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Bret Harte's Life and Writings

In five pages this biography of Bret Harte includes the times in which he lived, his philosophy, and his text The Outcasts of Poke...

Consideration of Charlotte Bronte

In a paper consisting of five pages Charlotte Bronte's life is considered in this brief biography. Four sources are cited in the ...

The Power Broker by Robert Caro

In five pages this paper examines the biography of Robert Moses by considering his New York City and State contributions as presen...

The First American by H.W. Brands Reviewed

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Robert Remini's Andrew Jackson

seems as though no action, no movement, could take place without a caucus being involved. This is perhaps where Jackson made th...

Fires of Jubilee by Stephen B. Oates

them extensive evidence of plagiarism in two of Oates biographies. In his own defense, Oates accuses Burilngame of taking quotes o...

The Minute Waltz by Frederic Chopin

grief for his homeland in the Revolutionary Etude (Machlis 82). Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 and the majority of his musical c...

Gates How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews

as they did writing about Gates (Blankenborn, 1993; Manes and Andrews, 1993). Despite the focus mainly on Gates years with Micros...

Hillary's Choice by Gail Sheehy

it is always Hillary. Advisors had warned that candidates should start to choose someone else because Hillary is just too popular....

Flannery O'Connor

in Milledgeville, OConnor attended Georgia State College for Women and eventually graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Literatu...

Robert Moses Biography by Robert Caro

owe their existence to Moses. Additionally, he built the eleven parkways that run through the city and out towards the suburban co...

Life and Times of Pythagoras

communal ways. Kenneth Guthrie in his book, The Life of Pythagoras, states that the Pythagoreans were extremely secretive and cult...

Jean Edward Smith's Grant

miles off" (Smith 23). When he was seventeen his father informed him that he would be attending West Point. In essence, accordi...

Ernest Hemingway's 'The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber' Analyzed

War while still serving with the Italians, and became well-decorated by the Italian government4. After returning from the war, he...

Oliver Stone's Film Nixon

own personality but also by the circumstances of the time. Stone does succeed in introducing at least some of these circumstances...

3 Literary Biographies

not (2000). 2. Compare Menchu, Dorfman and Rodriguezs ideas about Spanish and what factors attribute to their differences? Wh...

Great Harry by Carolly Erickson

also into his motivations, particularly in regards to marrying, and often executing, so many women. The reader sees how Henry VIII...

Human Care Nursing and the Theoretical Contributions of Jean Watson

She has promoted her theory of human caring throughout the world from various positions including lecturer at several universities...

A John Romita, Sr. Profile

fact that he had been stationed at Governors Island in New York Harbor during the war where he was doing recruiting posters (1999)...

Lewis Mumford, A Life by Donald Miller

gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...

Overview of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

illustrating that Equianos people did not indulge in child labor - when two men and a woman came over their walls. Equiano and hi...

Lady Bird Johnson

her husband. That man, of course, was Lyndon B. Johnson. They were married less than a year after they met and she began the uph...

Kennedy/Profiles in Courage

Senators that follows. Kennedy begins with a profile of John Quincy Adams, and how Adams was castigated by members of his own pa...