Biography Essay

Biography Chuck Close was born on July 5, 1940 in Monroe Washington and is the son of artistic parents who supported Chuck’s early creative interests. Close was diagnosed and was suffering from extreme dyslexia which caused him to do poorly in school but found peace in making art. He was not a popular student while in school and he developed more problems which was caused by a neuromuscular condition which limited his ability to play athletics. Close eventually enrolled at the University of…

minstrel shows. Tom and his playmates attended these and also took a steam ferryboat to the site of a cave, which they then explored (Twain 161, 203). Twain and his pals came to many of these events and wandered through caves as well (“Mark Twain Biography”; Ward, Duncan 6). Mark Twain did say in the preface of his book that most of the adventures he wrote about, such as these examples, actually happened (Twain 5). Violence was just as prevalent in St. Petersburg as in Hannibal. When Tom and…

like the moment when I break a man's ego -Bobby Fischer Bobby Fischer fun fact He was detained by japan for having an invalid passport, I am not to sure but I think that was why the US was really mad at him. I really hope that you liked my biography I am a 4th grader at acton academy…

I rather liked writing the biography essay. It was a great way to learn more about my fellow classmates. For this project I was grouped up with Kaitlyn Brunssen. It was fun learning more about her and her life of traveling. I learned about her trips to Florida, South Dakota, New York, and many other adventures of her’s. Kaitlyn has traveled to over twenty states in her lifetime, and she plans to travel more in the future including outside the United States. I had such a great time writing this…

What is more truthful: an autobiography or a biography? Biographies often offer facts backed up by multiples sources and evidence. Additionally, they are more inclined to provide unbiased information as there it is not controlled by a single source who’s ideas are meant to be taken unquestioned. Biographies allow the reader an objective approach to looking at someone’s life, an approach that has already been filtered through the author's mind. The author parses out reality from myth and when…

Together they had two children. There daughter Patricia was born in 1952, and their son Ronald Jr. was born in 1958 (“Ronald Reagan Biography 2”). Now with four kids Nancy and Regan still left very little room for their children. They had a very close emotional bond which at times led them to almost ignored their children (Schaller 8). Later on three of the four wrote books about how their…

Charles Lindbergh Camerin England March 20, 2017 Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was an American aviator and war veteran. He was born in Detroit Michigan on February 4, 1902. At the age of eighteen he enrolled into the University of Wisconsin to study mechanical engineering. After two years of college he became a barnstormer which is a daredevil pilot. As a barnstormer he performed at fairs and other events. He then enlisted in the army in 1924 and became an Army Air Force Reserve Pilot…

for his positive outlook on life (Kelley). “Coltrane felt we must all make a conscious effort to effect positive change in the world, and that his music was an instrument to create positive thought patterns in the minds of people” (John Coltrane Biography 1). He wanted the world to be the best place that it could be, so he always tried to help out anyone in anyway possible. He encouraged others to do the same as well. Anyone who knew him, knew just how kind and gentle the soul of John Coltrane…

This camp alone was responsible for more than six million lives, almost all of which were German Jews. Of his relatives, only he and two of his sisters survived ("Elie Wiesel Biography."). His father passed selection, a brutal and heartless decision made by S.S. officers on who would live and die by a mere flick of their finger, but died before he could be liberated, and his mother and younger sister, Tzipora, did not pass. “I…

When Ruth was 17 World War II ended and she had no home or family all she had was hope of starting over again a place where she would feel welcomed. Ruth’s life took many tragic turns. In 1949 she got her first teaching job working with Yemenite children and met David, an Israeli soldier, who she married. The next year she Ruth studied psychology in Paris at the Sorbonne. She later took a job at Planned Parenthood, Dr. Ruth felt so comfortable talking about sex that “she began to pursue a career…