Papers on People and Biographies
Derek Morris: A Personal Bio
Words: 277 - Pages: 2.... at the utmost level, the pros. It probably won't
come true but who knows. Being a student at Shrewsbury I have had much success.
I have been on the honor roll many times and a few months ago I was accepted to
Bryant College. On the baseball field I have also received various honors and
awards. I was captain of the baseball team in my junior and senior year and was
named most valuable player in my junior year.
Shrewsbury is not were I've always lived. I was born in Natick, lived
there for a few months then moved to Framingham. I lived in Framingham for
eleven years then moved to this town I never heard of, Shrewsbury. I have now
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Vincent Van Gogh
Words: 553 - Pages: 3.... as a vocation and became dependent on his brother
for cash. Indeed, for the next 10 years Theo, who had also gone to work for
Goupil, sent an allowance to Vincent, encouraged him to work, and wrote
regularly. Vincent's thinking during his short career (approximately 750
paintings, 1,600 drawings, 9 lithographs, and 1 etching) was documented in more
than 700 letters that he wrote to Theo and others.
Van Gogh's early years includes all his work from 1879 through 1885. Between
August 1879 and November 1885 he worked in Etten, The Hague--where he received
some instruction from his cousin, Anton Mauve and in Nuenen, among other places.
In N .....
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Leonard Bernstein
Words: 1035 - Pages: 4.... him lessons, which lasted for about a year. After that year, Bernstein was no longer satisfied with his teacher, so he went out to find another one. He was referred to a teacher by the name of Miss Susan Williams and despite his father’s protest, this teaching relationship with Miss Williams lasted for two years.
When Bernstein decided that he needed a more professional teacher, he went under the education of Helen Coates, who would later become a life long friend and secretary. After four years of working under Helen, he was accepted as a student of Heinrid Gebhard, who was the best piano teacher in Boston.
At the age of seventeen, .....
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Alexander I
Words: 1705 - Pages: 7.... marriage had been arranged to guarantee descendants to the Romanov dynasty. It was an unhappy relationship from the beginning. The sweet and charming girl was loved by everyone except her husband. As a wedding present, Catherine gave Alexander the Alexander Palace, showing her preference for his grandson over her son, Paul, by granting Alexander a larger court than his father's. This further poisoned the atmosphere in the family. These experiences taught Alexander, early in life, how to manipulate those who loved him and he became a natural at changing his views and personality depending on whom he was with at the time.
Catherine was dete .....
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Alfred Nobel
Words: 469 - Pages: 2.... with, and too many miners were dying using it. He began experimenting on how to control the substance. He wanted something that could absorb the nitroglycerin and not still have the same power. He Found that a substance called Kieselguhr. This substance consisted of (diatomeus earth) marine organisms diatoms. This way the explosive could be transported easily and detonated from a safe distance. It saved laves and time. He would name it Dynamite and got a patent for it in 1867.
Throughout his life he had poor health but was not worried about it because he expected many advances in medicine. He once experimented with his theories on b .....
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Law And Politics
Words: 885 - Pages: 4.... the people of a nation (possibly through elected officials) should have the right to choose which laws are just and which ones are not.
If a nation were founded on this basis, it seems that order would prevail among the people. Furthermore, such a nation would have the simplest, easiest to accept, most limited, nonoppressive, just, and enduring, government imaginable – whatever its political form might be. Under such an administration, everyone would understand that they possessed all the privileges as well as all the responsibilities of their existence. No one would have any alliance with the government. When successful we would .....
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Authors: M. Rowlandson, J. Edwards, T. Jefferson, W. Irving, And J. Cooper
Words: 307 - Pages: 2.... power and the like, and those who had these things were assumed
to be elect...almost a way to make yourself elect...? This didn't last
long as people continued to become more open minded...for America was
giving them the freedom to do this, along with many other freedoms.
Thomas Jefferson, America's 3rd president, and an accomplished one at that.
Jefferson helped bring into exhistance the Declaration of Independence.
He also bought a huge amount of land from Napolean, known as the Lousiana
Purchase for 15 Million dollars, what a deal! Napolean definately needed
money to finance his little war, tsk tsk.
A real thinker i .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson 3
Words: 752 - Pages: 3.... every one of its members" because it takes away the individuality of its members to create a world of people who think the same and act the same. People need to practice aversion and escape the conformity that society strives on. Of course, it is very had for people to get themselves out of this phase of conformity, but as Emerson says, "whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist." For years only great men have been able to break away from society's grasp to form their own ideas and live their own lives. These few examples are the ones people need to follow (149).
Much of the reason people conform to society is that they do not know .....
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Hitler - A Man Of Too Much Power
Words: 736 - Pages: 3.... in the course of which he attended a meeting of the tiny German Workers Party in 1919. He later joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, later called the Nazi convicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time, he began to write Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), which later became the second Bible in Nazi Germany. Hitler resolved to achieve power legally, and after a series of events too numerous to detail here, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President von Hindenburg on January 30, 1933.
Over the next 6 years, Hitler undertoo .....
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Czar Nicholas II
Words: 711 - Pages: 3.... be seen as slight and wiry. Because his legs were so short, most people agreed that he looked most regal when mounted on horseback. He always wore his brown hair parted on the left. His beard, also brown, was streaked with golden highlights as if the sun had reached out and stroked it with a kindly finger. The Czar had a nervous habit of brushing his mustache up with the back of his hand. In time, this gesture would become his distinct signature.
Because of his sheltered life under the fear of terrorists, Nicholas grew up secluded from the world. Unfortunately, this caused him to never had the self-confidence and self-reliance he would n .....
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