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- 1171: Igor Stravinsky
- ... as childish, but on the other hand indulged him in it with the piano and the operas and the ballets. In 1902 he was sent to St. Petersburg University to study criminal law and legal philosophy to honor his parents wishes. While he was there, he still concentrated on his music and especially his composing. In the summer of 1902 he was introduced to the Russian composer, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. Rimsky ...
- 1172: Hume
- ... Hume subjected it? Who resurrected this false phoenix? Has the Design Argument been forever altered by Hume? Can it render service in post-Hume discussions? These are the questions we should confront. David Hume's philosophy of religion is fatal to the natural revelation of Deism. His arguments the camp of unbelief have appropriated. It is an argument against any inductive proof for God's existence. What Hume seeks to show ...
- 1173: History Of Womans Education
- ... for this reason she turned her attention towards New York State. She sent her plan to some very important men seeking approval: Governor Clinton, President Monroe, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. They all approved her philosophy, although Emma never maintained that women were the political equals of men or should assume roles independent as men. In 1819 Emma moved her school from Vermont to Waterford, New York. The Troy Common Council ...
- 1174: George Berkeley
- ... his theory by saying that the tree does in fact exist because God is the continuous perceiver of all things and therefore God always perceives the tree. This is an illegitimate appeal to save his philosophy. By saving his theory in this manner he shoots himself in the foot. If God cannot be perceived, and if to be is to be perceived, then God cannot possibly exist. Although the existence of ...
- 1175: Frank Lloyd Wright 3
- ... changed, and the entry route into the house was modified. Wright even allowed the growth of a willow tree to be uninterrupted by placing a hold in the roof of the studio. Wright created the philosophy of organic architecture, the central principal of which maintains that the building should develop out of its natural surroundings. From the outset he exhibited bold originality in his designs for both private and public structures ...
- 1176: Fidel Castro 2
- ... odious type of government. It killed its own citizens, it stifled dissent. At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing rebellion. Educated in America he was a proponent of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy. He conducted a brilliant guerilla campaign from the hills of Cuba against Batista. On January 1959, he prevailed and overthrew the Batista government. Castro promised to restore democracy in Cuba, a feat Batista had failed ...
- 1177: Ernest Hemingway 5
- ... was learning to get your money s worth and knowing when you had it. You could get your money s worth. The world was a good place to buy in. It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I thought, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I ve had. Perhaps that wasn t all true though. Perhaps as you went along you did learn ...
- 1178: Eisenhower 2
- ... than substantive, since they did little to ensure black access to the ballot box or to integrated public schools. Civil rights, in short, revealed more dramatically than any other issue the shortcomings of Eisenhower's philosophy of governmental restraint. Civil rights were just becoming a great national concern when Eisenhower was just entering politics. The barbarism of Nazi-Germany put a tremendous amount of pressure on the world to eliminate racism ...
- 1179: Ernesto Guevara De Serna
- ... 1960) he signed a trade pact with the USSR which freed the Cuban sugar industry from dependence on the teeth of the U.S. market. At this time, he glorified his own kind of communist philosophy. He was moving away from Moscow, towards Mao, and beyond into what is essentially the old idealistic, Anarchism. His formal breach with Soviet Communists came when, addressing the Organization for Afro-Asian Solidarity at Algiers ...
- 1180: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Pallas leads the narrator to think that the raven speaks only of wisdom. When Poe published the story "The Raven", he also wrote an essay on the creation of the story, it was titled "The Philosophy of Composition." In that essay Poe describes the work of composing the poem as if it were a mathematical problem. The most important thing to consider is the fact that "The Raven," as well as ...
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