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Papers on People and Biographies
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Number of words: 378 | Number of pages: 2.... illness endangered the
family until Mozart's death. While Mozart was working on the "Magic Flute" in
1791 an emissary requested a requiem mass written by Mozart but he never got to
finish this because he died. He supposedly died of typhoid fever, in Vienna on
December 5, 1791. His funeral was attended by a few friends. Mozart died young
and had an unsuccessful career, but he ranks as one of the greatest composer of
all time. With more than six hundred works it shows that even as a child he had
a feel of the resources of musical composition as well as an original
imagination. His instrumental works include symphonies, divert .....
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Helen Keller
Number of words: 1572 | Number of pages: 6.... could also tell where she was in the garden by the smell of the different plants and the feel of the ground under her feet. By the age of seven she had invented over 60 different signs by which she could talk to her family. If she wanted bread for example, she would pretend to cut a loaf and butter the slices. If she wanted ice cream she wrapped her arms around herself and pretended to shiver.
Helen was unusual in that she was extremely intelligent and also remarkably sensitive. By her own efforts she had managed to make some sense of an alien and confusing world. But even she had limitations.
At the age of five Helen began to .....
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The Work Of J.D. Salinger
Number of words: 1938 | Number of pages: 8.... stands for the last hope for Franny in this situation.
Franny would be lost if their was no prayer. (Bryfonski and Senick 71).
Salinger shows us comfort in Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caufield, the
protagonist, is very much in despair for losing his girlfriend, so Caufield
reads a passage in the Bible. This helps Holden change his outlook on life
(Salzberg 75). Holden was all alone at this point and had no one to turn
back on, until he found the Bible (Salzberg 76). In both stories the
characters had found themselves in bad situations. The characters in these
works have obstacles which they must overcome in order to achieve .....
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The Biography Of John Marshall Harlan II
Number of words: 851 | Number of pages: 4.... and spent much of his early career working for the firm.
Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had one child.
During World War II, Harlan served as a colonel in the United States Army Air Force. Harlan was in charge of the Operations Analysis Section of the Eighth Bomber Command. He was also the recipient of the American Legion of Merit and the Belgian and French Croix de Guerre.
After the war, Harlan returned to his pract .....
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Dwight David Eisenhower
Number of words: 5324 | Number of pages: 20.... they
showed the difference in attitude and tone that twelve months in the White
House have worked on John F. Kennedy.
Jack Kennedy -- Man of the Year for 1961 -- had passionately sought
the presidency. The closeness of his victory did not disturb him; he took
over the office with a youth-can-do-anything sort of self-confidence. He
learned better; but learn he did. And in so doing he not only made 1961 the
most endlessly interesting and exciting presidential year within recent
memory; he also made the process of his growing up to be President a saving
factor for the U.S. in the cold war.
Kennedy has always had a way wit .....
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Biography Of Roger Maris
Number of words: 400 | Number of pages: 2.... to the ballpark even to the bathroom
the press was there to ask him questions about "The Race." As a result of
this he started to lose his hair faster than normal and he smoked more then
he normally did.
I admire Roger Maris because even though the press bothered him all
the time he did not buckle under all the pressure. He remained cool and
just waited out all the hard times. In the end everything worked out for
the better.
This book is a great inspiration to young people. When Roger was
young kids told him that he was not any good and some of his teachers told
him that he would not amount to anything. But he proved t .....
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John F.Kennedy: Biography
Number of words: 1403 | Number of pages: 6.... Princeton University, but he developed Jaundice, a disease where ones liver becomes bad and the poisons in your body back up, and was forced to drop out of the university. A year later, when Kennedy felt better, in 1936 he entered Harvard University. Kennedy's major was in government and international affairs.
In 1939, John went to Europe. He visited many different countries and interviewed politicians and statesman. Kennedy sent his father their views of the upcoming war, World War II.
During World War II Kennedy enlisted in the U.S. Navy. After the Pearl Harbor attack Kennedy applied for sea duty. He got it and was assigned to Pa .....
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Cultural Anthro - Karl Marx
Number of words: 1291 | Number of pages: 5.... society was constructed in order to support this idea including the society’s infrastructure. Marx believed that social classes arise when a group gains control of the means of production. This group also has the power to maintain or increase its wealth by taking advantage of the surplus value of labor. Many people question why a worker would labor under such conditions. The reason is quite simple according to Marx. The reason is political and social representation. Members of this class elect representatives who pass laws that serve their interests. Landlords and factory owners were able to use their control of resources to .....
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Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On
Number of words: 954 | Number of pages: 4.... 'Decline and more books of that nature. He had also begun to do chemistry experiments and had his own laboratory in his father's basement (Day and McNeil 231).
Second, the world revolves his fulfillment's. But his fulfillment's didn't come easy. He was newsboy on the Grand Trunk railroad. Between the trips from Port Huron to Detroit he would publish his own paper called The Herald. On day, he had two arms full of papers and was trying to climb into the freight car (Day and McNeil 231). The conductor helped him, so to speak. The conductor took him by both ears to lift him into the car. Thomas had felt something snap in hi .....
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Number of words: 480 | Number of pages: 2.... mentally unfit for the presidency, he flew to Chicago and
pledged to the people at the Democratic National Convention, a New Deal.
That expression, a symbol of an era in American history, represented a
cluster of ideas formulated by the candidate and his Brain Trust, a group
of advisors recruited from New York's Columbia University. On the eve of
the March 1933 inauguration, the nation's banking system collapsed as
millions of panicky depositors tried to withdraw savings that the banks had
tied up in long-term loans. On that evening, Roosevelt told Americans that,
"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." His New Deal .....
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