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Papers on People and Biographies
John Wayne
Number of words: 767 | Number of pages: 3.... 1940’s, his legend began to take shape. Relieved from
military duty due to physical problems, Wayne became the
film industry’s hard-core soilder, but had that compassionate
side. Movies released during the war, such as Flying Tigers
(1942), The Fighting Seabees (1944) and Back to Bataan
(1945) left Wayne with some pretty big shoes to fill.
The movies that he made at the end of the decade
were the ones that established him as an actor of merit.
Howard Hawks emphasized the willful side of Wayne’s screen
persona by giving him the part in Red River (1948). He
played the part of Tom Dunson, a difficult, un .....
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Adolf Hitler 2
Number of words: 888 | Number of pages: 4.... some recognition and felt himself to be part of community. Over the years Hitler became very devoted to the German military and Germany its self. The collapse of Germany was a personal catastrophe for him. Hitler did not want to believe that the fall of Germany was due in part to his admired military leaders. In the eyes of Hitler the collapse of Germany was due to those dark forces that he had scene in Vienna - Marxists and Jews.
After the war in 1918 Hitler returned to Munich and was employed by the army as a propaganda speaker to keep the military spirit alive in the disheartened and defeated German nation. In the course of n .....
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Moll Flanders 2
Number of words: 734 | Number of pages: 3.... help her through out her life span but not once does she use these skills to make a good living.
In this wealthy house she falls in love with a gentleman (older brother). Not once but in many different occasions she lets him make love to her and then takes the money that he offers to her as if it was job not love. In the end things don't turn out to the way Moll wanted them to and gets married to Robin (younger brother). She doesn't love him but marries him and has 2 kids with him. When he passes away she marries a Draper and with him has one child. The Draper spends all the money Moll had saved up and goes bankrupt. T .....
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John Lennon
Number of words: 650 | Number of pages: 3.... album, it followed several avant-garde sound collages recorded toward the end of the Beatles era with his wife and collaborator, Yoko Ono. The raw, confessional nature of Plastic Ono Band reflected the primal-scream therapy that Lennon and Ono had been undergoing with psychologist Arthur Janov.
There were, in fact, numerous facets to Lennon's character captured in the ongoing diary of his life in song. Many of his post-Beatles compositions - "Imagine," "Mind Games," "Instant Karma," and "Give Peace a Chance" – have rightfully become anthems, flaunting tough-minded realism, cosmic epiphany, hard-won idealism and vision .....
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Henry Adams
Number of words: 420 | Number of pages: 2.... mortal beings. People such as Rodin were representing women in paintings and sculptures sexually. Sex was becoming something more than just a means of reproduction. Suddenly Adams was far, far away from his Puritan custom-bound life.
People were no longer motivated by religion, being saved by God, and going to heaven; science, technology, money, and power had taken over the drives of man. Religion (a common “scale” of the past) had taken the backseat to science, technology, money, power, and the new ideas and art of sex (all new “scales” of the present and the future). “In opposition to the med .....
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The Life And Work Of Frederick Douglass
Number of words: 1990 | Number of pages: 8.... who raised money to purchase his freedom.
In 1847, Douglass relocated to Rochester, New York, and became the person in
charge of the Underground Railroad. Here he also began the abolitionist
newspaper North Star, which he edited until 1860.
In this time period, Douglass became friends with another well known
American abolitionist, John Brown. Brown was involved with the Underground
Railroad, and later wanted Douglass to join him on terroristic attacks on a
United States government arsenal at Harper's Ferry. Douglass declined to
participate in such activities. He fled, once again, to Europe, fearing that
his association wi .....
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Mao Zedong
Number of words: 1817 | Number of pages: 7.... his education, he then went to a secondaryschool , and later graduated from the first provincial school in Chang-Sha (McHenry 1992).
Mayo’s goals were formed in the matrix of the May Fourth Period. Along with many of the young Chinese of his generation he was concerned with how to maintain China’s integrity in a time when the world was dominated by the great powers and how to use for his own purpose the knowledge and ideas which had led to western superiority. He wished at the same time to preserve select portions of China’s tradition. He sought to promote national resurgence and cultural transformation (Schram 1994). .....
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Ray Bradbury
Number of words: 1245 | Number of pages: 5.... of a pleasant memory of a half-forgotten dream" (Person I). In 1932, after his father was laid off his job as a electrical lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson and again returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1934 the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California.
Bradbury graduated from a Los Angeles High School in 1938. His formal education ended there, but he furthered it by himself -- at night in the library and by day at his typewriter. He sold newspapers on Los Angeles street corners from 1938 to 1942. Bradbury's first story publication was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma," printed in 1938 in Imagination!, a .....
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The Life Of Aristotle
Number of words: 2310 | Number of pages: 9.... also wrote some short technical notes,
such as a dictionary of philosophic terms and a summary of the doctrines of
Pythagoras. Of these, only a few brief excerpts have survived. Still extant,
however, are Aristotle's lecture notes for carefully outlined courses treating
almost every branch of knowledge and art. The texts on which Aristotle's
reputation rests are largely based on these lecture notes, which were collected
and arranged by later editors.
Among the texts are treatises on logic, called Organon ("instrument"), because
they provide the means by which positive knowledge is to be attained. His works
on natural science i .....
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Martin Luther King
Number of words: 332 | Number of pages: 2.... all equal , and I'm going to see to that."
Over the years King was involved in many famous boycotts and marches,
but none of them matched his famous march in Washington. He gave a speech
that showed bigotry in the government. Now, just 20 years later, our
country is changing, and helping to change South Africa.
The key to all this success was Martin Luther King Jr. who showed us
that one man, nonviolently, could make a difference. Most of all he made us
realize that all men are created equal, and should be treated for what they
are, not limited by their appearance or anything else in this world. .....
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