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Essays for History: Biographies
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- Cyrus Hall Mccormick
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The mechanical reaper. A time-saving invention which allowed farmers
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to more than double their crop size while at the same time spurring
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other innovations in farm machinery. This reaper, which combined all
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the steps that...
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- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, American clergyman and the best Nobel Peace Prize winner on the face of this planet, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and well-known supporter of nonviolent protest. Dr. Martin Luther...
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- E. E. Cummings
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Edward Estlin Cummings, the son of a well-known Unitarian minister was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894. Cummings began writing at age six and often illustrated his own stories. He received his B.A. in 1915 and his M.A. in 1916, both from...
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- Eduardo Paolozzi
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Paolozzi was born in Edinburgh to Italian parents in the year 1924. He grew up there and went to art school and colleges in Scotland. When he started his career he was a painter and a sculpter on the side but soon he began to sculpt more and paint...
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- Elderly Person
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Chang Sing Lok, also know as Uncle Lok is famous for his mouth watering “Chau Kuey Teows” which is a kind of fried noodles. He is very well known in Taman University, Petaling Jaya for his exquisite dish.
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He was born on...
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- Elie Wiesel: a Survivor of the Holocaust
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Elie Wiesel wrote in a mystical and existentialistic manner to depict his life as a victim of the holocaust in his many novels. Such selections as ‘Night’ and ‘The Trial of God’ reveal the horrors of the concentration camps and Wiesel's true...
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- Ernest Hemingway's Life and Image
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Ernest Hemingway was born on a July morning in 1899. Born at home in Oak Park, he was raised a conservative with strong values. While his father taught him to hunt and fish, his mother taught him music, her former profession. Though his mother...
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Many authors in American have worked to shape the history that is America through their portrayal of their age. F. Scott Fitzgerald used his writing to shape America during the post-Great War America and into the Great Depression. Through his...
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- Franklin Roosevelt: Man of the Year
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Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing...
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- Frederick Douglas
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave was written by Frederick
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Douglass himself. He was born into slavery in Tuckahoe, Maryland in approximately 1817. He has,
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"…no accurate knowledge of my age...
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- Gauss
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Gauss was born on 1777 and died on 1855, he was an extraordinary man with extraordinary talents. At the age of 3, he corrected his father on a math error while watching his father work. At the age of 7, he surprised his teacher by summing up the...
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- George Meade
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Do you know who was the general for the Second Battle of Bull Run? Everyone knows
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what the Second Battle of Bull Run is but who was the general? Some people even know
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that the North won that battle. Most people do not know that...
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- Great Expectations
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Throughout this novel of Great Expectations characters are divided into upper class and lower class people. Unlike most young men in the 19th century, Pip was not either of these, but both.<br />
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Pip grew up with his sister Mrs Joe Gargery...
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- Gregory Rasputin
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In the course of history there have been many people who made a difference, but were, and still are, known for being outrageous and sometimes even crazy, for example Emperor Gaius who made his horse consul, but Rasputin probably defeats them...
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- Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Henri Cartier-Bresson has been called "equivocal, ambivalent and accidental"1 since his debut as a photojournalist. Amplified and enriched, the work of the photographer is revealed in all its grandeur. While he may appear to "be a hurried man or a...
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- Herbert Hoover
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Herbert Clark Hoover was born at West Branch, Iowa, on Aug. 10, 1874, the first<br />
president to be born west of the Mississippi. A Stanford graduate, he worked from 1895 <br />
to 1913 as a mining engineer and consultant throughout the world...
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- Herbert Hoover
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Herbert Hoover called it a "noble experiment." Organized crime found it to be the opportunity of a lifetime. Millions of Americans denounced it as an infringement of their rights. For nearly 14 years—from Jan. 29, 1920, until Dec. 5, 1933--the...
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- Houdini
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Kendall, Lace Houdini Master of Escape Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1960, 187
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pages.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, you can see there isn't anything up my sleeve."1 Erich
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Weiss states at the beginning of the book. Even as a...
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- Ivan the Terrible
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I’m doing my report on Ivan the Terrible. Ivan Vasiljevich the Terrible was born in 1530 and died in 1584. He was the son of the Grand Duke Vasili III. His mother Helena Glinsky was the daughter of a Luthuanian refugee who had found...
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- Jfk: His Life and Legacy
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On November 22, 1963, while being driven through the streets
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of Dallas, Texas, in his open car, President John F. Kennedy was
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shot dead, apparently by the lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. The
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world had...
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- Jfk: the Death of a Conspiracy
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There is a plethora of conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of President John F.
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Kennedy. They range from the incumbent of the former Soviet Union to organized crime. Pro-conspiracy
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groups are in agreement with one...
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- Jfkessay
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917, the second son of financier Joseph P. Kennedy, who served as ambassador to Great Britain during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He graduated from Harvard...
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- Jim Morrison and Susan Sontag
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Jim Morrison is the lead singer of the classic rock and roll band "The Doors". Jim
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Morrison not only was the lead vocalist in the famous sixties band, he was also the writer of most
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but not all of The Doors songs and the author of...
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- John Dewey and His Impact on Society
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John Dewey was an American philosopher and teacher who, with Charles Peirce and William James, were the originators of the philosophy known as \"pragmatism.\" Dewey had a long and distinguished career as a teacher, labor activist, and \"public...
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- John Q Adams
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John Adams had three remarkable careers in his lifetime. One as an enemy of British oppression and
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champion of independence. As an American diplomat in Europe and as the first vice-president and second
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president of the United...
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