Papers on People and Biographies
Calvin Coolidge
Words: 1929 - Pages: 8.... in 1926, pointed out: "... his talent for effectively doing nothing. This active inactivity suits the mood and certain needs of the country admirably. It suits all the business interests which wants to be let alone... And it suits all those who have become convinced that government in this country has become dangerously complicated and top heavy.." (Touchman 90).
It is no wonder, that Coolidge was known as the "do-nothing" president.
The road to the presidency was not a hard road for Coolidge to come by. He was born on the 4th of July in the summer of 1872 at Vermont. He was originally named John but he later dropped the "John" (Ask .....
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William Faulkner
Words: 1277 - Pages: 5.... ran a livery stable and a hardware store.
Later he became business manager of the University. Maud Butler was his mother
and Murray, John, and Dean were his three brothers. (American Writers; 55a)
Faulkner's great-grandfather was William C. Falkner. He was born in 1825.
He was a legendary figure in Northern Mississippi. Many details of his life
have shown up in Faulkner's writings. He was twice acquitted of murder charges.
He was a believer in severe discipline and was a colonel of a group of raiders
of the Civil War. He began as a poor youngster trying to take care of his
widowed mother, but ending his career as the owner of a .....
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Ray Bradbury
Words: 1245 - Pages: 5.... By 1931 he began writing his own stories on butcher paper. His childhood was very important to him because it was a constant source of intense sensations, feelings, and images that generate great stories. As a child he was first inspired by seeing "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". "His childhood was that of a pleasant memory of a half-forgotten dream" (Person I). In 1932, after his father was laid off his job as a electrical lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson and again returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1934 the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California.
Bradbury graduated from a Los Angeles High School in 1938. .....
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Helen Keller
Words: 1000 - Pages: 4.... Helen. They soon discovered that
Helen was deaf. They discovered later that she was blind when she did not
blink when her mother clothed or bathed her. She was declared legally as
an idiot.
She soon started going to a special school called the Boston
Institute for the Blind that her parents had heard of that helps children
with disabilities. She did not really understand that words stood for
things in the world. She did not know what words meant. Although she did
not give up easily.(Howell 1)
Up until the age of seven, when her teacher Anne Sullivan put her
hand under water did she know that things in the world had meanings. Anne .....
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Adolf Hilter
Words: 1946 - Pages: 8.... dream he had moved to Vienna the capital of Austria where the Academy of arts was located. He failed the first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the dean .....
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Nathan McCall
Words: 498 - Pages: 2.... White America is obsessed with race,”
he said. “Blacks are routinely treated with disdain and regarded with
suspicion...wherever we go in this country we are hated.” He said this is
the reason why Black men commit so many crimes against each other--they
internalize the hatred that others in society have for them. They end up
hating themselves.
"I learned to hate myself by the time I was 12 years old," he said. McCall
said he and his friends did not believe they had a future. Self-
destructive behavior was the result. He credits his 12 year prison sentence
for changing his attitude. His fellow inmates told him "don't do what
we've .....
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Roy Jones Jr.
Words: 495 - Pages: 2.... standard so he constructed
his own ring in a pasture and fmade a punching bag with scrap materials.
Local kids watched as Roy’s father taught him the fundamentals of boxing.
Soon they got interested and a boxing club was formed. Roy Sr. used his
own money to buy boxing equipment and at one point sold the family’s
tractor to finance the boxing club. This wasn’t enough though because he
had to ask others that he knew for money to take the kids to boxing
tournaments in neighboring states. The only form of transportation was an
old rickety van, which doors were held with metal wire.
By the time Roy wa .....
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Marcus Aurelius
Words: 2598 - Pages: 10.... would accompany Aurelius throughout much of his life.
In 161 AD, Pius died, leaving Aurelius and Pius’s other adopted son, known as Verus, to rule together. The two brothers were quite different, although no disagreements are mentioned between the two. Verus was a headstrong man, who was more apt to want a war than the contemplative Aurelius. Verus was an "Epicurean" and definitely would never be called a philosopher. However, Verus died suddenly in 169, leaving Aurelius to rule Rome on his own. It is important to mention that during basically all of Aurelius’ rule, Rome was engaged in a long series of defensive wars. In .....
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Tupac Shakur
Words: 1490 - Pages: 6.... friends with a couple of popular rap artists like Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre (Placid n.p.). He made some songs and music videos with them that made it big on the Billboard charts. This really helped his popularity. He released a double CD with the songs on it and a lot of his own songs and sold millions of copies (u.a., n.t., n.p. letter code D) More people were influenced to buy his CD. People listened to the music and did what he said he did. So Tupac was influencing all of these people. Tupac was rich and famous now. He was showing off his own style now and didn't need his popular friends. This is the time that many people saw the .....
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Booker T. Washington
Words: 1237 - Pages: 5.... in order to build the reputation of an entire race. He didn't do it by accusing and putting blame on others, but instead through hard work. cleared the way for the black community to fully enter the American society. Washington was born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Franklin County, Virginia, on a small tobacco plantation. His only true relative was his mother, Jane, who was the plantation's cook. His father was probably the white son of one of the neighbors, though it is not known for sure. Washington spent his childhood years on the plantation, but since he was so young he never had to do the heavy work. He did the small jobs, suc .....
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