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Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
Words: 820 / Pages: 3 .... unless you were independently wealthy. Freud was engaged and needed to
be able to support a family before he could marry, and so he determined to
go into private practice with a specialty in neurology.
During his training he befriended Josef Breuer, another physician and
physiologist. They often discussed medical cases together and one of
Breuer's would have a lasting effect on Freud. Known as Anna O., this
patient was a young woman suffering from what was then called hysteria. She
had temporary paralysis, could not speak her native German but could speak
French and English, couldn't drink water even when thirsty, and so on.
Breuer discovered that if .....
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Biography Of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Words: 892 / Pages: 4 .... a living by literary work, in 1839 Hawthorne took a job as weigher in the Boston, Massachusetts, customhouse. Two years later he returned to writing and produced a series of sketches of New England history for children, Grandfather's Chair: A History for Youth, which was published in 1841. The same year he joined the communal society at Brook Farm near Boston, hoping to be able to live in such comfort that he could marry and still have time to devote to his writing. The demands of the farm were too great, however, and Hawthorne was unable to continue his writing while doing farm chores, and after six months he withdrew from the community. In 1842 .....
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Caravaggio
Words: 1228 / Pages: 5 .... aspects of culture and society. However, the meaning cannot be fully comprehended without the context of time and circumstance. The eighteenth century painting, Death of the Virgin, will be examined, for in it depicts the Madonna as a prostitute. Ideological aspects of culture and society are suggested through this piece, however it is only through an examination of the context that the authentic and intended meaning can be determined. His stylistic and contextual values of the visual arts of this period signified cultural changes and social realism as a consequential reaction.
was one of the premier painters who worked during the midst of the .....
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
Words: 1114 / Pages: 5 .... in November of 1792, where he lived for 35 years (Tames,
14). He was unsatisfied with Hayden because he was preoccupied and commonly
missed many mistakes made by Beethoven (Schmit, 17). Beethoven, then, went to
Neffe who himself started composing at the age of 12.
In the late 1700's, Beethoven began to suffer from early symptoms of
deafness, and by 1802, Beethoven was convinced that the condition was not only
permanent but was getting much worse. The cause of his deafness is still
uncertain (Comptons, 1). He was determined to prove that deafness was not a
handicap to him (Thompson, 25). Beethoven's deafness started to be noticeable,
and by 1 .....
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Ray Bradbury
Words: 1245 / Pages: 5 .... only to return to Waukegan again in May 1927. By 1931 he began writing his own stories on butcher paper. His childhood was very important to him because it was a constant source of intense sensations, feelings, and images that generate great stories. As a child he was first inspired by seeing "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". "His childhood was that of a pleasant memory of a half-forgotten dream" (Person I). In 1932, after his father was laid off his job as a electrical lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson and again returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1934 the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California.
Bradbury graduated .....
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John Paul Stevens: Biography
Words: 486 / Pages: 2 .... Apr. 20, 1920. Stevens, the youngest out of 4 sons,
Stevens was also considered to be the smartest of the 4 . At the age of six, his
brother Ernest Stevens noted to a New York Post reporter, ³I guess we always
knew he was going to make something of himself. He was always awfully
smart....When John was six, he could play better bridge then most adults today>²
Stevens attended the University of Chicago High School, and then later
went to the University its self. In 1941, he left the University with a Phi
Betta Kappa key, and a B.A. degree. He joined the navy, after the U.S entered
World War 2. Stevens was stationed in Washington D.C, as a intellig .....
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Jim Bridger
Words: 301 / Pages: 2 .... station to supply immigrants on the Oregon trail. In the next 40 years
he married 3 times to American Indian women, none of whom survived with
him. Bridger's vast knowledge of many trails gave him a job as a scout and
he helped the army when fighting the Indians. Bridger strongly opposed the
Mormons and guided United State troops into Utah during a conflict that has
been called the Utah war or Mormon war. In 1865 he guided the powder river
expedition. And also became the first person to measure the bozeman trail
(600 miles) from fort laramie, Wyoming to Virginia City, Montana.
James Bridger was just about the most famous explorer of the Ameri .....
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Cesar E. Chavez
Words: 1432 / Pages: 6 .... Labor Relations Act and an Agricultural Relations Board.
Cesar Chavez was born in 1927, in a farm near Yuma, Arizona. In 1939, his parents lost their farm in a bank-foreclosure. Cesar's parents and family members, including the ten-year old Cesar, moves to California to become migrant workers (Griswold, p.22). Chavez had worked in the fields as a child and had encountered the reality of being poor, as well as a member of a discriminated class of people (Altman, p.87). The land shaped the thinking and emotional being of Cesar Chavez. The reality of hard work in the hot fields at low wages, the planting, hoeing and harvesting of the agricultural produ .....
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Marie Curie
Words: 855 / Pages: 4 .... but had already distinguished himself in the study of the properties
of crystals. He discovered the phenomenon of piezoelectricity, whereby changes
in the volume of certain crystals excite small electric potentials. He
discovered that the magnetic susceptibility of paramagnetic materials is
inversely proportional to the absolute temperature, and that there exists a
critical temperature above which the magnetic properties disappear, this is
called the Curie temperature.
Marie Curie was interested in the recent discoveries of radiation, which
were made by Wilhelm Roentgen on the discovery of X-rays in 1895, and by Henri
Becquerel in 1896, when .....
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Fredrick Douglass
Words: 512 / Pages: 2 .... school of the antislavery movement. Garrison was a pacifist who believed that only through moral persuasion could slavery end, he attempted through his writings to educate slaveholders about the evils of the system they supported. He was opposed to slave uprisings and other violent resistance, but he was firm in his belief that slavery must be totally abolished. In the first issue of the Liberator in 1831, he had proclaimed “I WILL BE HEARD” (32).
Ever controversial, Garrison made many enemies throughout the country. As described by Douglass in his autobiography Life and Times, Garrison made sweeping attacks on organized religion becau .....
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