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Papers on People and Biographies
Gregor Johann Mendel
Number of words: 367 | Number of pages: 2.... "genes." When the gene has a
slighty different base sequence it is called an "allele."
Mendel also developed 3 laws or principles. The first principle is
called the, "Principle of Segregation." This principle states that the traits of
an organism are determined by individual units of heredity called genes. Both
adult organisms have one allele from each parent, which gives both organisms 2
alleles. The alleles are separated or "segregated" from each other with the
reproductive cell formation. Mendel's second principle is the, "Principle of
independent assortment." This principle states that the expression of a gene for
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Charlie Chaplin
Number of words: 502 | Number of pages: 2.... other parts. At the same time his brother Sydney had joined the famous Fred Karno Company and there he quickly became a leading player and writer. Late in the year 1900 Charlie is cast as a cat in a production of Cinderella at the London Hippodrome. Less than a month later his father died from Alcoholism. Soon afterwards his mother Hannah is committed to the Cane Hill Asylum, and never completely recovers her sanity. For almost the next ten years Charlie performs in various rolls throughout Europe. In September of 1910 Charlie leaves Europe with the Karno Troupe for a tour in the United States and Canada. Over the next fifty-six y .....
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Charlie Chaplin
Number of words: 504 | Number of pages: 2.... other parts. At the same time his brother Sydney had joined the famous Fred Karno Company and there he quickly became a leading player and writer. Late in the year 1900 Charlie is cast as a cat in a production of Cinderella at the London Hippodrome. Less than a month later his father died from Alcoholism. Soon afterwards his mother Hannah is committed to the Cane Hill Asylum, and never completely recovers her sanity. For almost the next ten years Charlie performs in various rolls throughout Europe. In September of 1910 Charlie leaves Europe with the Karno Troupe for a tour in the United States and Canada. Over the next fifty-six y .....
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The Biography Of Bob Marley
Number of words: 343 | Number of pages: 2.... He
did not leave this world without leaving something. To his oldest son,
Ziggy, he said, "On the way up, bring me up. On the way down, don't let me
down." And to Stephen he said, "Money can't buy life." He didn't leave
unnoticed, either. At the moment of his death, Judy Mowatt, a close friend
of Bob's, was in her home in Kingston. Suddenly, from a clear sky, a bolt
of lightening came through her window "and lodged" she said "for a moment
on the metal frame of a picture of Bob on the mantle." It was a signal,
she insists, "that one of the great spirits had left, transcended to the
celestial plane." .....
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Number of words: 603 | Number of pages: 3.... him in his real bent." Recalls his St. Paul Academy
teacher. From that prestigious school he then traveled and began attendance in
Princeton University. Not a promising student he was often late to his classes.
His excuse was once "Sir-it's absurd to expect me to be on time. I'm a
genius!!!" Though the "Princeton years" we not his most memorable, it provided
an outlet for his writing, and talent.
During his junior year he left Princeton and entered the army in 1917.
Though he was never sent to battle for his country, there he began work on the
short story, The Romantic Egoist, which was published as This Side of Paradise.
Though r .....
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Oedipus Rex
Number of words: 529 | Number of pages: 2.... who starts out as a great and noble individual. Oedipus is not an evil man but a good, upright, man who suffers a downfall. Aristotle also says that this person begins to become fallible and eventually is doomed by their own “tragic flaw.” We see this with Oedipus when he displays hubris. Oedipus begins to think he can out do the gods and prevent Apollo’s oracles from being fulfilled. His downfall is that he marries his mother and kills his father. He is blinded by his hubris and is the agent of his own destruction. The completion of Oedipus’ downfall is realization of his folly. He is then led to blind himself b .....
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Michael Jordan 2
Number of words: 1192 | Number of pages: 5.... going to show you and tomorrow I’m going to show you and the next day I’m going to show you again.’ That was how he competed. All the great geniuses of the world were like that. We’re talking about Einstein, Edison, and Roosevelt. These people came across something and worked to perfect it (Collins, 61).
“Michael Jordan is the most competitive human being I’ve ever met. I’ve met many CEO’s from fortune 500 companies. Michael is more competitive then all of them, David Faulk” (Faulk, 62) He continues saying, “Michael Jordan would cheat to win, if he wasn’t winn .....
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The Crime At Compiegne
Number of words: 758 | Number of pages: 3.... Margaret. These voices
exhorted her to help the Dauphin, later Charles VII, king of France,
recapture the city of Orleans and thereby win the Hundred Years' War
against England. Jeanne succeeded in convincing Charles and his board of
theologians that she had a divine mission to save France. Approving her
claims, she was granted a small detachment of troops to command. Dressed
in armor and carrying a white banner that represented God blessing the
French royal emblem, the fleur-de-lis, she led the French to a decisive
victory over the English at Orleans.
Having accomplished this miraculous feat she convinced Charles to
r .....
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Number of words: 796 | Number of pages: 3.... still raging through Europe. Instead of fighting in the infantry overseas Eisenhower was to stay home on U.Sbases (Hargrove 41). After being promoted to a Lieutenant Colonel, Eisenhower was sent to Camp Colt to train soldiers about tanks (Hargrove42). Then in the year 1933 he became one of the important advisers toGeneral Douglas MacArther (Hargrove 45). Dwight David Eisenhower worked his way up through the ranksduring World War Two and then led the Allies to victory in D-Day. Dwightshowed his skill of organizing the movement of large numbers of troops. Hewas then promoted several times in the next few years.Then in 1941Eisenhow .....
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Freud And Marx
Number of words: 1110 | Number of pages: 5.... he observed. Marx also saw instincts at work but not the tensions
and Id that Freud saw, Marx simply credited man's greed and the subsequent
oppression of other men as the root to all that was wrong with civilization. It
is interesting to note that both Freud and Marx saw conflict but each traced it
back to sources each was respectively educated in.
Freud was a Psychoanalyst and his understanding of the mind was very
conflict oriented. He saw man as a kind of glorified animal who had the same
desires and needs as any other animal. The only true difference between the
human-animal and other animals was that the human-animal po .....
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