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Term Papers on Biographies
James "Jimmy" Earl Carter
Number of words: 273 - Number of pages: 1.... his father died he was "stationed" not too long after that
back in Plains. During this time he became extremely interested and
involved with his community.
He eventually, in 1971 he became the 76th governor of Georgia.
While in office, his fellow governors selected him to serve as a chairman
of the Southern Regional Education Board, the Appalachian Regional
Commission, the Coastal Plains Regional Action Planning Commission, and the
Southern Growth Policies Board.
In 1973 he became the Democratic National Committee campaign
chairman for the 1974 congressional elections. He anounced his candi .....
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Freud And Marx
Number of words: 1110 - Number of pages: 5.... on what the vehicle for these
instincts' corrupting influences are. Freud claimed that tension caused by the
stuggle to repress anti-social instincts eventually was released and caused the
social evils he observed. Marx also saw instincts at work but not the tensions
and Id that Freud saw, Marx simply credited man's greed and the subsequent
oppression of other men as the root to all that was wrong with civilization. It
is interesting to note that both Freud and Marx saw conflict but each traced it
back to sources each was respectively educated in.
Freud was a .....
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Alfred Nobel
Number of words: 469 - Number of pages: 2.... He wanted something that could absorb the nitroglycerin and not still have the same power. He Found that a substance called Kieselguhr. This substance consisted of (diatomeus earth) marine organisms diatoms. This way the explosive could be transported easily and detonated from a safe distance. It saved laves and time. He would name it Dynamite and got a patent for it in 1867.
Throughout his life he had poor health but was not worried about it because he expected many advances in medicine. He once experimented with his theories on blood transfusions. .....
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Harriet Tubman 2
Number of words: 1009 - Number of pages: 4.... sold to settle the estate, Tubman fled to the North and freedom. Her husband remained in Maryland. In 1849 Harriet Tubman moved to Pennsylvania, but returned to Maryland two years later hoping to persuade her husband to come North with her. By this time John Tubman had remarried. Harriet did not marry again until after Tubman's death.
In Pennsylvania, Harriet Tubman joined the abolitionist cause, working to end slavery. She decided to become a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a network of antislavery activists who helped slaves escape from the South. On .....
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George Washington Carver
Number of words: 1134 - Number of pages: 5.... came to hand in order to exist. He supported himself by varied occupations that included general household worker, hotel cook, laundryman, farm laborer, and homesteader. In his late 20s he managed to obtain a high school education in Minneapolis, Kansas, while working as a farmhand. After a university in Kansas refused to admit him because he was black, Carver enrolled at Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, where he studied piano and art, afterward transferring to Iowa State Agricultural College (Ames, Iowa), where he received a bachelor's degree in agricultural s .....
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John Kennedy
Number of words: 2421 - Number of pages: 9.... kids had a one million dollar trust fund set up for them by the time they were born. The environment they were brought up together in was very wholesome and extremely elegant.
On September 12, 1953, John F. Kennedy married Jaqueline Lee Bouvier. Together they had a daughter Caroline in 1957. Later in 1960 they had a son John Junior.
's education process is remarkable. He started out by going to a couple of Public schools in Brookline. He later moved onto Private schools in Riverdale, New York, and Wallingford, Connecticut. In the years 1935 and 1936 John attend .....
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Cyrano De Bergerac
Number of words: 603 - Number of pages: 3.... at least had a woman's
friendship, a gracious presence to soften the harsh loneliness of my life. "
When Cyrano admits, "My heart always timidly hides its self behind my mind," the
reader can instantly relate to this dilemma but it is the fact that Cyrano is
able to overcome it that makes him a hero.
Not only is Cyrano filled with emotion, but he also goes out of his way
to live life to the fullest. Cyrano's introduction to the reader definitely
leaves a lasting impression. Not only does he banish an actor from the theater
for performing poorly, but he proce .....
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James Cook
Number of words: 747 - Number of pages: 3.... between the Earth and the Sun. This was the main
goal of this voyage but cook had been given secret orders to find an unknown
continent in the south pacific. He was told to find it because geographers
believed that it kept the world in balance, however Cook was unable to find it.
In October of 1769 Cook became the first European man to visit New Zealand. In
April of 1770 the Endeavor sailed to Botany Bay on the east coast of Australia.
Cook claimed the entire east coast of Australia for Great Britain. He returned
to England in July of 1771. During this voy .....
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