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Martin Luther King
Number of words: 4984 - Number of pages: 19.... This presence of strong moral values developed King’s character which enabled him to become one of the most influential leaders of our time.
Integrity is a central value in a leader’s character and it is through integrity that King had vision of the truth. The truth that one day this nation would live up to the creed, “all men are created equal”. No man contributed more to the great progress of blacks during the 1950’s and 1960’s than , Jr. He was brought up believing “one man can make a difference”, and this is just what he did. Integrity h .....
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Dalai Lama
Number of words: 1017 - Number of pages: 4.... Monlam Festival of Prayer, held in the first month of every year. In the morning he was examined by 30 scholars on logic. In the afternoon, he debated with 15 scholars on the subject of the Middle Path, and in the evening, 35 scholars tested his knowledge of the canon of monastic discipline and the study of metaphysics. His Holiness passed the examinations with honors, conducted before a vast audience of monk scholars. In 1950, at age 16, His Holiness was called upon to assume full political power as head of State and Government when Tibet was threatened by the might of China. In 1954 h .....
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Manet
Number of words: 1154 - Number of pages: 5.... his paintings, throw out his career. It was during the late 1850’s when was serving as a naval cadet in Rio de Janeiro, that he met a number of slave girls, had openly admitted in letters to his friends the extend to which he found their tropical beauty alluring. Yet, is was not until returned to France that he reveled the true extent of his relationships with these girls, and confessed to the fact that he had been using his time to relate to the girls in an adult way.
The answer lies in the artists life long ill-health, it was in fact himself who first diagnosed although now medic .....
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Biography Of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Number of words: 892 - Number of pages: 4.... for Youth, which was published in 1841. The same year he joined the communal society at Brook Farm near Boston, hoping to be able to live in such comfort that he could marry and still have time to devote to his writing. The demands of the farm were too great, however, and Hawthorne was unable to continue his writing while doing farm chores, and after six months he withdrew from the community. In 1842 he married Sophia Amelia Peabody of Salem and settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in a house called the Old Manse. During the four years he lived in Concord, Hawthorne wrote a number of tal .....
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R. L. Stine: It Came From Ohio! My Life As A Writer
Number of words: 355 - Number of pages: 2.... be the editor and got the job. When he made up Jovial Bob (a way to
introduce himself and humor to the readers) to help The Sundial because
people weren't buying the paper; which they did once they met “Bob”.
Jane became his girlfriend after meeting her at a party in Brooklyn
and became his wife on June 22, 1969. They had a son named Matthew on June
7, 1980.
A series of scary books for young adults led to the wildly popular
books enjoyed by many kids called Goosebumps. He has written about 250
books in his short life and plans to write many more; he tries to write two
books .....
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The Life Of Elizabeth Blackwell
Number of words: 432 - Number of pages: 2.... the odd and received her medical degree in front of 20,000 people.
Although Elizabeth was a fully trained physician, no one would hire her because they did not take her seriously. She then decided to open her own hospital. Elizabeth had to buy a house as her office because no one would rent space to her. This house later became the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. It wasn’t long before Elizabeth started seeing many patients because the Society of Friends supported her accomplishment as a doctor and referred people to her.
She also helped train nurses for the battlefront durin .....
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Karl Marx 5
Number of words: 585 - Number of pages: 3.... with Engels, both of which had an effect on Marx's transformation from a radical democrat to a communist revolutionary.
Marx's theory of society originates from the simple observation that humans must produce food and material goods in order to survive. As a result of this they must enter into social relationships with others, and production becomes a social enterprise. Alongside this exists the 'forces of production', a technical component to manufacturing including the technology, scientific knowledge and raw materials used in the process of production. According to Marx, each stage .....
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Zora Neale Hurston
Number of words: 1895 - Number of pages: 7.... Eatonville he had is faults as well. His eye for other women often left his family home alone for months out of a time (Lyons 1). Zora's mother, Lucy Potts Hurston was the "hard-driving force in the family."(Lyons 2) Lucy was a country schoolteacher, who taught all her children how to read and write, which lead to six out of her seven children earning a college degree (Lyons 2-3). Unfortunately, Lucy Hurston died when Zora was nine years of age (Otfinoski 46). Zora was the seventh child out of a family of eight (Otfinoski 45). During her childhood she felt unloved by her father and thus wa .....
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Ray Bradbury: Literary Influences
Number of words: 1044 - Number of pages: 4.... in Waukegan as an amateur
magician. “‘I was on the radio every Saturday night reading comic book
strips to the kiddies and being paid in free movie tickets, to local cinema,
where I saw ‘The Mummy,' ‘The Murders in the Wax Museum,' ‘Dracula' ...and ‘
King Kong.'” (Johnson 2). In reference to his one year in Tucson Arizona,
Bradbury recalls “‘It was one of the greatest years of my life because I
was acting and singing in operettas and writing, beginning to write my
first short stories.'” (Johnson 2). After graduating from high school,
Bradbury bought a typewriter .....
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Karl Marx 3
Number of words: 635 - Number of pages: 3.... etc. He soon made editor-in-chief, but was quickly forced to step down due to his radical writings and social views. In 1843, he married Jenny Von Westphalen. In 1844, Marx met the man who would change his life forever. Both Engles and Marx had gone through the German Philosophic school and had come to the same conclusions but while Marx arrived at an understanding of the struggles an demands of the age basis of the French Revolution, Engles did so on the basis of English industry. (The Story of his Life, Mehring, page 93) In 1845, he left for Brussels, Belgium. It’s during these years .....
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