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- 1211: Fredrick Douglas
- ... of meaning to themselves. I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do. I did not, as a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs. I was within the circle; so that I neither saw nor heard as ...
- 1212: Emily Dickinson
- ... Thoreau believed that answers lie in the individual. Emerson set the tone for the era when he said, "Who so would be a human, must be a non-conformist." Emily Dickinson believed and practiced this philosophy. When she was young she was brought up by a stern and austere father. In her childhood she was shy and already different from the others. Like all the Dickinson children, male or female, Emily ...
- 1213: Al Capone
- ... States were Italian. Capone was forced to either deal with a miserable low wage job with a hopeless future or make an improvement for himself by committing first minor, then serious crimes. Al Capone's philosophy was that laws only applied to people who had enough money to live by them. While in the “Bim Booms” gang, Capone was taught how to defend himself with a knife, and with a gun ...
- 1214: Jane Addams
- ... college called Rockford Seminary. “During her 4 years at Rockford, she took courses in German, Latin, Greek, history, literature, algebra, and trigonometry. She also studied science-geology, chemistry, mineralogy, and astronomy-as well as music, philosophy and Bible history” ( Kittredge 34). On top of taking these difficult courses, she scored nearly perfect in almost every class. Knowing that her goal in life was to benefit others in some form or another ...
- 1215: Aldous Huxley
- ... with Gerald Heard. He believed California’s climate would help his eyesight, which had become a constant burden (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). After coming to the U.S., Huxley produced many nonfiction works including The Perennial Philosophy and The Devils of Loudon (Philosopher’s Corner Presents: Aldous Huxley). Huxley also wrote screenplays in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood in California. He wrote the screenplay for Pride and Prejudice in 1940 (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley ...
- 1216: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... As he walked into his garden a thought might suddenly occur to him. He would then run back into his house and start testing out his idea. Newton's book The Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy came out in 1687. It was written in Latin, which is the language which most scientific books were written in those times. Newton's book is usually called the Principia, after its Latin title. Many ...
- 1217: Stephen Sondheim
- ... somewhat reluctant lyricist to Leonard Bernstein on West Side Story (1957) and Jule Styne on Gypsy (1959). Exciting and adventurous as those shows were in their day, and for all their enduring popularity, Sondheim's philosophy since is encapsulated in one of his song titles: "I Never Do Anything Twice". His first score as composer-lyricist was A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1962) - a show so ...
- 1218: Steve Jobs
- ... boxes”. In 1972 Steve graduated from high school and registered at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After dropping out of Reed after one semester he hung around the campus for a year taking classes in philosophy and immersing himself in the counter culture. In 1974, Steve Jobs took a job as a video game designer at Atari, Inc., a pioneer in electronic arcade recreation. After a few months he saved enough ...
- 1219: Poussin And Roman Influences I
- ... considerably affected the newly formed institutions of French art. The accepted teachings at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, which was founded in 1648, were based upon Poussin's ideological values for art. His philosophy about the great importance of drawing as the crucial intellectual core of painting was a precept at the Academy. The new official stance on artistic value reflected Poussin's own artistic values and his belief ...
- 1220: George Berkely Philosopher
- ... 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 ...
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