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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...

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)....

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,...

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

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...

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...

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

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 ...

his aristocratic persona was largely manufactured, because although Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald had some illustrious ancestors, i...

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

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

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...

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

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

She has promoted her theory of human caring throughout the world from various positions including lecturer at several universities...

not (2000). 2. Compare Menchu, Dorfman and Rodriguezs ideas about Spanish and what factors attribute to their differences? Wh...

also into his motivations, particularly in regards to marrying, and often executing, so many women. The reader sees how Henry VIII...

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

Welsh, a librarian (Rozell, 2003). Laura would become instrumental in supporting George W. Bush in his career, including his diff...

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...

("Eleanor Roosevelt Biography," 2007). Orphaned at a young age, Eleanor lived with a grandmother in New York and was educated by p...

reckless driving, overspending, stealing). [Again, not including suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5] (Ame...

in fact, she had more gumption than most adults, refusing to allow adversity stand in the way of what she knew had to be done. He...

1036 (Otten). It was after Guido arrived at Arrezo that he invented his new system of notation, which "brought such order and cl...