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Papers on People and Biographies
Elie Wiesel
Number of words: 2392 | Number of pages: 9.... thought it was a vivid imagination speaking from his lips. No one wanted to
believe his story and people lived life as usual.
It was not until German troops would enter Hungarian territory that life
would change for the Jews of Signet. At first the German soldiers did not seem
like a threat. During the week of Passover things seemed to be going well.
People were celebrating yet, it was not a complete celebration. On the seventh
day of the Passover Jewish leaders of the community were arrested. After that
rules were set by the Germans. Jews were confined to their homes for three days
and they could no longer keep valuable .....
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Georg Simon Ohm
Number of words: 631 | Number of pages: 3.... electrical
current. In 1827 he published Die galvanishce Kette, mathematisch bearbeit (The
Galvanic Circuit, Mathematically Treated). This was a mathematical description
of conduction in circuits modeled after Fourier's study of heat conduction.
This is also known as Ohm's Law.
Ohm's Law, which is Georg's greatest accomplishment, started as an
experiment. The experiment's purpose was to find the relationship between
current and the length of the wire carrying it. Ohm's results proved that as
the wire increased the current decreased.
Ohm came up with a formula to state these findings. It is V=IR, where
as V=Voltage, .....
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Jackie Robinson
Number of words: 1051 | Number of pages: 4.... 1945 with the rank of second lieutenant. Robinson then started to play in the Negro National League and was eventually seen by a scout for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The scout brought Robinson to the attention of team president Branch Rickey, who wanted to try out his “noble experiment” of integrating the Major League. The Major League was closed to black players at the time because no owners would sign a black man to their teams. Even a year after Robinson’s historic signing, the owners of the teams voted 15 to 1 (with Rickey dissenting) against integrating the league (Rampersad 160). , however, did sign a cont .....
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Billy Sunday
Number of words: 2343 | Number of pages: 9.... and trivialized the Christian message and at worst he was a disgrace to the name of Christ (Dorsett 2).
There are elements of truth in both of these views. He was often guilty of oversimplifying biblical truths, and at times he spoke more out of ignorance than a heavenly viewpoint. He was also a man with numerous flaws. He spoiled his children, giving them everything that they asked for. He put enormous responsibility on his wife, burdening her with many aspects of his ministry. He always noticeably sought the applause of the crowd for his own praise. He often confused the will of God with his own social and political a .....
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William Shakespeare
Number of words: 700 | Number of pages: 3.... house and owned large amounts of farm land. Anne's father Richard called her Agnes which was interchangeably in the sixteenth century. The Hathaway farm house has now become known to the tourist industry as "Anne Hathaway's cottage." William and his wife Anne had three children. Susanna was born on May 26, 1583. The other two children, Judith and Hamnet were twins, born in 1585. Susanna married Doctor John Hall in 1607. Their home Hall's Croft, is today preserved as one of Shakespeare's properties. Judith Shakespeare married Thomas Quiney in 1616, at the age of 31. Hamnet Shakespeare died at the age of 11 in .....
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Who Was Adolf Hitler?
Number of words: 819 | Number of pages: 3.... He later joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, later called the Nazi Party. In 1920, the 25 Points of the Nazi Party were proclaimed, one of which called for the removal of the Jews from German society.
The Nazis tried to seize power by force in November 1923 (called the Beer Hall Putsch), but were thwarted by the Munich police. Hitler was
Convicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time, he began to write Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), which later became the second Bible in Nazi Germany. Hitler resolved to achiev .....
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Albert Einstein 5
Number of words: 1022 | Number of pages: 4.... exactly a teacher’s pet. The teachers at German school during his childhood “prided themselves on behaving like bossy, pedantic sergeant majors” (Strathern 13). Teachers told him he would never amount to anything. Einstein more than proved them wrong.
The first years on his own were the roughest for Einstein. He was unable to keep a job and wasn’t credited enough for anyone to believe his theorems, yet. He married Mileva Maric in 1902 and they had their first son, Hans Albert, was born (Magill 1035). Things came together for Einstein in 1905. While working as a patent clerk, he wrote five groundbreaking arti .....
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Henry VII
Number of words: 1662 | Number of pages: 7.... beginnings of a red beard. I tower over others, which helps with authority. I am clean-shaven, and my hair is combed short and straight in the French fashion. I have a round face. I keep myself trim at the moment with exercise. I enjoy shooting, singing, dancing, wrestling, casting of the bar, playing the recorder, flute and virginals, setting of
songs, making ballads, hunting and hawking. I also like to live life to the full, enjoying gambling, eating and drinking with little restraint.
.Diary
DATE: June 11th, 1509
King Henry VII’s death bed wish was for me to marry Catherine of Aragon – the princess who h .....
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Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" And His Life
Number of words: 967 | Number of pages: 4.... had a hand in
shaping his character.
After extensive injuries from the war, Hemingway returned unhappily to
Oak Park. The impression left on him by his participation in the war had
greatly changed him. He began living at home again but refused to get a job,
even when his mother ordered him to. Soon she kicked him out and he moved to
Chicago. Here he made a living writing for the Toronto Star and working as a
sparring partner for boxers. While he was in Chicago he met his first wife, the
young and innocent Elizabeth Hadley Richardson.
Soon the young couple were married and they moved to Paris. It was here
where Hemingway en .....
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Mahatma Gandhi
Number of words: 941 | Number of pages: 4.... life, poking at the ancient Hindu religion and culture and modern revolutionary ideas about politics and society, an unusual combination of perceptions and values. Gandhi’s life was filled with contradictions. He was described as a gentle man who was an outsider, but also as a godly and almost mystical person, but he had a great determination. Nothing could change his convictions. Some called him a master politician, others called him a saint, and millions of Indians called him Mahatma or Bapu (father).
Gandhi’s life was devoted to a search for truth. He believed that truth could be known only through tolerance and conce .....
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