Literature Biographies Samples For Students

David Bordwell is a famous US film theorist, scholar, and film critic born on 23 July 1947. He worked at Wisconsin-Madison University, Emeritus in the Department of Communication Arts in the capacity of Jacques Ledoux Professor in the field of film sciences. David’s textbooks including Film History and Film Art gained remarkable attention worldwide especially in the United States in which his wife, Kristin Thompson contributed substantially. David is a wonderful content producer on films. He is a master of film-development process and staging illustrations. He is a productive researcher in which he focused extensively on national cinemas, auteur studies, narrative theory, ...

Thomas Hardy is one of the most renowned poets and novelist in the English literary history. He was born in the year 1940, in the English village of Higher Bockhampton in Dorset. His father Thomas was a stone mason and a master builder, and his mother Jemima was a highly educated woman who enjoyed reading and narrating folk tales of their region t the time. His parents are said to have influenced his life a great deal because he indeed loved country folk and had a passion for literature, as well as music. When he was eight years old, Hardy began school at Julia ...

John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May 1806 in Pentoville, London. He was the first-born son of James Mill and Harriet Burrow who got married in 1805. His father was born in Scotland but had to move to London to advance his career in economy as well as in philosophy. John’s father and his close friend, Jeremy Bentham, played a pivotal role in equipping him with the knowledge that he would require to lead a successful life.

John began his education at a rather early age. He started learning Greek at the age of three. When he was eight years ...

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Introduction
Euclid (near 365 - 300 BC) is a Greek mathematician, lived in Alexandria, in the 3rd BC. The main work "Elements" (15 books), containing the basics of ancient mathematics, elementary geometry, number theory, the general theory of relations and the method of determining areas and volumes, which included elements of the theory of limits, has had an enormous influence on the development of mathematics. He worked on astronomy, optics, music theory.
Information about the time and place of his birth did not reach us, but we know that ...

The Californian band from San Francisco named “The Stone Foxes” is one of the most perspective bands in the rock and roll genre, as they do not look like and don`t sound like a regular rock band. They are not the fans of alcohol and drugs, which is uncommon for a performing rock and roll band. During their live performances, they like to switch their lead singers, they change their instruments and they behave themselves like the representatives of a new rock and roll work ethic.
The band was founded by Aaron Mort and the Koehler brothers – Spence, the guitarist ...

This paper proposes to chart out a road map of a journey of exploration of the life of the American author, Tim O’ Brien, emphasising on biographical aspects that have intumesced and embroidered themselves onto the fabric of his work en route, and delineating the interrelationship/s thus conceived. The paper seeks to lay special emphasis on the correlation between the author’s experential learning and his fiction, with an exclusive focus on exploring this association, as it emerges in his latest work, The Things They Carried.
Critics, reviewers and commentators have oft-iterated and reiterated the presence of Tim O’ Brien’ ...

In his early life, author Louis Sachar moved around several times while pursuing his education through college. Born in New York in the mid 1950s, he moved to California with his family during grade school before spending time in Ohio and California for college (Sachar). These travels afforded him a wide range of experiences and source material for his later works. Additionally, during this time Sachar became interested in a range of authors such as Salinger, Vonnegut, E. B. White, and Margaret Atwood (Sachar). Such an interest perhaps influenced his on writing endeavors as well as decision to work at an ...

William Faulkner is a renowned novelist and writer who was not only concerned with building his writing career but also supporting new writers. He was brought up in a humble upbringing in the season of civil wars. Apart from the wars, there was wide spread racial discrimination and a wide gap between the poor and the rich. His literature centred on society issues and the need for people to change their thinking and attitude to enhance growth. Through his factious writing, he observed that an economy could only grow if everyone is given a chance to grow. The aspect of some people having ...

With the exception of the Bible, no literary work has had a greater impact on Western culture than the plays of William Shakespeare. The celebrated “Bard of Avon” captured the human condition, revealed the inner-workings of the human heart and the conflicts of the psyche like no other author in history. Countless lines and soliloquies from Shakespeare’s plays today stand as hallmarks of the English language and have been translated into every known spoken language. The themes of his greatest works - love, power and deception – continue to resonate in the present, making timeless, cautionary tales out of MacBeth, ...

Biography of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand was of Jewish ancestry and of Russian nationality but larger part of her life lived in the United States where became popular as a writer, philosopher, originator of objectivism movement and strong adherent to values of capitalism. Born on February 2, 1905 in St. Petersburg with a name of Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum she was a daughter of an ordinary merchant. Having started to read and write at the very early age, when she was 9 she realized that she would like to be a writer. Alisa`s childhood passed in fantasizing, writing of short stories, inventing of her own delusional world.
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C.S. Lewis
- Introduction
C.S. Lewis was one of the most renowned Christians in the early 1900s. Various history magazines at this time compared him to influential individuals such as Luther King Jnr and Pope John XXIII. Lewis’s popularity as a Christian rose because of his conversion from atheism to become one of the most ardent supporters of Christianity. This paper will look at how C.S. Lewis found God and converted to Christianity.
- C.S. Lewis Background
Lewis was referred to as Jack by his close friends and members of his family. Lewis was a university ...

Far from the continent of United States, I was born and raised in Shenzhen- a developing city at the Southside China. I began to speak and learn my native language, Mandarin, at a very tender age. Even before I entered the pre-school, I already recited hundreds of poems and idioms because my grandfather was a famous schoolmaster. Under his influence, I studied the quintessential literary works of the Chinese poets such as Li Bai and Bai juyi from the time I was able to spell words. I was endowed extraordinary talent and it was never difficult for me to write in professionally ...

Biography of Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was born and raised until the age of nine in Lachine, Canada in 1915. He was born the Russian parents who had immigrated to Canada in 1913. However, the family moved to Chicago in 1924 and that is where Bellow received his education. Even though Bellow had an abusive father who always viewed him as a failure, he was determined to make his life better through his education. Consequently, Bellow performed well in his studies. He joined the University of Chicago in 1933 but transferred to Northwestern University where he graduated with a degree in sociology and anthropology in ...

Sara Teasdale was born in the year 1884, August in a state called Missouri at a place called St. Louis. The health of the lady was a problem and this is why she delayed attending school. Instead, she started her studies at home and attended school at the age of 14. It is due to her health problems that the lady changed school at one time.
Sara Teasdale is known as a poet. The first poem that she composed was written in a local newspaper in the year 1907. This is when she started becoming famous. In 1911, her collection of poems was ...

When I was first assigned the task of reading the book, “Tell me a riddle” by Tillie Olsen, I was gained more understanding about what she went through as a feminist activist. This motivated me to search more about her life, because I thought that I had known enough about her life until this new discovery. Thus my intent of researching more about her works led me into writing this paper, to help analyze her life and work. However, I found this a difficult task than I had considered. First I wondered why her works had to be that deep. But by ...

‘Rachel Carson was born in the year 1907, on 27th of May at a place called Springdale in Pennsylvania.’1 He grew up in a rural home with her mother who inspired her to like the nature. The fact that she grew up in a farm found in Pennsylvania made her to better understand and like nature and the wild animals that lived in the farm. This is what inspired her to write many books about nature.
Rachel joined Pennsylvania College for women in the year 1925 and graduated in the year 1929 with an honors and this made her to ...

While Rip Van Winkle is an amusing story, there is more at work here than a man who saw an eerie group of bowlers before falling asleep for a matter of decades. When Rip wakes up and comes back down out of the Catskill Mountains, his entire village has changed: it is larger, his wife has vanished, and his village has changed from being a British possession to a hamlet in the new United States of America. However, when Rip looks at nature, the land is virtually unchanged. The key theme that emerges from this story is the notion that, while the foundations ...

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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 ...

Biography and Criticism - Aemilia Lanyer

In the realm of the English literary canon, one of the most intriguing figures is Aemilia Lanyer. As mysterious as she is important, not a great deal is known about her life - in fact, there is no physical representation of her in artwork or pictoral form, so we do not even know what she really looked like. Nonetheless, she left an indelible impact on English literature, not the least of which through her interaction with William Shakespeare. Her own poetry is thought to be some of the best of Renaissance literature, and what is known about her history is ...

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 ...

Rousseau’s writings include contradictions which still make his work much discussed. He was born three hundred years ago on June 28, 1712 in Geneva. In his lifetime his writings caused him to be thrown out of cities and he needed to move to different parts of Europe, spending some time in exile in England. After writing the book Émile he made both Protestant and Catholic leaders angry enough to ban him even when trying to support the church. And his friend Mary Wollstonecraft was very angry with him for how he portrayed women in the book. Maybe Rousseau ...

The Canadian poet Robert Service remains a paradox. He is the best selling poet of the twentieth century and yet his work has been reviled and criticized by literary critics. His biographer, Mallory, claims that “his poetry has touched the lives of millions of North Americans” (xv).
Because of his enormous success, Service’s life was a real rag-to-riches story. Born on January 16th, 1874 to Scottish parents (his father worked in a bank), he followed his father’s footsteps when he first left school, joining a bank in Glasgow, the family having moved back to Scotland where Service joined them at ...

Summary: The bad girl is a marvelous and suspenseful love story of a teenager girl and boy. Author depicted two absolutely different characters very beautifully in his novel. On one hand the boy was very soft and polite while on the other hand the girl was very rude and repulsive. Story is about a boy Ricardo, an active teenager who falls in love with a 14 year old cute girl Lily. Girls hide her actual identity of slum dweller and pretended to be wealthy, independent Chilean girl but very soon girl identity was reveled and she vanished. Ricardo started working in UNESCO as a ...

Introduction

Annotated bibliography is used to account for a study on a particular topic. It further gives a detailed summary of every source and an analysis of the material’s relevance. The importance of a bibliography is based on the selection of sources of reference. In addition, it entails a good definition of the scope of the study, which helps in making an accurate judgment on the type of data to include in annotation. This article involves an analysis of various authors’ contribution on leadership and motivation. Various facts have been looked into and the criticism over the same. The major reason of coming up ...

William Faulkner is an American writer from the state of Mississippi, Oxford who lived between 1897 and 1962. He is regarded as one of most important Southern Literature writers of the United States. During his lifetime, he was credited for writing and publishing a great volume of poetry, novels, short stories, essays and screenplays. His collection of short stories and novel is the most popular. He also won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 for his contribution to the field of American Literature (O’Connor 1). This paper focuses on the most important works of William Faulkner, his literary ...

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, ...

Hoose, V., William, Kottler, & Jeffrey. (1985). Ethical and legal issues in counseling and psychotherapy (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1985-98015-000

This book provides current and practical information needed by professionals to meet their ethical and legal responsibilities. It provided explanations to significant court decisions and legal concepts. Moreover, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the broad range of value and ethical issues facing counsellors and therapists. The legal and ethical perspectives of sharing and use of information are very significant. Professionals reading this book will find help acquire insight into legal and ethical questions, create their ethical standards and ...

Introduction

Nowadays, Math is comparatively accessible discipline to everyone, who is eager to master it, and has some basic logical skills. It is because of the wide range of contemporary textbooks, hundreds of helpful websites and numerous highly-qualified teachers and professors, who are not only acquainted with the discipline itself, but are also talented in the art of teaching.
However, the situation was not so bright in the old times, when the books on Math could not have been comprehended by a common person. Moreover, many theoretical and practical issues still had not been resolved, which complicated the teaching process ...

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. ...

The Book of Romans is a letter written by Paul in 57-58 A.D. addressed to the people of Rome who believed Jesus Christ. It is in this Book where Paul explains God’s plan of salvation for men. What struck me the most in the Book of Romans is the importance placed on our faith on Jesus Christ. The Book emphasized that we must make Jesus Christ as the Master of our lives. Paul says that we can only be saved by our faith in Christ. I realized that because of the death of Jesus Christ, we were able to ...

William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois: A Biography

William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868. He was born and grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His parents were Alfred and Mary Silvina Du Bois. Her mother’s family lived among the small, free black community in Great Barrington. Her mother descended from English, African, and Dutch ancestors.
William’s paternal great-grandfather was a French-American named James Du Bois who fathered different offspring with some slave mistresses. Alexander was one of the many mixed-race sons of James. When Alexander went to ...

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) belongs to the prominent American thinkers and public figures. In him were combined a great scientist-encyclopaedist, a brilliant propagandist of the Enlightenment ideas and active leader of the bourgeois revolution. By decision of the World Peace Council, the 250th anniversary of the birth of Franklin was celebrated all over the world. Scientific and public activity of Franklin is inextricably linked with the war of Independence in 1775 - 1783 years. The largest volume and most famous works of Franklin is "Autobiography» (The Life of Benjamin Franklin written by Himself). It was started by Franklin in 1771 ...

John Adams, the second President of the United States, headed the young country through some of its toughest times. He was the Vice President during George Washington’s administration and followed him as the next President. During his presidency, the government moved to Washington, and John Adams was the first President to live in the White House. Although John Adams made a lot to the formation of the United States, his personality stays in the shadow of the significance of his colleagues (G. Washington, T. Jefferson, J. Madison). Because of his unlikeable character, Adams had only few friends in his ...

Annotated bibliography

Bodden, V. (2008). The 9/11 terror attacks. Mankato, Minn: Creative Education.
Bodden discusses events that culminated to the terror attack of 9/11. He further describes the relationship between U.S. and the Middle East as well as, the global response after terror attack and how the attacked transformed the world.
Bolton, M. (2008). U.S. national security and foreign policymaking after 9/11 : present at the re-creation. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
In his book, Bolton has analyzed the 109th congress of Dec 2004 that was passed signed under President Bush: Intelligence Reform and intelligent Prevention Act (IRTPA). ...

Currently living in the city of Atlanta Georgia, I am a native Californian. At a young age, I was introduced to pastoral care. My grandfather enjoyed a prominent position as an elder in the Baptist church. He would visit his members on a regular basis. He was the one who actually introduced me to learn about pastoral care as a PK. The basis of Pastoral care, as exemplified in one's treatment of the neighborhoods, grew out of the theological commitment as demonstrated in one's love for God’s people. I believe that my interest in pastoral care is a ...

Thelonious Monk is known as one of the most gifted jazz musicians. He was the pioneer of bebop and his influence as a pianist and composer had significant effects on different kinds of music (Monkinstitute). Music of Thelonious Monk is based on Ingrid Monson’s and Paul Berliner’s work (Solis 3). Nevertheless, Monk is famous for his improvisations, which are so outstanding that a jazz critic Whitney Balliett once pointed out “His improvisations were molten Monk compositions, and his compositions were frozen Monk improvisations.” (Deveaux 169)
Thelonious was born in North Carolina on October 10, 1917, but his ...

Wallace Carothers

life and Education of Wallace Carothers
Wallace Hume Carothers was born on April 27, 1896. He was born in Burlington, Iowa. He was the son of Ira and Mary Carothers, and was the oldest children in the family. When he was five years old, his family moved to Des Moines, Iowa. There he studied in high school. He started showing interest in science during high school years and started reading the scientific literature. During his studies, he liked to play with different tools, instruments, and other mechanical items, and liked to spend time in experimenting. He used to have ...

Introduction

In the highpoint of my English teaching career, I found myself teaching English to Grade 4 Australian English learners. It was interesting because I am an Arab lady from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And many people found it rather unusual for me to be teaching Native English speakers their own mother tongue. This essay will outline the progression of my career as an English teacher and how I got to the climax of my career, teaching native speakers of English. I will outline my background, origins, immersion into the Anglo-American culture and how my professional career developed as ...

Biography

Sergeant Maurice Churchill Rice was born Michigan in the United States of America in the year 1940. He was the third born in the family of Mr. Calpa Rice and Mrs. Reecho Rice. The two got married and had four children and lived in America .His other siblings include Mr. Kennedy, Mr.Samwel and Miss Brenda the last born in their family. The father worked as a doctor in the Michigan, while the mother served as a nurse in the same town. The parents were black Americans who lived in the early time of their in the states before moving to Canada. ...

Benjamin Franklin observed his life as a blessing from God. This is concerning the fact that he rose from the life of a poor child to the height of being recognized by the world as one of the key makers of history. It is in this regard that he asserts that he rose from poverty and obscurity to affluence and a state of reputation. (Franklin, B. 1906, pp 34) It is for this reason that he asserts that given a chance to relive his life he would gladly accept the offer. However, being no chance available he opted to have a relief in writing ...

Mary Whiton Calkins grew up in a male dominated society. This was during the late 1800s and early 1900s when almost every one was a male chauvinist. She had to struggle through out her education especially in 1984 when her younger sister died and her mother’s health condition deteriorated forcing her to drop out of school for a year. When her sister, Mauda, died she spent the entire year tutoring her two young brothers. During this hard period she also studied Greek. During her life she put adequate effort and determination worth inspiring. (Zedler, 1995). This is noticed in her contribution ...

My life seemed normal until I fell victim to a destructive pathology that compromised my health. What had initially been regarded as disordered eating had become a full blown eating disorder. I suffered for months from anorexia nervosa, and after a while, I began to gradually wither away into a torrid state. I refused to eat, could not sleep, and became a miserable person to be around. It felt as if the joy, light, and laughter that had once colored in my life had been snatched away from me by a terrible predator. Prior to my eating disorder, I ...

Everyone has listened to music at one point in their life. The effect that music has on people is phenomenal and such that the absence of music unimaginable. My musical experience is interesting as I have different tastes and sounds from different cultures. When I was growing up, I liked children’s jingles that mostly accompanied cartoon programs on television. On answering the question on my musical experience I realized that I had so much to learn about music from different generations and cultures.
My first stop was my grandparents. They had an interesting taste and view about ...

Ai Weiwei is one of the most influential Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Born in the year 1957 to an intellectual poet Ai Qing, Ai Weiwei spent his childhood in the hinterlands, firstly, in the bitterly cold lands of Heilongjiang, and then in the western Xinjiang province of China. In Weiwei’s childhood, living conditions were very harsh and education was non-existent. However, Weiwei grew up within the Cultural Revolution studying criticism and the political works of various famous personalities, such as Mao, Lenin, Karl Marx and many others . By the end of the Cultural Revolution, Weiwei’s ...

English

“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 ...

One cannot talk about cultural anthropology without the mention of the man popularly referred to as the “Father of American Anthropology,” Frank Boas. Frank Boas, a German-born anthropologist, was born on 9th July, 1858 and lived till 21st December, 1942 when the cruel hands of death took him away. He is accredited with founding the culture-centered, relativistic school of American anthropology that dominated the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A preview of his work reveals that he came up with arguments against contemporary theories that centered on racial distinctions between humans. His theory of relativism sought to downplay the ...

Theodore Roosevelt was born in famous and wealthy family in New York City on October 27, 1858, He was to be the second oldest of four children.
Since childhood, the future president didn’t show up by the great health and suffered from asthma. In late 1860 and early 1870 Roosevelt family made a trip to Europe, Africa and the Middle East. His primary education he received at home. Theodor was taught by his parents and tutors. He was brilliant in geography, history and good in biology.
In 1876 Theodore Roosevelt entered Harvard University, and in 1880 graduated. ...

Abstract

Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa is regarded as one of the world’s adored frontrunners in total quality control. He is recognized for his prodigious and exceptional contribution to total quality management (TQM) that has shaped quality management up-to-date. Ishikawa used his educational background, philosophies, and ideas to help companies and the overall management industry in producing quality products and services at reduced costs. His work has been highly awarded through prestigious prices and recognition from industrial and educational related organizations. This work focuses on Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa’s biography especially his life, work, philosophy, significant accomplishments, and his contribution and ...

Synopsis Born and brought up in New York City, astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson discovered his love for the space and starts at the tender age of nine. He earned his doctorate degree from Columbia University in 1991 after studying at Harvard University (Neil, 2012). Tyson started working for the Hayden Planetarium in 1996 where he still serves as the director. He has hosted a science television show NOVA ScienceNow since 1996 on PBS. Tyson remains of the most popular TV science expert of his time

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, one of the most known America’s scientists has spent ...

You have been asked to design a substance abuse prevention program for a high school in your community. What do you think should be the primary components of such a program?
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) indicate five basic components of substance abuse prevention program – assessment, capacity, planning, implementation, evaluation.
Dusenbury and Falco (1995) defined 11components which are necessary elements of successful drug-use preventive programs. Authors indicated that effective prevention program have to be theory driven (based on findings of current researches), developmentally appropriate (suitable for a particular age groups).
Also, according to authors effective prevention ...

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 ...

My name is Rochelle and I was born and raised in Houston, Texas as an only child. This does not mean that I was ever spoilt and I helped with the chores at home whenever possible. I was always a good student and I have always been caring about the environment and about the benefit of other people, which is what got me interested in healthcare. I got married on the 22nd of November, 2015. We still do not have any children because starting from January, I will pursue a degree in Healthcare Administration at University of Phoenix.
I ...

I. Introduction
Quality control refers to the policies and procedures a company institutes in order to ensure that its products or services are the best possible available, comply with external and internal standards, government regulations, and to decrease or eliminate any problem, errors or issues that might occur in the production or enjoyment of the goods or service. Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa was one of the first persons to advocate for company-wide/total quality control, or the integration of quality control practices in every facet of the company’s business model. In addition, Dr. Ishikawa was the father of the Japanese ...

The story of John Wayne Gacy is a curious one but not entirely unprecedented in the context of some of the world’s most famous serial killers. A well-respected member of the community, practically everyone was shocked when it turned out that he was an incredibly prolific serial killer who was also known to the police for sexually assaulting young boys. It is the contention of this paper that he was so successful precisely because of his double life – by becoming such a well-respected member of the community he created the perfect alibi for his behavior and made himself ...

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 ...

John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes

Biography

John Maynard Keynes was born June 5, 1983 in Cambridge in a relatively prosperous family. Father of the great scientist John Neville Keynes was also economic theorist who taught economics and logic at Cambridge University and wrote a book on the subject of economics. His mother was the daughter of Florence Keynes Minister and graduated from the same University of Cambridge and in 1932-1933 even served as mayor of Cambridge.
Education of the future great scientist began when he was seven years old. Since that time and until 1892 he primarily learnt at home. Being nine years ...

Steve Jobs ones said,

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and everyone should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
These words struck my mind the moment I read them. Since then, Steve Jobs the world most famous business genius and innovator became my inspiration and role model in many ways. His success story led me to get on a business path and keeps motivating me on a ...

Peyton Williams Manning is a famous football player. Since 1998, he was the leader of "Indianapolis Colts." In 2012, he moved to Denver "Broncos" and nowadays he is considered to be one of the best quarterbacks of all time. Peyton Manning was born on March 24, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the son of the former quarterback of the teams "Ole Miss" and "New Orleans Saints" Archie Manning and Olivia Manning, which was a beauty queen of Mississippi. He has a younger brother Eli Manning, who is a quarterback of "New York Giants" and an older brother Cooper Manning.
Peyton ...

I was born on the 31of May 1993 in a big and cultural city under the zodiac sign of Gemini. I believe that stars influence our fate and character as you see I am Gemini. I am creative and dynamic, also enthusiastic, energetic and show initiative. Partially it is true. Actually I am persistent. It’s rather different I think. People say that I am cheerful and quite easy-going person. However, when I am in a bad mood I can be a bit reckless, selfish and moody. It’s terrible, that is why I do my best to be more reserved. Every ...

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 ...