Essays and Research Papers on Biographies

A 6 page paper which examines the life and contribution of Dr. Willis H. Carrier, the Father of Air Conditioning. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 3 page paper on the life of Robert E. Lee in relationship to his time in the Civil War. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines the life and works of Katherine Anne Porter. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

An 11 page paper which examines the life and work of Marie Curie and how she died through discovering something that helped people. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 3 page book review that examines Peter Honigsberg's memoir Crossing Border Street (2000), which relates what it was like to be one of the young, idealistic northern whites who came south in response to the cause of black civil rights in the 1960s. The point of this text is to convey not only the ...

A 4 page paper which examines the life of John Calvin and discusses his impact on the world. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 5 page paper is a biographical sketch of St. Augustine, dealing with his early life, conversion and writings. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page overview of the book “Crossing the Line” by Alvin Kernan. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page essay that discusses the stance of Dorothy Day in regards to the Catholic Church and poverty in the Great Depression. Day was one of the co-founders of the Catholic Worker Movement, which began in the 1930s. With co-founder Peter Maurin, Day established the newspaper The Catholic Worker, started the Paulist Press and ...

A 3 page essay that analyzes the motivations of Sister Helen Prejean in her autobiographical account of her ministry to death row inmates, which records how she stood by men such as Robert Lee Willie who were guilty of despicable crimes. Examination of Prejean's account shows that she was motivated by her deeply held ...

A 5 page paper which examines the meaning of Christopher Reeves’ life as analyzed through the work of Robert Nozick, “Life, Death, and Meaning.” No additional sources cited.

A 5 page (4 pp. + 1 pg. outline) paper which discusses Deming’s importance and considers the Deming Prize along with its importance to the business world. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 6 page book review that presents an overall summary of General Wesley Clark's autobiographical account of the 1999 Kosovo bombing, which halted a Serbian genocidal campaign. The writer discusses Clark's perspective on whether the campaign fit with the FAS test of military strategy and concludes that it did not. No other sources cited. ...

A 3 page annotated bibliography on the 20th century American author Isaac Asimov. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

A 5 page overview of Benjamin Franklin and his discovery of electricity. The paper also examines his political role in the nation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page essay that offers a characterization of Jack from Tobias Wolff's memoir This Boy's Life. The autobiographical memoir of Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life, begins by picturing himself and his mother on the road to Utah in 1955 to make their fortune by mining uranium. While they are in Utah, Tobias changes his ...

A 3 page paper which examines the life and work of William Carlos Williams and provides and annotated bibliography. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines the life and work of Catherine Lim with a focus on her short story “Or Else, the Lightening God.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 3 page paper provides biographical information about this well known graphic artist. Milton Glaser is the graphic artist who designed the I Love NY logo. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 6 page paper which examines Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and Cesar Chavez as they relate to nonviolent protest. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 3 page paper on John Hancock as seen in a journal article by Thomas R. Eddlem titled “More than his name on the line: by the time John Hancock had signed the Declaration of Independence, he had already put his life and fortune on the line.” Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 5 page essay that discusses and analyzes Booker T. Washington's autobiography. The writer argues that Washington brought rational discourse and reasoned compromise to a volatile era in race relations. He fully realized that a black man could not get a white man to consider his position unless he managed to get around the overt ...

A 5 page paper which examines how Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team and how this illustrates one’s negative experiences in youth does not determine one’s future. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines the notion of dreams and “train dancing” for the African Americans in relationship to the Great Migration and Harlem as seen in Toni Morrison’s “Jazz” and Alain Locke’s “The New Negro.” No additional sources cited.

A 3 page book review that compares 2 autobiographical texts on depression. William Styron (Darkness Visible, 1990) and Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind, 1997) have written detailed autobiographical accounts of their experiences with mental illness. Styron, a noted author, at the age of sixty found himself plunged into despair by pathological depression. Jamison, a ...