Charles Darwin
.... that is now extinct. It's not
evolution but the theory of natural selection and the evidence he collected to
prove to fellow scientists, peers, students, and most importantly the masses of
public and the church that were at the heart of Darwin's contribution to
biological science.
Charles Darwin did not invent the concept of evolution. A number of prominent
scientists and other thinkers during the eighteenth century and the first half
of the nineteenth century (among them Charles Darwin's grandfath .....
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John Lennon: Biography
.... together making peace
our theme (Rolling Stone 229). As our taste for war bittered, Yoko and I became
involved in many anti-war protests. We recorded "Give Peace a Chance" in our
hotel room in Montreal, and I had it rush released (Rolling Stone 229). In
January of 1970 I wrote and recorded "Instant Karma" in one day and had it
released (Rolling Stone 229). Three months later, Yoko and I flew to Los
Angeles for four months of primal scream therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov (Rolling
Stone 229). Beca .....
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Jules Verne
.... to become a very
busy people.
Verne was married on January 10, 1857 to Honorine de Viane. He only had 1
child, a boy named Michel, who was born on August 3, 1861. Verne also had 2
stepdaughters, Valentine, and Suzanne. Michel grew up to be a very disobedient
child. Verne tried many means of stopping this delinquency. He put Michel in
jail in an attempt to stop the "madness". He was really unhappy over his son's
behavior problem. Late 1879, Verne ended up throwing Michel out of the house.
Michel .....
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Kurt Cobain: Biography
.... of his life Kurt got caught up
with the drug community of Aberdeen and started heroin, an addiction he would
never defeat. Many blame his death on this horrendous drug. Kurt often lived
under a bridge along the muddy banks of the Wishkah river during that period.
Kurt had been just hanging out when he met Chad Channing and Krist
Novaselic and they would go on to find out that they each played music. Chad
played the drums and Krist played the bass. The three started getting together
and jamming. The .....
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Kurt Cobain: Collection Of Personal Accounts From Family Relatives
.... and out of sight. Gramps told me to run up there and
help Kurt, who must have hooked a big fish. When I reached Kurt, he didn't even
have his line in the water. When I asked him what was going on, he just looked
at me with those piercing eyes and huge grin. He said, "Oh, I'm just trying to
thicken my vocal chords so I can scream better!" When I went back to Gramps to
tell him, he just grinned and said, "It figures, We'll just let him be!" We can
now say, "Thank you, Kurt, for thickening your vocal chords!" .....
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Kurt Cobain
.... She said they were dirty. So
Kurt did and he also would beat the up. Then in 4th grade he realized he liked
them better. Around that time people started to notice that Kurt was very good
in art. Most of Kurt's friends didn't really like things like art and music.
He loved these things so much he stopped making friends because he was different.
Kurt was not such a health kid. His whole life he suffered chronic bronchitis.
At age of seven he was diagnosed hyperactive. He was put on Ritalin. This
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Leonard Bernstein
.... when he was sitting in the synagogue, the
religious music of the choir and organ overwhelmed him by it's beauty and caused
him to burst into tears. When Leonard and his family would visit their friends,
Leonard would sneak over to the piano and experiment. When he was eleven, his
aunt sent her piano to his house for his family to keep for storage. “I made
love to it right away” he recalled (Musicians p. 65). He could escape from all
his frustrations and sadness by playing the piano. His parents didn .....
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Madonna
.... In addition, she enjoyed learning and meeting new friends.
However, she began to get bored with her college education and her stay in
college was brief. Within the next two years she dropped out of the University
of Michigan and decided to pursue a career elsewhere. She knew that she wanted
to either continue in the field of dance or somewhere in the music industry.
She believed that she had greater opportunities in these careers in a large,
diversified metropolitan city like New York City.
Onc .....
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Charles Darwin: His Life Story Of Dicovery
.... born in Shrewsbury, England on February 12, 1809. He
was the son of Robert Warren Darwin, a family doctor and of Susannah Wedgewood
Darwin daughter of a porcelain manufacturer. His grandfather, infact, was the
great English poet Erasmus Darwin. His early school training was at a small
school house in Shrewsbury. After which his father put him into Edinburgh
University in 1825 to 1827 for medical studies. Darwin showed no interest in
being a physician after witnessing several major operations without a .....
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Jonathan Larson
.... then proceeded to pump his
stomach and send him home with a prescription for Toradol, a potent painkiller,
in hand.
January 22. Morning. Jonathan Larson telephones Cabrini Medical to
query the results of the tests taken the previous evening for food poisoning.
The employee on the other end of the line claimed no results could be found but
tried to assure Larson that if any thing serious had been found he would have
been notified immediately. The rest of the day, Larson spent being nursed by
Eddi .....
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
.... at Vienna. His
exploitation to the people of the court forced Mozart to leave! In 1782 Mozart
married Constanze Weber, Aloysia's sister. Poverty and illness endangered the
family until Mozart's death. While Mozart was working on the "Magic Flute" in
1791 an emissary requested a requiem mass written by Mozart but he never got to
finish this because he died. He supposedly died of typhoid fever, in Vienna on
December 5, 1791. His funeral was attended by a few friends. Mozart died young
and had an unsu .....
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Robert Schumann
.... home. With a friend named Friedrich
Piltzing, another pupil of Kuntzch's, Robert started to explore Haydn, Mozart
and Beethoven.
As a child, Schumann took part in several concerts at the Zwickau Lyceum.
He once played Moscheles' Alexander March variations, which demanded
considerable dexterity.
At the public Lyceum Robert was active as both pianist and public
speaker. When he was fourteen, Kuntzsch decided that his pupil had progressed
beyond the point where he could give further help, and decline .....
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Aaron Copland
.... had taught him,
Copland's heart was truly in creating music that people other than musicians
could appreciate. It was upon his return to America in 1924 that he decided that
he would write ". . .truly American music." He traveled throughout America,
getting a taste of what the "common man" was listening to. During these travels
he strayed into Mexico, and wrote the highly successful El Salon Mexico. A quote
from the fall of 1932 sums up his intentions in writing this piece: "Any
composer who goes outside .....
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George Bizek
.... would not be distracted from his musical studies. He
received his first music lesson from his mother when he was just four years old.
She was teaching him to read music at the same time she was teaching him his
alphabet.
Bizet was enrolled in the Paris Conservatory when he was nine years old.
This was a special exception arranged by his uncle who taught at the
Conservatory, since Bizet was still a year younger than the minimum age
requirement. Here he studied piano, organ, singing, harp, strings, woodwi .....
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Albert Camus
.... “absurdity” of life. He
believed that this “absurdity” is the “failure of the world to satisfy the human
demand that it provide a basis for human values-for our personal ideals and for
our judgments of right and wrong.” He maintained that suicide cannot be
regarded as an adequate response to the “experience of absurdity.” He says that
suicide is an admission of incapacity, and such an admission is inconsistent
with that human pride to which Camus openly appeals. Camus states, “there is
nothing equal to .....
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