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Biography of Frederick II

In four pages the 18th century English King Frederick II is the focus of this biographical profile of his life, politics, and reig...

Comparative Analysis of Biographies on Henry David Thoreau

comparing Hardings book, Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography with Finks work, it becomes clear as to how Finks scholarship provides...

Lou Cannon's Reagan

In five pages this paper critically reviews Lou Cannon's unbiased biographical portrait of President Ronald Reagan entitled simply...

Ernest Hemingway the Man and His Writings

This paper consists of five pages and includes a biographical sketch of Ernest Hemingway, details on his work including frequent t...

The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull by Lois B. Underhill

out on their children. Faced with two parents that were obviously emotionally disturbed, young Victoria developed coping mechani...

The Life and Legacy of Gerald R. Ford

went to Yale to get his law degree he would coach football, and while many lawyers managed to find a way to stay out of war, Ford ...

Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

at heart. Some speculate that because his family had been poor, becoming a priest was his only way to get an education ("Antonio V...

Woodrow Wilson and the Election of 1912

the 1912 campaign, Roosevelt was shot, but he recovered ("Biographies," 2001). What happened was that when campaigning in Milwauke...

Why Lyndon Johnson was Rated Above Average in the Schlesinger Poll

more than six feet tall and that he was one of several presidents who had achieved a second term falls (Schlesinger 179). Susan Pa...

Positive and Negative Aspects of E.J. Davis' stint as Governor of Texas

a state senator who happened to be the friend of Sam Houston ("Edmund Jackson Davis," 2007). Davis would remain a member of the Wh...

Thurgood Marshall's Role in Education

his life dictated his career. He was being groomed for the role by his life circumstances. In some way, it seems as if he was dest...

The Life and Contributions of Walter Payton

devastating effects of cancer and the lack of available organs for the purposes of transplant. Indeed, the 1980s is often dubbed t...

Sample Application Letter for University of Chicago

and expansive the world and its peoples truly are. Because of the diversity to be found on the University of Chicago campus, as we...

Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

Brooks' "To Be in Love" - Biographical Connections

through his yes" (Brooks, 2003). These lines use metaphor to strongly suggest the intimacy and interpersonal warmth experienced wh...

Biographical Profile of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan

of their respective families to go to college (Kagan, Elena, 2011). The only daughter sandwiched between two boys - both of whom ...

A Christian Missionary in a Muslim Population

leader of the group told him that was not based on love but on rewards form God. He left the group. He made the leap to Christiani...

Salvador Dali, Persistence of Memory

his best work (Meisler). "The Persistence of Memory" was painted in 1931 and is oil on canvas, measuring 9 1/2 inches x 13 inches ...

Irving Bartlett's John C. Calhoun A Biography

In nine pages various concepts pertaining to this biographical text are considered including the culture of the American South, th...

Samuel Nelson's Contributions to the US Supreme Court

In six pages this paper presents a biographical profile of Samuel Nelson, a nineteenth century US Supreme Court Justice and also c...

Analysis of Franklin D. Roosevelt's 4 Terms as President of the United States

In thirteen pages a biographical sketch of FDR is presented with the primary concentration being his four terms as President. Six...

Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne and a Literary Analysis of His Works

In five pages this paper presents a biographical profile of the author and also provides a brief analysis of his popular literary ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Biography of Joseph Goebbels

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

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...

Heritage and Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje

sense of being that is clearly portrayed within his work. "I witnessed everything. One morning I would wake and just smell thing...

The Life and Poetry of Adrienne Rich

In this paper consisting of six pages a brief biographical sketch is provided and then an examination of three of Adrienne Rich's ...