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Papers on People and Biographies
Jesse Jackson: A Brief Biography
Number of words: 277 | Number of pages: 2.... million
votes, and registered over two million new voters.He never got one electoral
vote. He sees himself as the leader of African-Americans, women, unionists, the
homeless, the unemployed, and the underemployed. He is offended that Bill
Clinton has a large amount of minority supporters. He has been known to get
overly excited and emotional when speaking, and sometimes offends people. In one
speech he said that the Christian Coalition is made up of "Nazis, slave owners,
and segregationists." Another time he publicly remarked, "In Germany, they call
what's going on "fascism". In South Africa they call it "racism". Here in
Ame .....
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B. F. Skinner
Number of words: 1070 | Number of pages: 4.... P.h.D. in psychology at Harvard University.
(Ulrich, 1997)
John B. Watson
John Broadus Watson was born in Greenville, South Carolina on January
9th 1878. He went to college at Furman University and the University of Chicago.
Watson created "Psychological behaviorism" in 1912. He told the world about his
theory of behaviorism in a 1913 paper entitled ``Psychology as the Behaviorist
Views It.'' In the paper he described Behaviorism as the part of psychology that
shows behavior as "a series of observable movements in time and space". (Turner,
1997) He rejected both conscious and unconscious mental activities and defined
behavior a .....
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Thomas Jefferson
Number of words: 4784 | Number of pages: 18.... you propose, and, when you address me, I shall
be obliged if you will omit the 'Mr.' "
If we can imagine Washington doing so undignified a thing as did President
Lincoln, when he first met our present Secretary of State, (John Sherman)
and compared their respective heights by standing back to back, a sheet of
paper resting on the crowns of Washington and Jefferson would have lain
horizontal and been six feet two inches from the earth, but the one was
magnificent in physique, of massive frame and prodigious strength,—the
other was thin, wiry, bony, active, but with muscles of steel, while both
were as straight as the proverbial I .....
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Ben Franklin
Number of words: 442 | Number of pages: 2.... this. Franklin believes that everything must have it’s place, and business must have it’s own time. This being my “business” it is receiving it’s own time.
Resolution: “Decide what you need to do, and do what you say you are going to do.” Ben says that you must figure out what it is that you are responsible to do, and do it so that you can be considered responsible.
Frugality: You should be nice to others because it is only going to cause trouble if you are not pleasant to be around. Being nice to others will not only benefit the others but yourself, as well.
Industry: You must take car .....
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Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X
Number of words: 2195 | Number of pages: 8.... and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an integrationalist philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should be united and live together in peace. Malcolm X, however, promoted nationalist and separatist doctrines. For most of his life, he believed .....
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Frank Lincoln Wright
Number of words: 1425 | Number of pages: 6.... His parents divorced when Wright was still young. His mother Anna
(Lloyd-Jones) Wright, relied heavily on upon her many brothers sisters and
uncles, and was intellectually guided by his aunts and his mother.
Before her son was born, Anna Wright had decided that her son was gong
to be a great architect. Using Froebel's geometric blocks to entertain and
educate her son, Mrs. Wright must have struck genius her son possessed. Use of
the imagination was encouraged and Wright was given free run of the playroom
filled with paste, paper, and cardboard. On the door were the words, SANCTUM
SANCTORUM (Latin for: place of invio .....
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John The Baptist
Number of words: 450 | Number of pages: 2.... known of John prior to his public ministry, except that his birth was miraculously foretold (Luke 1:13-20). John achieved recognition as a prophet in the region of the lower Jordan Valley, where he attracted disciples. His public ministry began with the proclamation of a baptism of repentance in preparation for the Messiah. Crowds came to be baptized among them his cousin Jesus of Nazareth, whom John recognized as the Messiah.
So the baptism account which is three verses in Mark (1:9-11) and two similar verses in Luke (2:21-22), is five verses in Matthew (3:13-17). It is there that we hear tells Jesus that he is unworthy to bapti .....
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Biography Of Samuel Clemens
Number of words: 592 | Number of pages: 3.... after being involved in the shooting of a civilian. He said he
knew retreating better than it's inventor did.
He soon decided to travel 1,700 miles from the Missouri Territory ,
to the Nevada Territory. He passed through Overland City, Horseshoe City,
and many large and small cities in between.
Clemens commented that Salt Lake City was healthy. He said that
the city had one doctor who was arrested once a week for lack of work.
Virginia City was very lively from all of the gold and silver found near.
He commented that the saloons, courts and prisons were busy and there was a
whiskey mill every fifteen steps. .....
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Babe Ruth
Number of words: 1040 | Number of pages: 4.... the man who Babe claimed to be the greatest man who ever
lived, Brother Mathias. Brother Mathias was the one who handed Babe his
punishments, and it was Babe who always touted his strong, yet caring hand that
led him to baseball. It was also at St. Mary's that Babe started his life of
giving. He would save up his money from his job in the Tailor shop and often
spend it on large amounts of candy to give away to the little boys at St. Mary
who were poor, or orphans.
Brother Mathias was the one who introduced Babe to baseball, as a
recreational game to play during the spring. It wasn't long until Babe was the
only 13 year old playi .....
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The Life Of Emily Dickinson
Number of words: 1126 | Number of pages: 5.... others. Like all the Dickinson children, male or female, Emily was sent for formal education in Amherst Academy. After attending Amherst Academy with conscientious thinkers such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and after reading many of Emerson's essays, she began to develop into a free willed person. Many of her friends had converted to Christianity, her family was also putting enormous amount of pressure for her to convert. No longer the submissive youngster she would not bend her will on such issues as religion, literature and personal associations.
She maintained a correspondence with Rev. Charles Wadsworth over a subst .....
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