Death Biographies Samples For Students

Euthanasia, widely known as mercy killing, has been a topic of debate globally. The word ‘euthanasia’ is made by the combination of two Greek words eu (well) and thanatos (death). The terms euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide or terminal sedation are sometimes used inter-changeably to define a condition wherein a lethal injection is given to patients who are extremely ill. This intentional killing is for the beneficence of pain and suffering of the patient. The ethics and legality of euthanasia have been questioned in many countries and only a few have approved it. It is a complex and challenging issue in the field of medical care ...

Muhammad’s name appears only four times in the Qu’ran, and all the thousands of details that are known about his life in Mecca and Medina during the 6th Century were probably passed down as oral traditions before being written down in the Hadiths about 100-200 years after his death. He believed that the Islamic faith was the final and perfect revelation of God. Muhammad claimed to be only a Prophet and Messenger rather than a Messiah or Son of God. Salvation came not from believing in him but from following the moral and spiritual teachings of the Qu’ran ...

It was a time of transformation; it was the early 13th century and add this very moment the two tectonic plates of religion and global trade were shifting and capturing new geographies. Genghis Khan proved to be a revolution in the Mongolian history and he conquered without fail with an idea of creating universal harmony through subjugation of all other races. His methods included a lot of slaughter to gain access to other empires and by the time he died is Empire got extended to Russia and China and was also touching the areas that led to Christian Europe.
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When one hears the name “Pablo Picasso”, or just “Picasso”, one is reminded of vivid and abstract colors that form odd shapes or cubes depicting the subject. Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in the Andalusian city known as Málaga to parents Don José Ruiz y Blasco and María Picasso y López. He is the eldest of three with him as the only son in the family. Picasso’s father is a professor in the School of Arts and Crafts in Andalusia, while his mother watched over their children. Picasso easily displayed his interest in art ...

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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” Steve Jobs

Who can ever forget that mercurial genius and co-founder of ‘apple,’ and who branded Macintosh as ‘the computer for the rest of us’? None today, toddlers included, can escape the impression left behind the man, who left us grieving the loss of, not an individual, but a person who could have given us more. Apple has revolutionized ...

Biography: John Standard

There are a huge number of personalities who contributed a lot to humanity through their achievements. Unfortunately, many of them lost their names in the course of history. Some became prey to time, while others to prejudice. History is proof to the racial oppression meted to African Americans and so many prominent and key individuals lost their identity to racial bias and inadequate records. One such personality is the African-American inventor John Standard. He is known to have patented an improvement in the design of refrigerator and a gas stove design. This article is a biographical collection of all that is known about ...

Introduction

Mental events as asserted in behaviorism are considered to be unscientific and embrace the use of practical experiment in the collection of data other than the use of mental processes. Behaviorism, as argued by the different scholars of psychology, is an approach that is employed in the study of both animal and human behavior and holds that the conduct can be measured. However, it is paramount to appreciate the fact that the behaviorist denies the use of human mind and hold that behavior is an essential tool that can be utilized in the psychological studies. However, it is important ...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, which was written by Frederick Douglass himself, sheds valuable insight into the man who is today known so well for his participation in the Anti-Slavery movement during the 19th century. Years after escaping slavery in Maryland, he got it published in 1845 by the Anti-Slavery office in Boston, Massachusetts. Douglass was born into slavery, suffered its hopeless cruelties, and eventually escaped to the north to live out his days with his wife, Anna. This is a brief description of his life up to the time he became influential in the Anti-Slavery cause.

Frederick Douglass' Story

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Alban Berg was an Austrian composer, teacher and one of the most prominent representatives of the Second Viennese musical expressionism and composer school. Alan Berg was a student and a follower of A. Schoenberg, who was Alban Berg’s teacher in years 1904 - 1911.
One of the most prominent representatives of expressionism in music, Berg expressed in his works characteristic of expressionist artists thoughts, feelings and images: dissatisfaction with the social life, feelings of helplessness and loneliness. The hero of his works can be expressed asa little man, driven to despair by a hostile environment of bourgeois society. Ground for ...

Adolf Hitler was born in a small Austrian town, Branau Am Inn, on the 20th of April 1889. His father, Alois Hitler, was a senior customs officer in Austria while his mother – Klara – descended from a poor peasant family. In his early school life, Adolf had great intellectual potential and most of his colleagues admired him for his superb leadership qualities. However, his earlier stardom faded in the latter years of his schooling – in secondary school – when competition got tougher making him leave formal education in 1905. At the age of 18, Hitler moved alone to Vienna – the capital of Austria, to ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, nearby the French border. His father and grandfather were court musicians. Little Ludwig discovered his musical abilities early and his father began lessons with him when he was five, hoping to bring up his son to be, like Mozart, a child prodigy and get out of this financial benefit. Classes were disorderly. Beethoven's father was often rude, cruel, overly demanding. He forced the boy to spend hours playing the same exercise. Sometimes, coming home late at night drunk, he woke his son and made him play.
Ludwig's mother was kind ...

Introduction

Sathya Sai Baba was born on 23 November 1926 and was named Sathya Narayana Raju. He is a famous yet controversial guru in India having numerous followers and groups in countries around the world. He claimed in his teen age that fakir Shirdi actual “Sai Baba” was reincarnated in him. On this basis he renamed himself as Sai Baba. He further claimed to be omnipotent and omniscience in subsequent years. In his influential regions he was known to have manifested holy ash and other little objects like watches and rings which he claimed to materialize from nothing. His followers still ...

Harry Truman became the 33rd president of United States of America in the year 1945, following the sudden death of President Franklin Roosevelt. He encountered challenges during his two terms in office. First, the republicans and the press, severely, criticized his administration in terms of both domestic and foreign affairs. However, his policies abroad helped many generations. Domestically, he protected reforms. This paper discusses Harry Truman’s background, early life, accomplishments, shortcomings, and failures.

Background and early life

Harry Truman was born in Lamar, in the year 1884. Different historians give varying stories about Truman’s childhood. Some believe that he enjoyed his ...

Many centuries ago, a man witnessed an apple fall from a tree and had a scientific revelation about the way that the objects on the earth worked. This was no ordinary man: this was Isaac Newton, and this incident would lead him to formulate the law of gravity. There are many variations and controversies about the apple story, including a conspiracy that Newton himself made it up. Regardless of the origins of the story, this scenario has become the symbol of Isaac Newton’s life and person in science classes around the world. In addition to his theories of ...

Introduction

Dona Marina, also called Malintzin, or La Malinche (1496-1529) was an American Indian originating from the Nahua (Aztec) ancestry. Malinche played a very important role during the conquest of Mexico by the Spanish. She was believed to be a princess of the Aztec language (Nahuatl) speaking tribe and was sold as a slave in her youth to the coastal traders because of the family politics.

Malinche’s father, who was a rich and powerful Aztek chief, died when Malinche was still a young child and therefore, her mother got married for the second time and gave birth to a son with her new husband. In ...

Many Faces Wrapped Into One Big Life

Abstract
Ronald Reagan was born in the midwest, and moved around a lot. He stood out from his friend’s at an early age by being against the discrimination of African Americans. He later moved to California. In his life, he was a movie star, television star, served in World War 2, became a Captain, the President of a Union, was a staunch supporter of Harry Truman, became a Republican after Kennedy’s death. He served as Governor of California, and eventually became the country’s 40th President. He did all of this while being an incredibly in-love husband, and proud father of five ...

Book Reviewed

Metaxas, E. (2010). Bonhoeffer: Pastor, martyr, prophet, spy: a Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich. Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

Introduction and Thesis

God has a purpose for each and every human being. From the biblical teachings, God uses certain individuals, especially the least expected, to achieve His plans for human beings. All difficulties can be overcome by these chosen individuals, although before humans it may appear impossible to realize certain things, but to God nothing is impossible. Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a good example of how God works through people to show his greatness, especially a time when it appears to be no hope. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born ...

Berman, Eli, et al. "Do working men rebel? Insurgency and unemployment in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines." Journal of Conflict Resolution 55.4 (2011): 496-528.A large part of the Afghan population is unemployed because of the war making any economic activity impossible. Unemployment is bad for the economy as it as wise men say, an idle mind is the devils work shop. People start thinking of illegal ways of making money.
Clarke, Richard A. Against all enemies: Inside America's war on terror. Simon and Schuster, 2004.According to this book, there are cases of insider attacks, where American soldiers ...

Overview

Mahalia Jackson was born on 26 October, 1911 in Louisiana. She started her career as a child singer at the Church of Mount Mariah. She proved herself to be among the most influential gospel figures in quite short span of time. She was an internationally known figure to the music lovers. She passed away on 27 January, 1972.

Early Life

As cited in “Just Mahalia” page 5 written by Goreau, Mahalia Jackson’s parents were Johnny Jackson and Charity. She was one of the all-time music‘s great figures in the field of gospel’s music. She had a rich and powerful voice that ...

Today, we are used to seeing a female doctor, but not so long ago it was a purely male profession. Elizabeth Blackwell was the one to change this trend and became the first American woman to become a registered doctor. Elizabeth was born on February 3, 1821, near Bristol in England.
She had a happy childhood; especially she recalled the positive influence of his father. In education, religion and social issues he was quite liberal, for example, he did not punish children's misdeeds by flogging, but instead he put them down in the black book, and if there were many violations, the ...

Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician of playing manifold instruments. He started performing in public at the pretty early age of 6. Over the years, Mozart has had a variety of European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of works: symphonies, sonatas, concertos and operas, distinguished as ones with vivid emotion and sophisticated textures.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s was the only living son of Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist, and assistant of the concert master at the Salzburg court. He also had a sister named Anna Maria. Music as ...

Biography: Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi, known today as referred to as daw Aung San Suu Kyi was born on June 19, 1945, in Rangoon - now known as Yangon, Myanmar. A politician and opposition leader of Myanmar, Suu Kyi is the daughter of Aung San, a martyred national hero of freed Burma, and Khin Kyi, a distinguished diplomat from Myanmar. She won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991 and is renowned in the international community in addition to being revered by the people of Myanmar for her selfless and peaceful struggle against a tyrannical military rule in her country . Her struggle has ...

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According to the American Encyclopaedia, Stevie Smith was known for her “lively, often irreverent wit, unexpected turns of phrase, and unsentimental views of the human condition” (American Encyclopaedia, 65).

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Florence Smith was born in 1902 in Hull, England. However, she and her family moved to London in 1906 after her father left. Unusually, she stayed in the same house until she died in 1971. She went by the nick-name 'Stevie' for much of her life and, despite some romantic relationships, she never married. For 30 years, Smith earned a living working as a secretary, though she retired while still in her ...

Since the early colonial period, Black Americans or those with African or Black descent were persecuted by the whites. The United States, for example, had sold Black Americans or those with half African descent as slaves and restricted them in such extent that they were refused food, shelter and the right to fight for their rights as regular citizens of the United States. Although there were movements that fought for the abolishment of slavery and the establishment of equal rights, many still held the sentiment against the Black Americans or the African-Americans throughout the region in the early 1970s. ...

Sophie Germain

Learning about women mathematicians and inventors is an instance that presents must scepticism due to the Romanisation that only men in the early years have held interest in math or science. However, there were notable women figures as noted by Osen (1975) in these two fields that have enabled men to understand unfamiliar concepts these women were able to address. One of these women was the Frenchwoman Sophie Germain. Sophie Germain was born to Ambroise Francois and Marie Germain on April 1, 1776. France, in this period, was filled with political conflicts considering the late 18th century France was ...

We Must Tell Our Own Story

Introduction

There exists in the world of sociology some controversy between two theories of thought. The debate is usually over a question like this “Which has more control over an individual’s life agency or structure?”
One side argues that people are confined behind the boundaries of social structures. How a person behaves within the structure is controlled by the boundaries or his perception of the boundaries. How a person acts depends on how the social structure (or hierarchy of social structures) “allows” him to act. There is free will only as it fits into the power structure of social systems. ...

Ozzy Osborne…he’s called the Godfather of Heavy Metal and he isn’t dead yet; he is the founder of Black Sabbath, the darkest, evilest, most random band ever. He is many more things and three minutes isn’t enough to scratch the makeup on his face, let alone his entire personality and life story. Then again, ‘exception’ is the rule with Ozzy. So let me try.

He bit a bat’s head off while performing on stage. Yeah, that ought to do it... “Sometimes I think my whole career and life has only been about a bloody Bat!” he ...

This paper is the result of my research on the British dramatist, Harold Pinter. There is so much material available on Pinter that it was sometimes hard to decide exactly what to use, so I have limited my source texts to two authoritative reference books. As well as giving biographical information, I have tied to trace his contribution to the theatre, but even that was slightly problematic, since he did so much – he directed, acted and wrote for the theatre. Even if we concentrate on his writing, we are dealing potentially with a huge amount since he wrote plays, poems, ...