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Van Gogh
Words: 1920 / Pages: 7 .... society that trained him in a poor coal-mining district in
Belgium. Vincent took his work so seriously that he went without food and
other necessities so he could give more to the poor. The missionary
society objected to Vincent's behavior and fired him in 1879. Heartsick,
van Gogh struggled to keep going socially and financially, yet he was
always rejected by other people, and felt lost and forsaken.
Then, in 1880, at age 27, he became obsessed with art. The intensity
he had for religion, he now focused on art. His early drawings were crude
but strong and full of feeling: "It is a hard and a difficult struggle to
learn to draw well .....
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Eminem
Words: 940 / Pages: 4 .... seen a picture of his father in his life. and his mother continued moving and never stayed in one place longer than six months. His mother worked very hard and many jobs to provide for herself and Marshall. When was in school, he used to get beat up every day. There wasn’t one day when he didn’t get beat up by the same group of kids, just for being himself. One day those kids almost killed him, and went into a coma. The day after he got out of the hospital, they moved again. continued to move back and forth from his mothers to his grandmothers, until the age of 11, when he and his mother settled in Detroit for good. Marshall first started to .....
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Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Words: 1228 / Pages: 5 .... Land (1922) and
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915). Actually the Love song is the
beginning of the Waste Land. The Waste Land is in 5 parts, so it is more of
a story in poetical form.
In the Love Song, Eliot actually sounds a bit like a optimist,
quite frankly though his own “waste land”steps in half way through. This is
his only poetic work I like. But it will never be at the top of any of my
lists. In this “song” , JAP (J. Alfred Prufrock) is writing a letter to
his honey, the girl he is in love with. In this poem Eliot uses a lot of
visual imagery, he is very good with his adjectives and brings such a happy
correlation of thoug .....
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Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On
Words: 954 / Pages: 4 .... left. He had an oversized head that doctors believe was some sort of brain trouble and his teachers just thought that he was just stupid because he questioned every answer given to him. But, the only person that saw his gift was his mother (Feldman and Ford 206). His mother help taught him how to read. By the age of 12 he was reading Gibbon's 'Decline and more books of that nature. He had also begun to do chemistry experiments and had his own laboratory in his father's basement (Day and McNeil 231).
Second, the world revolves his fulfillment's. But his fulfillment's didn't come easy. He was newsboy on the Grand Trunk railroad. Between the .....
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Gailileo
Words: 679 / Pages: 3 .... practice. However, Galileo apparently discussed more unconventional forms of
astronomy and natural philosophy in a public lecture he gave in connection with the
appearance of a New Star (now known as "Kepler's supernova") in 1604. In a personal
letter written to Kepler (1571 - 1630) in 1598, Galileo had stated that he was a
Copernican (believer in the Theories of Copernicus). No public sign of this belief was to
appear until many years later.
In the summer of 1609, Galileo heard about a spyglass that a Dutchman had shown
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in Venice. From these reports, and using his own technical skills as a mathematicians .....
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Philophers David Hume And Descartes
Words: 1473 / Pages: 6 .... that with one firm and immovable point, the earth could be moved, Descartes sought one immovable truth. Descartes’ immovable truth, a truth on which he would lay down his foundation of knowledge, and define all that which he knows, was the simple line ‘Cogito ergo sume”; I think, therefor I am. This allowed for his existence. Where this line failed, however, was in the proof or disproof of the external world.
Once Descartes established himself as a “thinking thing”, his attention turned to the external world. Descartes reflects upon his dealing with physical objects, and questions the state of corporeal nature, dealing directly w .....
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Albert Einstein
Words: 1593 / Pages: 6 .... 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 marveled 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
believe he was disable .....
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Words: 1745 / Pages: 7 .... King¦s business_.
The city of London was thus Chaucer¦s environment for most of his life.
Aside from brief visits into other countries or areas of England, he
remained in the city, and it¦s affects on his writing was immense.
London of that time was not the London of today. It was a walled city,
guarded against invasion, but long enough time had passed since such a
threat had approached that the defenses had loosened. Houses perched upon
the walls, and Chaucer in fact, lived for a time in a house built over
Aldgate, (one of the gates of the city).
London was a city less than three-quarters of a square mile in size: It
ran east and west a .....
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Biography Of Galileo
Words: 647 / Pages: 3 .... problems. He turned from speculative
physics to careful measurements, discovered the law of falling bodies and
of the parabolic path of projectiles, studied the motions of pendulums, and
investigated mechanics and the strength of materials. He showed little
interest in astronomy, although beginning in 1595 he preferred the
Copernican theory (sun centered theory)—that the earth revolves around the
sun. Only the Copernican model supported Galileo's tide theory, which was
based on motions of the earth.
In 1609 he heard that the Dutch had invented a spyglass, what is
now called a telescope. In August of that year he presented a telesc .....
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William Shakespeare
Words: 904 / Pages: 4 .... John Shakespeare experienced financial problems and lost his wealth and governing positions. This, of course, had a big effect on the whole family. William was the third of eight children. The older siblings were sistets Joan, born in 1558 and Margaret in 1562. Both of William’s older sisters died very young. (Bender 14). The other dive children were Gilbert born in 1566, a second Joan 1569, Richard 1573, Edmund 1580, and Anne 1580 who died at age eight. (Bender 14).
was educated at the local school in Stratford. Ironically, William never attended a university although virtually every English speaking universities studies his wo .....
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