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Papers on People and Biographies
Darwin
Number of words: 1769 | Number of pages: 7.... poor and crowded streets he sees a rather rich Duke stroll toward the direction of the Beagle. Whatever grace and beauty that this man was proposed to have was immediately dismissed as our young stranger saw him strike one of his servants to the ground. England at this time was a fabulous place to live if you had the money, yet for the poor, it was a place of vile disgust.
The young man continues on toward his goal. As we walks he sees a message posted on the wall. It boasts of communism and that the answer to society's problems has now been answered. At this time Karl Marx, the creator of communism, had just publicly come out with .....
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Malcolm X And Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of words: 3185 | Number of pages: 12.... culture 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 that o .....
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Eli Whitney
Number of words: 1966 | Number of pages: 8.... in the country.
In his early twenties, Whitney became determined to attend Yale College. Since Yale was mostly a school for law or theology, his parents objected. How could Yale College help enhance his mechanical talents? Finally, at the age of twenty-three, Whitney became a student at Yale. By this time, he seemed almost middle-aged to his classmates. After he graduated with his degree in 1792, he found that no jobs were available to a man with his talents. He eventually settled for teaching, and accepted a job as a tutor in South Carolina, his salary was promised to be one hundred guineas a year.
He sailed on a small coastin .....
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Thomas_Jefferson
Number of words: 814 | Number of pages: 3.... As Jefferson's authorship became widely known, however, he moved suddenly into the front rank of American political theorists. In the pamphlet, Jefferson argued that the original settlers of the colonies came as individuals rather than as agents of the British government. The colonial governments they formed therefore embodied the natural right of expatriates from one country to select the terms of their subjection a new ruler. Colonial legislatures and the British Parliament, he asserted, shared power, and both were responsible for protecting the "liberties and rights" of the people. The Declaration of Independence, draft .....
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Pablo Picasso
Number of words: 342 | Number of pages: 2.... were years of rich artistic exploration and great productivity. Picasso continued to design theater sets and painted in Cubist, Classical and Surreal modes. In the early 1930's, Picasso did a large quantity of graphic illustrations.
During World War II, Picasso lived in Paris, where he turned his energy to the art of ceramics. From 1947 to 1950, he pursued new methods of lithography.
The l950's saw the beginning of a number of large retrospective exhibits of his works. During this time he began to paint a series of works conceived as free variations on old master paintings.
In the 1960's, he produced a monumental 50-foo .....
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Number of words: 870 | Number of pages: 4.... he is commonly remembered for is painting, which in where he mastered the two techniques of sfumato and chiaroscuro. Sfumato is the technique to transition color, into a smoky or hazy effect. Chiaroscuro is the mastery of shadows and shading (Encarta-96). He uses these techniques very well in his most famous painting, the "Mona Lisa". Combining science and techniques at times left his works into technical disaster, yet left the work itself marvellous. The best example for that was possibly 's last piece, "The Last Supper" (Costantino 18). By his understanding and involvement of nature, Leonardo made art a science, by his inner sen .....
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez (spanis
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Andrew Jackson
Number of words: 1805 | Number of pages: 7.... faction led by William Blount. He was married in 1791 to Rachel Donelson Robards, and later remarried to him due to a legal mistake in her prior divorce in 1794.
Jackson served as delegate to Tenn. in the 1796 Constitutional convention and a congressman for a year (from 1796-97). He was elected senator in 1797, but financial problems forced him to resign and return to Tennessee in less than a year. Later he served as a Tennessee superior court judge for six years starting in 1798. In 1804 he retired from the bench and moved to Nashville and devoted time to business ventures and his plantation. At this time his political car .....
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Blaise Pascal
Number of words: 1674 | Number of pages: 7.... him going and during his play times in this
room he figured out ways to draw geometric figures such as perfect circles, and
equilateral triangles, all of this he accomplished. Due to the fact that É
tienne took such painstaking measures to hide mathematics from Blaise, to the
point where he told his friends not to mention math at all around him, Blaise
did not know the names to these figures. So he created his own vocab for them,
calling a circle a "round" and lines he named "bars". "After these definitions
he made himself axioms, and finally made perfect demonstrations." (P 39,Cole)
His progression was far enough that he reach .....
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Charles Manson
Number of words: 1566 | Number of pages: 6.... danger to Manson, so faithful members of the "Family" tried to
kill her with a hamburger laced with LSD. Before her testimony, another
"Family" member, Gary Hinman, who had also fled he group, was killed
because he had betrayed the "Family." As you can see, the punishment for
crossing the "Family" was severe.
Manson makes claims to thirty-five murders. Although he was convicted
for others, there was not enough evidence to bring him to trial for the
thirty five.
THE MOTIVE BEHIND THE MAN
The driving force behind Manson's killing was hard to prove and hard
to believe. Manson had a plan in his head. When the Beatles first
r .....
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