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- 1791: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 2
- ... has many implications for Modern Western Intellectual history. Lenin was born in central European Russia on April 22, 1870. He was born into the nobility with a cultured family. He had an early love for literature and a serious attitude toward study. Lenin had five brothers and sisters, one of whom would shape Lenin's attitudes and actions throughout his life. Sasha, an older brother to Lenin, was executed when Lenin ...
- 1792: Vincent Van Gogh 2
- ... old, he went to a boarding school, and the next year he started working at The Hague for his uncle who was an art dealer. While working, he realized that he was more interested in literature and religion than a business. Then he worked for awhile as a preacher among poverty miners in Belgium. Vincent worked really hard for the poor since he was very much dissatisfied with the way people ...
- 1793: Ray Bradbury
- ... Fahrenheit 451 was released in 1953 and is set in a future when the written word is forbidden. Resisting a totalitarian state which burns all the books, a group of rebels memorize entire works of literature and philosophy. There have been many recorded reactions to this book and this is just an example from a librarian: "fired off a letter of furious protest to the wholesaler. How dare they send such ...
- 1794: Psychology B.f Skiner
- ... awaited him if he ever turned out to be a criminal. Overall Skinner had a good and happy childhood. College Life After graduating high school, Skinner went to Hamilton College where he majored in English Literature and minored in Romance Languages. He was drawn toward English when he was in high school by one of his teachers named Miss Graves. She also was responsible for his enjoyment of art and sculpting ...
- 1795: Pablo Picasso 2
- ... an Andalusian of Majorcan origin. In 1896 Picasso entered the school of fine arts where his father was a professor. In 1900, Picasso visited Paris, at the time the world's centre for art and literature, and became infatuated with its street life, in particular, the area of Montmarte, Paris' bohemian district where he was able to study the City's poorer people. More importantly, it was here that he discovered ...
- 1796: Neil Simon
- ... attempt to provide a voice for Canadian women. In her efforts of creating a "voice for the voiceless" she also tried to elevate the position of women in society. She effectively challenged traditionally male oriented literature in order to advance the status of women. Throughout Nellie's writings, she challenged social and economic restraints which continue to suppress women, and at times argued support in favour of both maternal and equal ...
- 1797: Napoleon And Caesar
- ... he intended to achieve it by concentrating power in his own hands (Castelot 96). However, in the states he created, Napoleon granted constitutions, introduced law codes, abolished feudalism, created efficient governments and fostered education, science, literature and the arts (Castelot 97). Emperor Napoleon proved to be a superb civil administrator. One of his greatest achievements was his supervision of the revision and collection of French law into codes. The new law ...
- 1798: Napoleon 3
- ... He intended on achieving this by putting all the power in his own hands. However, in the states he created, Napoleon granted constitutions, introduced law codes, abolished feudalism, created efficient governments, and fostered education, science, literature, and arts. Napoleon still remains one of the outstanding figures of his time even though he was selfish in his power and had some occasional defeats. Today in the world in which we live many ...
- 1799: Maya Angelou 5
- ... improving conditions for women in Third World Countries (particularly Africa), Maya continues to shed light on the possibilities for victory that can accompany seeming defeat. Maya stresses to her students that reading, especially African- American literature reinforces to us that what has come before us has survived and produced, she finishes by saying You can pick yourself, dust yourself off, and prepare to love somebody. I don t mean sentimentally, I ...
- 1800: Mary Shelley
- ... and Mary Wollstonecraft gives birth to a baby girl on August 30. A baby girl soon to be known as Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley was a prominent literary figure during the Romantic Era of English Literature. She was the only child of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. From infancy Mary was treated as a unique individual. William Godwin believed that babies were born with potential waiting to be developed (Poetry for ...
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