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Leadership Qualities of William Bratton

"one of the first" hed "seen with the new-style rotating gumball-machine light, so that fascinated me. Every morning, this red-fac...

Life and Music of Composer Oliver Messiaen

book has had a significant influence on his characters and destiny (Johnson 9). During World War I, he lived with his mother and...

Comparing Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

the nephew of King Arthur, a brave young man who is eager to demonstrate his physical prowess. His antagonist is a mysterious str...

Becoming a Man in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

journey from the court to the Green Castle, illustrating how the travels are obviously a metaphor for the journey from childhood t...

Life and Times of Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger

Warren Burger's life and career are the focus of this biography consisting of eight pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

The Life of Leon Trotsky

been deported to Siberia. Again, he escaped and returned to London, where he met Stalin....

Sir Carol Reed's Film The Third Man

a job writing for a volunteer medical unit he runs. Harry, however, is dead by the time Holly arrives (Ebert, 2002); he has, in fa...

Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy and Marilyn Monroe

grandmother were institutionalized when they died and her mother spent most of the rest of her life in a mental institution (Towso...

Seeking Answers in the Cosmos with Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo, Tycho Brahe, Copernicus, Ptolemy, and Aristotle

In ten pages this paper examines the lives and astronomical contributions both literally and figuratively speaking as they relate ...

Eleanor Roosevelt A Personal and Public Life by J. William T. Youngs

not only who she was as a person, but to also put her contributions and her legacy into a proper perspective. The book details sp...

An Examination of Pocahontas

met John Smith in 1608 and between that time and the time she married another gentleman in 1614, she was kidnapped and raped by th...

Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser

review, said that he felt like a candle "beside the sun at noonday" when comparing his career to that of Hamilton (11). It is fr...

British Soldier and Statesman Sir Winston Churchill

As Keegan (2001) points out, he gained great public respect for his writing, winning the Nobel...

Martin Luther King's Nonviolence and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

In five pages this paper examines how King's six nonviolence steps are represented in this anonymously written Medieval epic. Two...

'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' by Ernest Hemingway

In seven pages a biography of Hemingway is included in this short story analysis. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

Roy Jenkins' 'Truman

This paper on the biography of President Harry S. Truman focuses upon foreign and domestic policies and the relationship between G...

Communication Skills Teaching and the Movie To Sir with Love

way to get a job and keep it. By treating the kids as adults and giving respect, he begins to get it back in turn, along with at...

The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall

came into the world on December 10, 1830, the second of four children born to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. As Sewall note...

Book II of the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

even falling ill himself (Halsall Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Britannica: Thucydides). During a heated campaign in 424, Thuc...

Sir Thomas More's Defiance of King Henry the Eighth

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between the King and his subject in a consideration of More's disagreement with...

Problems with the Conclusion of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

This paper discusses the dilemma posed by the conclusion of this epic narrative for both the protagonist and the reader in 5 pages...

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 ...

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...

Color Experiments of Sir Isaac Newton

In nine pages this paper assesses Newton's color experiments and examines their outcome criticisms with Goethe's theoretical persp...

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...

'Sonnet 31' by Sir Philip Sidney

moons course through the sky and the act of falling in love. The tone includes a bit of sarcasm or perhaps cynicism in the love t...

Life of Queen Elizabeth I

This research paper offers a comprehensive biography of Queen Elizabeth I, daugher of Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII. It begins w...

Religious Inspiration of Poet Marcus Garvey

In ten pages this paper examines the inspiration religion provided poet Marcus Garvey in a biography and poetic analysis of some o...

Art and Life of Ernest Hemingway

in Europe. He was seriously wounded in Italy, and incurred nearly a dozen operations to restore complete function to his knee, whi...

Was Huey P. Long a Villain or Hero?

In five pages the life of Huey P. Long is examined within the context of Glen Jeansonne's biography Messiah of the Masses Huey P....