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Papers on People and Biographies
George Washington Carver 3
Number of words: 393 | Number of pages: 2.... took all the nutrients from the soil, so the soil was fresh each planting season. The farmer took his peanuts and used them as a source of food for their livestock. Carver did not over look the peanuts as just food for animals, and found over 325 ways to use the peanuts for other reasons than food. He used peanuts to make peanut butter, cooking oil, printer ink, and many more useful applications for the peanut. Carver being the introvator that he was also found many ways for the pecan and sweet potato to help the soil. Carver developed many synthetic products that could be used by all people and not too hard to make. Car .....
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Biography On Guy De Maupassant
Number of words: 394 | Number of pages: 2.... in
which he served as a member of the French army. After the war was finished, he
entered the French civil service. He first served with the Ministry of Navy and
later with the Ministry of Public Institution. During the between 1873 and 1880
he also served as a literary apprentice under Flaubert. At this time,
Maupassant realized his weakness as a poet and concentrated on developing his
skills as a writer of prose fiction. Maupassant wrote a collection of short
stories that were published with a writers such as Bola, and Huysmans.
Maupassant work outshone all the others by far. This is Maupassant became
recognized as a wri .....
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Richard Warren Sears And Sears, Roebuck, & Company
Number of words: 1300 | Number of pages: 5.... sat in the railroad station until Richard
contacted the wholesaler, who offered him the watches for twelve dollars each.
He bought the watches and sold them by sending letters to other station
attendants describing the watches and offering them at the discount price of
fourteen dollars each. He sold those watches and ordered more to sell. To sell
these he advertised in a small way in St. Paul newspapers. He made a large
profit from this operation.
In a few months Richard made such a profit that he abandoned the railroad
business entirely and started his own mail-order business under the name of the
R.W. Sears Watch Company. I .....
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Hudson Taylor
Number of words: 1084 | Number of pages: 4.... that God shows in the Word. Sacrifice became a daily thing for Hudson, as God molded and shaped Hudson for His will.
was just that sort of man, one who you could call a saint. He would go where no one would want to go. And do what no one would want to do. He willed to do Gods will, and that was to go to china and spread the good news of salvation to all the lost and hurting people in china. He was to a fairly financially stable family. Except he was not saved yet when he was just a lad. Yet his mother prayed earnestly for a long time for the salvation of her only son. The prayer was answered by God, when Hudson accidentally p .....
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Charles Darwin And Imperialism
Number of words: 515 | Number of pages: 2.... The English perceived, through the justification of Darwinism, they were fit to be the imperial hegemon in the world. The issue this essay will deal with is Imperialism and how Darwinism justified its practice. Darwin argued in his work, The Decent of Man, "When civilised nations come into contact with barbarians the struggle is short except where a deadly climate gives its aid to the native race. . . the grade of civilisation seems to be a most important element in success in competing nations."(Darwin, Decent of Man, p. 297).
In this observation, Darwin connotated superiority to civilized nations. In this same .....
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John Dalton 4
Number of words: 638 | Number of pages: 3.... the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and in the same year he published his first book: Meteorological Observations and Essays. In his book Dalton stated that gas exits and acts independantly and purely physically not chemically. After six years of tutoring, John resigned to conduct private research while still doing tutoring at 2 shillings a lesson. In 1802 John stated his law of partial pressures. When two elastic fluids are mixed together ( A and B) they dont repel each other. A particles do not repel B particles but a B particle will repel another B particle. One of his experiments involved the addition of wa .....
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Joseph Stalin
Number of words: 954 | Number of pages: 4.... were sent to the Gulag camps from 1939 through 1953, for the crime of doing absolutely nothing. There were "...eight million souls (a conservative estimate) who languished in Soviet concentration camps every year between 1939 and 1953." under the horrible conditions at the Gulags. Every year Stalin, in his paranoia sent millions of people off to their deaths.
"Russia’s War - Blood Upon the Snow" brought into view a more detailed, personal account of Stalin’s atrocities. People recalling memories they had of what it was like to live under Stalin’s paranoid rule. During his five-year plans to become .....
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Louis Armstrong
Number of words: 1187 | Number of pages: 5.... included, selling papers, unloading
boats, and selling coal from a cart. On his off times he would go around to
clubs like the Funky Butt Hall to listen to bands play.
A jazz musician named King Oliver saw him and was impressed at his
attendance at so many of the local clubs that he inquired of him as to if he
wanted to learn to play the cornet. Armstrong said yes. He picked it up very
quickly and soon was playing in bands for people that were absent. This soon
lead to him starting his own band. This was all at the age of seventeen.
Armstrong played with his band, known as Louis Armstrong Hot 5 or Hot
7, for two y .....
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The Life Of Emily Dickinson
Number of words: 794 | Number of pages: 3.... towns people, and perhaps increased her interest in
death (Whicher 26).
Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, “the New
England mystic,” by some. Her only contact to her few friends and
correspondents was through a series of letters, seen as some critics to be equal
not only in number to her poetic works, but in literary genius as well (Sewall
98).
Explored thoroughly in her works, death seems to be a dominating theme
through out Dickinson's life. Dickinson, although secluded and isolated had a
few encounters with love, two perhaps serious affairs were documented in her
letters and poems. But, si .....
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Jon Philip Sousa
Number of words: 419 | Number of pages: 2.... Band in 1891 and1892, promoter David Blakely convinced Sousa to resign and organize a civilian concert band.
The first Sousa Band Concert was preformed on September 26, 1892 at the Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1895 Sousa's first successful operetta, El Capitan debuts.
In 1895 Sousa's first big tragedy hit. While on vacation with his wife in Europe, Sousa's promoter (David Blakely) died. This was hard for Sousa to face but it also inspired him to write the great Stars and Stripes Forever.
Through 1900-1905 Sousa and his band had three awesome tours in Europe. Finally, in 1910 he had his first world .....
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