Essays and Research Papers on Biographies

A 5 page paper which examines the innermost thoughts of the famed French physicist, imagining how she might have recorded them in a journal. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 6 page bibliographic essay concerning Frederick Douglass. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

This 5 page paper discusses the life, family and career of Ulysses S. Grant. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page research paper that offers an essay that discusses how the writing career of Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) draws from his life experiences. A sentence outline of the essay is also offered. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 6 page paper on the life and works of Samuel Clemens, pen name-- Mark Twain. The writer discusses how some of Twain's own life experiences along the Mississippi River and elsewhere are reflected in his fiction. Several key works including 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' 'Huckleberry Finn,' & 'A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's ...

This five page paper looks at a piece of autobiographical writing by Ariel Dorfman about his love for Angelica and his time in Chile. Analysing this piece of writing, which was supplied by the student, we can see how style can dictate feelings and determine the passage of time in literary terms.

A 4 page research paper that outlines the career and accomplishments of Seymour Cray. Cray's innovative designs led the way throughout the 1960s and 70s toward ever-faster computers during the heyday of his career. A genius at computer design, his work was pivotal to the development of the computer industry. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 4 page overview of the life and accomplishments of this phenomenal woman. Hopper pursued an extensive career in the U.S. Navy, a career spanning forty years and in which she would be instrumental in the development of the universal computer language COBOL. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Frederick Douglass's famous narrative with W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk. What the authors were running from, and running to, are each discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources

A letter to Elizabeth Ashbridge from her husband, written in the style of the time and including incidents mentioned in the original text.

In 14 pages the author discusses the life and writing of H. L. Mencken and how his living in Baltimore shaped his writing. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 4 page paper discusses the writings of Jacobus de Voragine, who described the life of St. Martin, and Chou Yi-liang, who wrote about Shan-wu-wei, and how they created the saintly image of their subjects. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares the educational experiences of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1728) and Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895), two articulate, well-educated men who both wrote autobiographies that describe their early educational experience. The writer argues that while these two highly intelligent men accomplished a similar task in writing their autobiographies, their early educational experience ...

This is a 5 page paper discussing the writer Flannery O’Connor and the themes and characters in her work. The writer Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah in 1925 to a Catholic family. She was highly observant of the religious zeal and injustices which existed in the southern states during her lifetime and incorporated these ...

A 7 page paper which examines the literature of Herman Melville, discussing and analyzing his writing style through his narrative voice. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

This is a 3 page paper on economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Canadian-born economist John Kenneth Galbraith (1908- ) has long been considered as “America’s leading public intellectual”. Besides being a government and economic advisor to Presidents Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson, Galbraith has written a great deal about the destructiveness of capitalism and consumerism within American ...

A 5 page paper which discusses how the South influenced the writing of Erskine Caldwell. His works "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre" are discussed briefly as examples of the South as influence. Bibliography lists 1 source.

In 5 pages the writer discusses famous western writer Louis L'Amour. His life and his work are compared and a few quotes are taken from his writing. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 5 page essay that analyzes the goals and intentions of Harriet Jacobs in writing her account of her life as a slave, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The writer relates this slave narrative to the gender roles of that era. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

An 8 page overview of the man and his life. Noted for his strange literary tilt, Thompson lived the life he wrote about. Two of his most popular books, "Hells Angels" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" reveal many of the ...

A 4 page book review of Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land, which was originally published in 1965. This is a novel that is a thinly veiled autobiographical account of Brown's childhood and adolescence growing up in Harlem in the 1940s and 50s. In a clear, lucid writing style that brings alive the era ...

A 3 page discussion of Emerson's philosophies and accomplishments. The author of this paper emphasizes that while Emerson is perhaps remembered most for his nature writings and back-to-the land philosophy, he should equally be remembered for his spirituality. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3 page speech was written shortly after the death of this well known actor and activist. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines the influence that Ernest Hemingway had on the writing of Raymond Carver and J.D. Salinger. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares the slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano and Frederick Douglass. While each of these autobiographical accounts were written in order to inform the white reading public about the horrors of slavery, examination of these books shows that Douglass’ narrative is the more radical of the two due to ...