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- 681: Emile Durkheim
- ... he was an outgrowth of a distinguished line of rabbinical scholar (Rothschild; 1999). He graduated from the ‹cole Normale Sup¾rieure in Paris in 1882, then taught law and philosophy. However, in 1887 he began teaching sociology, first at the University of Bordeaux and later at the University of Paris. His knowledge of law and religion helped him to come up with a new theory, which concerned him with the basis ...
- 682: Antonio Vivaldi
- ... most influential of his age. He was born March 4, 1678, in Venice, and was trained by his father, a violinist at Saint Mark's Cathedral. He was ordained a priest in 1703 and began teaching that year at the Ospedale della Pietà, a conservatory for orphaned girls. He was associated with the Pietà, usually as music director, until 1740, training the students, composing concertos and oratorios for weekly concerts, while ...
- 683: Philophers David Hume and Descartes
- ... the wax if a fire were not present. This part of the what Descartes would call the essence of the wax would not be perceived according to Hume, unless induced from a prior experience. The teaching of these two philosophers have influenced many minds since their writings. Descartes belief that clear and distinct perceptions come from the intellect and not the senses was critical to his ultimate goal in Meditations on ...
- 684: The Accomplishments of Peter The Great
- ... His education started around the age of seven. One of his tutors was Nikita Zotov, who was a kind clerk, literate man who knew the Bible well but was not a scholar. While Zotov was teaching Peter to read and write, he told him stories of Russian history; of battles and heroes. Peter's education was less classical then that given to Feodor or Sophia. By the time Peter reached manhood ...
- 685: All Good Things
- ... write it down. It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed me the papers. Charlie smiled. Mark said, "Thank you for teaching me, Sister. Have a good weekend." That Saturday, I wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and I listed what everyone else had said about that individual. On Monday ...
- 686: The Wright Brothers
- ... their buyers and goods couldn’t be sent by air. Our community is also given the opportunity of another enjoyable passtime through the disconeries of the Wright’s. Thousands of pilots enjoy flying and enjoy teaching also. Millions of jobs including instructurs, pilots, taxi services, radio and radar operators, air traffic controllers, fuelers, loaders flight attendents, flight engineers, electricians, and computer specialists are available because of the invention of planes. (“Aviation ...
- 687: Ira Remsen: A Scientist Unknown His Work
- ... He introduced many German laboratory methods into Johns Hopkins and emphasized the university's function as a research "centre". At the time at Johns Hopkins he helped establish the school as a leading graduate science teaching institute in the United States, never seeking fame or fortune for his contributions to science. His work on the research-based Doctoral program at Hopkins was considered important improvement to science in the United States ...
- 688: B.F. Skinner and His Influence in Psychology
- ... natural selection, operant conditioning, and in the development of social environments. Skinner’s life appeared to be very good. He had a good family, two loving children and wife. He also had a good job teaching Psychology at his alma mater, Harvard University. America lost a very important, intellectual man in 1990 when B.F. Skinner died at the age of 86 of leukemia that he had contracted when he was ...
- 689: John Grisham
- ... horse stables, a full-time house keeper and maintaince man, and a private jet. Grisham swears, "We still think of ourselves as normal people" and defines normal as coaching his kid's Little League teams, teaching Sunday School, going on mission trips with members of his Southaven Baptist Church, donating to good causes, and, of course, writing one novel each year (Ferranti 82). John Grisham was co-writing the screenplay for ...
- 690: Presdent James Abram Garfield
- ... was a happy one. Their first child, Eliza (called Trot) was born two years later. "Be fit for more than the one thing you are now doing," Garfield advised his students. He himself, along with teaching and preaching, studied law and made political speeches for the new Republican party. In 1859 he was elected to the Ohio senate. When the Civil War broke out, in 1861, the governor appointed Garfield lieutenant ...
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