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Papers on People and Biographies
Diaghilev
Number of words: 1192 | Number of pages: 5.... led by the Russian painters Léon Bakst and Alexandre Benois. During this time, did succeed and indeed felt he had finnaly found his place in life. He founded AND edited a progressive art journal – "Mir Iskusstva" ( The World of Art) from 1899 – 1904. In 1899, as a project, became the artistic adviser to the Imperial Theatres in Moscow, where he produced and co-produced several operas and ballets. It was then that he decided what he really wanted to do and after completing his term with the Imperial Theatres and the printing of Mir Iskusstva being canceled, he decided to move and settle in Paris, France, .....
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Boris Yeltsin
Number of words: 2040 | Number of pages: 8.... was a seamstress.
In his youth Boris blew off two fingers trying to disarm a hand grenade (he was most likely playing with it not disarming it). Boris graduated from Pushkin High School in Berezniki where his parents lived from the late 1930's to the early 1970's. After graduation, Boris went to Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk. While in college, Boris played pro volleyball for Sverdlovsk in the USSR first division. In 1955 he graduated with a major in construction. In 1955 he got his first job, he worked for Uraltiazhtrubstroy. Boris mastered twelve construction skills (stonemason, carpenter, etc.) and .....
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Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
Number of words: 1950 | Number of pages: 8.... of “Lenkbare Luftschiffe” or “guidable airships”. This idea had always pursued him in the last 20 years. It was particularly the success of the airship LA FRANCE, which had very much impressed Zeppelin. In a letter to his king, Zeppelin referred, particularly, to the possibilities of the military use of this technology. A meeting with the military authorities, following on it, did not bring good results for it. The authorities over-estimated the problem of air resistance as substantially higher than it really was.
Only in the year 1892, the concrete work on the project began. With the assistance of .....
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Frederick Douglass' Life And His Work
Number of words: 418 | Number of pages: 2.... arsenal and armory there. He objected. Warning Brown that an attack on federal property would be equal to an assault on the U.S. government, and would prove disastrous. Douglass withdrew from further participation.
He campaigned for Abraham Lincoln during the presidential election of 1860, and helped raise two regiments of black soldier, the Massachusetts 54th and 55th. After the Civil War, Douglass, as a recognized leader of and spokesman for the black slaves, fought for enactment of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the U.S. He became U.S. marshal for the District Columbia (1877-1881), recorder of .....
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Mahatma Gandhi
Number of words: 519 | Number of pages: 2.... the South African authorities. For this, Gandhi coined the term Satyagraha, a Sanskrit word meaning truth and firmness. In 1914, the government of the Union of South Africa made important concessions to Gandhi’s demands including recognition of Indian marriages and abolition of poll taxes for them. With his work in South Africa complete, he left for Britain in 1914.
When Gandhi arrived in India in 1915, he was welcomed as a hero. Gandhi’s writings and devout life won him many Indian followers. They followed him in his campaign for swaraj or “home rule”. He worked to reconcile all classes and religious .....
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Talcott Parsons
Number of words: 2254 | Number of pages: 9.... were questioned and challenged by rival sociologists. His studies became even greater and his theories more significant. Until the time of his death, his principal aim focused on the systematic study of social action and it's components. He looked at the surrounding factors and if and why they influenced the social system. As an award before his death, Parsons received high honors for his accomplishments in sociology. Many people considered him the most intelligent sociologist of his era.
Methods for Securing Information
To gather material on this subject, I used a few research tools. First, I utilized the internet as a source .....
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Benito Juarez
Number of words: 636 | Number of pages: 3.... the position of city alderman. Then, in 1833 he was elected to the Oaxaca State legislature. Next, in 1834 he became the attorney for the state. Governments changed, as was characteristic in Latin America, and he was thrown in jail. He then was released, and gained support of both Liberals and Conservatives and in 1841 he became a senior judge in the state’s capital court. He was a great judge, he was impartial, didn’t care about race, sex, or social class. He also followed dressing patterns similar to Abraham Lincoln, with a black wool suit, white linen shirt, black bow tie, and a "stovepipe" hat.
Benito ke .....
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Rasputin: The Man, The Mystery
Number of words: 1500 | Number of pages: 6.... for Rasputin.
At the age of nineteen, Rasputin returned to his home in Pokrovskoe. There he fell in love and married Praskovia Fyodorovna. Together the two had three children. They had Dimitri in 1897, Maria in 1898, and Varvara in 1900.
Marriage wasn’t enough to keep Rasputin in one place. He continued to wander to places of religious significance suck as Mt. Athos, Greece, and Jerusalem. He was a self-proclaimed holy man. He had the power to heal the sick and the power to predict the future. His fame grew greatly. Soon people traveled from long distances in search of his well heard about abilities and insight. For Rasputinâ .....
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Robert Boyle
Number of words: 1244 | Number of pages: 5.... At the age of twenty-seven, he finally became what he wanted to be for so long, an experimental scientist.(Sootin pp.37-38) He continued at Oxford and received an Honored M.D., and later was accepted to be a member of the Royal Society, a big scientific group. It was a great honor to be a part of that scientific group.(Salzberg p.161)
Arguably, is most famous for Boyle's Law. Boyles's Law, in formula form, is Pressure x volume = a constant. Boyle's Law in word form is, "At constant temperature for given mass of gas, volume varies inversely with pressure" ( Biddle p.164).
Robert performed many experiments throughout his ca .....
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Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Number of words: 835 | Number of pages: 4.... on Japan twice, The Soviet Union
developed their own nuclear weapon. The Arms Race was on. Suddenly both
countries expended large amounts of resources on making these bombs useful in
combat. Three hundred billion U.S. dollars2 were spent to ignite this project
and produce only a small number of functional bombs. The Soviet Union was
thought to have spent about equal amounts.
By the late 1950's what we now know as the Cold War erupted. Nuclear Holocaust
seemed inevitable. Tensions between the Communists and the States reached
monumental highs. The whole United States suddenly went into a panic mode that
would stay resident u .....
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