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  • Walt Disney Biography

    Walt Disney Biography

    Throughout history, there have been many notable American figures that had enormous impacts on almost everyone's daily lives. Although, one figure stands out among many, and that man worked his hardest to make his dreams come true, Walt Disney. Disney made a reputation of brilliance and "[t]he combination of Disney's desire to try new techniques and his striving to make a better product set him apart from most other animators" (Nardo 25). How could anyone

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    Essay Length: 1,643 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Sherwood Anderson:biography and Writing Techniques

    Sherwood Anderson:biography and Writing Techniques

    Anderson began writing novels and short stories in 1909 as self help therapy. Anderson was being plagued with business and financial worries. He would argue about work with his wife constantly, causing tension to mount between them. On November 12, 1912, Anderson got up and walked out of his business in the middle of the day. He had been working long hours for weeks, with no days off. Combine this with the daily stress

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    Essay Length: 287 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Yan
  • Hemingway Biography

    Hemingway Biography

    Ernest Hemingway – 1899-1961 Ernest’s Childhood Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in the family’s home at 339 North Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois. The family’s home was built by Ernest’s maternal grandfather Ernest Hall (www.lostgeneration.com). Ernest was the second child of a family of six children. He had four sisters and a brother. Ernest’s parents Dr. Clarence and Grace (nee Hall) Hemingway met while they were both students at Oak

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Artur
  • Roah Dahl Biography

    Roah Dahl Biography

    Roald Dahl was born on September 13, 1916, in Llandaff, South Wales, to Norwegian parents, Harald and Sofie (Hesselberg) Dahl. After graduating from Repton School in 1933, he went to work for the Shell Oil Company of East Africa until World War II started in 1939. He then served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot and he became a Wing Commander. In 1940 Dahl's plane was hit by a machine gun fire,

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    Essay Length: 772 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Tools of Persuasion in Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

    Tools of Persuasion in Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

    Abraham Lincoln started out in life as a log-splitter in Springfield, Illinois, blossomed into one of America’s greatest president, and had his life ended too early in the President’s Box of Fords Theatre. His Gettysburg Address demonstrates why we now see him as that great man—he did not antagonize, nor did he show disrespect to the dead, even those who fought for the Confederacy. He treated them all as people of one country, and

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    Essay Length: 610 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • George Washington Biography

    George Washington Biography

    On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. "As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles." Born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family,

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

    Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

    "Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure." "This leads to the further reflection, that no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable -- nothing

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    Essay Length: 384 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Man Who Changed History

    Abraham Lincoln: The Man Who Changed History

    ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE MAN WHO CHANGED HISTORY I remember that day in Illinois, it was very dark and cold. We moved many times when I was young. This time we were in Macon, Illinois. It was hard for me as boy, my mother died. Now I had a step mom. She was never going to take the place of my mother, but I saw her as my own. Growing up poor was very hard for

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    Essay Length: 1,323 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Jon
  • Lincoln's Assassination April 14, 1865

    Lincoln's Assassination April 14, 1865

    Lincoln’s Assassination April 14, 1865 On April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot. He went to the Ford's Theater that night with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone's fiancee, Clara Harris. After the play was in progress, John Wilkes Booth stepped into the presidential box, and shot him with a derringer pistol. This

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    Essay Length: 1,156 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Janna
  • An Analysis of Abraham Lincoln’s "emancipation Proclamation" and Marti

    An Analysis of Abraham Lincoln’s "emancipation Proclamation" and Marti

    Lincoln’s “Emancipation Proclamation” and King’s “I Have a Dream” speech have many similarities and differences between them. The “Emancipation Proclamation” was written in 1862 and given on January 1, 1863. This famous document freed the all African-Americans from slavery. The “I Have a Dream” speech written and given in 1963 dealt with equality and the way people were treated. Both speeches were similar in that they were both positive speeches. They both tried to be

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    Essay Length: 312 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: David
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln viewed slavery in the idea that "Slavery is a moral, social and political evil,” (necessary evil) and felt it was more important to ensure the preservation of the union as stated in his inaugural speech. However, during his years Lincoln faced a lot of pressure by abolitionists and radical Republicans in congress to issue an Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves. He also dealt with the issue of whether to let Negros fight

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    Essay Length: 642 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Sandra Day O’connor Brief Biography

    Sandra Day O’connor Brief Biography

    Biography For the past twenty-four years, ’Connor has served on the U.S. Supreme Court. She later studied at Stanford and in September of 1981 became the 102nd justice of the Supreme Court and the first female justice. Justice O’Connor announced her retirement on July 1, 2005. Sandra Day O’Connor was born on March 26, 1930 in El Paso, Texas. Her parents owned the Lazy-B-Cattle Ranch (a 198,000 acre cattle ranch) in Southeastern Arizona. The ranch

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Bred
  • Lincoln

    Lincoln

    Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, the son of Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln , pioneer farmers. At the age of two he was taken by his parents to nearby Knob Creek and at eight to Spencer Co., Ind. The following year his mother died. In 1819 his father married Sarah Bush Johnston, a kindly widow. Lincoln grew up a tall, gangling youth, who could hold his own in physical contests

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Vika
  • A Brief Biography of Mother Teresa

    A Brief Biography of Mother Teresa

    Mother Teresa of Calcutta lived from August 27, 1910 to September 5, 1997. She was an Ottoman-born Indian Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and her work with the poor and poverty in Calcutta made her one of the world’s most famous person. In October 1950 Teresa received Vatican permission to start her own order, which the Vatican originally labeled as the Diocesan Congregation of the Calcutta Diocese, but which later became

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    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Jack
  • Biography of Benjamin Franklin

    Biography of Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was married twice. Between both of Josiah's marriages, he fathered 17 children. Ben's schooling ended at age ten and at age 12 he became an apprentice to his brother James, a printer who published the New England Courant. Benjamin wanted to write for the paper too, but he knew that James would never let him because, Benjamin was just an apprentice.

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Edgar Alan Poe - Biography

    Edgar Alan Poe - Biography

    The Life Of Edgar Alan Poe a Biography 1809 -- 1849 He gained some fame from the publication in 1845 of a dozen stories as well as of The Raven and Other Poems, and he enjoyed a few months of calm as a respected critic and writer. After his wife died in 1847, however, his life began to unravel even faster as he moved about from city to city, lecturing and writing, drinking heavily, and

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: July
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln No president of the United States ever assumed office under more difficult conditions than Abraham Lincoln. By the time of his inauguration day, a large portion of the South had already seceded as soon as they heard of his election. Nor did he have the support and confidence of a large portion of the North either. To most Americans, Lincoln was a relative unknown and his homespun image and penchant for humor often led

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Monika
  • The Best President in American History - Abraham Lincoln

    The Best President in American History - Abraham Lincoln

    What defines a great President and what do we mean when we say someone is “the greatest”? Firstly a great President must be viewed as person who has achieved success in the office they hold. That includes effective implementation of policies which are clearly expressed prior to election and that are in the interests of the people who elected them. This is the very foundation of Democracy within the United States and was defined by

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Arthur Miller Biography

    Arthur Miller Biography

    Arthur Miller Arthur Miller was born October 17, 1915 to Jewish-American parents, Isidore and Augusta Miller. Due to the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Miller’s father lost his clothes and coat manufacturing company. Arthur Miller graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1933. His family had no money to send him to college because of the effect of the Great Depression. Miller went on in life having many ups and downs but still prevailed and

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Adlai Ewing Stevenson once said “our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free." Abraham Lincoln is the epitome of strength and success. Abraham Lincoln is, to the highest degree, recognized all over the entire world. He has had quite a mark on world history. Abraham Lincoln is one of the world’s most

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Monika
  • A Biography on Martin Luther King Jr.

    A Biography on Martin Luther King Jr.

    Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One

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    Submitted: February 2, 2010 By: David
  • Henry Ford Biography

    Henry Ford Biography

    Henry Ford Born July 30, 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford was the first child of William and Mary Ford. As a young man he became an excellent self-taught mechanic and machinist. At age 16 he left the farm and went to nearby Detroit, a city that was becoming an industrial giant. There he worked as an apprentice at a machine shop, while months later he would begin work with steam engines at the Detroit

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    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Biography of Anne Moody

    Biography of Anne Moody

    Anne Moody is a well-known contemporary black native Mississippi author. She has written biographical works depicting life in Mississippi and the struggles of black people in the South. Many people can relate to her style of writing. Her books help people understood what life was like in the South before and during the civil rights movement. Anne Moody was born in Wilkinson County, Mississippi on September 15, 1940 to Fred and Elnire (Williams) Moody. She

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    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: July
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln When people sit back and reminisce about the United States being one of the most prominent nations, they generally do not think that without one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States, there could be chaos and uncivilized conditions. Without this president, our great nation could have been divided into two, the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America. Slavery, one of the most terrible forms

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    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Matthew Reilly Biography

    Matthew Reilly Biography

    Matthew Reilly was born on July 2nd, 1974 in Sydney. He was one of Australia’s best action thriller authors. His great action book series have made him famous worldwide today. Discovering, at age 15, that adventure books could be enjoyable and fun to read, he decided to try and create stories of his own. While attending the University of New South Wales, he wrote his first book called “Contest”. He finished writing it when he

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Wendy

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