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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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

Biography of Elton John

a weight problem ("Wilsonweb," 1998). His parents divorced and after remarriage, his mother would encourage his musical career whe...

Biography of Teddy Roosevelt

the West, specifically, the Dakota Territory, soon after their deaths, bought land, and spent the next few years writing books and...

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...

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...

Jacques-Louis David, Analysis of 2 Works

This essay/research paper presents a short biography of David and then offers analysis of two works, which are "The Oath of the Ho...

In-Depth Discussion CBT

This essay provides an in-depth and comprehensive discussion of different aspects of cognitive behavior therapy beginning with the...

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Cassatt

This essay pertains to Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt. This work, along with Cassatt's biography, is described. Th...

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...

Critical Biography King by David Lewis

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

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...

Connection Between Biography and History

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

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...

Yugoslavia's Elected President Vojislav Kostunica

A biography of Yugoslavia's elected president Vojislav Kostunica is presented in eight pages. Six sources are cited in the biblio...

First Person Biography of Bill Gates

In five pages this paper presents a tutorial on a Bill Gates biography told in a first person narrative. Four sources are cited i...

Biography of Charles Colson

In five pages the transformation from Watergate criminal to Christ convert is examined in this biography of Charles Colson, with t...

'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...

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...

Political and Military Leader George C. Marshall

In five pages a biography of Marshall is presented along with a discussion of his Marshall Plan. Three sources are cited in the b...

Rebellion of Daniel Shays

A biography of Daniel Shays is presented in six pages along with a description of his rebellion, its accomplishments, and where it...

Biography of Rudyard Kipling

In five pages this paper presents a biography of author Rudyard Kipling. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....