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...

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...

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...

Matthew Flinders: Biography Word Count: 1620 Matthew Flinders was a great British navigator. He first mapped and circumnavigated a large a mysterious landmass which he would later name Australia. Reminders of Flinders exploits can be found in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Even his...

There are developments, trends -- I don't know quite what to call them -- that pique the interest because they don't quite make sense; they are culturally paradoxical. We could all see Survivor coming -- it's the perfect marriage of technological scopophilia and our growing appetite for real-life sp...

Over the course of history, there have been many famous authors. Having had so many historical events happen in it, the 20th century was full of these authors and the great stories that they wrote. John Steinbeck is one of these great authors, and indeed, he wrote several famous works that are still...

1. Author and editor Washington Irving was born in New York City on April 3, 1783. Irving achieved international fame for his fictional works, including the stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, as well as for his biographies and historical writings. Irving served as the United Sta...

In the Presidential elections America aims to install the man most able to lead the country and represent the whole. In 1960 John F. Kennedy ran on the Democratic ticket and won over the country. In 2004 John F. Kerry ran on the Democratic ticket and decisively lost the election. Why? How did Ke...

Developing the motion picture industry into a modern American art could have only been pioneered by one man with great visions and optimism: Walt Disney. He transformed the entertainment industry into what America knows today. As a great innovator, he was also a man with arguably the most fertile im...

The Biography of Alessandro de' Medici Alessandro de Medici was a part of the Royal Medici family, which was the family of fifteen generations in power in Italy from 1291 to 1743. Alessandro was born in November of 1510 and had a short but interesting life of 27 years. He was assassinated...

The biography \"Booker T. Washington\" by Alan Schroeder, describes the life, trials, and tribulations that were encountered by Washington in his journey to becoming one of the most recognized black leaders that our nation has seen. Alan Schroeder is the award-winning author of several American Libr...

Purpose My report will present a short biography about Henry Ford\'s life and explain how Ford developed the Model T car and later came up with the assembly line. I chose to report on Henry Ford because I have always been interested in cars. I wanted to learn more about his Model series and, specifi...

The Gospel of Luke is a document of faith rather than a biography of the life and times of Jesus. It is believed to be the work of a gentile Christian(s) for a gentile Christian community in order to portray their desired portrait of Jesus. It is possible for Luke to be placed as a Syrian of Antioch...

A Biography on Anne BoleynAlthough Anne Boleyn was queen of England for only three years, she played a major role throughout the Renaissance. Mother to Elizabeth I, she has been well-known for her political influence in England.Anne's date of birth varies widely. Some articles claim she was born i...

Hirohito was the 124th emperor of Japan. He was born on April 29, 1901 at Aoynama Palace in Tokyo, to Crown Prince Yoshihito and Empress Sadako. His grandfather was the Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito, Japans first modern emperor. (Meiji meaning Enlightened Ruler) Seventy days after his birth he was remo...

Many countries in today's world are in great debt and overall panic as to the state of their governments' financial affairs. Many people in different organizations worldwide are trying to relieve these countries of their debt and help their people with basic necessities. One such perso...

Ida Tarbell was a woman far ahead of her time. Tarbell was an extraordinary woman whose work influenced the lives of others all over. She helped transform journalism by introducing what is called today investigative journalism. Through her achievements she not only helped to expand the role of the n...

Shakespeare\'s love sonnets describe three different contexts in which love operates, as such, he depicts a multi-faceted picture of love. Love in Shakespeare\'s poems does not have a single definition, but rather, an intangible conglomeration of characteristics that, together, make up an ever power...

LENIN A New Biography Dmitri Volkogonov, a former General in the Soviet army, was given unprecedented access to the clandestine Soviet archives during Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's rule, by Boris Yeltsin. In 1994, Volkogonov wrote a revealing book entitled, LENIN A New Biography, which rocked the Len...

You Can't Kill HopeA Fire You Can't Put Out, by Andrew Manis, is a very detailed biography of Fred Shuttlesworth. The book highlights many events that took place during the Civil Rights movement and Shuttlesworth's fight against segregation. The most significant issue presented, in my opinion, is Sh...

Author's Biography She was the first black woman to receive a Nobel Prize for literature, Toni Morrison. Born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931, she was the second of four children of George and Ramah Wofford. As a child she escaped from the racist attitudes moving to Ohio. She was raise...

Over one hundred years ago, an English visionary was born in India. On June 25th, 1903 Eric Arthur Blair was born to Richard and Ida Mabel Blair. Eric would grow up to take the pen name George Orwell, and he would go on to write many essays and novels, of which the most famous are Nineteen Eighty-Fo...

Biography of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe is a person of many characters who has the ability to draw the audiences' attention towards him. One of the many characters that Poe possesses is the dreary character. Using this he writes poems that have the theme grief. A few poems that show th...

Chinua Achebe's Biography: Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was born the son of Isaiah Okafo, a evangelicalChristian churchman, and Janet N. Achebe November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria.Although both his parents were Christians, they heavily inundated him withtraditional Ibo values. He married Christie...