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  • Mikhail Gorbachev Biography

    Mikhail Gorbachev Biography

    Mikhail Gorbachev Biography • Born 1931 into a peasant family • Studied law at Moscow University in the 1950s • Worked as a local Communist Party official in his home area • By 1978 he was a member of the Central Committee of the party and was in charge of agriculture • In 1980 he joined the Politburo • He was a close friend of Andropov, who was the Soviet leader in 1983, and shared

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    Essay Length: 487 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2008 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: February 18, 2009 By: regina
  • Biography of Genghis Khan

    Biography of Genghis Khan

    Biography of Genghis Khan The old world had many great leaders. Alexander the Great, Hannibal and even Julius Caesar met with struggle on their rise to power. Perhaps Genghis Khan was the most significant of all these rulers. To prove that Genghis Khan was the greatest ruler, we must go back to the very beginning of his existence. We must examine such issues as; Genghis№s struggle for power/how his life as a child would affect

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    Essay Length: 1,058 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: regina
  • Ray Bradbury Biography

    Ray Bradbury Biography

    Ray Bradbury Biography U.S. author, born in Waukegan, Ill., on Aug. 22, 1920. In his stories, Bradbury wove together the intrigue of changing technology with insightful social commentary. One of his best-known works was 'The Martian Chronicles'; a collection of interrelated stories concerning colonization of the planet Mars those attracted readers both young and old. In it, Bradbury portrayed the strengths and weaknesses of human beings as they encountered a new world. Ray Bradbury grew

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    Essay Length: 365 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: regina
  • Al Capone Biography

    Al Capone Biography

    Al Capone was possibly the largest and most feared mofia boss America has ever seen. This 1920's gangster made his mark on the world through organized crime during the Prohibition era. He is solely attributed with Chicago's reputation as a lawless city. Alphonsus Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York. As a child he was a member of the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors "kid gangs." Capone quit

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    Essay Length: 929 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Jack
  • Biography on Julius Caesar

    Biography on Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar A Man of Great Stature Julius Caesar was a strong leader of the Romans who changed the course of the history for the Roman world decisively and irreversibly. With his courage and strength, he created a strong empire and guided the empire for almost 20 years. His life was short, but had many adventures. I will tell of some of this man's remarkable life. He did many things, therefore, I will only discuss

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    Essay Length: 751 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Jack
  • 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: 770 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Edward
  • Short Chronicle of a Revolutionary

    Short Chronicle of a Revolutionary

    SHORT CHRONICLE OF A REVOLUTIONARY 1928 June 14, Ernesto Guevara was born in the city of Rosario, Argentina. 1932 Guevara's family moved to Alta Gracia, province of Cordoba, Argentina 1948 Ernesto Guevara traveled around the Argentinian provinces. 1951 December; he left for Chile and Peru with his friend Granado. Guevara lived for a short time in the leper colony of Huambo. Then he continued his journey to Bogata and later to Caracas. 1953 Back in

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    Essay Length: 900 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 26, 2009 By: Andrew
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald - a Biography

    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. Fitzgerald

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    Essay Length: 326 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 26, 2009 By: Andrew
  • 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: March 2, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Edvard Munch: A Biography

    Edvard Munch: A Biography

    Edvard Munch: A Biography Edvard Munch is regarded as a pioneer in the Expressionist movement in modern painting. At an early stage Munch was recognized in Germany and central Europe as one of the creators of a new movement in art. Munch and many artists of the time needed to express their feelings about all the change that was happening around. Edvard Munch was born in Norway in 1863; he knew how a person's emotional

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    Essay Length: 726 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 17, 2009 By: David
  • Short Review on Snow Falling on Cedars

    Short Review on Snow Falling on Cedars

    Evocative and extremely well written, this book lets the mind soar throughout all different types of drama. The fictional world the write has created is so realistic that the atmosphere is unmistakably recognized. Including history and romance, this incredibly written book satisfies the reader in ways no book can. The primary pleasure of the book is David Guterson's interpretation of the diverse characters and the beautiful places. Set on an island in the straits north

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    Essay Length: 294 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2009 By: Edward
  • A Biography on Al Gore

    A Biography on Al Gore

    A Biography on Al Gore As the Vice President, and one of the main running candidates in the presidential race, Al Gore has a lot on his hands. He manages to handle a full family as well as his duties at work and running a, hopefully, successful race. His main challenge will be to convince the people of the United States that he is the best of all of the candidates. This may be somewhat

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    Essay Length: 575 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Vika
  • John Updike’s Short Story A&p

    John Updike’s Short Story A&p

    Professor Al Osborn, M.A English1302.011 February 9, 2007 A&P. Discuss John Updike’s short story, “A&P” is fictional in a sense that it has a common pattern that leads the reader through a series of events. These events began when three young ladies in bathing suits walk in A&P, and catch the eye of a young man named, Sammy. He seems to favor the chunkier girl of the three that walk in to the store.

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    Essay Length: 906 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Mary Shelley : Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley : Frankenstein

    'All things truly wicked start from an innocence.' Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) The Creature was not born evil. Nor was his corruption his fault. He was born innocent, without fault or sin. The Creature was turned to a Monster after he learned of humanity, and what a cold, cruel thing it can be. He was shunned, beaten, chased, and persecuted by those who did not understand him. The Monster then turned bitter and vengeful, and hated

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    Essay Length: 766 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • Galileo Galilei Biography

    Galileo Galilei Biography

    This late breaking news has just come in. Galileo Galilei has been named one of the smartest men alive. Certain theories he has made has been a great success to our society. He has now invented what he has called a thermometer. This thermometer is used to check temperature. He has also invented what is also called a compass, which is used to locate directions to a certain point. He has made many other great

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    Essay Length: 453 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Vika
  • Maya Angelou’s Biography

    Maya Angelou’s Biography

    Maya Angelou is a multi-talented person. She is the african female that always struggle for herself and her life. She is the woman who always care to everyone around her. She also the creative poet that always write many poems which is related with life. Her poetry becomes famous because of her hardships of life. In her poetry, it seems as is she is telling a story. Her story goes like this, she was born

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    Essay Length: 280 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Hermann Ebbinghaus: Biography and Studies

    Hermann Ebbinghaus: Biography and Studies

    Hermann Ebbinghaus: Biography and Studies Hermann Ebbinghaus was born on January 24, 1850, to Lutheran merchants in Barmen, Germany. At the age of 17, he entered the University of Bonn, where he developed an avid interest in philosophy. However, his studies were temporarily interrupted in 1870 at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, when he enlisted in the Prussian army. After the Franco-Prussian War he continued his philosophical studies at Bonn, completing a dissertation on

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    Essay Length: 1,121 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Mary Shelley and Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley and Frankenstein

    Proverb has said that, “One who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints.” If this is so, then Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein deserves no acclaim. As the daughter of radical thinkers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and the wife of the celebrated poet Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley was intimately acquainted with and heavily influenced by all the ideas of the leading literary figures of her time. As a result, Frankenstein is nothing more than a conglomeration

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    Essay Length: 555 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Analysis of Shelley’s "ode to the West Wind"

    Analysis of Shelley’s "ode to the West Wind"

    Analysis of Shelley's Ode To the West Wind In "Ode to the West Wind," Percy Bysshe Shelley tries to gain transcendence, for he shows that his thoughts, like the "winged seeds" (7) are trapped. The West Wind acts as a driving force for change and rejuvenation in the human and natural world. Shelley views winter not just as last phase of vegetation but as the last phase of life in the individual, the imagination, civilization

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    Essay Length: 1,467 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Mike
  • Charles Dickens Biography

    Charles Dickens Biography

    He is living proof of childhood corruption and portrays himself as his young, mischievous, and perplexed characters Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. He proves that he is a product of the Victorian era as he brings attention to the childhood cruelty, the less fortunate in an English society, and the unwealthy dysfunctional families of the early Victorian time period. Charles Dickens reflects these and other issues as he brings to life the realism of writing.

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    Essay Length: 616 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Mike
  • Shelley’s Frankenstein

    Shelley’s Frankenstein

    Shelley’s Frankenstein does an excellent job at demonstrating the ideas and accomplishments of the enlightenment period. Shelly expresses these ideas and thoughts through the character of Victor Frankenstein who is an aspiring scientist seeking an intellectual challenge. Victor Frankenstein live s his hometown of Geneva and leaves in quest of a valued education in Ingolstadt. When Victor arrives at college he is lonely and finds himself in a new world in which he lives by

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Essay Sample on "a Biography of Nelson Mandela"

    Essay Sample on "a Biography of Nelson Mandela"

    Essay Sample on "A Biography of Nelson Mandela" Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is judged to be one of the greatest political leaders of modern times. Among his many accomplishments are the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa and establishing democracy there and becoming the president of South Africa in 1994 following their first multiracial elections. Nelson was born as the foster son of a Thembu chief

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    Essay Length: 429 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Janna
  • Remeo and Juliet Turning Point (short)

    Remeo and Juliet Turning Point (short)

    Romeo and Juliet A significant scene in William Shakespears "Romeo and Juliet" is Act 3 Scene 1. In this scene Romeo return after marrying Juliet to find Tybalt quaraling with Mercutio. Tybalt then challenges Romeo to a fight but Romeo backs out saying that he must love Tybalt. No one appart from Romeo knows of Romeo and Juliets marriage so Mercutio thinks that Romeo is a coward and is running away from Tybalt. After taunting

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Fatih
  • 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: November 13, 2009 By: Bred

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