150 Biography Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports
The Literature Styles of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass lived a very hectic but fulfilling life; he wrote literature that had to do with his own past experiences, he used literacy as a means of power by raising his intelligence to the next level, and he didn't let any white slaveholders hold him back. Frederick Douglass gained intelli....
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect who was a pioneer in modern style,
and he is considered one of the greatest figures in architecture in the
20th-century.
In Richland Center, Wisconsin on June 8, 1867 Wright was born.
17 years later at the University of Wis....
race and your community
ABSTRACT
This autobiographical research paper analyzed the influences of race as it relates to your community. It discusses how two diverse cultures struggle to survive side by side despite the demands of the community to co-exist. Two races are involved in the study namely Tribe A and Tribe B. ....
"LAmant" de Marguerite Duras
Il est possible pour un auteur dun texte donner lindication à ses lecteurs sil veut le texte dêtre considéré comme une fiction ou une histoire quest fondée sur la vérité. Mais quelquefois ce nest pas facile à établir si un texte est fondé sur des faits réels ou sur la fiction....
a beautiful mind
A few of John Nash's ideas, developed while he was a graduate student at Princeton from 1948 to 1950, transformed the field of game theory, and led to major developments in economic, political, and biological theories. Nash subsequently turned to other areas of mathematics, where he made enormous co....
A Beautiful Mind and Psychology
Psychology Movie Critique
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Runtime: 135 min
Starring: Main Characters:
Russell Crowe .John Nash
Ed Harris ..Parcher
Jennifer Connelly ..Alicia Nash
Paul Bettany ...Charles
J....
A Biography of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
A Biography of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
To the many who admired him, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was, by strong-willed dedication and intellectual perseverance, an assailant of inequality and a guardian of liberty. A herald of Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism (Hynes), he pa....
A Percy Shelley Biography
Every Romanticist is heavily indebted to Pickering & Chatto for their publication of a series of valuable sets of Romantic texts. From the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (published in 1989), to the Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley (published in May 1996), and continuing with forthcoming editi....
A Percy Shelly Biography
Every Romanticist is heavily indebted to Pickering & Chatto for their publication of a series of valuable sets of Romantic texts. From the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (published in 1989), to the Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley (published in May 1996), and continuing with forthcoming ....
Absolute Power
Everyone has heard the saying that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Its a little cliché, but everyone understands what it means. There are many different types of power and many different ways those can be used and abused. We have all seen the devastating effects of irresponsibility co....
Albert Einstein and the Frontiers of Physics
Albert Einstein and the Frontiers of Physics
Albert Einstein is one of the most famous scientist/physicist of all time. The biography Albert Einstein and the Frontiers of Physics by Jeremy Bernstein talks about Albert Einsteins life, and what hes known for. Albert Einstein made many discoveries....
Alfred nobel and his prize
Alfred's life
Alfred Nobel was an inventor/engineer, whose most famous discover was that of dynamite. He was from a family of Swedish engineers that gained their wealth producing weapons and oil for the Russians. Nobel became one of the world's richest men, due to his businesses and inventi....
American Literature Authors Research Paper
American Literature Authors Research Paper
John Grisham
Speaking on behalf of John Grisham and his reading audience; Readers can no longer be neatly categorized as those who read great literature and those who read trash. Categories overlap. We should stand in awe of John Grishams gift, ....
An Analysis of Central Themes
James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1909, the son of a postal worker who was killed in an automobile accident. The loss of his father marked James Agee both short term and long term(James Agee p.30). Thirty years later it would form the basis of the novel which is the cornerstone of his f....
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was one of the most successful entrepreneurs in American history. His rise to the top was an embodiment of the American dream; he was born a peasant and through hard work, became a king. Carnegies notion of success evolved from usefulness and honor, grew to mon....
Assata Shakur
As a history major, I study a lot of so-called "revolutionaries." These people are mostly men who led massive armies and/or powerful governments. These men took over countries and created empires. And, while I absolutely appreciate their accomplishments, I don't feel as if they coincide wi....
Aurthr Miller
Arthur Miller is now regarded as one of the worlds greatest dramatists. In his plays he explores the struggles of the ordinary man against authority and insurmountable odds. It is his ability to dramatize the attempts to find the balance between the different conflicts of life that is Millers fe....
Autobiography of a Slave by Juan Francisco Manzano
The life, times, and struggles of Juan Francisco Manzano is what Autobiography of a Slave portrays to readers of this first hand account. Manzano tells his stories from the first person perspective; he was a slave on the El Molino Plantation run by Don Nicolas and Don Manuel, owned by the Marchi....
AUVAIYAR
1. Introduction
Every child born in this world is innocent. That is the reason, every body likes the children. Indians love children as gods like Kannan, Murugan and Iyyeppan where they appear as young children. Every child is not grown up as innocent adult. What are the changes being made while t....
Baldwin

American writer, noted for his novels on sexual and personal identity, and sharp essays on civil-rights struggle in the United States. Baldwin also wrote three plays, a children's storybook, and a book of short stories. He gained fame with his first novel, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN (1....
Benjamin Franklin -- Living the
Benjamin Franklin Living the American Dream
I was not discouragd by the seeming Magnitude of the Undertaking, as I have always thought that one Man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, & accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good Plan, and, cutting off al....
better understanding the authors Adams, Freire, Rich, Pratt, and Griffin.
The assignments I was given over the past weeks allowed me to obtain a better understanding about the authors Adams, Freire, Rich, Pratt, and Griffin. Each authors unique style of writing showed me that there is not just one way of writing. You can write your thoughts in the traditional way, bu....
Billie Holiday
Blue Notes
Often considered the greatest female jazz singer of all time, Billie Holiday was truly a motivational and inspirational woman of her time. Her very distinctive voice and personality on stage captivated the world around her. The documentation of Holidays life is known to be imprecise at....
Biography of Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix was born Johnny Allen Hendrix at 10:15 in the morning on November 27th, 1945 in Seatle, Washington. On September 11th, 1946, Jimi's official name changed to James Marshall Hendrix. Jimi's parents divorced in the early fifties, afterwards he was raised by his father, Al. Jimi was obsesse....
biography of Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (100 44 BCE)
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman military and political leader. In 78 BCE Caesar began his political career in the Forum at Rome as an advocate, known for his oratory and ruthless prosecution of former governors notorious for extortion and corruption. Cicero once commen....
biography of mary shelley
Mary Shelley
July of 1816, aside from being historically significant, was probably the most important single month in literary history. Mary Shelley traveled with her stepsister Claire Clairmont and her soon to be husband Percy Shelley to stay with Lord Byron and his young physician John Polidor....
Biography of Pele
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, more widely admired by the world as "Pel", was born on October 23, 1940, in a small village in Brasil called Trs Coraes in the Brasilian state of Minas Gerais. He was baptized in the municipal church called Igreja da Sagrada Famlia de Jesus, Maria e Jos. His father, Joo ....
biography of tennessee williams and the theme of duty and responsibility in The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams, playwright of The Glass Menagerie, was born in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1911 and died in 1984. Tennessees name given at birth was Thomas Lanier Williams III. The nickname Tennessee was given to him in college. Williams Family had quite an ext....
Biography Of Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur is a well renowned rapper and has had hit singles all over the world. What most people dont know is that he didnt only write rap songs, he wrote poetry as well. Maybe rap songs are just poems with a beat, but his poems are nothing like his rap songs, his poems say a lot more. Tup....
Biography On Bono
Bono Biography
Bono was raised in Dublin; he has one brother, Norman Hewson. His mothers name was Iris and his fathers is Brendan Robert Hewson. His mother was a Protestant and died when bono was 14 at her fathers funeral of a cerebral aneurysm. From then on he was raised by his Roman Cathol....
Black Boy
Empowerment
Richard Wright faces many hardships living as a black boy in the south. His autobiography titled Black Boy explains his life. Obviously, as a black kid in the south, he did not have the same rights and privileges as white people. This meant less opportunities for Richar....
Black Boy, by Richard Wright
Analyzing the work of a Black Boy
During the 19th century the literary movement of choice was naturalism. Naturalism was a form of literature where writers were influenced by the evolution theory of Charles Darwin. These writers believed that heredity shaped a persons character. The Jim ....
Black like me
Book Report: Black like Me
8¨5 Summary ¨C John Howard Griffin, the main character as well as the author of the Book, is concerning about the racial conflict that appears in the society. He was urging to find out how did the black people think of this issue, also he was wondering how was the bla....
Blackboy
It goes without saying, then, that language is also a political instrument, means, and proof of power. It is the most vivid and crucial key to identity. African American author James Baldwin believed this. A passage in the autobiography Black Boy by African American writer Richard Write qualifie....
bob
BOB MARLEY Jamaica has produced an artist who has touched all categories, classes, and creeds through innate modesty and profound wisdom. Bob Marley, the Natural Mystic who introduced reggae to European and American fans still may prove to be the most significant musical artist of the twentieth cent....
Book Review - Pride & Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a great novel written by Jane Austen. The novel is the most of Janes as well as one of the most romantic comedies novels. It was first written under the title First Impressions from 1796-1787 and revised later and was published in 1813 as Pride and Prejudice. The novel descr....
Carter G. Woodson
"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
These are the words of Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, distinguished Black author, editor, publisher, and historian (December 1875 - April 1950). Carter G. ....
Cassie Bernall
Cassie Bernall, a 17-year-old junior at Columbine High School, was a typical teen having a typical day when a classmate trained a gun on her and asked if she believed in God. She said yes. She died soon after because of her belief. The shooter was Eric Harris, another student of Columbine High. The ....
Christopher Reeve
Autobiography:
The word autobiography is defined as the biography of a person written by that person www.dictionary.com. This book is an autobiography of Christopher Reeve, enlightening the readers of his life, and in particularly concentrating on his equestrian accident, the affects to which....
Clive Staples author,scholar and then some....
Clive Staples Jack Lewis (also widely know as C. S. Lewis); writer, scholar, a man. Today I am writing about, as you have probably guessed C. S. Lewis. The man whose books have been translated into 30 different languages, and are still selling an average of a million copies every year, his books....
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Review of Coming of Age in Mississippi
The well-written autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody is the story of her life as a poor black girl growing into adulthood. It depicts life in a rural Mississippi town during the civil rights movement of the 1940's and 1950's. She o....
Comparism of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin
Comparing these two authors, we must consider the basic difference between them. Jonathan Edwards, famous for his sermons, tried to bill his own philosophy based on puritans faith. That understood man as a sinful failure and the basic source of his inspiration was the Bible.
On the other hand, Benj....
contemporary approaches to Business Planning, and structure of Business Plan
Table of Content
Summary:
Last year our family opened business. We rented room for tourists. But when season ended we understood that our business was not lucrative one. I really did not understand why our business failed.
But now I understood that business can't be lucrative without business p....
Critical Analysis of Dawn Frasers Biography by Ken Knox
Dawn Fraser is the Queen of Swimming in Australia . One of the most influential sportswomen of all time, she redefined the concept of Olympic Champion, and is still a source of inspiration in the world of championship swimming. In the biography, The Dawn of Swimming, author Ken Knox, provi....
Critque of Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealys book Autobiography of a Face takes a deep look at the societal stereotypes and perceptions. This paper will examine how the societal standards effects Grealy perception of her-self and her family. At the end of her book she writes Society is no help. It tells us again and again....
Dante and Human Nature
Was Dantes idea of human nature instigated by St. Augustines writings during the medieval times? Dante, like most other Christians seems to be influenced by Augustines drive for salvation. Augustine struggled with his ambitions, his sexuality, and with his competing philosophies and mystical r....
Daugther of Han in Respect to East Asian Studies
Ashley Reefer
October 5, 2006
Mr. Smith
A Daughter of Han
. The Confucian religion or philosophy has been around for an overwhelming 2,000 years and is still widely practiced today. According to the religion people are born naturally inclined to be virtuous, but need education and good examp....
down these mean streets
Down These Mean Streets, an autobiography by Piri Thomas is about a boys journey to manhood on the mean streets of New Yorks Spanish Harlem. While growing up in Harlem, Piri adopted an attitude, which was both hot-tempered and violent. In the end, this personality flaw almost cost him everything....
Dr. Martin Luthr King, Jr.
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Miguel Rodriguez
Centenary College
Abstract
This paper will analyze and study the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King and how leadership skills helped him in accomplishing his goals. The characteristics that made Dr. ....
Elie Wiesel: A Survivor of the Holocaust
Elie Wiesel wrote in a mystical and existentialistic manner to depict his life as a victim of the holocaust in his many novels. Such selections as Night and The Trial of God reveal the horrors of the concentration camps and Wiesel's true thoughts of the years of hell that he encountered. This hell t....
Emerson and Franklins Ideas on Self-Reliance
In the story of Franklins Autobiography, his idea of conformity and order is to let everything have its place and ,each part of your business have its time. Whereas, Emerson had the theme of self-reliance and individuality, which to him meant that you had to trust yourself because you cann....
esmeralda santiago
Esmeralda Santiago
Santiago is the eldest of 11 children. She grew up moving back and forth between the countryside and the city in Puerto Rico. Along with her family, she moved to the USA in 1961. She later received degrees from Harvard University and Sarah Lawrence College. She now works as a jou....
Fever Pitch
The purpose of this essay is to discuss the theme of loyalty within Fever Pitch and how Nick Hornby does so by use of humour, characterisation and setting. The genre of this novel is that of humour. Fever Pitch is a book that has no chapters but a series of match reports that fall into three time ....
Fever Pitch
The purpose of this essay is to discuss the theme of loyalty within Fever Pitch and how Nick Hornby does so by use of humour, characterisation and setting.
The genre of this novel is that of humour. Fever Pitch is a book that has no chapters but a series of match reports that fall into thre....
Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt
I n t r o d u c t i o nThroughout the ages there have been many great leaders. These leaders are powerful in many ways, with a strong control over the people, and a place in history. But who would have guessed that two cousins would be some of the greatest government figures ever? Franklin Delano Ro....
Frederick Douglas
A Literacy Icon
Intestinal fortitude and sheer determination is what drove one of the worlds greatest literary minds. A gifted man whose works for too long has been forgotten by history. Frederick Douglasss life is that of true grit and determination. It is also one of many obstacles that ....
Frederick Douglas
Frederick Douglass used his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, to support the abolition movement of the 1840s, led by William Llyod Garrison. The abolition movement was based on the idea of gradual emancipation of all slaves, and ulti....
Frederick Douglass: The Father of The Civil Rights Movement
Research Paper- Frederick Douglass, "The Father of the Civil Rights Movement"
The little boy was awakened by aroused voices. One was angry and shouting; the other voice, a woman's, was pleading. Peeking through a crack in the wooden boards, the now awakened boy beheld his Aunt Hester stripped nake....
Hamlets best friend: a defence of Horatio
There is much negative criticism levelled at Horatio. Thomas M. Kettle calls him a wandering ineptitude who never has a single suggestion. Francis G. Schoff declares him very nearly a nobody. Arthur McGee labels him a parasitic sucker-fish. However, there does seem to be a general....
Heart of Darkness: Was Conrad a Racist?
Heart of Darkness: Was Conrad a Racist?
The term racist is used to describe, A person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others, and that is exactly how the father of modern African literature, Chinua Achebe, described the author of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad. ....
Hiroshima and Night
Though both Hiroshima, by John Hersey, and Night, by Elie Wiesel, are effective in getting across different aspects of World War II and its happenings, Wiesel seems to do so in a much more moving manner. The descriptions put forth in Night are from a first-person view and relate the true horrors of....
Hispanic Immigrants Cultural Identity
The Spanish Immigrants Cultural Identity
Thesis statement: Judith Ortiz Cofer offers comfort and a sense of identity to others who share her heritage through her works that center on the lives of Spanish immigrants.
I. The Latin Deli
A. Where Spanish immigrants meet.
II. The Line of t....
History of Garlic
One could trace garlic back archaeologically to around 3,000 B.C. It was first discovered in Southwest Asia; where it was just considered as a plant. When garlic was first discovered, it had many uses. To some it was just used to add an extra taste to food, but to others it was used for medical p....
History of Terrorism
In the early morning of September 11, 2001, the deadliest terrorist attack in history took place in New York City and Washington D.C. Members of the terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, hijacked four commercial airliners full of fuel, en route from the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States. Two ....
Hitler's rise to power
Adolph Hitler is undoubtedly one of the most important historical figures of the 20th century. During his reign in Germany as a dictator, he made a tremendous impact on the events that happened not only on the European continent, but throughout the whole world. So how was it that he managed to be o....
How Did Hitler Become Chancellor in 1933?
30th January 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, the consequences of which would eventually lead to the death of millions, as well as changing the world, as we know it forever. How did Hitler, a man from a simple working class background become Chancellor in 1933?
It wasnt long b....
Howard Fast
Howard Fast, the son of a factory worker, was born in New York City on 11th November, 1914. He dropped out of high school and at the age of 18 published his first novel Two Villages. Fast held strong left-wing views and a large number of his novels dealt with political themes. This included a series....
Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez - An Analysis
A great portion of Hunger of Memory covers Rodriguez's childhood and his transformation into an adult. He is the third child of two Mexican immigrants in Sacramento and has two sisters and one brother. In this essay there will be a description of the main themes of Rodriguezs life.
Rodriguez de....
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells has been described as a crusader for justice, and as a defender of democracy. Wells was characterized as a militant and uncompromising leader for her efforts to abolish lynching and establish racial equality. Wells challenged segregation decades before Rosa Parks, ran for Congress and a....
Importance of Style in Theodore Roethkes Poem, My Papas Waltz
Importance of Style in Theodore Roethkes Poem, My Papas Waltz
The poem My Papas Waltz is full of ironic and sarcastic gestures, for the title of the poem seems to suggest a son that is enjoying himself by Waltzing with his father: but later on the poem you could easily see that w....
Inner Journeys - My Place by Sally Morgan
Inner Journeys
The idea of inner journey is one of self discovery and development. The statement The journey is more important than the destination is quite correct in saying that we cannot make it to our final destination without a journey and also that a journey will lead the traveler ba....
Jack Johnson
Biography
Early life
Jack Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas to Henry and Tiny Johnson, former slaves, who both worked blue-collar jobs to earn enough to raise six children and teach them all how to read and write. Jack Johnson had only five years of formal schooling.
Personal life
Johns....
Jackie chan
Jackie Chan
By Kyrsteen Maldonado
General Purpose: To inform
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience the biography of Jackie Chan
Central idea: everything you want to know about Jackie Chan
Introduction
I. What is Jackie Chans real name?
A. Jackie Chan doesnt sound very Chinese no....
Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. His family moved to California where segregation was still a large part of society. Jackie defused his anger over this prejudice by immersing himself in sports. He displayed extraordinary athletic skills in high school, excelling ....
James Henry Hammond of the Old South
James Henry Hammond and the Old South is the biography of James Henry Hammond, a Southern planter and Congressman. He was raised by his father, Elisha Hammond, who was adamant that James be something great. Although poor, Elisha always provided for his children the best that he could and he made sur....
Jane Austen portrayed in Elizabeth Bennet
ABSTRACT:
In this present investigation, it will be analysed the life and , through further analysis , the character of Elizabeth Bennet, whose life portraits what Jane Austen herself lived through her life. The main analysis reveals the similarities of Jane Austen life and Elizabeth Bennet fict....
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is a story of a poor, orphaned girl, and her search for love and justice. Jane is an intelligent, honest, plain-featured young girl forced to cope with cruelty, inequality, and hardship.
The first two chapters of the novel illustrate Janes troubled beginnings as a you....
Jesus and Muhammad: Comparison and Contrast of Christianity and Islam
Jesus and Muhammad
Comparison and Contrast of Christianity and Islam
July 22, 2006
Their Lives
The Lives of Jesus and Muhammad have influenced billions of people throughout the world to know God, Christianity and then Islam. Their lives are being compared and contrasted, with highlights of ....
Jim Morisson
Metamorphose. An object is cut off from its name, habits, associations. Detached, it becomes only the thing, in and of itself. When this disintegration into pure existence is at last achieved, the object is free to become endlessly anything."Jim Morrison, from The LordsPART I The Sex Revolts ....
Juiced by Jose Canseco
Juiced: a biography is written by Jose Canseco. Mr. Canseco has written this book to tell his story of his life as a young boy, a teenager, and as an adult. This book begins by Canseco talking about his father and his life living in Cuba during the Batista years. Canseco talks about his fathers ea....
King Henry VIII
Henry VIII, you probably remember the name because you know this man had six wives. Without Henry the reformation in England wouldnt have gotten of to such a quick start. This biography of his life will leave in no doubt about why this is so. I will begin by outlining his early life and then go on....
Lifespan Development and Personality Paper
Lifespan Development and Personality Paper
Personalities and human development are formed and influenced by many factors like experiences, environment, and by simply ones traits. What makes a person characteristic is based on their reasonings, emotional and moral intake of the positive and ne....
Lifespan Development and Personality Paper
Lifespan Development and Personality Paper
Personalities and human development are formed and influenced by many factors like experiences, environment, and by simply ones traits. What makes a person characteristic is based on their reasonings, emotional and moral intake of the positive and ne....
Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X was a great book. This autobiography was a great piece of literature because it let you know all the aspects of Malcolms life and why many so him as a very influential figure in black history. This book let me know all the sides of Malcolm, not just civil rights acti....
malcolm x
Malcolm X One of the most influential men of his time, not only with the black community, but also with other people of every community. His beliefs for many people are hard to understand and probably thought as if his beliefs are wrong, but until someone actually reads The Autobiography of Malcolm ....
Malcolm X
MALCOLM LITTLE
A research paper on the life, death, and achievements of Malcolm X.
By Shawn Emig
Malcolm Little
Pg. 1
VITA STATEMENT: Malcolm X lead 30,000 people as a minister and leader of the Islamic faith However, he altered the lives of billions as a human ri....
Malcom X
Page 347 During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed-while praying to the same God-with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the ....
Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
Maos Last Dancer
Li Cunxin
Name: Li Cunxin
Born: Quingdoa, Northern China, 1961
Li Cunxin was born into an enormously poor peasant family in Qingdoa which is a remote community village in Northern China in 1961.
Li was the sixth child in a family of seven children; he lived in a small h....
Mathabane - Kaffir Boy
Kaffir Boy is Mathabanes first book or autobiography on his life. Based on brutal conditions towards black people in South Africa "thanks" to Apartheid.
Growing up in Alexandra meant hate, bitterness, hunger, pain, terror, violence and fear. In the ghettos black children fight for surv....
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Born: April 4, 1928
St. Louis, Missouri
Occupation:
Novelist/Poet
Nationality:
United States
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Johnson April 4, 1928) is an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Ri....
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was a poet, a writer, a teacher, and a lecturer. Her favorite people in American History were Frederick Douglass, Patrick Henry,and Thomas Paine. She would get up every morning before dawn to study the words of these people. She would pace back and forth reading to herself and drawing i....
Mel Gibson Spirituality Case Study
Summary
This Case Study on Mel Gibson discusses his right wing Roman Catholic spirituality and the affect he has on Australia. Mel Gibson and his movies is an unofficial biography with various interviews at different stages in Gibsons life coupled with facts. Also there are various interviews of ....
memoirs of lady Hyegyuon
¡°The Mermoirs of Lady Hyegyong¡± is autobiography written by Lady Hyegyong who lived through series of misfortunes during her life time. She survived through one of the biggest controversial events that took place in Korean history. The autobiography consists of four different parts which was w....
Monster
I have had an interest in gangs and their life style for a couples years. I had to write a 25 page paper for a class and I chose gangs as my topic. A friend had referred me to this book. I found it to be very educational. I seldom read for entertainment purposes. When I read this book, I could hardl....
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
In Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, Kody Scott tells the true story of his life in the gangs. He committed his first murder at the tender age of eleven to get initiated in the Crips. There was no looking back for Kody after that day. There was an incident were he and some of his ....
Mother Teresa
A biography of Mother Teresa (1910-1997), who created and operated The Missionaries of Charity to help the poor of Calcutta, India. Under Mother Teresa's direction, the order became one of the most effective in the Catholic church.
On August 27, 1910, a child named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born....
mutyple personality disorder
Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by having at least one "alter" personality that controls behavior. The "alters" are said to occur spontaneously and involuntarily, and function more or less independently of each other. The unity of consciousness, by which w....
My Family and other Animals by Gerald Durrell
¡§My family and other Animals¡¨ by Gerald Durrell, is an auto- biography about the other¡¦s life when he was ten. The Durrell family can no longer endure the damp grey English weather, so they sell their house and move to a Greek island called Corfu, and the start of the saga. He tells the sto....
My Left Foot
My Left Foot
My Left Foot is an autobiography written by Christy Brown who was born in 1932, a victim of cerebral palsy, he could not control his speech or his movement, apart from his left foot. Throughout the book we discover the difficulties and achievements through his younger and teenage l....
Nelson Mandela
Profile of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Nelson Mandela's greatest pleasure, his most private moment, is watching the sun set with the music of Handel or Tchaikovsky playing.
Locked up in his cell during daylight hours, deprived of music, both these simple pleasures were denied him for decades. With ....
Nelson Mandela, a man before or after his time?
Word count: 3500
Content:
Nelson Mandelas life
A short history of South Africa.
Nelson Mandela, too late?
Nelson Mandela, too early?
What has changed?
Ive always been very interested in politics, especially when it comes to Africa, and if there was one person I....
night. elie weisel
"For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and
death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him full in the
face. He was still alive when I passed in front of him. His tongue was still
red, his eyes were not yet glazed. Behind me I heard [a] man asking: ....
nuclear power threat to world
Nuclear bombing creates humongous disasters where it is dropped. The destruction is uncountable; land, buildings and even cities get destroyed completely. If we look in the past history when nuclear bomb was used we can tell the destruction it made. It is estimated that as many as 140,000 had died ....
ON BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
Abstract: Death and eternity are the major themes in most of Emily Dickinson's
poems.¡° Because I could not stop for death ¡±is one of her classic poems.
Through the analysis, this essay clarifies infinite conceptions by the
dialectical relationship between reality and imagination, the kno....
Opposite But the Same: Thomas More and King Henry VIII
Opposite But the Same: Thomas More and King Henry VIII
Andrew Yates
EN102/008
Professor Tangerini
13 December 2006
Yates 2
During the time of the two men in question, there were numerous variables that influenced both King Henry VIII and Thomas Mores th....
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
As Time Magazine calls her Queen of All Media, Oprah Winfrey, has revolutionized daytime talk show market. Born 1954 in Mississippi to unmarried parents Oprah learned to read at a very early age by her grandmother who raised her until the age of six. Oprah began her public spea....
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden has been called the worlds foremost terrorist by the media, and is considered Public Enemy Number One by the United Sates government (Current Biography, 2001). Osama was brought up in a very luxurious life style with a large family. He received a top of the line e....
Overview of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Nelson Mandela has been called both "the world's most famous political prisoner" and "South Africa's Great Black Hope," by journalist Tom Mathews in Newsweek. A leader of the banned African National Congress (ANC) insurgent movement during the 1950s and 60s, Mandela had been jailed by white governme....
Pablo Neruda
Biography
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose real name is Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July, 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile. His father was a railway employee and his mother, who died shortly after his birth, a teacher. Some years later his father, who had then moved to the to....
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 1892 - 1973
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents, Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, and were stationed in China. Pearl was the fourth of seven children (and 1 of only 3 who would live until adulthood). Buck was....
Personal and National Paternalism in Barbara Kingsolver's Novels
Personal and National Paternalism in Barbara Kingsolver's Novels
A Literary Analysis
The etymological relationship between "father" and "homeland" goes back to the Latin words for both: pater (father) and patria (country). Fatherland, Vaterland, patrie... all these words meaning "home country" b....
piglet influences
SOCIAL
Religion was still very influential in the 1920s and Milnes did not believe that violence or force was at all a solution. He has been described as a pacifist (Piglet (Winnie-The-Pooh, [Online]), which I think resides in Piglets timid nature (Tucker. 2002). He is literally afraid of con....
Poetry on the Internet
Introduction
The interest in poetry is at an all-time high, and much of that interest has to do with the accessibility of poetic materials on the Internet, a vehicle that offers both a wide latitude of choice to browsers and researchers and a curious mixture of attention and anonymity to those who ....
Postmodernism and Pastic Surgery
Postmodernism began around 1939 and is still present to this day (Beers and Odell 792). It was the next movement after Modernism. They share some similarities, such as that they both accept that there are no guidelines or rules for life, and they were both very open in their writing. Some of the....
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL, VIOLENCE, AND MONEY
In the last few years, professional football experienced an increase in player injuries due to game related violence. There have also been numerous, highly publicized, incidents of violent acts committed by football players off the field. The National Football League has yet to address or attempt to....
Propaganda according to Hitler
Propaganda has been used to the advantage of governments for years. Leading up to his election and throughout his war, Hitler utilized propaganda aimed at the masses to send his messages. Not only did he use such tactics, but also he wrote guidelines about how to successfully use propaganda in his a....
Review of Catherine The Great by Henri Troyat
Catherine The Great, written by Henri Troyat, is filled with wonderful, true to life depictions of the German child Sophie Augusta Fredericka [who became Catherine, Empress of Russia]. Catherine The Great, as she would later become, lived a life that was full of power, men and knowledge that few pe....
Romulus, My father
ROMULUS MY FATHER ESSAY
The indiviuals in Romulus were shaped by their experiences.
In the biography 'Romulus My Father' the characters encounter many different situations and journey to foriegn lands, these experiences shape and change the characters. In the novel some characters endure break....
rube carter
HURRICANE THE LIFE OF RUBIN CARTER
When they come to list the greatest boxers. Hurricanes name isnt likely to pop up in the Top 10. But when they come to list the greatest fighters of the 20th century, hell be alone at the peak.
Boston Globe
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Schindlers list
6 million Jews, over 3 million Soviet prisoners of war, 2 million soviet civilians, over 1 million polish civilians, over 1 million Yugoslav civilians, 70 000 men, women and children with mental and physical deficiencies, 200 000 Gypsies and a large number political prisoners, resistance fighters, d....
seven wonders of the internet
The Seven Wonders Of The Web
I am acomputer savvy person, and when I was asked to write my seven wonders what could be better than to write about the wonders of the Internet. Internet or web as many people call it is today the largest source of information mankind could ever imagine. Informatio....
Shoeless Joe Jackson
As the story goes Joseph Jefferson Jackson once had such horrible blisters on his feet that he played in a game without shoes. In his socks, he legged out a triple. While standing on third, a fan in the third base stands stood up and yelled, You shoeless son of a gun! The nickname stuck. And w....
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
About the author
The author of the book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, was not only a writer but also a scientist and ecologist, who grew up plainly in the rural river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. In 1929, Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women p....
Sojourner Truth and Women Suffrage
Who was Sojourner Truth?Isabella Baumfree also considered Van Wagenen was born in 1797 and died in 1883. She was the first black to speak out to people about slavery and abolitionists. She was said to have a deep manly voice but had a quick wit and inspiring faith (Encyclpoedia, 474). It was Trut....
St. Patrick The Patron Saint of Ireland
St. Patrick underwent many hardships in his life, beginning at the age of sixteen, after being kidnapped by Irish pirates and brought to Ireland working as a shepherd. St. Patrick was born in 386 A.D. along the west coast of Great Britain. His father, Calpurnius, was a deacon and minor local offic....
St. Patrick; The Patron Saint of Ireland
St. Patrick underwent many hardships in his life, beginning at the age of sixteen, after being kidnapped by Irish pirates and brought to Ireland working as a shepherd. St. Patrick was born in 386 A.D. along the west coast of Great Britain. His father, Calpurnius, was a deacon and minor local offici....
Staggs University The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football in Chicago
Staggs University The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football in Chicago is a book that informs the reader of the role of which intercollegiate athletics had in American society in the twentieth century. It is a book about how the subculture of football in American higher education can be cap....
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a r....
steroids
Sports has always been an extremely competitive object in every athletes life. Hard work, determination and dedication have always been the mottos for athletes in any sport. Athletes spend hours every day training in the gym just to build the perfect body. When an athlete becomes....
Stock Market
The stock market plays a significant role in the health of the economy & is one of the most important source for companies to raise money. Experience has shown that the price of shares & other assets is an important part of the dynamics of economic growth. Rising share prices, for instance, tend to ....
Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence Biography
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Margaret Laurence Biography
Margaret Laurence was born Jean Margaret Wemyss on July 18, 1926 in Manitoba, Canada. The Stone Angel was published two years after her separation from her husband in 1962. It is the first of five books that have been popularly known as the ....
Streetcar Named Desire - Use of dark symbolism
Six weeks ago as I was preparing to depart for my sophomore year at Villanova University, I was digging through my nightstand drawers searching for last minute items I may not have packed. As the bottom drawer opened releasing dust from lack of operation, I instantly remembered what was inside. I ....
Struggles of the Heart
Have you ever known someone who did not aspire to be something or someone better- who did not want to do, feel, or know more then they already did? If your answer is no that is because we are all human beings and as human beings we will all always be dissatisfied/ incomplete if we were not we would....
Sylvia's Use of Senses in Ariel
"Ariel" possesses power and importance, a certain element of orgasmic stress to the degree to which the horseback ride Plath once took becomes something morea ride into the abyss of the unknown, a stare back into the eye of the sun, an odyssey to death, a stripping of personality and selfhood, a sor....
the americans
Although he spent nearly his entire life on one farm, Banneker had an important influence on how African Americans were viewed during the Federalist and Jeffersonian periods of American history. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, Banneker was the child of a free black father. He had little formal e....
The Individual and Romanticism
The Individual and Romanticism
The 18th century had many influential people that had great effects to the cultural changes. Even though Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was born during the Enlightenment period, his political views and literary work made him one of the most profound figure....
The Life and Works of Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was a nationally renowned poet, biographer, lecturer, journalist, and folksinger. He won two Pulitzer prizes for his poetry works and his biography of Abraham Lincoln. He was known as the peoples poet and he passionately wrote for the everyday working person.
Carl Sandburg w....
The life of Charles Wright
MILLS, CHARLES WRIGHT (1916-1962).
Charles Wright Mills, sociologist, social critic, and cultural analyst, son of Charles Grover and Frances Ursula (Wright) Mills, was born at Waco on August 28, 1916. He was raised a Catholic but reacted permanently against Christianity in his late adolescence. H....
The Life of Richard Wright
Deep in the southern states of America, when this country struggled with changes, people not only suffered from poverty, hunger, and illnesses, but people endured racism and violence. These experiences colored people's lives forever. Richard Nathaniel Wright was no exception. Out of the hardships an....
The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial
The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial
Was assassination the goal? The general agreement is that the first goal of the conspirators had been to kidnap the President. A few attempts to kidnap Lincoln fell through, and then the Confederacy surrendered to the North. Booth's thoughts turne....
The Tipping point
ASSIGNMENT 3: TERM PAPER
The tipping point
No matter where people from, we all have a similarly way of behavior because we are all human beings. That mean we all share a common pattern of behavior whatever our race, color and so on. It is really easy to know how we behave but most diffi....
Theodore Roosevelt- Early Career
Theodore Roosevelt explored many careers before entering politics. He attended law classes at Columbia University, but he didnt enjoy it. He also worked industriously at his first book, The Naval War of 1812, for which he began research while still at Harvard. A thorough study of the subject, it w....
Thomas Hardy
About Thomas Hardy and his WessexThomas hardy was born in 1840 and died 1928. During his 88-years old life he wrote fifteen novels and one he never published. He also wrote over 900 poems. He wrote and published four volumes of short stories.He was born, and lived the best part of his life, near Dor....
To Race the Wind, by Harold Krents
Krents, Harold. To Race the Wind. New York: Bantam Books, 1972
To Race the Wind is an inspiring story about
Harold Krents, a man born blind with the exception of the faint vision in his left eye and light perception in his right eye. He was very active as a child, always playing abou....
To Sir With Love
"To Sir With Love," is an autobiographical account of an archetypal black man facing the hardships of post world war British society and assisting those people to overcome their prejudices. The author, Edward Ricardo Braithwaite subverts the conventions of a normal autobiography and employs the tool....
Todays Leading Commentator - Brian Williams
Brian Williams climb to the top of the broadcasting ranks was and is a long and arduous adventure that no other reporter in the history of broadcasting has ventured. Williams proved himself to be worthy of his position through his desire and his active involvement in his work through his years and h....
trainspotting
. Content and structure
a. Genre:
Psychological Novel
b. Point of view:
Changing point of view. I came across all sorts of point of views in this book: he/she-narrator, omniscient narrator, I-narrator, It changes all the time. Sometimes you hear the opinion through one of the characters th....
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore on 20th September, 1878. His alcoholic father moved the family to New York City in 1888. Although his own family were extremely poor, he spent periods of time living with his wealthy grandparents. He later argued that witnessing these extremes turned him into a s....
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