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Caravaggio
Words: 1829 / Pages: 7 .... skills and developed a style of representing nature and events in
nature realistically.
In about 1573 he went to Rome. During this time he fell ill and
was admitted to the Hospital of the Consolation, where he did some painting
for the Prior. Having no money, he moved into a decaying neighborhood
which suited his personality well. Caravaggio struggled to live in Rome
for the first five years. According to biographers he was needy and
stripped of every thing. Caravaggio never held a job for more than a
couple of weeks during this time, but when he did, he usually was an
assistant to painter of much less skill. Despite the pover .....
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Virginia Woolf
Words: 1165 / Pages: 5 .... how different women really were from men. By starting out with this completely unconventional opening sentence she was already showing that the rules could be broken.
Woolf starts her essay by explaining to her audience what she could have talked about and what other things her topic might mean, she is letting the audience be drawn in to her consciousness. Woolf wants them to know why she decided to use this topic instead of some less meaningful one, that may have made for a good speech but would not have really covered the full scope of the problem. Woolf said:
They just might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane A .....
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Jim Abbott
Words: 559 / Pages: 3 .... has led an
eventfully life. He brought his college team to the championship in 1985,
brought Team USA to gold in 1988, and threw a no hitter against the Cleveland
Indians in 1993. These achievements are not what make him so special; what
makes Jim Abbott even more remarkable is that he only has one hand. As a child
Jim's parents always told him that he could do anything he wanted to do. They
knew that their son loved sports. They hoped that Jim would play soccer, which
didn't require the use of hands, but right from the very beginning, Jim loved
baseball. So, Jim's parents bought him a baseball glove. However, Jim was not
just involved in ba .....
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Mahatma Gandhi
Words: 457 / Pages: 2 .... but his own might and that force of spirit to make this place a better world. One who displays the courage and conviction to stand for his beliefs. In short, he/she could be called the guiding light for peace in this world. Gandhi’s concept of nonviolent resistance liberated one nation and sped the end of colonial empires around the world. His marches and fasts fired the imagination of oppressed people everywhere. Millions sought freedom and justice under Mahatma’s guiding light. He proclaimed the power of love, peace and freedom. He fought for the rights of the Indians, for their freedom from the British. His principles surely made a difference i .....
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Apollonius Of Perga
Words: 620 / Pages: 3 .... to Attalus, whom some scholars identify as
King Attalus I of Pergamum.
It is clear from Apollonius' allusion to Euclid, Conon of Samos, and
Nicoteles of Cyrene that he made the fullest use of his predecessors' works.
Book 1-4 contain a systematic account of the essential principles of conics,
which for the most part had been previously set forth by Euclid, Aristaeus and
Menaechmus. A number of theorems in Book 3 and the greater part of Book 4 are
new, however, and he introduced the terms parabola, eelipse, and hyperbola.
Books 5-7 are clearly original. His genius takes its highest flight in Book 5,
in which he considers normals as minimum a .....
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Leonhard Euler
Words: 258 / Pages: 1 .... under the Swiss mathematician
Johann Bernoulli, obtaining his master's degree at the age of 16. In 1727, at
the invitation of Catherine I, empress of Russia, Euler became a member of the
faculty of the Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. He was appointed
professor of physics in 1730 and professor of mathematics in 1733. In 1741 he
became professor of mathematics at the Berlin Academy of Sciences at the urging
of the Prussian king Frederick the Great. Euler returned to St. Petersburg in
1766, remaining there until his death. Although hampered from his late 20s by
partial loss of vision and in later life by almost total blindness, Euler
produce .....
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Adolf Hitler
Words: 1968 / Pages: 8 .... or creative imagination. To fulfill his dream he had moved to Vienna the capital of Austria where the Academy of arts was located. He failed the first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the academy was not very impr! essed with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be a painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man ne .....
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Will Rogers
Words: 736 / Pages: 3 .... come on the Mayflower," he used to joke, "but they met the boat." Will stayed true to his Cherokee roots; he went to an Indian school and had many Indian friends. Later he became active in Native-American issues and was a major spokesman for Native-American rights in the U.S. Above all,though, Will was a "regular guy." His shy grin, easy manner, and total absence of sham endeared to Americans of all backgrounds. He had no pretensions, and his pleasures were simple: he liked to ride horses, rope cattle, and read the papers. In fact he often said, "I only know what I read in the papers." In this way, he tried to show that he wasn't a Washing .....
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Robert E Lee
Words: 629 / Pages: 3 .... 26, 1829, Lee's mother died. Robert was at her bed when she died. Then on June 30, 1831 Lee married Mary Curtis. On September 16, 1832, Mary gave birth to George Washington Curtis Lee. Then in 1835 they had their second child, Mary Curtis. Mrs. Lee was put on bed-rest for many months due to illness. They had five more children: William Henry Fitzgerald, Annie, Agnes, Robert and last Mildred. When he was home, they all attended episcopal Church where he was raised.
On May 13, 1846 the United States declared was on their southern neighbor. When Lee was 39, he headed for Mexico. Lee's will said that he was worth about $38,750 with few depts. He only had .....
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Interview With Karl Marx
Words: 597 / Pages: 3 .... there is an antithesis and the meeting of the two produces a completely new idea, a synthesis.
So what was your theory and what was human history according to you?
Human history, according to me, was the history of class conflict between competing economic groups in which one exploits the other. The result of that was capitalism, which only led to destruction. The increasing number of workers (thesis) were being exploited by the owners of the means of production (antithesis) who were only allowing the wealth to concentrate amongst few through competition. To increase their own profits, the wages were as low as possible. Economic crises would prev .....
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