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Term Papers on Biographies
On Mr. Booker T. Washington's Trickery
Number of words: 1570 - Number of pages: 6.... best satisfied
the skewed mind of the white in order to save the future of his people.
Booker T. Washington in his address delivered at the opening of The
Cotton States' Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia meant to attain at least
three goals. The first was of course the most clear-cut, that of winning
white advocates that would sponsor his cause (albeit by the use of
trickery). The second was that behind the purpose of the trickery itself,
advancing his fellow brothers. Trying to bypass whites' mindset and
actually making whites help the black cause. An .....
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Peter The Great 3
Number of words: 1975 - Number of pages: 8.... childhood life in the Kremlin, which he grew to hate, due to the dusky rooms, the labyrinthine corridors, and the bloody memories of terror and danger (4:89). When Peter was 10 years old, the palace guards revolted, and brutally murdered the supporters of his mother. Peter witnessed the brutal murders of Artemon Mateev, and Natalia¹s brother on the lawn of the Kremlin. It was then that Peter, his two small sisters, and his mother withdrew to the countryhouse of Czar Alexis in the village of Preobrazhenskoe outside Moscow. They returned to the Kremlin infreq .....
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Hudson Taylor
Number of words: 1088 - Number of pages: 4.... in a most humble and poor conditions to show his dependence upon God in every day life and activity. He was obedient and listened to the call of God. He was described as many of the fruits of the Spirit that God shows in the Word. Sacrifice became a daily thing for Hudson, as God molded and shaped Hudson for His will.
was just that sort of man, one who you could call a saint. He would go where no one would want to go. And do what no one would want to do. He willed to do Gods will, and that was to go to china and spread the good news of salvation to all the .....
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Betty Friedan
Number of words: 1047 - Number of pages: 4.... and things. Her family members said she was too smart to be interested in ordinary things. She was also her father's favorite and he treated her like a son. Unfortunately, her and her mother clashed. They were both controlling. Miriam dominated Betty, and Betty resented it a great deal. In her early years, Betty tried to measure herself to her mother and would always fall short. It took her a few years to realize that the perfect image of motherhood, along with beauty, talent, and strength, was only a façade, and something she never wanted to be. From ther .....
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Martin Luther King & Malcom X
Number of words: 678 - Number of pages: 3.... to comprehend.
Another similarity of both men, that really is a tragedy is they
were both assassinated. Both were assassinated for the same reason:
saying, believing, and making it happen of the equality of blacks and
whites on the same level. There were a lot of whites out there that
believed whites were superior now, and always should be. So when King and
X seemed to be making progress in equality, that's when they were both
brought to their death. They were both fatally shot in front of people.
King, heading outside being met by a lot of followers. An .....
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Christopher Columbus
Number of words: 1450 - Number of pages: 6.... brothers. Christopher had little education and learned to read and write only as an adult. He went to sea, as did many Genoese boys, and voyaged in the Mediterranean. In 1476 he was shipwrecked off Portugal, found his way ashore, and went to Lisbon; he apparently traveled to Ireland and England and later claimed to have gone as far as Iceland. He was in Genoa in 1479, returned to Portugal, and married. His wife, Dona Felipa, died soon after his son, Diego, was born (c.1480).
By this time Columbus had become interested in westward voyages. He had learned of the le .....
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Ozzy Osbourne
Number of words: 1649 - Number of pages: 6.... one day and found Ozzy on the floor underneath the piano with a shotgun in one hand and a bloody knife in the other with seventeen dead cats all around him. What happened is Ozzy had drank and smoked and done all kinds of drugs and he didn’t like the cats to begin with so he shot and stabbed every one of them. He just didn’t care if they died or not. If that’s not enough for you to realize that Ozzy doesn’t care about what people think then listen to this. One day Ozzy was in a very expensive motel and once again was drinking heavily, and decided to take a tri .....
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Albert Einstein 5
Number of words: 1022 - Number of pages: 4.... force could pass through space (Strathern 13). His uncle gave him his first mathematics book and Einstein read it until he could do every problem in the book. In school, Einstein wasn’t exactly a teacher’s pet. The teachers at German school during his childhood “prided themselves on behaving like bossy, pedantic sergeant majors” (Strathern 13). Teachers told him he would never amount to anything. Einstein more than proved them wrong.
The first years on his own were the roughest for Einstein. He was unable to keep a job and wasnR .....
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