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Term Papers on Biographies
Jailhouse Rock: The Story Of Elvis Aaron Presley
Number of words: 1392 - Number of pages: 6.... and his family had to move to Memphis, Tennessee.
Elvis was raised in a religious home. He grew up surrounded by gospel music. As a boy he sang with his local Assembly of God church choir, which emulated the style of African-American psalm singing. At age ten Elvis placed first in a school singing contest. He then began to teach himself the rudiments of the guitar.
In 1949, Elvis was enrolled in the L.C. Humes High School in Memphis. The total combined salary of both his parents was a mere $35 dollars a week, but they managed. In 1953, Elvis graduated fro .....
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Frank McCourt
Number of words: 668 - Number of pages: 3.... money to go to America and break free from his depressing childhood. In my opinion, the theme of this book is that no matter how bad things seem to be, anyone can survive and become successful through perseverance and determination. For example, Frank grew up in just about the worst environment possible but was determined enough to get himself to America and eventually become the author of a Pulitzer Prize winning novel! Frank achieved his goals by taking any extra jobs that he could find and saving every penny possible until he could finally afford his passa .....
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Warren Harding
Number of words: 290 - Number of pages: 2.... a small town paper, the Marion Star. In five years the star became the foremost paper and most successful small town papers in Ohio. In 1914 the Star was earning him an income of $20,000 a year. He also was elected to the U.S. Senate. He was elected as a Republican to the state Senate in 1899 and he became one of the most popular senators in Columbus.
Harding's Republicanism and his vibrant speaking voice, and his willingness to let the machine bosses set policies, led him far in Ohio politics. He served in the state Senate and as Lieutenant Governor, and he was a really successful Governor. H .....
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Hitler - A Man Of Too Much Power
Number of words: 736 - Number of pages: 3.... joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, later called the Nazi convicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time, he began to write Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), which later became the second Bible in Nazi Germany. Hitler resolved to achieve power legally, and after a series of events too numerous to detail here, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President von Hindenburg on January 30, 1933.
Over the next 6 years, Hitler undertook a series of measur .....
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Isaac Newton
Number of words: 1267 - Number of pages: 5.... the other
boy thoroughly. Isaac determined to beat the bully in school work as well.
Soon Isaac was at the head of his class.
In 1656 Newton's stepfather died. His mother returned to
Woolsthorpe to take care of the farm left by Newton's father. But she could
not manage the farm by herself. Isaac was taken out of school and brought
home to help her.
As a farmer, Newton proved to be a dismal failure. He neglected the
necessary chores and thought only of books to study and mechanical things
to make. There are many stories about him at that time tha .....
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Virginia Woolf
Number of words: 1165 - Number of pages: 5.... could be broken.
Woolf starts her essay by explaining to her audience what she could have talked about and what other things her topic might mean, she is letting the audience be drawn in to her consciousness. Woolf wants them to know why she decided to use this topic instead of some less meaningful one, that may have made for a good speech but would not have really covered the full scope of the problem. Woolf said:
They just might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to the Brontes and a sketch of Haworth Pars .....
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Lucille Ball
Number of words: 1128 - Number of pages: 5.... through nineteen episodes of the original sitcom as a ditzy housewife" (Biography 1). Her show was so successful and popular that, "the 1953 episode on which she gave birth to 'Little Ricky'. . . was said to attract more viewers than the concurrent inauguration of President Dwight D Eisenhower" (Biography 1). Her impact was so great that even today, everyone knows that "Lucy Ricardo, of course, achieved eternal life" (Brady 342).
Prior to her television success, she also had much success on her radio show My Favorite Husband. The show was a comedy bas .....
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Saint Francis Of Assisi
Number of words: 1670 - Number of pages: 7.... heard a voice telling him to go into the world and to possess nothing, but do good everywhere.
Doing just that, Francis found himself preaching in Assisi later in the year. He gathered about him twelve disciples who became the brothers of the First Order of Franciscans, with Francis as their superior. Francis later accepted a young woman, Clare, into The Franciscan Order. She went on to establish the Order of the Poor Ladies, which later became known as the Second Order of Franciscans. Francis attempted to travel to the Holy Land in 1212, but did not make i .....
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