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Term Papers on Biographies
William Christopher Handy
Number of words: 414 - Number of pages: 2.... popular music. He began his career in 1896 as
a minstrel show and vaudville corntist and bandleader and then became one of the
first publishers of music by black composers.
William Christopher Handy was born on Nov,16, 1873, in Florence, Ala,
the son of former slaves . As a 15-year-old he left home to work in a traveling
minstrel show, but he soon returned when his money ran out. He attended Teachers
Agreicultural & Mechanical College in Huntsville, Alabama, and worked as a
school teacher and bandmaster. In 1893, during an economic depression, he formed
a quart .....
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Jimi Hendrix
Number of words: 306 - Number of pages: 2.... Jimi was off to London. While in
London, Chas got Mitchel and Noel Reddin to join Jimi. They formed "The Jimi
Hendrix Experience" Jimi went back to America and toured with the monkeys. But
unfortunatley, this was not a good idea because both bands styles were TOTALLY
diffrerent. When Jimi returned to England, he joined up with "Band of Gypsies"
and recorded one album. On september 18, 1970, James Marshal Hendrix was
pronounced dead at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital in Kennsington England. His cause
of death was: He took an offbrand of sleeping pills to get s .....
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The Philosopher, Aristotle
Number of words: 1163 - Number of pages: 5.... be
heard in order to defend himself and others in need. This was accomplished by
those trained in rhetoric. Therefore those who taught this art stood to obtain
a lot of wealth from their endeavors. These were known as sophists with whom
much contempt was held by such philosophers as Socrates. "The greatest school
of Rhetoric in all Greece was at this period held in Athens by the renowned
Isocrates, who was at the zenith of his reputation."(Collins p. 11) A competitor
with this school was Plato's Academy of philosophy which is where Aristotle
arrived at in .....
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Neil Simon, The Most Successful Playwright In The History Of Theatre
Number of words: 1335 - Number of pages: 5.... for compromise. The
plot itself starts out fairly simple. In the first act, Paul and Corie Bratter,
wed but six days, move into their new apartment on the top floor of a brownstone
in New York City. From the very first, the audience can see that these are two
very different characters that have very different values, and yet Paul and
Corie are very much in love. The plot progresses as other characters are
introduced. First to visit the newlyweds is Corie's mother, Mrs. Banks. The
relationship between Corie and her mother also involves a clash of very dis .....
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Nevil Shute
Number of words: 1226 - Number of pages: 5.... his devotion
to the manufacturing of airplanes and created his own business, Airspeed
Limited. His second novel, So Disdained, was published in 1926 and
released in the United States, as The Mysterious Aviator in 1928 (Kunitz
and Haycraft 1034). During this time he began to write under the Christian
name Nevil Shute, because he feared that his reputation as a fiction writer
would hinder his engineering career (Internet). Through the next many
years, up until World War II, Nevil Shute published many more books. Shute
then moved to Australia in 1949, to co .....
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Albert Einstein
Number of words: 688 - Number of pages: 3.... This no doubt led to the ease with which he was able to discard long-standing scientific prejudices.
Around 1886 went to school in Munich. He also learned how to play the violin from the age 6 to 13, he also had religious education at home where he was taught Judaism. Two years later he entered the Luitpold Gymnasium and after this his religious education was given at school. He studied mathematics, mostly calculus, beginning around 1891.
In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan but Einstein remained in Munich. In 1895 Einstein failed an examination .....
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Martin Luther King Jr. 3
Number of words: 2593 - Number of pages: 10.... in 1948. After graduating with honors from Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania in 1951, he went to Boston University where he earned a doctoral degree in systematic theology in 1955.
King’s public-speaking abilities—which would become renowned as his stature grew in the civil rights movement—developed slowly during his collegiate years. He won a second-place prize in a speech contest while an undergraduate at Morehouse, but received Cs in two public-speaking courses in his first year at Crozer. By the end of his third year at Crozer .....
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The Life Of Charles Dickens
Number of words: 922 - Number of pages: 4.... School at Chatman for a short time, and Wellington
Academy in London. He was further educated by reading widely in the
British Museum (Huffam).
In late 1822, John was needed back at the London office, so they
had to move to London. This gave Charles opportunities to walk around the
town with his father and take in the sights, sounds, and smells of the
area. This gave him early inspiration that he would use later on in his
life when he started to write (Mankowitz 13-14).
James Lamert, the owner of a boot-blacking factory, saw the
conditions that the Dickens .....
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