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People and Biographies Term Papers and Reports
Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, Or None Of The Above
939 Words - 4 Pages

.... (Unger 193). When Samuel was twelve, his father died. He was then apprenticed to two local printers (Unger 193). When he was sixteen, Clemens began setting type for the local newspaper Hannibal Journal, which his older brother Orion managed (Mark Twain 1). In 1853, when Samuel was eighteen, he left Hannibal for St. Louis (Unger 194). There he became a steam boat pilot on the Mississippi River. Clemens piloted steamboats until the Civil War in 1861. Then he served briefly with the Confederate army (Mark Twain 1). In 1862 Clemens became a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada. In 1863 he began signing his articles with the pseudonym Mar ....


Letter To Charles Darwin
529 Words - 2 Pages

.... and brought with you only the necessities. You learned more as an individual on that trip than most scientists do with all their intricate tools. I, like you, gave up luxuries at a point in my life in order to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not , when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. Following the advice of my friend Emerson, I, like you, went out and experienced nature as a transparent eyeball, observing as much as I could. I noticed the Pickerel under the ice in the pond, I never pondered the possibility of the different kinds of Pickerel to be originated from the same ....


Aristotle
1060 Words - 4 Pages

.... as Alexander the Great. In 335, when Alexander became king, went back to Athens and established his own school, the Lyceum.Since a lot of the lessons happened when teachers and students were walking, it was nicknamed the Peripatetic school (Peripatetic means walking). When Alexander died in 323 BC, strong anti-Macedonian feeling was felt in Athens, and went to a family estate in Euboea. He died there the following year. , like Plato, used his dialogue in his beginning years at the Academy. Apart from a few fragments in the works of later writers, his dialogues have been wholly lost. also wrote some short technical writings, including a dictionary of philosophic terms and ....


Joesph Stalin
256 Words - 1 Pages

.... millions of people. Stalins life began on December 21, 1879 in Gori, Georgia. His family was very poor shoemaker who drank heavily and beat Stalin frequently. At the age of fourteen Stalin’s father died and Stalin was sent to a seminary to join the priesthood. He was later kicked out for revolutionary activity. After being expelled he joined the Russian Social Democrat Party. Stalin then organized a force to revolt against the Czar. Stalin was arrested six times from 1902 to 1913. Stalin frequently attended Bolshevik party secret meetings. At these meetings is where Stalin befriended Lenin and they each had high regard for each other. Because of this friendship Lenin h ....


Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live”
1130 Words - 5 Pages

.... they had four children. Gandhi was extremely intelligent and studied law in London. In 1893 Gandhi was required to do legal work in South Africa which was under British control. Because he claimed his rights as a British subject, he was constantly discriminated against due to his Indian race. He witnessed malicious discrimination toward people of the Indian race by the British. As a result of being outraged by this hateful discrimination, Gandhi decided to stay in South Africa. His one-year term of legal work turned into twenty-one years to proclaim and work for Indian rights. He first started a newspaper called “Indian Opinion”, and he also led campaigns boosting ....


Benito Mussolini And His Impact On World War 2
2040 Words - 8 Pages

.... power. Benito Mussolini brought Austria on Germany’s side by a formal alliance. In 1937, he accepted a German alliance. The name of this alliance was the anti Comntern Pact. On April 13, 1937, Benito Mussolini annexed Albania. He then told the British ambassador that not even the brief France and North Africa would keep him neutral. The British ambassador was appalled and dismayed. On May28, 1937, Mussolini strongly gave thought to declaring war. He then attacked the Rivera across the Maritime. On September13, 1937, he opened an offensive into British- garrisoned Egypt from Libya. On October 4, 1937, while the offensive still seemed to promise success, Benito Mussolini ....


Bruce Campbell
735 Words - 3 Pages

.... was to play the young prince in the "King and I" became ill and he stepped into the role. He went on to appear in several community theater productions and then started to experiment with filmmaking, doing cheezeball super-8 flicks with a neighborhood pal. In 1975 he then met director Sam Raimi in his high school drama class who he became friends with. They made about fifty or so super-8 movies. In 1976 he volunteered as an apprentice in northern Michigan at Traverse City's Cherry County Playhouse - a summer stock company where he worked eighteen hours a day putting up sets, being assistant stage manager, doing errands and so on. He got to work with television actors and c ....


Woodrow Wilson
445 Words - 2 Pages

.... taught him till he was nine,and then he went to school. Woodrow spent some of his spare time with his gang, called the Lightfoot Club.Also when Woodrow 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 ....



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