Essays 271 - 300
In eight pages this paper analyzes the female heroism that characterized Marina Warner's Joan of Arc biography and influences its ...
In eight pages this paper evaluates this biography within a historical context. There are no other sources listed in the bibliogr...
In five pages Peter Stuyvesant is the focus of this biography that includes his New York influence and other relevant information....
Ford was fascinated by a new invention?the automobile?and read voraciously on the subject. Nevins relates conflicting stor...
researching this topic will undoubtedly appreciate the insight that Heckscher provides in this early section as to the family infl...
comparing Hardings book, Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography with Finks work, it becomes clear as to how Finks scholarship provides...
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...
turned off or the car repossessed, they might feel at least they are better off than this semi-famous actor/comedian. Sinbad is ...
kind regard for those things that were based solely within the theoretical approach of superstition or folly. Why would people wa...
days were spent enjoying hunting and pursuing other recreational activities (Edward the Confessor). He would feel more comfortabl...
district has a very controversial policies about test results that are aimed at reducing social promotions. This article discusses...