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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Derrick Wallace Mrs. Campbell 4th Period Biography 9/23/13 Beyonce Knowles Derrick Wallace Beyonce Giselle Knowles was born on September 4‚ 1981‚ in Houston‚ Texas‚ Knowles started singing at an early age. As a child‚ she competed in local talent shows‚ and won many of these events by impressing audiences with her natural singing and dancing abilities. Beyonce knows how to stay at the top of her game. She keeps her fans surprised and up to date. Beyonce is a Singer‚ Dancer‚ Actress‚ and
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The Man who would Create Being Martin Heidegger was born September 26th‚ 1889 in Messkirch‚ Germany and died on May 26‚ 1976 in his hometown. Martin was originally raised and educated in order to become a priest. His local church supported his schooling by scholarship in order that he may attend high school in Konstanz and further. Ironically‚ it was the pressuring support of the Catholic Church and the friends he later made during his schooling that eventually caused him to defect from the Church
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are classified as “troubled”. She was only 9 years old when this took place‚ so that made her one of the youngest girls there. August of that same year‚ she was returned to her mother and life resumed itself like before. Donald Clark‚ who wrote a biography about Holiday called Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon‚ stated that she only returned back to her mother after she’d been sexually assaulted. Throughout her difficult early life‚ she considered music as an important aspect of her life. Two of the
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Biography of Christopher Bruce Christopher Bruce was born on the 3rd of October 1945 in England‚ he started studying dancing at 11 years old‚ and he began with tap and ballet. After studying at the Rambert School Christopher Bruce joined Rambert Ballet in 1963‚ where he quickly became the leading male dancer. Bruce appeared in works such as Don Quixote in 1964 and Coppelia in 1966. Then the company began to experiment with ballet and modern‚ combining them to form‚ specifically the Martha Graham
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