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Bill Gates

vision guided him in his work (William H. Gates, 2003). That vision would also prove to be precisely on-target, and Gates would b...

Biography of D.H. Lawrence

"was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrences childhood was dominated by poverty and fricti...

Personal Exploration Through Biography

that Jean Edward Smith agrees with this assessment, but he believes biography is an art form that should take into account the anc...

Biography of John Brown by Stephen B. Oates

himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...

Biography of 19th Century British Romantic Poet William Blake

begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...

An Overview of Alfred Kinsey

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

Biography of Bill Clinton

for a second term, but won the office again four years later. He was Governor of Arkansas when he ran for President in 1992, defe...

A Sinbad's Guide to Life Review

turned off or the car repossessed, they might feel at least they are better off than this semi-famous actor/comedian. Sinbad is ...

Theoretical Approach and Biography

kind regard for those things that were based solely within the theoretical approach of superstition or folly. Why would people wa...

Edward the Confessor's Life and Rule

days were spent enjoying hunting and pursuing other recreational activities (Edward the Confessor). He would feel more comfortabl...

Annotated Biography for PGstst.rtf Standardized Testing File

district has a very controversial policies about test results that are aimed at reducing social promotions. This article discusses...

Stalinist Russia and Jewish Life

with jaw-breaking rolls? These were the difficulties growth. Someday soon, a new, modern just society would arise from the backwar...

The First American by H.W. Brands Reviewed

all fire breathing radicals like Samuel Adams (Review of Brands, "The First American, 2004). And...

Biography of Harriet Tubman

her sister (Lowershore.net). It was at this time, when she escaped, that she took on the name Harriet (Tubman was her married name...

Thomas Leonard's Interpretation of Fidel Castro

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...

Thinking Big with Dr. Ben Carson

with her poor education, she could barely read what they had written (B.S. Carson, MD, 2005). Thanks to all the outside reading h...

George Washington Biography

was unsure of this decision and wrote to her half-brother in England, asking his advice. He told her, "The navy would cut him and ...

Biography of Mark Antony

what makes this figure historically significant and worth studying, he/she will want to note how after the death of Caesar, there ...

The Forest People by Turnbull

The author writes, chapter by chapter, about the lifestyle of the Pygmies and how they get along in the world with others. He begi...

An Analysis of Moore's Short Story, How to Become a Writer

paper and open a vein. The point is that non-writers dont understand how difficult writing is; writers do, and frequently wish th...

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...

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...

Biography of First U.S. President George Washington

are always too many grasping for it here, who have interest and he has none" (Johnson, 2005; 15). Thus his mother decided he would...

Guerrillas Journeys in the Insurgent World by Jon Lee Anderson

as a reporter, his reputation, and his experience working all over the globe that he brings to his account of the world of guerril...

Biography and Designs of Jens Laugesen

(Jens Laugesen biography, 2005). Some of the terms used by the media to describe him include "slick," "urban," "hot," and "cuttin...

The Mission of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life

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

Biography of St. Augustine

but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...

Cod, A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

view at that time which saw nature as indestructible. However, as Kurlansky also shows, no species or aspect of nature has this qu...

Yoko Ono, Artist

the likes of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns (Wiener, 1998). In 1961, Yoko returned to Japan with Cage in order ...

Industrialist and Movie Tycoon Howard Hughes

Jean Harlow and Katherine Hepburn), his OCD would dominate his life. Hughes lived his final decade of life as a social recluse, a...