Papers on People and Biographies
Zora Neale Hurston
Words: 1895 - Pages: 7.... was a community leader and was influential member of society. His positions in Eatonville included: Baptist preacher, town mayor, and skilled carpenter (Lyons 2). Though John was a revered member of Eatonville he had is faults as well. His eye for other women often left his family home alone for months out of a time (Lyons 1). Zora's mother, Lucy Potts Hurston was the "hard-driving force in the family."(Lyons 2) Lucy was a country schoolteacher, who taught all her children how to read and write, which lead to six out of her seven children earning a college degree (Lyons 2-3). Unfortunately, Lucy Hurston died when Zora was nine years of a .....
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The Ambitions Of Napoleon
Words: 1140 - Pages: 5.... Brienne, when the
other students played soldier, he usually became the commander.
Tragically in 1784, his father died, leaving Napoleon at the age of
fifteen without a role model and a guide. But Napoleon was a hard worker
and he became self-motivated. After only of one year in the Military School
of Paris he graduated instead of the normal two or three years. Napoleon
was then assigned as a second lieutenant to an artillery regiment.
A year later he returned home for the first time in eight years.
His visit would last two years, leaving him from his regiment in France.
While home in Corsica he wrote a reply to the Corsican aristocrats who .....
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John F Kennedy
Words: 301 - Pages: 2.... President,
and four years later he was the first-ballot nominee for president.
Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President. His Inaugural Address
offered the memorable line: "Ask not what your country can you--ask what
you can do for your country."
As president he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America
moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest
sustained expansion since World War II. Before his death, he laid plans
for a massive plans for assault on persisting pockets of privation and
poverty.
John F. Kennedy was called the dreamer President. This inspiring
president challenged Americ .....
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Selena
Words: 779 - Pages: 3.... to her, so he decided to teach her some Spanish songs, but one problem, only knew how to speak English, so went on with most of her life not even knowing what the words meant that she was singing. Well in order to start the band they would need more then so Abraham made Abraham III (nicknamed A.B.) her older brother, and Suzette, her older sister. A.B. already knowing the drums, Suzette already knowing the drum, and having an awesome voice started their band, “ Y Los Dinos”. They started practicing together and performer a little. In 1980, Abraham and Marcella opened up a Mexican restaurant. At first business was booming, Abraham .....
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Helen Keller
Words: 1572 - Pages: 6.... She touched and smelled everything she came across and felt other people's hands to see what they were doing. She copied their actions and was soon able to do certain jobs herself, like milking the cows or kneading dough. She even learnt to recognise people by feeling their faces or their clothes. She could also tell where she was in the garden by the smell of the different plants and the feel of the ground under her feet. By the age of seven she had invented over 60 different signs by which she could talk to her family. If she wanted bread for example, she would pretend to cut a loaf and butter the slices. If she wanted ice cream she wrappe .....
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Joseph Stalin 2
Words: 824 - Pages: 3.... 1902 and 1913 Stalin was arrested and exiled many times for countless crimes and as a result in 1907 he was expelled from the Social Democratic Labor Party. However, his luck changed in 1912 when Lenin appointed Stalin to the Bolshevik Central Committee. In addition, he was given various commands and was appointed to the position of people’s commissar for nationalities. After proving himself at this position, he was assigned the position of commissar of workers’ and peasants’ inspection. He finally gained the power he desired most in 1922, when he became general secretary of the Central Committee. With this position Stali .....
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The Life Of George Armstrong Custer
Words: 568 - Pages: 3.... West Point. At the Academy, Custer learned the
meaning of institutional discipline and the importance of selective
obedience. He was always on the brink of dismissal, but he was able to
control himself when it was necessary. Custer knew what he could get away
with without being dismissed from the academy, and he enjoyed going to the
edge but not over it. The fellow cadets loved Custer for his fun-loving
and joking ways. Though Custer was frequently punished for his behavior,
he understood why he was at the Academy, and wanted to make something of
himself. At the Academy, Custer became a good writer. He felt the need
to write through .....
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Ben Franklin
Words: 431 - Pages: 2.... career when in 1740 he invented the Pennsylvania fireplace, later called the Franklin stove, which soon heated buildings all over Europe and North America. He also read treaties on electricity and and began a series of experiments with his friends in Philadelphia. Experiments he proposed, first tried in France in 1752, showed that lightning was in fact a form of electricity. Later that year his famous kite experiment, in which he flew a kite with the wire attached to a key during a thunderstorm. His later achievements included formulating a theory of heat absorption, measuring Gulf Stream, designing ships, tracking storm paths, and inventin .....
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Comparison: Caesar And Fidel Castro
Words: 487 - Pages: 2.... of office. Fidel led a revolt against Falgecio Batista, who when lost the support of the U.S. backed away and let Fidel in. Caesar had problems to, he had to defeat the famous Pompey. Caesar chased him into Egypt and then had to fight Pompey and Cleopatra.
Both Fidel and Caesar where geniuses. Not only where they great military leaders, they were great politicians. Both used propaganda to help become dictators. They used something to blame everything on. Fidel used the U.S. for everyone to hate. And Caesar used slavery to increase in popularity.
Though both leaders had to overtake a dictator but they did it in different ways. Fi .....
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Rene Descartes
Words: 853 - Pages: 4.... This book introduced three ideas, one on optics, one on geometry, and one on meteorology. Four yeas later he wrote Meditations on First Philosophy which is his version of a unified and certain body of the human knowledge. The Catholic and Protestant Church was angered by his book, claiming that Descartes’ hope was to replace the teachings of Aristotle. In 1644 he publish Principles of Philosophy which he hoped would in-fact replace Aristotle’s teachings. His last important work was called Passions of the Soul where he explored topics such as the relationship of the soul to the body, the nature of emotion, and the role of the will in .....
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