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Papers on People and Biographies
Muhammed Ali
Number of words: 1576 | Number of pages: 6.... said that Clay was an overall nice guy. He was polite and always did what he was asked to do. He carried his Bible with him all the time, read when he could, and loved it. Throughout his amateur career and high school, Clay worked at the Nazareth College Library. Clay also was viewed as a kid obsessed with boxing. Clay got bigger and stronger as his talents grew. Sometimes, to keep in shape, Clay would race the city buses to school. Bettie Johnson, a school counselor said “Clay wasn’t a good student, and if he had not been a boxer, he would not have stood out in any way but he went to school like he was supposed to.” .....
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Benjamin Franklin 4
Number of words: 758 | Number of pages: 3.... Soon Franklin had ambitions to write and by age 16 he had written a series of letters by an imaginary author. The letters were printed in the New England Courant, which was published by his brother. Still pursuing his writing career, he ran away to Philadelphia and continued working in the printing business. He arrived in 1725 with one Dutch dollar and one copper shilling. By 1729, he had bought and published The Pennsylvania Gazette. He then married his landlady’s daughter, Deborah Reed. In the next seventeen years Franklin had three children, published the first Poor Richards Almanac, and invented the Pennsylvania .....
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Poore Brothers
Number of words: 1396 | Number of pages: 6.... could buy their products. In order to serve all their Arizona customers they started a distribution company. Today Distributing is the premier snack food distributor in the State of Arizona.
It was only a matter of time until the products found their way across the Arizona border into California and other states. Eventually Don and Jay licensed the brand and manufacturing process to companies in Minnesota and Tennessee. In the early 1990's, the snack food business began to change with the addition of low fat and baked snack products. So they changed too. They began cooking their product in Sunflower Oil. This oil is low in .....
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Charles Dickens 2
Number of words: 585 | Number of pages: 3.... got out of jail his mother wanted him to stay at work. Happily the father's view prevailed. His schooling, interrupted and unimpressive, ended at 15. He became a clerk in a solicitor's office, then a shorthand reporter in the lawcourts, and finally, like other members of his family, a parliamentary and newspaper reporter. These years left him with a lasting affection for journalism and contempt both for the law and for Parliament. His coming to manhood in the reformist 1830s, and particularly his working on the Liberal Benthamite “Morning Chronicle” greatly affected his political outlook. Another influential ev .....
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Significant Woman - Cleopatra
Number of words: 957 | Number of pages: 4.... have been Cleopatra V Tryphaena, who either died or disappeared in 68 BC, right after Cleopatra VII’s birth in 69 BC. Cleopatra VII had two older sisters, Cleopatra VI and Berenice IV, and one younger sister, Arsinoe IV. She also had two younger brothers, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV.
Ptolemy XII ruled until his death in 51 BC, with only a brief interruption in 58 BC when his second eldest daughter, Berenice IV, took over the kingdom. His will named Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIII as heirs to the throne. Leaders in Rome were named as guardians and were to uphold the choice of Ptolemy XII for the two to marry and jointly rule Egyp .....
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Emily Dickinson 6
Number of words: 1078 | Number of pages: 4.... parents didn't have a close relationship with them, but they did love and care for them. Emily's parents made sure she had a good education. She went to a primary school for four years then she attended Amherst Academy from eighteen hundred forty through eighteen hundred forty-seven. After that she went to Mary Lyon's Female Seminary ( Mount Holyoke Female Seminary ) for only a year. The seminary insisted on religious as well as intellectual growth. Emily didn't like the religious environment and was under considerable pressure to become a professing Christian. When it came to religion, Emily was a skeptic. She returned .....
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Galileo Galilei
Number of words: 928 | Number of pages: 4.... leaning tower, he laid the foundation experimentally of the theory of falling bodies and demonstrated the falsity of the peripatetic maxim, which is that an objects rate of descent is proportional to its weight. When he challenged this it made all of the followers of Aristotle extremely angry, they would not except the fact that their leader could have been wrong. Galileo, in result of this and other troubles, found it prudent to quit Pisa and move to Florence, the original home of his family. In Florence he was nominated by the Venetian Senate in 1592 to the chair of mathematics in the University of Padua, which he occupied for ei .....
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Jim Abbott
Number of words: 559 | Number of pages: 3.... that he could do anything he wanted to do. They
knew that their son loved sports. They hoped that Jim would play soccer, which
didn't require the use of hands, but right from the very beginning, Jim loved
baseball. So, Jim's parents bought him a baseball glove. However, Jim was not
just involved in baseball. He was the top scorer in his school's intramural
basketball league, and played two years of varsity football. Jim's various
athletic exploits resulted in press attention. When Jim got to college, he
picked up right where he had left off in high school. His two main goals were
to get an education and to become the best .....
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Confucius
Number of words: 576 | Number of pages: 3.... spread all throughout Lu. In his speeches he also taught the people gathered his view of filial piety and his views of moral values. Then at the age of fifty he was appointed as the minister of crime of Lu. This administration was very successful, and made Lu very powerful and free from crime. never wrote his teachings out on paper himself, however they were passed down through his disciples and later wrote out in text form in a document called "Lun Yu."(Encarta ’98, ")
Lao Tzu was born sometime around 570 in the province of Henan and there he was a court librarian. Lao Tzu was not his real name; this name w .....
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Pope John XXIII
Number of words: 406 | Number of pages: 2.... and of all humanity. Another of ’s accomplishments was writing seven encyclical letters. Many of these letters stressed the importance of human rights.
Another important thing that did as pope, was be open to other faiths. This was shown by his establishment in 1960 of the secretariat for promoting Christian unity, by his contacts with Orthodox church and Protestant leaders and with the World Council of Churches, and by his promotion of Christian-Jewish dialogue. His sure diplomatic sense together with his popularity made him an influential figure in international affairs, and he met with a number of world leaders, incl .....
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