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Term Papers on Biographies
Stephon Marbury
Number of words: 2096 - Number of pages: 8.... In CYO ball he woofed at opposing coaches: I'm just killing your guards. Get someone out here who can stop me(Wolff, 62).
By the time that Mr. Marbury was a Sophomore in high school at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, he had changed his act. He learned to treat everybody with respect and to be a professional person. He had also tattooed a panther onto his right arm. He said:
"A panther is quick and smart and always alert to everything. He's sitting on top of a mountain...That's where I want to see myself" (Wolff, 62).
Mr. Marbu .....
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The Life And Times Of Ghandi
Number of words: 1431 - Number of pages: 6.... at the ancient Hindu religion and culture and modern revolutionary ideas about politics and society, an unusual combination of perceptions and values. Gandhi’s life was filled with contradictions. He was described as a gentle man who was an outsider, but also as a godly and almost mystical person, but he had a great determination. Nothing could change his convictions. Some called him a master politician, others called him a saint, and millions of Indians called him Mahatma or Bapu (father). I on the other hand call him extraordinarily great. Gandhi’s life was .....
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Jon Woo
Number of words: 948 - Number of pages: 4.... is his greatest talent, and perhaps that is why he will become known as one of the greatest directors in the years to come.
John Woo’s style is definitely fast paced an exciting. Mostly throughout all of his movies his themes are good against evil. It is always the case of a standoff between the good guy and the bad guy, in their last battle, always to the death. Woo’s would often use montages to make time go faster, as in Face/Off when the swat team breaks into the house and where Castor Troy kills the men that he once commanded.
Most of the mo .....
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Albert Einstein
Number of words: 1595 - Number of pages: 6.... to believe he was
disabled.
Einstein's post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when he was ten.
It was here that he first encountered the German spirit through the school's
strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of teaching led to
his reputation as a rebel. It was probably these differences that caused
Einstein to search for knowledge at home. He began not with science, but with
religion. He avidly studied the Bible seeking truth, but this religious fervor
soon died down when he discovered the intrigue of science and math. To .....
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Number of words: 1883 - Number of pages: 7.... living with her grandmother, she was reunited with her father. He had stopped his drinking, and wanted to be back in Eleanor's life. He wrote her often, for at this time he was living in Virginia. He would come for visits and send her gifts.
His life of sobriety, didn't last long. Once on a visit with Eleanor, went into a tavern and told her to wait outside. Six hours later, she saw him being carried out and helped into a passing cab. As soon as Grandmother Hall found out about his latest fiasco, she discouraged even the shortest of visits. Hall receive .....
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Theodore Kaczynski
Number of words: 894 - Number of pages: 4.... near Lincoln . Once there, Ted built a small one-room shack on this parcel of land surrounded by dense deciduous forest. The shack measured 10 feet by 12 feet and lacked electricity and plumbing. Kaczinski lived by farming a few vegetables in his small garden and venturing into town only when necessary.
It is unknown when Kaczynski started to make his bombs for the purpose of killing but his motives, the FBI believe are his beliefs about today’s society being destroyed by technology. Kaczynski wrote a paper of 35,000 words in length stressing his views of the s .....
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David Livingstone
Number of words: 3810 - Number of pages: 14.... in also discovering the source of the Nile. He never lost sight of one of his great objectsbringing Christ to Africaalthough healing and exploring were often the vehicles he used. Born the second son of poor and pious parents, Neil and Agnes (Hunter) Livingstone, he had three brothers and one sister. The seven were crowded into a two-room house. The fa-ther, while delivering tea to his customers, would also distribute religious books. At age ten young David was put into the cotton-weaving mills factory as a piecer to aid in the earnings of the family. He purch .....
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Tchaikovsky: His Life And Times
Number of words: 376 - Number of pages: 2.... in person. His letters give us insight on how he felt about his
music and life. This biography includes many exerts from such letters.
Tchaikovsky was married to Atonina Milyuka, one of his students, in
July of 1877. He made it clear however, that they were married due to her
threat of suicide if they were not married. During their brief marriage
Tchaikovsky was extremely unhappy. In his letters he described her as
having an empty heart as well as an empty head.
As a result of his marital despair, he attempted suicide. He fell
into unconsciousness and it .....
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