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Papers on People and Biographies
Lenis, Vladimir
Number of words: 1141 | Number of pages: 5.... little machinery. To obtain more advanced machines, the government traded grain to other countries in exchange for machinery, even though it meant that more people would starve (Haney 17). Compound this with the devastation and desperation brought on shortly thereafter by the First World War, and there was no confidence left in the government. Different political factions formed, and none got
along (U.S.S.R. 63). Liberal constitutionalists wanted to remove the czar and form a republic; social revolutionists tried to promote a peasant revolution; Marxists promoted a revolution among the proletariat, or urban working class .....
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Jane Addams
Number of words: 459 | Number of pages: 2.... to make their argument, although she does mention that they both "inevitably exaggerated the difficulties of the situation" (171).
As a member of the school board, Addams tried to influence the Federation to make changes that would be in the best interest of the children, but after the legal struggle and following months of constant change, many of the important measure were withdrawn. Although she did have an opportunity to debate these measures in a democratic way, they were dismissed because of (more or less) political reasons.
' role for education in an effort to reform the city was to take the disruptive delinquents the .....
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Pocahontas
Number of words: 551 | Number of pages: 3.... and trinkets.
After a while, Smith’s relationship with the Powhatas worsened. ’s visits started to lessen, and in 1806, Smith was injured, and had to go back to England.
went on with her life though, she married an Indian "Pryvate Captyne" named Kocoum in 1610. Although in 1614, she fell in love with an Englishman, John Rolfe. They married and she got baptized. They went to London with a man named Sir Thomas Dale, and a dozen other Indians. She was presented to King James I, and all of the royal family. John Smith, the man who she had not seen in eight years, was also in London at the time. They met, and talked a .....
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The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
Number of words: 1308 | Number of pages: 5.... to do this; I had to find a replacement. Finally, I found a man, who wanted to reenlist anyhow, if I paid him seventy-five dollars.
After leaving the army, I drafted a poem dubbed “Al Aaraaf.” Carey, Lea and Carey decided that they would publish it if Allan gave his consent and guaranteed that if it was not a success that he would pay them back. He did not want to do this however, so they would not publish it.
I wanted to attend West Point and as I was waiting to get in I concentrated on my poetry. I sent some of my poems to a very prominent critic and he regarded them as good works of literature.
After that, I had Al .....
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JFK: His Life And Legacy
Number of words: 2062 | Number of pages: 8.... history. Both parents impressed on their children
that their country had been good to the Kennedys. Whatever
benefits the family received from the country they were told,
must be returned by performing some service for the
country(Anderson 12). The Kennedy clan included Joe, Jr., Bobby,
Ted and their sisters, Eunice, Jean, Patricia, Rosemary, and
Kathleen. Joe, Jr., was a significant figure in young John's life
as he was the figure for most of John's admiration. His older
brother was much bigger and stronger than John and took it upon
himself to be John's coach and protector. John's childhood was
full of sports, .....
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of words: 238 | Number of pages: 1.... friends, he became quite popular and was elected to the
Illinois legislature in 1834. In his spare time, he taught himself law and
became a lawyer. In 1847, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, but returned to
his law practice until 1858, when his concern about the spread of slavery
prompted him to return to national politics and run for the U.S. Senate.
Lincoln rose to greatness from a humble beginning. Born in 1809 in a
log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln spent most of his childhood working on the family
farm. He had less than a year of school but managed to educate himself by
studying and reading books on his own.
He believe .....
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Timothy Findley
Number of words: 368 | Number of pages: 2.... two collections of short stories and Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer’s Workbook (1990), a collection of articles, journal entries, and reminiscences. Findley has been very active in the writing community; he has helped to found the Writer’s Union of Canada and has served as its chairperson. He has also been President of the Canadian chapter of P.E.N. International, and is also active in Artists Against racism. In addition to this Findley has won many awards including the Canadian Authors Association Award, The Order of Ontario, The Ontario Trillium Award, and he has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. On .....
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Important People In History
Number of words: 2790 | Number of pages: 11.... and spending a large sum of money. Adler wrote a
book called "Understanding Human Nature". In his book he laid out his basic
theories. Like Freud he too did believe that dreams were really inportant
in understanding one's personality, however he did not believe that dreams
revealed more about a person's sexuality.
Pavlov, Ivan (1849- 1936)
Pavlov won a nobel prize for medicine in 1904. He was interested in the
relationship between stimulus and response.
Pavlov tested his theory with dogs. He discovered that by ringing a bell
and giving them food the would salavate. He called this an uncontrolled
response. Then again he'd ring .....
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George Wallace
Number of words: 1456 | Number of pages: 6.... High School, he was involved with boxing and football. George even won the state Golden Gloves bantamweight championship not once but twice. Wallace then attended the University of Alabama Law School; this was the same year his father died. Wallace was strapped for cash, so he worked his way through college by boxing professionally, waiting on tables, and driving a taxi. He received his degree in 1942 from the University.
After receiving a medical discharge from the U.S. Air Force, he returned to Alabama. In 1946, Wallace got a job as an assistant to the attorney general for the state of Alabama. Wallace polled to beco .....
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Steven Speilberg
Number of words: 848 | Number of pages: 4.... math or foreign languages were going to help me turn out the little 8-mm sagas I was making to avoid homework."(Contemporary Authors 3) Movies were also helping Stephen to escape his family life, where at home things were bad with his parents, and when Stephen was twelve years old they divorced. This only helped to clarify Stephen's love of film.
After he completed high school, Spielberg was well on his way to becoming a director. He had already won student awards for some of his short films, and one of them, a movie called Firelight, had actually been shown in a local movie theatre. As a young high school graduate, Spiel .....
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