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.
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Jay-Z Bio
Jay-Z was born Shawn Corey Carter on December 4, 1969. He grew up in the infamous Marcy projects in Brooklyn with a sister and a brother. You would think that just growing up on the Marcy projects would be hard enough on a kid, but at the age of twelve, Shawn’s parents got a divorce. Shawn then attended the Brooklyn High school with two of today’s better known rappers, Biggie Smalls and Busta Rhymes.
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Jayson De Lemon’s Autobiography
Jayson de Lemon's Autobiography "I once asked myself, how history was written. I said, "I have to invent it." When I wish as now to tell of critical incidents, persons, and events that have influenced my life and work, the true answer is all of the incidents were critical, all of the people influenced me, everything that happened and that is still happening influences me." It's very hard for me to describe myself but this,
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Jean Genet
December 10, 1910 Birth of Jean Genet at the Tanier Childbirth Clinic in Paris to Camille Gabrielle Genet (age 22), who was a Parisian prostitute July 28, 1911 Camille Genet abandons her son to an orphanage; Genet becomes a ward of the state and never see his mother again July 30, 1911 Placed in the foster home of Eugйnie and Charles Regnier, who raise Genet until he is thirteen, but he is placed in a
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Jean Paul Gaultier Biography
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER Born in Acueil, a self-contained, working class suburb of Paris in 1952, of a bookkeeper farther and secretary mother John Paul Gaultier was an only child. In the 1960 as a teenager John Paul was obsessed with fashion especially the costumes from Moulin Rouge and often pretended to be ill to stay off school, draw and have gay fantasies of men wearing feminine clothes. During this time Jean Paul Gaultier began detailed
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Jean Piaget
JEAN PIAGET 1896 - 1980 Dr. C. George Boeree Biography Jean Piaget was born in Neuchвtel, Switzerland, on August 9, 1896. His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature with an interest in local history. His mother, Rebecca Jackson, was intelligent and energetic, but Jean found her a bit neurotic -- an impression that he said led to his interest in psychology, but away from pathology! The oldest child, he was quite independent
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Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget displayed how the developing structures of the mind acquired, even constructed knowledge, and that knowledge was therefore not of only one flavor. “think that all structures are constructed and that the fundamental feature is the course of this construction: Nothing is given at the start, except some limiting points on which all the rest is based. The structures are neither given in advance in the human mind nor in the external world, as
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Jean Piaget - Swiss Psychologist
Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist. “He was born in Neuchatel Switzerland on August 9, 1896.” (3) He was the oldest child of his father and mother. “At the age of 11, he wrote about the albino spine, which was the start of his career.”(1)His theories were widely spread in educational fields as well as psychology. “Piaget stressed the holistic approach.” (2) He developed an interest for mollusks during his late adolescence, where he became
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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Sartre was born in Paris to parents Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer, cousin of Albert Schweitzer. When he was 15 months old, his father died of a fever and Anne-Marie raised him with help from her father, Charles Schweitzer, who taught Sartre mathematics and introduced him to classical literature at an early age. As a teenager in the 1920s, Sartre became attracted to philosophy upon reading Henri Bergson's Essay
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Jean-Paul Sartre: His Beginnings
Jean-Paul Sartre: His Beginnings Jean-Paul Sartre was perhaps the most famous philosopher of his time, discussing topics relevant to the epoch he lived in. He was a man who was aware of the problems that existed among society and disapproved them. Even though he lost sight on one eye, his philosophical vision was quite more powerful. The experiences he lived made him discern and decrypt how society was divided. His existentialistic approach to things caused
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Jeannie Morris’s Brian Piccolo
Jeannie Morris’s Brian Piccolo: A Short Season displays that even the most diverse individuals can become best friends. Abraham Lincoln once said “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers could not have been more distant, yet they became the closest of friends. One was white, one was black. One was from the south and one was from the mid-west. One was a first round draft
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Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1964. His mother, Jackie, was in her teens when he was born and she was only married to his biological father for about a year. She married Mike Bezos when Jeff was four. Mike was a Cuban who escaped to the United States when he was fifteen. He put himself through college in New Mexico and eventually became an engineer at Exxon.
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Jennie Finch
“You play like a girl!” used to be one of baseball’s classic insults. Not anymore. Softball diva Jennie Finch has made it cool to not only throw like a girl, but to run, field and hit like one, too. Not since Babe Ruth has a player dominated so completely from the pitching rubber and the batter’s box, and she even gives the Bambino a run for his money in the charisma department. Jennie has also
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Jennifer
Jennifer Warren is a 22 year old senior at Clark Atlanta University who takes up Criminal Justice as her major. Jennifer plans on pursuing a career as lawyer after graduation. She always wanted to be lawyer because she loves the money and is scared if that does not happen she will not be successful in life. Living with both parents she has traveled a lot. Her dad works for the DEA, so it has forced
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Jennifer Dunn
Jennifer Dunn was born on July 29th, 1941 in Seattle Washington. Dunn lived in Bellevue and graduated from Bellevue High School. After high school, Jennifer attended the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington in 1960-1962, and Stanford University to receive a Bachelors Degree in English Literature. In 1978 through 1980, Dunn was a systems engineer; section supervisor, King County, Wash., Department of Assessments. A chair, Washington State Republican Party in 1981-1992, member, United States delegations to
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Jerem Betham
JEREMY BENTHAM A Summary of Biographical Information from the Internet Born on February 15, 1748, in London, England, Jeremy Bentham was a legal scholar, social reformer and considered one of the founding fathers of Utilitarianism. He was educated at Westminster School, Queen's College at Oxford, and Lincoln’s Inn (one of four Inns of Court that call to the bar) for his law degree. Bentham became a lawyer like his father and grandfather but instead
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Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens James Cleveland Owens was born in 1913 in a small town in Alabama to Henry and Emma Owens. When J.C. was eight, his parents decided to move the family to Cleveland, Ohio because Jesse’s pnemonia was worsening, and their sharecropper wanted more of their money. They did not have much money, and J.C.'s father was hoping to find a better job. When they arrived in Cleveland, J.C. was enrolled in a public school.
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Jessie Owens Story
James Cleveland Owens was born in 1913 in a small town in Alabama to Henry and Emma Owens. When J.C. was eight, his parents decided to move the family to Cleveland, Ohio. They did not have much money, and J.C.'s father was hoping to find a better job. When they arrived in Cleveland, J.C. was enrolled in a public school. On his first day of class when the teacher asked his name, she heard Jesse,
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Jesus
Christianity is currently the largest religion in the world with approximately 2.1 billion people identifying themselves as Christians. Jesus is the central focus of attention and worship in Christianity and is held by most Christians to be the Messiah, foretold in the Hebrew Bible. They believe him to be the savior of mankind, and the son of God. However, in modern times, the application of critical scholarship to the analysis of the Bible and to
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Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ I think a great person to put on the postage stamp would be Jesus Christ. There are many reasons why Jesus would be a good choice. He was very influential to many people in the world. He was also a great person and a role model for a lot of people. Jesus changed a lot of peoples live and countless people praise him and honor him everyday. Jesus was a great person
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Jetsy Abraham
Miss Jetsy Abraham was born on November 26, 1986, and has just turned twenty one this past weekend. She lives in Feasterville, Pennsylvania and goes to Drexel University Class of 2009. The high school she attended was Neshaminy High school class of 2004. Miss Jetsy Abrahams major is nursing. Originally she attended Penn state Abington University but then she transferred to Drexel University because she got into their nursing program and Drexel University has
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Jfk
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was one of the most influential people in history. Many people adored him because of his intelligence and his way with people. On November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was riding in Texas, in his car, when he was shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy was a outstanding president, he also served time for his country. Kennedy was a very intelligent man, he His symbolic figure represented all the charm, vigor
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Magazine publisher, lawyer. Born November 25, 1960, in Washington, D.C. The first child ever born to a president-elect, Kennedy was the second child born to John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (later Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis). After President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, little "John-John" won America's hearts in that much photographed moment when, as just a small child, he bravely saluted his father's casket. With looks inherited from his attractive parents, Kennedy,
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Jhgdf
First, "White" is a singular population entity only in terms of a heritage of priviliges and in the delusional theories of demagogues. North American caucasians are a beyond-muttness amalgam of dozens of ethnic, tribal, and national root groups, many of which have fought bitter wars with one another over the past few centuries. (The biggest of those wars were started by jerks like Napoleon and Hitler who foolishly sought to impose a singular nationhood on
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Jim Carry
The youngest of four children born to Percy (an accountant and aspiring jazz saxophonist) and Kathleen, Jim Carrey was an incurable extrovert from day one. As a child he performed constantly, for anyone who would watch, and even mailed his rйsumй to "The Carol Burnett Show" (1967) at age 10. In junior high he was granted a few precious minutes at the end of each school day to do stand-up routines for his classmates (provided,
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Jim Crow
Jim Crow was not a person, yet affected the lives of millions of people. Named after a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, "Jim Crow" came to personify the system of government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States. After the passing of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments blacks were granted the same rights as whites people, however after 1877, and the election of Rutherford B. Hayes the southern and border
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Jim McMahon
The book that I read was "McMahon" by Jim McMahon. This biography was mostly about Jim McMahon's 1985 football season. McMahon was the quarterback for the Chicago Bears. He started eleven times out of the thirteen games he played in. McMahon emerged as one of the NFL's top quarterbacks while earning his first Pro Bowl appearance. He averaged 64% completion the first five weeks before injury had began at San Francisco on October 17,
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Jim Morrison
I don't quite recall when I first heard a Doors' song, but I could safely assume that it was Jim Morrison wailing the tune "Light My Fire" or "Break on Through". After all, these two anthems are the foundations upon which the Doors' legend was built, and to this day remain the band's gems. But as I have come to learn through the years of reading about and scouring over regurgitated bits of information of
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Jim Morrison
James Douglas Morrison was born on December 8, 1943 in Melbourne, FL to Steve and Clara Morrison. He had one brother and one sister, both younger than him. For the first three years of his life Morrison stayed with his mother and his father's parents in Clearwater, FL while his father was away at war. His father was a career Naval Officer who returned from World War II in 1946. Due to his father's
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Jim Morrison
James Douglas Morrison was born on December 8, 1943 in Melbourne, FL to Steve and Clara Morrison. He had one brother and one sister, both younger than him. For the first three years of his life Morrison stayed with his mother and his father’s parents in Clearwater, FL while his father was away at war. His father was a career Naval Officer who returned from World War II in 1946. Due to his father’s
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Jim Morrison
I don't quite recall when I first heard a Doors' song, but I could safely assume that it was Jim Morrison wailing the tune "Light My Fire" or "Break on Through". After all, these two anthems are the foundations upon which the Doors' legend was built, and to this day remain the band's gems. But as I have come to learn through the years of reading about and scouring over regurgitated bits of information of
Rating:Essay Length: 1,418 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: January 21, 2010