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Papers on People and Biographies
Alexander Ghram Bell
Number of words: 914 | Number of pages: 4.... boarding school. He and his brothers, Melville and Edward, traveled throughout Scotland impressing audiences with demonstrations of their father's Visible Speech techniques. Visible Speech was invented by their father but he didn’t have much luck with it. It is a technique were ever sound that comes out of a persons mouth can be represented with a visual character. In 1871, Bell began giving instruction in Visible Speech at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes. Attempting to teach deaf children to speak was considered revolutionary. Bell's work with his deaf students in Boston would prove to be a watershed event in his life. One .....
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Captain Kidd
Number of words: 548 | Number of pages: 2.... Adventure Galley. When he reached the West Indies in April
1699, he learned that he had been denounced as a pirate. He then abandoned
the Quedagh Merchant at the island of Hispaniola and got aboard a newly
purchased ship, the Antonio, and sailed to New York City.
There he tried to persuade the colonial governor of New York, the Earl of
Bellomont, of his innocence. Bellomont, however send Kidd to England for
trial
In May 1701 Captain Kidd was found guilty of murder of a mutinous sailor
and of five counts of piracy. There was evidence concerning two of the
piracy cases that was suppressed at the trial and some observers .....
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Elvis Presley
Number of words: 1395 | Number of pages: 6.... of God church choir, which emulated the style of African-American psalm singing. At age ten Elvis placed first in a school singing contest. He then began to teach himself the rudiments of the guitar.
In 1949, Elvis was enrolled in the L.C. Humes High School in Memphis. The total combined salary of both his parents was a mere $35 dollars a week, but they managed. In 1953, Elvis graduated from high school and began working as a truck driver while he studied evenings to become an electrician. One day, while driving a truck for his company, Elvis noticed a sign that read, “Memphis Recording Service-Make Your Own Recor .....
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Alexander Hamilton
Number of words: 2573 | Number of pages: 10.... fever her husband sued for everything she had so that he could deprive the whore children of anything that could help them. Through all these tribulations Hamilton realized that nothing would be handed to him and he would have to work harder than anyone else to make a name for himself.
With his new found knowledge Hamilton took on the job as a clerk for an international trading company owned by Nicholas Cruger. Since he had experience as a bookkeeper in his mother’s store he rose quickly in the store’s power chain. Under his bosses tutoring he learned quickly learned about global finance. The port of St. C .....
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Modern American History
Number of words: 634 | Number of pages: 3.... government. This coupled with his exceptional achievement made Franklin a great inspiration to the people of his time that lasts to this day. Alan Greenspan is a recent figure in history, but his impact on the present and future economics of America is incalculable. The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Greenspan is in charge of setting interest rates and reporting to the government on the state of the entire economy. In essence, Greenspan’s job is running the day-to-day and long-term economies of the United States. He is involved in international and domestic trade. In addition, he regulates the stock market. The effe .....
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Thomas Edison
Number of words: 2111 | Number of pages: 8.... who asked questions. After three months of school, the teacher called Thomas, "addled". Thomas was pissed. The next day, Nancy Edison brought Thomas back to school to talk with Reverend Engle. The teacher told his mother that Thomas couldn't learn. Nancy also became angry at the teacher's strict ways. "She took Thomas out of school and decided to home-school him."(Allen pg. 34) It appears he briefly attended two more schools. However, his school attendance was not very good. So nearly all his childhood learning took place at home. Edison's parents loved to read. They read to him works of good literature and histo .....
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David Livingstone
Number of words: 3810 | Number of pages: 14.... of poor and pious parents, Neil and Agnes (Hunter) Livingstone, he had three brothers and one sister. The seven were crowded into a two-room house. The fa-ther, while delivering tea to his customers, would also distribute religious books. At age ten young David was put into the cotton-weaving mills factory as a piecer to aid in the earnings of the family. He purchased Rudiments of Latin, which he used to help himself study that language at evening school. His hours at the factory were long, from 6 a.m. till 6 or 8 p.m. He attended evening school from 8 to 10 p.m., then studied until midnight or later. Often he placed a book on a .....
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The Beliefs Of Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of words: 4992 | Number of pages: 19.... enabled him to become one of the most influential leaders of our time.
Integrity is a central value in a leader’s character and it is through integrity that King had vision of the truth. The truth that one day this nation would live up to the creed, “all men are created equal”. No man contributed more to the great progress of blacks during the 1950’s and 1960’s than Martin Luther King, Jr. He was brought up believing “one man can make a difference”, and this is just what he did. Integrity has a large effect on what we think, say and do, it is through King’s thoughts and actions that enabled so many people t .....
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Agatha Christie
Number of words: 1345 | Number of pages: 5.... was not outspoken in her thoughts, so she expressed her feelings in music. Later in life, she would turn to writing as a means of expression (Yaffe BKYaffe@nltl.columbia.edu). Agatha Miller’s first husband was Archibald Christie, who was a World War I fighter pilot. The newlywed Mrs. Christie worked as a nurse while her husband was off at war. Through her nursing experiences, she learned of many new drugs on the market. These drugs fascinated her, thus prompting her to use them as factors in several of her Graham 2 works. Her marriage to Christie lasted only twelve years, and they were divorced in 1926. Not long after her divorc .....
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Albert Einstein
Number of words: 588 | Number of pages: 3.... from 1902 to 1909, he completed an extraordinary
range of publications in theoretical physics. Most parts of there were written
in his spare time. In 1905 he submitted one of his many scientific papers to the
University of Zurich to obtain a Ph.D. degree. In 1908 he sent another
scientific paper to the University of Bern and became a lecturer there.
In 1914 Einstein returned to Germany but did not reapply for citizenship.
He was one of only handful of German professors who was opposed the use of force
and did not support Germany's war aims. After the war, the allies wanted the
removal of German scientist from internat .....
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