Hank Williams Jr. EXPLANATION For the second honors component‚ I chose option two‚ which is a biography on a famous Parisian. I decided to research Hank Williams Jr. The reason for my decision is that I was neighbors with Hank for about ten years‚ but I never knew much about him. I would like to know more about what he did‚ and how he personally contributed to Paris. CHILDHOOD Hank Williams Jr. was born in Shreveport‚ Louisiana on May 26‚ 1949. Parents‚ Audrey and Hank Williams originally named their
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putting his efforts in a favourable light and so must be read critically. Another main source is the biography written by Cortés’ private chaplain Lopez de Gómara‚ which was written in Spain several years after the conquest. Gómara never set foot in the Americas and knew only what Cortés had told him‚ and he had an affinity for knightly romantic stories which he incorporated richly in the biography. The third major source is written as a reaction to what its author calls "the lies of Gomara"‚ the
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BIOGRAPHY OF EUGENE O’ NEILL Eugene Gladstone O’Neill was born in a New York City hotel room on 16th October‚ 1888‚he son of famous actor James O’Neill and Ella O’Neill‚ spent the first seven years of his life touring with his father’s theater company. These years introduced O’Neill to the world of theater and the difficulties of maintaining artistic integrity. His father‚ once a well-known Shakespearean‚ had taken a role in a lesser play for its sizable salary. Family life was unstable. O ’Neill
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Dec 24‚ 2012 Philo 300A Postmodernism Michel Foucault (1926– 1984)‚ A Biography & Examination of His Theories “Anyway‚ my personal life is not at all interesting. If somebody thinks that my work cannot be understood without reference to such and such a part of my life‚ I accept to consider the question. I am ready to answer if I agree. As far as my personal life is uninteresting‚ it is not worthwhile making a secret of it. By the same token‚ it may not be worthwhile publicizing
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Michael A. Scheller Professor Rebecca Quimby HUM - 2235 10 July 2014 Sir Francis Galton: A Pioneer in Fingerprint Identification & Biometry “Sir Francis Galton laid the foundations on which are based the fingerprint systems employed today by police forces throughout the world.” D.G. Browne and A. Brock‚ Fingerprints: Fifty Years of Scientific Crime Detection‚ 1954 This research paper will discuss the life and career of the renowned forensic scientist Sir Francis Galton‚ one of the Victorian
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Many people don’t know a person with autism. This happened to one family. Natalie has an older brother that has autism. Her brother‚ Patrick‚ has autism‚ but she doesn’t see him as that. He can retell you word for word what happened in the ten pages that he just read. Natalie likes to n go out in public with her brother‚ but everyone doesn’t see him as society’s “norm.” He has a brilliant mind that no one else but him will have that power to tell you something word for word. Sometimes when people
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Out of all the famous food and nutrition professionals‚ I chose to do my historical biography research paper over a woman by the name of Jean Nidetch. Jean Nidetch was an overweight homemaker who became a slim‚ successful business woman by being the founder of one of the biggest weight loss programs‚ called “Weight Watchers.” With her personal experience and struggles of being overweight‚ she developed a program to help and teach other people how to do it themselves. I chose to research her because
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Cited: “America 1931: Audrey Flack.” Audrey Flack Biography. Rogallery.com‚ 2010. Web. 19 April 2011. “Audrey Flack.” Jewish Virtual Liberal. American-Israel Cooperative Enterprise‚ 2011. Web. 19 April 2011. B.F. “Audrey Flack.” History and Thought of Western Man. Rich East High School‚ 14 March 2001. Web
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Ty Cobb "Baseball‚" Ty Cobb liked to say‚ "is something like a war...Baseball is a red- blooded sport for red-blooded men. It’s not pink tea‚ and mollycoddles had better stay out of it. It’s...a struggle for supremacy‚ a survival of the fittest" (Ward and Burns 64). Although Ty Cobb was possibly the greatest player in baseball history‚ many people would consider him its worst person. Tyrus Raymond Cobb was born December 18‚ 1886 in The Narrows‚ Georgia. His parents named him after the ancient
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much of his childhood in France and as a result‚ French was his first language. Tata also attended the French Foreign Legion. He attended the Cathedral and John Connon School‚ Mumbai. He did not continue beyond matriculation as mentioned in his biography. It was to rankle with him for decades that he never went to a
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