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Term Papers on Biographies
Burr, Aaron
Number of words: 991 - Number of pages: 4.... Clinton. Two years later the state assembly, which was controlled by partisans of Clinton and Robert Livingston, elected Burr to the U.S. Senate. His career in the Senate was not particularly memorable. Hamilton hated him, Clinton soon learned to distrust him, and George Washington refused his request to be appointed minister to France. But in and out of Congress, Burr managed to maneuver so skillfully, and with so much personal charm, that he won the support of many Federalists as well as Democratic Republicans.
In 1796 and 1800, Burr ran for vice-president w .....
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Mohandas Gandhi
Number of words: 709 - Number of pages: 3.... near
Bombay. His family belonged to the Hindu merchant caste Vaisya. His father had
been prime minister of several small native states. Gandhi was married when he
was only 13 years old.
When he was 19 he defied custom by going abroad to study. He studied law
at University College in London. Fellow students snubbed him because he was an
Indian. In his lonely hours he studied philosophy. In his reading he discovered
the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David Thoreau's "Civil
Disobedience," and he was persuaded by John Ruskin's plea to give u .....
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John Muir's Trail In History
Number of words: 1543 - Number of pages: 6.... in a factory inventing small machines
and contraptions. However, a serious working accident in the factory left Muir
temporarily blind. When he finally regained his vision, he vowed to live life
to the fullest and devote everything he had to nature.
At the age of 29, Muir made a thousand-mile walk from Indianapolis to
Florida for the sheer pleasure of being outdoors. This experience enlightened
Muir and compelled him to extend his travels. With his family's blessings (his
wife and two daughters), he began to wander America's forests, mountains,
valleys, and .....
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Marie Curie
Number of words: 2645 - Number of pages: 10.... high school at the top of her class. That s ame year, Manya left for the countryside in order to relax.
A year later, Manya returned home ready to return to school. Since girls were not permitted to attend university in Russian Poland, Manya and her sister Bronya, decided to study at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. However, they face one major p roblem, they had no money. In order to save money, the sisters decided to give private lessons, business was poor, so they made little money. Manya, wanting to keep up her education attended a "floating" unive .....
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Alfred Nobel
Number of words: 1513 - Number of pages: 6.... the city. The naval mines designed by Immanuel Nobel were simple
devices consisting of submerged wooden casks filled with gun powder. Anchored
below the surface of the Gulf of Finland they effectively deterred the British
Royal Navy from moving into firing range of St. Petersburg during the Crimean
war (1853-1856).
Immanuel Nobel was also a pioneer in arms manufacture and in designing steam
engines. Successful in his industrial and business ventures, Immanuel Nobel was
able, in 1842, to bring his family to St. Petersburg. There, his sons were given .....
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John Steinbeck
Number of words: 970 - Number of pages: 4.... a job, John’s father was extremely devastated by the lose of his business"(Stephen)
"Encouraged by his parents John began to develop a love literature"(Morrow). At his ninth birthday John received a copy of the book Morte d’Arthur. This was the first book John ever owned. He later said it was a great influence upon his life. During his years at Salinas High School, John excelled in English. At the end of his Freshman year in High School John had determined that he wanted to become a writer.
At the end of his Senior year John applied .....
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Michelangelo
Number of words: 334 - Number of pages: 2.... liked him, so he sculpted a wonderful mystical fawn head for him. Lorenzo was speechless. He asked to live with him in his palace.
After two years in the palace, Lorenzo died and was left alone. His father wanted some of his money. loved his father with all of his heart. was not doing well with money at the time, but gave his father some. Then, Julius Pope asked to paint the vault of the Sistine Chapel. took the job and started. He started in 1508 and finished in 1512.
When was 59 years old, ’s dad and favorite brother died. After they died .....
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Josef Stalin
Number of words: 558 - Number of pages: 3.... arrested eight times, six in which he escaped. He
was last arrested in 1913, in which he spent four years in exile and was
released in 1917. He married for the second time in 1919, to Nadezhda
Alliluyeva, who later committed suicide in 1932.
Between 1905 and 1917, Stalin followed and supported the
Bolshevik party, and in 1907 he helped organize a bank holdup in Tbilisi to
expropriate funds for the Bolshevik cause.
He was selected by Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Central
Committee in 1912 and the following year he briefly edited the new par .....
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