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Biography of First U.S. President George Washington

are always too many grasping for it here, who have interest and he has none" (Johnson, 2005; 15). Thus his mother decided he would...

Guerrillas Journeys in the Insurgent World by Jon Lee Anderson

as a reporter, his reputation, and his experience working all over the globe that he brings to his account of the world of guerril...

Biography and Designs of Jens Laugesen

(Jens Laugesen biography, 2005). Some of the terms used by the media to describe him include "slick," "urban," "hot," and "cuttin...

Milton S. Hershey Biography by Michael D'Antonio

the company extraordinary profits. However, by this point, the success of the company was an American legacy. By the early 1890s...

Marine Sylvia Earle's Contributions

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 ...

Bill Gates

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

Personal Exploration Through Biography

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

Yoko Ono, Artist

the likes of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns (Wiener, 1998). In 1961, Yoko returned to Japan with Cage in order ...

Thinking Big with Dr. Ben Carson

with her poor education, she could barely read what they had written (B.S. Carson, MD, 2005). Thanks to all the outside reading h...

Industrialist and Movie Tycoon Howard Hughes

Jean Harlow and Katherine Hepburn), his OCD would dominate his life. Hughes lived his final decade of life as a social recluse, a...

George Washington Biography

was unsure of this decision and wrote to her half-brother in England, asking his advice. He told her, "The navy would cut him and ...

The Forest People by Turnbull

The author writes, chapter by chapter, about the lifestyle of the Pygmies and how they get along in the world with others. He begi...

An Analysis of Moore's Short Story, How to Become a Writer

paper and open a vein. The point is that non-writers dont understand how difficult writing is; writers do, and frequently wish th...

A Short Biography of John Slaton

his beliefs and was not swayed by Watson or anybody else. This anecdote says a lot about the character of Governor Slaton. His pol...

Ezra Pound, "A Virginal"

levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...

Life and Influence of Peter Stuyvesant

In five pages Peter Stuyvesant is the focus of this biography that includes his New York influence and other relevant information....

Female Heroism and Joan of Arc by Marina Warner

In eight pages this paper analyzes the female heroism that characterized Marina Warner's Joan of Arc biography and influences its ...

Joan of Arc The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner

In eight pages this paper evaluates this biography within a historical context. There are no other sources listed in the bibliogr...

The Biography Ford The Times, the Man, the Company by Allan Nevins

Ford was fascinated by a new invention?the automobile?and read voraciously on the subject. Nevins relates conflicting stor...

Woodrow Wilson by August Heckscher

researching this topic will undoubtedly appreciate the insight that Heckscher provides in this early section as to the family infl...

Philip Guston

Guston, painting, by its very nature is "impure...We are image-makers and image-ridden" ("Books and Arts" 109). Analyses of 5 wor...

Smither/Augustine As Mentor

the bulk of his presentation. However, he devotes the second chapter to setting the "stage of Augustines mentoring of spiritual le...

William Blake And Christianity

in prints depicting architecture" (Bentley, 2009). Blake spent seven years with the Basire family and achieved a degree of success...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

Biography of Gail Kelly

this school and during her final year became a school prefect (The Age, 2005). Gail then went to study Latin and modern history ...

Seven Soliloquies of Hamlet: A Journey into Madness

things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...

PRICING STRATEGIES AND THE SEGWAY

From the start, the Segway was geared toward the pedestrian. But problems happened almost immediately, including a voluntary recal...

Colin Powell, An Overview of his Life

This research paper presents a biography of the life of Colin Powell, focusing on his early life, accomplishments and perceived fa...

Indian Fighter, Politician and Hero the Life of Davy Crockett

Carolina to what is today East Tennessee to settle in fresh territory (Davy Crockett). In 1777, while his older sons were fighting...

Analysis of a Biography: Silent Victim Running Free by Lisa Brassard Mayer

setting so that it, too, reveals the contours of life instead of appearing as flat as the printed page. Lisa Brassard Mayer was n...