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Term Papers on Biographies
Vincent Van Gogh
Number of words: 1503 - Number of pages: 6.... in love with the girl, but evidently did not bother to tell her. When Vincent shared his feelings with Ursula, he discovered that the thought of loving him had never entered her head.
In 1875 Uncle Cent arranged for him to be transferred to the Paris office in the hope that his spirits might be revived by a change in scene. Here he became increasingly careless in his work. He was given three months notice, and then six years of training as an art dealer came to an end. He was almost twenty-three, unemployed, and had not the slightest idea what he would do .....
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of words: 515 - Number of pages: 2.... where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers." In his speech Dr. King hopes to persuade the "Great America" to abolish all racial prejudice.
Dr. King uses many different but effective methods to convince the reader of his point. King uses the words from an old Negro spiritual, the famous line, "Free at last! free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!" (505) This phrase serves as an exclamation point on an emotional speech that is sure to de .....
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Adolph Hitlers' Rise To Power
Number of words: 1039 - Number of pages: 4.... or damage a cause; also the ideas or allegations spread for a purpose". Hitler used propaganda as his tool to further his ideas and help him gain the backing of the people in the country. The form of propaganda he used, and was successful in using, were his words. Hitler made many speeches, but the one speech that was a famous one, was his final speech at his trial for treason. In this speech he gave his views and opinions on the events preceding the trial. This is an excerpt from his speech: "...I aimed from the first to....become the destroyer of Marxism... .....
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The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, And Melville
Number of words: 1687 - Number of pages: 7.... became intertwined. The loss of many so-called loves and jobs placed him in a world where only him and his writing existed. It is no wonder that his death still be so feared. The way he wrote of it will allow him to haunt the earth forever. Ironically enough his rationalistic views still created some reality and scientific truth within his writing. For example, in The Fall of the House of Usher the main character suffers from a strange mental disorder that was actually a real proven case. No matter how much the critics lash out at Poe’s life his writ .....
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Dwight D Eisenhower
Number of words: 432 - Number of pages: 2.... 4, 1952. He was able to use the catchy slogan “I Like Ike” to help him win. He was able to serve two terms as President of the United States from January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961. He saw the end of the Korean War, and promoted “Atoms for Peace” and dealt with several crisis in Lebanon, Suez, Berlin, and Hungary in Foreign affairs. He helped make Alaska and Hawaii become states. Throughout his presidency he was very concerned with civil rights issues and the interstate highway system in domestic affairs. Between his two terms he suffered a heart attack .....
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Mohandas Ghandi
Number of words: 265 - Number of pages: 1.... analogous to what Christ did to open the minds of the people around him. With all that can be said about Ghandi, I would like to focus upon his economic impact in Britain and India.
Britain’s self-glorifying empire building was a great hindrance on the Indian economy. Britain employed the “Mother Country” system in Indian. This is where the raw materials of the colony (i.e. India) are harvested and shipped to the Mother country (i.e. Britain.) The raw materials are manufactured into goods that are shipped back to the colony where they can be sold for a great profit. Britain had a firm grasp on the co .....
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Malcolm X
Number of words: 327 - Number of pages: 2.... Malcolm was released in 1952, he joined a black Muslim temple in Detroit, and took the name . In 1958 he married Betty Shabazz, and they had six daughters.
By the early 1960s, the Nation of Islam had become well known and Malcolm was their most prominent spokesperson. In 1963, however, the black Muslims silenced Malcolm for his remark that the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy was like "the chickens coming home to roost." In the following year, Malcolm broke with the Nation of Islam and formed a secular black nationalist group, the Organ .....
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Niels Bohr
Number of words: 301 - Number of pages: 2.... atom. In the winter of 1939, Bohr worked at Princeton University, were he developed the theory of atomic fission that led to the first atomic bomb, and then returned to Denmark in 1940. In 1943, he was still in Copenhagen when the Nazis occupied his country. He left Copenhagen, because of his Jewish background, and went to Los Alamos, North Mexico, were he helped scientist who were working on the first atomic bomb. Before he left, he dissolved his golden Nobel medal in acid. In 1945, after the war was over, he returned to his country, and precipitated the gold f .....
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