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Papers on People and Biographies
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Number of words: 4386 | Number of pages: 16.... unsuccessful, but he loved beach combing with Dr Robert E. Grant, a sponge expert, Lamarckian evolutionist, a democrat and materialist, who trained Darwin in French-style invertebrate anatomy. At student clubs, where Darwin reported his observations, he saw fiery radicals censored for calling the mind a product of a material brain, and giving animals all of the human mental faculties. So, besides training in field geology and natural history that would serve him well, Darwin was taught the social consequences of subversive science.
His father wanted him in a profession, and Darwin was back again to conventional Anglicanism, .....
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Maria Mitchell
Number of words: 931 | Number of pages: 4.... she taught herself astronomy by reading books on mathematics and science. At night she regularly studied the sky through her father's telesscope. For her college education even Harvard couldn't have given her a better education than she received at home and at that time astronomy in America was very behind as of today. She kept studying at the Atheneum, discussed astronomy with scientists who visited Nantucket (including William C. Bond), and kept studying the sky through her father's lent telescope.
In the mid-nineteenth century, new developments in astronomy .....
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Chronicle - Life And Times Of Sula And Nel
Number of words: 1465 | Number of pages: 6.... my Nel. The period in history and the mentality of the people in their immediate surroundings played an impressive part in the formulation of the friendship between Sula and Nel.
When they first met at school, it was as if they were always destined to be friends. Each one complimented the other and it was as if they were two halves of one whole. Like many things in life, they each secretly enjoyed the immediate surroundings of the other. As much as Nel regarded the neatness of her house with dread, Sula felt the house to be comfortable and relished the neatness. On the same token, Sula disliked the disarray and lack of priv .....
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Warren G. Harding
Number of words: 553 | Number of pages: 3.... in fraternal organizations and charitable enterprises.
He organized the Citizen's Cornet Band, available for both Republican and Democratic rallies; "I played every instrument but the slide trombone and the E-flat cornet," he once remarked.
Harding's undeviating Republicanism and vibrant speaking voice, plus his willingness to let the machine bosses set policies, led him far in Ohio politics. He served in the state Senate and as Lieutenant Governor, and successfully ran for Governor. He delivered the nominating address for President Taft at the 1912 Republican Convention. In 1914 he was elected to the Senate, which he found .....
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William Wordsworth Biography
Number of words: 560 | Number of pages: 3.... returned to England in 1793 and published An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. During a walking tour that year, Wordsworth journeyed across the Salisbury Plain and to Tintern Abbey, both of which are subjects of later poems. By 1794, he was finally reunited with his sister Dorothy, and in 1775, he met the philosopher William Godwin and the poets Southey and Coleridge. By the end of that year, William and Dorothy went to Racedown Lodge, a place to which Coleridge would become a regular visitor in 1797. Eventually, the Wordsworth's moved that same year to Alfoxden, which was only three miles from Coleridge's place .....
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Queen Elizabeth I
Number of words: 1470 | Number of pages: 6.... The
Renaissance, following the Elizabethan age was a rebirth of scholarly
interests. It was based on the classics of art, religion, science and
inventions, philosophy, and humanism (Renaissance).
Queen Elizabeth I was a powerful political figure in English
history. Her background was definitely relative to her choice of words and
her topics that she used in "When I Was Fair and Young." Elizabeth was
born in London on September 7, 1533. She spent her childhood away from the
court and received an excellent classical education under such scholars as
Roger Ascham, who influenced her greatly (Plowden 7). Her exceptional
education .....
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Ernest Hemmingway
Number of words: 2937 | Number of pages: 11.... accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it appeared in the Bible. Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he couldn't get outside, he escaped to his room and read books. He loved to tell stories to his classmates, often insisting that a frie .....
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DR Daniel J Boorstin
Number of words: 785 | Number of pages: 3.... He has received more than fifty honorary degrees and has been honored by the governments of France, Belgium and Portugal. In 1989 he received the National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters by the NationalBook Foundation.
Dr. Boorstin's many books include the trilogy The Americans: The Colonial Experience, which won the Bancroft Prize, The Americans: The National Experience, which won the Parkman Prize, and The Americans: The Democratic Experience, which won the Pulitzer Prize. His 1983 work, The Discoverers, a best selling history of man's search to know the world and himself, was awarded the Watson .....
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Essay On Jefferson
Number of words: 528 | Number of pages: 2.... hypocritcal in his acquisition of the Loisiana territory. In Jeffersonian principles, large expansive governments were bad, and small was good. This was a antithesis of that principle. Jefferson knew that the acquisition of the Loisiana territory was beneficial to the welfare of the U.S. According to the constitution, nowhere in the constitution is the acquisition of land a right of the government, Jeffersons' predisposition was to strictly go by the constitution (as seen with the national bank controversy), this is another contradiction during his administration. Since the appropriation of the Lousiana territory was important fo .....
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Death Of A Salesmen
Number of words: 267 | Number of pages: 1.... high hopes. Because of this, Charley later in life, had a steady enough income to live comfortably and put his son through college. He even had money to spare so that he could loan it to the needing Willy Loman. Charley placed good ethics on Bernard, like working hard to become successful. By the later part of Charley's life, he was living comfortably because of all his hard work, and he set his son Bernard in the right path. Bernard had obviously succeeded in life through his hard work in his younger days while Biff just played around. Bernard is successful in that he is making a good living and is doing what he wants with .....
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