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Term Papers on Biographies
Nikita Khrushchevs Rise To Power
Number of words: 1589 - Number of pages: 6.... as First Secretary. These duties in turn were handed to Nikita Khrushchev, a longtime party boss of the Ukraine and the first secretary of the party’s Moscow organization, who was not seen as a serious candidate for supreme power. (Kort) Khrushchev had two advantages over his associates, the right to appoint his trusted followers to key positions and the right to demote those he distrusted. To succeed Khrushchev had to remove his two principal rivals. He removed Beria quickly with the help of other colleagues who feared Beria. On April 4, 1953 Beria was .....
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Susan B Anthony
Number of words: 660 - Number of pages: 3.... to young men. Susan was sent to a boarding school in Philadelphia. She taught at a female academy boarding school, in up state New York when she was fifteen years old intill she was thirty. After she settled in her family home in Rochester, New York. It was here that she began her first public crusade on behalf of temperance.
This was one of the first expressions of feminism in the United States, and it delt with the abuses of woman and children who suffered from alcoholic husbands. In 1849, Susan gave her first public speech for the Daughters of Tempe .....
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Biography: William Gibson (1914- )
Number of words: 238 - Number of pages: 1.... play was later made into a film and a musical called simply
Seesaw (1973).
Early works include I Lay in Zion (1943) and A Cry of Players (1968), a
play about Shakespeare which he rewrote in 1968.
Gibson collaborated on the book of the musical Golden Boy (1964) He also
wrote a book of Shakespeare criticism called Shakespeare's Game (1978).
He returned to the Helen Keller story with his play Monday After the
Miracle (1982).
Plays and musicals
Two For the Seesaw (1958).
Dinny and the Witches (1959).
The Miracle Worker (1959).
Golden Boy (1964): musical, with .....
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Joseph Hyden
Number of words: 1818 - Number of pages: 7.... Michael, was the source of this inaccuracy. Supposedly, Michael didn't want it said that his big brother came into this world as an April Fool.
At age seven, young Joseph entered the choir school at St. Steven's Cathedral in Vienna, where he was to remain for the next nine years. During his early years, he became interested in composing music, but he had no formal training until his late teens, when he worked for Italian musician and composer, Niccolò Porpora. He avidly studied music, including the works of C. P. E. Bach, and held several mus .....
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Edgar Degas - Not The Typical Impressionist
Number of words: 542 - Number of pages: 2.... He founded the Societe Anonyme des
Artistes. They held exhibitions and published a journal. He was the main
founder of these exhibitions that were later known as Salons. At these
Salons, artists such as Monet, Morisot, Renoir, Manet, and Degas himself
would display their best works of art for criticism. At the Salons Degas's
work, like everyone else's wasn't looked upon highly. Most people didn't
realize how great these artists were until after they died.
Degas went through many styles of art before finally settling on
Realism. He went through a stage whe .....
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Adolf Hitler
Number of words: 347 - Number of pages: 2.... the Nazi party was the second largest party in the country. Because of his power in speeches he was appointed chancellor of the Nazis in 1933. Within a year he was made full leader of the Nazi Party. In 1938 Hitler takes over Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1939. World War 2 begins with Hitler and his troops marching in to Poland. By this time Jews were dying by the thousands. Europe was almost completely taken over by the Nazis. In 1941 Germany had taken over the Soviet Union. By 1945 the Holocaust had taken over 6 million Jews and more and more people .....
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The Traits Of Adolf Hitler
Number of words: 1047 - Number of pages: 4.... a total of 10 years in school,”(Arthur M. Schlesinger 1985, 14) Even though he didn’t have a normal amount of education, he still became the leader of Germany.
Adolf Hitler, nevertheless, was a great orator and when he spoke, everybody listened. He sometimes spoke several times a day, moving from town to town seemingly tireless. Ken McVay had this to say about this subject, “He was a tireless speaker and before he came to power would sometimes give as many as three or four speeches on the same day, often in different cites. Even his opponents concede tha .....
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The Writings Of Cicero
Number of words: 3723 - Number of pages: 14.... by his roman beliefs
and assumptions.
The assumptions of Cicero can be noticed when one inspects his view of the
ideal governing body, which he expresses through Scipio (in the
commonwealth). Although Cicero presents very convincing arguments for a
Composite government, clearly his view is possibly only due towards his
belief in the roman structure of government.1 Cicero was limited to roman
borders of experience, and this point was best illustrated by his
disagreement with Aristotle's writings on the decay of states. Cicero was
unable to think on the level o .....
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