Biographies
Study the biographies of people who have significantly influenced global change. Such people have appeared at all times throughout human history to give the world something new and unexplored.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald - a Biography
F. Scott Fitzgerald-A Biography Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896, in St. Paul Minnesota, to Edward and Mary McQuillan Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald’s mother was descended from Irish immigrants who had come to the United States during the years of famine in Ireland. His father came from Maryland and could trace his family back to the colonial period and to such famous ancestors as Francis Scott Key, who F. Scott was named after.
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Facts About Albert Enstien
-Your Mom- by Albert Enstien 1. He Liked His Feet Naked "When I was young, I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in the sock," he once said. "So I stopped wearing socks." Einstein was also a fanatical slob, refusing to "dress properly" for anyone. Either people knew him or they didn't, he reasoned - so it didn't matter either way. 2. He Hated Scrabble Aside from his
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Facts on E.E. Cummings
I -Biographical Data a) Born in 1894 b) Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts c) Edward and Rebecca Haswell Clarke Cummings, father was a professor of sociology and political science at Harvard University and later a Unitarian minister. d) His only sibling, a sister, Elizabeth, was born six years after he was. e) From 1911 to 1916, Cummings attended Harvard University, from which he received a B.A. degree in 1915 and a Master's degree for English
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Family Life During the War Years
During the war years, family life was seriously disrupted as family members were separated and often resettled in different areas. If the distance from one another was too great, they could not assemble for the rites and celebrations that traditionally reinforced kinship solidarity. Family ties were further torn by deaths and separations caused by the war and by political loyalties, which in some instances set one kinsperson against another. In those areas where hostilities occurred,
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Famous Americans - Jim Morrison
The Famous Americans Jim Morrison James Douglas Morrison, better known as Jim Morrison was best known for being the singer of the famous rock band “The Doors”. He was also a poet, writer and film maker. He was born 1943 in Florida, USA. He grew up in Irish American family. Ever since he was young, he was interested in poetry and literature. When he got older, he moved to California to begin studies at University
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Fantasy
Bibliography: This site is where we get the ingredients of making polvoron from crab shell http://pinoyfranchising.blogspot.com/2006/09/franchising-making-kropek-and-polvoron.html Acknowledgement: We'd like to thank the cousin of Wylmer who help us in cooking the polvoron and his aunt Lita who give us crab shells. We also want to give thanks to the father of John Rey who let us cook in their kitchen and also help us in cooking the polvoron. We also want to thank our parents
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Farm Aid
Farm Aid I have done a few things in my life but going to an all day, outdoor, music festival was not one of them. I was thinking of things to do to surprise Eric, when on the radio I heard about this Farm Aid Concert. It was to benefit family farmers, and was headed up by Kenny Chesney, John Cougar Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, and best of all Dave Matthews. I knew that Eric would
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Farris Wheel
Natalie Williams 11/22/08 5th period The Ferris Wheel Essay The first Ferris wheel was 264 feet high. It could hold over 2000 people and took 20 minutes to go around 2 times. The Ferris wheel was created by George Washington Gale Ferris. George Washington Gale Ferris went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a private research university located in Troy, New York. Mr. Ferris majored in civil engineering while attending college. After graduating
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Fartface Term Paper
I am a boring guy with nothing to do. Most days I sit in my mom's basement and decide if I should eat my boogers or pick my ass. My life has always been this way. One day I will shed the extra weight and maybe get a job. I would like to have a job that lets me fly to different places all the time and maybe I could have sex on one of
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Fashion in the 60's
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Fdr
The Great Depression in the United States was the worst and longest economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world. It lasted from the end of 1929 until the early 1940’s. Beginning in the United States, the depression spread to most of the world’s industrial countries, which in the 20th century had become economically dependent on one another. The Great Depression had quick declines in the production and sale of goods and a
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Fduyt Eo9uwiof J
Opportunities 1. Economies of scale: Pakistan Textile City in Port Qasim, Karachi with an area of 1250 acres, will be completed in 2011 as a private public sector joint venture. The main purpose of the textile city is to provide the textile industry with the world class infrastructure to meet the global competitiveness and challenges and as to provide value added textile industrial zone. Its main features include one way window operation, constant supplies of
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Federalist View of Changing the Articles of Confederation
The way at which we are governed needs to be changed. A better form of government is necessary, one that can unite our states, weigh the competing interests with justice, and stabilize the nation’s finances. The Articles were formed as a week way of governing ourselves. Now it’s time for us to rid ourselves of this burden and come out strong. Under the Articles we have no central government, which enables us to prosper. For
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Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca Federico Garcia Lorca was many things in course of his life. He was a playwright, a poet, a musician, a scholar, a homosexual and a martyr. Lorca’s life began in 1898 in the village of Fuente Vaqueros, just outside the Spanish city of Granada. He developed artistically at a very young age, studying music as a child and writing poetry starting in his teen years. He went off to The University of
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Ferrucio Lamborghini
Ferruccio Lamborghini was a self made millionaire, he made a fortune by building tractors from army surplus left by the Allied Forces back in 1945. He started this business from a small garage but soon was able to move to larger buildings because demand for his very powerful tractors rose. He also started manufacturing oil burners and air-conditioning systems after his tractor plant started making lots of money, it turned out his second business also
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Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926 (some sources give 1927), on his family's sugar plantation near Biran, Oriente, Province. His father was an immigrant from Galcia, Spain. He attended good Catholic schools in Santiago de Cuba and Havana, where he took the sparten regime at a Jesuit boarding school, Colegio de Belen. In 1945 he enrolled at the University of Havana, graduating in 1950 with a law degree. In 1948, he married
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Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro, the illegitimate son of a successful Creole sugar plantation owner, was born in Cuba in 1926. He was a rebellious boy and at the age of thirteen helped to organize a strike of sugar workers on his father's plantation. Both his parents were illiterate but they were determined that their children should receive a good education and Fidel was sent to a Jesuit boarding school. Although he disliked the strict discipline of the
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Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926. He attended Catholic schools before graduating from the University of Havana with a degree in law. Castro was a member of the Ortodoxo Party, a social-democrat party, and strongly criticized the government of Fulgencio Batista. On the 26th of July in 1953, Fidel Castro launched an attack on the Moncada army barracks. It failed, and most involved were killed or captured. Fidel was captured and given a
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Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro was born near Mayari Cuba in 1926. In 1950, he graduated from the University of Havana with a law degree and opened a law office with two partners. Two years later he ran for election to the Cuban House of Representatives. The elections were never carried out because then dictator Fulgencio Batista halted them and ended democracy in Cuba. This was perhaps, the defining moment in Castro's life. As a result of Batista's
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Fidel Castro
Biography of Fidel Castro Fidel Castro was born on August 14, 1927 in Mayari, Cuba. His parents were relatively wealthy and owned a sugarcane plantation. During his childhood, he attended private Catholic Schools and graduated to attend the University of Havana in 1945. His teachers immediately noticed Fidel's amazing memory, which he used to memorize entire books. At the university, he majored in law studies and became a member of several groups that opposed the
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Financial Aid Paper
To fulfill my goals in life, it is necessary for me to obtain an education after high school. Due to limited personal and family income, I will not be able to provide the necessary finances. I would greatly appreciate your consideration for financial aid. I am the oldest of three children, all of whom want to attend college. I would gratefully accept any form of financial assistance available to me. I have worked diligently
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Flannery O'Conner
1. I have heard a great deal about my father, tales of extreme hubris and smugness were always mixed with those of noble and humble intentions. He seemed to exemplify at times the focus of this essay on pride by Frazier. 2. Men, more so than women in my experience, seem to be guilty of: not stopping for directions, attempting to fix things about the house with little or no knowledge of them, zoning out
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Flannery O’conner
1. I have heard a great deal about my father, tales of extreme hubris and smugness were always mixed with those of noble and humble intentions. He seemed to exemplify at times the focus of this essay on pride by Frazier. 2. Men, more so than women in my experience, seem to be guilty of: not stopping for directions, attempting to fix things about the house with little or no knowledge of them, zoning out
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Flannery O’connor
Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, the only child of a Catholic family. The region was part of the 'Christ-haunted' Bible belt of the Southern States. The spiritual heritage of the region shaped profoundly O'Connor's writing as described in her essay "The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South" (1969). O'Connor's father, Edward F. O'Connor, was a realtor owner. He worked later for a construction company and died in 1941. Her mother, Regina L.
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy. Her parents named her after the city she was born in. She was born on May 12,1980, she was raised mostly in Derbyshire England. Many people when they hear Florence Nightingale think about her as a nurse and for her fight for better hospital care. Florence did a lot more in her life than achieve better hospital conditions, and become a nurse. She was a brilliant
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale was a legend in her lifetime and was one of the greatest pioneer's in nursing. She lived ninety years and accomplished many great things for the field of nursing. Her descriptions of nursing, health, environment, and humankind are remarkable and still true to this day. Nightingale reformed nursing and changed the way nursing was viewed. Some of the issues during Nightingale's time, the 1800's, we still face today. Nightingale not only impacted nursing
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Flourishment of a Culture
Changing your lifestyle is one of the most difficult tasks to do specially if those changes involve more people than just yourself. In newly discovered journals, Lauren Oya Olamina reveals the potential people have to completely shift a community’s culture to make beliefs such as Earthseed become the new hegemonic culture. Olamina is the leader of Earthseed; a religion that managed to take over the world. Originating in the 2020s after huge chaos struck California
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Forever
I was born in London England on November 19, 1988. The weather was so cold that snow fell upon the rooftops of London. I lived in there until I was six, attending school for 2 years. Then my parents decided to move to Ireland. My family and I lived in a very rural village. We lived at the foot of a mountain called The Nephin Beg, which stood at 3,528 ft. Life there was very
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Fqfa
1. From this sample we took of 100 quesstionnaires we tried to ask an even number but we ask 54% males and 44% females these are their views on chocalte bars to help us with our primary research. The main age group we where targeting was the younger market as they seem to be the most appealing to buy chocolate, where as 25% 18-25, 23% of 25-35, 22% 11-18 and 9% of 45+, we tried
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Fra Lippi
FRA FILIPPO DI TOMMASO LIPPI was one of the foremost Florentine painters of the early Renaissance. His religious painting are always decorative and full of keen observation and human interest. One of the best colorists and draftsmen of his day. Fra Filippo Lippi, was born in the year 1406, Fra Filippo Lippi who was born in Florence, Italy, in a side street called Ardiglione, under the Canto alla Cuculia, behind the convent of the Carmelite.
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