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Papers on People and Biographies
Confucius In The Chinese History
Number of words: 339 | Number of pages: 2.... murder happened even in the royal court. Government was routinely corrupt or distrusted by the people.
Confucius began a successful political career when he was a young man, but fell out in a short period of time. His personal goal was to restore peace followed the old political system but he retired from public life to concentrate on teaching and studying in his later life. As his students praised his talent for brilliant teaching and recorded them, we can read his words from the Analects.
Confucius died at 72. His birthday September 24th is celebrated in his hometown Qufu in recent years. Many scholars all around the world, .....
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John Lennon
Number of words: 2200 | Number of pages: 8.... In 1946, John’s father Fred, returned from sea and tried to take John with him to New Zealand. Julia stepped in and kept John in Liverpool with his Aunt Mimi. (Fogo)
The first school that John attended was Dovedale Primary School. Here he began his streak of rebelliousness that would last him throughout his entire adult life. Here John found that he enjoyed drawing. Since he had talent for drawing and did not do well in his other studies the head master of Dovedale Primary School suggested that he go to an art college. (Hampton)
In September of 1962, John started school at Quarry Bank Grammar School. Here he was also k .....
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Andy Warhol
Number of words: 1960 | Number of pages: 8.... to attend college. After
graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in pictorial design from Carnegie
Institute of Technology in 1949, he went to New York City with Philip Pearlstein,
who was a fellow student that later became a well-known realist painter. In
1960, Warhol finally began to paint in earnest and to view art seriously as a
career. He began his career with commercial drawings of women's shoes. In 1961,
an early manifestation was his Dick Tracy, an enlarged version of the comic
strip that was placed in the window of Lord & Taylor's department store. He
followed in his own footsteps to keep going in the ever-so-fa .....
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Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Number of words: 602 | Number of pages: 3.... the most important man aboard the boat. He wrote of these years
in 'Life on the Mississippi'.
The Civil War ended his career as a pilot. Clemens went west to Nevada
and soon became a reporter on the Virginia City newspaper. Here he began
using the pen name Mark Twain. It is an old river term meaning two fathoms,
or 12 feet, of water depth.
In 1864 he went to California. The next year he wrote his 'Jumping
Frog' story, which ran in many newspapers. He was sent to the Sandwich
Islands (now Hawaii) as a roving reporter, and on his return he began
lecturing. He was soon on a tour of the Mediterranean and the Holy Land.
F .....
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Richard Wright
Number of words: 629 | Number of pages: 3.... One of the men asked him about the problem and supposedly being helpful, told him to hold on to the car for a ride. So Richard did, with one hand on the car and the other on the bike. The men were drinking and one of them offered him a drink from inside the window. Richard immediately thought about his unpleasant experiences as a six-year-old drinking alcohol and instinctively said, "Oh, no!" That was the nearly fatal mistake that he was sure to never make again. As soon as he said that without a sir, he was hit in on the head with an empty whiskey bottle and was sent crashing to the ground all entangled with his bike. The wh .....
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Mark Twain And His Writings
Number of words: 2786 | Number of pages: 11.... is essentially a satirical writer and a humorist.
Twain as a writer, ridicules society in many aspects of American life through satire. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain uses the Grangerford and Sheperdson feud to criticize American culture and its’ inability to put past injustices behind and forgive one another. It serves as a major point in the story in which he condemns society in a number of areas. The feud between the families has been going on for some thirty odd years and Huck asks Buck, a member of the Grangerfords who is around Huck’s age , what the quarrel is over. He replies with not the fondest i .....
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King Solomon
Number of words: 1654 | Number of pages: 7.... copper-mining industry aided in Solomon’s wealth. Contact with other nations showed his advanced intelligence. Solomon displayed political and administrative wisdom and showed himself equal to his father by taking full advantage of the chance for economic expansion.
The Song of Solomon is a book of the Old Testament. It is a unique collection of love poetry. In Christian versions of the Bible it usually appears after the Book of Ecclesiastes. In the Hebrew Bible it is found after the Book of Job. It is believed to be written by , but the actual author or authors of the book are unknown. It is a non-religious subject .....
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Siddhartha Gautama
Number of words: 982 | Number of pages: 4.... the remainder of his eighty years,
the Buddha preached the dharma in an effort to help other people reach
enlightenment. When Siddhartha is a Brahmin, he believes in the existence of
many gods, and performs sacrifices to them. After a while he realizes this is
meaningless and decides to leave his family and community and become a Samana.
As a Samana, he tries to destroy himself in may ways. He feels if he kills
himself, with its passions and emotions, he will find the great secret.
Siddhartha doesn't spend much time as Buddha, although he has an important
revelation. He discovers he can't find peace by learning from a master. .....
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Eva Peron
Number of words: 2056 | Number of pages: 8.... something to be done for those who did not have enough to eat.
In 1930 Juana Ibarguen decide to leave Los Toldos and left to Junin with all her family seeking for a better fortune. Evita had this dream of someday becoming an actress and she believed in herself saying that she indeed has vocation. She participated in some recitals and plays from school. By 1935 Eva had made up her mind of becoming a great actress. Just after her fifteen birthday Eva met a tango singer: Agustin Magaldi, who had come to Junin to give some presentations. Eva seeking her dream left with him to Buenos Aires. When she left to Buenos Aires, these were time .....
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The Time Period And People Of
Number of words: 695 | Number of pages: 3.... it were dead or bleeding. And she had little dogs she would be feeding.” The Monk was also not a typical Monk. He wore gold jewelry and had classy attire. The Host “saw his sleeves were garnished at the hand With fine gray fur, the finest in the land.” The three rioters in the Pardoner’s Tale were also condemned. They became greedy stopped and were willing to stop at nothing to get the ‘florins’. This caused their death. They caused their own death
There were also a few people who were commended. The Parson and the Plowman are two examples. The Parson always went out of his way to help others and did unnecessary things .....
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