Essays Tagged: "thirteen years"

Bill Gates

rivate school in Seattle that Gates attended. There he wrote his 'first software program when I was thirteen years old. It was for playing tic-tac-toe'(Gates 1). It was at Lakeside that Gates met Paul ...

(7 pages) 750 16 4.5 Jul/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

A review of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mocking Bird"

e years of their lives. I will be telling the story through 'Scout's' eyes.When Jem had nearly been thirteen years old, he had badly broken his arm and it all started out with the Ewells, at least I t ...

(4 pages) 68 1 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

Biography on Robert Hooke

was his home-school teacher. He was an art Apprentice while being taught at home also. When he was thirteen years old Robert attended Westminster School, and later Oxford where some of the best scien ...

(2 pages) 79 1 3.4 Aug/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

The Internet has revolutionised the media: discuss.

the unparalleled sense of security Americans had had since the explosion of the first nuclear bomb thirteen years earlier. An immediate reaction was to set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency (A ...

(6 pages) 186 0 4.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

This essay is about best friends and how after 13 years they still can spend so long together and not regret it. MY BEST FRIEND is the title

Sometimes I wonder how my life would be without my best friend Tonya, after thirteen years of putting up with each other we are still as inseparable as ever. We know everything ...

(1 pages) 177 3 3.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

My Desires for and Commitment to a College Education.

My Desires for and Commitment to a College EducationThirteen years ago my father came to America with no money or education believing that he would sure ...

(2 pages) 108 0 3.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein".

ect that Victor Frankenstein becomes interested in at a young age is natural philosophy.'When I was thirteen years of age we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon.... In this house ...

(6 pages) 64 0 0.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Snowboarding- Opinion Paper.

at I have ever experienced. After the first time I tried it I was hooked. It all started when I was thirteen years old. I started skateboarding, that winter, I then started riding and never skateboard ...

(3 pages) 39 1 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Ivan IV

uate clothing in their palace in which murders and abuse became common (Wallace, 77). When Ivan was thirteen years old and began to grasp his power he ordered the arrest of Prince Andrew Shuisky, a bo ...

(8 pages) 62 1 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

This essay about marijuana.

, marijuana was widely used because of the scarcity of alcohol. Prohibition was repealed after just thirteen years while the prohibition against marijuana lasted for more than seventy five years. This ...

(3 pages) 57 0 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Compare and Contrast: Grateful Dead vs. Phish

I went to my first rock concert when I was thirteen years old. Since then, I've been in search of the ultimate live music experience. Music is ...

(2 pages) 56 0 4.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

It is difficult to sympathise with Simon?s point of view as he fails to see the point of view of others

iving in the memory of father. He is alone from now, so this when this problem occurs.Simon is only thirteen years old and he has had a lot to deal with. His dad dieing didn?t help as he was the type ...

(6 pages) 37 0 3.9 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Ths essay discribes the problems skyrocketing costs of education is having on Americans

eloped, education became more formal. In the United States today, a child is required to go through thirteen years of formal education inside a classroom. After he graduates, the young adult must deci ...

(2 pages) 22 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Alexander the Great: History About a Legend

cedonia in 359 B.C., but died in 336 B.C. He left his kingdom to Alexander.Alexander ruled for only thirteen years but he succeeded far beyond what his father had planned. After his father's death in ...

(2 pages) 58 0 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Time Changes: Accept or Resist - Relationsip between the generations.

I remember that period, when I was about thirteen years old. My mother and I could never meet halfway. I tried to be good, but she never seem ...

(2 pages) 19 0 0.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Election of Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson

he right decision for several reasons.Gene Robinson divorced his wife and moved in with another man thirteen years ago. Since that time, he has been living in a sexual relationship with that man outsi ...

(2 pages) 16 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

The Friends By Rosa Guy --------You might want to change the ending about how Rosa Guy did on the book, like using more descriptive words.

Cathy is a young girl that moved to Harlem, New York from the islands. Phyllisia is about twelve or thirteen years old, and she is growing up very fast. Ruby is Phyllisia's sister, and she is about fi ...

(3 pages) 13 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Mahatma Gandhi

of Guharat in western India. He entered an arranged marriage with Kasturbai Makanji when they were thirteen years old. His family later sent him to London to study law, and in 1891 he was admitted to ...

(1 pages) 32 0 2.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Joseph Conrad - Man and Writer in the "House of Darkness"

ree. Apparently, he was physically unattractive and unpleasant. Conrad's mother, Eva Bobrowska, was thirteen years younger than Apollo and the only surviving daughter in a family of six sons. The coup ...

(10 pages) 26 0 4.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

13 years, 9 guys, 1 goal the story of the 2002-2003 Sam Rayburn Rebel High School Varsity Basketball Team

high school, I was a part of a varsity basketball team that had a tradition of losing. It had been thirteen years since the Sam Rayburn Rebels had made it to the postseason. Talented team, after tale ... s had made it to the postseason. Talented team, after talented team failed to make the playoffs for thirteen years. But last year nine guys decided to change everything and hang a district co-champion ...

(2 pages) 31 1 2.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports