Frank Lloyd Wright
.... his favorite pastime was building forts out of hay and mud. In 1882, at the age of 15, he entered the University of Wisconsin as a special student, studying engineering because the school had no course in architecture. Wright left Madison in 1887 to work as a draftsman in Chicago. Wright worked for several architectural offices until he finally found a job with the most skillful architect of the Mid-West, Louis Sullivan, soon becoming Sullivan's chief assistant. Wright was assigned most of the firm's .....
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Fray Junipero Serra
.... for the remaining fifteen years of his life.
Arriving in Mexico City, he studied and prepared for missionary work at San Fernando College. Serra's first assignment was a rugged, mountainous region of Sierra Gorda. He remained there for nine years preaching to the Indians and strengthening the two missions already in existence. While he was there he was named Presidente of the region. Serra's second assignment was to journey out from Mexico City into coastal villages and mining camps. In those nin .....
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Frederick Douglass - The Man
.... to be a great speaker. The opponents of Frederick
believed that he was never a slave, because of his great speaking skills
and knowledge. In response to this, Frederick wrote his life story in his
book _Life and Times of Frederick Douglass_. Frederick made a fatal mistake
though, he had used the name of his old master on the slave plantation. Upon
learning of this, his old master sent slave catchers to New England to bring
him back. Fearing a life of slavery again, Frederick fled to Englan .....
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Fredrick Douglass
.... 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 because the churches refused to take a stand against .....
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Fredrick Douglass 2
.... (2) that it was his master. Douglass mentioned this to show how the “slave holder in (many) cases, sustains to his slaves the double relation of master and father.” (2) This was so commonplace that it was “by law established that the children of women shall in all cases follow the condition of their mother.” (2) This meant that these bastard children were to be slaves despite their paternal heritage because their mother was a slave. The effect was to shock a .....
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Freud And Dreams
.... most cursory investigation into the dream's essence suggests that after describing it as a mental something which we have while sleeping," and perhaps, in accord with experiments currently being carried out in connection with the physiological accompaniments of dreaming, such as Rapid-Eye Movements (REM), the various stages and depths of dream activity as reflected in changing rates of our vital signs (pulse-rate, heart-beat, brain-waves), and the time of the night when various kinds of dreams occur, we .....
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Freud And Jung
.... seeking part of personality. In analyzing dreams, Freud interpreted most symbols in a sexual manner.
On the other hand, Jung was not so preoccupied with sex in his theories. Jung's childhood and personal development may explain his feelings on sex as part of personality. Jung never developed any sort of sexual longing for his mother and was actually repulsed by her unattractiveness and mental instability. Furthermore, Jung had a healthy and satisfying sex life devoid of Freud's disappointments and fru .....
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Frost
.... attended Harvard as a special student only to leave without a degree. Over the next ten years he would write more poetry. Frost would live on and operate a farm in Derry, New Hampshire that his grandfather had purchase for him with the condition he live there for a minimum of ten years. He would also take a teaching position at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy to receive another form of income. Frost would not stay there long, as he felt the need to once again move.
In 1912, when Frost was nearly f .....
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Fidel Castro
.... did a few positive ones. In the 1960's and 1970's his government took major steps in improving Cuba's education and health care. This is one example of the few things he accomplished.
In conclusion we can see that Fidel Castro had a major impact on Cuba. I feel that Fidel being dictator was not good for his country. He mostly did things that were bad for the economy and the people of Cuba.
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Finest Young Man In Rome
.... that he did not want. Rufinus found himself in a new, difficult situation. He wasn't ready for it. He did not expect anything like this to happen. Rufinus was confused and did not know what to do. He did not know who is telling the truth. He had believed that his father's death was an accident, but his mother tried to convince him that Manlius, his best friend, is responsible for it. He ordered him to pursue the Gauls, knowing that they were stronger than Romans. After his father's death, Manlius .....
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Florence Nightingale
.... society and arranging domestic things….not being able to seize the chance of forming for myself a true and rich life would seem to me like suicide” ( Huxley, 41). Her studies in philosophy included Plato, Rousseau, D. Stewart, and Descartes. These philosophers helped to form her beliefs of society and her duty to the truth. These beliefs are reflected in her hospital reforms and nursing notes. Her love of math was well applied and would serve her well when lobbying for reforms in heal .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright 2
.... the start of the modern architecture. Japanese people would need to integrate with the modern architecture to show the new revolution of ‘machine’. The Japanese designers combine ‘Middle or Working Class’ people and the ‘Machine Image’ to create output of modern architecture.
“Japanese domestic architecture was truly organic architecture.” (Frank Lloyd Wirght, The future of architecture, 1953 p.258)
An example of a Japanese organic architecture i .....
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Frank Sinatra
.... great success in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Young At Heart, All the Way, Witchcraft, Strangers in the Night, and that’s Life were some of his hit songs.
In the 1940s Sinatra embarked on a solo career and became the idol of the “bobby-soxers”. They were teenage girls who swooned over his crooning, soft-voiced singing. During this time period he also appeared in many film musicals such as, Anchors Aweigh (1945), Till the Clouds Roll By (1947), and On the Town (1949).
Sinatr .....
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Franz Kafka
.... Gregor’s name in German, and its derivation into English. The name Gregor is closely associated to “Gregariously”, which refers to a sociable and jovial mindset. Gregor is seen as the epitome of sociable, a “traveling salesman”. However, Gregor is one who is “meeting new people all the time, but never forming any lasting friendships that mellow into anything intimate”(118). Through being a traveling salesman, Gregor must be friendly, though his forward happines .....
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
.... Its hero, Armory Blaine, studies in Princeton, serves in WW I in France. At the end of the story he finds that his own self-centeredness has been the cause of his unhappiness. The book gained success and gave Fitzgerald entrée to literary magazines, such as Scribner's and The Saturday Evening Post, which published his stories, among them 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.'
The rebellious “flaming youth of the new era brought to life in the popular This Side of Paradise, were soon imitated nationw .....
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