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Term Papers on Biographies
Thomas Jefferson
Number of words: 2064 - Number of pages: 8.... In January of 1772, he married Martha Wayles Skelton and established a residence at Monticello. When they moved to Monticello, only a small one room building was completed. Jefferson was thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill allowing owners to free their slaves.
The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine affairs of legislature. In 1774, the first of the Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston until Massachusetts paid for th .....
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HG Wells
Number of words: 351 - Number of pages: 2.... class and
their aspirations. Both recall the world of Wells's youth; the first tells
the story of a struggling teacher, the second portrays a draper's
assistant. Many of Wells's other books can be categorized as thesis novels.
Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay,
attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through,
depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I
Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History.
Throughout his long life Wells was deeply concerned wit .....
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John Wilkes Booth
Number of words: 318 - Number of pages: 2.... next morning he had his leg attend to my Dr. Samuel H. Mudd. On April 15 a small federal troop set out in pursuit. For 11 days he was protected by sympathetic southerners. Finally on the night of April 25 he was cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, VA. Booth refused to be taken alive and was shot by one of the soldiers, or more likely by his own hand. He died on the morning of April 26. His body was brought back to Washington where it was secretly buried in a warehouse and then buried in a common graveyard for criminals. In 1869 the body was removed to the fami .....
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Hammurabi’s Code
Number of words: 946 - Number of pages: 4.... consequences for breaking the laws, and they knew what they must due when accusing a criminal. (We know what we must do on Saturday to Woodstock, don’t we?) Hammurabi created a set of moral codes that was to be copied and used by other civilizations.
The Codes of Law were broken into certain categories. These categories are not definitely known, but the majority of historians believe them to be: family, labor, personal property, real estate, trade and business. Many think the codes were too strict and the punishments too harsh. Hammurabi just believed that the .....
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Sir Isaac Newton
Number of words: 1521 - Number of pages: 6.... the plague, Newton returned to Trinity, which elected him to a fellowship in 1667. He received his master's degree in 1668. Newton ignored much of the established curriculum of the university to pursue his own interests: mathematics and natural philosophy. Proceeding entirely on his own, he investigated the latest developments in mathematics and the new natural philosophy that treated nature as a complicated machine. Almost immediately, he made fundamental discoveries that were instrumental in his career in science.
The Fluxional Method Newton's first achie .....
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Ann Hutchinson
Number of words: 624 - Number of pages: 3.... talked about the religious opportunities in America.
When New England was formed, Cotton took his chance and traveled there in search of religious freedom. In 1634, took her family and followed him to Massachusetts. To her surprise, New England turned out to be more strict religiously than England. She was not welcome in New England because of her unorthodox views.
Ann was told not to speak publicly about her views. She only expressed them in her own
home where she sometimes invited women to share her ideas. The governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony was J .....
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Richard The Lion Hearted
Number of words: 1723 - Number of pages: 7.... out receiving nothing from his father. It is
this action that gave him the name John Lackland.
At a young age of twelve, Richard pledged homage to the King of France for
lands of his. At the age of fourteen, Richard was named the Duke of Aquitane
in the church of St. Hillaire at Poitiers (one of the lands made homage to
the French King.) Henry's sons, who had been given lands but no real power
revolted against their King father aided by their mother. In retaliation King
Henry had Eleanor jailed. She remained there for many years.
Ric .....
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Edgar Allen Poe
Number of words: 1970 - Number of pages: 8.... he never formally adopted him. Even though Allen´s treatment toward Poe is not exactly known, we know that Allen never treated Poe with sensitivity. In 1815, the Allen family moved to England on business. There, Poe entered the Manor-House School in Stoke-Newington, a London suburb. This school taught him "the gothic architecture and historical landscape of the region made a deep imprint on his youthful imagination, which would effect his adult writings" (Levin, 14). The Allens left England in June 1820, and arrived in Richmond on August 2. Here, Poe ent .....
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