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Term Papers on Biographies
Hitler
Number of words: 1054 - Number of pages: 4.... and how to make them believe that they were actually going to get
it. Hitler was given a chance to go into power despite the doubts of he ability
to rule from the Communists and Socialist parties. Unfortunately the both
parties were wrong, he was voted into power , in March and was elected without a
parliament. Hitler proclaimed a "New Germany." He believed that German culture
was to be kept solid. His way of purifying their race was to burn books
Americans, Jew, and Non-Germans. The philosophy was that if you destroy the
ideas in the books, you destroy the p .....
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Apollonius Of Perga
Number of words: 620 - Number of pages: 3.... of Cyrene that he made the fullest use of his predecessors' works.
Book 1-4 contain a systematic account of the essential principles of conics,
which for the most part had been previously set forth by Euclid, Aristaeus and
Menaechmus. A number of theorems in Book 3 and the greater part of Book 4 are
new, however, and he introduced the terms parabola, eelipse, and hyperbola.
Books 5-7 are clearly original. His genius takes its highest flight in Book 5,
in which he considers normals as minimum and maximum straight lines drawn from
given points to the cur .....
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Pierre De Fermat
Number of words: 839 - Number of pages: 4.... required. His published works represent the final form of his research, and therefore cannot be dated earlier than 1660. Mr. discovered many things in his lifetime. Some things that he did include: -If p is a prime and a is a prime to p then ap-1-1 is divisible by p, that is, ap-1-1=0 (mod p). The proof of this, first given by Euler, was known quite well. A more general theorem is that a0-(n)-1=0 (mod n), where a is prime to n and p(n) is the number of integers less than n and prime to it. -An odd prime number can be expressed as the difference of two sq .....
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Louis Armstrong
Number of words: 301 - Number of pages: 2.... during the '20's was his development of "scat singing," a type of wordless singing derived from folk and blues music. He continued touring with his own groups, generally consisting of six to eight- musician groups ( Hot Five, Six, & Seven) through the thirties and forties, his fame only hampered by the fact that the best venues were generally reserved for white musicians.
In his later years, Armstrong remained a good trumpet player. As his health declined, he began to rely more upon his singing than his trumpet playing. He became known to a generation as a sing .....
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The Life Of Ernest Hemingway
Number of words: 2861 - Number of pages: 11.... smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always. Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school .....
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Jimi Hendrix
Number of words: 3378 - Number of pages: 13.... his ethnic diversity, but rather accepted his diversity and publicly allowed it to show through in his music. Jimi said it best in “If 6 was 9” on Axis: Bold As Love when he said “I’m gonna wave my freak flag high.” Hendrix’ first forays into professional music came after he received his honorable discharge from service in the summer of 1962 (Murray 36). His background in R&B, a type of music dominated by black artists at that time, led him to play with many R&B singers from the time, such as Little Richard, King Curtis, Joey Dee and the Starliters, the I .....
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Thomas Hobbes
Number of words: 511 - Number of pages: 2.... never work. In fact, he thought democracy was very dangerous. But even though he distrusted democracy, he believed that a diverse group of representatives presenting the problems of the common person would prevent a king from being unfair and cruel. Hobbes coined the phrase, "Voice of the people," meaning one person could be chosen to represent a group with similar views.
In 1651, wrote his famous work, "Leviathan" which put into writing his views on democracy and monarchy. In this work, he said that life in the state of nature is "nasty, brutish, and short .....
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Biography Of Katharine Hepburn
Number of words: 753 - Number of pages: 3.... salary for These Days.
In the 1930's, that was a very high salary for begining actresses.
Katharine served as Hope Williams's understudy in Holiday. She sat
through every performance for six months. One day at understudy rehearsal,
Aurhtur Hopkins, the director, watched her act. “Fine,” he said, “Just
don't ever be sorry for yourself.”
One night at midnight, Jimmy Hagen, the writer of the play, asked
her if she still knew her part. Hope was sick and they needed her to
perform. She spent all day the next day memorizing her lines. Katharine
did her best. .....
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