600+ Word Biography: Leontyne Price Leontyne Price is an American operatic soprano was born on February 10‚ 1927‚ in Laurel‚ Mississippi. Her full name is Mary Violet Leotyne Price. Leotyne was born in the segregated Deep South‚ also commonly referred to as the Lower South or the "Cotton States". She rose to international fame during a period of racial change in the 1950s and 60s‚ and was the first African-American to become a leading prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera. Leontyne’s
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Cultural Biography Cultural backgrounds can change the way we define ourselves‚ other people‚ and all other things. Cultural backgrounds can shape how we view the world‚ and must be taken into account when teaching students of different backgrounds in our classrooms. I will define my own cultural background and how it affects me‚ and then I interviewed someone‚ Curtis from (and currently resides) Chicago‚ from a complete different background. I grew up in Charleston Illinois for the most
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Biography of Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2‚ 1869.When he was thirteen he was married to Kasturbia who was also thirteen. Gandhi’s family was strictly vegetarian but he ate goat meat a friend gave him and immediately felt sick. Later that night he dreamed that a goat was bleating in his stomach. He ate meat six other times until he decided it was not worth it. When Gandhi was sixteen his father died. Whatever Gandhi did for humanity he didn’t think it was enough. “To
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Biography of Shakira Shakira (Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll) was born on February 2‚ 1977 in Barranquilla‚ Colombia. Shakira knew early on that she wanted to be a professional musician and by the time she was 8‚ she was already writing her own songs. The debut album of Shakia is Magia (Magic).That album was recorded with Sony Music in 1991 when Shakira was only 15 years old‚ but the album wasn’t well received. The album Peligro (Danger) was realised by Shakira in 1993 and is an sophomore album
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Name Professor Management 368: Business Ethics Date Jeremy Bentham Biography “Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher” that “is primarily known” for his philosophical contribution‚ the ethical theory of utilitarianism (Sweet). Utilitarianism is the ethical theory that states that the best action is the one that brings about the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people (DeGeorge 44). Specifically‚ Bentham was a hedonistic utilitarian arguing that “what ultimately motivates
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Mirabai Biography Mirabai was a great saint and devotee of Sri Krishna. Despite facing criticism and hostility from her own family‚ she lived an exemplary saintly life and composed many devotional bhajans. Historical information about the life of Mirabai is a matter of some scholarly debate. The oldest biographical account was Priyadas’s commentary in Nabhadas’ Sri Bhaktammal in 1712. Nevertheless there are many aural histories‚ which give an insight into this unique poet and Saint of India.
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Edward Hastings Chamberlin (May 18‚ 1899 – July 16‚ 1967) was an American economist. He was born in La Conner‚ Washington‚ and died in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. Chamberlin studied first at the University of Iowa (where he was influenced by Frank H. Knight)‚ then pursued graduate-level studies at the University of Michigan‚ eventually receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1927. For most of his career Edward Chamberlin taught economics at Harvard (1937–1967). He made significant contributions
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Aysegul Torun Mr. Swiencicki Soc 2 Apr. 29th‚ 2013 Social Biography In this paper I’m going to write about a sociological biography of a person who I interviewed and I’m going to analyze some of the social problems such as “drug war and race”‚ race discrimination‚ drug abuse‚ and importance of a well structured family based on my interviewee’s answers. I like to talk about family because I think family is where everything starts. If we want to define what the social problem actually means
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Introduction Born in the town of Strasbourg in the Alsace province East of France to parents of education and means‚ Paul Gustave Dore happened upon a lucrative business that made him the bane of Parisian art critics but the most sought after illustrator in England and The United States. His father was a civil engineer and he was the second of three male siblings. His father hoped to break him of his wild imaginations and his propensity to put them to paper with pencil. While accompanying his
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Biography Paper comparing the lives of Colin Powell and Judith Nies December 6‚ 2012 Presented to
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