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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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
JFK John Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th president of the United States, the youngest person ever to be elected president. He was also the first Roman Catholic president and the first president to be born in the 20th century. Kennedy was assassinated before he completed his third year as president. Therefore his achievements were limited. Nevertheless, his influence was worldwide, and his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis may have prevented war. Young people especially liked him.
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John Grisham
Dear Yearbook committee, I received your invitation to the class reunion of the UM graduating class of 1981. I am overjoyed to see you all again, and I also accept your invitation to speak at the opening ceremony. As per your request of an autobiography, I wrote a short synopsis of what I feel has affected my writing the most. Hopefully, this will fit in well enough with your scheme for the reunion book. I
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John H
was the founder of the Johnson Publishing Company, an international media and cosmetics empire headquartered in Chicago, Illinois that includes Ebony, and Jet magazines, Fashion Fair Cosmetics and EBONY Fashion Fair. Johnson was the first black person to appear on the Forbes 400 Rich List, and had a fortune estimated at close to $500 million.[1] Johnson was born in Arkansas City, Arkansas and in the 1930s moved to Chicago, Illinois with his family, where he
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John Keats
John Keats By: Anonymous John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and a major figure in the Romantic movement, was born in 1795 in Moorfields, London. His father died when he was eight and his mother when he was fourteen; these sad circumstances drew him particularly close to his two brothers, George and Tom, and his sister Fanny. Keats was well educated at a school in Enfield, where he began a translation of Virgil's
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John Keats
Keats, John (1795-1821), English poet and letter writer whose work carried the Romantic movement in England to rich maturity. Despite his tragically early death at the age of 25, Keats composed poetry of great power and beauty in a surprisingly wide variety of kinds: a fragmentary epic, Hyperion; several romances, including Endymion and The Eve of St. Agnes; and a miscellany of shorter lyrics, of which the best known are the sonnets and a series
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John Kemeny - Mathematician
JOHN KEMENY: MATHEMATICIAN John Kemeny was born on May 13, 1926, in Budapest Hungary. He attended primary school in Budapest. He came from a Jewish family and in 1940, due to the Holocaust, Kemeny’s father moved the family to the U.S. Kemeny’s family moved to New York, and John attended school in New York City. He attended Princeton University where he studied mathematics and philosophy. He took a year off during his undergraduate course
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John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith The Canadian-born, Berkeley-trained John Kenneth Galbraith has been considered by many as the "Last American Institutionalist". As a result, Galbraith has remained something of a renegade in modern economics - and his work has been nothing if not provocative. In the 1950s, he presented economics with two tracts that needled the mainstream: one developing a theory of price control (which arose out of his wartime experience in the Office of Price
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John Lennon
Imagine yourself being born in into a dysfunctional family, your father leaves your mother and she decides she can’t take care of a child on her own, so she hands you over to her sister, your aunt. Once a teen your mother seeks you out and you become best friend. She is goofy and possibly a nut case. Not much of a mother, but a good friend. Growing up with all this rejection helped
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John Lennon
John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England on October 9, 1940. He lived with his parents, Alfred and Julia Lennon, until Alfred walked out on the family in 1945 when John was five years old. Julia decided that she wasn’t able to take care of John so she gave him up to her sister Mimi and her husband George. Lennon developed myopia while growing up and was issued a pair of National Health spectacles. These
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John Lennon
Lennon Thousands of singing fans and followers gather outside of an apartment late one December night in 1980. They are not celebrating, or trying to catch a glimpse of their idol. Instead, they are mourning him. John Lennon, one of the fab four; was shot and killed on December eighth. Before the sun begins to rise the next day, three girls have already taken their own lives after hearing the news. The death of the
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John Lennon
As most musicans do, John had a very problematic early childhood. He was born on October 9th 1940, during one of the most horrific bomb raids of Liverpool. In fact, the raid was so bad, that baby John was put under a table to protect him, and his Aunt Mimi risked her life to come to see him. His father, Alfred, was a merchant seamen so he was away a great deal and Julia, his
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John Lennon Autorized Assasination
John Winston Ono Lennon has been exhumed in print more than any other popular musical figure, including the late Elvis Presley, of whom Lennon said that he "died when he went into the army". Such was the cutting wit of a deeply loved and sadly missed giant of the twentieth century. As a member of the world's most successful group ever, he changed lives, mostly for the better. Following the painful collapse of The Beatles,
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John Lennon/"imagine"
Imagine a world without violence; a world without suffering; a world without hate. These words streamed through John Lennon’s mind as he sat at his plain, brown, Steinway upright piano composing his most influential song, “Imagine”. This same piano was bought by George Micheal years after Lennon’s assassination. Since the purchase, Micheal’s has decided to spread the dreams of Lennon through a tour he calls the Piano Peace Project. The tour will stop at many
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John Locke
There he lay as a normal infant, red and whimpering. How does the mind of a baby grow to become one of the greatest political philosophers the world has known? From his response to the Puritan upbringing by his father, to “The Reasonableness of Christianity”, which John Locke published just five years before his death, John Locke's life demonstrates how God uses a mind dedicated to honest pursuit of ultimate Truth. On August 9, 1632
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John Locke
John Locke John Locke was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher. His association with Anthony Ashley Cooper (the First Earl of Shaftesbury) led him to then become a government official who was responsible for collecting information about trade and colonies. It also led him to become an economic writer, opposition political activist, and finally a revolutionary whose goal was finally satisfied in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. His philosophy mainly revolves around his
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John McCain
John McCain Arizona Senator John McCain has long been a prominent member of the Republican Party, having held various positions of leadership in the military, the federal bureaucracy, and the United States Senate. Although well liked by enough of his comrades to be a contender for the 2000 Republican Presidential nomination, McCain fell short to now-President George Bush. Again in 2007, McCain is among those seeking his party’s nomination, but this time around, he has
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John McCain
John Sydney McCain III was born August 29, 1936 in a military hospital at Coco Solo NAS in the Panama Canal Zone, Panama. His father, John McCain, Jr. was a naval officer stationed at the Canal, doing duties at a small submarine facility. At the same base and time, his grandfather was the base commander. “Jack McCain was transferred to New London a few months later, but for that brief period Panama became the
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John Milton
Renaissance period and John Milton. John Milton was an outstanding poet who wrote sonnets such as "On Shakespeare" and "On His Blindness." He also wrote poems such as "Comus" and "Lycidas." Milton is most known however, for the epics that he wrote. Some of his major epics included "Samson Agonistes" and "Paradise Regained." His most famous work is the epic "Paradise Lost." Milton was inspired in much of his work by the Bible. He felt
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John Milton
John Milton was born in London, England (1608), to Sarah Jeffrey and his father, who was also named John. His mother was the daughter of a merchant sailor. His father was a law writer and also composed music. He inherited a love for art and music from his father. By the time he was twelve he entered Christ’s college, Cambridge, where he wrote much religious poetry in Latin, Italian, and English. Milton was picked on
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John Milton: A Biography
John Milton: A Biography John Milton was born on the ninth of December in 1608. Mr. Milton was a legal secretary and brought great wealth to the family, giving them a luxurious life. On the side he was also composed church music which most likely influenced his son’s interest in music. The propriety of the family also allowed for a higher education of John and his brother. He was privately tutored at home until he
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John Proctor
Proctor was originally from Ipswich, where he and his father before him had a farm of considerable value. In 1666 he moved to Salem, where he worked on a farm, part of which he later bought. Proctor seems to have been an enormous man, very large framed, with great force and energy. Although an upright man, he seems to have been rash in speech, judgment, and action. It was his unguarded tongue that would eventually
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, creator of a world. When someone who knows Tolkien is asked about his works, one thought comes to mind, Middle Earth. This was the playground in his mind that such vivid descriptions of fantasy lands came from. It is the base of his most well known stories, where dreams are just the norm. J.R.R. may owe much of his success to his diverse beginnings. On April 16, 1891, Mabel Suffield and
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John Ronald Reul Tolkien
John Ronald Reul (J.R.R.) Tolkien has been called various things by various critics. Some have called him "the father of modern fantasy," "creator of England’s mythology," and great post-modern expressionist. Others see his work as childish, sexist, and silly. However, there is more to his work than both his fans and detractors see in it. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion are works of modern fantasy; but within them are
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John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on February 27th, 1902. His mother, Olive Steinbeck, was a teacher and also was a major influence on John’s writing. His father, John Steinbeck Sr., was a county treasurer. When Steinbeck was a child, during his summers off from school, he worked on a farm, which was a good experience for later writing. In the beginning of 1919, Steinbeck was accepted to the University of Stanford. Later, in
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John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was born in February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. Salinas was an agricultural valley in California. His father was the county treasurer and his mother was a schoolteacher. This is where his education began from a mother that encouraged him to read. The community was a comfortable environment for him to live in because of the encouragement of independence and initiative. His parents didn't want him to be a writer. They wanted him
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John Steinbeck
A Brief Biography of John Steinbeck. John Steinbeck (1902-1968), born in Salinas, California, came from a family of moderate means. He worked his way through college at Stanford University but never graduated. In 1925 he went to New York, where he tried for a few years to establish himself as a free-lance writer, but he failed and returned to California. After publishing some novels and short stories, Steinbeck's novels can all be classified as social
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John Steinbeck
Home > Free Essays & Book Reports > Book Reports > Of Mice And Men Of Mice And Men Browse essays using search option Access free essay links resource page Need help with paper writing services? Bookmark our site for future reference John Steinbeck John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, in 1902. He was raised in a fertile agricultural valley about twenty miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast
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John Steinbeck
Through a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing social forces or who struggle against their own inhumane tendencies and attempt, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, to forge lives of meaning and worth. At the center of Steinbeck's thematic vision is a dialectic between contrasting ways of life: between innocence and experience, between primitivism and
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John Steinbeck
“I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.” (George 1) This is a quote by John Steinbeck that shows exactly how he felt about being a writer. Steinbeck, a Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for Literature winner, is a very popular author in the United States of America, even after his death. He is known for his very realistic
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John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902 and attended Stanford University intermittently between 1920 and 1926. Steinbeck did not graduate from Stanford, but instead chose to support himself through manual labor while writing. Steinbeck's first novel, Cup of Gold was published in 1929, and was followed three years later by The Pastures of Heaven and, in 1933, To a God Unknown. However, these first three novels were unsuccessful both critically and commercially. Steinbeck
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