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Papers on People and Biographies
Dylan Thomas
Number of words: 1180 | Number of pages: 5.... mentioned, he also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories, did a series lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, his famous play for voices.(Bookshelf ’98)
During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, he collapsed in his New York hotel. He was but a few days past his 39th birthday. He died on Noovenber 9th, 1953 at St. Vincents Hospital, New York. His alcoholism was legendary and no doubt played a significant role in his demise. His Body was sent back to Laugharne, Wales, where his grave is marked by a simple wooden cross- the way he would have seen fi .....
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Vladimir Ilyich
Number of words: 590 | Number of pages: 3.... liberation of the working class". At the beginning of December 1895 he was arrested and in February 1897 exiled to Siberia for three years. In 1900 he went abroad, where together with G.V. Plekhanov he began to publish the newspaper "Iskra" ("Spark").
At the 2nd conference of the Russian Social Democratic Working Party (1903) Lenin was instrumental in setting up a new type of Bolshevik Marxist Party. During the revolution of 1905 -1907 Lenin developed the idea of the hegemony of the proletariat in the bourgeois democratic revolution, and worked out the theory of the expansion of the bourgeois democratic revolution into socialist r .....
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The Writings Of Ernest Hemingway
Number of words: 740 | Number of pages: 3.... participated in World War I, as an ambulance driver, and fell in love with Agnes, a nurse who cared for him while he recovered from a wound.
Though Hemingway denied the accusations, the events of his life assembled those of Frederick's. A Farewell to Arms, conveys several major themes, however the one that was emphasized the most was that of a search of order and belonging.
Hemingway conveys this theme through Frederick's own personal search during the chaos of World War I. Catherine has found strength within herself to lead her through life. This is what Frederick must come to realize. Through his involvement with Ca .....
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Martin Luther
Number of words: 1628 | Number of pages: 6.... mercantilism had a major effect on the economies in the new
world. English speaking colonies were effected by England's policies
and acts. These policies and acts were means of controling the economy
of the colonies in America and strengthen the central government of
England. Dutch traders had the commercial vessel market well cornered
in the 1640's. It was very difficult for English colonies to compete
with the Dutch. With owning 75 percent of Northern Europes' vessels,
being well-financed and experienced, the Dutch were going to stay in
control of the market unless European Parliament intervined. In 1651
the Eu .....
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Rosa Parks
Number of words: 902 | Number of pages: 4.... their choices of housing and jobs, were forced to attend segregated schools, and were prohibited from using many restaurants, movie theaters. said, years later, "Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all of you were doing was acting like a normal human being, instead of crining. You didn't have to wait for a lynching. You died each time you found yourself face to face with this kind of discrimination." didn't like attending a poor, one-room school, with few books or supplies, not being able to stop on her way home from school to get a soda or a candybar. She hated how they were parts for blacks like restaurants, t .....
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Timothy Leary
Number of words: 1002 | Number of pages: 4.... yourself from the tribal game." (Marwick 312). This was not the first time his methods were questioned. Leary was first publicly noticed, and criticized by then fellow Harvard professors, for his interest in LSD when he and friend, Robert Alpert, wrote an article for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientist. In the article they described a circumstance that in the event of war, the Russians might try to lace the American water supply with LSD. Then, when everybody in America is stoned, the Russians would seize power. They explained that in order to prevent the scenario from happening, everyone should take a dose of LSD so they can .....
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Jane Addams
Number of words: 1340 | Number of pages: 5.... senator of Illinois for16 years” (Gale 54).
Her determination was seen early in her life. Even though many women were advised not to go to college because they were meant for marriage and not education, at the age of 17, Addams enrolled into a woman college called Rockford Seminary. “During her 4 years at Rockford, she took courses in German, Latin, Greek, history, literature, algebra, and trigonometry. She also studied science-geology, chemistry, mineralogy, and astronomy-as well as music, philosophy and Bible history” ( Kittredge 34). On top of taking these difficult courses, she scored nearly perfect in almost every class. .....
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Bill Gates
Number of words: 1799 | Number of pages: 7.... to computers. In the spring of 1968, the Lakeside prep school decided that it should acquaint the student body with the world of computers. Computers were still too large and costly for the school to purchase its own. Instead, the school had a fundraiser and bought computer time on a DEC PDP-10 owned by General Electric. A few thousand dollars were raised which the school figured would buy more than enough time to last into the next school year. However, Lakeside had drastically underestimated the allure this machine would have for a hand full of young students. and a few other Lakeside students immediately became inseparable f .....
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Jane Austen: Her Life And Work
Number of words: 1378 | Number of pages: 6.... nights together.
They played "charades around a candle-lit table. After the game, the girls
sewed or embroidered while the boys read aloud." (Wright, pg. 7)
Jane and Cassandra spent their whole life together, from birth till
Austen's death, where Jane died "with her head pillowed on Cassandra's
shoulder." (Wright, pg. 11) At age 7 , Cassandra and Jane "sent to a small
school run by a relative. (Wright, pg.7) They didn't stay there long
because Mrs. Cawley, the teacher and relative, moved away to Southampton.
(Wright, pg. 11) Soon after Jane left Mrs. Cawleys school, she caught a
horrible fever. It was called " putrid throat, a .....
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Thomas Paine: Propaganda And Persuasion
Number of words: 711 | Number of pages: 3.... was demonstrated
when he concluded, “Not a man lives on the continent, but fully believes
that a separation must sometime or other finally take place...” A second
type of propaganda used was either/or fallacy. Paine had the sentiment
that a man either fought for freedom or would always be known as a coward
when he stated, “The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his
children will curse his cowardice who shrinks back at a time when a little
might have saved the whole, and made them happy.” The third and final use
of propaganda in Paine's The Crisis was the bandwagon appeal. To truly be
an admired American, T .....
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