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Papers on People and Biographies
Columbus
Number of words: 466 | Number of pages: 2.... he did what he did. was accused of cruelty to animals and humans, but so was everyone else at his time. Just like today everyone goes to school, everyone in ’ time was cruel. Yes, wanted to enslave the Native Americans, but other people also wanted to enslave Africans. He should not be condemned because he was a man of his time when he was able to do so many great things.
More over, without ’ courage, we would all be living in Europe. Thanks to him, mankind is distributed throughout the entire world. Life would be a lot different if we were crowded, living in Europe. Now we have the Americas to spread out in .....
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Emily Dickinson: Life And Her Works
Number of words: 1827 | Number of pages: 7.... actually seeing them face to face. She developed a reputation as a myth,
because she was almost never seen and when people did catch a glimpse of her she
was always wearing white. Emily Dickinson never got married but is thought to
have had a relationship with Reverend Charles Wadsworth who she met in the
spring of 1854 in Philadelphia. He was a famous preacher and was married. Many
scholars believe that he was the subject of her love poems. Emily probably only
saw Wadsworth an additional three times after their first encounter which was
only done by him going to Amherst, where she lived. In 1861 Wadsworth moved to
San F .....
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Robert Frost 2
Number of words: 1044 | Number of pages: 4.... become a businessman. Frost read even more in college, and learned that he loved poetry.
His poetry had little success getting published, and he had to work various jobs to make a living, such as a shoemaker, a country schoolteacher, and a farmer. In 1912 Frost gave up his teaching job, sold his farm, and moved to England. He received aid from poets suck as Edward Thomas and Rupert Brooke, and published his first two volumes of poetry, A Boy's Will in 1913, and North of Boston in 1914. These works were well received not only in England, but in America. Frost returned to America in 1915 and continued writing his poetry. He produc .....
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Vincent Van Gogh
Number of words: 1503 | Number of pages: 6.... Cent arranged for him to be transferred to the Paris office in the hope that his spirits might be revived by a change in scene. Here he became increasingly careless in his work. He was given three months notice, and then six years of training as an art dealer came to an end. He was almost twenty-three, unemployed, and had not the slightest idea what he would do next. Vincent decided to return to England, where he found a job as a teacher in a boarding school. After he gave up that job, he took another teaching job at a school in Isleworth.
As a young man 's strongest compulsion was to love and help mankind. The son of a mi .....
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The Wright Brothers
Number of words: 522 | Number of pages: 2.... In 1900 they built their first glider that traveled 300 feet. In 1901, using aerodynamic tables compiled by Samuel Langley and Lilienthal, they constructed new wings for a larger glider; the flight was poor so they set out to test the tables. They made 200 model wings and tested them in a small wind tunnel. The tables were proven wrong and the Wrights painstakingly computed new ones. In 1902 their third biplane beat all other records for glider flight.
For the construction of their first powered airplane, Flyer I, they had to design a lighter gasoline engine and an efficient propeller. In 1903, with a strong wind at Kitty H .....
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Steven Spielberg
Number of words: 716 | Number of pages: 3.... the chance to direct a thriller about a great white shark terrorizing a
small New England beach town. Jaws cost $8.5 million and grossed $260 million.
Spielberg followed it up two years later with Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
earning a Best Director Oscar nomination and proved to the world that he was one
of the best directors of the time.
However, he followed Close Encounters with the disastrous Movie, 1941,
which was his first attempt at comedy and his first true failure. He didn't take
long to regain his form, both commercially and artistically. Teaming up with his
pal George Lucas (whose Star Wars came out the sam .....
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Antony And Cleopatra
Number of words: 872 | Number of pages: 4.... cannot be cunning in her; if it be
she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove. (I, ii, 147-152) After Antony reveals that he has just heard news of his wife's death, we are once again offered an
example of Enobarbus' freedom to speak his mind, in that he tells Antony to "give the gods a thankful sacrifice" (I.ii.162), essentially saying that Fulvia's death is a
good thing. Obviously, someone would never say something like this unless they were in very close company. While acting as a friend and promoter of Antony,
Enobarbus lets the audience in on some of the myth and legend surrounding Cleopatra. Probably his biggest role in the .....
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Lewis Latimer
Number of words: 1035 | Number of pages: 4.... grammar school and was an excellent student who loved to read and draw. Most of his time, though, was spent working with his father, which was typical of children in the 19th century. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that a slave named Dred Scott could not be considered a free man although he had lived in a free state. George Latimer disappeared shortly after the decision became known. Because he had no official papers to prove he was a free man, he possibly feared for his safety and that of his family.
With his father gone and his mother struggling to keep the family together, Lewis falsified his age and joined th .....
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Number of words: 1089 | Number of pages: 4.... one he got on 1502, June and November, when
Valantino tried to separate the unity of Florence with the help of the
rebellions by Arezzo and Valdi. Machiavelli examined the policy by Caesar
Borgia closely and carefully : Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo,
Signore Pagolo and Duke Gravina's killing which is bound with Duke
Valentino's behavior (1503). This writing was so important in
Machiavelli's history of political thought as well as the two other works
of him written in the same year : the first work he harshly criticizes the
hesitant character of the politics in Florence, in his second work he
criticizes the powerless s .....
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The John Scopes Trial
Number of words: 550 | Number of pages: 2.... famous in the country at the time, was the defense attorney. He was only interested in the case after he learned of Bryan's involvement. During the case, Tennessee got much recognition. People fled from across the country and filled up hotels just to witness this trial. It was the most popular trial at the time. Scopes received much unwanted national press. For example,people seemed out to get him when as one girl, a student of his, asked him to walk her out and at the end of the walk, she kissed him, and at the moment, flood lights and cameras went off. There was much viciousness toward him inflicted by fundamentalists. The tria .....
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