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Term Papers on Biographies
William Butler Yeats
Number of words: 1186 - Number of pages: 5.... their spirits of wind and water were but literal truth." This sparked Yeats’s interest in the study of the occult. After his experience in the hermetic society he joined the Rosicrucians, Madam H.P. Blavavtsky’s Theosophical Society, and MacGregors Mather’s Order of the Dawn. Yeats consulted spiritualists frequently and engaged in the ritual of conjuring the Irish Gods. The occult research Yeats made was apparent in his poetry. The occult was a source of images to use in his poems, and evedence of this is in all of his works. In1885 Yeats met John O’Leary .....
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Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Number of words: 1228 - Number of pages: 5.... so it is more of
a story in poetical form.
In the Love Song, Eliot actually sounds a bit like a optimist,
quite frankly though his own “waste land”steps in half way through. This is
his only poetic work I like. But it will never be at the top of any of my
lists. In this “song” , JAP (J. Alfred Prufrock) is writing a letter to
his honey, the girl he is in love with. In this poem Eliot uses a lot of
visual imagery, he is very good with his adjectives and brings such a happy
correlation of thought into a grim reality he would call his “Waste Land”.
He talks of .....
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Biography Of Andy Warhol
Number of words: 471 - Number of pages: 2.... in several other venues during the 1950s, including his first group show at The Museum of Modern Art in 1956.
The 1960s was an extremely prolific decade for Warhol. Appropriating images from popular culture, Warhol created many paintings that remain icons of 20th-century art, such as the Campbell's Soup Cans, Disasters and Marilyns. In addition to painting, Warhol made several 16mm films which have become underground classics such as Chelsea Girls, Empire and Blow Job. In 1968, Valerie Solanis, founder and sole member of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) .....
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Number of words: 1457 - Number of pages: 6.... daughters, Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and schooling. It confirmed Johnson's faith in the positive potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas.
In 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas seat in Congress, where he championed public works, recl .....
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Machiavelli's View Of Human Nature
Number of words: 1086 - Number of pages: 4.... that "An individual only 'grows to maturity- both intellectually and morally- through participation' in the life of the state."4 Machiavelli generally distrusted citizens, stating that "...in time of adversity, when the state is in need of it's citizens there are few to be found."5 Machiavelli further goes on to question the loyalty of the citizens and advises the Prince that "...because men a wretched creatures who would not keep their word to you, you need keep your word to them."6 However, Machiavelli did not feel that a Prince should mistreat the c .....
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Bob Dylan
Number of words: 736 - Number of pages: 3.... kid, when he sang at a high school talent show.
After high school graduation in 1959, Dylan enrolled in the University of Minnesota, but never graduated. Instead, he started playing in nearby coffeehouses, and was quickly taken in by the artistic community. There he was introduced to rural folk music of artist like Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Roscoe Holocomb, and the great Woody Guthrie. Throughout his life, Dylan will blend these three (blues, rock 'n' roll, and folk) musical styles together. Dylan soon realized that if he wanted to make something of .....
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Biography: Anne Sullivan (1866-1936)
Number of words: 212 - Number of pages: 1.... the Perkins
School for the Blind in Boston. She was nicknamed "Spitfire" because she
behaved badly and was very rude; however the school's director realized
that she could become a talented pupil. Several years later, after two
operations, she regained her sight and graduated with honours.
Life with Helen
She came to work with Helen when she was 20 years old and a graduate of the
Perkins School for the Blind.
Her persistence in trying to reach the deaf-blind child was rewarded in the
now famous incident at the backyard pump. That breakthrough was
immortalized in Gibson's play, books, on television and i .....
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William Bradford
Number of words: 820 - Number of pages: 3.... or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavors, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them. And that it cost them something this ensuing history will declare.
But after these things they could not long continue in any peaceable condition, but were hunted and persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these, which now came upon them. For some were taken and clapped up in prison, others had their houses beset and watched night and day, and hardly escaped their hands; and the .....
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