Words of Wisdom:

"In 3 words, I can sum up everything I have learned about Life.. It goes on" - Xmisfitsx310

Essays for History: Biographies

  1. Archibald Macleish
    Still he stands Watching the vortex widen and involve in swirling dissolution the whole earth and circle through the skies till swaying...
  2. Beethoven
    “...to the cast majority of people suffering is still one of the fundamental characteristics of life, and it is their realization that an experience of suffering...
  3. Emily Dickinson 4
    “Best Things dwell out of Sight”(#998) describes one of America’s greatest poets. She dwelled out of sight for most of her life and her poems, with the...
  4. The Real Man
    Walt Disney as a real man. Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois to his parents, Elias Disney an Irish Canadian and Flora Call Disney, a German American. Walt was one of four children. Walt and his brother Roy and...
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  5. Theodore Roosevelt: the Great Environmentalist
    This Paper will outline President Theodore Roosevelt’s role in helping to <br /> conserve <br /> our environment during his administration (1901-1909). It will also examine <br /> his theory of <br /> a stronger American democracy...
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  6. Mark Twain 2
    Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps the most distinguished author of American Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens is arguably...
  7. Thomas Hardy
    About Thomas Hardy and his Wessex <br /> <br /> Thomas hardy was born in 1840 and died 1928. During his 88-years old life he wrote fifteen novels and one he never published. He also wrote over 900 poems. He wrote and published four volumes of...
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  8. Thomas Jefferson: the Man, the Myth, and the Morality
    Thomas Jefferson was a man of the greatest moral character who has been <br /> excoriated routinely over the last 30 years by historical revisionists <br /> and presentists. His commitment to America and his vast contributions to <br...
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  9. Titanic Memories
    “Back to the Titanic”<br /> <br /> I remember my childhood years quite well. I had lived with my big brother, Colby Winston, ever since I was five, I don’t remember much before that though. We traveled all around Europe; Colby...
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  10. Vernon Corea
    Vernon Corea was one of the world\'s greatest broadcasters - he was born on the island of Ceylon. The \'Hindu\' newspapers placed him among the \'greats\' in the world of broadcasting.<br /> <br /> Vernon was born in Kurana, Katunayke on September...
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  11. Will Rogers
    Will Rogers once said, “I never met a man I didn’t like.” The most popular man in America <br /> was undoubtedly Will Rogers. The glib mouthed cowboy an trick rope performer was a <br /> spokesman and supporter of the common man and his...
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  12. Kerouac
    Martin, William 2-14-97 Charters, Ann. Kerouac: A Biography. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1959, 1994. 419 pp. Jack Kerouac...
  13. Vincent Van Gogh
    Biography of Vincent Van Gogh What drove Vincent Van Gogh, born March 30,1853, to his mental illness and suicide? Could it have been the many things he tried, but failed...
  14. Is Tiger That Great?
    There has been a vast amount of media exposure on Tiger Woods. The media made Tiger Woods out to be some sort of golf god that nobody could beat and he was totally...
  15. Fredrick Douglass 5
    Frederick Douglass the most successful abolitionist who changed America’s views of slavery through his writings and actions. Frederick Douglass had many...
  16. Winston Churchill
    Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer <br /> <br /> <br /> Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, his family's ancestral seat in Oxfordshire, on November 30, 1874. He was the older son of Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, a British...
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