Papers on People and Biographies
Columbus
Words: 712 - Pages: 3.... as far north as England. also made a voyage to Iceland in 1477.
In 1479 married the Portuguese noblewomen Dona Felipa e Perestrello e Moriz and established land in Porto Santo were his son Diego was born in 1480. When his wife died somewhere between 1481 to 1485, returned to Lisbon. As early as 1484 got a plan to sail west from the Canary Islands to the Indies (now East Indies) and the island kingdom of Cipangu (modern day Japan). When King John II declined ’s “Enterprises to the Indies” he decided to go to the Spanish monarch. traveled to Cordoba, in 1488 he and his mistress had another son. presented his plan to King Ferdinan .....
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Tupac Shakur
Words: 1420 - Pages: 6.... of popular rap artists like Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre (Placid n.p.). He made some songs and music videos with them that made it big on the Billboard charts. This really helped his popularity. He released a double CD with the songs on it and a lot of his own songs and sold millions of copies (u.a., n.t., n.p. letter code D) More people were influenced to buy his CD. People listened to the music and did what he said he did. So Tupac was influencing all of these people.
Tupac was rich and famous now. He was showing off his own style now and didn't need his popular friends. This is the time that many people saw the real Tupac and loved him .....
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Benjamin Banneker
Words: 468 - Pages: 2.... change from season to season and when eclipses would occur. Banneker accurately predicted a solar eclipse in 1789.
There were many white scientists in Bannekar’s day that taught themselves astronomy and published their own almanacs. They didn’t think it was possible for a black man-free or slave-to be smart enough to calculate the movements of the stars the way Banneker did. Banneker was determined to create an almanac that would be the first of its kind. Therefore, he spent close to a year observing the sky every night. He plotted the cycles of the moon and made careful notes. He began publishing the ‘Pennsylvani .....
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Biography Of Charles Dickens
Words: 777 - Pages: 3.... to Chatham, near
Rochester, three years later. Dickens was about five at the time, and for the
next five years his life was pleasant. Taught to read by his mother, he devoured
his fathers' small collection of classics, which included Shakespeare, Cervantes,
Defoe, Smollet, Fielding, and Goldsmith. These left a permanent mark on his
imagination; their effect on his art was quite important. dickens also went to
some performances of Shakespeare and formed a lifelong attachment to the theater.
He attended school during this period and showed himself to be a rather solitary,
observant, good-natured child with some talent for comic routines, whi .....
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John Dalton 3
Words: 466 - Pages: 2.... eleven volume classified botanical collection. He became a well known person in the community for his amazing achievements in academics. He became very interested in becoming a doctor. The family although had to talk John out of becoming a doctor due to the lack of money in the families income. They also did not feel that John would like being a physician in the long run.
Later at the age of twenty six John discovered that he was color blind. This occurred when his mother and he were fighting about the color of a skirt.
In 1793 John moved to Manchester to tutor. This is where he began working on his greatest work. He then joined a group .....
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Eighteenth Century Philosophers
Words: 1428 - Pages: 6.... keep reason alive in both the minds of the people and those who govern them. He put these ideas into words in his book, Nouveau Christianne, which stated that a society organized by science must be balanced by the Brotherhood of Man. His doctrine was later turned into a religion by his followers. Even though many of his writings may seem extremely unrealistic, several of them were prophetic in nature. Not only did he predict future events, he also influenced many great minds of the nineteenth century, making him an important figure of his time.
Another eccentric who was seeking his own type of utopia was Francois Marie Fourier. Althoug .....
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Christopher Lathrop: Autobiography
Words: 598 - Pages: 3.... of the care
package. I also received for some monk holiday a pet snow monkey. But brother
Haanz stole him from me; for his own entertainment.(If you know what I mean?)
Anyway; a few years later when I became a shambala monk. (many degrees
above a standard monk.) I ran away to America and joined circus Vargus as the
head clown. When the Circus came too my hometown of Olympia My mother witnessed
my performance, and decided too let me move back home. Living at home was worse
than I had hoped. I decided to venture, as I called it; on a long and hopefully
successful quest to find an answer to one of mans most pondered questions. "If
a cow .....
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Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)
Words: 1161 - Pages: 5.... directors. First of all his camera placement is very importent, in
his films the camera is always close to the ground the height is not
importent as long as the camera stays lower than the object being shot.
Ozu developed his own tranzition system,he was putting framed shots of the
surroundings between the scenes to tell us that the scene and the setting
has changed. usualy these shots are longer than normaly it should be. One
of the very important style of Ozu is he did not obey to the 180 degree
rule infact he used all the 360 degree space. Ozu orbitted the camera
around the characters and he broke down the 360 degree space into
multipl .....
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FDR
Words: 3077 - Pages: 12.... will never be duplicated. Public opinion was so overwhelmingly for him that he was elected to office four times, which most likely will never be duplicated again. His reign in office came at, by the far and away, the most difficult time in American history. Not only did he accept the challenges at hand, he rose to the occasion and took this country to another level. Roosevelt was born on January 30 near New York City. He graduated from Harvard in 1904 and attended Law School. Although he didn't get his law degree, he was admitted to the New York bar in 1907. He was elected to the New York senate in 1910 and was appointed by Woodrow Wils .....
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Thomas_Jefferson
Words: 814 - Pages: 3.... the Rights of British America as instructions for Virginia's delegates to the First Continental Congress, which met to consider the colonies' grievances against Great Britain. Virginia leaders instead adopted a more legalistic set of instructions,, and Summary View was published anonymously as a pamphlet. As Jefferson's authorship became widely known, however, he moved suddenly into the front rank of American political theorists. In the pamphlet, Jefferson argued that the original settlers of the colonies came as individuals rather than as agents of the British government. The colonial governments they formed therefore embodied the natural .....
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