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Term Papers on Biographies
Sir Thomas More
Number of words: 667 - Number of pages: 3.... When Woolsey says "...that thing out there is at least fertile, Thomas". More shows that he is against the divorce by saying "But she's not his wife". More again shows his beliefs that a dispensation was given so that Henry could marry Catherine and Thomas knows that the Pope will not give a dispensation on a dispensation. More believes that the Pope should make the decision about the divorce. And More chooses to go against the divorce until the pope is approached.
Thomas More chooses not to sign the oath to the Act of Succession. When Thomas Cromwell asks .....
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William Shakespeare And His Life
Number of words: 469 - Number of pages: 2.... today. Shakespeare never thought that people would be studying his work. He wrote his play for entertainment and would be amazed at how much we learned from his work.
Shakespeare also had a major impact on the English drama. He changed it from the stiff formalism of the Greco-Roman tradition to something more realistic. His plays are more dynamic than the medieval morality plays that he use to watch as a child. However, they are more sophisticated than the plays written by his contemporaries. His most popular plays were his first four history pieces, He .....
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Sparta: Uncultured Discipline
Number of words: 1708 - Number of pages: 7.... remarkable victories against the Myceneans was iron, the
Dorians knew how to forge iron weapons which completely outclassed the bronze
weaponry of the Myceneans (Carl Roebuck, 1966, p. 119).
In Mycenean times Sparta had been a important city, but after Dorian
conquest it sank to insignificance. Over the next three hundred years it
recovered and began to prosper. By 800 B.C it ruled over the region called
Lacedonia.
Up to about 650 B.C Sparta was pretty much like every other Greek state.
They had music, art and poetry. During the seventh century, a musician n .....
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Encyclopedia Extract
Number of words: 332 - Number of pages: 2.... their son was born, whom they nicknamed Pen.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning used many different emotions when writing her poetry. In the collection, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1849), Elizabeth let the love for her husband speak. The whole collection is forty-four poems written to Robert Browning. Aurora Leigh (1857) is yet another example of love being prominent in Elizabeth’s writings. Another element in Elizabeth’s writings is statements about faith and her illness/death. In the closing line of her “most famous sonnet” (p.656) Sonn .....
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Arthur Miller-BIO
Number of words: 1648 - Number of pages: 6.... Playing for Time. Death of a Salesman was not Arthur Miller's first success on Broadway. His first plays were Honors at Dawn (1936) and No Villain (1937) which won the University of Michigan Hopwood Awards. His Death of a Salesman won the Pulitzer prize in 1949, which was another proof of his excellent talent. Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953 during the McCarthy period when Americans were accusing each other of Pro-Communist beliefs. Many of Miller's friends were being attacked as Communists and in 1956, Miller himself was brought before the House of Un-Americ .....
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Michael Jordan 3
Number of words: 983 - Number of pages: 4.... best player alive today. Michael then took practicing basketball to another level. He played his brother Larry whenever he could. Michael never expected what would come in the near future.
Michael Jordan went to the University of North Carolina as a basketball recruit. Even though Jordan at 6'5" was a man with potential, he still studied very hard in an attempt to get a good education, while competing in sports. Mike wasn't expected to be a star of the Tar Heels, since they had players such as James Worthy, Sam Perkins, and Al Wood. But, by the end of the
1981-8 .....
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Louis XIV
Number of words: 829 - Number of pages: 4.... poor or needy. The
palace of Versailles was controversial, but in high insight, it is clear
that Louis XIV made a sound decision in its erection.
As Louis XIV took the throne, he was faced with several problems. He
knew that he did not want to reside and rule in Paris, so against the will
of his advisors he chose a hunting chateau as the site of his new palace.
He also knew from history that the nobles of his domain had in the past
and would continue to cause trouble in the form of uprisings and other
conflicts. Louis XIV sought absolute power, and he knew .....
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John Wilkes Booth
Number of words: 2111 - Number of pages: 8.... mind too. ( this might
sound a little bit weird, but she's a " fortune teller") This might have
set a tick in his psychotic mind that maybe he thought that he could do
anything he wanted to do. ( Dort, Aaron)
Francis Wilson, who wrote a biography of Booth in 1929, stated that
Booth opened his stage career in 1855 at the Charles Street Theatre in
Baltimore. He began performing on a regular basis two years later. Once
Booth started upon his acting career, he wanted the comparisons between
himself and his late father to Cease. It was a common practice of thea .....
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