An Analysis Of John Berger
.... with a picture in his head of what he is describing. A writer’s words are stronger than the stroke of an artist.
An example of this could be from W.E.B Dubois ‘s Of the Meaning of Progress . DuBois paints us a picture of his life . On page 225, DuBois describes a child , he says “ Thenie was on hand early ,-a jolly, ugly ,good-hearted , who slyly dipped snuff and looked after her little bow legged brother.” This description is something a picture can not describe. A pictur .....
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Andrew Jackson 2
.... into reckless buying of land. The banks that had overextended themselves were forced to press their debtors to repay their loans. Through the process of foreclosure, banks and particularly the national bank became absentee owners of Western and Southern property. Jackson who lived in the west saw what was happening and consequently his resentment towards the national bank grew. Jackson also loathed the national bank for economic as well as political reasons. He thought the law that had created the ba .....
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Andy Warhol 3
.... the "a" in his last name.
A particular favorite advertisement form that Warhol likes to use was product labels. You will see quite a few examples of this in some of his work. (Grolier 1996) Warhol did most of his well-know works in a four year span from 1960 to 1964. He started out by reproducing images such as comic strips on much larger canvases. Some examples of these would be Nancy, Dick Tracy, Superman, and Popeye. He later became much more interested in reproducing labels of products a .....
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Anne Frank
.... in the fall of 1942 was terrifying for the Franks. The roundup of Jews from Holland was proceeding according to plan. While the Franks were in hiding, Germany was at the height of conquest.
On August 4, 1944, the Gestapo penetrated into the Frank’s hiding place. All eight of the Jews, together were taken to Gestapo headquarters in Amsterdam. The Franks, Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel were sent to Westbork.
Otto Frank was a firm man who always believed that it was his job to loo .....
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Ansel Adams
.... well known photographers of the twentieth century, to rebel against the soft-focus technique when taking pictures. The group was called Group f/64. Their name was symbolizing the small lens opening of the camera. What Ansel wanted were sharp details in his pictures that focused through the smallest aperture in the camera lens, which was f/64. Group f/64 was an informal group that lasted for two years. This group made a big difference for the direction of American photography.
In 1928 Ansel was .....
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Archimedes
.... about his clever inventions than his mathematical theorems. This is believed to be so because the average mind of that period would have no interest in the Archimedean spiral, but would pay attention to an invention that could move the earth. Archimedes^? most famous story is attributed to a Roman architect under Emperor Augustus, named Vitruvius. Vitruvius asked Archimedes to devise some way to test the weight of a gold wreath. Archimedes was unsuccessful until one day as he entered a full bath, he noti .....
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Aristotle - Happyness
.... seek health, and a poor person searches for wealth).
Most people think that the highest end is a life of pleasure. Hedonists have defined happiness as “ an equivalent to the totality of pleasurable or agreeable feeling.”(Fox, 3) Some pleasures are good and contribute to happiness. Not all ends are ultimate ends but the highest end would have to be something ultimate; the only conceivable ultimate end is happiness.
Happiness is perhaps the only clear ultimate end. Happiness is what we .....
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Arnold Schönberg
.... from the Berlin academy. He emigrated with his wife and his daughter at first to Paris, where he was converted to Jewish faith (Marc Chagall was his witness), then to the USA, where he worked as musical educator at the Malkin Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1934, he moved to Los Angeles, gave private lessons and lectures at the University of Southern California (USC) and held a chair at the University of California (UCLA) since 1936.
In 1940, Schönberg became American citizen. Although .....
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Arthur C. Clarke
.... further reinforced his knowledge of space and helped allow him to write the myriad of non-fiction books about space that he has written. In June of 1952 his book, The Exploration of Space is sold for some 50,000 dollars, this marks a turning point in his career as being known to only a select few to becoming widely known. He appeared on "The Today Show" that same month. He also meets Robert Bloch "Psycho" and E. E. "Doc" Smith at the American Science Fiction convention. In June of 1953 Clarke is marri .....
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Asher Lev
.... a journey to neglecting his parent's wishes, and forsaking his faith.
After graduation, Asher decides to tour Europe, and see in person the art works he had before only experienced through books (page293). This decision to be on his own also forced him to choose between art and his family, friends, and religion. Asher chose art.
The last decision Asher made as a boy was to depict the crucifixion in his family portrait (page 313). This choice rendered Asher a man. By painting a crucifix, Asher told .....
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August Tubbe
.... unreasonable. August tried to explain that all he had in the world was right there in Nacogdoches County, Texas. He questioned the authorities asking how could he be an enemy to that which he loved and upon which the very existence of his life depended. August stated that the idea was unnatural and in fact contradictory. He insisted that he had never been charged before with the violation of any law.
Helplessly August Tubbe submitted a request to the authorities stating his desire and prayer from his h .....
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Augustus Demorgan
.... of logic’s, however, primarily due to his realization that the subject as it had come down from Aristole was unnecessarily restricted scope. By reflecting on the processes of mathematics, he was led like Boole, to the conviction that a far larger number of valid inference were possible that had hitherto been recognized.
His most notable achievements were to lay the foundation for the theory of relations to prepare the way to rise of modern symbolic, or mathematical, logic. His name is commemora .....
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Aum Shinkyria
.... a large following by leafleting and street corner proselytizing. He also had computer, book, and noodle stores in which he would recruit members. By “recruit” I am of course referring to Asahara drugging and brainwashing a person into believing that Asahara was their king. He had begun the Aum Shinrikyo.
At first this cult was to be a change from what Asahara felt was a grim situation in China to that of a Utopia. However, this got wildly out of hand almost immediately. First, Asah .....
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Australia
.... their outer bark annually). The most widespread is the river red gum. Mallee eucalypts survive in semiarid regions by growing multiple stems (lignotubers) from a common rootstock. The world's tallest flowering plant is a southern eucalyptus, the mountain ash. Its height can exceed 325 feet (100 meters). Building timbers are obtained in Victoria from alpine ash and mountain ash, in New South Wales and Queensland from blackbutt, spotted gum, bluegum, and ironbark, and in Western Australia from jarrah and .....
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Australian People
.... Aboriginal buries their dead and marks the burial grounds to symbolize the sky world in which they will be reincarnated.
The Average Australian family consists of three members. The Father is the dominant member. There are some extended families of grandparents. Some Aboriginal now live in cities although most still live in the Outback in small rural communities. Aboriginal families are generally large. The children often work for the parents in the fields or around the dwelling. Families that .....
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