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Papers on People and Biographies
President Gerald Ford
Number of words: 1417 | Number of pages: 6.... Page 1). During his High School years, he was the most popular Senior
having been a great athlete and competing within 5 sports, his best being
Football. Being good at Football, he got a M.V.P, a scholarship to
Michigan with a Football scholarship and was offered a contract by the
Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions. He finally took a job as
assistant Football coach at Yale.
While at Yale, he became interested in law and asked to take courses.
He was soon invited to learn law in the college and didn't graduate till he
was 27 because of his late start. 1941, he set up a practice in Grand
Rapids Michigan wh .....
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Saddam Hussein
Number of words: 579 | Number of pages: 3.... and annexed Kuwait for violating oil production laws set by the Organization of Petroleum Exports Countries(OPEC). (Kuwait had lowered the price of oil.) The Iraqi forces killed many Kuwaiti people and stole or destroyed much property. Hussein apparently wanted to use Kuwait’s vast oil resources to help Iraq’s economy. Many people believed that Iraq would next invade neighboring countries such as Saudi Arabia. Some of the countries that opposed Iraq’s invasion and that sent forces to this region were the United States, Canada, and several Arab and Western European nations. These countries formed an allied military coalition .....
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Thomas P. O'Neill
Number of words: 1788 | Number of pages: 7.... came of age in the Great Depression, arrived in congress from
Massachusetts in 1952 and "came to power amid the plenty of the '60s and '70s."
(Woodlief 4) He was a rampant liberal who "would usually vote yes on any bill
that helped people (he once voted to put money into an appropriations bill to
study knock knees)." (Gelzinas 6) When Reagan came into office in 1980 big
government began to feel the pinch and O'Neill's big hearted liberalism was on
the way out. In 1980, O'Neill was a target of a clever Republican ad campaign
that pictured him in a limo as a symbol of a bloated out of control congress.
The advertisement .....
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Ty Cobb
Number of words: 1754 | Number of pages: 7.... with 2,245 and the highest
lifetime batting average at .367, a number nearly unreachable even in just one
season by today's standards. Other records he set that have since been broken:
3,034 games played, 4,191 hits, 892 stolen bases, 392 outfield assists, 1,136
extra base hits, and 1,961 runs batted in. He also struck out just 357 times in
11,429 times at bat, a phenomenal achievement. After his career ended, in 1936,
he was the leading vote-getter of the first class of the Baseball Hall of Fame,
beating even Babe Ruth. However, Cobb's career was marred with controversy and
scandals. He was hated by nearly every player in .....
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John Dalton
Number of words: 1477 | Number of pages: 6.... and seem to be tireless of them. John Fletcher was Dalton's teacher, he was a smart man who didn't use a rod to hammer in learning to Dalton, he was to provide Dalton with a excellent back-round and lifelong quest for knowledge. Then came Elihu Robinson a rich Quaker gentlemen. who become Dalton's mentor, and was another person to lead Dalton to mathematics , science, and specially meteorology. had an intense fascination for meteorology he even in fact kept careful daily weather records for forty six straight years. When Dalton was twelve he opened his school in Eaglesfield. He was smaller than some boys so he was threatened by .....
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My Autobiography.
Number of words: 391 | Number of pages: 2.... home all the time by myself. I go to public school and my last name is Reynolds like my grandmother. There is no Fisher found in my name at all. After my dad left my mother changed my last name completely and hid my birth certifacate so I couldent find it. I can understand that, in a way. I know my brothers last name is Curtis but I don't know any Curtis's that are famous. I think that I'll never find out who my real dad is. My twin sister and I are identical we go to the same school and do the same things, she wants to be an actress also so it really neat because we share the same dreams.
Well Mrs. Shughart I hope you like my aut .....
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John Lennon
Number of words: 782 | Number of pages: 3.... an injured, controlling, perfectionist.
By 1964, The Beatles arrived at JFK Airport. They were greeted with
mass hysteria. Two days later, more than 73 million people watched them perform
live on the Ed Sullivan Show. Four weeks later, The Beatles held the top five
music singles in America at the same time.
John was influenced by many things in 1965-1966 such as psychedelia,
marijuana, and Bob Dylan. Many felt that these years were the best song writing
years of John Lennon's life.
1966---The Beatles had been touring for over four years, and they,
especially John were tired of it. John wanted to spend more time with his wif .....
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream For America
Number of words: 915 | Number of pages: 4.... to cash a check” (King, 1996, p. 358). A Capital is not a bank and therefore it cannot cash a check. Rev. King is comparing this to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. He is attempting to persuade the audience with the promise that all men and women have the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I feel this is a perfect example of using all three elements of ethos, pathos, and logos together.
In the fourth paragraph, Dr. King is persuading the Black Americans to believe and trust in their nation. He says, “America has defaulted on this promissory note. . . . But we refuse to beli .....
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Billy Graham
Number of words: 4560 | Number of pages: 17.... (deceased 1962) and Morrow Coffey Graham (deceased 1981). In 1943 he married his wife Ruth McCue Bell, and had four children Virginia 1945, Anne Morrow 1948, Ruth Bell 1950, William Franklin, Jr. 1952, and Nelson Edman 1958. At age eighty, he keeps fit by swimming, playing with is nineteen grand children, and from aerobic walking, in the mountains of North Carolina, where he currently lives. ( Best Sellers, 1999) told Time Magazine in one article about his life before becoming a preacher. "I lived on a farm. The only difference was I had to get up early in the morning and go milk cows. When I came back from school that day, I h .....
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Costly Mistake 2
Number of words: 1190 | Number of pages: 5.... right to night I felt a foreign feeling that I quickly dismissed and chased with another drink.
Finally 10:30p.m. rolled around, A little over seven hours since we had started drinking. Like drunken fools we wandered out the door of the house and figured out the driving situation to the bowling ally. I didn't volunteer, refusing to drive knowing that it would only cause trouble for all of us. Matt said he would drive my car. Being one of the most responsible of all of us, I didn't have a second thought about it and threw him the keys. Matt, Todd, Dustin and I all piled into my car letting everyone else figure out there own ride .....
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