Reading Biographies Samples For Students

Biography: Mikhail Lomonosov

Although relatively unknown in the Western World, Mikhail Lomonosov was one of the most prominent figures of the Russian Enlightenment. Lomonosov was born on November 19, 1711 in Kholmogory, Russia. His parents were considered peasants, and his mother died when he was young. His stepmother resented her stepson’s intelligence and reading ability, and attempted to get him to stop reading all the books in the village. She sided with the belief in Russia at the time that children were born to be a help to their parents, and though that Lomonosov should have been helping his father instead of ...

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 ...

Nutrition Content Application of Knowledge

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While I haven’t taken many classes in Human Nutrition (HNF classes), I have performed incredibly well in the ones that I have taken. My cumulative GPA in HNF 150 (Introduction to Human Nutrition) and HNF 444 (Business of Nutrition Services) was a 3.5, indicating superior understanding and application of the practices discussed within those classes. I believe that the introductory course (HNF 150) was particularly valuable, because it framed the context of my studies for me. It provided a setting for all further study in this field, as well as providing specific information regarding the basics of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction

The life of prominent personalities remains one of the most comprehensive topics focussed on in the field of sociology. This can be accredited to the fact that various prominent personalities played a comprehensive role in bringing about social change in the society. Worth noting is the fact that the traditional society was filled with various societal matter that hundred societal progress. As an example, the traditional society had a less regard for women in the society as evident by the fact that women were discriminated highly. Nonetheless, the emergence of prominent personalities led to mutual change of the society in terms ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...