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Term Papers on Biographies
Rocky Marciano
Number of words: 2772 - Number of pages: 11.... would often go home and do chinups and lift homemade weights until he was totally fatigued."
After supper, "Rocky and his pals often spent hours pummelling a stuffed mail sack that hung from an oak tree in the Marchegiano's back yard....In hot weather, they usually finished their workouts by racing over to Saxton's Spring to get a cold drink of water."
Unfortunately, Rocky's experience of growing up in a multi-ethnic, working-class setting contributed to his involvement in a number of "altercations." Although most were territorial battles that took place at Ja .....
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John Dalton
Number of words: 733 - Number of pages: 3.... continued until the end of his life. It ultimately to contained 200,000 entries of meteorological observations recording the changeable climate of the Lake District in which he lived. In 1793 Dalton published Meteorological Observations and Essays. He then became interested in preparing collections of botanical and insect species. In 1787, he began observations about aurora phenomena--luminous, sometimes coloured displays in the sky caused by electrical disturbances in the atmosphere.
Some of his studies in meteorology led him to conclusions about the origin .....
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Philophers David Hume And Descartes
Number of words: 1473 - Number of pages: 6.... would lay down his foundation of knowledge, and define all that which he knows, was the simple line ‘Cogito ergo sume”; I think, therefor I am. This allowed for his existence. Where this line failed, however, was in the proof or disproof of the external world.
Once Descartes established himself as a “thinking thing”, his attention turned to the external world. Descartes reflects upon his dealing with physical objects, and questions the state of corporeal nature, dealing directly with the senses. Re-stating the fact that Descartes believes that these sens .....
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Shoeless Joe Jackson
Number of words: 1471 - Number of pages: 6.... 3), an astronomical amount of money was needed to make the payoff to all involved, including the baseball players of the White Sox who were participating in the scandal. Before the beginning of the game on that ‘scandalous’ day, Joe Jackson begged the owner of the White Sox; Charles Comiskey to listen to him in regards to the fix of the game that was about to happen. The evidence was proven that Jackson had even asked to be benched for the series to avoid any suspicion of his involvement in the fix. Unfortunately, Comiskey did not listen to Jackson. " .....
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Abraham Of Chaldea
Number of words: 3057 - Number of pages: 12.... relatives, and come into the land that I will
show you." 2
While in Haran, Abram's father died and God spoke to him again saying, "Go
forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father's
house, to the land which I will show you." 3 He obeyed and left Haran
with his brother Nahor's family and his Nephew Lot without really knowing
where he was going. At this time, God did not reveal to him he was going
to Canaan. God only told him "the land which I will show you." 4 When he
did arrive in Canaan, he camped in the plains of Moreh, between t .....
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of words: 288 - Number of pages: 2.... Civil War.
was born in Kentucky. The Lincoln Family then moved to Konob Creek, Kentucky. The farm work was really hard. They moved to Indiana to have more land. There, Abraham’s mom died of poison in the milk. Then they moved back to Kentucky, where Abraham’s dad married Sarah Bush Johnston. Abraham called his stepmother, “My angel mom.”
Then Abraham started working. He was most skilled at clearing forests. He was also really good at making fences. He was good because he was big for his age and could use the ax really well. He was so good that people started calling him, “the rail splinter.” .....
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Babe Ruth
Number of words: 1828 - Number of pages: 7.... store-saloon near the Baltimore water front. Babe was not an only child. He did have a sister named Mary Margaret, also known as Mamie, who was born in 1900. The Ruth's did have six other children, but none of them survived to adulthood. Soon after Mamies birth his father opened his own tavern at 426 West Camden St. The family would later move into an apartment above the bar. George spent the first 7 years of his life running around the Bay area watching street fights and stealing from the shop keepers. It didn't take long before he was known well by l .....
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Robert Edward Lee
Number of words: 486 - Number of pages: 2.... There he was praised for his galantry and
good conduct. In the war with Mexico he was wounded in the Storming of
Chapultepec in 1847. The Mexican war was suposed to be the help that Lee needed
in the experance of commanding troops.
After the Mexican war Lee was assigned to Baltimore in 1848, he was to
supervise the construction of Fort Carrol for nearly four years.
In 1852 the United States military academy at West Point became Lees
home when he was appointed superintendent. During his three year stint he
raised acidemic standards, lengthened the p .....
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