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- 1781: William DeKooning
- ... a beer distributor and his mother ran a bar. At the age of twelve, he became an apprentice at a commercial design and decorating firm. He studied for eight years at Rotterdam's leading art school. In 1926, de Kooning secured a passage on a streamer to the United States, illegally entering and settling in New Jersey. He quickly moved to Manhattan, painted signs and worked as a carpenter in New ... fellow artists. By the late 1940s, de Kooning along with Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, began to be recognized as a major painter in a movement called "Abstract Expressionism". This new school of thought shifted the center of twentieth century art form Paris to New York. Willem de Kooning was recognized as the only painter who had one foot in Europe and one in America. He combined ... art. There was not mere criticism by critics, who even hired some neurologists to back up their claim for faulty paintings. A lot was written to acknowledge and criticize the originator of the Abstract Expressionist School. The exhibition at San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art drew paintings from private and public collections. Most of the observers and curators called it the most fluid, sensual and celebratory works created in the ...
- 1782: Japanese Human Resource Manage
- ... labor force that consists of more than 60 million people, 45 million of those are regular employees. And for those who are working in a large firm, they are usually hired at the time of school graduation and retire at the compulsory age of 60. This kind of long-term employment system makes employers feel that labor is more of a fixed cost than a variable cost. Regular employment is not ... one of the reasons why this seniority based salary system is losing its validity in recent years. Salary differentials are implicit in the starting salary, a notion used in reference to the recruiting of new school graduates. In the overall salary system, it would be the closest approximation of a market rate. The competition to hire new school graduates remains keen among Japanese firms because they are the lowest paid in the system. The performance of the individual employee affects the basic salary by varying the speed of its progression. Appraisal is ...
- 1783: Mccarthyism
- ... in 1908 on a family farm in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. His parents were devout Catholics and told their nine children that "you shall live by the sweat of your brow". He went to a country school until grade eight, and at the age of nineteen became the manager of a grocery store in Manawa. He was a popular person and the store was very profitable. Then it was suggested by some friends that he go to high school, and in one year he crammed a full high school education, while being at the top of the class. He enrolled in Marquette University in Milwaukee, where he graduated as a lawyer. McCarthy then set up a law practice in Waupaca, a nearby town, ...
- 1784: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... onto his fictional characters, Doyle was able to write about something he believed in. Arthur Conan Doyle's life experiences also influenced his novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. As a child enrolled in boarding school, Doyle excelled in many things. Particularly, Doyle was very athletic and he did very well at mayn sports. The character of Sherlock Holmes demonstrates the same athletic ability as Doyle did in his boyhood years. Watson says about Holmes, "Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night." (Doyle 158) More importantly though, Doyle's time in medical school at the University of Edinburgh and the time he spent as a doctor greatly influence this novel. The character of Dr. Mortimer shows a great deal of knowledge about medicine. He was the one who ... Stapleton made about his past. "He [Stapleton] was once a schoolmaster in the north of England. Now, there is no one more easy to trace than a schoolmaster. A little investigation showed me that a school had come to grief under atrocious circumstances, and that the man who owned it-the name was different-had disappeared with his wife. The descriptions agreed. (Doyle 133) This simple piece of information led ...
- 1785: Writings of Maya Angelou
- ... when her mothers live-in boyfriend raped her. After that she returned to her grandmother and was a voluntary mute (Maya 16). At the age fourteen she received a scholarship to attend California Labor School (17). After that she attended George Washington High School. While there she wanted to be a street conductor. She applied for the job several times and finally succeeded (Holte 109-110). At one time Angelou was not sure of her identity. She thought she ... a lesbian, so she invited a classmate of hers to come over and have sex with her. This resulted in pregnancy. She gave birth to her son, Guy, a month after she graduated from high school in 1945 (Maya 18). When she was growing up, she suffered from people being racist toward her. For example, when she was younger her grandmother took her to a white dentist that refused to ...
- 1786: Shampoo Planets - Book Report
- ... his parents are Dr. Douglas Charles Thomas and Janet Coupland. He is the third son out of four in the Family. Douglas moved to Vancouver, Canada, when he was four years old and he attended school here until he graduated at Sentinel Secondary School in 1979. After high school he attended Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1984. He was quite a good artist, for he earned a solo art show at the Vancouver Art Gallery. In Japan, in completed a ...
- 1787: Ernest Hemingway
- ... been an adventurous person, he would have been indoors stuck in a popular adventure magazine or be daydreaming about pirates and faraway places (Russell 6). He was not a wimp by any means. In High School, he wrote for the school newspaper. He participated in boxing, which would help him make money as a sparring partner in Paris in later years. During his senior year in high school, World War 1 was intensifying in Europe. The United States tried to stay out for as long as possible, but when German submarines sank four American ships, America declared war in April 1917. Most ...
- 1788: Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin was the fifth child of Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgewood. He was born on February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England where his father practiced medicine. He attended Shrewsbury Grammar School which was a well-kn own secondary school which concentrated on teaching classic languages. Even as a boy Darwin loved science and his enthusiasm for chemical studies earned him the name "Gas" from his friends. The headmaster at Shrewsbury, Dr. Samuel Butler noted ... sixteen, his father removed him from Shrewsbury and entered him in the University of Edenburgh to study medicine. He found all of his classes except chem istry dull. After two years at Edenburg, he quit school and went to live with his Uncle Josiah Wedgewood. After he abandoned medicine, his father urged him to attend Cambridge University to study to be a clergyman. At Cambridge he met John Steven Henslow ...
- 1789: The Role of Decision Making in the Pre-Crisis Period of India (15 March, 1959 - 7 September, 1962)
- ... he remained certain that China had taken India mistakenly as representing threat from the imperialist West. On the question how to deal with the Sino-Indian conflict, Menon became the leading defender of a new school of thought. To that school the territorial disagreement between China and India was genuine, and not a reflection of deeper Chinese hostility. According to the school a political settlement with the Chinese could be reached and might also include territorial compromise (Langyel, 1962). In the political battle between India and China a lot of hard decisions had to be made. ...
- 1790: JFK: The Death of a Conspiracy
- ... was on its way to Washington, Bethesda Naval Hospital made preparations to receive it. The three doctors chosen to do the autopsy were Commander James Humes, M.D., director of labs at the Naval Medical School in Bethesda; Commander J Thorton Boswell, M.D., chief of Pathology at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Finck, M.D., chief of the Wound Ballistic Pathology Branch at the Armed Forces Institute of ... P.) (1749,2794,5,8). In addition to the three pathologists, there were two Navy enlisted men who served as autopsy technicians, three radiologists, and two photographers. One of the photographers was Bethesda's medical school chief of photography, John Stringer (2797). Dr. Humes was told personally by Rear Admiral Kenney, Surgeon General of the Navy, to find the cause of death (2796). According to Breo, Drs. Humes and Boswell thought ... the kind of weapon used. This is not so. The Warren Commission proved that it was one man using an Italian made, Mannlicher- Carcano rifle, which was found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building (Petty 1552). Lee Harvey Oswald shot the President from this building, expending three bullets from that rifle. The first bullet was shot from a range of one hundred seventy-five feet ...
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