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- 551: Jean Jacque Piaget
- ... born in Neuchatel, Switzerland on August 9, 1896 and died in Geneva on September 16, 1980. Piaget was best known for his work in developmental psychology of children and genetic epistemology. Piaget began his work studying natural sciences at the University of Neuchatel where he later obtained a Ph.D. Throughout Piaget’s life he discovered and accomplished many things and undoubtedly made the most of his life. Piaget decided to ...
- 552: Ernest Hemingway and A Farewell to Arms
- ... from something important for the good of mankind. Ernest's father, a man of high ideals, was very strict and censored the books he allowed his children to read. He forbad Ernest's sister from studying ballet for it was coeducational, and dancing together led to "hell and damnation". Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed ...
- 553: The Nomination of Andrew Jackson to the "Presidents Hall of Fame"
- ... presidency to be known as the "Age of Jackson." Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in a settlement on the border of North and South Carolina. He was orphaned at age 14. After studying law and becoming a member of the Bar in North Carolina later he moved to Nashville Tennessee. Their he became a member of a powerful political faction led by William Blount. He was married in ...
- 554: The Autobiography of Malcom X
- ... white government who was responsible for his beloved mother’s insanity, also nourished his hatred and racism. Although willing to stay in the white society and to become a lawyer, his teacher prevented him from studying law, because he thought this was not appropriate for a Negro. Detroit Red: Not being able to get a good job, Malcolm had to become a hustler to earn enough money for his excessive life ...
- 555: Elie Wiesel
- ... concerned about his community yet, he was not an emotional man. His parents were owners of a shop and his two oldest sisters worked for his parents. Elie was a school boy and interested in studying the Zohar “the cabbalistic books, the secrets of Jewish mysticism”(Wiesel 3). His teacher was a foreigner, Moshe the Beadle, a “poor barefoot of Signet”(Wiesel 3). He was Elie's teacher until he was ...
- 556: Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent into Metaphorical Hell
- ... political altercations, he joined the Guelphs, as opposed to the Chibellines, and he was involved in a battle and emerged victorious. It was around this time, 1290, that Beatrice died, after she died he began studying philosophy, he read the works of Boethius and Cicero. He soon after married Gemma Donati, a member of a noble Florentine Guelph family. He attempted to settle down and forget Beatrice, however he became more ...
- 557: John Alexander Macdonald: A Good Role Model?
- ... Good Role Model? A role model can be looked up upon and imitated. Many would argue that Sir John A. Macdonald is not someone of this stature, but I have different opinions about him. By studying some books about him I concluded that this humble man is someone who deserves to be known as a good role model. Here are some reasons to why. It is John A. Macdonald's outstanding ...
- 558: Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer
- ... societies evolved from similar hordes by means of increased divisions of labor, into complex civilizations. Primitive men were smaller, less intelligent and more emotional than civilized men. According to Spencer they became more intelligent by studying children in civilized societies. Religion is the result of ghost souls in dreams and worship was directed toward the souls of dead ancestors. This led Spencer to believe that civilized religions were more or less ...
- 559: Abraham Lincoln: Biography
- ... beginning. Born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln spent most of his childhood working on the family farm. He had less than a year of school but managed to educate himself by studying and reading books on his own. He believed that slavery and democracy were fundamentally incompatible. In an 1858 speech, he said: What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independance? It is not our ...
- 560: Pythagoras
- ... a formidable scientist and mathematician even today. Pythagoras will always be a significant person in history, because of the discoveries made by him, his students in ancient Greece, and the ever growing amount of people studying his teachings today and who will continue to learn and follow his lessons until the end of time.
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