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Life and Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

In an overview consisting of four pages various aspects of Poe's life are related to his works in what is less an analysis than a ...

Florida Marsh Scene by Herman Herzog

chosen to create this marsh scene very differently. Hence, it pays to note the attributes of the composition. The composition is...

A Comparative History of F.D. Roosevelt and Mackenzie King

an attorney ("William Lyon Mackenzie King," 2002). Roosevelt was also born to privilege. His family had been members of the aristo...

A Look at Great Expectations in the Context of the Author's Life

1824-1827 he was a "day pupil at a school in London" (Cody). But the year in the blacking factory "haunted him all of his life" t...

They Did Not Expect Him by Russian Artist Repin

religious themes or other such esoteric spiritual works. Repin sought to bring real life into his artwork. One way that he...

Biography of Harriet Tubman

her sister (Lowershore.net). It was at this time, when she escaped, that she took on the name Harriet (Tubman was her married name...

David McCullough's John Adams

but rather simple happiness. But, he was a man of vision and determination as well. He was an excellent lawyer and began to make a...

William Butler Yeats' 'The Wilde Swans of Coole'

between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...

NBC's Jeff Zucker

At NBC, Zucker and traveled the world to track down the information the NBC Sports commentators used on air as background to...

Biography of Joseph Goebbels

compensated, perhaps over compensated, with his dogmatic embrace of the philosophy of the Third Reich. However, these early expe...

Sistine Madonna by Raphael

In five pages Raphael's life is considered in a brief biographical profile but the focus is an artistic analysis of the painting w...

The Last Manchu Emperor Henry P'u Yi

Biographical information is provided. Various issues are addressed. His imprisonment in China as well as when he had to endure ho...

Biography of George Washington

In six pages this papre presents a biographical profile of George Washington and considers the objectives he may have established ...

Biography of Mathematician Josiah Willard Gibbs

In fifteen pages this Yale professor and U.S. mathematician is considered in a biographical overview. Four sources are cited in t...

Biographical Profile of J.R.R. Tolkien

a place that subsequently would become a part of the city suburb of Hall Green (Lyster, 2001). While growing up, this boy who woul...

Biography of Bill Gates

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington ("Gates" PG). His knickname was, or at least his family called him,...

'The Spectacles' by Edgar Allan Poe and His Use of Satire

In ten pages this research paper provides a biographical sketch of Edgar Allan Poe along with critical assessment but the central ...

Ho Chi Minh by William Duiker

The biographical profile of Ho Chi Minh and his leadership offered by William Duiker is the focus of this paper consisting of six ...

Biography of Caligula

that "The soldiers used to dress him in a miniature army uniform and little army boots (or Caliga) and paraded him around the camp...

Alexey Brodovitch

terms of his painting, and this is quite remarkable when one analyzes his works (American Photographer of Russian Extraction, 2002...

U.S. Civil War Gen. Joseph Hooker

chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...

Dickens and His Life

would never come true" for his father was arrested and then sent off to prison for failing to pay a debt (Anonymous Charles Dicken...

Lives and Learning by Plato and Augustine

text in which he is painstakingly honest, demonstrates that his spiritual path was not easy. It is clear from the beginning that t...

Looking at 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Gershwin Songbook'

was three years old (Bailey, 2002). Although she was born in Virginia, she grew up in New York. In fact, she only lived in the sou...

Biographical Profile of Thomas Edison

pulled him from school, teaching him at home. "She and Als father read books out loud to him" (Anonymous Thomas Alva Edison, inven...

Overview of the Life and Times of F. Scott Fitzgerald

recognized and encouraged Fitzs literary talents, anything outside that parameter was not worth his time, attention or study, unle...

Nelle Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...

Claudius in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

was, most likely, rejected for being "too young and untried" (92). When he is first introduced to the plays action, in Act I, Sce...

Erik Erikson

attended to by his mother (Boeree, 2002). When Erikson was three his mother, of Jewish heritage, married Dr. Theodor Homberger an...

'Loverboys' by Ana Castillo

our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...