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Papers on People and Biographies
Mahatma Gandhi
Number of words: 935 | Number of pages: 4.... society, an unusual combination of perceptions and values. Gandhi’s life was filled with contradictions. He was described as a gentle man who was an outsider, but also as a godly and almost mystical person, but he had a great determination. Nothing could change his convictions. Some called him a master politician, others called him a saint, and millions of Indians called him Mahatma or Bapu (father).
Gandhi’s life was devoted to a search for truth. He believed that truth could be known only through tolerance and concern for others, and that finding a truthful way to solutions required constant attention. He dedicated hims .....
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Autobiography On Ernest Hemingway
Number of words: 623 | Number of pages: 3.... a son, John, he had married
Pauline Pfeiffer, who had his next 2 children. Based in Paris, he had
travelled for skiing, bullfighting, fishing, or hunting that by then had
become what most of his work was all about. Hemingway, started writing
short stories, among them was "Men Without Women" in 1927, and "A Farewell
to Arms" in 1929. This story ("A Farewell to Arms"), shows a lovestory
within a war time setting. Many people believe that Hemingway, did his
writing at this period of his life. He once confessed "If I had not been
hunting and fishing, I would have probably been writing." (Hemingway 283
(3)). Hemingway's stories w .....
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The Life Of Charles Dickens
Number of words: 938 | Number of pages: 4.... and happy, and in some strange way fundamentally sad and dangerously close to tears.
At the age of 12 Charles worked in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish. He held the job only for a few months, but the misery of the experience remain with him all his life.
Dickens attended school off and on until he was 15, and then left for good. He enjoyed reading and was especially fond of adventure stories, fairy tales, and novels. He was influenced by such earlier English writers as William Shakespeare, Tobias Smollet, and Henry Fielding. However, most of the knowledge he later used as an author came .....
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The Marriage
Number of words: 390 | Number of pages: 2.... for the shop.
And of course we have the wild one ,Sam . Now Sam has mice.And as mice go, they love to eat. The mice had eaten almost all of Sams I.D.E. cables and tinkled over the rest.which in fact ruined most of her computer.Sam and I sat talked and decided to rebuild what she had . The parts that she did not have the money for I loaned to her.Everyday when the phine rang I knew without a doubt that Sam was on the other end of the phone with another complaint about her computer usually with the used parts that she had borrowed.
Therefore I have decided that the day you sell a computer to a customer , is the day that you marry .....
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Sigmund Freud
Number of words: 2614 | Number of pages: 10.... he got the idea of becoming a scientist when he heard, a lecture delivered about Goethe. In 1873 he registered at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Vienna. (Jones,1957)
In 1878 he changed his name from Sigismund to Sigmund. He obtained his doctorate in medicine in March of 1881, and worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Physiology under Ernst Brucke, with neurology as his main focus. In 1882 Freud did his clinical practical at the "Allgemeines Krankenhaus." At the department of Dr. Scholz Freud he increased his knowledge in the clinical neurology field. In 1885 Freud obtained a one year scholarship with C .....
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Dinner With Bill Gates
Number of words: 1339 | Number of pages: 5.... coat, watching the game with furious intensity.
I turned to the servant, our guide, I suppose, and asked him who this man
was. "Oh that's Master Gates, the proprietor of this house. You'll be dining
with him shortly."
The servant led us through this room, past the pool and into a narrow
corridor. This hallway was adorned with pictures of Bill Gates, in various
characters and positions. The only one I recognized was the cover from the
recent issue of Time Magazine featuring him on the cover.
From here, we were led into the dining room and seated at the large
dinner table. The table occupied a majority of the room, howev .....
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Number of words: 2210 | Number of pages: 9.... This allowed the two sisters to form an everlasting, inseparable bond.
As Harriet grew older, Catharine was busy devoting her life to the education of women because at the time they were merely thought only good enough to be wives and housekeepers. Catharine’s hard and enduring work paid off because she eventually founded a school in Hartford, Connecticut. It was at this seminary that Harriet received her formal education. Oddly enough she did not attend college, but ended up becoming a teacher at her alma mater (Hedrick, BBR March 95).
In 1833, Lyman Beecher became the President of the Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinn .....
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Compare And Cantrast WEB Du Bo
Number of words: 1340 | Number of pages: 5.... of Black students and Black Bostonians. He graduated from Harvard in 1890. Yet he felt that he needed further preparation and study in order to be able to apply "philosophy to an historical interpretation of race relations." He decided to spend another two years at the University of Berlin on a Slater Fund Fellowship.
W. E. B. Du Bois traveling widely in Europe, was delighted by the absence of color consciousness and impressed by their mellow civilization. Still, he knew that his life's work was at home, and returned to America in 1894.
His work as an editor of The Crisis, the organ of the NAACP, from 1910 to 1934 was perh .....
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of words: 782 | Number of pages: 3.... boarded at Rutledge's tavern and became acquainted with the owner's daughter, Ann. New Salem was a frontier village consisting of one long street on a bluff over the Sangamon River.
On August 6th, 1832 Lincoln was defeated while running for the Illinois State Legislature. Lincoln began to operate a general store in New Salem along with William F. Berry. Again, In 1834, Lincoln ran for the Illinois State Legislature, but this time he was elected. During the summer, John T. Stuart advised Lincoln to study law. On December 1 he took his seat in state government in Vandalia.
In 1837 Lincoln, 28, was admitted to the Illinois Bar on Ma .....
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Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
Number of words: 511 | Number of pages: 2.... a happy domestic life. A two-year-old son died in 1876, but five children grew up healthy and promising; with the passage of time, Lucretia became more and more her husband's companion. In Washington they shared intellectual interests with congenial friends; she went with him to meetings of a locally celebrated literary society. They read together, made social calls together, dined with each other and traveled in company until by 1880 they were as nearly inseparable as his career permitted. Garfield's election to the Presidency brought a cheerful family to the White House in 1881. Though Mrs. Garfield was not particularly in .....
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