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- 1001: Blaise Pascal
- ... mechanical calculator of the 1940's. This almost assuredly makes Pascal second only to Shickard who manufactured the first in 1624. Pascal faced problems with the design of the calculator due to the design of French currency at the time. There were 12 deniers in a sol, and 20 sols in a livre. Therefore there were 240 deniers in a livre. Hence Pascal had to deal with more technical problems to ... of indivisibles to the problem of the area of any segment of a cycloid and center of gravity of any segment. He also solved the problem of volume and surface area of the solid of revolution formed by rotating x-axis of the cycloid. Pascal also issued a challenge offering two prizes for the solution to these problems. Wren, Laloubere, Leibniz, Huygens, Wallis, Fermat and other various mathematicians were issued the ...
- 1002: St. Joan Of Arc
- ... was born in Domremy in Lorraine, France, in 1412. Until the age of seventeen years, she lived the life of a simple shepherdess. At this time, she was commanded by Heavenly Voices to lead the French armies against the English forces which had invaded France. She did so with great success. Betrayed, she was tried by civil and apostolic courts and condemned to death. She was burned alive at the stake ... You, duke of Bedford, the Maid prays and requires of you that you cause no more destruction to be done. If you grant her right, still may you come into her company there where the French shall do the greatest feat of arms which ever was done for Christianity. And make answer if you wish to make peace in the city of Orleans. And if you make it not, you shall ... in 1909 and canonized as a Saint in 1920. The life of Jeanne d'Arc is amazing. She was devoted and loyal to her God, her King and noble calling which was to restore the French king, Charles VII to the throne. With that goal in mind, she lived and died for what she believed in. Her last words, as she was swallowed up with fire, was that of her ...
- 1003: Pablo Picasso
- ... York City) and also the "Dwarf Dancer". Suddenly, the 20-year-old painter, who now signed himself "Picasso", his mother's maiden name, moved toward a symbolism of great anguish and misery, inspired by the French painter Maurice Denis and the Spanish painters Isidro Nonell Y Monturiol and El Greco. This was his Blue Period, so called because most of these paintings were dominated by various shades of blue. During this ... to depict the subject simultaneously from several points of view." Analytical Cubism: "The arbitrary arrangement and interrelation of contours and fragments of contours without necessary reference to natural objects or their structure." Synthetic Cubism: "A French abstract art movement embracing analytical cubism from about 1906 to 1912 and synthetic cubism from 1913 into the following decade." Blue Period: This style emphasized a variety of Grey-Blues. The figures were mostly long ... Montmartre) nicknamed the "Bateau-Lavoir" because of its flimsy construction. The bateaux-lavoirs were well-known washing sheds for clothes, moored along the Seine river in Paris. 1907-1914 After developing a friendship with the french painter Georges Braque, Picasso begins his Cubist period, which will last until 1914. 1917 At the invitation of the Russian choreographer Diaghilev, Picasso travels to Rome to prepare the sets and costumes for the ...
- 1004: Oliver Cromwell
- ... to ally with France against Spain. He sent a naval expedition to the Spanish West Indies, and in 1655 conquered Jamaica. As the price for sending a fleet to Spanish Flanders to fight alongside the French he obtained possession of the port of Dunkirk. He also interested himself in Scandinavian affairs; although he admired King Charles X of Sweden, his first consideration in attempting to mediate in the Baltic was the ... complex. (Sherwood, 1997) When Cromwell's first Parliament met he justified the establishing of the Protectorate as "healing and settling" the nation after the civil wars. Arguing that his government had prevented anarchy and social revolution, he was particularly critical of the Levellers who, he said, wished to destroy well-tested institutions "whereby England hath been known for hundreds of years." He believed that they undermined "the natural magistracy of the ...
- 1005: Catherine The Great
- ... townspeople) also began to organize associations for the promotion of schools and publications. Catherine, who did not want to surrender control over social and cultural policy, viewed these activities with suspicion. The outbreak of the French Revolution (1789) and the publication of Aleksandr Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (1790), in which the author denounced the evils of serfdom, the immorality of society, and the abuses of government, prompted Catherine ...
- 1006: The Day The World Ended
- ... displays a definite influence on Paul, but all three are shown in different times of his life. This influence goes on to shape the life of Paul. In conjunction to this, the story of The French Lieutenants Woman and the main character in that story, Charles, will be compared showing similarities and differences of the relationships of women in his life. In the story Sons and Lovers from the very beginning ... Paul s relationship with Clara is purely physical, as shown by many of the descriptions he says of her. At this point the most significant comparison can be drawn between Sons and Lovers and The French Lieutenants Woman. The story of The French Lieutenants Woman can be briefly described as a story of the passion of love, and the journey to find it. Throughout the story the main character (Charles) is chasing after a women who he ...
- 1007: Kate Chopins The Awakening
- The novel opens on the Grand Isle, a summer retreat for the wealthy French Creoles of New Orleans. Leonce Pontellier, a wealthy New Orleans business man of forty years of age, reads his newspaper. Meanwhile, Mrs. Lebrun's parrot repeats phrases in English and French and her mockingbird sings in "fluty notes." Leonce retreats to his own cottage to escape the birds' noisy chatter. The cottages are a scene of bustling Sunday activity. A lady in black walks back and ... that social convention defines as "proper" or "respectable." The parrot shrieks "Go away! Damnation!" These are the first lines of The Awakening, and they signal the essentially tragic nature of the novel. The parrot speaks French, a little Spanish, and a "language which nobody understood." Again, the parrot serves as a metaphor for Edna's predicament. As she becomes more defiant, she voices unconventional opinion about the sacred institutions of ...
- 1008: Evolution Of They Dystopia
- ... the chilling future foretold in Brave New World lost plausibility with the development of a debauched communist government. George Orwell wrote the novel Animal Farm as a direct result of the events surrounding the Soviet Revolution. In writing the Communist Manifesto in 1848, Karl Marx theorized the creation of a revolutionary new form of government which had the potential to cure the ills plaguing early nineteenth century capitalist Europe. The creation of a government based on these principles occurred in 1917 with the Russian Revolution. The corruption which followed within this government gave Orwell the basis to construct the dystopia found in Animal Farm. The feudalist dystopia found in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is altered by the inspirational theories of Karl Marx and by the Russian Revolution, into the communist dystopia found in George Orwell's Animal Farm. The castes found in Brave New World depict an accurate representation of segregation in feudalistic society. This is most efficiently portrayed during the ...
- 1009: Candide The Satire Of An Age.
- ... are really idiots and says they are only smart because they have philosophers. This is typically Enlightenment, because nobles, are stupid and must have philosophers to make them Enlightened. For example L Hospital s a French Noble had in his possession mathematicians that developed new ways of taking limits (a Calculus idea). Yet in today's society we call this way L Hospital s Rule, not Bernoulli s rule who is ... Thus Voltaire is using a charming story to attack the people of his time who are against or are not Enlightened. Many other writers also attacked the ignoramuses of their time. For example Montesquie, a French philosopher use The Persian Letters to bombast French culture. Hence one reason that Candide is typically Enlightenment is because it makes fun of the reader who thinks that it is merely a comical story of a man and a quest for his ...
- 1010: Book Report On A Tale Of Two C
- ... Tale of Two Cities is one of the last scenes, when Sydney Carton is about to go to the guillotine. It takes place in Paris, near a prison, and many people have gathered to watch french aristocrats be beheaded. The atmosphere is tense and chaotic; Sydney, however, remains calm, even though he is about to be killed. Sydney is holding the hand of a young girl who is given no name ... his daughter, takes him out of France, and back to London, where they live for five years. After five years, the story is resumed, and Charles Darney is now on trial for conspiracy against the French government. Lucie had a brief encounter with Darney while she was on a ship taking her father home, and much to her dismay she is called to testify against him in court, because she saw ... is Charles who marries her, and they have two children, one of whom survives. Later in the story it is discovered that Charles's real name is Evremonde, not Darney, and that he is a French aristocrat. Dr. Manette had observed a horrendous act of maltreatment by the Evremonde brothers (Charles's father and uncle), and wrote a letter about the acts while he was in prison. Mr. Defarge finds ...
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