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this school and during her final year became a school prefect (The Age, 2005). Gail then went to study Latin and modern history ...
things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...
From the start, the Segway was geared toward the pedestrian. But problems happened almost immediately, including a voluntary recal...
many interests and relationships that have created the vocal and thoughtful individual who goes by the name of Alan Morton Dershow...
Carolina to what is today East Tennessee to settle in fresh territory (Davy Crockett). In 1777, while his older sons were fighting...
setting so that it, too, reveals the contours of life instead of appearing as flat as the printed page. Lisa Brassard Mayer was n...
but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...
view at that time which saw nature as indestructible. However, as Kurlansky also shows, no species or aspect of nature has this qu...
the likes of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns (Wiener, 1998). In 1961, Yoko returned to Japan with Cage in order ...
Jean Harlow and Katherine Hepburn), his OCD would dominate his life. Hughes lived his final decade of life as a social recluse, a...
with her poor education, she could barely read what they had written (B.S. Carson, MD, 2005). Thanks to all the outside reading h...
was unsure of this decision and wrote to her half-brother in England, asking his advice. He told her, "The navy would cut him and ...
what makes this figure historically significant and worth studying, he/she will want to note how after the death of Caesar, there ...
The author writes, chapter by chapter, about the lifestyle of the Pygmies and how they get along in the world with others. He begi...
paper and open a vein. The point is that non-writers dont understand how difficult writing is; writers do, and frequently wish th...
Eazy went on to form NWA with Ice Cube and Dre and they released an album in 1987 (Erlewine). The rest, as they say is history. Of...
Arts ("Milton Glaser," 2005). He would for the most part get his education in New York, but his stint in Italy likely broadened hi...
are always too many grasping for it here, who have interest and he has none" (Johnson, 2005; 15). Thus his mother decided he would...
as a reporter, his reputation, and his experience working all over the globe that he brings to his account of the world of guerril...
(Jens Laugesen biography, 2005). Some of the terms used by the media to describe him include "slick," "urban," "hot," and "cuttin...
vision guided him in his work (William H. Gates, 2003). That vision would also prove to be precisely on-target, and Gates would b...
"was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrences childhood was dominated by poverty and fricti...
that Jean Edward Smith agrees with this assessment, but he believes biography is an art form that should take into account the anc...
compensated, perhaps over compensated, with his dogmatic embrace of the philosophy of the Third Reich. However, these early expe...
fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....
himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...
begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...
- but his dominating persona was not very favorable to colleagues (though he could be friendly and helpful on certain occasions) (...
all fire breathing radicals like Samuel Adams (Review of Brands, "The First American, 2004). And...
her sister (Lowershore.net). It was at this time, when she escaped, that she took on the name Harriet (Tubman was her married name...