TERM PAPERS ON BIOGRAPHIES
A Portrait of
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington is considered to
be one of the greatest figures in the history of American music. Edward
Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born in Washington D.C. on April 29, 1899.
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A
Man and His Guns
The Colt six shooter will always be a legend to many fighting men.
Whether you
know it as an accurate, cowboy, Texas Ranger, gun-slinging, out West,
corral gun, or as a
little protection, the Peacemaker by Samuel Colt and Samuel Colt will
never be forgotten.
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David Letterman
David Letterman grew up in a small town in eastern Indiana. He was born
to Joseph and Dorothy Letterman. After reading the novel, "David
Letterman: On Stage and Off" by Rosemarie Lennon, I have learned about
all his struggles and joys. Because of this book, I feel sorry towards
one of the funniest people on Earth, David Letterman. I also admire him
for his good acts and abilities.
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A
Biographical Report on Thomas Fitzsimons
Thomas Fitzsimons, or Fitzsimmons as his last name was
sometimes spelled, was born during 1741 and died on August 26, 1811.
Originally from Ireland, as young man he immigrated to Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania to start a career as a merchant. On November 23, 1761,
he married Catharine Meade. A few months later, with his brother-in-law, he formed an extensive mercantile and commercial business which
traded chiefly with the West India Islands. In 1782 Fitzsimons was
elected to the congress created by the Articles of Confederation.
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A QUEEN
ADORED: ENGLAND'S ELIZABETH II
Countess of Longford, Elizabeth Pakenham, was born in London England in
1906. She attended Lady Margaret Hall and Oxford University where she
studied classical history and philosophy. She later married Oxford
professor and politician, the seventh Earl of Longford in 1931, with
whom she had eight children. She worked as a tutor from 1930-36 in the
Worker's Educational Association, and was a member of the Paddington and
St. Pomcras Rent Tribunal from 1946-51. She was also a Labour party
candidate for Cheltenham, and later for the City of Oxford. After both
campaigns proved unsuccessful, Longford began her career as a writer in
1954, where she concentrated on the topic of parenting. She later turned
her focus to British history, and became recognized for her talent as a
biographer. She was awarded the James Tait Memorial Prize for best
biography in 1964 for Victoria R.I. Longford claimed the Yorkshire Post
Book of the Year Award twice with Wellington,1969, and The Royal House
of Windsor, Winston Churchill in 1974. It is with this same thoroughness
and true human interest that she captures the life of England's reigning
monarch in The Queen; The Life of Elizabeth II.
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A
Book Report on Anne Sullivan Macy
The book I chose to read is called The Touch of Magic written by Lorena
A. Hickok. The story was about Anne Sullivan Macy, Helen Keller’s
wonderful teacher. I had never heard of Anne before I read this book,
but while looking in the library my mom explained to me who she was and
she seemed like she would be an interesting person to do it on. I was
right.
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Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was a unique women
because she had an education and
an interest in politics. She learned how to read and write and
enjoyed poems most. She was also very resourceful by helping her
husband on difficult problems.
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Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. Born in a
log cabin in the backwoods, Lincoln was almost entirely self-educated.
In 1831 he settled in New Salem, Ill., and worked as a storekeeper,
surveyor, and postmaster while studying law. The story of his brief love
affair there with Anne Rutledge is now discredited. In 1834 he was
elected to the state legislature, and in 1836 he became a lawyer. He
served one term (1847–49) in Congress as a Whig; in 1855 he sought to
become a senator but failed. In 1856 he joined the new Republican Party.
He ran again in 1858 for the Senate against Stephen A. Douglas, and in a
spirited campaign he and Douglas engaged in seven debates. Lincoln was
not an abolitionist, but he regarded slavery as an evil and opposed its
extension. Although he lost the election, he had by now made a name for
himself, and in 1860 he was nominated by the Republicans for president.
He ran against a divided Democratic party and was elected with a
minority of the popular vote.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20,1889. This was the beginning with
horrible plans for power and control of other people. Some of the things
that Hitler did throughout his life were very cruel things; first of
all, he was a man who loved war and fighting. Second, he was in charge
of putting all of the innocent Jews into Concentration Camps and killing
them. Third, he wanted one dominate race of all the same kind of people.
Fourth, he had a life long obsession with danger. Fifth, he blamed the
Jews for the war debt and sentenced them all to die. So as you can see
already Hitler was a very cruel person.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a very famous Scientist, he was mostly famous for
his theory of Relativity. In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan and
Einstein decided officially to relinquish his German citizenship in
favor of Swiss. In 1895 Einstein failed an examination that would have
allowed him to study for a diploma as an electrical engineer at Zurich.
After attending secondary school at Aarau, Einstein returned (1896) to
the Zurich Polytechnic, graduating (1900) as a secondary school teacher
of mathematics and physics.
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Alfred Binet
The following essay offers both a short biography of Psychologist Alfred
Binet and a present day practical application using the theory from
which Binet developed his Intelligence test.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847. As a child He took after his
grandfather who was an actor who entertained people with his voice.
Alexanders mother, who was deaf, would have people talk to her through
her ear tube, which amplifies speech by talking through a object that
looked like a horn. Alexander choose to talk to his mother by speaking
in low tones very close to her forehead. Alexander thought that his
mother would be able to "hear" him by the vibrations his voice put on
her forehead. Alexander at about the age of 14 and his brother,
Melville, created a contraption that had a fake mouth, tongue, and lungs
that you could force air out of. This contraption could make human-like
sounds. After this Alexander manipulated his dogs vocal cords and mouth
to change growls to words. By the time Alexander was sixteen he was
teaching music at a boys boarding school.
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Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833.(Encarta)
His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges
and buildings in Stockholm. In connection with his construction work
Immanuel Nobel also experimented with different techniques of blasting
rock. Alfred's mother, Andrietta Ahlsell came from a wealthy family. Due
to misfortunes in the construction work caused by the loss of some
barges of building material, Immanuel Nobel was forced into bankruptcy
the same year Alfred Nobel was born. In 1837, Immanuel Nobel left
Stockholm and his family to start a new career in Finland and in Russia.
To support the family, Andrietta Nobel started a grocery store which
provided a modest income. Meanwhile Immanuel Nobel was successful in his
new enterprise in St. Petersburg, Russia. He started a mechanical
workshop which provided equipment for the Russian army and he also
convinced the Tsar and his generals that naval mines could be used to
block enemy naval ships from threatening the city. The naval mines
designed by Immanuel Nobel were simple devices consisting of submerged
wooden casks filled with gun powder. Anchored below the surface of the
Gulf of Finland they effectively deterred the British Royal Navy from
moving into firing range of St. Petersburg during the Crimean war
(1853-1856).
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Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6th, 1809, at Somersby, Lincolnshire,
fourth of twelve children of George and Elizabeth Tennyson. Tennyson,
said to be the best poet of the Victorian era and his poetry will be
discussed in this essay.
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The Nomination of Andrew Jackson
to
the "Presidents Hall of Fame"
Like any hall of fame, its inductees are the best in whatever they do,
from baseball or football to something like being President. If you are
a member of any hall of fame (including the one for the Presidents), it
means that you have done something special or have a certain quality
about yourself that makes you worthy to be in a hall of fame. My nominee
for the Presidents hall of Fame is our seventh President of the United
States, Andrew Jackson. I'll go over his presidency, focusing on both
the highs and the lows of his two terms in office, from 1829-1837. The
issues that I'll focus on are states' rights, nullification, the tariff,
the spoils system, Indian removal and banking policies; these
controversies brought forth strong rivalry over his years of president.
He was known for his iron will and fiery personality, and strong use of
the powers of his office that made his years of presidency to be known
as the "Age of Jackson."
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Andrew Warhola
Never before have I encountered more
intriguing works of art than those done by Andy Warhol. I have been
curious about his life ever since I saw his work in Milwaukee. I saw his
famous work of the Campbell's Soup Can. By viewing this, one can tell he
is not your average artist. I'm sure his life is full of interesting
events that shaped him into who he was. As an artist myself, I would
like to get to know the background of his life. I may then be able to
appreciate his styles and understand why and how his works were created.
His life is as interesting as his artistic masterpieces.
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Aristotle vs. Copernicus
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist, who shared with Plato
the distinction of being the most famous of ancient philosophers.
Aristotle was born at Stagira, in Macedonia, the son of a physician to
the royal court. At the age of 17, he went to Athens to study at Plato's
Academy. He remained there for about 20 years, as a student and then as
a teacher. When Plato died in 347 bc , Aristotle moved to Assos, a city
in Asia Minor, where a friend of his, Hermias (d. 345 bc ), was ruler.
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Babe Ruth is an American hero
Babe Ruth is an American hero. He
transformed baseball from a sport, to a national pastime when it needed
it the most. Coming off of the wake of the Black Socks scandal, baseball
was headed downhill. It had a bad reputation, and interest was waning.
The dead-ball era was dragging on, and there were to few baseball
"purists" left to support it. Baseball was in search of a new audience,
and Babe Ruth handed it to them on a silver platter. Babe Ruth started
the Home run era of baseball. In the dead-ball scores of 2-1 1-0 was the
norm. With the advent of the Home run era, games that averaged 1-2 runs
an inning were common. What once took a couple hits, walks, and a stolen
base to accomplish were being done with the single swing of a bat.
Baseball was now much more enjoyable to watch. Then with the invention
of the radio, millions of people enjoyed listening to it.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was a remarkably
talented man. He started his career as a simple printer apprentice, but
went far beyond the printers shop. He developed products that were far
beyond the time. The Franklin stove for example, for cold winter nights
and bifocal lenses for reading. Franklin tracked storm paths to help
understand the wicked weather endured by the colonies.
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Ben Hogan
Ben Hogan had more
dedication than any athlete today. Throughout his lifeMr.Hogan overcame
a very traumatic childhood, recovered from a nearly fatal head-on
collision with a bus and built a golf equipment empire.
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Benedict Arnold
ARNOLD, Benedict (1741-1801). The
name Benedict Arnold has become a synonym for a traitor to one's
country. In the first years of the American Revolution, however, Arnold
was a brilliant and dashing general, highly respected for his service to
the patriot cause (see Revolution, American).
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Bill Gates
William H. Gates III and His Giant Bill Gates, cofounder of the
Microsoft corporation, holds 30.7 percent of its stock making him one of
the richest people in the United States. He was the marketing and sales
strategist behind many of Microsoft's software deals. Their software
became the industry standard in the early 1980s and has just increased
in distribution as the company has grown, so much that the Federal
government is suggesting that Microsoft has violated Sherman and Clayton
antitrust acts.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (real name Oscar Fingal
O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) was born on
October 16th, 1854 in Dublin. His father, William Robert Wilde, was an
eminent eye
doctor, with an interest in myths and folklore. He was the founder of
the first eye and ear
hospital in Great Britain, as well as the appointed Surgeon Occultist to
the Queen, who
knighted him. His mother, Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde, was a poet who
wrote patriotic
Irish verse under the pen name Speranza, and had a considerable
following. As a
youngster, Wilde was exposed to the brilliant literary talk of the day
at his mother's Dublin
salon.
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Stephen King
Stephen King is a well-known and talented horror/fiction author who has
published over eleven books in the last two decades. His great stories
of horror and fantasy have been enjoyed by kids and adults starting from
his first best-seller, Carrie. King's wit and style of
writing has made him one of the most popular horror story authors today.
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Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the
Black Man
Booker T. Washington was a man beyond words. His perseverance and will
to work were well known throughout the United States. He rose from
slavery, delivering speech after speech expressing his views on how to
uplift America's view of the Negro. He felt that knowledge was power,
not just knowledge of "books", but knowledge of agricultural and
industrial trades. He felt that the Negro would rise to be an equal in
American society through hard work. Washington founded a school on these
principles, and it became the world's leader in agricultural and
industrial education for the Negro. As the world watched him put his
heart and soul into his school, Tuskegee Institute, he gained great
respect from both the white and black communities. Many of the country's
white leaders agreed with his principals, and so he had a great deal of
support. Booker T. Washington was a great man. He put his own needs
aside in order to build the reputation of an entire race. He didn't do
it by accusing and putting blame on others, but instead through hard
work.
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Bruce Lee
This essay is dedicated to Bruce Lee, without a doubt the most famous,
skilled, and
inspiring martial artist that ever lived. Bruce Lee was a Chinese
martial artist and actor whose main style of fighting was Kung-Fu among
many other styles that he practiced.
From all of the things that I've read and seen about Lee, I think that
he was the type of
person that would never give up.
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Buddha
The word Buddha means "enlightened one." It is used today as
a title to the one who has given us more religious beliefs than almost
any other human who lived in this world. However, he was not given
this name at birth; he had to earn it for himself by undergoing long hard hours of meditation and contemplation. Buddha has changed the
lifestyles of many cultures with new, never-before asked questions
that were explained by his search for salvation. He began an entirely
new religion that dared to test the boundaries of reality and go beyond
common knowledge to find the answers of the mysteries of life.
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Buffalo Bill
William Frederick Cody, also known as
Buffalo Bill, was born
into an anti-slavery family. He had a rough childhood, but despite
this hardship he grew up to be an adventurous wild west showman, and
achieve many historical goals.
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Charles Robert Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin was a British
scientist who laid the foundation of modern
evolutionary theory with his views on life development through natural
selection.
He was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on February 12, 1809.
After graduating from the elite school at Shrewsbury in 1825, Darwin
attended the University of Edinburgh where he studied medicine. In 1827
he
dropped out and entered the University of Cambridge in preparation for
becoming
a clergyman of the Church of England. While there, Darwin met two
important
people in his life: Adam Sedgwick, a geologist, and John Stevens Henslow,
a
naturalist. After graduating from Cambridge in 1831, the 22-year-old
Darwin was
taken aboard the English survey ship HMS Beagle, mainly because of
Henslow's
recommendation, as an unpaid naturalist on an expedition around the
world.
When the voyage began, Darwin didn't believe that species change through
time, but he did believe in two prevailing ideas of the time. The first
theory was
that the earth was 6,000 years old and had remained unchanged except for
the
effects of floods and other catastropes. The second was that organisms
were
designed especially for certain habitats and appeared on the earth in
their present
form.
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Charles Dickens
This report will talk about the life
of a famous author, Charles Dickens. It will tell you about his early,
middle, and later years of his life. It will also talk about one of his
great works of literature. In conclusion, this report will show a
comparison of his work to his life. Charles Dickens was born at Landport,
in Portsea, on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the Navy
Pay-Office, and was temporarily on duty in the neighborhood when Charles
was born. His name was John Dickens. He spent time in prison for debts.
But, even when he was free he lacked the money to support his family.
Then, when Charles was two they moved to London.
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Charles Lindbergh
Shortly after Charles Lindbergh landed, he was swarmed by 25, 000
Parisians who carried the wearied pilot on their shoulders. They were
rejoicing that Charles Lindbergh, the American aviator who flew the
first transatlantic flight, had just landed at Le Bourget field in
France. Having just completed what some people called an impossible
feat, he was instantly a well-known international hero. Despite his
pro-German stance during World War II, Charles Lindbergh is also an
American hero. A record of his happiness and success exists in the
material form of his plane hanging in the Smithsonian Institute;
however, much of Lindbergh's life was clouded by turmoil. The life of
Charles Lindbergh though best remembered for his heroic flight across
the Atlantic, was marred by the kidnapping of his baby and his fall from
favor with the American public following his pro-German stance during
the 1930's.
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