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Biography of Howard Cosell

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...

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...

'The Spectacles' by Edgar Allan Poe and His Use of Satire

In ten pages this research paper provides a biographical sketch of Edgar Allan Poe along with critical assessment but the central ...

Socrates

would have meant he was born in 469 B.C. (Taylor 4). According to Socrates trial indictment, he was born in Alopeke, which was lo...

Biography of Bob Marley

his genre, but his music made pop charts in the United States. He was able to break through barriers that other musicians could no...

Life and Mathematics Contributions of Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri

Omni Naevo Vindicatus (1733) Saccheris early work on non-euclidean geometry was considered to be very important, although he did n...

Style Analysis of Bound Feet and Western Dress by Pang Mei N. Chang

is from this aspect of her style that the narrative gains much of its strength. It is as if the reader is present, sitting at the...

Ann Blackman's Biography on Madeleine Korbel Albright

and not dependent upon a man to pave the way. The biography is single-minded in its efforts to expose the root of Albrights uncom...

Nelle Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...

U.S. Civil War Gen. Joseph Hooker

chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...

Dickens and His Life

would never come true" for his father was arrested and then sent off to prison for failing to pay a debt (Anonymous Charles Dicken...

Lives and Learning by Plato and Augustine

text in which he is painstakingly honest, demonstrates that his spiritual path was not easy. It is clear from the beginning that t...

Federal Power and the Federalist Papers

Constitution of the United States. As such, he had much influence on the early decisions made in the Congress. One of the biggest ...

A Biography of Alice Munro

bootleggers and prostitutes and hangers-on lived" (Fraser, 2001; wls-fraser.shtml). She claims that these were the people she knew...

Sylvia Plath's Literary Contributions

bees), and her mother, a former student of Otto Plaths, a high school teacher (Bloom 1). Although Dr. Otto Plath suffered from ca...

Biography of Caligula

that "The soldiers used to dress him in a miniature army uniform and little army boots (or Caliga) and paraded him around the camp...

The Life and Poetry of Adrienne Rich

In this paper consisting of six pages a brief biographical sketch is provided and then an examination of three of Adrienne Rich's ...

Elisabeth Sophie Cheron

This paper discusses early modern Europe's women with the focus being a biographical profile of Elisabeth Sophie Cheron consisting...

Alfred Nobel and Explosives

In five pages Alfred Nobel is examined in a biographical consideration and examination of his contributions to military explosives...

'Love's Done' by Emily Dickinson

In 4 pages this paper explores the biographical elements of this Dickinson poem that are obscured by her uses of legal jargon. Th...

Luke's Gospel

In eight pages Luke's Gospel is examined in terms of content and themes with Luke's biographical profile also included. Ten sourc...

Maya Angelou and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The writer presents a biographical sketch of this noted African American writer. An analysis of her 1970 book completes this seve...

Michael Eric Dyson's I May Not Get There with You The True Martin Luther King Jr.

In five pages this biographical text by Dyson is critically analyzed in terms of presentation of subject and how the author occasi...

Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje

In three pages this paper examines Ondaatje's biographical text and examines how he reconnected with his heritage after distancing...

Heritage and Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje

sense of being that is clearly portrayed within his work. "I witnessed everything. One morning I would wake and just smell thing...

The Last Manchu Emperor Henry P'u Yi

Biographical information is provided. Various issues are addressed. His imprisonment in China as well as when he had to endure ho...

Biography of George Washington

In six pages this papre presents a biographical profile of George Washington and considers the objectives he may have established ...

Ho Chi Minh by William Duiker

The biographical profile of Ho Chi Minh and his leadership offered by William Duiker is the focus of this paper consisting of six ...

Sistine Madonna by Raphael

In five pages Raphael's life is considered in a brief biographical profile but the focus is an artistic analysis of the painting w...

Biography of Bill Gates

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington ("Gates" PG). His knickname was, or at least his family called him,...