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Papers on People and Biographies
Martin Luther King's Life
Number of words: 1596 | Number of pages: 6.... of his own philosophy of nonviolent protest. While in Boston, he met Coretta Scott of Marion, Alabama. They were married in June 1953, and the following year an appointment as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was only 26 years when he led his first protest, The Montgomery Bus Boycott. This all started with a young women by the name of Rosa Parks. One afternoon as she walked to the bus stop and waited patiently, for the bus to pull up she, saw that the back half of the bus was full and many people were standing, she decided to tell that bus to go. When the next bus came .....
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DOROTHY
Number of words: 585 | Number of pages: 3.... "Swinging the Dream". Dandridge had a natural beauty, and an ideal figure to match! Dottie suffered from severe stage fright, but despite this, she played the best hotels in Miami and Las Vegas, although she couldn't stay in them. One, in 1953, drained its swimming pool to keep her out of it. In 1954 Dandridge became the first black woman to appear on the cover of "Life" and received an Academy Award nomination for best actress for her role in "Carmen Jones." But because the industry still could not see her potential as an serious actress (mainly because of her race), roles for her faded quickly, as well as her career. Eventual .....
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Richard Nixon
Number of words: 431 | Number of pages: 2.... hostage. The "Kitchen Debate", noted as a high point for Nixon,
where he and the Russian leader discussed issues in a kitchen. With
Eisenhower, he served two terms. Nixon's next goal was to become the
President of the United States.
In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon ran for the presidency. As it
turned out, Kennedy and Johnson won by a mere 120,000 votes. It was
believed Kennedy had bought Texas and Illinois. Johnson soon became
president after Kennedy's assassination. Now, Nixon would try again. Nixon
beat Hubert Humphrey with some political strategy. He told the citizens of
the US he would stop the war in Vietnam .....
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Socrates
Number of words: 1243 | Number of pages: 5.... they live and thus you should respect and obey by their rules. The laws were already there. That means, that your mother and father are as important as the city and you should respect the city as so.
describes the city and its laws more preciously. You don’t have the same rights as your parents. They educated you and thought you the rules in the city that you should follow. They taught you which behavior is right and which is wrong. It is immoral to treat your parents the way they treat you. You don’t have the rights to treat your parents the same way they treat you. That means that parents have a higher posi .....
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Health
Number of words: 914 | Number of pages: 4.... different habits.
What made Edgar Allen Poe? Through his lifetime many different misfortunes and disasters would strike him. All of these would shape him and his writing to what we now associate as the father of modern diabolic fiction. (Internet source) The first of the tragedies to plague him would be the abandonment by his father. He would grow never knowing who his real father was. His father had left his family when Edgar was only an infant. The next misfortune would be the death of his mother when he was three. There was yet another factor that would shape him throughout his lifetime. He would also come how from his studie .....
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Woodrow Wilson - Foreign Policy
Number of words: 1022 | Number of pages: 4.... problems with Britain were serious, but its troubles with Germany were worse. The Germans continued to sink ships with Americans on board. After the Sussex, a French channel streamer was sunk, killing 80 civilians, some American, Wilson declared that if these attacks did not stop "the United States would have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations"5 with Germany.
In the end not even Woodrow Wilson could keep the United States out of World War I. When the Germans declared unlimited submarine warfare, Wilson knew the United States would have to get involved. Still he hesitated, hoping for some event that would make an America .....
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of words: 628 | Number of pages: 3.... about. We will also reveal the one method that King supports.
He first characteristic that King mentions in his writing is acquiescence. In this characteristic, King explains how people give up to oppression and become accustomed to it. He believes that this form is not the way to solve the grief that the Negroes were being put through. In fact, he criticizes the people who utilize this method. The following line proves my statement, "To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor."
The second form that Dr. King talks about is hatred and violence. Th .....
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Carl Gustav Jung
Number of words: 3703 | Number of pages: 14.... wouldn't make a good living because of his
spells. After Carl found out about his father's concern, the faints
suddenly stopped, and Carl became much more studious.
He had to decide his profession. His choices included archeology,
history, medicine, and philosophy. He decided to go into medicine, partly
because of his grandfather. Carl went to the University of Basel and had
to decide then what field of medicine he was going to go into. After
reading a book on psychiatry, he decided that this was the field for him,
although psychiatry was not a respectable field at the time. Jung became
an assistant at the Burgholzli Menta .....
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Emily Dickinson
Number of words: 746 | Number of pages: 3.... on poetry from her personal life, her
fondness of nature, death, and her dislike of organized religion. War is
occasionally pulled into Emily's poems also.
Emily seemed truly concerned over happenings in her personal life. So
she mainly focused her writings on the loss of her lover. In "I Never Saw A
Moor," she describes things that she had never seen or experienced before but
she knows what they are about. Here, Emily is trying to express herself on why
she thinks Charles left her. She is desperately searching for answers. Emily
attempted to teach others a lesson when she wrote "Tell All The Turth, But Tell
It Slant." .....
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Theodore Dreiser
Number of words: 1250 | Number of pages: 5.... at Indiana University in 1889-1890 throughout his academic years. He began his career as a newspaper reporter in Chicago in 1892 before working his way to the East Coast. While living on the East Coast in 1894, Dreiser found a job working for a Pittsburgh newspaper. In the same year, he move to New York City and started working for several newspapers and magazines. Dreiser would soon meet a woman named Sara White and they would get married in 1898. The marriage did not last that long due to his roving affections and resulting infidelities causing their divorce in 1912. Dreiser began writing his first novel, Sister Carrie, in 18 .....
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