By selecting the option of writing for publication I chose to construct a section from a biography. A biography is simply the story of a life. This means you can write a story about an object's life such as a building or you can write about the life of a person. Biographies can vary in size; th...

In the biography Fat Man In A Middle Seat on JackW. Germond's life as a reporter the reader if notalready knowing, learns about a man who knew everyone,saw everything, and went everywhere involving politics. The places, people, and situations involving Germond'slife were inflicted in his writing. S...

No one knows exactly when the Italian artist, Tiziano Vecellio, was born. Over the centuries, there has been a great deal of confusion concerning the date, due to a misprint in his biography by sixteenth-century art historian, Girgio Vasari. Vasari recorded the date as 1480, but the progress of Tizi...

Biography on Lady Diana Diana, Princess of Whales, formerly Lady Diana Frances Spencer, was born on July 1st 1961 at Park House near Sandringham, Norfolk. Lady Diana was educated first at preparatory school, Riddlesworth Hall at Diss Norfolk, and then in 1974 went as a boarder to West Heath, near Se...

My 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 ...

It seems that audiences can overlook the adaptation process when it comes to transferring biographical tales. The truth is, when it comes to conveying biographical stories, it is important to get all the right facts and insert all the significant components. If an essential detail is omitted, the vi...

Emily Dickinson was a poet born in Amherst, Massachusettes on December 10,1830. There was a strong Dickinson presence in New England with her grandfather being the founder of Amherst college and her father a successful attorney, legislature, treasurer, and also a community leader (Bloom 11). She ...

Biography of Boris Yeltsin Boris Yeltsin was born in 1931 in Sverdlovsk. His father was Nikolai Yeltsin, who worked in construction and was later convicted of anti-Soviet agitation, and his mother was Klavdiya Yeltsina, who worked a seamstress. Boris graduated from Pushkin High School in Beoezn...

Biography Of George W. Bush George W. Bush was born on July 6th, 1946 and grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas. He went to Yale University, where he received his bachelor's degree, and Harvard Business School, where he received his MBA. From there he went on to join the Texas Air Nati...

Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson is considered by many to be one of the greatest American poets of her time. Throughout her career of writing, she produced about 1800 poems and thousands of letters that border on poetry in and of themselves (Kirkby 10). However, Emily Dickinson lived a very private...

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 1. AUTHOR Harper Lee was born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. Huntingon College is where she first started her college eduacation in 1944 to 1945. In 1945 she went to the University of Alabama to study law. She also attended Oxford Univ...

Ray Bradbury Biography U.S. author, born in Waukegan, Ill., on Aug. 22, 1920. In his stories, Bradbury wove together the intrigue of changing technology with insightful social commentary. One of his best-known works was 'The Martian Chronicles'; a collection of interrelated stories concer...

MR. CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN: A BIOGRAPHY "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography" is a wonderful narrative about the lives of two men, embodied in one person. Both of these men were vaguely similar, but astoundingly different from one another. As Mark Twain, the person was a literar...

John Marshall was born on September 24, 1755 in Prince William County, Virginia. When John was ten, his father decided that they were going to move into a valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains, almost thirty miles from the house they lived. John's parents were not well educated but th...

Tobias (Jonathan Ansell) Wolff Tobias Wolff was born on June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama. His father is Arthur Saunders and he is an aeronautical engineer. His mother is Rosemary (Loftus) Wolff. He married a clinical social worker named Catherine Dolores Spohn in 1975. The couple had tw...

Jane Addams Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860,and the eighth of nine children. Her father, John Addams, was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War, he was a friend of Abr...

The story A Child Called "It," by David Pelzer is one of the most astonishing chronicles about his survival through child abuse. The biography is viewed through the child's eyes for the purpose to help others heal from traumatic pasts. The story of David Pelzer's childhood is imperative to be avai...

The "Sociological Imagination" was introduced by C. Wright Mills in 1959. Sociological imagination refers to the relationship between individual troubles and the large social forces that are the driving forces behind them. The intent of the sociological imagination is to see the bigger picture wit...

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Kurt Vonnegut Jr., was born November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana(Dictionary of Literary Biography). Kurt is often known for his science-fiction writing. He often uses space travel and technology within his novels (World Book Encyclopedia). Vonnegut attende...

Biography of JD Salinger Jerome David Salinger, author of one of the more controversial novels in his time, was born on January 1st, 1919 in New York City. He was born to a Jewish father who was a successful importer of cheese and his mother was a Scottish-Irish house wife. Many speculate that ...

Biography of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson, one of America's most famous poets, was born in Amherst on December 10, 1830, to a very prominent family. Her parents were Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson. The family included three children: Austin, Emily, and Lavinia. Emily w...

Mel Brooks Biography Mel Brooks was born in Jewish family in Brooklyn on June 28, 1926 with the name of Melvyn Kaminsky. As a kid he would hang out spending his time at the local movie theater watching all of the great silent actors at the time like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. When M...

Biography: Christa PrangeChrista Prange is a Biomedical Scientist in the Biology and Biotechnology Research Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She has 7 years of experience in gene discovery projects, especially focusing on high-throughput cDNA production and automation. Ms. Prange i...

Karl Marx: A Life. Francis Wheen. New York: Norton, 1999. 431pp There were only 11 mourners at Karl Marx's funeral in Highgate cemetery on March 17th 1883, but within a hundred years of his death governments that professed Marxism as their guiding faith ruled half the world's popu...

In his lifetime, Vincent van Gogh was seen as a failure, but today, he is viewed as the foremost representative of postimpressionist art. Unable to conform to normal life, Vincent turned to art to express his feelings. His style of using choppy brushstrokes with brilliant colors was looked down upon...