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Biographies Essays
Socrates
Socrates
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SOCRATES
Philosophy was both serious and dangerous, Socrates chose to ignore both. Ignoring the first made him one of the most engaging of all philosophers, ignoring the second was to cost him...
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher who was lived from 1588-1679. He attended Oxford University where he studied classics. His occupation was a tutor, but he also traveled around Europe to meet with scien...
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was a famous American author who wrote from the 1920 to the 1940. Steinbeck was constantly moving across the country trying to succeed as a writer. John Steinbeck lived a l...
Joeseph McCarthy
Joeseph McCarthy
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
Joseph R. McCarthy was born in 1908 on a family farm in Wisconsin. He went to a country school and decided he was done with his education at the young age of 14. After that, h...
Paul L. Dunbar
Paul L. Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar was born June 27, 1872 in Dayton, OH. His mother Matilda, was a former slave and his father Joshua had escaped slavery and served in the 55th Massachusetts Infan...
Pocahontas
Pocahontas
Who really was Pocahontas? Was she like the Indian girl in the Disney movie, who saved her reservation? Yes and no. She was an Indian of the Algonquian Indians. Her father was Powhatan, the chief. Her original nam...
Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts
One of the most widely known actresses, Julia Fiona Roberts, was born on
October 28, 1967. This now 5’9", brown eyed, chatain clair haired girl was born in Smyrna, Georgia. She att...
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was born on February 25, 1955. He was soon adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, CA. Steve wasn’t happy at school in Mountain View so the family moved to Palo Alto, CA. Steve attended Hom...
Muhammad Ali - Cassius Clay
Muhammad Ali - Cassius Clay
I consider a hero someone that has done great things. Some of the things that I consider great are, accomplished hard goals, stood up for their own rights, done things that would be hard for me to...
Indira Gandhfemalei
Indira Gandhfemalei
Indira Priyadarshini was born on November 19, 1917, she was the only child of Jawaharal Nehru and his wife Kamala in the city of Allahabad in Northern India. The second part of her name Priyadarshin...
Charles Shults
Charles Shults
PEANUTS
The comic strip PEANUTS has always been a favorite of mine, and most of America’s. It’s been a hit ever since the first PEANUTS comic strip was printed on October 2nd 1950 in seven U.S. daily new...
Theodore Kaczynski
Theodore Kaczynski
I. Life
Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942 to Wanda and Theodore Kaczynski of Evergreen Park Ill, a tidy and middle class suburb of Chicago. The second son Ted’s brother, David was born in 1950. As chi...
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was one of the most important black leaders of the Antislavery movement. He
was born in 1817 in Talbot County, MD. He was the son of Harriet ...
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
The Life And Death of Gaius Julius Caesar In my opinion, no other man in the history of the world symbolizes military and political strength as much as Julius Caesar does. Caesar was born on July 12, 100 BC i...
Miles Davis
Miles Davis
The Electric Miles Davis
Born in Alton, Illinois, Miles Davis grew up in a middle-class family in East St. Louis. Miles Davis took up the trumpet at the age of 13 and was playing professionally two years ...