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- 731: Thomas Paine
- ... band thousands of Englishmen together to fight for Independence. Thomas Paine was born in England on January 29, 1737. Paine travelled to American 1774, He landed, then went to Pennsylvania. When he landed he started teaching two children with the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin. After he got a job as a journalist and essayist and helped a Scotsman named Robert Aitkin start a magazine called the Pennsylvania Magazine. They talked all ...
- 732: Abigail Adams
- ... house because of the recent Boston Massacre happening. While Abigail was there, She had her last son named Thomas. John soon bought a brick house back in Boston and moved everyone back in. Abigail started teaching the children to read and write. John told Abigail almost everything that he knew and went to her for political problems. He understood what she could understand and trusted her. Abigail became the most informed ...
- 733: The Dialectical Cut in Socrates' Soul
- ... and it will advance by itself, I will let it go... for time would be superfluous" (Sophist, 265e). The stranger teaches skepticism that one must have to become the philsopher but at the same time teaching Theaetetus not to give up altogether. In contrast to Theaetetus' moderation, Young Socrates is excess of courage. Where Theaetetus is timid, Young Socrates is courageous. Young Socrates first fault is that he has trouble following ...
- 734: Carl Gustav Jung
- ... a farmer is too strong, so he rejects it. But the idea keeps plaguing him, because of the persistent pressure exerted by the shadow. Finally, one day he gives in and turns from farming to teaching psychology. When the ego and the shadow work in close harmony, the person feels full of life and vigor. The Self - The concept of the total personality or psyche is a central feature of Jung ...
- 735: Charles Darwin
- ... 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, "Here's a boy ...
- 736: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... could force air out of. This contraption could make human-like sounds. After this Alexander manipulated his dogs vocal cords and mouth to change growls to words. By the time Alexander was sixteen he was teaching music at a boys boarding school. Alexander Bell meet Thomas Watson at an electrical machine shop, Watson and Alexander formed a friendship after Alexander told him of his idea about transmitting speech over a wire ...
- 737: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... for music, but he was not accepted due to the fact that he had failed physics (Stinson 6). This minor set back did not, however, keep Burgess from learning how to play the piano and teaching himself how to compose music (Stinson 5). Even some critics have noticed how Burgess allows his love for music to creep into his love for literature: "[Burgess's] continuing fondness for music often found its ...
- 738: Albert Einstein
- ... interested in science, went to Zurich, Switzerland, to enter a famous technical school. There his ability in mathematics and physics began to show. When Einstein was graduated in 1900 he was unable to get a teaching appointment at a university. Instead he got a clerical job in the patent office at Bern, Switzerland. It was not what he wanted but it would give him leisure for studying and thinking. While over ...
- 739: Abigail Adams
- ... house because of the recent Boston Massacre happening. While Abigail was there, She had her last son named Thomas. John soon bought a brick house back in Boston and moved everyone back in. Abigail started teaching the children to read and write. John told Abigail almost everything that he knew and went to her for political problems. He understood what she could understand and trusted her. Abigail became the most informed ...
- 740: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... by detecting echoes from them. With his many inventions (especially the insanely popular and universally applied telephone), his efforts to educate the deaf, and the founding and financing of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (now called the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf), Alexander Graham Bell has become a very important historical figure indeed (Berstein 9). Perhaps a key factor in Bell's ...
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