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Term Papers on Biographies
Abraham Lincoln
Number of words: 2334 - Number of pages: 9.... two years after the move to Indiana, Mrs. Lincoln caught a horrible frontier disease known as "milk sick.". Thomas Lincoln returned to Kentucky to find a new wife. On December 2 he married Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow with three children, and took them all back to Indiana. Although there were now eight people living in the small shelter, the Lincoln children, especially Abe, adored their new stepmother who played a key role in making sure that Abe at least had some formal education, amounting to a little less than a year in all. To support his family it was .....
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Number of words: 1551 - Number of pages: 6.... the money to further his education was scarce. In 1891, Dunbar
graduated from Central High School and was unable to find a decent job.
Desperate for employment, he settled for a job as an elevator operator in the
Callahan Building in Dayton.
The major accomplishments of Paul Laurence Dunbar's life during 1872 to
1938 labeled him as an American poet. Dunbar had two poetic identities. He was
first a Victorian poet writing in a comparatively formal style of literary
English. Dunbar's other identity was that of the dialect poet, writing lighter,
usually humoro .....
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Eighteenth Century Philosophers
Number of words: 1428 - Number of pages: 6.... words in his book, Nouveau Christianne, which stated that a society organized by science must be balanced by the Brotherhood of Man. His doctrine was later turned into a religion by his followers. Even though many of his writings may seem extremely unrealistic, several of them were prophetic in nature. Not only did he predict future events, he also influenced many great minds of the nineteenth century, making him an important figure of his time.
Another eccentric who was seeking his own type of utopia was Francois Marie Fourier. Although several of Fourier .....
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Emily Dickinson: Life And Her Works
Number of words: 1827 - Number of pages: 7.... by her thirties, she would not leave
her house and would withdraw from visitors. Emily was known to give fruit and
treats to children by lowering them out her window in a basket with a rope to
avoid actually seeing them face to face. She developed a reputation as a myth,
because she was almost never seen and when people did catch a glimpse of her she
was always wearing white. Emily Dickinson never got married but is thought to
have had a relationship with Reverend Charles Wadsworth who she met in the
spring of 1854 in Philadelphia. He was a famous preache .....
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Johannes Brahms
Number of words: 489 - Number of pages: 2.... arranged for the publication of Brahms' three piano sonatas and three sets of songs. In 1862, Brahms traveled to Vienna, where he conducted the concerts of Singakademie. The next five years he spent travelling to various towns, such as Hamburg, Baden Baden, and Zurich. In 1868 he was back in Vienna and he spent three years conducting orchestral concerts of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. . After more travel in Germany, Brahms again made his home in Vienna in 1878. Meanwhile, his fame as a composer was growing and growing. In 1886, he was made a Knight of t .....
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Johannes Brahms
Number of words: 489 - Number of pages: 2.... also arranged for the publication of Brahms’ three piano sonatas and three sets of songs. In 1862, Brahms traveled to Vienna, where he conducted the concerts of Singakademie. The next five years he spent travelling to various towns, such as Hamburg, Baden Baden, and Zurich. In 1868 he was back in Vienna and he spent three years conducting orchestral concerts of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. .
After more travel in Germany, Brahms again made his home in Vienna in 1878. Meanwhile, his fame as a composer was growing and growing. In 1886, he was made .....
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Elie Wiesel
Number of words: 1115 - Number of pages: 5.... in Poland. The 15-year-old boy was separated from his mother and sisters immediately when they arrived in Auschwitz. He never saw them again no matter how hard he tried. He managed to remain with his father for the next year as they were worked almost to death, starved, beaten, and shuttled from camp to camp on foot, or in open cattle cars, in driving snow, without food, proper shoes, or clothing. In the last months of the war, Wiesel's father succumbed to dysentery, starvation, exhaustion and exposure. After the war, the teenaged Wiesel found asylum in France, .....
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Authur Miller
Number of words: 809 - Number of pages: 3.... until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more." He did however push the limits when he released his controversial piece Death of a Salesman. And, he gained even more acclaim. Soon he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He was quickly catapulted into the realm of the great, living, American playwrights; and once was com .....
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