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A Biography of Alessandro Volta

In five pages this paper discusses the life and scientific contributions of electrical energy pioneer Alessandro Volta. There are...

Berry Gordy: Life and Works

When Berry was a junior in high school he dropped out so that he could be a boxer, once fighting on the same...

Sample of a Personal Biography

both my way of being in the world and my sense of educational necessity. This strength developed because of the influence of some...

Biography of Adam Smith

topics as rhetoric, ethics, political economy, and jurisprudence" (Lucid Caf?). In the year 1759 he published a work whic...

Martin Luther

was while he was there that he was able to earn a "baccalaureate and masters degrees in the shortest time allowed by university st...

John Morton Blum's Republican Roosevelt

In five pages this biography on Theodore Roosevelt by John Morton Blum is discussed....

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

Article Critique, Duranti

This essay offers a critique of a 2003 article by Alessandro Duranti, which is entitled "Language as culture in U.S. anthropology:...

Monteverdi’s Orfeo

divisions.vi For twelve years he wrote music as a member of the court of the Duke of Mantua, before being appointed as choirmaster...

Literature Review

in that industry prior to the innovation (Enrico and Alessandro, 2007). The authors use Hewlett-Packard and the digital camera ind...

Universal Chair 4860 Designed by Joe Colombo

In five pages Joe Colombo's original universal chair design is considered in terms of function and form and is then compared with ...

Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein

In six pages this research paper examines these scientists in terms of the biographies Isaac Newton The Last Sorcerer by Michael ...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

Model A’s, Model T’s, and the Changing Face of America

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

The Potential benefit Of M&A's in Supporting Nigerian Economic Growth

During the early 20th century merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the United States provided one of the tools for economic gr...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

3 Biographies on Abraham Lincoln Analyzed

Lincolns reputation has been acquired through the perpetuation of myth and because Lincoln is so far removed in history. Furtherm...

Biography of Clara Wieck Schumann

debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...

Biography of William Faulkner

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

The Far Side of Paradise by Arthur Mizener

his aristocratic persona was largely manufactured, because although Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald had some illustrious ancestors, i...

Biography of Sen. John F. Kerry

for President, 2004). Kerrys upbringing as a member of a vocal family and his time at Yale served him when he returned from Viet...

Biography of Dmitri Mendeleev

a great deal bout chemistry in relationship to making glass. "Another influence in Dmitris life was his sister Olgas husband, Bess...

Biography of Benjamin Franklin

at night so no one knew who was writing the pieces. They were a smash hit, and everyone wanted to know who was the real Silence Do...

Marine Sylvia Earle's Contributions

has a lot to say about the oceans of the world? Earle was born in New Jersey in 1935 ("Sylvia"). Her parents did not even have ...

Bill Gates

vision guided him in his work (William H. Gates, 2003). That vision would also prove to be precisely on-target, and Gates would b...

Biography of D.H. Lawrence

"was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrences childhood was dominated by poverty and fricti...

Personal Exploration Through Biography

that Jean Edward Smith agrees with this assessment, but he believes biography is an art form that should take into account the anc...

Biography of Joseph Goebbels

compensated, perhaps over compensated, with his dogmatic embrace of the philosophy of the Third Reich. However, these early expe...

Biography of Gen. George S. Patton

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

Biography of John Brown by Stephen B. Oates

himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...