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Term Papers on Biographies
Biography Of Thomas Edison
Number of words: 473 - Number of pages: 2.... him into the car. From that day forward, Edison was deaf.
But he said he did not mind. Being deaf helped him to work on his
inventions in quiet and without being disturbed.
At sixteen, Edison became a telegraph operator.He learned the Morse
code and spent his spare time taking apart and putting together telegraphs.
He had many many jobs, but most of his employers became upset with his
habit about forgetting about his job and working on his own experiments.
At twenty one, he repaired a broken down stock ticker machine. A business
named Laws than hired him. .....
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Gregory Efimovich Rasputin
Number of words: 723 - Number of pages: 3.... her son, Alex, the heir to the throne, when he had a bleeding crisis. Alexandra put her faith into Rasputin, she became dependent on him, and she saw no wrong in the his ways. Many of the Orthodox clergymen became skeptical of the monk and his close involvement with the imperial family, the Romanov family members of Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich also became concerned and wanted him to be sent away. With many entreaties from Tsars Nicholas’s family to send the monk away, Nicholas was so in love with Alexandra , that he could not send the monk away for fear o .....
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Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
Number of words: 1414 - Number of pages: 6.... US dollar/imperialism. Yet although his parents, notably his mother, were anti-Peronist activists, he took no part in revolutionary student movements and showed little interest in politics at Buenos Aires University (1947) where he studied medicine, first with a view to understanding his own disease, later becoming more interested in leprosy. In 1949 he made the first of his long journeys, exploring northern Argentina on a bicycle, and for the first time coming into contact with the very poor and the remnants of the Indian tribes. In 1951, after taking his penu .....
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Kurt Cobain
Number of words: 925 - Number of pages: 4.... living with his mother and father in Aberdeen, Washington. But the happiness, soon interrupted in 1975 when Kurt's parents got divorced. Kurt was ashamed. He longed for the typical "Brady Bunch" family, but instead he lived in a trailor with his mother. In result of this Cobain became extremely anti-social, he had few friends, and was beat up alot.
On his 14th birthday Kurt recieved his first guitar. He had been writing poetry since he was 13, so he started using his poetry to write songs. He was in several bands throughout highschool, some of them were named F .....
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Galileo Gallilei
Number of words: 1001 - Number of pages: 4.... to confront his son with the knowledge that he had been "neglecting his studies." The grand duke’s mathematician intervened and persuaded Vincenzio to allow Galileo to study mathematics on the condition that after one year, all of Galileo’s support would be cut off and he was on his own.
In the spring of 1585, Galileo skipped his final exams and left the university without a degree. He began finding work as a math tutor. In November of 1589, Galileo found a position as a professor of mathematics at the university of Pisa, the same one he had .....
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Albert Camus
Number of words: 340 - Number of pages: 2.... of life. He
believed that this “absurdity” is the “failure of the world to satisfy the human
demand that it provide a basis for human values-for our personal ideals and for
our judgments of right and wrong.” He maintained that suicide cannot be
regarded as an adequate response to the “experience of absurdity.” He says that
suicide is an admission of incapacity, and such an admission is inconsistent
with that human pride to which Camus openly appeals. Camus states, “there is
nothing equal to the spectacle of human pride.”
Furthermore, Camus also dealt with the .....
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Henry T. Ford
Number of words: 1950 - Number of pages: 8.... age he was fascinating my moving mechanical things. Form the young age he was fascinated by watches and clocks. He went around the countryside doing repair work without pay, for him all mattered was to play with the machinery of the watch. From his personal experience on the farm he was fascinated my farm machines that reduced the drudgery of farm chores. We can notice there was a lot of a kid in him, and to go around or making his chores easier he invented his own farm machines. His fascination with machines grew as he grew older. At the age of thirteen, for t .....
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Sammy Davis Jr.
Number of words: 512 - Number of pages: 2.... other, and left. The white artists talked with the audience. It was as if the black artists were not fit to talk to the audience. Sammy changed this at a nightclub in Hollywood. He “touched the audience”. This got him a record deal with Decca.
When Sammy was a rising star, he was driving from Las Vegas to L.A. He had an accident that took away his left eye. This gave him publicity and boosted his career. After this, he converted to Judaism and started to refer to God as “The Cat Upstairs”.
Sammy worked hard. You already know he had many talents. What yo .....
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