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Term Papers on Biographies
Niccolo Machiavelli
Number of words: 1089 - Number of pages: 4.... king of Fr ance and
lived away from Italy for six months. After he returned to his country he
was assigned to many important political jobs in Toscana. One of the most
important of these jobs was the one he got on 1502, June and November, when
Valantino tried to separate the unity of Florence with the help of the
rebellions by Arezzo and Valdi. Machiavelli examined the policy by Caesar
Borgia closely and carefully : Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo,
Signore Pagolo and Duke Gravina's killing which is bound with Duke
Valentino's behavior (1503). This writ .....
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Charles Babbage: The Pioneer Of The Computer
Number of words: 1062 - Number of pages: 4.... In 1820 he founded the Analytical Society with Herschel and Peacock. Babbage started work on the Difference Engine in 1823 through funding from the British Government and in 1827 published a table of logarithms from 1 to 108000. In 1828 he was appointed to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge, though he never presented a lecture. He founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 and in 1832 he published "Economy of Manufactures and Machinery". 1833 marked the beginning of his work on the Analytical Engine. In 1834 he founded .....
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Frank Liszt
Number of words: 717 - Number of pages: 3.... To help raise funds for the Bonn Beethoven monument, he resumed the life of a travelling virtuoso (1839-1847); he was admired everywhere, from Ireland to Turkey, Portugal to Russia. In 1848, he took up a full-time job conducting post at the Weimar court. Living with Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, he wrote or revised most of the major works for which he is known, conducted new operas by Wagner, Berlioz and Verdi and, as the teacher of Hans von Bülow and others in the German avant-garde, became the figurehead of the 'New German school'. .....
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of words: 420 - Number of pages: 2.... an 1858 speech, he said: What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and
independance? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coats, our
army and our navy . . . Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the
heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have
planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with
the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them (World Book
Encyclopedia).
He lost his campaign for the Senate, but during the debates with his
oppone .....
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A Biography On Carl Sandburg
Number of words: 480 - Number of pages: 2.... the
Leader, a newspaper in Milwaukee. He then went on to the city of Chicago.
There, he wrote for the two newspapers, the Daily News and the Daybook.
He liked writing for newspapers some, but his true passion was poetry.
Some of his early poems were published in the Chicago newspapers he worked
for.
With his love for poetry grew, the demand for his poetry also grew.
In the year 1916, at the age of thirty eight, he published the book,
Chicago poems. Two years later, at the age of forty, he published
Cornhuskers. The public loved these two marvelous books .....
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Mark Twain
Number of words: 743 - Number of pages: 3.... brother's newspapers under various false names. After a visit to New Orleans in 1857, he learned the difficult art of steamboat piloting, an occupation that he followed until the Civil War closed the river, and that furnished the background for "Old Times on the Mississippi" (1875), later included in the expanded Life on the Mississippi (1883).
In 1861, Twain traveled by stagecoach to Carson City, Nev., with his brother Orion, who had been appointed territorial secretary. After unsuccessful attempts at silver and gold mining, he returned to writing as a corre .....
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Charles Dickens
Number of words: 1964 - Number of pages: 8.... and in a sadder more realistic aspect as Dorritt. Many people wondered how there could be a man who was both Micawber and Dorritt, seeing the great difference in personality between the two. People couldn’t possible believe that this was Dickens father so they just said that those characters were part of his imagination. John Dickens moved around quiet a bit. When Charles was not even two years old they moved for what would be a short stay to London and then moved to Chatam for what would be a longer stay, there Charles started school but soon all of .....
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Abraham Of Chaldea
Number of words: 3051 - Number of pages: 12.... the land that I will
show you." 2
While in Haran, Abram's father died and God spoke to him again saying, "Go
forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father's
house, to the land which I will show you." 3 He obeyed and left Haran
with his brother Nahor's family and his Nephew Lot without really knowing
where he was going. At this time, God did not reveal to him he was going
to Canaan. God only told him "the land which I will show you." 4 When he
did arrive in Canaan, he camped in the plains of Moreh, between the
mountains of Ebal and .....
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