Papers on People and Biographies
J.p. Morgan
Words: 2967 - Pages: 11.... yachtsman, and ladies' man. He was king to a handful of millionaire barons who controlled the country's wealth in an era of little government regulation.
The wealth of the Morgan family did not begin with Pierpont but with his grandfather Joseph Morgan. Joseph prospered as a hotelkeeper in Hartford, Connecticut. He helped to organize a canal company, steamboat lines and the new railroad that connected Hartford with Springfield. Finally he became one of the founders of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company. Joseph's first son was Junius Spencer Morgan, also destined for the life of a businessman. He spent a number of years as a dry- .....
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Twain
Words: 1402 - Pages: 6.... to others, (Anderson 5). Both of his parents would inspire Clemens¹s writings. Significantly so when his father died, around when he was 12. It was then that Clemens decided to leave his small river town and his ailing scholastic career, and head of by himself.
Clemens soon become a printer's apprentice. Interesting enough, it was working around the printing press that helped push Clemens into publishing his first works. His earliest writings were skits for his brother Orion's Hannibal newspaper. A sketch, "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter," published in The Carpet Bag (Boston) in 1852, was his first published story of life .....
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Igor Stravinsky
Words: 672 - Pages: 3.... the conductors; being a musician, he must have come across them many times. He says, "conducting, like politics, rarely attracts original minds." Stravinsky uses the word "original" in a different way than it is normally used. In English, "original" means first, or new. In Russian, however, to call a person original means to say that he is smart, that he comes with resourceful ideas. Since Stravinsky was Russian, that is what he probably meant. Therefore in his first sentence, Stravinsky says that, more or less, almost all conductors are stupid.
The whole passage is more of an insult to all conductors, rather than an informative text .....
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Celine Dion
Words: 2271 - Pages: 9.... career choice would be to be a professional model, and her favorite musical instrument is a piano. Celine’s favorite female singers are Natalie Cole, Barbara Streisand, and Ginette Reno, and her favorite male singers are Stevie Wonder and Micheal Jackson. Micheal Jackson even sent her a signed photo stating “To Celine with love.”, (Http://www.celineonline.com/bio1.html.) and the hat he wore in the Billy Jean clip, which was also signed. Her first name comes from a song (Celine, sang by Hugues Aufray and written in 1966 by Vline Buggy) that her mother was singing while she was pregnant.
Celine has a large family. Her m .....
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Jackie Robinson 2
Words: 572 - Pages: 3.... to 1956, mostly as a second baseman, Robinson batted .311 in 1382 games. He was also a daring baserunner. In 1962 Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the first black player so honored.
After leaving baseball, Robinson was vice president of a restaurant chain in New York City. From 1964 to 1968 he served as special assistant for civil rights to Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Robinson starred in the motion picture The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) and was the author, with Alfred Duckett, of I Never Had It Made (1972)
ROBINSON, Jackie (1919-72). The first black player in either of the major baseball leagues was Jackie .....
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Gillian Anderson
Words: 1247 - Pages: 5.... on August 9, 1968. By the time she was only a mere 6 months old, her and her family were residing in Puerto Rico. At the age of 1, she relocated once again, this time in London, England. At this point, it is safe to say that the Anderson family was somewhat nomadic. Now being an inhabitant of England, the family moved several more times. At the age of 5, Gillian was living in Crouch End in north London, where she attended her first school. By this time Gillian had spent most of her life in London but had picked up her parents’ American accent. Her classmates teased and taunted her, and she was bullied in the schoolyard. She imm .....
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Jim Henson, A Gentle Genius
Words: 617 - Pages: 3.... Henson helped
sustain the qualities of fancifulness, warmth and consideration that have
been so threatened by our coarse, cynical age. Henson created the muppets
which led to his great success with children.
Henson was very successful in life. He accomplished many things
that people might dream of as a child. His success first started in high
school when his family first moved to Washington and he became fascinated
by television. In the summer of 1954, just before he entered the
University of Maryland he learned that a local station needed someone to
perform with puppets on a children’s show. That job didn’t last long, but
within .....
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Lee De Forest
Words: 894 - Pages: 4.... working silverplating apparatus. (A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries).
His father had planned for him to follow him in a career in the clergy, but Lee wanted to go to school for science and, in 1893, enrolled at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, one of the few institutions in the United States then offering a first-class scientific education. (Kraeuter, 74). De Forest went on to earn the Ph.D. in physics in 1899, with the help of scholarships, and money his parents made by working odd jobs. By this time he had become interested in electricity, particularly the study of electromagnetic wave propagation, then being .....
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The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, And Melville
Words: 1687 - Pages: 7.... was full of pain and agony. From the beginning when he lost his mother to the end when reality and the dream-world became intertwined. The loss of many so-called loves and jobs placed him in a world where only him and his writing existed. It is no wonder that his death still be so feared. The way he wrote of it will allow him to haunt the earth forever. Ironically enough his rationalistic views still created some reality and scientific truth within his writing. For example, in The Fall of the House of Usher the main character suffers from a strange mental disorder that was actually a real proven case. No matter how much the critics .....
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Manuel Noriega
Words: 2123 - Pages: 8.... which he did so. After World War II a communist movement began to slowly spread throughout the world. This went against America’s belief in democracy and created a riff between the Soviet Union and The United States creating the Cold War.
What importance does this have to Noriega and Panama? On January 1, 1959 Fidel Castro led a successful coup against the government in Cuba which at the time was controlled by Fulgencio Batista. By Castro taking control of the Cuban government, he placed communism within a close range of America. This was important because it was feared by most Americans that this takeover by Castro would lead a domi .....
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