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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...

4 Poetry Classics and Their Meanings

really saw his last wife as a person in her own right, but rather regarded her just one more beautiful "object" that he owned and ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Roosevelt Presence The Life and Legacy of FDR by Patrick J. Maney

number of secondary sources listed and subdivided into ten chapters covering Roosevelts privileged youth, his marriage and growing...

Daniel Defoe's Protagonist Moll Flanders

where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...

New York Democratic Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey

a masters degree and did advanced graduate work in public administration and economics at State University of New York at Albany (...

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...

Karen Armstrong's Muhammad A Biography of the Prophet

a cave and therein, "he had been visited by an angel, who had appeared beside him in the cave and given him orders to Recite! Like...

A Biography of Carlota Lucia de Brito

of Joaquim Jose dos Santos Leal (Meznar). This comfortable position could well be seen as a position that involved some level of ...

General Patton A Soldier's Life by Stanley Hirshson

customs, habits, ethos, and lore of a particular profession, in this case, the military" (Blumenson, 2003). Blumenson objects to t...

Graphic Artist Milton Glaser

Arts ("Milton Glaser," 2005). He would for the most part get his education in New York, but his stint in Italy likely broadened hi...

Andre Young and 'Dr. Dre's' Musical Success

Eazy went on to form NWA with Ice Cube and Dre and they released an album in 1987 (Erlewine). The rest, as they say is history. Of...

Milton S. Hershey Biography by Michael D'Antonio

the company extraordinary profits. However, by this point, the success of the company was an American legacy. By the early 1890s...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Stevens' Philosophy

in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...

The Jazz Music of the Alex Blake Quartet

more jazz musicians will typically improvise simultaneously (Machlis 413). For all intents and purposes, Alex Blakes biography fo...

Jean Watson, Nursing Theorist

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

St. Francis of Assisi

he should live a contemplative life of prayer or an active life of spreading the gospel to the world (Hammond 14). This led Franci...

Nursing/Personal Reflection Paper

of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...

Garson's Oprah Winfrey

in the world. II. Comparison of Oprah with Transformational Characteristics First, it is important to explore the transfor...

Informally Examining Romantic Poets and Poetry

unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...