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Term Papers on Biographies
The Wright Brothers
Number of words: 927 - Number of pages: 4.... lives have been influenced largely by the wrights famous invention. Transportation for the average person using planes had become a luxury by the 1930's and by the 1950's the jet had been developed, causing air travel to grow at an even faster rate. “During the 1960's about 100 million passengers flew on airlines and now in the 90's 1.25 billion people fly annually.” (“Transportation”) Transportation from city to city, was a luxury in the early 1900's but thanks to the discoverers by Wilbur and Orville Wright it is now an event that takes place in every .....
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The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
Number of words: 3080 - Number of pages: 12.... not as wealthy as his fellow classmates, and very short. He also did not speak French well, because Italian was spoken on Corsica where he grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him.
Napoleon attended the Ecole Military School in Paris in 1784 after receiving a scholarship. This is were he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. Napoleon finished his training and joined the French army when he was 16 years old. He was appointed to an artillery regiment , and commissioned as .....
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J.D.Salinger
Number of words: 1298 - Number of pages: 5.... in Valley Forge Military Academy in the
Pennsylvania Hills. It was here that certain biographical facts begin to
build up in accounting for Salinger as a writer. It was at Valley Forge
that Salinger developed a sense of being a misfit, of having been sent away
to become part of an alien institution, and that what is needed, what is
missed, is a larger, closer family.
It was after graduating from Valley Forge that Salinger wrote some
of his first works. Salinger was deeply emotionalize by World war two. This
had a great deal to do with his first writings. "Man .....
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Sigmund Freud
Number of words: 790 - Number of pages: 3.... under hypnosis. Once the event and it feelings were relived the symptoms were gone. Freud came to the conclusion that the symptoms were a way of the conscious discharging the “affect” of the memory. In time Freud came to realize that a more productive method of recalling the memories was through “free association” or just talking about whatever is in your head. When this was performed on patients and the feedback was studied Freud was amazed that an abundance of it dealt with sexual childhood experiences.
This type of feedback became common in Freud’s free as .....
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Geoffery Chaucer
Number of words: 2362 - Number of pages: 9.... him. Fears
of that sort, exceedingly violent in themselves, bred a species of
violence in the medieval mind. So in the writings of the times this
eminent fear was a influence of writing for all.
Though Chacuer was an amazing writer most of his life is
fragmentary, but there is a lot of it. A lot of people's lives back then
were difficult to document. He was an extraordinary man, a great poet
who was courtier, soldier, learned man, much travelled minor diplomat.
The range of his experience and interests is amazing, from common life
and bawedy t .....
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Ramses II: Magnificence On The Nile
Number of words: 1528 - Number of pages: 6.... Sea, and the vassal states of the Levant. Like all well-born Egyptians, the young Ramses learned to read and write and received instruction in the nation’s theology, literature, and history. Careful attention was paid to his physical development too. Pharaohs were expected to excel in the military skills of chariotry and archery. Ramses was still only in his midteens when his father, with the thoughts of past disputed successions very much in mind, decided to install him as prince regement. Shortly after his father’s Seti’s I accession the boy had be .....
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A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin
Number of words: 1627 - Number of pages: 6.... and Abiah Franklin, were hard working devout Puritan/Calvinist people. Josiah Franklin made candles for a living. Since the Franklins were so poor, little Benjamin couldn't afford to go to school for longer than two years. In those two years, however, Franklin learned to read which opened the door to further education for him. Since he was only a fair writer and had very poor mathematical skills, he worked to tutor himself at home.
Benjamin Franklin was a determined young man. As a boy, he taught himself to be a very good writer. He also learned basic algebr .....
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Margaret Mead
Number of words: 246 - Number of pages: 1.... University. In 1926 she became assistant curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and she subsequently served as associate curator (1942-64) and as curator (1964-69). She was director of research in contemporary cultures at Columbia University from 1948 to 1950 and adjunct professor of anthropology there after 1954. In 1968 she was appointed full professor and head of the social science department in the Liberal Arts College of Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York. She also served on various government and international commissions and was a controvers .....
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