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Papers on People and Biographies
Fredrick Douglass 4
Number of words: 600 | Number of pages: 3.... labor in the field and was starved and beaten frequently. There he organized religious services for the slaves. Thomas had a difficult time controlling Frederick and was sent to Edward Covey, a poor farmer known as the "Slave Breaker". After a severe beating Frederick received when he was sixteen he decided to finally fight back. Later Frederick wrote, "At that moment from whence came the spirit I don't know - I resolved to fight." (Adler). From that point on he never lost sight of his freedom. Frederick started a school for blacks that met secretly at night, and with five other slaves he began to plan his first escape. Unf .....
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The Life Of Henry Ford
Number of words: 2795 | Number of pages: 11.... mill to find how steam was regulated to enable the saws to work. He examined the steam ports and saw how the slide valve controlled the steam. Shortly afterwards, as Henry and his father were going into town, they met a huge, steampowered vehicle on the road. Henry had his father stop so he could talk to the driver. The driver explained to him how the engine boiler and cylinder worked.
A year or two later, Henry fixed a broken watch that his friend had and soon after, everybody started bringing their broken watches to him. He fixed all of them for fun and never demanded anyone to pay him. Then Henry's mom died, and the Fo .....
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Ferdinand Magellan
Number of words: 1057 | Number of pages: 4.... in addition to academic subjects such as reading, writing and religion. Also he learned algebra, geometry, astronomy and navigation.
After he had worked at court for a few years, he started checking the supplies for the ships going to India. This was work for the India House, run by the monarchy. India house was the agency for overseas trade. Magellan heard reports of new discoveries brought back by returning ships. It was here that Magellan learned practical aspects of navigation from the sailors and by helping outfit the ships he learned about rigging, repairing, armaments and supplies.
In 1495, John II died, and his brother- .....
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Colleen McCullough: Author Obsessed Over Love
Number of words: 437 | Number of pages: 2.... Sydney to become a physician. McCullough eventually dropped out due to her father’s opposition to women having medical careers. The author has had a variety of jobs varying from librarian to bus driver and schoolteacher. McCullough returned to the University of Sydney to become a medical technician specializing in neurophysiology. After accomplishing that she went to London and worked in hospital for sick children, where she cared for epileptic and retarded children. Eventually she came to the United States to work at Yale University’s School of Medicine.
McCullough’s first novel was Tim. Tim is a novel about the love .....
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Number of words: 1015 | Number of pages: 4.... ten years he was invited by Duke Karl August to come to Weimar (this city would be his actual home until his death there on March 22, 1832). He was already a good lawyer and had written the novel Werther. His work in Weimar caused him to observe the natural world around him and led him towards science. He would yet write fourteen volumes on the subject. At that time Weimar was an important city in Germany. C.P. Magill describes the time in the following passage:
"Up to the early years of this century, Weimar remained a symbol of the best elements in the German cultural tradition, and a center of activity in the arts. .....
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The Mathematical Art Of M.C. Escher
Number of words: 997 | Number of pages: 4.... his first admirers were mathematicians, who saw that his work was the visualization of many mathematical principals and ideas. This was remarkable because he had never had any math courses after high school, where he had learned only the basics. As his work developed he read more about mathematics and showed in his art an understanding of projective geometry and non-Euclidian geometry. He was also fascinated with the idea of " impossible" figures and used this to make fascinating art. For the mathematician Escher's art shows the application of two theories; the geometry of space and the logic of space.
The main subjects of .....
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Evita Peron
Number of words: 1812 | Number of pages: 7.... Aires. Perhaps, as some have said,
she fell in love with a tango singer who was passing through.
She wanted to be an actress, and in the next few years supported herself
with bit parts, photo sessions for titillating magazines and stints as an
attractive judge of tango competitions. She began frequenting the offices of a
movie magazine, talking herself up for mention in its pages. When, in 1939, she
was hired as an actress in a radio company, she discovered a talent for playing
heroines in the fantasy world of radio soap opera.
This was a period of political uncertainty in Argentina, yet few people
were prepared for the m .....
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William James: The Later Years
Number of words: 1193 | Number of pages: 5.... the most important of the investigative methods. Introspection required both concentration and practice, because inner states follow each other rapidly and often are blended and difficult to distinguish from one another. Just as with practice one can notice, observe, name, and classify objects outside oneself, one can do so with inner events. Introspection is in reality, immediate retrospection; the conscious mind looks back and reports what it has just experienced.
James admitted that introspection is difficult and prone to error. Who could be sure of the exact order of feelings when they were excessively rapid? Etc… But he .....
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Marilyn Monroe
Number of words: 1611 | Number of pages: 6.... magazine features Marilyn Monroe as the covergirl. By decoding
meaning from this magazine cover, the visual and written text becomes a
communicator for both obvious and subtle meaning conveyed through her image.
Marilyn Monroe's image is communicated through signs and their codes. The
paradigm (her facial expression, gesture, body language, positioning,
written text, background, dress, colours, lighting and camera angle)
carries meaning and can be considered signifiers. In the second order
semiological system, the signifiers become signs which then signify
'preferred meanings' with signification that draws from metasigns .....
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Mark Antony 2
Number of words: 1239 | Number of pages: 5.... age of 22 he became Tribune of the People. Soon Antony became a quaestor with a reputation of being a speaker on behalf of Caesar’s interests while he was no there.
It was during this period in Rome where Antony met Fulvia. Fulvia also had a hate for Cicero from her last marriage. They soon were married and Antony was making his way higher in the Roman world. In 49BC, he received the title of Augur (priest and soothsayer). It was during this same year that he vetoed the Senates attempt to take Caesar’s command. Antony left Rome and traveled to Gaul until things cooled down where he went back to watch over Caesar’ .....
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