I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
.... through an individual voice. Earlier in her life, Maya was sexually molested and raped, and as a result, became dormant towards society. This was such a traumatizing event in her life that struck her obviously, in a physical sense, but moreover, mentally. Where she was once a brilliant outgoing child, she became a quiet, somber adult. As a result of this, Mrs. Flowers stepped in and told Maya to, “…bear in mind, language is man’s way of communicating with his fellow man and it is langu .....
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Ida B. Wells
.... her an ample spokes person for the anti-lynching campaign. Adding to her credibility, personal experiences also gave her more of a drive to continue her crusade.
She became a leading community activist through a sequence of events. In 1884 Ida was riding a train in a first class car, when she was asked to move to the smoking car. When she refused, two conductors tried to physically move her. She instead got off the train and filed a discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit was initially won, but the Te .....
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Ida B. Wells 2
.... Wells’ success in her activist efforts. One being that
gender relations, of that time, were honorable within the
African-American community. Another advantage for Ida B.
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Wells was her biological sex. Ida B. Wells fought hard in
her effort to secure America as a safe environment for
Blacks, but she managed to accomplish a remarkable amount of
her efforts due to various gender and sex related assets
which were in her .....
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Igor Stravinsky
.... for academic training, but to study privately with him as his teacher. He was tutored privately by Rimsky in instrumentation and orchestration for about three years. In 1905, Stravinsky graduated from the St. Petersburg University. In the meantime, he continued his studies with Rimsky. The next year, his mind still not made up about becoming a professional musician, he married his second cousin, Catherine Nossenko.
Stravinsky’s Symphony in E Flat Major (1905-1907) was his first piece .....
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Immanuel Kant
.... Explanation of the First Principles of Metaphysical Knowledge", and "On the Forms and Principles of the Sensible and Intelligible World". From 1770 to 1780, he mainly worked on preparing "The Critique of Pure Reason".
The Critical period lasted from 1781 to 1794. During this period, he wrote "The Critique of Pure Reason" in 1781, and "Foundation for hte metaphysics of Ethics" in 1785. Following the critical works, Kant published "Critique of Practical Reason", "Critique of Judgment", and "Reli .....
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Influences Of Virginia Woolf
.... back again" (Gordon 22). This portrayal of Leslie Stephens relates to his uncontrollable rages and mood swings. Leslie Stephen not only controlled Virginia's mental development, but her intellectual development as well. He became his daughters' mentor, and "trained her to become his intellectual aire" (Bond 60). Mr. Ramsey parallels Woolf's father in "his need to pass his intellectual nature onto his children" (Gordon 26). Leslie Stephen saw no problem with his uncontrollable behavior. Virginia, on t .....
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Irene Joliot-curie
.... talent in mathematics. She entered school at six. The school near the Curie home was not considered suitable so Irene began her formal education with the more challenging curriculum offered at the school on the rue(street) Cassini., near the Observatory. At the age of ten, Irene's talents and interest in mathematics were apparent. Since there was not an appropriate school for her in all of Paris, Irene, along with nine other children of prestigious scholars studied in their own school, known as th .....
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Is The History Nonsense?
.... on some extent. In Ford's statement, he states that "...we want to live present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today." Ford may imply that the history we make today would have impact on the history in the present. The author in his article states that as "we are entering an era characterized by the ‘end of work'", the need for more workers are not demanded. This suggests that the condition that has bred the concept of racism is under attack. This gives .....
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Is Tiger That Great?
.... project we found Woods’ standardized z-statistic, or how many standard deviations from the mean he lies, to be a –2.73. This simply means that Woods’ lies 2.73 standard deviations away from the average score. When viewed on our normal curve, the explanation is obvious. Using the area within the curve, we found the probability that a player would be better than Woods to be .32%. This means that 99.68% of the Tour players are not the player that Woods is. This is the reason that Woo .....
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Isaac Asimov
.... it a hobby. His real goal was to become a doctor. However, he started to show more interest in his science fiction. On May twenty-ninth, 1937, Isaac sat down at the typewriter and started to work on his on science fiction short story (Wilsonweb). When this story was finished, he sent it in to his favorite science fiction magazine, (Galenet), however, it was rejected by editor John Wood Campbell, Jr. Although he rejected the story, he discussed it at length with Asimov and became a constant .....
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Isaac Newton
.... never regain his privacy. The Principia's appearance also involved Newton in an unpleasant episode with the English philosopher and physicist, Robert Hooke. In 1687 Hooke claimed that Newton had stolen from him a central idea of the book: that bodies attract each other with a force that varies inversely as the square of their distance. However, most historians do not accept Hooke's charge of plagiarism. The following four years were filled with intense activity for Newton. With the success of the Princ .....
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Isadora Duncan
.... would dance to her mother's music and learn about what they were interested in -- literature and music.
Isadora was told as a child that she would have to learn to depend on herself to get what she needed in life. So as Isadora grew older, she began to understand her family's financial condition and was eager to help. She and her sister Elizabeth began baby-sitting to help the family. To keep their charges busy, they taught them how to dance. The dance lessons were mostly just telling them to wav .....
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Issac Asimov
.... “Robotics” in 1950, he gave the world laws to govern the robots, most importantly, he greatly influenced the world’s vision of future robots for all time, and he did this at a time when not even the simplest one existed.
Asimov is a human writing machine, who has published more than 500 books, and has at least one book in each of the major divisions of the Dewey decimal system. Although, his most influential writing was about robots, which he basically created. In his book I, Robot, .....
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Ivan Pavlov
.... to the understanding of the mechanism of change in human and animal behavior.Thus scientists came to understand that behavior is no longer limited by a fixed, inherited reflex, but can be modified by experience and exposure to an unlimited number of stimuli.
Aristotle had already talked about it, but Pavlov was the first scientist who demonstrated this system of associations. Association is "mental connection between ideas." These associations were not presented at birth; they were developed through e .....
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J.p. Morgan
.... The family moved to London and John transferred to the University of Gottingen in Germany. John continued to excel in his studies and majored in mathematics. He began to become interested in business affairs as he started and investing club amongst his friends and kept strict records of his own finances.
In 1857, Junius Morgan decided to broaden his son's experience by sending him to New York. The firm of Duncan, Sherman & Co. was the American representation of the George Peabody Company. He wrote to .....
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