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Papers on People and Biographies
Oprah Winfrey
Number of words: 1152 | Number of pages: 5.... with poverty, sexual abuse, racism as a child, and her lifelong battle with weight.
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi on January 29, 1954. As a child, she moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, then moved back to Nashville. She has lived through poverty, repeated sexual abuse, and a sentence to a juvenile delinquent home. (Hyde 1997 p.57) Oprah was crowned Miss. Black Tennessee at age 19. In 1973. She left Tennessee State University and became a newscaster for WTVF in Nashville. Three years later, Oprah became a news anchor in Baltimore at an ABC station but after 9 months, she was pulled off the air because of an .....
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Biography Of John Steinbeck
Number of words: 254 | Number of pages: 1.... to New York City and worked as a laborer and journalist for five years, until he completed his first novel in 1929, Cup of Gold. Soon thereafter, Steinbeck married and moved back to California, where he published two more novels (The Pastures of Heaven and To a God Unknown), as well as worked on short stories. With the publication of Tortilla Flat in 1935, Steinbeck achieved popular success and financial security. A relentless and dedicated writer, Steinbeck experimented with many forms: In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath (considered to be his masterpiece) focus on the California laboring class; he wrote a .....
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Biography Of Elizabeth Blackwell
Number of words: 1022 | Number of pages: 4.... asked a
friend back home to sell their house and send them the money, but the
friend sold the house and disappeared with the money. Suddenly,
Elizabeth's father died leaving the family with debts, bills, and only
twenty-five dollars in cash. The family had to make money quick, so the
girls opened a school and the boys got jobs. The boys made so much money
the girls were able to close their school.
Elizabeth walked around the house for days wondering what to do
with her life.
One day, she was visiting her mother's sick friend when the lady
said that she could be the first woman doctor. Elizabeth agreed. Everyone
was shocked .....
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Edgar Allan Poe: Reflection Of His Pessimistic Moods In His Work
Number of words: 398 | Number of pages: 2.... that he experienced.
Therefore he wrote about a raven.
Finally, Poe's use of assonance throughout the poem also contributed to
the poem's illustration of despair and gloominess. Assonance is the repetition
of vowel sound. For instance, at the end of each stanza it says, "Quoth the
raven, Nevermore," "This is it and nothing more," or a phrase ending with the
word more. The repetition of these sounds emphasize the words that contribute to
the mood of the poem. Nevermore is a negative word meaning never again. The
raven only said this word. Poe emphasizes nevermore because it helps accentuate
the depressed and despaired mood .....
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Julius Caesar's Personality Was What Killed Him
Number of words: 513 | Number of pages: 2.... His superstition shows when he claims his wife, Calpurnia, she can be cured of sterility if she is touched by one of the holy runners. In this case the holy runner is friend Mark Antony who is with him until the end. Two other men in the crowd, Marcus Brutus and Cassius, are nobles and conspire against Caesar. They plan to assassinate Caesar and his friend Mark Antony. Caesar starts to sense this and says to his friend “Cassius has a lean and hungry look;/ He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.”(Act I Scene II) Caesar was right. They were planning to eliminate him. They found his weaknesses and sought allies. .....
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Herman Melville
Number of words: 2935 | Number of pages: 11.... and slow. His mother regarded him as a dull boy. (http://www.comptons.com) In 1826 Allan Melvill wrote of his son:
"He is very backward in speech & somewhat slow in comprehension, but you will find him as far as he understands men and things both solid and profound, and of a docile and amiable disposition."
("Concerning " http://www.melville.org/others.html)
In that same year, scarlet fever left the boy with permanently weakened eyesight, but he attended Male High School. When the family import business collapsed in 1830, the family returned to Albany, where Herman enrolled briefly in Albany Academy. Allan Melvill died in 1832 .....
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Martin Luther King
Number of words: 1566 | Number of pages: 6.... where she
was booked. He and 50 other ministered held a meeting and agreed to start a
boycott on December 5th, the day of Rosa Parks's hearing. This boycott
would probably be successful since 70% of the riders were black. The bus
company did not take them seriously, because if there was bad weather, they
would have to take the bus. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)
was established to co-ordinate the boycott. They had a special agreement
with black cab companies, in which they were allowed to get a ride for a
much cheaper price than normal. Blacks had to walk to work, and so they did
not have time to do any shoppin .....
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Poe
Number of words: 1434 | Number of pages: 6.... entered the University of Virginia. There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other necessities. was confused and homesick. He learned to play cards and started drinking. Soon he was in debt in excess of two thousand dollars. discovered that he could not depend upon Allan for financial support. His foster father refused to pay his debts, and had to withdraw from the University (Asselineau 410). In May of 1827, enlisted in the army as a common soldier. He did this u .....
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Carl Jung
Number of words: 3700 | Number of pages: 14.... Carl found out about his father's concern, the faints
suddenly stopped, and Carl became much more studious.
He had to decide his profession. His choices included archeology,
history, medicine, and philosophy. He decided to go into medicine, partly
because of his grandfather. Carl went to the University of Basel and had
to decide then what field of medicine he was going to go into. After
reading a book on psychiatry, he decided that this was the field for him,
although psychiatry was not a respectable field at the time. Jung became
an assistant at the Burgholzli Mental hospital in Zurich, a famous medical
hospital. He studied .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Number of words: 1185 | Number of pages: 5.... Bach and Beethoven and his mother's gift of geometric blocks. Growing up, Wright spent much of his summers at a farm owned by his uncles; here, his favorite pastime was building forts out of hay and mud. In 1882, at the age of 15, he entered the University of Wisconsin as a special student, studying engineering because the school had no course in architecture. Wright left Madison in 1887 to work as a draftsman in Chicago. Wright worked for several architectural offices until he finally found a job with the most skillful architect of the Mid-West, Louis Sullivan, soon becoming Sullivan's chief assistant. Wright was assigned most of .....
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