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Papers on People and Biographies
The Work Of John Collier
Number of words: 2114 | Number of pages: 8.... asked to finish, the story on their own (Critical
Survey 1169). His subject manner is often the line between logical or
psychological meaning. The subject contains an irony that is well balanced
between an element of horror and humor. His short stories are based on
relationships of the young and old. Collier's characters are hoping to
fulfill their dreams and they do have them fulfilled but only to discov er
they have been dreaming the wrong thing.
"The Chaser" is a story that deals with a man's dream of gaining a woman's
love through a potion. The man wants the love of this woman so badly that
he wants to purchase a potion to .....
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Nelson Mandela
Number of words: 251 | Number of pages: 1.... was adapted
from an article by Jawaharlal Nehru:
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to
pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach
the mountainouss of our desires.
Growing Up
Nelson had a tribal name Rolihlahla. Rolihlahla means one who brings
trouble on his self.
He grew up in Transku territy of South Africa. Qunu, the valleyhe grew p
in, is surrounded by hills that are covered with grass. Nelson was the youngest
out of four kids. He had three sisters and none brothers. He looked after the
cattle and sheep. He would help plow .....
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Life And Times Of Alexander The Great
Number of words: 1643 | Number of pages: 6.... Julius Caesar visited Alexandria, he asked to see the body of the
greatest warrior of all time-Alexander the Great. Such was Alexander's
reputation, able to impress even the powerful Caesar. He was, without a doubt,
one of the most remarkable men that ever walked the face of this Earth. And
this is the story of his life.
The Life and Times of Alexander the Great
The story of Alexander the Great is one of courage, genius, and great
accomplishment; but it is also somewhat of a bittersweet one, ending with his
tragic death during the prime of his life, at thirty-two.
Alexander was born to Philip II of Macedon and .....
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Herbert Hoover
Number of words: 1320 | Number of pages: 5.... London.
Hoover, who as a Quaker passionately believed in peace, was appalled by
the human costs of the war, and he determined to devote his life to public
service. He volunteered to direct the exodus of American tourists from war-
torn Europe and then to head (1915-19) the Commission for Relief in Belgium.
This position brought him public attention as the "great humanitarian," a
well-earned reputation that he lost only after the 1929 Wall Street debacle.
The commission fed 10,000,000 people during the war and left funds for
Belgian postwar reconstruction.
When the United States entered the war in April 1917, Hoover was c .....
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Johann Sabastian Bach
Number of words: 872 | Number of pages: 4.... colleagues the wrong way, and he was embroiled in a number of hot disputes during his short tenure. In 1707, at the age of 22, Bach became fed up with the lousy musical standards of Arnstadt (and the working conditions) and moved on to another organist job, this time at the St. Blasius Church in Muhlhausen. The same year, he married his cousin Maria Barbara Bach.
Again caught up in a running conflict between factions of his church, Bach fled to Weimar after one year in Muhlhausen. In Weimar, he assumed the post of organist and concertmaster in the ducal chapel. He remained in Weimar for nine years, and there he composed his fir .....
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History Of Mozart
Number of words: 918 | Number of pages: 4.... In 1768 he composed his first opera, La Finta Semplice, for Vienna, but intrigues prevented its performance, and it was first presented a year later at Salzburg. In 1769-70, Leopold and Wolfgang undertook a tour through Italy. This first Italian trip culminated in a new opera, Mitridate, re di Ponto, composed for Milan. In two further Italian journeys he wrote two more operas for Milan, Ascanio in Alba (1771) and Lucio Silla (1772).
In 1772, Archbishop von Schrattenbach died, to be succeeded by Hieronymus von Colloredo. The latter, at first sympathetic to the Mozarts, later became irritated by Wolfgang's prolonged absences a .....
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The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
Number of words: 3080 | Number of pages: 12.... then those who snubbed him.
Napoleon attended the Ecole Military School in Paris in 1784 after receiving a scholarship. This is were he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. Napoleon finished his training and joined the French army when he was 16 years old. He was appointed to an artillery regiment , and commissioned as a lieutenant. Once again he was not well liked by his fellow officers because he was short, spoke with an Italian accent, and had little money. Napoleon spent little time with his regiment. He was more concerned with trying to free his home land of Corsica, witch ha .....
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Billy Sunday
Number of words: 1565 | Number of pages: 6.... year contract he prayed this prayer,
"Lord, if I don't get my release by March twenty-fifth, I
will take that as assurance you want me to continue to
play ball; if I get it before that date I will accept that
as evidence you want me to quit playing ball and go into
Christian work."
Billy received his release on March 17. His days of playing professional baseball were over. He took a job as an assistant secretary at the YMCA in Chicago. For the next few years Billy Worked at the YMCA as a preacher and teacher.
Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman was a well-known evangelist in America during the 1890's. Chapman needed an assistant t .....
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Dizzy Gelespie
Number of words: 2871 | Number of pages: 11.... pioneered by saxophonist Charlie Parker, drummer Max Roach, pianist Thelonious Monk and trumpeter "Dizzy" Gillespie. Gillespie was one of the chief innovators of this new style of music as well as an important figure to all musicians to follow him and international figure for the United States.(Kerfeld, 137)
John Birks was born in Cheraw, South Carolina on October 21, 1917. The young prodigy was first introduced to music by his father, a weekend bandleader. Gillespie's father was not as talented as John was to become, he relied on a more stable income as mason around their home ~own. Four years after his fathers death, when Bir .....
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Milton Friedman
Number of words: 772 | Number of pages: 3.... with those of his contemporaries, in the major point that he believed that economic stability could only be reached through non-intervention on behalf of the government. This policy is often known as laissez-faire (French for 'let things be') economics. The policy at the time was for the government to sharply increase or decrease money supply, to counteract inflation, in an attempt to attain a stable economy. Friedman argued however, that this intervention was destabilising, and that what was needed was a steady money flow to create a basic framework for the economy; the rest should be left up to individual competition. This schoo .....
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