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Term Papers on Biographies
Samuel Clemens
Number of words: 629 - Number of pages: 3.... Since all this action was going on all the time, that opened a big door to the beginning of Samuel’s stories. It provided a huge source of literary material. Shortly after the death of his father in 1847, he ended the brief period of his schooling to become a printer’s apprentice. Like many nineteenth century authors, he was preparing for his writing career later in life. Working as a Printer’s apprentice he got practice as a typesetter and miscellaneous reading. The first thing Samuel wrote as a used piece was a few skits for his brothers Orion’s Hannibal n .....
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Louis Leakey
Number of words: 2457 - Number of pages: 9.... reading about the arrowheads and axeheads created by these people, Louis began collecting and classifying as many pieces of obsidian flakes and tools as he could find. After confirmation by a prehistory expert that these were truly stone tools of ancient Africans, truly links to the past, Leakey knew that the rest of his life would be devoted towards discovering the secrets of the prehistoric ancestors of humankind.
Despite not being accustomed to the school structure back in England and the accompanying problems he had in public school, Leakey was accepted .....
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Number of words: 1734 - Number of pages: 7.... Arthur and his brothers and sisters, and also worked and cleaned the house everyday.2 Doyle's early education started when he was about seven years old. His mother spent lots of time reading with him and tutoring him, because this is what she thought he needed to become a cultured gentleman. When Doyle was ten years old he left home and went to the Jesuit Preparatory school named Hodder House. This was a boarding school for young boys. Arthur hated this school. Doyle once stated that Hodder House "was a little more pleasant than being confined in a prison." .....
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Similarities Between Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
Number of words: 412 - Number of pages: 2.... was passed on to several relatives after his parents divorced when he
was eight years old. For some time he even lived under a bridge and was
hospitalized for a heroin addiction. It was not entirely unexpected that
Cobain committed suicide. He had had entered a coma by overdosing on a
mixture of champagne and tranquilizers on March 4. Also, Kurt's family
history showed that two of his father's uncles committed suicide, along
with the fact that there were a lot of dysfunctional marriages and
alcoholism present. During a concert, Kurt would jerk around as .....
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Number of words: 603 - Number of pages: 3.... look in the mourning."
"I helped him by encouraging his urge to write adventures. It was also
his best work. He did not shine in his other subjects. It was the pride in his
literary work that put him in his real bent." Recalls his St. Paul Academy
teacher. From that prestigious school he then traveled and began attendance in
Princeton University. Not a promising student he was often late to his classes.
His excuse was once "Sir-it's absurd to expect me to be on time. I'm a
genius!!!" Though the "Princeton years" we not his most memorable, it provided
an outle .....
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Hitler's Ambitions
Number of words: 2475 - Number of pages: 9.... from Austrian civil service and retired from the army. Another event happened that year, Hitler’s half-brother, Alois Jr., ran away from home because of the constant beatings he had received from his father. Now Hitler’s father’s abuse was put upon Hitler (Flood, p6-7). When the time to choose a secondary school came, Hitler wanted to go to a classical school but was forced to go to a technical school by his father. In secondary school Hitler’s grades dropped dramatically (Heyes p21). Hitler was however very interested in German Nationalism and figures s .....
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William Shakespeare
Number of words: 448 - Number of pages: 2.... troupe became the Lord Chamberlain's Men set up on a servant co-op structure.
Requirements for actors:
1. loud voice 2. sing and play instruments 3. good swordsman 4. good memories
During this time he wrote many comedies: Comedy of Errors first of any status.
Histories were written in support of the gov't. This is where they were
receiving much of the financial support so they wanted to keep the gov't (Queen)
happy. W.S. was a major stockholder in the theater.
1597-bought New Place in Stratford(2nd largest house)
1599-Lord Chamberlain's Me .....
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B. F. Skinner
Number of words: 1070 - Number of pages: 4.... his failing
eyesight made it hard for him to read the music. In college, he was very
independent, and sometimes even a prankster. He graduated from Hamilton College
in 1926 and later received his P.h.D. in psychology at Harvard University.
(Ulrich, 1997)
John B. Watson
John Broadus Watson was born in Greenville, South Carolina on January
9th 1878. He went to college at Furman University and the University of Chicago.
Watson created "Psychological behaviorism" in 1912. He told the world about his
theory of behaviorism in a 1913 paper entitled ``Psychology a .....
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