Biographies
Study the biographies of people who have significantly influenced global change. Such people have appeared at all times throughout human history to give the world something new and unexplored.
2,881 Essays on Biographies. Documents 271 - 300
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Anne Frank
Anne Frank What kind of girl do you think Anne Frank was? Explain your answer In her life Anne frank was a girl that had passed between differents stages of her life. By that time that is passing we can learn and know her in all the story of her life. We can see her feelings and that she was very secure of herself. Anne was a loving, caring, sociable with all the people on
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Anne Frank: The Story of a Young Girl
Anne Frank: The Story of a Young Girl Anne Frank was a young girl living in a world where her kind was not wanted. She was known for her famous diary that she wrote while in hiding from anti-Jewish persecutions in Amsterdam during World War II, known as the Jewish Holocaust. Her diary describes the wisdom and humor the two difficult years her and her family spent in hiding. Her diary proves how motivational
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Anne Rice
Anne Rice, born Howard Allen O'Brien after her father, was born on October 4, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana into a family of three sisters, her Catholic father who was a postal worker, and her mother, a struggling alcoholic. The author, who claims, "I was never a good student. I daydreamed in class. I wrote stories in my notebooks. I learned the basics, bus most of my active intellectual life was outside of school," had
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Anney Tells Bone About Tommy Lee
Bastard Out of Carolina chapter (7-9) Anney tells Bone about Tommy Lee, Ruth's oldest son, who has stolen from everyone in the family. When he was younger, Anney says, he would steal candy and give it away, thinking that it made people like him. Now he has an excuse for everything, from why he beats his girlfriends to why he can't keep a job. Bone remembers Grey telling her with pride about how he
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Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux – La Honte : Biographie : L'écrivaine française Annie Ernaux est née le 1er septembre 1940 à Lillebonne. Elle passe toute son enfance en Normandie, dans la ville d'Yvetot. Le milieu social de la famille d'Annie Ernaux est plutôt modeste, puisque ses parents sont ouvriers avant de devenir petits commerçants. Malgré leur faible rang social, les parents de la future écrivaine n'hésitent pas à la placer en école privée et à la soutenir dans
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Annie Hall and Manhattan: Two Different Ways of Looking at New York's Beauty
Near the end of Woody Allen’s 1977 film Annie Hall, Diane Keaton’s role as Annie says to Allen’s character Alvy Singer, “You’re just like New York City. You’re an island!” However, the link between Alvy Singer and New York City is not simply a fictional creation. Nor is the connection between Allen’s character Isaac Davis and New York in his 1979 film Manhattan fictional adoration. Woody Allen loves New York. It is through the various
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Annotated Bibliography Criminal and Non-Criminal Psychopathy
Running Header: Annotated Bibliography Criminal and non-criminal psychopathy Annotated Bibliography Criminal and non-criminal psychopathy Dorothy Savage PSF5385 Psychopathy and Criminal Profiling Instructor: Dr. Jeff Schneider June 16, 2014 Introduction This annotated bibliography concerning criminal and non-criminal psychopathy reviews as well as antisocial personality disorder, and general criminal behavior it presents ten publications from serials in the library literature covering these publications are significant contributions from prominent authors that focus on research behaviors. Their reviews focus
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Anorexia Nervosa
ANOREXIA NERVOSA Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder that causes people to intentionally starve themselves or severely restrict their food intake. Anorexia usually occurs at the time of puberty and involves extreme weight loss. People who have this disorder have a fear of becoming overweight even though they are 15% below the average weight. Many causes of anorexia show that they adhere to strict exercise routines to keep off weight, 90% of all anorexics are
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Anotated Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography Harvey, Sir Paul, ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford at Clarendon Press, 1967. Herman Melville was born in 1819 in New York. When Melville’s father passed away, he became a school master, and after that he was shipped off as a cabin boy. He used this journey to write his masterpiece “Moby Dick” [Collection of Literary Criticism] Howard, Leon. American Writers Volume 3. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1974. Melville wrote about reality
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Ansel "yosemite" Adams
Ansel "Yosemite" Adams It is said that, "A picture is worth a thousand words." Ansel Adams proved this statement correct with every single image he produced. Some of his best-known photographs were taken in the Yosemite Valley, including his first ever picture of Monolith; the Face of Half Dome nestled in the heart of the valley. When the thought of Yosemite comes to mind, Ansel Adams' name follows right behind it. Adams' life revolved around
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Ansel Adams
Selden Poore B1-Feldman 12/8/16 There is great film photographers, and then there is Ansel Adams. His pictures seemed to have no flaws when it came to capturing some of the most difficult landscapes ranging from the Grand Tetons and Snake river, to the great heights shown by El Capitan of Yosemite. Coming out with the clearest pictures imaginable. Adams was able to combine contrast and texture perfectly when it came to photographing natural landscapes. Many
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Anthropology
The Anthropology Student Crayfish tails in tarragon butter, galantine of rabbit with foie gras, oxtail in red wine, and apple tartelletes. The patient had this rich meal and complained of "liver upset" (crise de foie). Why a liver ache? I always associate indigestion with a stomach ache. In studying French culture in my Evolutionary Psychology class, I learned that when experiencing discomfort after a rich meal, the French assume their liver is the culprit. Understanding
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Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov was a man and author who overcame many obstacles during the course of his life. His contributions to literature were immense, but it came only through hard work and many failed attempts that he became the great author he is known as today. He was the poster-boy for art mimicking life. What Chekhov experienced and learned through his past was revealed through his writing. This was especially true for his
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Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov was a man and author who overcame many obstacles during the course of his life. His contributions to literature were immense, but it came only through hard work and many failed attempts that he became the great author he is known as today. He was the poster-boy for art mimicking life. What Chekhov experienced and learned through his past was revealed through his writing. This was especially true for his
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Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4th, 1678. He was born in Venice. Antonio was the eldest of his siblings. He and his father were very close. His father, Giovanni Vivaldi, was a baker. He was also a very talented violinist. At the time of Antonio’s birth, he was the leading violinist of the famous St. Mark’s Chapel in Venice. In 1969, Vivaldi was an additional violinist at St. Mark’s. He was also
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Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4th, 1678, in Venice, Italy, and died on July 28, 1741, in Vienna, Austria. His father, a barber and a talented violinist at Saint Mark's Cathedral himself, had helped him in trying a career in music and made him enter the Cappella di San Marco orchestra, where he was an appreciated violinist. In 1703 Vivaldi became a priest and acquired the nickname "The Red Priest", since he had red
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Antonio Vivaldi Biography
Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy, on March 4, 1678. His first music teacher was his father, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi. The elder Vivaldi was a well-respected violinist, employed at the church of St. Mark's. helped him in trying a career in music and made him enter the Cappella di San Marco orchestra, where he was an appreciated violinist. Antonio was trained for a clerical (religious service) as well as a musical life.
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Appalachia Service Project
A Trip to ASP It was back in the summer of 2004 when all was calm. The trees filled w/ dry green leaves, the grass barely green as patches of yellowness overcame its dried burned look, dandelions arose in monstrous amounts as the white cotton-like blooms of a dandelion flutter in the midst of an arid breeze, and visions of heat waves could clearly be noticed along a paved street on a clear afternoon. Yep,
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Apply to University
To Whom It May Concern, After my graduation form the department of Food Engineering at ЭTЬ (Istanbul Technical University), I had the chance to experience work environment in three different areas. First, I was the general coordinator of a Media Agency, at the same time of which I was a share holder. After over writing my shares, I started to work at the sales department on a project at SEGUN Ltd. Sti. which is a
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Apply to University
To Whom It May Concern, After my graduation form the department of Food Engineering at ЭTЬ (Istanbul Technical University), I had the chance to experience work environment in three different areas. First, I was the general coordinator of a Media Agency, at the same time of which I was a share holder. After over writing my shares, I started to work at the sales department on a project at SEGUN Ltd. Sti. which is a
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Archimedes
Archimedes was a Greek mathematician and scientist. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily in the year 287 B.C. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Due to the lack of information about Greek mathematics, many Greek mathematicians and their works are hardly known. Archimedes is the exception. Archimedes was very preoccupied with mathematics. For instance, he often forgot to eat and bathe because of his always wanted to solve problems. He found areas and volumes of
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Archimedes
Archimedes was born in Syracuse, Sicily, in 287 B.C. His father was Philas, an aristocratic astronomer. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt; where he met the Alexandrian scholars Conon of Samos and Eratosthenes of Cyrene. For much of his life, Archimedes kept a correspondence with these two scholars, updating them on his most recent discoveries and proofs. Archimedes spent the major part of his life in Sicily, in and around Syracuse. He did not hold
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Archimedes
Archimedes Archimedes was a Greek mathematician and scientist. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily in the year 287 B.C. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Due to the lack of information about Greek mathematics, many Greek mathematicians and their works are hardly known. Archimedes is the exception. Archimedes was very preoccupied with mathematics. For instance, he often forgot to eat and bathe because of his always wanted to solve problems. He found areas and volumes
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Archimedes
Archimedes was one of the greatest philosophers who lived from 287 BC to 211 BC in Syracuse. Archimedes was a physicist, astronomer, engineer and mathematician who discovered and invented machines such as the Archimedean screw, Archimedes principle, Archimedean spiral, Archimedes claw, planetarium, compound pulley system and many war machines. His greatest contributions were in geometry and his methods and ideas started the idea of calculus and finding the density of an object without damaging the
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Archimedes
Born the son of an astronomer, Phidias, in 287 B.C., Archimedes’ education began as a young man in Syracuse. He furthered his education in Alexandria, where he studied with fellow scholar Conon, an Egyptian mathematician. What we know of Archimedes comes from his personal works as well as those of Cicero and Plutarch. However, “due to the length of time between Archimedes' death and his biographers' accounts, as well as inconsistencies among their writings, details
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Archimedes
Archimedes (287 BC- 212 BC) When people discuss the achievements of the greatest mathematicians of all time, a name that always comes up is Archimedes. Archimedes was a Greek mathematician astronomer, philosopher, physicist and engineer. He had a reputation in his own time that very few other mathematicians of this period achieved. He is considered by most historians of mathematics as one of the greatest mathematicians of all. His nicknames were, "the wise one", "the
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Archimedes
People have been aware of objects floating on water or sinking since before recorded history. It was not until Archimedes of Syracuse came along, that the theory of flotation and the buoyancy principle were defined. Archimedes was born at Syracuse on the island of Sicily in 287 BC. His father, Phidias, is thought to have been an astronomer who discovered the size and distances of the sun and moon. Archimedes might have been related to
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Archimedes Biography
Archimedes was a Greek mathematician and scientist. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily in the year 287 B.C. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Due to the lack of information about Greek mathematics, many Greek mathematicians and their works are hardly known. Archimedes is the exception. Archimedes was very preoccupied with mathematics. For instance, he often forgot to eat and bathe because of his always wanted to solve problems. He found areas and volumes of
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Aristotle
As Aristotle viewed the world around him, he observed that things are moving and changing in certain ways. Aristotle discovered that certain things cause other things, which in turn cause something else. Aristotle believed that an infinite chain of causation was not possible, thus, a prime mover of some kind must exist as the first cause of everything that changes or moves. The first evidence that Aristotle viewed was the world around him. He
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Aristotle
Aristotle With the possible exception of Plato, Aristotle is the most influential philosopher in the history of logical thought. Logic into this century was basically Aristotelian logic. Aristotle dominated the study of the natural sciences until modern times. Aristotle, in some aspect, was the founder of biology; Charles Darwin considered him as the most important contributor to the subject. Aristotle’s Poetic, the first work of literary notice, had a string influence on the theory and
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