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- 17541: Frank Sinatra
- ... the decline of big-band instrumental jazz music, and helped establish an enthusiastic climate for popular singers. One of the songs Frank Sinatra is most known for singing is the hit My Way. Frank Sinatra s career began after he signed his first performing contract, when he was 24. He got his start singing with Tommy Dorsey s band in the 1930 s. He then scored his first number one song a little more than a year later, I ll Never Smile Again . Sinatra s popularity began to rise through airtime as a radio singer during World ...
- 17542: Aristotle Voluntary Vs. Involu
- Where Does Voluntary Begin? Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle attempts to define the meaning of ethics and to create the perfect society as did Plato in The Republic. In Aristotle s attempt at definition he discusses the difference and significance of voluntary and involuntary action. Beginning by defining, Aristotle soon realizes many situations are too complex for just black vs. white terms and he introduces another ... even praised for doing them [voluntary actions], for example, if they endured shameful or painful treatment in return (p.53). If others feel that an action is worthy or noble they will acknowledge the person s conscious choice of the action and see they receive due reward. In general, Aristotle feels that people are in control of their actions, whether a thoughtful choice is made or not. Here Aristotle makes a ... in ignorance, while a man unaware of social customs is acting due to ignorance. Here is also where the distinction between involuntary and non- voluntary action is drawn. The distinction is found in a man s reaction to his involuntary action. Aristotle feels that an involuntary action due to ignorance is only when the action brings regret or sadness in is aftermath. As he says of the man who feels ...
- 17543: Feminism
- ... born in 1759 to a gentry farmer and an unloving mother and is said to have began her protests at an early age by protecting her mother from an abusive father and resenting her brother's favored position. She worked as a governess for a number of years however she chose to make an unconventional career as an editor and a journalist. In 1786 she wrote the Thoughts on the Education ... Wollstonecraft explains that women should move away from their old emotional stereotypes and see education as the fundamental access to achieve a place in society. The Rights of women contained other unconventional beliefs on society's standards of which Marriage was a constant theme. Marriage gave the husband legal ownership of his wife, her property, and their children. To divorce meant to leave everything behind. By being against Marriage Wollstonecraft was ... argued was nothing more than 'legalized prostitution'. These ideas were highlighted in her fictional tale Maria, where the protagonist is imprisoned in a mental hospital at the hands of her abusive husband. Maria reiterates Wollstonecraft's view on the disabilities that society imposed on women. Many criticize that Wollstonecraft's achievements in the Vindication's of the Rights of Women were widespread in 18th century England. But it is necessary ...
- 17544: A Reminder Of Manhood In The O
- A Reminder of Manhood Throughout Homer's epic work, The Odyssey, Odysseus encounters temptations of beautiful women and the promise of immortality. Under the price of having to sacrifice his manhood, Odysseus is willing to abandon his homeland, one of the ways ... Calypso attempts to convince Odysseus to stay, with visions of regaining his identity in sight, he declines her offer of immortal life and chooses to leave the island. When Odysseus and his crew reach Circe's island, Hermes is quick to warn Odysseus against this enchantress' powers. Cautioning Odysseus against Circe's enchanted cup, Hermes gives him a magical plant that will counteract the affects of her magic: Your cup with numbing drops of night and evil, stilled of all remorse, she will infuse to charm ...
- 17545: A Rose For Emily
- ... good example of the results or effects of those qualities, such as her father. Her father was a great person who was respected by everyone, and the town thought that Emily would take his father's place. After Emily father's death, the situation changed, but people in town did not notice it. Emily became depressive and she leaded her to her own decay. People also thought that she had a strong personality because she dominated ... The erection of a monument is an honor made to someone who did something special. A monument represents someone that has been popular during a certain period of time, like the Griersons were. The Emily's isolation plays an other major role in this story because it is the reason of her behaving. Emily's father did not like loneliness, therefore he kept her beside him until his death. This ...
- 17546: Legalization of Marijana: For
- Legalization of Marijana: For It's time we put to rest the myth that smoking marijuana is a fringe or deviant activity, engaged in only by those on the margins of American society. In reality, marijuana smoking is extremely common, and ... measures of impairment be developed and used, rather than chemical testing. III. SET AND SETTING The responsible cannabis user will carefully consider his/her set and setting, regulating use accordingly. "Set" refers to the consumer's values, attitudes, experience and personality, and "setting" means the consumer's physical and social circumstances. The responsible cannabis consumer will be vigilant as to conditions -- time, place, mood, etc. --and does not hesitate to say "no" when those conditions are not conducive to a safe, ...
- 17547: Galileo Gallilei
- ... When his father learned of this, he was furious and traveled 60 miles from Florence to Pisa just to confront his son with the knowledge that he had been “neglecting his studies.” The grand duke’s mathematician intervened and persuaded Vincenzio to allow Galileo to study mathematics on the condition that after one year, all of Galileo’s support would be cut off and he was on his own. In the spring of 1585, Galileo skipped his final exams and left the university without a degree. He began finding work as a math ... of mathematics at the university of Pisa, the same one he had left without a degree four years before. Galileo was a brilliant teacher, but his radical ways of thinking and open criticism of Aristotle’s teachings were not acceptable to the other professors at the university. They felt that he was too radical and that his teachings were not suitable. In 1592, his three-year contract was not renewed. ...
- 17548: The Newbury Centralized School
- ... a rough start but in the end it came out as a superb school. The school building itself was a quality building, which was built at a fair price. Besides this factor was the school’s excellent curriculum. The curriculum offered the students a very varied schedule for their time. In addition to the student’s varied schedule, they could participate in sports and extra curricular activities. However, activities for the students were not the only activities held at the school. Activities and meetings that were for the community were also held at the school. Newbury’s Centralized School, being an exceptional school for its time, met the needs of the students and the community in 1930. The Newbury Centralized School was a great school, however, building the school and getting ...
- 17549: Frank Lloyd Wright 3
- ... In 1887 he left school and went to Chicago where he became a designer for the firm of Adler and Sullivan with a pay of twenty-five dollars a week. Soon Wright became Louis Sullivan s chief assistant. Louis Sullivan, Chicago based architect, one of America s advanced designers. Louis had a profound influence on Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright was assigned most of the firm s home projects, but to pay his many debts he designed Bootlegged Houses for private clients in his spare time. Sullivan disapproved, resulting in Wright leaving the firm in 1893 to establish his own office ...
- 17550: Freud 2
- ... three years old his family, fleeing from the anti-Semitic riots then raging in Freiberg, moved to Leipzig. Shortly thereafter, the family settled in Vienna, where Freud remained for most of his life. Although Freud's ambition from childhood had been a career in law, he decided to become a medical student shortly before he entered the University of Vienna in 1873. Inspired by the scientific investigations of the German poet ... a year of compulsory military service, he received his medical degree. Unwilling to give up his experimental work, however, he remained at the university as a demonstrator in the physiological laboratory. In 1883, at Brücke's urging, he reluctantly abandoned theoretical research to gain practical experience. Freud spent three years at the General Hospital of Vienna, devoting himself successively to psychiatry, dermatology, and nervous diseases. In 1885, following his appointment as ... as a student of the French neurologist Jean Charcot. Charcot, who was the director of the clinic at the mental hospital, the Salpêtrière, was then treating nervous disorders by the use of hypnotic suggestion. Freud's studies under Charcot, which centered largely on hysteria, influenced him greatly in channeling his interests to psychopathology. In 1886 Freud established a private practice in Vienna specializing in nervous disease. He met with violent ...
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