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Term Papers on Biographies
Thomas Paine
Number of words: 950 - Number of pages: 4.... came about and nobody was
too happy about it. The next day after they heard this news, a huge mob
assembled outside of the state house. Thomas Paine was one of the speakers
trying to calm down all of the eight-thousand people that were in front of
the building.
Paine soon went to a ball to represent the Pennsylvania Magazine in
which he represented. He had a lot of answers to questions people kept
asking him. Paine was finally fired when he argued with Aitkin because he
wanted to put an article in the paper. It was called Reflections on Titles. .....
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Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
Number of words: 2445 - Number of pages: 9.... filled with melancholy denial. Hemingway became the chief reporter of what became known as the “Lost Generation”. This phrase is attributed to Gertrude Stein, a friend of Hemingway’s, who meant youth, angry with life itself after the war; drowning themselves in alcohol; sleeping away the days and sharing their beds with a new partner each night. Thus, Hemingway depicts America as a society with a profuse amount of twisted values. A constant theme runs through all of Hemingway’s work. That man can be defeated but not destroyed. Once such novel that depicts this, a .....
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Jules Verne
Number of words: 372 - Number of pages: 2.... was outraged when he heard that Jules was not going to continue law, so he disconinued the money he was giving him to pay for his expenses in paris. This forced Verne to make money by selling his stories. After spending many hours in Paris libraries studying geology, engeneering, and astronomy, published his first novel Five Weeks in a Balloon. Soon he started writing many more novels novels. Some of his more famous novels are Five Weeks in a Balloon, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A .....
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Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, Or None Of The Above
Number of words: 939 - Number of pages: 4.... (Mark Twain 1).
In 1853, when Samuel was eighteen, he left Hannibal for St. Louis (Unger 194). There he became a steam boat pilot on the Mississippi River. Clemens piloted steamboats until the Civil War in 1861. Then he served briefly with the Confederate army (Mark Twain 1). In 1862 Clemens became a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada. In 1863 he began signing his articles with the pseudonym Mark Twain, a Mississippi River phrase meaning “two fathoms deep” (Bloom 43).
In 1865, Twain reworked a tale he had heard in t .....
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Stephen King
Number of words: 2341 - Number of pages: 9.... things of his life is that at the young age of twelve King had begun his writing career. King and his older brother owned their very own newspaper. The paper sold for five cents a copy and was full of local news and fictional works by King (Beahm 2). I found this to be quite humorous. I can see two kids sitting at the mimeograph machine printing out their very own five cent newspaper.
When King was at the impressionable age of four, something occurred that King would hold with him for a very long time. King’s family life was typical, for the fifties. .....
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The Life Of Jackie Robinson
Number of words: 2402 - Number of pages: 9.... in the long jump. His final jump was twenty five feet and six inches. Not only did he win the meet, but he also set a new record. (Stealing Home)
After his impressive performance that day, several major universities offered him scholarships for his last two years of athletic eligibility.
Jackie chose the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to finish his last two years. Basically because UCLA was the college that was closest to home.
He had a repeat performance and became the first four letter man. No one had ever made four varsity athletic teams. A .....
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Abraham Lincoln 4
Number of words: 2402 - Number of pages: 9.... townspeople, including the so-called Clary Grove boys, who had challenged him to physical combat, and was elected captain of his company in the Black Hawk War (1832). Returning from the war, he began an unsuccessful venture in shopkeeping that ended when his partner died. In 1833 he was appointed postmaster but had to supplement his income with surveying and various other jobs. At the same time he began to study law. That he gradually paid off his and his deceased partner's debts firmly established his reputation for honesty. The story of his romance with An .....
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Robert Hunter
Number of words: 2443 - Number of pages: 9.... are themes employed in a contemporary tone, about modern concepts and written in a more current style. Last are themes that are either used frequently in both contemporary and traditional ways, or transcend the division of contemporary/traditional and form their own categories.
One of the main traditional themes that Hunter uses is the gambling theme. The poems "Candyman" and "Loser" exemplify this motif the best:
Come on boys and gamble
Roll those laughing bones.
Seven come eleven, boys
I'll take your money home.
--"Candyman"
Last fair deal .....
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