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feels that it was his fathers rough treatment of his employees that first propelled young Kafka toward the cause of workers rights...

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

entertain with his biting sarcasm. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting his audience to experience with him...

journalism at the University of Michigan in 1934 to 1935 and continued to work as a reported and a night editor for The Michigan D...

but not from his condition. Rather, his melancholy is because of the "raindrops beating on the window gutter" (Kafka, 2002). Rathe...

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

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

her sister (Lowershore.net). It was at this time, when she escaped, that she took on the name Harriet (Tubman was her married name...

This is a two part biography of the famed civil rights activist consisting of three pages with the theme of the first part applied...

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...

- but his dominating persona was not very favorable to colleagues (though he could be friendly and helpful on certain occasions) (...

himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...

begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...

district has a very controversial policies about test results that are aimed at reducing social promotions. This article discusses...

for a second term, but won the office again four years later. He was Governor of Arkansas when he ran for President in 1992, defe...

turned off or the car repossessed, they might feel at least they are better off than this semi-famous actor/comedian. Sinbad is ...

kind regard for those things that were based solely within the theoretical approach of superstition or folly. Why would people wa...

days were spent enjoying hunting and pursuing other recreational activities (Edward the Confessor). He would feel more comfortabl...

but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...

with jaw-breaking rolls? These were the difficulties growth. Someday soon, a new, modern just society would arise from the backwar...

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

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

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 ...

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...

vision guided him in his work (William H. Gates, 2003). That vision would also prove to be precisely on-target, and Gates would b...

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

that Jean Edward Smith agrees with this assessment, but he believes biography is an art form that should take into account the anc...

individual experiences. Williams (1972) recognized that it is not uncommon for man to apply a collective view of individual or pa...

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...

and sufficient material for a book. Despite his earlier assessment of King, Lewis did decide to write the book. It would be a jour...