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Term Papers on Biographies
Henry Ford
Number of words: 2304 - Number of pages: 9.... trends he followed.
It is hard to summarize the era in which lived. Chiefly because he changed the entire tone of the era in which he lived, making his career a transitional period. We will begin with the world before Ford.
In the mid-latter part of the eighteen hundreds (c.1860-c.1895), the United States was still tending its wounds from the aftermath of the civil war. It was a time of rebuilding, reorganizing and a time to accept change. The country’s figureheads were also changing. When the most respected of men were generals, soldiers, president .....
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Kobe Bryant
Number of words: 5263 - Number of pages: 20.... Laker coach Del Harris and his point guard, Nick Van Exel. In Game Four, Van Exel had been pulled by Harris for waving off the coach's instructions, screaming vulgarities as Harris waved an admonishing finger in his face. Tonight, however, Van Exel is having a hell of a game, hitting key jumpers from all over the floor. His hot hand has saved them in clutch situations before, but now the ball is about to go to someone else for the game-winning shot.
The 18-year-old rookie, . The Golden Child.
A lanky, charismatic, 6-6, 200-pound prodigy, Kobe had led little .....
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BF Skinner
Number of words: 564 - Number of pages: 3.... Skinner considered himself to be a radical behaviorist and focused much of his research on the learning process. Through his research Skinner’s main contribution to the field of education would be his behavioral work with the theory of operant conditioning. Skinner himself says that, “When I am asked what I regard as my most important contribution, I always say the original experimental analysis of operant behavior and its subsequent extension to more complex cases.” (Bigge, Shermis. 95)
According to Skinner operant conditioning, like all psychological p .....
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Number of words: 1595 - Number of pages: 6.... that would serve the interests of his elements. Kennedy usually backed bills sponsored by his party but would sometimes show independence by voting with the Republicans. He also joined with the Republicans in criticizing the Truman administration’s handling of China. In China, the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, which had been supported by the United States, was unable to withstand the advance of Communist forces under Mao Zedong. By the end of 1949 government troops had been overwhelmingly defeated, and Chiang led his forces into exile on Ta .....
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Frederick Banting
Number of words: 329 - Number of pages: 2.... with John J.R. Macleod, head of the physiology department at the University of Toronto, experiment with dogs in the discovery of insulin, finally in 1922 they succeed in discovering insulin. (The extract was then purified further and tested in a human on January 11, 1922.) They were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine/physiology in 1923. They were the first Canadians to ever receive that honor. Banting initially threatened to refuse the award because he felt Charles Best's work as research assistant had been vital to the project and that he should be include .....
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William Shakespeare
Number of words: 990 - Number of pages: 4.... period up to 1594, (2) the years from 1594 to 1600, (3) the years from 1600 to 1608, and (4) the period after 1608.
Shakespeare's early plays, unlike his more mature work, are characterized to a degree by formal and rather obvious construction and by stylized verse. His earliest dramatic works are possibly four plays dramatizing the English civil strife of the 15th century. These plays, Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III (1590-1592) and Richard III (1593), deal with evil resulting from weak leadership and from national disunity. Shakespeare's comedies of the first pe .....
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Thomas Aquinas
Number of words: 558 - Number of pages: 3.... the influence of the
Dominicans, an order of mendicant preaching friars. Thomas decided to join
the order, even though his family opposed the idea. His brothers captured
him and imprisoned him at Roccasecca. There he was imprisoned for nearly
two years. His parents, brothers, and sisters attempted to force him to
change his mind, they threatened him and forced temptations on him, but he
eventually escaped and joined the Dominicans.
The Dominicans then sent Thomas to Cologne to study with Albertus
Magnus, the smartest man of the time. In 1252 Thomas was i .....
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Ponce De Leon
Number of words: 490 - Number of pages: 2.... arrived in Puerto Rico he became the governor of the island. This caused him to become very wealthy, and the most powerful man on the island, who only received orders from the kind himself!
In 1511 King Ferdinand ordered replaced as governor by Diego Columbus. Life for would have been difficult if he stayed in Puerto Rico since much of his power over the island was taken when his rank was taken away. It was at this time that began his search for the Fountain of Youth. Many historians feel it was not only to discover the LENGENDARY waters, but also for the go .....
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