Leonardo Da Vinci
.... such as Botticelli and Ghirlandaio.
In 1478, Leonardo became an independent master of his trade. His first large painting, The Adoration of the Magi, was never completed. It introduced new different style of composition. In this style the main figures are placed in the foreground. The background consists of distant views of imaginary ruins and battle scenes. In 1482 Leonardo worked his way up to the services of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan. He was the principal engineer in military enterpris .....
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Thomas Jefferson'S Life: Tell It The Way It Is!
.... The third spoke of his slave ownership. The author spoke of the biracial relationships that he had with his slaves as well as his biracial children. The last essay dealt with the similarities in the essays of John Locke and the Declaration of Independence. After Wood summarizes these essays he tells it how it is. Jefferson was not perfect, but he wanted what is best for the common good for all and the future for Americans.
Wood then picks these essays apart by describing Jefferson as a virtuous .....
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Nicolaus Copernicus
.... At that time he, was living at the home of mathematics professor, Domenico Maria de Novara. Copernicus astronomical and geographical interests were greatly inspired by Novara (Westman). Around 1500 Copernicus gave speeches on astronomy to people in Rome. Later that year he gained permission to study medicine at Padua University. Copernicus, without completing his medical studies, received a doctorate in canon law from Ferrara in 1503, after which he returned to Poland to take up his administrative .....
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Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X
.... Luther King were largely responsible for the distinct different responses to American racism. Both men ultimately became towering icons of contemporary African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is .....
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The Life Of A Jamestown Colonist
.... first people to come to Jamestown. As a child in the mid-1500’s, I remember my parents talking about how nervous they were that Spain seemed to be gaining such a foothold in the New World. No one in England liked the fact that Spain was the most powerful country in Europe. The king decided to explore in an effort to find a northwest passage to Asia without going around Asia. England also wanted to steal some of Spain’s riches, or “singe the King of Spain’s beard,” as we referred to the phrase back then. En .....
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Mary Shelley: Bride Of Frankenstein
.... drown (Walling 10), and left her a single mother of a child, and a son on the way (Spark ix). Second, Mary Shelley achieved her highest acknowledgments for her writings and gothic novels. Shelley began her first novel Frankenstein (Thompson 2), at nineteen years of age in the summer of 1816 and publicized it on March 11, 1818 (Walling 9). The horror novel received numerous reviews and became one of the literary events of 1818 (Walling 34). Shelley wrote five other novels in her lifetime including The .....
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Andy Warhol
.... He got his first break in August 1949 when Glamour Magazine wanted him to illustrate a feature entitled "Success is a Job in New York". But by accident the credit read "Drawings by Andy Warhol" and that's how Andy dropped the "a" in his last name. He continued doing ads and illustrations and by 1955 he was the most successful and imitated commercial artist in New York. In 1957 he won the Art Directors Club Medal for a giant shoe advertisement. In 1960 he produced the first of his paintings depictin .....
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Carl Gauss
.... of number symbols and learned to do arithmetical calculations.
When Carl Gauss reached the age of seven, he began elementary school. His potential for brilliance was recognized immediately. Gauss's teacher Herr Buttner, had assigned the class a difficult problem of addition in which the students were to find the sum of the integers from one to one hundred. While his classmates toiled over the addition, Carl sat and pondered the question. He invented the shortcut formula on the spot, and wrote down .....
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Lyndon Johnson
.... born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and schooling. It confirmed Johnson's faith in the positive potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas.
In 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas seat in Congress, where he championed public works .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
.... President; he established many national parks; he sTheodore Rooseveltengthened the position of labor forces in sTheodore Rooseveltike negotiations; and he began the consTheodore Rooseveltuction of the Panama Canal. Often in his seven years in office, Roosevelt interpreted his executive duties broadly, to say the least. Many conservatives worried about Roosevelt overextending his powers, and, on at least a few occasions, he was guilty thereof. Yet Theodore Roosevelt did not wish to abuse his offic .....
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Michael Smith Biography
.... chemical functions in plants and animals. The best way to study the function of a specific protein is to mutate it, then observe how this changes the behavior of the entire organism. Prior to Smith's innovation, mutation was achieved by exposing random cells to mutagens (radiation or chemicals). This approach was unreliable because both radiation and chemicals mutated proteins randomly, making it impossible to determine how specific proteins had been affected. Scientists needed a way to deliberately .....
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James Baldwin
.... of my skin had stood between myself and me; in Europe that barrier was down… the question of who I was had at least become a personal question, and the answer was to be found in me.” He found the answer to who he was in being a novelist. Between 1948 and 1957, he lived in both France and Switzerland, returning to the United States in 1952 and 1956.
Over the span of Baldwin’s life, he was honored with many awards and recognitions. In 1953, he published Go Tell it On a Mountain, and a year later, in .....
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James Clerk Maxwell
.... On the death of his father in 1865, Maxwell returned to his family home in Scotland and devoted himself to research. In 1871 he moved to Cambridge, where he became the first professor of experimental physics and set up the Cavendish Laboratory, which opened in 1874. Maxwell continued in this position until 1879, when illness forced him to resign. Maxwell had many theories.
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Maxwell's first important contribution to science began in 1849, when he applied himself to examining how .....
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The Greatest Accomplishment Of President John Adams
.... We had originated from Britain and the French had helped us in our war, therefore if we borrowed from one country, the other would catch on and turn on us. The government couldn’t tax its citizens, for taxation had always backfired in the past. Because of these money issues, John Adams decided not to join the war.
Another reason why Adams didn’t join the war was due to the nation’s confusion as to which side to defend. America was already divided into two supporting groups; whichever side was chose .....
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The Style And Influences Of Lewis Carroll
.... his writings are the product of a quest to cast away the constraints of ordinary logic (46).
Nevertheless, his obligation towards the science of logic did influence his novels. Heath explains this by pointing out that his works are not actually nonsense, but rather absurdity. He defines the two as being at the opposite ends of a spectrum with nonsense on one end, logic in the middle, and absurdity on the other end. Nonsense completely defies and casts away all rules of logic, whereas absurdity overus .....
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