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The Philosophies of Thomas Hobbes

The writer of this 5 page paper discusses the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes with regard to politics and society. A brief biography...

A Review of the Film, Amadeus

This paper reviews the film, Amadeus. The author addresses various thematic and social elements of this film version of Motzart's...

The Life and Works of Federico Garcia Lorca

This paper examines the works of the Twentieth Century Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca. The author provides a brief biography...

Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone

Mathematician John von Neumann's biography by William Poundstone entitled Prisoner's Dilemma is examined in five pages and include...

Biographies of 3 Influential African Americans Lorraine Hansberry, Anne Moody, and Gordon Parks

were taught to value honor, education, equality, and the importance of telling the truth. Parks childhood instilled in him a fierc...

Arna W. Bontemps' 'A Summer Tragedy'

In five pages a biography of this predominantly children's author is provided as well as an examination of his adult fiction work....

Franklin Delano Roosevelt in No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin

In five pages this paper examines this biography by Kearns Goodwin as it explores the love between FDR and his wife Eleanor and al...

Qualities of Eleanor Roosevelt

In five pages Blanche W. Cook's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt is referred to in a consideration of the former U.S. First Lady's m...

Peter the Great by Klyuchevsky

In five pages this paper presents a review of Klyuchevsky's biography and critically evaluates the author's portrayal of Russia's ...

Joan of Arc The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner

In eight pages this paper evaluates this biography within a historical context. There are no other sources listed in the bibliogr...

Life and Influence of Peter Stuyvesant

In five pages Peter Stuyvesant is the focus of this biography that includes his New York influence and other relevant information....

The Biography Ford The Times, the Man, the Company by Allan Nevins

Ford was fascinated by a new invention?the automobile?and read voraciously on the subject. Nevins relates conflicting stor...

Woodrow Wilson by August Heckscher

researching this topic will undoubtedly appreciate the insight that Heckscher provides in this early section as to the family infl...

Biographies of Charles Dickens

Several biographies are compared and contrasted in this essay that focuses on two books. An additional book is also reviewed in th...

A Reading of Fawn M. Brodie's Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History

This paper provides an analysis of Brodie's historical biography of Thomas Jefferson. The author attempts to address various inco...

Biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine

In eight pages this essay presents the biography of Henry II's Queen and Richard the Lionhearted's mother. Four sources are cited...

Biography of Francis I

In five pages the sixteenth century England's Francis I is the focus of this biography. Five sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Biography of Gloria Steinem

In ten pages the life and career of Gloria Steinem are featured in this biography that describes her childhood, writings, and soci...

lEnglish leaders/Elizabeth I and Cromwell

Queen Elizabeth I and Oliver Cromwell are two of the most significant leaders in English history. Relyng on two major biographies ...

Female Heroism and Joan of Arc by Marina Warner

In eight pages this paper analyzes the female heroism that characterized Marina Warner's Joan of Arc biography and influences its ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Life of Leon Trotsky

been deported to Siberia. Again, he escaped and returned to London, where he met Stalin....