Papers on People and Biographies
Michael Jordan 3
Words: 983 - Pages: 4.... for the basketball team. Coach Lynch, Michael's coach, cut Michael, which in turn may have made the best player alive today. Michael then took practicing basketball to another level. He played his brother Larry whenever he could. Michael never expected what would come in the near future.
Michael Jordan went to the University of North Carolina as a basketball recruit. Even though Jordan at 6'5" was a man with potential, he still studied very hard in an attempt to get a good education, while competing in sports. Mike wasn't expected to be a star of the Tar Heels, since they had players such as James Worthy, Sam Perkins, and Al Wood. But, by th .....
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Biography: Helen Keller (1880-1968)
Words: 824 - Pages: 3.... "w-a-t-e-r" which her teacher had signed
into her hand. Helen learned 30 words the first day and soon learned to
sign the alphabet, write and eventually speak. Helen learned to read lips
by pressing her fingertips to the speaker's lips and feeling the vibrations
and movement. This method, called Tadoma, is extremely difficult; very few
master it.
Helen had mastered Braille, the manual alphabet and the typewriter by the
age of 10. By age 16, she could speak well enough to go to prep school and
college. In 1888, Helen and her teacher went to the Perkins School for the
Blind, where Miss Sullivan continued to teach her. In 1894 they went on .....
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Tiger Woods
Words: 630 - Pages: 3.... as he alway lost time when
having to fly back to California.
Tiger's Ethnicity: African, Thai, Chinese, American Indian, and European.
Tiger's Religion: Tiger believes in Buddism. Not every aspect, but most of it.
Tiger was 11-months old when he first started swinging a sawed off golf club in
his garage. Some sources say he was actually 10-months old.
Tiger's Education: In the 7th grade Tiger had a GPA of 3.86! (Now there's the
real important stuff.)
Tiger spent 2 years at Stanford University in California majoring in Business.
Tiger has 2 half brothers and 1 half sister from his fathers first marriage.
Tiger loves McDonalds (Cheese .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
Words: 613 - Pages: 3.... Panama Canal was especially important because it is now much easier for trade to go on. Instead of having to go around all the islands you can now cut through the canal and have a much quicker traveling time.
At the time that the Cubans were fighting with our country Roosevelt was quietly forming a cavalry regiment nicknamed Rough Riders. On July 1,1898 him and his men charged up Kettle Hill and defeated the Cubans. He and the Rough Riders became nationally famous.
Roosevelt also helped out with labor unions. In 1902 members of the United Mine Workers went on strike. Coal started to became low and some hospitals and schools were beginn .....
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John F.Kennedy: Biography
Words: 1403 - Pages: 6.... in New Milford, Connecticut. In 1931 he transferred from Canterbury to Choate Academy in Wallingford, Connecticut. In 1935 Kennedy graduated from Choate Academy when he was 18 years old. When he graduated he was voted "Most likely to succeed." By his fellow class mates.
Kennedy went to College at Princeton University, but he developed Jaundice, a disease where ones liver becomes bad and the poisons in your body back up, and was forced to drop out of the university. A year later, when Kennedy felt better, in 1936 he entered Harvard University. Kennedy's major was in government and international affairs.
In 1939, John went to Europe. He visi .....
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Dreams And Dreaming
Words: 442 - Pages: 2.... at stage 1. This REM period lasts about 10 minutesAfter
the first cycle the delta sleep may no occur at all. the brain will cycle through stage 1 and 2. As the night goes on the
proportion of REM to NON- REM increase, so by the end of the night you may dream for as much as 1 of the last 2
hours of sleep. Though for some of us we still sleep deeply even to the wee hours of the morning. The “deep
sleepers” Thus light sleeper are more likely able to remember dreams.
The Menangkabau tribes of Indonesia believe that the real life force, the sumanghat, actually leaves the body
in both dreams and serious illness. The shaman, .....
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Jimi Hendrix
Words: 3378 - Pages: 13.... were of mixed descent, with Jimi’s family tree had whites, blacks, and Cherokee Indians. Jimi never denied his ethnic diversity, but rather accepted his diversity and publicly allowed it to show through in his music. Jimi said it best in “If 6 was 9” on Axis: Bold As Love when he said “I’m gonna wave my freak flag high.” Hendrix’ first forays into professional music came after he received his honorable discharge from service in the summer of 1962 (Murray 36). His background in R&B, a type of music dominated by black artists at that time, led him to play with many R&B singers from the time, such as Little Richard, Kin .....
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