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Papers on People and Biographies
George Brenard Shaw
Number of words: 1113 | Number of pages: 5.... Street. This enabled Shaw to visit the museum library, where he learned the most for his education. Unemployed, he could not afford to eat at the local restaurants and ate instead at the vegetarian eatery where he could buy a good and nourishing meal. He became a vegetarian in 1881 and kept his vow never to eat flesh again. He believed that all living things were equal and deserved to be treated with the same respect. Shaw's visits to museum library brought him into contact with the great people alive during that time such as, William Morris, Ruskin, and the Bloomsburry gang. These people were just as smart as he was, thus all .....
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The Life Of Chief Seattle
Number of words: 1596 | Number of pages: 6.... the Green and White Rivers. (1) He was considered to be Duwamish since his mother was the daughter of a Duwamish chief and the line of descent passed matrilineally. This was sometimes the case when fathers died while their son's were was still young and the mother would return to her tribe to raise the children. The Duwamish lived on the Duwamish River and various islands across the Puget Sound. Seattle was married twice, his first wife Ladaila, died after bearing one daughter, Kiksomlo, known as "Angeline". His second wife, Oiahl, had three daughters all of whom died young and two boys, George and Seeanumpkin. (2)
In 1792, Captai .....
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John Dalton
Number of words: 733 | Number of pages: 3.... published Meteorological Observations and Essays. He then became interested in preparing collections of botanical and insect species. In 1787, he began observations about aurora phenomena--luminous, sometimes coloured displays in the sky caused by electrical disturbances in the atmosphere.
Some of his studies in meteorology led him to conclusions about the origin of trade winds involving the Earth's rotation and change in temperature--unaware, perhaps, that this theory had already been proposed in 1735 by George Hadley. These are only some of the subjects on which he wrote essays that he read before the Philosophical Society: .....
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The Life Of John F. Kennedy
Number of words: 709 | Number of pages: 3.... the time of Sirhan’s arrest, he had $400 on him which made it seem as if he might have been hired. It was later learned that the money was from a $1,100 settlement that he had won a few months earlier.
Several people thought that a woman in a polka dotted dress was involved with Sirhan. She had been seen with Sirhan earlier in the evening and one witness said that she saw the woman run out moments after the shooting saying, “We shot him!”. However, when she was questioned she said that she was misunderstood. She said that she had said, “He’s been shot!”. She was released after questioning. To get the real cause, .....
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Martin Luther King
Number of words: 4984 | Number of pages: 19.... of the most influential leaders of our time.
Integrity is a central value in a leader’s character and it is through integrity that King had vision of the truth. The truth that one day this nation would live up to the creed, “all men are created equal”. No man contributed more to the great progress of blacks during the 1950’s and 1960’s than , Jr. He was brought up believing “one man can make a difference”, and this is just what he did. Integrity has a large effect on what we think, say and do, it is through King’s thoughts and actions that enabled so many people to have trust an .....
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St. Gregory Of Tours
Number of words: 505 | Number of pages: 2.... Kings and Masters was not good. The Kings abused their powers and this caused civil wars. Gregory wrote that these conflicts were more hurtful to the church than the persecution from Diocletian. Eventually the unrest and Tours stopped and peace was at hand. The Masters of Tours were constantly changing until Guntram who was the King of Burgandy took over the rule of Tours. Guntram and Gregory were friends and the role of bishop was given more authority and respect. Guntram signed the Treaty of Andelot in the year 587. This treaty gave the rule of Tours to Childebert II. Childebert honored Gregory and let him go on many miss .....
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Bonnie And Clyde
Number of words: 1133 | Number of pages: 5.... that remained with him to the end of hid life: a passion for music, and an obsession with guns. Even as Clyde drove along the lane in Louisiana to his death, he carried a saxophone and reams of sheet music, as well as an arsenal of firearms. Clyde loved and named his guns, and regarded them as tokens of his power.
At the age of sixteen, Clyde dropped out of school to work at Proctor and Gamble. Clyde’s crime streak started with helping his brother steal a small flock of turkeys and transporting them to Dallas to sell for Christmas money. Dallas officers saw the back seat full of live fowl, and pulled them over arresting t .....
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William Wallace
Number of words: 1794 | Number of pages: 7.... I will conclude with the fact that William Wallace was truly a worthy patriot of his native country Scotland. He fearlessly led his fellow patriots into battle, and gained freedom for Scotland from the tyrannical rule of the English King, Edward I.
In May of 1995 the film Braveheart came out in theaters. Braveheart is mainly a biographical movie about William Wallace. It portrays Wallace as a tall, strong, and brilliant man and military soldier. On many occasions, it shows Wallace defeating the English Army, which always outnumbered his troops. His most famous battle at Stirling Bridge is what many consider to be his m .....
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Henry James And William Dean H
Number of words: 1047 | Number of pages: 4.... 14)
The first phase of James' writing begins when he is twenty-one, in 1864 and continues until 1881. He was extremely popular during this time, especially during after publication of a short story Daisy Miller, which is concerned with the destruction of a naive American girl by European mores. James continues the theme of placing Americans without sufficient social experience into
the complex society and culture of Europe with The American, which chronicles a man whose finds himself unable to buy his way into French society. (Matthiessen 14)
For Henry James, the years of 1882 to 1895 brought less success. His novels .....
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Marilyn Monroe
Number of words: 702 | Number of pages: 3.... leave without making a few low-budget musicals with the likes of the Marx Brothers in Love Happy, which was made in 1949, and Ladies of the Chorus also made in 1949.
Finally, in 1950, got the break she was waiting for. She once again signed with 20th Century Fox and made several movies including Asphalt Jungle(1950), All About Eve(1950),Love Nest(1951),Clash By Night(1952),Monkey Business(1952), and her first lead role in Don’t Bother to Knock(1952), where she played a psychotic babysitter. By 1953 she was starring in movies such as How to Marry a Millionaire, Niagra, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. These films, as well as .....
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