Essays 511 - 540
fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....
begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...
himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...
what makes this figure historically significant and worth studying, he/she will want to note how after the death of Caesar, there ...
kind regard for those things that were based solely within the theoretical approach of superstition or folly. Why would people wa...
her sister (Lowershore.net). It was at this time, when she escaped, that she took on the name Harriet (Tubman was her married name...
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...
view at that time which saw nature as indestructible. However, as Kurlansky also shows, no species or aspect of nature has this qu...
but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...
district has a very controversial policies about test results that are aimed at reducing social promotions. This article discusses...
in the North Carolina mountains in the 1840s, is a "Gothic tale of terror and pagan violence" (Walser 284). Linney has written th...
the inner circle, much like the royal physicians (Jardine, 2002). His sister married and her husband, Holder, became Christophers...
The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...
bootleggers and prostitutes and hangers-on lived" (Fraser, 2001; wls-fraser.shtml). She claims that these were the people she knew...
old enough to venture out on her own, Evita - whose beauty helped open many a door of opportunity - sought an acting career in Bue...
and not dependent upon a man to pave the way. The biography is single-minded in its efforts to expose the root of Albrights uncom...
his genre, but his music made pop charts in the United States. He was able to break through barriers that other musicians could no...
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington ("Gates" PG). His knickname was, or at least his family called him,...
In six pages the life and achievements of Archbishop Oscar Romero are examined. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....
some extent, bin Laden embraces core beliefs that have not been changed. He continues to propel his desire to oust his enemies. ...
In five pages this paper discusses the life and scientific contributions of electrical energy pioneer Alessandro Volta. There are...
In five pages the life and career of racing legend Dale Earnhardt are discussed including his death in 2001 at Daytona. Five sour...
In five pages this paper discusses the life of poet Siegfried Sassoon with his experiences in the First World War among the topics...
In six pages this papre presents a biographical profile of George Washington and considers the objectives he may have established ...
In fifteen pages this Yale professor and U.S. mathematician is considered in a biographical overview. Four sources are cited in t...
Dickinsons writing. While "no ordinance is seen" to those who are not participating in the war, it presence nevertheless is always...
and in 1923 he ended up settling and working in Detroit on the General Motors automotive assembly line. Elijah met and married Cla...
forever jolting him by its sheer majesty, giving him what we would now call an almost spiritual global sense" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003...
are many examples throughout his career of conflicts which transpired and his apparent effortless handling of them. The Life of ...
Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...