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Term Papers on Biographies
The Life Of My Grandfather
Number of words: 1114 - Number of pages: 5.... game many different ways, but this is the way that he was taught. "Ninety-nine percent of the younger generation played this game", my grandfather said. It is hard to explain, but it involves a pocketknife with two blades and a "peg-shaped" object. Kids would stick the blades out to form an "L" and would fling the knife to the ground. Depending on which way the knife stuck in the ground, players would receive more or less points. The winner would drive the peg into the ground with the pocketknife either once with their eyes open, or twice with their eyes s .....
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Crazy Horse
Number of words: 2730 - Number of pages: 10.... nineteenth century the most dominant nation in the western
plains was the Sioux Nation. This nation was divided into seven tribes:
Oglala's, Brule', Minneconjou, Hunkpapa, No Bow, Two Kettle, and the
Blackfoot. Of these tribes they had different band. The Hunkpatila was one
band of the Oglala's (Guttmacher 12). One of the greatest war chiefs of all
times came from this band. His name was Crazy Horse.
Crazy Horse was not given this name, on his birth date in the fall of
1841. He was born of his father, Crazy Horse an Oglala holy man, and his
mother a siste .....
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Bill Bradley
Number of words: 813 - Number of pages: 3.... coordinated care systems.
understands that education is the bedrock of our economic strength, essential to ensuring that all Americans have the skills they need to build a better future in this time of technological change. Bill will enroll an additional 400,000 children in the Head Start program, helping nearly every eligible child to enter school prepared to succeed. He will create Teach to Reach partnerships to place 60,000 new, well-trained teachers each year into low-income urban and rural school districts. Bill will invest in community .....
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Chanel, Gabrielle
Number of words: 1554 - Number of pages: 6.... Versace, one sees that many of their strategies echo what Chanel once did. The way, 75 years ago, she mixed up the vocabulary of male and female clothes and created fashion that offered the wearer a feeling of hidden luxury rather than ostentation are just two examples of how her taste and sense of style overlap with today's fashion.
Chanel would not have defined herself as a feminist--in fact, she consistently spoke of femininity rather than of feminism--yet her work is unquestionably part of the liberation of women. She threw out a life jacket, as it .....
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Number of words: 829 - Number of pages: 4.... only six pieces during seventeen years in Milan. They included Portraits of Cecilia Gallerani, "The Virgin of the Rocks", "The Last Supper", a ceiling painting of the Sala delle Asse in the Milan Castello Sforzesco. Also there were three other paintings that either disappeared or never existed in the first place. They are, a "Nativity" said to have belonged to Emperor Maximilian, a "Madonna" that Ludovico Sforza announced as a gift to the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, and the portrait of one of Ludovico's mistresses, Lucrezea Crivelli.
Throughout his life h .....
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Richard Joseph Daley
Number of words: 1263 - Number of pages: 5.... J. Daley, 53, wins the Chicago mayoralty race and begins a 21-year career as mayor of the second largest U.S. city. Daley, the archetypal city "boss," served as mayor from 1955 to 1976. He was one of the last big city bosses. As a Democrat, Daley wielded a great deal of power in this largely Democratic city. He headed a powerful political machine that effectively dominated much of Chicago. He governed by the spoils system, and he delivered many local votes for Democratic presidential candidates. His support was often sought by state and national leade .....
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Charles Manson Aka Jesus Christ
Number of words: 450 - Number of pages: 2.... that the preachings of Manson is identical to that of Jesus Christ. Hasn't Jesus spoke about the power of love? And also, isn't that what Charlie used for his motto?? Charles Manson has said "In love, you do no wrong." Wouldn't Jesus agree? In fact, would Jesus apply to that? In truth, yes!
Now, it's time to unveil the infamy of Charles Manson and Jesus Christ. Yes, both of them are wanted for influencing murder. Charles Manson has led the Tate-LaBianca murders as Jesus Christ led the city of Jericho, town of Salem murders. In both incidents, people were to die .....
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Antoine Lavoisier
Number of words: 882 - Number of pages: 4.... his spare time he studied books all about science. His 1st paper was written about gypsum, also known by hydrated calcium sulfate. He described its chemical and physical properties. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1768. On 1771 he married Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze. She helped Lavoisier by drawing diagrams for his scientific works and translating English notation for him. Unlike earlier chemists, Lavoisier paid particular attention to the weight of the ingredients involved in chemical reactions and of the products that resulted. He carefully .....
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