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Jewish. The student could also state they did not know he was German. What were the weaknesses, failures, or disappointments for t...

significant and lingers to this day. Gandhi lived in India and helped the people resist British domination (Severance, 1997). Bri...

what makes history. He states, in the beginning, "Of the works of this mind history is the record...Man is explicable by nothing l...

("Eleanor Roosevelt Biography," 2007). Orphaned at a young age, Eleanor lived with a grandmother in New York and was educated by p...

reckless driving, overspending, stealing). [Again, not including suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5] (Ame...

in fact, she had more gumption than most adults, refusing to allow adversity stand in the way of what she knew had to be done. He...

1036 (Otten). It was after Guido arrived at Arrezo that he invented his new system of notation, which "brought such order and cl...

Aldous Huxley has no right to betray the future as he did in that book" (Watt 16). Critic Wyndman Lewis agreed with Wells, and ref...

not uncommon for my friends to be beat. During the period, we lived in North Carolina, and it was not uncommon for the children to...

would marry in 1990 ("Tom Cruise"). They were together for close to ten years and produced two children. His introduction to Ni...

debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

his aristocratic persona was largely manufactured, because although Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald had some illustrious ancestors, i...

for President, 2004). Kerrys upbringing as a member of a vocal family and his time at Yale served him when he returned from Viet...

a great deal bout chemistry in relationship to making glass. "Another influence in Dmitris life was his sister Olgas husband, Bess...

at night so no one knew who was writing the pieces. They were a smash hit, and everyone wanted to know who was the real Silence Do...

has a lot to say about the oceans of the world? Earle was born in New Jersey in 1935 ("Sylvia"). Her parents did not even have ...

vision guided him in his work (William H. Gates, 2003). That vision would also prove to be precisely on-target, and Gates would b...

"was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrences childhood was dominated by poverty and fricti...

that Jean Edward Smith agrees with this assessment, but he believes biography is an art form that should take into account the anc...

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

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...

begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...

- but his dominating persona was not very favorable to colleagues (though he could be friendly and helpful on certain occasions) (...

all fire breathing radicals like Samuel Adams (Review of Brands, "The First American, 2004). And...

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

in the introduction, wanted nothing to do with Castro and as such did not desire to know anything about him that was normal or per...

This is a two part biography of the famed civil rights activist consisting of three pages with the theme of the first part applied...

for a second term, but won the office again four years later. He was Governor of Arkansas when he ran for President in 1992, defe...