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Term Papers on Biographies
Kenichi Ohmae
Number of words: 424 - Number of pages: 2.... and has sold close
to 2 million hardback copies. In his book The Borderless World, Ohmae
discusses that centralized governments are loosing their ability, and their
need to direct national economies.
He is the founder of "Reform of Heisei", a citizen's political
movement estavlished on November 25, 1992, to promote and catalyze the
reform of Japan's political and administrative systems. This organization
has two elect Diet members commited to this program.
Reform is almost unheard of in Japan. He is doing rallies, television
appearances, and bus to .....
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The Time Period And People Of
Number of words: 695 - Number of pages: 3.... really living up to her name. She was not a typical nun. A typical nun would not take typical oaths and feed animals over people. For “She used to weep if she saw a mouse Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding. And she had little dogs she would be feeding.” The Monk was also not a typical Monk. He wore gold jewelry and had classy attire. The Host “saw his sleeves were garnished at the hand With fine gray fur, the finest in the land.” The three rioters in the Pardoner’s Tale were also condemned. They became greedy stopped and were willing to stop at nothin .....
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Babe Ruth
Number of words: 1040 - Number of pages: 4.... full with the bar,
and had very little time to tend to young George. His trouble making, and lack
of time on his parents part eventually landed him in St. Mary's Boys school. It
was here that he met the man who Babe claimed to be the greatest man who ever
lived, Brother Mathias. Brother Mathias was the one who handed Babe his
punishments, and it was Babe who always touted his strong, yet caring hand that
led him to baseball. It was also at St. Mary's that Babe started his life of
giving. He would save up his money from his job in the Tailor shop and often
spend .....
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Renior - The Apple Seeder
Number of words: 878 - Number of pages: 4.... within a harmonious ensemble. The painting itself depicts an older peasant woman selling fruit to what seems to be a middle class woman and her children. The painting is set deep in the forest, where the mother and her children are enjoying a pleasant spring afternoon. The blurred background of the piece brings the figures to the front of the painting creating a more personal situation for each viewer. Incidentally, this creates the effect of a personal link between the viewer and the figures in the painting. The peasant woman is depicted in plain clothing .....
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Al Gore
Number of words: 640 - Number of pages: 3.... to join the military helped allay the concerns of his father’s constituency about , Sr.’s opposition to the war. Gore served his time in Vietnam as an army reporter. When he returned to the States in 1971, he worked as a reporter at the Tennessean . When he was later moved to the city politics beat, Gore uncovered political and bribery cases that led to convictions.
While at the Tennessean , Gore, a Baptist, also studied philosophy and phenomenology at Vanderbilt University. In 1974 he enrolled in Vanderbilt’s law school. Just two years later, he began to .....
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Maria Mithchell
Number of words: 939 - Number of pages: 4.... that she opened a grammar school of her own. And only a year after that, at the age of eighteen she was offered a job as a librarian at Nantucket's Atheneum during the day when it opened to the public in the fall of 1836. At the Atheneum she taught herself astronomy by reading books on mathematics and science. At night she regularly studied the sky through her father's telesscope. For her college education even Harvard couldn't have given her a better education than she received at home and at tha .....
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Boris Yeltsin
Number of words: 2040 - Number of pages: 8.... served three years in Stalin' infamous labor camps of GULAG. After his release, Nikolai Yeltsin remained unemployed for awhile, then worked in construction, and Boris's mother Klavdiya Vasilyevna Yeltsina was a seamstress.
In his youth Boris blew off two fingers trying to disarm a hand grenade (he was most likely playing with it not disarming it). Boris graduated from Pushkin High School in Berezniki where his parents lived from the late 1930's to the early 1970's. After graduation, Boris went to Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk. While in col .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
Number of words: 1466 - Number of pages: 6.... died of tuberculosis
(Asselineau 409). When his mother died, Poe was adopted by John Allan
(Perry XI) at the urging of Mr. Allan's wife. In 1815, John Allan
moved his family to England. While there, Poe was sent to private
schools (Asselineau 410).
In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of
Virginia. There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He
had an excellent scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost
at once. Mr. Allan did not provide him with the money to pay for his
fees and other necessities. .....
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