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Papers on People and Biographies
Malcolm X
Number of words: 783 | Number of pages: 3.... which consisted of friend named Shorty, a pretty boy type of fellow named Rudy, a woman that Malcolm dealt with named Sophia and one of her friends (Alex Haley 168). He soon found out that crime does not pay, when he soon got arrested and stolen items were found in his possession. The Negroes of that group was sentenced to eight years, while the whites of the group were sentenced to only two. This put an image in Malcolm’s head on how the justice system was ran. While in prison. Malcolm was well known to the guards. One time he was asked to state his number, but instead he said he forgot his number. The guards beat him and sent h .....
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Florence D. Griffith
Number of words: 500 | Number of pages: 2.... Brisco. Bobby Kersee became her coach. Later, Valerie Brisco joined them both at the University of southern Calirfoina. Bobby coached her throughout college. She was invited to the United States Olympic Trials in 1980. She came up just short of gaining a spot on the team in the 200 meter. It was her rival, Valerie Brisco, She took that spot away from her. In 1982 she gained a little spotlight when she won the National Colligate Meter with the time of 22.39 seconds. This caused people to look at her a little closer. In college, she still liked to stand out like she did in Kindergarten. During this time, she wore six inch nails .....
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Letter To Charles Darwin
Number of words: 529 | Number of pages: 2.... out
and experienced nature as a transparent eyeball, observing as much as I
could. I noticed the Pickerel under the ice in the pond, I never pondered
the possibility of the different kinds of Pickerel to be originated from
the same species. When you were observing nature in the Galapagos Islands,
you saw all the different types of plants and animals and postulated that
some of the different species of each came from a single ancestor.
Emerson, whom I mentioned previously, says,"Great geniuses have the
shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them," I
believe that to be true in your case. You didn't do much .....
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of words: 846 | Number of pages: 4.... a little less than one total year of education. Abraham did not have that much education because there were no teachers to teach him and his peers (Stefoff 15). Abraham also read as much as possible and he always found ways to find moments for reading. When he was plowing a field, for example, he carried a book and read a page or two at the end of each row, while the horses rested. “I never saw Abe after he was twelve that he didn’t have a book in his hand or in his pocket,” Dennis Hank later marveled. “It didn’t seem natural to see a feller read like that” (Stefoff 18).
Lincoln entered politics at an excitin .....
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Helen Keller
Number of words: 1583 | Number of pages: 6.... with very few ways to communicate with others around her. Obviously her attempts were not always successful. When she failed to communicate she would throw fits and have outburst that would upset not only her, but her family as well. Because of these violent fits, she appeared to be a very unruly child, but underneath all of the tragedy was a future inspirational figure that would surprise the world with amazing and countless abilities.
A large amount of Helen's accomplishments would not have been possible if it weren't for her mother and father. Her parents read about Samuel Gridley Howe's accomplishments with the deaf and bl .....
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Princess Diana
Number of words: 639 | Number of pages: 3.... school at the Institute Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. After the Easter term in 1978 she left the school when she moved to Coleherne. There she watched after a child for an American couple, while she began her job as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England school in Pimlice, London. Like most teachers she didn't have a lot of spare time on her hands, but when she got the chance for a break her and her three roommates would go skiing. A sport Diana loved very much and tried to enjoy as often as possible.
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In a changing world like ours today there is many uncertainties. There is one thing we are sure .....
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King Henry Viiii
Number of words: 696 | Number of pages: 3.... deprived him of his office of chancellor, and had him
arrested on a charge of treason. He then obtained a divorce through Thomas
Cranmer, whom he had made archbishop of Canterbury, and it was soon
announced that he had married Anne Boleyn.
The pope was thus defied. All ties that bound the English church to
Rome were broken. Appeals to the pope's court were forbidden, all payments
to Rome were stopped, and the pope's authority in England was abolished. In
1534 the Act of Supremacy declared Henry himself to be Supreme Head of the
Church of England, and anyone who denied this title was guilty of an act of
treason. Some chan .....
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Hammurabi
Number of words: 937 | Number of pages: 4.... of Law were broken into certain categories. These categories are not definitely known, but the majority of historians believe them to be: family, labor, personal property, real estate, trade and business. Many think the codes were too strict and the punishments too harsh. just believed that the punishment should fit the crime and that the strong should not dominate the weak.
Many of today’s forms of government have traces of the same principles that used. Today’s laws are written down (of course), put into their respective categories, known by all the people, and obeyed by the courts. One example of a principle is that of .....
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Comparison Paper - Sarah Kemple Knight Vs. Mary Rowlandson
Number of words: 1352 | Number of pages: 5.... showed no humor what so ever. Throughout her journal, Mrs. Rowlandson is constantly threatened and terrified, therefore this is a reason for her serious tone. An example of a sufficient reason for her serious tone occurs when an Indian warns her to have her child quit moaning, moaning brought because of lack of food, moaning that is only to cease when this child is dead, "Your master will quickly knock your child on the head" (24). This threatening along with others is a reason for her serious tone. Mrs. Rowlandson was not quite successful in surmounting difficulties or sufferings. For instance, after crossing the river to me .....
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Apollonius Of Perga
Number of words: 620 | Number of pages: 3.... forth by Euclid, Aristaeus and
Menaechmus. A number of theorems in Book 3 and the greater part of Book 4 are
new, however, and he introduced the terms parabola, eelipse, and hyperbola.
Books 5-7 are clearly original. His genius takes its highest flight in Book 5,
in which he considers normals as minimum and maximum straight lines drawn from
given points to the curve ( independently of tangent properties ), discusses how
many normals can be drawn from particular points, finds their feet by
construction, and gives propositions determining the center of curvature at any
points and leading at once to the Cartesian equation of the ev .....
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