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Papers on People and Biographies
Adolf Hitler: Ruthless Leader Of Germany
Number of words: 1341 | Number of pages: 5.... nowhere else to go. I like to speculate what would have happened if he had been accepted into the academy. Would the world have been spared World War II?
While living in Vienna Adolf made his living by drawing small pictures of famous landmarks which he sold as post cards. He wasn’t successful and didn’t make any money. He was a regular reader of a small paper that claimed the Aryan race was superior to all and was destined to rule the world. The paper regularly blamed Jews for all the economic problems and Adolf agreed with its views. Adolf continued to live poor in Vienna until 1913 when he decided to move to Munich, Ge .....
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Escher
Number of words: 264 | Number of pages: 1.... on many tours to such places as Calabria, Sicily, Corsica and spain. In 1934 he moved to Switzaland for 2 years and then he moved to brussles for 5 years. Then finaly in 1941 he stayed in Holland for the rest of his life.
THE WORK...
's art work was usally buildings that confused you, he also did lots of architecture. The work he did was very mind boggaling and quite imposible, an example of this imposibillityis demonstraited in the peice Ascending and Desceding where the solders just keep on walking up or down the stairs.
IMPOSSIBILITIES...
The men keep walking up the stairs
The men keep walking down the stairs
The waterfall .....
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Edgar Allen Poe
Number of words: 1970 | Number of pages: 8.... on business. There, Poe entered the Manor-House School in Stoke-Newington, a London suburb. This school taught him "the gothic architecture and historical landscape of the region made a deep imprint on his youthful imagination, which would effect his adult writings" (Levin, 14). The Allens left England in June 1820, and arrived in Richmond on August 2. Here, Poe entered the English and Classical School of Joseph H. Clarke, a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin. On February 14, 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. Though he spent more time gambling and drinking than studying, he won top honors in French and Latin. .....
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The Life Of Edvard Munch
Number of words: 1803 | Number of pages: 7.... attended courses in painting of the nude, and he learned the skills of freehand and modeling. He was instructed by Norway's leading and finest artist, (at that time) Christian Krohg.
Munch rented a studio apartment with six other young artists, in 1882. Their work was supervised by Munch's teacher Christian Krohg. In May of 1885, Munch was awarded a state grant which enabled him to study in Paris. Munch stayed in Paris for three weeks, then he spent the summer at Borre and returned to Oslo to begin three of his major art works. That was the time when his works were beginning to become more widely known.
In 1886, Munch pai .....
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Queen Victoria
Number of words: 870 | Number of pages: 4.... this was a wedlock of state, it was a highly extravagant and prosperous one, and Victoria was devoted to her family responsibilities. The first of their nine children was Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, later queen of Germany. Their first son, Albert Edward, prince of Wales and later monarch of Great Britain as Edward VII, was born in 1841. When the cautious Prince Albert persuaded her that Liberal policy jeopardized the coming of the Crown, the queen began to lose her eagerness for the party. After 1841, when the Melbourne government fell and Sir Robert Peel became prime minister, Victoria was an enthusiastic supporter of the Cons .....
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Deng Xiaopeng
Number of words: 517 | Number of pages: 2.... in the world. If Deng could not put food on the table then chances are the people are not going to really like him or trust him. So he increased farming technology and with the increase in technology the military grew stronger as well. Now Deng had the ability to protect his country from foreigners and he could also now enforce laws. With the military increasing then the economy increased significantly. Now Deng could say that he wields the ability to feed, protect, pay, and give useful technology to his people but Deng was missing one very important thing. China’s political status with some countries was not at all desi .....
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William Buffalo Bill Cody
Number of words: 675 | Number of pages: 3.... played himself in a play titled “Scouts of the Prairie”. Following this, he kept acting in the winter and he worked for the army in the summer. The Wild West show began in 1883 in Omaha. When this began, real cowboys and real Indians showing how life really was in the west. Cody’s show spent ten out of its thirty years in Europe. “Buffalo Bill was a featured attraction at Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. Only Egypt’s fame opposed the Wild West as the talk of Chicago at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. His show exhibited many famous people, such as Annie Oakley and Sitting Bu .....
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Mother Teresa: The Living Saint
Number of words: 536 | Number of pages: 2.... Teresa said she received another call
from God to serve the poor who live in the streets. Pope Pious XII soon
granted Mother Teresa permission to leave her duties as an independent nun
to fulfill her calling. So she began to share her life with the poor, sick
and the hungry in Calcutta. Mother Teresa with her new positon established
a congregation called Missionaries of Charity. She began her work by
teaching the children of the streets how to read. Mother Teresa also
began to care for lepers. In 1965, Pope Paul VI desited to expand Mother
Teresa's Order to other countries by put the Missionaries of Charity under
the contr .....
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Biography Of Carolyn Chute
Number of words: 459 | Number of pages: 2.... to write for herself.
To date she has three published novels; Merry Men, Letourneau’s Used Auto Parts, and her critically acclaimed The Beans of Egypt, Maine. She was quoted as saying, “This book was involuntarily researched,” when interviewed by a reporter. Carolyn’s pain and humiliation, which she had suffered earlier in life, only fueled a fire to produce a novel of higher quality. She connected to thousands of people through her book, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, because she portrayed the harsh reality of poverty.
Carolyn Chute did not believe that fictional works were enough to demonstrate her ideas about the go .....
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