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Albert Einstein
Words: 1679 / Pages: 7 .... music and literature,
and it was she that first introduced her son to the violin in which he found
much joy and relaxation. Also, he was very close with his younger sister,
Maja, and they could often be found in the lakes that were scattered about the
countryside near Munich.
As a child, Einstein's sense of curiosity had already begun to stir. A
favorite toy of his was his father's compass, and he often marvelled at his
uncle's explanations of algebra. Although young Albert was intrigued by
certain mysteries of science, he was considered a slow learner. His failure
to become fluent in German until the age of nine even led some teachers to
belie .....
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Willem De Kooning
Words: 1575 / Pages: 6 .... painted signs and worked as a carpenter in New York City. Then in 1935, he landed a job with the Works Progress Administration, a government agency that put artists to work during the Great Depression. By the next decade, he had attained a place in the downtown art scene among his fellow artists. By the late 1940s, de Kooning along with Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, began to be recognized as a major painter in a movement called "Abstract Expressionism". This new school of thought shifted the center of twentieth century art form Paris to New York. was recognized as the only painter who had one foot in Europe and .....
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Rene Descartes
Words: 853 / Pages: 4 .... for Truth in the Sciences which he wrote in France. This book introduced three ideas, one on optics, one on geometry, and one on meteorology. Four yeas later he wrote Meditations on First Philosophy which is his version of a unified and certain body of the human knowledge. The Catholic and Protestant Church was angered by his book, claiming that Descartes’ hope was to replace the teachings of Aristotle. In 1644 he publish Principles of Philosophy which he hoped would in-fact replace Aristotle’s teachings. His last important work was called Passions of the Soul where he explored topics such as the relationship of the soul to the body, the nature .....
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Words: 1425 / Pages: 6 .... the rich, youthful and beautiful, a social group with whom he maintained a lifelong love-hate relationship(_______). His first stories appeared in Princeton University’s literary magazine, which was edited by his friend and fellow student Edmund Wilson whom Fitzgerald considered his intellectual conscience(_______). Leaving Princeton for the army during World War 1, Fitzgerald spent his weekends in camp writing the earliest draft of his first novel.
Demobilized in 1919, Fitzgerald worked briefly in New York for an adversing agency. His first story, 'Babes in the Wood,' was published in The Smart Set. The turning point in his life was when he .....
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Empress Wu
Words: 1331 / Pages: 5 .... the Tang court, she went from a low-ranking concubine to his favorite concubine. When T’ai Tsung died in 652 AD, mourned his death and traditionally, she shaved off all her hair and became a nun. Meanwhile, in the Tang court after T’ai Tsung’s death, T’ai Tsung’s son, Kao Tsung, became the emperor of the Tang court. Kao Tsung’s empress, Empress Wang, was jealous of a new concubine that Kao Tsung gave much affection to. Her name was Hsaio Shu-Fei. She then ordered to grow her hair back and come back to the Tang court. She did what she was told and came back. Empress Wang’s plan was to take away the affectio .....
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Selena
Words: 779 / Pages: 3 .... band, he was afraid that the same thing would happen to her, so he decided to teach her some Spanish songs, but one problem, only knew how to speak English, so went on with most of her life not even knowing what the words meant that she was singing. Well in order to start the band they would need more then so Abraham made Abraham III (nicknamed A.B.) her older brother, and Suzette, her older sister. A.B. already knowing the drums, Suzette already knowing the drum, and having an awesome voice started their band, “ Y Los Dinos”. They started practicing together and performer a little. In 1980, Abraham and Marcella opened up a Mexican restaurant .....
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Hitler
Words: 1951 / Pages: 8 .... showed any originality
or creative imagination. To fullfil 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 impressed with his performance,
and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be
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 you .....
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Aristotle
Words: 269 / Pages: 1 .... Lyceum. During
the anti-macedonian agitation after Alexander's death fled to Chalcis
where he later died in 322 B.C. His extant writings, largely in the form of
lecture notes made by his students, include the Organum (treatises of logic);
Physics; Metaphysics; De Anima (on the soul); Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian
Ethics; Politics: De Poetica: Rhetoric; and works biology and physics.
Aristotle held philosophy to be the the discerning, through the use of
systematic logic as expressed in Syllogisms, of the self-evident, changeless
first principles that form the basis of all knowledge. He taught that knowledge
of a thing requires an inquiry into .....
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Michelangelo
Words: 1737 / Pages: 7 .... son in the workshop of the painter After about two years, studied at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens and shortly thereafter was invited into the household of Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent. There he had an opportunity to converse with the younger Medicis, two of whom later became popes (Leo X and Clement VII). He also became acquainted with such humanists as Marsilio Ficino and the poet Angelo Poliziano, who were frequent visitors. produced at least two relief sculptures by the time he was 16 years old, the (both 1489-92, Casa Buonarroti, Florence), which show that he had achieved a personal style at a very early age.
His pat .....
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Peter The Great
Words: 719 / Pages: 3 .... was that he educated many of the would be illiterate Russians. Russians were at the highest point of education that they had ever been. He standardized a simpler Russian alphabet and introduced Arabic numerals. He started Russian academies for higher education. For the Boyards he made the college aged people to go out of the country for five years to study at a school in a Western European school. For the first time in Russian history there were the publishing of newspapers. He also changed the calendar to agree with the current calendar, the Gregorian. Peter next best accomplishment was that he expanded the state and therefor encouraged tra .....
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