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Term Papers on Biographies
Influences Of Virginia Woolf
Number of words: 1898 - Number of pages: 7.... she felt her mother's disapproval directly related to the quality of her writing. "Virginia Woolf could not bear to reread anything she had written… Mrs. Stephen's rejection of Virginia may have been the paradigm of her failure to meet her own standards" (Bond 39). With the death of her mother Woolf used her novel, To the Lighthouse to "reconstruct and preserve" the memories that still remained. According to Woolf, "the character of Mrs. Ramsey in To the Lighthouse was modeled entirely upon that of her mother" (Bond 27). This helped Virginia in her .....
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Ray Bradbury: Literary Influences
Number of words: 1044 - Number of pages: 4.... After moving to Tucson, Arizona Bradbury got a job a
local radio station because of his experience in Waukegan as an amateur
magician. “‘I was on the radio every Saturday night reading comic book
strips to the kiddies and being paid in free movie tickets, to local cinema,
where I saw ‘The Mummy,' ‘The Murders in the Wax Museum,' ‘Dracula' ...and ‘
King Kong.'” (Johnson 2). In reference to his one year in Tucson Arizona,
Bradbury recalls “‘It was one of the greatest years of my life because I
was acting and singing in operettas and writing, beginning to writ .....
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Charles Darwin
Number of words: 1989 - Number of pages: 8.... a mutual ancestor that is now extinct. It's not
evolution but the theory of natural selection and the evidence he collected to
prove to fellow scientists, peers, students, and most importantly the masses of
public and the church that were at the heart of Darwin's contribution to
biological science.
Charles Darwin did not invent the concept of evolution. A number of prominent
scientists and other thinkers during the eighteenth century and the first half
of the nineteenth century (among them Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus
Darwin) had offered detailed t .....
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William Tecumseh Sherman
Number of words: 1361 - Number of pages: 5.... partner in a bank there.
Prior to the outbreak of hostilities between the North and the South, was Superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary and Military Academy at Alexandria, Louisiana. After the war, the school moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana and became Louisiana State University (LSU). Talk of the secession from the Union was rampant. On January 18, 1861, Sherman resigned his position stating that he preferred to maintain his allegiance to the Constitution as long as a fragment of it survived. On the 25th of February, Sherman left Louisiana and returned .....
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Adam Sandler
Number of words: 402 - Number of pages: 2.... His performances caused an article to be posted in the L.A. Times, which said that he was “the most talentless, juvenile, and offensive of the current cast…” Obviously, not everyone felt this way because he continued to get jobs in the entertainment field. Adam’s early career stretched to different areas, but he was really discovered during his first season on Saturday Night Live (“Celeb-Site’). Adam also worked on productions other than sitcoms, like movies. In fact, Adam has made many movies throughout h .....
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Billy Sunday
Number of words: 2343 - Number of pages: 9.... were confident that this rural-breed preacher was God’s mouthpiece, calling Americans to repentance. Sunday’s critics said that at best he was a well-meaning buffoon whose sermons vulgarized and trivialized the Christian message and at worst he was a disgrace to the name of Christ (Dorsett 2).
There are elements of truth in both of these views. He was often guilty of oversimplifying biblical truths, and at times he spoke more out of ignorance than a heavenly viewpoint. He was also a man with numerous flaws. He spoiled his children, giving them e .....
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Who Was Adolf Hitler?
Number of words: 819 - Number of pages: 3.... gassed near the end of the war. During this time, he served as an intelligence agent for the military authorities, in the course of which he attended a meeting of the tiny German Workers Party in 1919. He later joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, later called the Nazi Party. In 1920, the 25 Points of the Nazi Party were proclaimed, one of which called for the removal of the Jews from German society.
The Nazis tried to seize power by force in November 1923 (called the Beer Hall Putsch), but we .....
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Saint John Bosco
Number of words: 647 - Number of pages: 3.... Also, he would speak to children about God, and even some adults occasionally. The seminary school that Bosco entered was Chieri at the age of 16. Father Cafasso helped John through seminary school because he could not afford it, neither could his mother help him pay for it.
John became a priest in 1841 at the age of 26, and was named Don Bosco, which means Father Bosco. After Sunday Mass's he would have a catechism class
which would teach young people about God. After a while the catechism class turned into a school were boys could receive a real educat .....
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