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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,...

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)....

forever jolting him by its sheer majesty, giving him what we would now call an almost spiritual global sense" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003...

own personality but also by the circumstances of the time. Stone does succeed in introducing at least some of these circumstances...

War while still serving with the Italians, and became well-decorated by the Italian government4. After returning from the war, he...

and in 1923 he ended up settling and working in Detroit on the General Motors automotive assembly line. Elijah met and married Cla...

fact that he had been stationed at Governors Island in New York Harbor during the war where he was doing recruiting posters (1999)...

officer during the war (Biography of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 2003). Maholy-Nagy was severely wounded in 1917, and it was during his ...

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

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

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

She has promoted her theory of human caring throughout the world from various positions including lecturer at several universities...

not (2000). 2. Compare Menchu, Dorfman and Rodriguezs ideas about Spanish and what factors attribute to their differences? Wh...

also into his motivations, particularly in regards to marrying, and often executing, so many women. The reader sees how Henry VIII...

Clark went on to become a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University between August of 1966 and 1968, where he studied philosophy, politi...

Welsh, a librarian (Rozell, 2003). Laura would become instrumental in supporting George W. Bush in his career, including his diff...

Cosell became a private for the Army. After serving for over four years Cosell left the service to open up a law office in Manhatt...

This research paper offers a comprehensive biography of Queen Elizabeth I, daugher of Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII. It begins w...

In ten pages this paper examines the inspiration religion provided poet Marcus Garvey in a biography and poetic analysis of some o...

In five pages the life of Huey P. Long is examined within the context of Glen Jeansonne's biography Messiah of the Masses Huey P....

the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Alcott, which helped him to compose his next set of short stories entitled Mosses from a...

in Europe. He was seriously wounded in Italy, and incurred nearly a dozen operations to restore complete function to his knee, whi...

his collections in the Bodoni Museum, located in the old ducal palace of "La Pilotta" (Fabian bodoni.htm). Bodonis editions beca...

In five pages C. Gordon Bell is discussed in a biographical overview, his importance, computer industry contributions, company inf...

In five pages this biography of Bret Harte includes the times in which he lived, his philosophy, and his text The Outcasts of Poke...

In two pages a biographical overview along with reviews of Joyce's short story collection Dubliners is presented. There is a bibl...

In ten pages this paper examines Green's portrayal of Alexander the Great as a real man instead of a mythical figure, with a reali...

In five pages this paper examines slave narratives with the focus being upon the biography of Olaudah Quiano. There are no other ...