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Term Papers on Biographies
Richard Nixon
Number of words: 564 - Number of pages: 3.... Two years later, General Eisenhower selected Nixon, age 39, to be his running mate.
As Vice President, Nixon took on major duties in the Eisenhower Administration. Nominated for President by acclamation in 1960, he lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
His accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program. As he had promise .....
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Martin Luther King Jr
Number of words: 403 - Number of pages: 2.... III, Dexter Scott, Yolanda Denise, and Bernice Albrtine.
In December 1958 Martin became the president of the group, Southern Christian Leadership Conference that was formed to carry on civil right activities in the south. But later in 1963 he was put into jail during a successful campaign to achieve the desegregation of many public facilities in Birmingham, Alabama.
Martin later became the youngest person ever to get the Nobel peace prize. In 1965 . led a drive to register black voters in Selma, Alabama. But to get this drive protesters did a five-day march .....
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Herman Melville
Number of words: 440 - Number of pages: 2.... a bookkeeper and clerk at his brother’s fur company. After a series of other jobs and moving around he gets “Fragments from a Writing Desk” published. But went to New York to become a sailor.
Melville got a job on the whaling ship Acushnet in New Bedford Harbor but abandons ship at Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. After spending a month as a captive of cannibals in Types, he escapes aboard the Lucy Ann and is sent ashore as a mutineer. He escaped there and ended up working on a potato farm. Later that year he leaves on the whaling ship Charles and Henry and is disc .....
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Accountants
Number of words: 489 - Number of pages: 2.... prepared by the accountant are useful for managers, and also for owners, creditors and the public. Based on information in the reports the public can use the reports to choose a company to invest in. Because a financial accountant is employed by an individual company, she is considered a private accountant. Another type of accountant is a tax accountant. A tax accountant prepares yearly tax returns for individual clients. The accountants have to use constant data such as rates of pay and other information to determine the proper amount of taxes to be paid. Thes .....
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An Analysis Of John Berger
Number of words: 1245 - Number of pages: 5.... to him. A good author will also paint his own picture by words. He will leave the reader with a picture in his head of what he is describing. A writer’s words are stronger than the stroke of an artist.
An example of this could be from W.E.B Dubois ‘s Of the Meaning of Progress . DuBois paints us a picture of his life . On page 225, DuBois describes a child , he says “ Thenie was on hand early ,-a jolly, ugly ,good-hearted , who slyly dipped snuff and looked after her little bow legged brother.” This description is something a .....
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The Work Of J.D. Salinger
Number of words: 1938 - Number of pages: 8.... keeps reciting the "Jesus Prayer" to
cope with the suicide of her brother Seymour (Bloom in Bryfonski and
Senick 69). Salinger is able to use this prayer as a means of comfort for
Franny. The prayer stands for the last hope for Franny in this situation.
Franny would be lost if their was no prayer. (Bryfonski and Senick 71).
Salinger shows us comfort in Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caufield, the
protagonist, is very much in despair for losing his girlfriend, so Caufield
reads a passage in the Bible. This helps Holden change his outlook on life
(Salzberg 75). .....
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Robert Schumann
Number of words: 1296 - Number of pages: 5.... classics were heard in the Schumann home. With a friend named Friedrich
Piltzing, another pupil of Kuntzch's, Robert started to explore Haydn, Mozart
and Beethoven.
As a child, Schumann took part in several concerts at the Zwickau Lyceum.
He once played Moscheles' Alexander March variations, which demanded
considerable dexterity.
At the public Lyceum Robert was active as both pianist and public
speaker. When he was fourteen, Kuntzsch decided that his pupil had progressed
beyond the point where he could give further help, and declined to teach him
anymore.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Dissident
Number of words: 949 - Number of pages: 4.... At the age of nine he decided he wanted to be a writer, and before he was eighteen he decided that he was going to write a novel about the Russian Revolution. He said that during his childhood he "bore this social tension - on one hand, they used to tell me everything at home, and on the other, they used to work our minds at school. And so this collision between two worlds gave birth to such social tension inside me that somehow defined the path I was to follow for the rest of my life." Aleksandr had little literary education and read few western novels, an .....
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