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Biographical Profile of Thomas Edison

pulled him from school, teaching him at home. "She and Als father read books out loud to him" (Anonymous Thomas Alva Edison, inven...

Martin Luther

was while he was there that he was able to earn a "baccalaureate and masters degrees in the shortest time allowed by university st...

Berry Gordy: Life and Works

When Berry was a junior in high school he dropped out so that he could be a boxer, once fighting on the same...

Sample of a Personal Biography

both my way of being in the world and my sense of educational necessity. This strength developed because of the influence of some...

John Morton Blum's Republican Roosevelt

In five pages this biography on Theodore Roosevelt by John Morton Blum is discussed....

Biography of Adam Smith

topics as rhetoric, ethics, political economy, and jurisprudence" (Lucid Caf?). In the year 1759 he published a work whic...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein

In six pages this research paper examines these scientists in terms of the biographies Isaac Newton The Last Sorcerer by Michael ...

3 Biographies on Abraham Lincoln Analyzed

Lincolns reputation has been acquired through the perpetuation of myth and because Lincoln is so far removed in history. Furtherm...

Biography of Clara Wieck Schumann

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

Biography of William Faulkner

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

The Far Side of Paradise by Arthur Mizener

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

Biography of Sen. John F. Kerry

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

Biography of Dmitri Mendeleev

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

Biography of Benjamin Franklin

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...

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...

Biography of D.H. Lawrence

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

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...

Biography of Joseph Goebbels

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

Biography of Gen. George S. Patton

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

Biography of John Brown by Stephen B. Oates

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

Biography of 19th Century British Romantic Poet William Blake

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

An Overview of Alfred Kinsey

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

The First American by H.W. Brands Reviewed

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

Biography of Harriet Tubman

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

Thomas Leonard's Interpretation of Fidel Castro

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...

The Mission of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life

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

Biography of Bill Clinton

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...

A Sinbad's Guide to Life Review

turned off or the car repossessed, they might feel at least they are better off than this semi-famous actor/comedian. Sinbad is ...