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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

George W. Bush Biography

Welsh, a librarian (Rozell, 2003). Laura would become instrumental in supporting George W. Bush in his career, including his diff...

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...

3 Literary Biographies

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

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...

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....

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...

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)...

John Milton/Paradise Lost

of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...

Bob Dylan and His 1965 Song Highway 61 Revisited

time he arrived, he had legally changed his name to Bob Dylan, and while always insisting this was not an homage to poet Dylan Tho...

Garson's Oprah Winfrey

in the world. II. Comparison of Oprah with Transformational Characteristics First, it is important to explore the transfor...

Wiencek/On George Washington

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...

Duke Ellington/Caravan

orchestrate by using this band, an "unrivaled collection of musical eccentrics," as his "laboratory," in which he mastered the art...

Robert Frost/An Overview

and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...

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...

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...

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...

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) (...

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...

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...