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Term Papers on Biographies
Malcolm X
Number of words: 381 - Number of pages: 2.... Islamic religion. After he was released from prison in 1952, Malcolm joined his younger brother in Detroit, Michigan where he replaced his slave last name with an X to symbolize his lost true African name.
soon became an active participant in the nation of Islam. He assisted Elijah Muhammad by starting many new Muslim groups in the United States. In 1952 he returned to New York to become a minister of the important Harlem temple and in 1957 he organized the Muslim newspaper.
By the early 1960’s Islam had become nationally known. He was there most effective .....
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Daniel Boone
Number of words: 521 - Number of pages: 2.... quite ready to pursue the explorer's life. Back home on his father's farm he began courting a neighbor's daughter, Rebecca Bryan, and soon they were married.
In 1767 Boone traveled into the edge of Kentucky and camped for the winter at Salt Spring near Prestonsburg. But the least explored parts were still farther west, beyond the Cumberlands, and John Finley persuaded him to go on a great adventure.
On May 1, 1769, Boone, Finley, and four other men, started out. They passed Cumberland Gap and on the 7th of June, they set up camp at Station Camp creek. It was .....
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Comparison Of John F Kennedy And Abraham Lincoln's Lives
Number of words: 1790 - Number of pages: 7.... by the name of
John F. Kennedy relived almost the same experience.
John F. Kennedy was elected to the United States Congress in 1946.
In November of 1960, when Kennedy was 43 years old, he became the 35th
President of America(O’ Sullivan 10). He established the Peace Corps Of
America which was an agency that promoted world peace and friendship by
training American volunteers to perform social and humanitarian service
overseas (“John” 1). Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963
and was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson. Many historians have found seve .....
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Robert Hunter
Number of words: 2441 - Number of pages: 9.... 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 in the country, sweet Suzy
Last fair .....
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Saddam Hussein
Number of words: 579 - Number of pages: 3.... areas and especially for oil resources. Hussein is also known as a ruthless leader who used chemical weapons on Kurdish people seeking freedom in the 1980’s. In August, 1990, Hussein invaded and annexed Kuwait for violating oil production laws set by the Organization of Petroleum Exports Countries(OPEC). (Kuwait had lowered the price of oil.) The Iraqi forces killed many Kuwaiti people and stole or destroyed much property. Hussein apparently wanted to use Kuwait’s vast oil resources to help Iraq’s economy. Many people believed that Iraq would next invade ne .....
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Pablo Friere
Number of words: 1205 - Number of pages: 5.... teacher as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into "containers," "receptacles" to be "filled" by the teacher. The more completely she fills the receptacles, the better a teacher she is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are." (67). He also goes on to say "Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes dep .....
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Galileo 2
Number of words: 1186 - Number of pages: 5.... by monks at Vallombrosa and then entered the University of Pisa in 1581 to study medicine. He soon turned to philosophy and mathematics, leaving the university without a degree in 1585. For a time he tutored privately and wrote on hydrostatics and natural motions, but he did not publish. In 1589 he became the professor of mathematics at Pisa, where he is reported to have shown his students the error of Aristotle's belief that speed of fall is proportional to weight, by dropping two objects of different weight simultaneously from the Leaning Tower. His contract wa .....
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Ron Howard
Number of words: 806 - Number of pages: 3.... and Mr. O’Mally, cast the actor in the "Andy Griffith Show" which began its eight years on CBS on October 3, 1960. The gentle and subtle comedy of the show was set in the sleepy town of Mayberry, North Carolina, and was centered on the daily lives of sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith), his young son, Opie (Howard), Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), who was the live in housekeeper and Opei’s surrogate mother, and Barney Fife (Don Knotts), Andy’s deputy. The scenes between Andy and Opie were sensitively written by Ron’s father with similarities of their relation .....
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