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Charles V World Biography
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Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt
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Samuel Adams Radical Puritan
1,041 wordsA Book Review of Samuel Adams: Radical Puritan Historians such as Drew McCoy and Joseph Ellis have produced noteworthy studies of the Founders and their impact on the time period of the American Revolution. Fowler's supplement to this blossoming literature is in many ways a traditional biography. It investigates Samuel Adams's life as it unfolded and pays less attention to the larger conceptual issues that commanded the age. No reader can escape this brief biography without a sense of the person...
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Mary Shelley Shelley Frankenstein
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T S Elliot Rudyard Kipling
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Johannes Van Der Waals
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B F Skinner Abraham Maslow
4,588 words... for contributing so much to psychology Harry eventually died in 1949. Contribution to the Theories of Personality In his life Sullivan introduced many theories of personality. These theories include: 1. Heuristic Stages of Development 2. Beginnings of Self-System 3. Heterosexual Intimacy and Lust There are several stages of Heuristic Stages Development 1. Infancy. It extends from a few minutes after birth to the appearance of articulate speech, however uncommunicative or meaningless. 2. Chil...
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Social Expectations And Motivations Vested Motivations Vested In Hitler Kershaw's
681 wordsThe historian and Hitler biographer Allan Bullock once wrote of his subject, "the more I learn about Hitler, the less I can explain it. " To say the least, Hitler presents a challenge for any biographer. According to one of those who famously accepted the challenge, Joachim Fest, Hitler was an "unperson, " whose demonic energy and sheer force of will nearly destroyed an entire civilization. In contrast to the darkly romantic overtones of Fest's interpretation, Bullock viewed Hitler as merely a c...
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Puritan Themes In Nathaniel Hawthorne Writing
842 wordsAmerican novelist and nineteenth century writer Nathaniel Hawthorne was the first writer to apply artistic judgment to Puritan society. There were many transcendentalists during Hawthorne's time period, but his works showed little optimism and self-confidence. Most of his works were written from a Puritan preoccupation (Compton's Encyclopedia, 83). With a series of short stories and novels that brought back the life of New England's Puritan past, Hawthorne achieved one of the most distinguished ...
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Princess Diana Diana Princess
2,760 wordsPrincess Diana (1) Throughout most of her life, Princess Diana remained the object of Medias scrupulous attention, and it continues to be the case even today, well after her tragic death in car crash on August 31, 1997. In its turn, this points out to the fact that Princess Diana's everlasting popularity cannot be solely explained by her physical looks, her extravagant lifestyle or her controversial statements on the matters of socio-political importance, but also by her proven ability to succee...
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Martin Luther King Luther King Jr
2,603 wordsAfrican American leaders all fought for the same cause. Though, they all did it differently, they all had strikingly similar lives, tactics, and ways of persuasion. Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, and even Malcolm X all played a large role in African American reform. I had the chance to interview Malcolm X with Alex Haley. It was unbelievable the things that I learned, finally understood, and took with me to live my life by. All of these leaders took what someone else ...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Martin Luther King Jr
2,033 wordsElizabeth Cady Stanton, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. " Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. The country of America has a very rich history. As it is known, history cannot be changed without people who would be changing it. In United States of America there were many dominant postures, amongst the...
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Cultural Studies Third World
2,494 wordsFrantz Fanon Frantz Fanon was born in 1925, to a middle-class family in the French colony of Martinique. He moved out of Martinique and volunteered to fight with the Free French in World War II. He later started writing political essays and plays that remain controversial even today. Fanon's biography can be looked through two different prisms, despite the fact that Frantz Fanon is among the 20 th century's greatest theoreticians on philosophy of liberation emanating from the Third World. Psychi...
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Style Of Writing Carl Sandburg
1,872 wordsThe beloved poet, Carl Sandburg, changed the course of American poetry. He was a poet, novelist, journalist, and songwriter, yet the influence of his works have not always been acknowledged. Carl Sandburg's evocations of American urban and rural life, compassion for people, and his love of nature, through his works have made an enormous contribution to the American literary scene. Carl Sandburg was born on January 6, 1878 to illiterate parents of Swedish decent in Galesburg, Illinois. Much of Sa...
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Raymond Carver Strong Influence
4,015 wordsIn private desperation, Raymond Carvers characters struggle through their lives, knowing, with occasional clarity, that the good life they had once hoped would be achieved through hard work will not come about. In many ways, Carvers life was the model for all of his characters. Married to Maryann Burk on June 7 th, 1957, at nineteen, and having two children by October of 1958, the Carvers life was decided for years to come. Early on, Carver felt, along with his wife, that hard work would take ca...
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Current Biography Wasn T
1,811 wordsThe Life and Times of Coco Chanel There have been many women of great influence throughout the years, but in the world of fashion there was one above all the rest: Coco Chanel. After years of triumphs and failures, she gracefully stated, |Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve. X Gabrielle |Coco X Chanel was a great woman of her time, from her humble beginnings to becoming the most influential designer of h...
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Joint Chiefs Of Staff Chief Of Staff
1,179 wordsMy Written Report is a Short Biography of Colin Luther Powell. He was born on May 5, 1937 in Presbyterian Hospital. He was born, and grew up, in the South Bronx, New York. There was a big influence of drugs and gangs where Powell lived but, he seemed to steer away from all of that (source 1, page 23). Powells parents were immigrants from Jamaica. His mothers name is Muad Ariel Mckoy. In Jamaica the Mckoy family watched over sugar plantations. She came to America with her mother (Colin's grandmot...
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Style Of Writing Jack Kerouac
801 wordsMartin, William 2 - 14 - 97 Charters, Ann. Kerouac: A Biography. New York: St. Martin s Press, 1959, 1994. 419 pp. Jack Kerouac Kerouac: A Biography, helps to explain how Jack Kerouac, the founder and most important member of the Beat movement, was influenced by the rapidly changing culture of the 1950 s, as well as, how Kerouac ignited a social and literal revolution in America, from which the Beatniks and Hippies emerged. All of Kerouac s books drew public attention due to Kerouac s originalit...
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Edmund Whites Mini Biography Edmund Whites Mini Proust
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Shelleys Frankenstein
3,894 wordsMary Wollstonecraft Shelley, was the daughter of the radical feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the political philosopher, William Godwin, and the wife of the Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Through these familial affiliations, she was also acquainted with Lord Byron, Samuel T. Coleridge, and other literary figures such as Charles and Mary Lamb. Surrounded by such influential literary and political figures of the Romantic Age, it is not surprising that as an adolescent, at the age of 19, sh...
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