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Milton S. Hershey Biography by Michael D'Antonio

the company extraordinary profits. However, by this point, the success of the company was an American legacy. By the early 1890s...

Biography of Sir Christopher Wren

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

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Stevens' Philosophy

in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...

Karen Armstrong's Muhammad A Biography of the Prophet

a cave and therein, "he had been visited by an angel, who had appeared beside him in the cave and given him orders to Recite! Like...

A Biography of Carlota Lucia de Brito

of Joaquim Jose dos Santos Leal (Meznar). This comfortable position could well be seen as a position that involved some level of ...

General Patton A Soldier's Life by Stanley Hirshson

customs, habits, ethos, and lore of a particular profession, in this case, the military" (Blumenson, 2003). Blumenson objects to t...

Biography of American Playwright Romulus Linney

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

The Jazz Music of the Alex Blake Quartet

more jazz musicians will typically improvise simultaneously (Machlis 413). For all intents and purposes, Alex Blakes biography fo...

Nursing/Personal Reflection Paper

of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...

Frida: A Reaction Paper

surrealist movement, but there is debate about that ("Frida Kahlo, The Surrealist," 2006). The film itself was replete with infor...

Jean Watson, Nursing Theorist

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

St. Francis of Assisi

he should live a contemplative life of prayer or an active life of spreading the gospel to the world (Hammond 14). This led Franci...

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...

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...

Walton Ford: Biography and Work

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

Duke Ellington/Caravan

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

Erik Erikson: Biography and Theory

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

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

William Carey: Pioneer Missionary To India

p. 12). It was not until William had to seek new employment because his employer died that he began to take an interest in religi...

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...

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...