Biography Essay Examples Page 5

For my book report, I have chosen the book “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi. This nonfiction book is an autobiography written by the author as a memoir about his life and his struggles in battling his illness, stage IV metastatic lung cancer. After doing some research on all the books that were suggested…

Do you like jazz? I shaped it to how you know it today! I was born on April 7th, 1956 as Eleanora Fagan, but you my know me as Billie Holiday. I lived a life of poverty. When I was young my mother and father moved away. My mother did not visit me at all,…

Most serial killers have an underlying reason for their action. Their reasons might not be rational or understood by regular people but it drives them. The BTK killer loved the thrill of binding, torturing and killing his victims. He got sexual release and gratification from his killings and lived a double life with a wife…

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way. Elvis Presley was born a…

Jean Fritz (November 16, 1915 – May 14, 2017) was born in China and grew up listening to her father tell her stories of American heroes. This is where her love of American history came from. She did write a book about her life in China called Homesick: My Own Story. She tells about Lin…

The date is August 16th and Elvis Presley has just finished some work for tour, setting aside the rest of the day to rest before his concert the next day in Portland, Maine. Ginger Alden rushes to the phone after finding her boyfriend, Elvis Presley, unconscious on the bathroom floor. The time in Paramedics and…

Malcolm X was one of the most prominent, controversial, and influential leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. As a spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, he spread their message of black pride, a free black nation, and the need for a revolution against racism to thousands. Through the best-selling book The Autobiography of Malcolm X:…

Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29th, 1958 in the town of Gary, Indiana. Michael was the seventh of nine children born to Joe and Katherine Jackson. He had five brothers, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Randy; as well as three sisters, Maureen, LaToya, and Janet. At a young age, the Jackson parents encouraged…

Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist and a mathematician who was also one of the greatest scientists that ever lived. In the branch of physics, he discovered the three laws of motion and was the first person to explain gravitation, defining the nature of mass, force, weight and acceleration. To truly understand Sir Isaac…