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Papers on People and Biographies
Peter The Great
Number of words: 2447 | Number of pages: 9.... the influences that shaped his life. was the fourteenth child of Alexei Mikhailovich, born in Moscow on May 30, 1672. Tsar Alexis died when Peter was four years old. His mother raised Peter. Tsars' Alexis son from his first marriage, Feodor Alekseevich succeeded to the throne but his reign did not last long. On April 27, 1682, Tsar Feodor died. In line to succeed him were, his brother Ivan and Peter who was his half-brother. Peter was only ten years old. With the assistance of the semiprofessional musketeers garrisoned in Moscow, sister of Feodor, Sophia, seized power and declared herself regent, proclaiming both Ivan .....
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Walt Disney
Number of words: 714 | Number of pages: 3.... This remarkable man’s many achievements also include the longest-running prime time television series (1954-1983), the Academy Award-winning true-life adventure nature films. Walt had many great ideas that he needed to share with others. The was a great persuading leader, he had to make others believe in him and accept his ideas. Walt knew how to tell his ideas to other and get them excited about his new idea and want to help him.
In 1953 Walt’s vision of an amusement park began. He visited fairs, carnivals,
circuses and parks to study the attractions and the people. Anaheim, California is selected as the place where Disn .....
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The Death Of John F. Kennedy
Number of words: 2339 | Number of pages: 9.... 1964 and 1978, The Warren Commission and the House Select Committee did the best they could with photographic and computer technology. With the scientific advances we had since then give us such better enhancements of the film taken. There is one film that is far the most crucial. All or part of the assassination was taken on film by many witnesses who had eight-mm movie cameras or still cameras. The one shot by Dallas dressmaker Abraham Zapruder was a color film in an eight-mm movie camera. It followed the President’s car from the time it turned from Houston Street onto Elm Street. It stayed on the car through the .....
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of words: 423 | Number of pages: 2.... that we have among the different people of the world today.
Lincoln also designed a plan known as the reconstruction. This construction plan would bring peace to the seceded states and Union, and would bring them back together in unity. This plan of reconstruction brought peace to the Confederacy and Union, because now the states that had once seceded from the Union now had a chance to get back in to be unified once again. Under this plan, Lincoln wanted to form 10 percent government. Under this plan, each individual state could form their own government. This brings peace to the individual state governments, because then thes .....
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D.h. Lawrence
Number of words: 766 | Number of pages: 3.... Another
wonderful example of the nature in ’s writing would come from The Shadow in the Rose Garden. In this book, the images he has given to a person, make it seem like they really are there. “She closed her sunshade and walked slowly among the many flowers. All around were rose bushes, big banks of roses, then roses hanging or tumbling from pillars, or roses balanced on the standard bushes.” The nature in his books truly surrounds a person.
His writing contained heightened sensation. liked to leave his reader’s hanging on to the moment, to continue reading to find out what would happen next. In the s .....
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Robert Penn Warren
Number of words: 1010 | Number of pages: 4.... did not always have ambitions to become
a writer, in fact, one of his earlier dreams was to become an adventurer on
the high seas. This fantasy might have indeed come about, for his father
intended to get him an appointment to Annapolis, had it not been for a
childhood accident in which he lost sight in one of his eyes.
Warren was an outstanding student but there were also many books at home,
and he savored reading. His father at one time aspired to be a poet. His
grandfather Penn, with whom he spent much time when he was young, was an
exceptional storyteller and greatly influenced young Red. But both of these
men whom he lov .....
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George Washington Carver
Number of words: 390 | Number of pages: 2.... from the soil, so the soil was fresh each planting season. The farmer took his peanuts and used them as a source of food for their livestock. Carver did not over look the peanuts as just food for animals, and found over 325 ways to use the peanuts for other reasons than food. He used peanuts to make peanut butter, cooking oil, printer ink, and many more useful applications for the peanut. Carver being the introvator that he was also found many ways for the pecan and sweet potato to help the soil. Carver developed many synthetic products that could be used by all people and not too hard to make. Carver developed adhesives, ble .....
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Rosalind Franklin
Number of words: 509 | Number of pages: 2.... of DNA when Franklin returned to England. She became the first person to find the molecule¡¯s sugar-phosphate backbone while working with a team of scientists at King¡¯s College in London. Unfortunately, leadership misunderstandings and personality conflicts depreciated Franklin¡¯s effectivness in the laboratory. Maurice Wilkins, the laboratory¡¯s second in command, returned from a vacation expecting Franklin to work under him. Franklin came to the laboratory with the understanding that she would be researching alone. While Franklin was direct and decisive, Wilkins tended to be alluding and passive-aggressive. As Fra .....
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Charles Manson
Number of words: 1567 | Number of pages: 6.... prosecution witness, a
potential 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 pl .....
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Gandhi
Number of words: 777 | Number of pages: 3.... recover from World War II, would this issue just be pushed aside until their own affairs are looked after? Ghandi was hopeful yet a bit sceptical.(Attenborough) "Those of us who had been hammering on the doors of the India Office for years past had an impression of a great change of attitude. Up to 1945, she had felt that the attitude of official Britain was: ‘of course, we are ready to bring the Congress leaders(or more likely they would say: ‘The Hindu leaders, including the Congress and your friends Ghandi and Nehru') into full partnership anytime; but you see what happens. They can not agree with the Muslims. As long as .....
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