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Thomas Aquinas
Words: 558 / Pages: 3 .... the natural sciences. Thomas could
repeat his lessons with more depth and lucidity than his masters displayed.
While at the University Thomas came under the influence of the
Dominicans, an order of mendicant preaching friars. Thomas decided to join
the order, even though his family opposed the idea. His brothers captured
him and imprisoned him at Roccasecca. There he was imprisoned for nearly
two years. His parents, brothers, and sisters attempted to force him to
change his mind, they threatened him and forced temptations on him, but he
eventually escaped and joined the Dominicans.
The Dominicans then sent Thomas to Cologne to study with A .....
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Jim Morrison
Words: 1665 / Pages: 7 .... of his life and especially his character is necessary. James Douglas Morrison was born on December 8, 1943, in Melbourne, Florida (Hopkins 5). He was the first child of George Stephen Morrison and Clara Clark Morrison. He had two younger siblings, Anne and Andrew ("James" 1). His father was an officer in the United States Navy and his mother remained a housewife to act as the "dominant parent" over the three kids (Hopkins 22). After graduating from Florida State University, he attended film school at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1964, where he met Ray Manzarek. A year later, the two form a band c .....
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B. F. Skinner
Words: 1070 / Pages: 4 .... that
automatically reminded him to hang up his pajamas in the morning. He played the
saxophone in a jazz band during high school and played piano until his failing
eyesight made it hard for him to read the music. In college, he was very
independent, and sometimes even a prankster. He graduated from Hamilton College
in 1926 and later received his P.h.D. in psychology at Harvard University.
(Ulrich, 1997)
John B. Watson
John Broadus Watson was born in Greenville, South Carolina on January
9th 1878. He went to college at Furman University and the University of Chicago.
Watson created "Psychological behaviorism" in 1912. He told the world about his
t .....
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Al Capone
Words: 614 / Pages: 3 .... face. Scarface had an income of $105 million dollars, when the average income was only Twenty-four Hundred a year. He made his money from gambling, illegal selling and producing of alcohol, whorehouses, and the protection business. Capone encouraged publicity, he was ken to seeing his name and picture in the newspaper.
In 1919, Al now had a wife and a baby to support and care for and he needed a legitimate career. He moved his family to Baltimore and got a new job as a bookkeeper for a construction firm. He resumed his relationship with Torrio, who had moved from Brooklyn to Chicago, expanding himself. In 1921, Torrio asked Al to come and wo .....
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Peter The Great
Words: 1573 / Pages: 6 .... ‘westernization’ of Russia was a byproduct of that. My third source, Infopedia (computer encyclopedia) stated that the modernization of Russia included the creation of an army capable of contending with the western world. Another point that the video stressed which the text book and the encyclopedia did not was the opposition that Peter faced from Russian traditionalist church followers. Also, Peter’s stepsister was only mentioned in the video viewed in class.
Peter Alexeevich, later to be known as , was born on May 30, 1672. He was the fourteenth child of his mother, although not all of them had lived past infancy. He was raised by a nu .....
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Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
Words: 672 / Pages: 3 .... Congress (1775--77), he was the principal drafter of the Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, which embodied some of his ideas on the natural rights of certain people. Jefferson then returned to Virginia, where as a member of its legislature (1776--79), he took the lead in creating a state constitution and then served as governor (1779--81); during this time he proposed that Virginia abolish the slave trade and assure religious freedom, but he did not achieve this. He was not very successful in organizing Virginian resistance to the British military operations there and would come under criticism for his lack of leadership. Retu .....
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Kierkegaard And Christianity
Words: 1674 / Pages: 7 .... he starts his discussion on the "crowd", which he states early on is (in its very concept) the untruth. In a crowd, the vociferation and frenzy of that crowd often drowns out the truth, even if each member of that crowd has individually obtained the truth . Kierkegaard makes the statement that "only one attains the goal", in that we all are capable of obtaining said goal (in this case the eternal truth) if we each seek after the goal as individuals. In crowds, he says, it is sure that no one is working, living, striving for the highest aim, but only for one or another earthly aim. Only as individuals (with God as our helper) can we obtain that whic .....
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Albert Einstein
Words: 483 / Pages: 2 .... wedding, were Maurice Solovine and Conard
Habicht. After the wedding, there was a meal to celebrate at a local restaurant.
But no honeymoon. After the meal, the newlyweds returned to their new home. It
was a small flat, about 100 yards away from Bere's famous clock tower. Upon
returning home, a small incident occured, that was to occur many times
throughout Einstern's life; he had forgotten his key. A year later, in 1904 they
had a child, Hans Albert. In that same year, he recieved a job at the swiss
patent office.
In 1905, three of Einstein's 4 famous papers; "about a 'heuristical'
perspective about the creation and modulation of light, about th .....
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Plato And Aristotle
Words: 762 / Pages: 3 .... impossible to reach.
The different levels mean different things. On the lowest level, the left side is made up of our imagination, perception, and conjecture. The right side is made up of shadows and mirages. The next level up, on the left, is where we believe something because we see it. The right side of this level is where we find all physical things. At the top of the physical realm before entering the spiritual realm, is the sun. The next level up is the lowest level in the spiritual realm. The left side of this level includes thinking from hypotheses, while the right side includes objects of math and science. The top level in P .....
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John Dos Passos
Words: 2008 / Pages: 8 .... to search for
new ground on which to grow, which can be seen as an major theme throughout
all his works.
Dos Passos grew up to a turbulent childhood, being unconventionally
born on January 14, 1896. His father, John Randalph Dos Passos, was a
prominent attorney and his mother, Lucy Addison Sprigg, a housewife and an
excellent mother. Because his parents were not officially married until in
1910, he was considered "illegitimate" for about 14 years; this theme of
alienation is found in many of his writings. Most of the time spent during
his childhood was with his mother, who travelled abundantly, and this was
the time where he grew closer to .....
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