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Term Papers on Biographies
Marilyn Monroe: Suicide Or Murder
Number of words: 2608 - Number of pages: 10.... about her
new marriage to Joe Dimaggio on August 1, just three days before her death,
would commit suicide.
The coroner said “Marilyn was laughing and chatting on the
telephone with Joe's Dimaggio's son and not thirty minutes later after this
happy conversation, Marilyn Monroe was dying…” This was one of the
strangest facts about the case. (Brown, and Barham)
Marilyn Monroe did have somewhat of a drug problem, as told by
everyone who knew her including her stepsister. The drugs and anti-
depressants Marilyn took mainly consisted of sleeping p .....
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Peter The Great
Number of words: 854 - Number of pages: 4.... need to navigate a ship. Peter became very interested in nautical things. Peter soon left Russia and plundered Europe for knowledge, inventions, and great minds to bring back to Russia. His voyage ended in the rich and luxurious city of Amsterdam. Peter began to study Holland’s ships and navy, and hired ship builders to go home with him, and help him prepare a sea power. Peter, wanting to really learn how to build a ship, signed on as a carpenter to hide his true identity, because he wanted to work without that being a distraction. After 4 months, Peter h .....
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Eliot Ness
Number of words: 2931 - Number of pages: 11.... a comfortable middle class life for their family by very hard work and practical living. Over the years, Peter had made his wholesale bakery into a thriving business. It is supposed that Ness gained his father’s work-aholic traits that drove him so hard later in life. Eliot was the youngest of the five Ness children. There was a huge age difference between Eliot and his siblings. His brother whom was closest to Eliot in age was none the less thirteen years older. Hence Eliot received a great
deal of individual attention from his parents who were well into middle .....
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Pancho Villa
Number of words: 1428 - Number of pages: 6.... the United States, Villa escaped to the United States. President Woodrow Wilson’s military advisor, General Scott, argued that the U.S. should support , because he would become "the George Washington of Mexico." In August of 1914, General Pershing met Villa for the first time in El Paso, Texas and was impressed with his cooperative composure; then came to the conclusion that the U.S. would acknowledge him as Mexico’s leader. Following the assassination of Madero and the assumption of power by Huerta in 1913, he returned to join the opposition under the revoluti .....
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St. John The Evangelist
Number of words: 1190 - Number of pages: 5.... who understood and studied how a person should live, how should he behave, and how moral his life should be. He was one of the first to follow those holy principles, and show them to others. One of his greatest challenges was writing a gospel.
is mostly known for writing a fourth Gospel. If you would ask any person to list his challenges almost everybody would tell you that he wrote a gospel. It is believed that he wrote a Gospel at the year of 96, after the death of Domitian. His object in writing it he tells us himself: “These things are written that you m .....
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Roy Lichtenstein
Number of words: 864 - Number of pages: 4.... in 1963. Later that year Roy moved to New York where he was commissioned by the architect Philip Johnson to produce large format painting for the New York State Pavilion at the World’s Fair in New York. This year he also had his first one-man exhibition in Europe at the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris. He was given his first American retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Cleveland in 1963 also. Other exhibitions where Roy was represented in the sixties was the Venice Biennale in 1966, 1968, and 1970. In 1967-1968 he had a retrospective at the Pa .....
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Notes On Emily Murphy
Number of words: 904 - Number of pages: 4.... (( p. 68 )) committee on legislation and argued
with such success that the bill, when passed, was substantially as she
wished. It was on this occasion that Mrs. Murphy, most hapily married to
the Reverend Arthur Murphy, received a letter from a grateful but
misinformed pioneer woman who wrote:"God bless you, Janey Canuck, I have a
troublesome husband too."
((p. 71))
Not content with vague anticipation of benefits to be conferred in some
shadowy future, Mrs. McClung and Mrs. Murphy joind forces to call upon
Sifton on March 2 and ask that a suffrage bill be i .....
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Number of words: 796 - Number of pages: 3.... of his college career in 1915,Eisenhower graduated number 61 out of a class of 164 (Hargrove 38). Eisenhower's military journey began during World War One. When he graduated college World War One was still raging through Europe. Instead of fighting in the infantry overseas Eisenhower was to stay home on U.Sbases (Hargrove 41). After being promoted to a Lieutenant Colonel, Eisenhower was sent to Camp Colt to train soldiers about tanks (Hargrove42). Then in the year 1933 he became one of the important advisers toGeneral Douglas MacArther (Hargrove 45). Dwight Da .....
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