulted from his theories got Einstein a job at the
University of Prague, and in 1913 he was appointed director of a new research
institution opened in Berlin, the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute.
In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a paper that extended
his theories .....
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