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 871 - 900
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Em Forster
Novelist, Essayist, Biographer, Story Writer, Travel Writer, Letter Writer, Teacher, Critic, Librettist. Active 1905-1970 in England, Britain, Italy, Europe, India, South Asia Forster was principally an Edwardian novelist concerned with the restrictions placed on personal freedom by English sensibilities, but his later work, especially his last novel, A Passage to India (1924), can be called Modernist in its use of symbolism and its style of repetition-with-variation (which Forster called “rhythm” in his 1927 book on
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Emile Durkheim
Emile Durkheim Diane Luebbering Sociological Theory Emile Durkheim Essay Many different people, from many different backgrounds can define society in many different ways. To some it is the community they live in, to others it is the entity that shapes their lives, and yet to others, it is an exclusive club in which they're are a member of. To Emile Durkheim, the world's first official Sociologist, society is a complex structure in which each separate
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Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata was born on August 8, 1879. He was one of the leaders in the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican Revolution was the fight against the dictator Porfirio Diaz.. In 1910 Porfirio Diaz was up against another candidate for presidency over Mexico, Fransisco I. Madero, who Zapata was forming alliances with. Eventually small guerilla armys were formed, and Zapata became the general of an army that was formed in the city of Morelos, the
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Emilio Aguinaldo
The Philippine revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo (1869-1964) fought for independence of the Philippine Islands, first against Spain and then against the United States. Born on March 23, 1869, Emilio Aguinaldo grew up in Kawit in Cavite Province and was educated in Manila. Appointed to a municipal position in his home province, he was also the local leader of a revolutionary society fighting Spanish rule over the Philippines. By an agreement signed with rebel leaders in
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson made a large influence on poetry, she is known as one of America's most famous poets. She was also considered to be an obsessively private writer. With close to two thousand different poems and one thousand of her letters to her friends that survived her death Emily Dickinson showed that she was a truly dedicated writer. Out of her two thousand poems only seven were published during her lifetime. (1) Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth (1830-1886), America’s best-known female poet and one of the foremost authors in American literature. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson was the middle child of a lawyer and one-term United States congressional representative, Edward Dickinson, and his wife, Emily Norcross Dickinson. From 1840 to 1847 she attended the Amherst Academy, and from 1847 to 1848 she studied at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, a few miles from Amherst. Dickinson remained
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 and died on May 15, 1886 from nephritis which is inflammation of the Kidneys. Emily grew in up in Amherst Mass. Living her whole life in at her fathers house. She was somewhat of a city recluse. She always dressed in all white and when she sporadically left her house it was only for a short period of time and only for important reasons
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 and died on May 15, 1886 from nephritis which is inflammation of the Kidneys. Emily grew in up in Amherst Mass. Living her whole life in at her fathers house. She was somewhat of a city recluse. She always dressed in all white and when she sporadically left her house it was only for a short period of time and only for important reasons
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Emily Dickinson
Main Hoon Professor John. Tyde Eng 1B 04 April, 2007 Despair Emily Dickinson was born in a traditional home in England, in the mid 1800's. The author states, "Dickinson was born on Dec. 10, 1830, in Amherst, Mass" (Byers). Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst Massachusetts; a small farming town that had one college. There, she was raised in a strict Calvinist household while receiving most of her education at a boarding school that followed
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Emily Dickinson Biography
Emily Dickinson, regarded as one of America’s greatest poets, is also well known for her unusual life of self imposed social seclusion. Living a life of simplicity and seclusion, she yet wrote poetry of great power; questioning the nature of immortality and death. Her different lifestyle created an aura; often romanticized, and frequently a source of interest and speculation. But ultimately Emily Dickinson is remembered for her unique poetry. Within short, compact phrases she expressed
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Emily Dickinson Research Project
Emily Dickinson was a brilliant American poet, and an obsessively private writer. During her lifetime, only seven of her eighteen hundred poems were published. Dickinson withdrew from social contact at the age of twenty three and devoted herself to her secret poetry writing. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830. There she spent most of her life living in the house built in 1813 by her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson. His part
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Emily Dickinson the Unspoken Transcendentalist
Emily Dickinson is one of the most widely read and well known American poets. While she doesn't exactly fall into the category of the Transcendentalists, she was well-regarded by Emerson and she read his work thoughtfully. In 1850 her friend Benjamin Newton gave her Emerson's first collection of poems whose style and subject seem to resonate in her poetry. Later she expressed admiration of the writing of Thoreau. Dickinson kept her writing, as well as
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Eminem Auto Biography
EMINEM The music business, how eminem got into the music business from his hard times living at home with his mother who was suffering from Munchausen Syndrome which means she was making Marshall (Eminem) take medicines he didn't need. First i will talk about eminems life when he was a kid and his relationship with his mother and uncle Ronnie. Eminems father left him when he was only 6 months old and his mother was
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Eminem Contemporary Muscian
Eminem Also known as: Marshall Mathers, III Birth: October 17, 1974 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States Nationality: American Occupation: rap musician, Music producer Source: Contemporary Musicians, Volume 53. Thomson Gale, 2005. TABLE OF CONTENTSAwards Biographical Essay Career Further Readings Personal Information Source Citation Works BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Although his message has not been popular with parents of teenagers across America, that has not stopped Eminem from earning sweeping popularity and building upon it. Though his
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Emmit Teel
Emmett Till(1941-1955)Background and Early Years: Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till was born on July 25, 1941 and was a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago who was brutally murdered in Money, Miss., a small town in the state's delta region. His murder has been cited as one of the key events that energized the nascent Civil Rights Movement. The primary suspects in the case of his death were acquitted, but they later admitted to committing the crime.
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Emmitt Smith..
Pro Career In 11 seasons, Emmitt Smith has made an impact on the NFL that few players can match at any position or in any era. As the third-ranked rusher in NFL history, Smith has also won four NFL rushing titles, three Super Bowl titles and a league (1993) and Super Bowl (XXVIII) MVP award. When looking at Smith's career numbers, it's easy to see why he will be remembered as one of the greatest
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Emmitt Till
Emmit Till was like any other ordinary boy. He lived in Chicago in 1955 with his mother. But this summer he was going to visit his Uncle Mose who lived down south. Down south and Chicago were totally different. First of all, you couldn't go to a school with someone that wasn't your color, you couldn't go to any bathroom you wanted and couldn't eat where you wanted. In other words, it was segregated. Now,
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Eng 1a - the Longest War
Turner Tiara Turner English 1A Section 1551 February 6, 2018 The Longest War Sometimes men take their masculinity too far and feel the need to be in control of women. Solnit’s uses pathos and logos in her argument to inform us how women are abused and sexually assaulted by men, and her tone of voice in the argument shows us that it was personal to her. While using logos, Solnit wanted to apprise her audience
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Engineer
Aunque a algunos pueda sorprenderles, hoy son la innovación y el medio ambiente los valores corporativos más destacados por las empresas en nuestro país. Sí, las compañías españolas actuales se preocupan, en su mayoría, por transmitir ambos aspectos, tanto en su cultura, como a su público en el exterior. Esto es lo que afirman las propias empresas, según el estudio Índice de Valores Corporativos llevado a cabo por Marco de Comunicación, la agencia española de
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Enrich Maria Remarque: A Militant Pacifist
Enrich Maria Remarque: A Militant Pacifist The First World War was a horrible experience for all sides involved, no one was immune to the effects of this global conflict, and each country was changed in many ways. Erich Maria Remarque was drafted into World War I at age 18. In 1929 Remarque's first book All Quiet on the Western Front was published. Throughout the book, the death and destruction caused by battle is clearly shown.
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Enrich Maria Remarque: A Militant Pacifist
Enrich Maria Remarque: A Militant Pacifist The First World War was a horrible experience for all sides involved, no one was immune to the effects of this global conflict, and each country was changed in many ways. Erich Maria Remarque was drafted into World War I at age 18. In 1929 Remarque’s first book All Quiet on the Western Front was published. Throughout the book, the death and destruction caused by battle is clearly shown.
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Epicurus
Epicurus founded the Garden School of Greek Philosophy, a hedonistic school centered on the pursuit of contentment and serenity of mind and body, which was achieved though avoiding pain and living a simple, aesthetic life. Epicurus was born on the Greek island of Samos in 341 B.C. His father, Neocles, was an Athenian who immigrated to Somos for financial reasons. His mother had the status of a fortune teller, and his apprentice ship with her
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Equal Employment Opportunity in the Working Environment
Running head: EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Equal Employment Opportunity in the Working Environment James A. Lee Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Management 317 Abstract This paper on equal opportunity employment will show a few different types of discrimination that would impede on a person from getting hired into an organization. It also shows some of the different Acts from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prevent discrimination when hiring workers into an organization. Equal Employment Opportunity in the
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Erik Ainge
Aaron Haddock History 11-17-06 ROLE MODEL 101 Our culture is in dire need of role models, and with that said I would like to introduce to you Erik Ainge. Nobody is perfect, this we know. Some people may perceive a person as perfect but the truth is that they are far from it. The only thing a person can do to try and be as “perfect” as possible to do good deeds, be considerate, excel
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Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson: Stages of Psychosocial Development BY Introduction Erik Erikson was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 15, 1902. Erikson’s father was a Danish man and abandoned his mother, Karla Abrahamsen, before he was born. Karla raised Erik alone for the first three years of his life in Frankfurt before she remarried Erik’s pediatrician, Dr. Theodor Homberger. Karla and Theodor moved to Karlsruhe in southern Germany and raised Erik as their own. Erik’s name as
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Erik Erikson Biography
Erik Erikson How a society educates its population is one of the most pressing and enduring issues facing any civilization. Certainly, great effort is expended in the area of education to achieve the highest yield for society, This effort can cover a breadth of different approaches including controlling education as the Communists and other dictatorial governments have done to education only founded in Reason as the Enlightenment and French Revolution have done, to a free
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Erin Brockavich
At the opening of the film we see Erin struggling: as a single mother, as a human being with potential, courage and individuality, and as a sexual being as well. Erin is a St. Joan of the white underclass, a Green Guerrilla, Mother Jones and Madonna all rolled into one. Unlike the image of second wave feminism which distanced itself from any robust sexuality it felt to be reductive at best or degrading at worst,
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was an American writer. He was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He committed suicide in 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho (Burges 17). Even today Hemingway is one of the most recognized authors in the world. Hemingway's experiences during World War I are directly shown in many of his works. His general outlook on life is reflected in the adventures of his characters. It is clear that Hemingway had a desire to be
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born at eight o'clock in the morning on in Oak Park, Illinois. In the nearly sixty two years of his life that followed he forged a literary reputation unsurpassed in the twentieth century. In doing so, he also created a mythological hero in himself that captivated not only serious literary critics but the average man as well. He was a literary genius. Born in his family home, a house built by
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in the family home at 439 North Oak Park Avenue at eight o'clock in the morning on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was the second child of Dr. Clarence and Grace Hall Hemingway's six children; he had four sisters and one brother. He was named after his maternal grandfather Ernest Hall (who was widowed and owned the family home Ernest was born in) and his great uncle
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