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This paper relates the life and accomplishments of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, who succeeded the Prophet Mohammad as the leader of the Isl...

This essay provides an overview of the life and career of Marguerite Duras, French novelist and film maker, specifically focusing ...

Clark went on to become a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University between August of 1966 and 1968, where he studied philosophy, politi...

Cosell became a private for the Army. After serving for over four years Cosell left the service to open up a law office in Manhatt...

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

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

officer during the war (Biography of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 2003). Maholy-Nagy was severely wounded in 1917, and it was during his ...

and in 1923 he ended up settling and working in Detroit on the General Motors automotive assembly line. Elijah met and married Cla...

forever jolting him by its sheer majesty, giving him what we would now call an almost spiritual global sense" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003...

are many examples throughout his career of conflicts which transpired and his apparent effortless handling of them. The Life of ...

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

Dickinsons writing. While "no ordinance is seen" to those who are not participating in the war, it presence nevertheless is always...

bootleggers and prostitutes and hangers-on lived" (Fraser, 2001; wls-fraser.shtml). She claims that these were the people she knew...

former Vice Presidential candidate Jack Kemp and former U.S. Drug Czar Bill Bennett, and as a Legislative Director in the U.S. Sen...

and not dependent upon a man to pave the way. The biography is single-minded in its efforts to expose the root of Albrights uncom...

his genre, but his music made pop charts in the United States. He was able to break through barriers that other musicians could no...

old enough to venture out on her own, Evita - whose beauty helped open many a door of opportunity - sought an acting career in Bue...

that "The soldiers used to dress him in a miniature army uniform and little army boots (or Caliga) and paraded him around the camp...

other first ladies of this or any other time. The concept of first lady leadership is easy to define, but it is not as easy to ex...

on the processes of becoming" (Grinker, 2001, p. 105). II. EIGHT STAGES THEORY People are not merely empty vessels waiting...

work Dying Words seems innocent enough with South Carolina parakeets gathered around, beautifully colored and detailed in the styl...

in the North Carolina mountains in the 1840s, is a "Gothic tale of terror and pagan violence" (Walser 284). Linney has written th...

The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...

the inner circle, much like the royal physicians (Jardine, 2002). His sister married and her husband, Holder, became Christophers...

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

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

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

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...

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

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