Papers on People and Biographies
Woodrow Wilson
Words: 445 - Pages: 2.... was fourteen,his
education was continued at a private school with fifty boys enrolled that cost
seven dollars an hour.
One of the parts of the book that I liked was when Woodrow Wilson won the
Presidency.One of the things that helped him win was when he made two
alliances.One alliance was made with Colonel Edward M. House.The other was made
with William McCombs.
Both of these alliances profound effect on his future.
A sad incident that happened in this story was when Woodrow suffered his
paralytic stroke.Rumors spread that Woodrow was incapable of handling even the
smallest duties.Wilson kept succeeding though.
There was .....
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Martin Luther King Jr. 9
Words: 823 - Pages: 3.... student, he was admitted to Morehouse College at 15, without completing high school. He decided to become a minister and at 18 was ordained in his fathers’ church. After graduating from Morehouse in 1948, he entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa. He was the ~ledictorian of his class in 1951 and won a graduate fellowship. At Boston University he received a Ph. D. in theology in 1955.
In Boston King met Coretta Scott. They were married in 1953 and had two sons, Martin Luther III and Dexter Scott, and two daughters, Yolanda Denise and Bernice Albertine.
Civil-Rights Efforts
King had been impressed by the teachings of Henry .....
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Richard Marcinko
Words: 420 - Pages: 2.... came back a decorated war hero. After his return to
the United States, he became Commanding Officer of Seal Team Two, where he
served for eight years. Then, he came up with the idea of the Navy's first
counterterrorist unit, Seal Team Six.
Now, the most important contribution Richard Marcinko made was his idea
of Seal Team Six. Seal Team Six was created as part of the CounterTerrorist
Joint Task Force, a group which includes one elite unit each from the Navy, the
Army, and the FBI. Marcinko was given permission and unlimited expenses from the
Pentagon to create this highly elite group. He was then named Commanding Officer
of Seal Team .....
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The Life And Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
Words: 1466 - Pages: 6.... was a widow at the age of eighteen. Two
years after his birth, she died of tuberculosis (Asselineau 409). When
his mother died, Poe was adopted by John Allan (Perry XI) at the urging of
Mr. Allan's wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to England. While
there, Poe was sent to private schools (Asselineau 410).
In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia.
There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent
scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan
did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other
necessities. Poe was confused and homesick .....
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Thomas Jefferson
Words: 588 - Pages: 3.... move to his estate, take care of the house and land, and make sure Randolph's four children get educated. The Jefferson’s remained at Randolph's estate for seven years. The estate was called Shadwell. was quite the little intelligent boy. At age nine, Started Latin, Greek, and French Studies at a boarding school. Thomas liked to Horse back ride, Canoe, Hunt, and fish. When Thomas was fourteen years old, his father passed away. was the oldest son, so Thomas had to take care of the family. Jefferson was a tall, slender boy with sandy reddish hair and fair skin that freckled and sunburned easily. A serious student, Thomas also enjoyed .....
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Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
Words: 2811 - Pages: 11.... father, Thomas O'Flaherty, was Irish immigrant who became wealthy. Her mother, Eliza Faris O'Flaherty, was of French-Creole heritage. Eliza, at age 16, became Thomas second wife. From Thomas' first marriage was born George O'Flaherty, Kate's half brother whom she loved with all her heart. Also living in the home was her grandmother and her great-grandmother.
Kate had a special bond with her father. She was always curious and inquisitive about his job. So, at the age of 5, Thomas O'Flaherty decided to take his daughter to work with him one day. This caused the bond to grow even
stronger. Her father was one of the founders of th .....
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Egotism In Kokoro By Natsume Soseki
Words: 994 - Pages: 4.... When they encounter a belief that they do not accept or understand, they become paranoid for they fear that they are wrong. In Sensei's case, he becomes very insecure when K contradicts Sensei's explanation of his denial about love to an opposite sex. He fears that K is more sophisticated than him. This causes him to believe that he will not be able convince K that his feeling to Ojosan go against his own belief about manhood. "I" on the other hand struggles, for he cannot fully understand why Sensei acts in the way he does until he receives Sensei's testament.
Sensei in his college years, was very machismo. He did not believe in lo .....
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
Words: 1179 - Pages: 5.... prestigious preparatory school in
Massachusetts, and received a B.A. degree in history from Harvard in only
three years (1900-03). Roosevelt next studied law at New York's Columbia
University. When he passed the bar examination in 1907, he left school
without taking a degree. For the next three years he practiced law with a
prominent New York City law firm. He entered politics in 1910 and was
elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat from his traditionally
Republican home district.
In the meantime, in 1905, he had married a distant cousin, Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. The
couple had si .....
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Irving Penn
Words: 1086 - Pages: 4.... among contemporary photographers, his work has been widely recognized and applauded.
Irving Penn was born June 16, 1917 in Plainfield, NJ Educated in public; he enrolled at the age of 18 in a four-year course at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, where Alexey Brodovitch taught him advertising design. While training for a career as an art director, Penn worked the last two summers from Harper's Bazaar as an office boy and apprentice artist, sketching shoes. At this time, he had no thought of becoming a photographer.
Milestones
In addition to his work for Vogue magazine (the American, British, and French editions) Penn has been .....
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Dylan Thomas
Words: 1164 - Pages: 5.... conclusion of the Second World War. His second child Aeronwy, Byrn Thomas was born in March of 1943. Deaths and Entrances was released in 1946. Three years later his child, Colm Garan Hart Thomas, was born. In 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems, was published. In addition to the work previously mentioned, he also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories, did a series lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, his famous play for voices.(Bookshelf ’98)
During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, he collapsed in his New York hotel. He was but a few days past his 39t .....
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