Pablo Picasso
.... up its fascist regime. These two events had a profound effect on Picasso. He thereafter openly expressed his negative feelings towards Franco's regime and used his paintings, especially his great mural Guernica to "clearly express [his] abhorrence of the military caste which", he believed, had "sunk Spain [into] an ocean of pain and death” (Finke 52).
When the German air force bombed Guernica on April 36, 1937, Picasso was so moved by this tragedy that in just less than a month he had completed his .....
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Biograpghy On Lois Duncan - Author Of “I Know What You Did Last Summer”
.... My Daughter? The account of her search for the truth behind the murder of her 18-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn, was written in real time as the horror unfolded. When the Albuquerque, New Mexico, police department dubbed Kait's death a random shooting, ignoring evidence to the contrary, Duncan began her own investigation. Her search for the answers took her into the underworld of Vietnamese gangs and led her to seek the help of the nation's top psychic detectives, who, along with a courageous newspaper repor .....
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The Life Of William Shakespeare
.... 1597, he acted with the Lord Chamberlain’s company of players. When the company built the Globe Theater, he became a partner. Shakespeare became very popular. In 1597, he purchased on of the largest houses in Stratford, called New Place. It was next door to Thomas Nash’s house. Thomas Nash became William’s granddaughter’s first husband. Her name was Elizabeth Hall. William’s first daughter, Susanna married physician, John Hall in 1607. William established his wife and two daughters in New Place. .....
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Margaret Atwood
.... years later, Atwood decided that she onlywanted to write. She wanted "to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to knowpeople in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised...to give back something of what [I have] received" (qtd. in "Author Profile").
Two years after this life-altering decision, Atwood entered Victoria College at the University of Toronto. She received her bachelor's degree from Victoria College in 1961, and then wen .....
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Martin Luther
.... that all the church authorities from the pope down must be overthrown.
Luther placed emphasis on personal Bible study. He was the first to bring personal Bible study to the life of the "common people". Because Luther had found the true way of salvation by studying the Bible, he wanted all the people to have the same opportunity. However, the Bible was not written in German, thus the people had to rely on what the Catholic Church thought about its content and doctrine. Thus, Luther's believes of .....
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John The Baptist
.... 1999 Grolier Encyclopedia, Saint John the Baptist, a Jewish prophet, was the forerunner of Jesus Christ. He was the son of Zachariah, a priest of the Temple. Little is known of John prior to his public ministry, except that his birth was miraculously foretold (Luke 1:13-20). John achieved recognition as a prophet in the region of the lower Jordan Valley, where he attracted disciples. His public ministry began with the proclamation of a baptism of repentance in preparation for the Messiah. Crowds came to .....
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Eleanor Roosevelt
.... she was reunited with her father. He had stopped his drinking, and wanted to be back in Eleanor's life. He wrote her often, for at this time he was living in Virginia. He would come for visits and send her gifts.
His life of sobriety, didn't last long. Once on a visit with Eleanor, went into a tavern and told her to wait outside. Six hours later, she saw him being carried out and helped into a passing cab. As soon as Grandmother Hall found out about his latest fiasco, she discouraged even the sh .....
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Martin Luther And His Teachings
.... the amount of books printed increased seven times and between 1517-1520, thirty Lutheran tracts sold 300,000 copies. Another reason was the financial and political difficulties experienced by the Church of Rome. Many people were worried about the prevalence of corruption and bribery and also critical of certain practices such as indulgences. The papacy was open to considerable amounts of criticism. Peasants also questioned why they had to pay tithes and why they couldn't elect their own priests. .....
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Franklin Delino Roosevelt
.... have credited President Roosevelt with saving our country from total economic disaster. Right after the war all of America’s debts came due and with the richest farm land in the country being abandoned by the farmers with total crop loss the stock market crashed taking the American dollar with it. President Roosevelt turned many state problems into national one by making it the federal government responsible for providing jobs to anyone who was willing to work
To do his he created companies and fed .....
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Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856)
.... done in his time.
Avogadro's work was recognized nearly fifty years after he had made his hypothesis. Two years after his death, his colleague, Cannizzaro, showed how the use of Avogadro's number could solve many of the problems in chemistry. This time Avogadro's paper was looked at more carefully over a wider and more distinguished group of scientists, thus his work was finally recognized. Avogadro's work helped other scientists to solve more problems and develop more theories.
Avogadro has based .....
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Adolf Hitler: Ruthless Leader Of Germany
.... into the academy. The dean of the academy told Adolf that he could never be a painter (Smith 29). This rejection crushed him, as he now had nowhere else to go. I like to speculate what would have happened if he had been accepted into the academy. Would the world have been spared World War II?
While living in Vienna Adolf made his living by drawing small pictures of famous landmarks which he sold as post cards. He wasn’t successful and didn’t make any money. He was a regular reader of a small p .....
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Chirstopher Columbus' Explorations
.... of the new group lie Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Christopher was astounded to see that the vegetation was in bloom all year. Though I think this was for reasons greater than just their aesthetic beauty. I'm sure he was conjuring up great plans, for in the back of his mind he was probably thinking about the shortage of lumber back home. This abundance would take care of that problem. He could also bring back the fruits and whatever else he fancied to impress his majesties of Spain with. It just seems .....
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Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 To 1827)
.... from Mozart, but unfortunately his mothers sudden ill health prompted his return to Germany. By the time he returned to Vienna in 1792, Mozart had already passed away.
Beethoven soon earned a good living being a musician. He completed his first symphony in 1800, and many other piano, cello, and violin sonatas. Beethoven was Vienna’s first successful “freelance” musician. Instead of depending on the support of the aristocracy, he had wealthy friends, patrons and admirers of his music He was .....
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Relief, Recovery, Reform
.... With the okay from FDR, the Hundred Days Congress passed much legislation in order to help in the first short range goal - to give immediate relief. In 1933, Congress created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which provided employment in fresh - air government camps for about 3 million uniformed young men. Their work included reforestation, fire fighting, flood control, and swamp drainage. Also new in 1933 was the Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA). It was the first major effort of Con .....
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Judith Sargeant Murray
.... and married woman. It was her belief that if woman had enough respect for themselves as people, they would not see marriage as a haven or as a way to gain respectability. I'm not saying that Murray didn't believe in marriage; quite the contrary she believed strongly in the bond of marriage. It was her belief that an educated woman would make a better wife. Her second husband was John Murray, the minister responsible for transporting the Universalist religion fron England to America. They traveled and work .....
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