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Term Papers on Biographies
Christopher Columbus
Number of words: 335 - Number of pages: 2.... give him one. Columbus had to wait.
Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, and thought it was Asia.
He and his men, unexpectedly, came across Natives and their culture, and
realized this was not Asia. Columbus first landed on the island of Navidad,
and ended up coming back to this New World 3 more times. He never landed on
the main land of America, but he keeped on exploring the coasts of America,
looking for an opening to get to Asia. Unfortunatly, he never found it
because there was and is none.
Columbus' attitude to all of this was pretty positive .....
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O.J. Simpson: Guilty
Number of words: 510 - Number of pages: 2.... O.J.'s Bronco door, on the console, on the interior side of the door, a
bloody footprint in the Bronco, bloody socks in O.J.'s house, O.J.'s injured
finger, blood found at Nicole's condo that matched O.J.'s, and so on(Posner,64).
The defense claimed that the evidence had been planted.
On June 30th, Allen Wattenberg, a knife store owner, testified during
the preliminary hearing that O.J. bought a 14-inch Stiletto knife from his store.
On June 12, O.J.'s limo driver arrived to drive O.J. to the airport and saw a
black man, with the same build as O.J. sprinting .....
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Emily Dickinson
Number of words: 1073 - Number of pages: 4.... be non-conformist.” believed and practiced this philosophy.
Dickinson was brought up by a stern, authoritarian father. In her childhood she was shy and already different from other children. After attending Amherst Academy with other scrupulous thinkers she began to develop into a free-willed person. Many of Dickinson’s friends had continued with their Christianity and her family put an enormous amount of pressure on her to convert. No longer the submissive youngster, she would not compromise her own will on issues such as religion, literature, and person .....
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Richard M. Nixon
Number of words: 1623 - Number of pages: 6.... were married
four months later in June 1908. Frank converted to Quakerism.
Frank and Hannah's first son, Harold, was born in 1909, only a year
after they were wed. In 1908, Frank bought a lemon ranch in Yorba Linda, CA, and
built a small house there. Then, on January 9, 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon was
born in that very house. Hannah and Frank would have three more children: Donald
(born in 1914), Arthur (born in 1918), and Edward (born in 1930).
The Nixon family lived on the edge of poverty. The lemon ranch didn't
make enough money to provide for the family of .....
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William Mosby Is A Hero
Number of words: 382 - Number of pages: 2.... hand. He would scout and
study the area so he would always have the upper hand on his enemy. He
would always check on his opponent. He knew how many men they had and what
kind of weapons they had. He always knew what he was up against.
Lastly one must be daring. You got to have guts; a wussy hero
isn't any good. Mosby was very daring. You had to be to take six men into
an enemy camp armed with just pistols and a few rifles and steal millions
in gold and equipment. Once he snuck into an enemy held town, he creaped
right up to the command post and proceed .....
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Charlemagne
Number of words: 2176 - Number of pages: 8.... Charlemagne and his brother, Carloman, each inherited
half of the Frankish kingdom. Pepin, in the Merovingian tradition of the time,
split his kingdom between his two sons. Three years later Carloman died and
Charlemagne took control of the entire kingdom. He inherited great wealth and a
powerful army, built by his father and grandfather. Charlemagne used the army
and his own skillful planning to more than double the size of the Frankish
Kingdom. (Halsall 15)
The world of Charlemagne was a heathen one, with many warring tribes or kingdoms.
Many of these t .....
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Comparing Adolf Hitler And Saddam Hussein
Number of words: 2508 - Number of pages: 10.... and economic chaos, he led an uprising known as the Putsch in Munich against the postwar weimenrepub proclaiming himself chancellor of a new authorization regime. Without military support, however, the Putsch collapsed. As leader of the plot, Hitler was sentenced five years imprisonment and served nine months writing his book Mein Kampf (my struggle). “The failure of the uprising taught Hitler that the Nazi party must use legal means to assume power” (Dorpanlen 2). Released as a result of a general amnesty in December 1924, he rebuilt his party without i .....
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Biography Of Pocahontas
Number of words: 1527 - Number of pages: 6.... a ceremonious people who greeted important visitors in a formal manner with a large feast and festive dancing. Although they did occasionally put prisoners to death in a public ceremony, it was no more savage than the English customs of public disembowelment of thieves and the burning of women accused of being witches.
In May of 1607, English colonists arrived on the Virginia shoreline with hopes of great riches. They established a settlement that they named Jamestown. Little Pocahontas watched as these strangers built forts and searched for food. She eventua .....
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