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Term Papers on Biographies
Egotism In Kokoro By Natsume Soseki
Number of words: 994 - Number of pages: 4.... fear that they are wrong. In Sensei's case, he becomes very insecure when K contradicts Sensei's explanation of his denial about love to an opposite sex. He fears that K is more sophisticated than him. This causes him to believe that he will not be able convince K that his feeling to Ojosan go against his own belief about manhood. "I" on the other hand struggles, for he cannot fully understand why Sensei acts in the way he does until he receives Sensei's testament.
Sensei in his college years, was very machismo. He did not believe in love until he met Ojos .....
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The Admirable Eleanor Roosevelt
Number of words: 998 - Number of pages: 4.... would sit on the stairs in her grandmother’s home and wait crying for her father to come take her. Even though Eleanor’s grandmother was very strict she gave her the love and the family atmosphere that she needed. Many years later her father died and she was left alone with only uncles and her grandmother. In 1899 at the age of 15 her uncles out of control drunkenness scared Eleanor’s grandmother of Eleanor’s safety. She sent Eleanor away to a boarding school in England. In 1902 she returned to New York at the age of 18. She was ready to come out in the world an .....
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Benjamin H. Latrobe
Number of words: 1535 - Number of pages: 6.... architecture. Latrobe did many side jobs designing public works where he also gained experience and individuality. During Latrobe's partnership with Cockrell he also met other renowned architects of the time. Two of which were Gorge Dance and John Soane. Both of these architects were very influential to Latrobes own work. In fact, all three architects were very influential. They all helped mold and create Latrobe's architectural style. During this advancing time period in architecture there were mainly three distinct styles of architecture. The first .....
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Emersons Self-reliance
Number of words: 1340 - Number of pages: 5.... evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand, and become wisdom, and virtue, and power, and beauty(52). In this quotation Emerson says that the common instinct instilled in man lets him see the truth for himself. This reality found from the shared over-soul, is the purest form of truth. All men have this ability to perceive the truth, and a common knowledge of goodness unites and unifies us all. Man’s instinctive actions in making moral choices are all part of the over-soul. Man can perceive that which is ultimately good, only if he looks past the set .....
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Adolf Hitler
Number of words: 1945 - Number of pages: 8.... failed the first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the dean's office that .....
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Us Presidents 30-42
Number of words: 5544 - Number of pages: 21.... and respectability. His opponents exhausted themselves with charges about the government's deficiencies, while the President received credit for his equanimity and the economic upturn. But 1924 was a sad year for Coolidge, for in July his younger son, Calvin, Jr., died of blood poisoning.
Coolidge was fairly successful in getting what he wanted during his full term as president. Heading the list were paring the national debt and reducing income taxes, so that there would be more money for consumer spending. Other measures included orderly growth of civil and mi .....
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Style Of J.D Salinger
Number of words: 1940 - Number of pages: 8.... Stories
Franny Glass keeps reciting the "Jesus Prayer" to cope with the
suicide of her brother Seymour (Bloom in Bryfonski and Senick 69).
Salinger is able to use this prayer as a means of comfort for Franny.
The prayer stands for the last hope for Franny in this situation.
Franny would be lost if their was no prayer. (Bryfonski and Senick
71). Salinger shows us comfort in Catcher in the Rye. Holden
Caufield, the protagonist, is very much in despair for losing his
girlfriend, so Caufield reads a passage in the Bible. This helps
Holden .....
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Georg Cantor
Number of words: 2069 - Number of pages: 8.... Georg
study mathematics. In 1862, Georg Cantor entered the University of Zurich only
to transfer the next year to the University of Berlin after his father's death.
At Berlin he studied mathematics, philosophy and physics. There he studied under
some of the greatest mathematicians of the day including Kronecker and
Weierstrass. After receiving his doctorate in 1867 from Berlin, he was unable to
find good employment and was forced to accept a position as an unpaid lecturer
and later as an assistant professor at the University of Halle in1869. In 1874,
he married .....
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