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Papers on People and Biographies
Richard Nixon's Presidency
Number of words: 1481 | Number of pages: 6.... Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-80), whom he
labeled th e for what he alleged to be her pro-Communist sympathies. He won
the election, but his campaign tactics were widely criticized.
Vice-President
In 1952 the Republicans nominated Nixon to be the running mate of
presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower. When it was disclosed that as
a senator Nixon had accepted an $18,000 fund fo r from California
businessmen, he was nearly dropped from the Republican ticket. Nixon's
televised self-defense, called th e speech because of a sentimental
reference to his dog Checkers, saved his political life. As vice-president,
Nixon emerged .....
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Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not
Number of words: 1672 | Number of pages: 7.... relation to his mother Maria Melville. “Apparently the older son Gansevoort who carried the mother's maiden name was distinctly her favorite.” (Edinger 7) This was a sense of alienation the Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one of the first symbolists to the Biblical Ishamel.
In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the U.S. he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18 month voyage he deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among the natives, who were cannibals. He escaped aboard an Aust .....
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Herman Melville
Number of words: 528 | Number of pages: 2.... 16: His son, Malcom melvelle is born.
1850 Publishes white jacket. Moves to Arrowhead farm in Pittsburg,
massachustettes.
1851 Publishes the famous moby-dick. Oct. 22 Stanwix Melville is born.
1852 Publishes Pierre which prompted one newspaper made a headline
"herman melville crazy".
1853 Elizibeth Melville is born.
1855 March 2: Frances Melville is born. Publishes Israel potter.
1856 Publishes the Piazza tales.
1856-57 sails to europe and the holy land where he gathers materials for
tyhe long poem clarel.
1857 Publishes the confidence man.
1857-60 lectures in the north and the midwest.
1863 the me .....
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Gauss
Number of words: 415 | Number of pages: 2.... He made this his life's passion and is regarded as its modern
founder.
Gauss studied at the University of Gottingen from 1795 to 1798. He soon decided
to write a book on the theory of numbers. It appeared in 1801 under the title
'Disquisitiones arithmeticae'. This classic work usually is held to be Gauss's
greatest accomplishment. Gauss discovered on March 30, 1796, that circle, using
only compassses and straightedge the first such discovery in Euclidean
construction in more than 2,00 years.
His interest turned to astronomy in April 1799, and that field occupied his
attention for the remainder of his life. Gauss set u .....
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Shakespeare
Number of words: 497 | Number of pages: 2.... would have learned around his father’s shop. Spectators said they have seen William give speeches to the calf before slaughtering them for his father’s leather work.
William married Ann Hathwey in 1582. She was also from Stratford where William was born. Even though she was eight years older than he, their marriage was a success. Ann was three months in pregnancy when they were wed. Their first born Susanna was born in May 26, 1583. After that they had twins named after life time friends, Hamnet and Judeth Sadler. There wasn’t much talk from William about his marriage except some of his literature showed apparent resemblanc .....
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Michelangelo
Number of words: 334 | Number of pages: 2.... His father wanted some of his money. loved his father with all of his heart. was not doing well with money at the time, but gave his father some. Then, Julius Pope asked to paint the vault of the Sistine Chapel. took the job and started. He started in 1508 and finished in 1512.
When was 59 years old, ’s dad and favorite brother died. After they died, returned to the Sistine Chapel to paint behind the alter. Seven years later, it was complete. Then, died on February 18, 1564. Men dedicated their lives to work for him. He was a truly great artist with the brush and with the hammer and chisel.
By Michael D .....
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Biography Of Charles Dickens
Number of words: 777 | Number of pages: 3.... These left a permanent mark on his
imagination; their effect on his art was quite important. dickens also went to
some performances of Shakespeare and formed a lifelong attachment to the theater.
He attended school during this period and showed himself to be a rather solitary,
observant, good-natured child with some talent for comic routines, which his
father encouraged. In retrospect Dickens looked upon these years as a kind of
golden age. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, is in part an attempt to
recreate their idyllic nature: it rejoices in innocence and the youthful spirit,
and its happiest scenes take place in that precis .....
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Fredrick Douglass
Number of words: 512 | Number of pages: 2.... abolished. In the first issue of the Liberator in 1831, he had proclaimed “I WILL BE HEARD” (32).
Ever controversial, Garrison made many enemies throughout the country. As described by Douglass in his autobiography Life and Times, Garrison made sweeping attacks on organized religion because the churches refused to take a stand against slavery. He also believed that the U.S. Constitution upheld slavery. Garrison said that abolitionists should refuse to vote or run for political office because our government was so ill founded. He also called for the Union to be dissolved, demanding that it be split between a free .....
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Shoeless Joe Jackson
Number of words: 1471 | Number of pages: 6.... game on that ‘scandalous’ day, Joe Jackson begged the owner of the White Sox; Charles Comiskey to listen to him in regards to the fix of the game that was about to happen. The evidence was proven that Jackson had even asked to be benched for the series to avoid any suspicion of his involvement in the fix. Unfortunately, Comiskey did not listen to Jackson. "Heavy betting was taking place" (Everstine 3). The game was played, after being fixed; the White Sox lost, even though there were seventeen other players on the team that attempted to do their best. Despite their best efforts, the "fix was successful&qu .....
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Jack London
Number of words: 607 | Number of pages: 3.... novels were usually based on nature and adventure, coming from real life experiences, which appealed to millions of readers.
was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco, California. The relationship between his mother, Flora Wellman, and his father, William Chaney, ended while Flora was pregnant. He was given the name, John Griffith Chaney. Later in her life, Flora remarried to John London. At age ten, John Chaney changed his name to . Growing up, Jack thought that John London was his father. The London family was very poor, John being a door-to-door salesman. Unable to make a living in San Francisco, they moved to Oa .....
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