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- 6301: Pablo Picasso
- ... of fellow artists at cabarets like the Lapin Agile. 1905 and 1906 marked a radical change in color and mood for Picasso. He became fascinated with the acrobats, clowns and wandering families of the circus world. He started to paint in subtle pinks and grays, often highlighted with brighter tones. This was known as his "rose period." For Picasso the 1920's were years of rich artistic exploration and great productivity. Picasso continued to design theater sets and painted in Cubist, Classical and Surreal modes. In the early 1930's, Picasso did a large quantity of graphic illustrations. During World War II, Picasso lived in Paris, where he turned his energy to the art of ceramics. From 1947 to 1950, he pursued new methods of lithography. The l950's saw the beginning of a number ...
- 6302: The Presidency of Gerald Rudolph Ford
- ... He sought accommodations with the Soviet Union and China, and he helped preserve a tenuous Middle Eastern peace. But public desire for more vigorous leadership led to his defeat in the 1976 presidential election. During World War II, Ford served four years in the Navy as an aviation operations officer, including two years aboard the aircraft carrier USS Monterey. He was discharged as a lieutenant commander. After practicing law again, Ford ran ... share of the delegates. Ford based his preconvention campaign on his efforts to pull the country together after the Watergate scandals, the rebound of the economy after the recession, the maintenance of peace in the world, and his record of 27 years of public service Washington. Ford began the fall campaign as an underdog against a united Democratic party led by ex-governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia. Several developments made ...
- 6303: Marie Curie
- ... says in her memoir of him, Pierre belonged to no religion and I did not practice any. Their marriage (July 25, 1895) marked the start of a partnership that was soon to achieve results of world significance, in particular the discovery of polonium (so called by Maria in honour of Poland) in the summer of 1898, and that of radium a few months later. Following Henri Becquerel's discovery (1896) of ... Nobel Prize for Chemistry, for the isolation of pure radium. In 1914 she saw the completion of the building of the laboratories of the Radium Institute (Institut du Radium) at the University of Paris. Throughout World War I, Maria Curie, with the help of her daughter Irčne, devoted herself to the development of the use of X-radiography. In 1918 the Radium Institute, the staff of which Irčne had joined, began ...
- 6304: Flo Hyman
- ... the most valuable player at the North-Central and Caribbean American Championships in which the U. S. team came in second. Hyman’s key skill was hitting and she was voted best hitter at the World Cup Games in Tokyo in 1981. “In 1984, while still attending the University of Houston, Flo Hyman along with her teammates Ria Crockett and Rose Mager, led the USA team to a silver volleyball medal ... together. Although they didn’t have a coach for months and failed to qualify for the Montreal Olympics, Hyman stuck with the team and saw that it paid off when they finished fifth in the World Championships. No one ever told Hyman she couldn’t play volleyball when the U.S. volleyball team set up training headquarters in Colorado. Hyman quit what she was doing to live there and practice for ... realize it’s not as if I broke a bone. Pushing yourself over the barrier is a habit. I know I can do it and try something else crazy. If you want to even the war, you’ve got to pay the price.” Just as the American people knew Hyman, she suddenly collapsed during a routine substitution during a volleyball game. “Flo Hyman, the best American volleyball player ever, was ...
- 6305: Sojourner Truth
- ... whose mission was to exhort others to "embrace Jesus, and refrain from sin." Upon departing from New York City in 1843, Truth believed, as did more than one million Americans, that the end of the world was at hand. African Americans, in particular, foresaw an impending Day of Judgment prompted by the continuing national sin of slavery, and in her wanderings, Sojourner Truth preached for others to find Jesus before the ... and ar'n't I a woman? Although recent scholarship has questioned the authenticity of Gage's account, this 1863 publication only added to legends about Sojourner Truth. Sojourner Truth remained prominent during the Civil War. She helped to raise black troops for the Union Army, and, while in the nation's capital during 1864 and 1865, Truth met with President Lincoln, administered to African Americans in hospitals, and battled segregation in the city's public conveyances. After the war, Truth crisscrossed the country to call for the distribution of western lands to aid former slaves of the South. One speech, printed in "dialect" in her own Narrative, underscores the economic justice then sought ...
- 6306: Jim Morrison and Susan Sontag
- ... in Melbourne Florida to parents Steve and Clara Morrison(Hopkins, Sugerman 5). A few months after the birth of Jim Morrison, Jim's father Steve and his mine layer were sent off to fight in World War Two. For the next three years Jim's mother Clara, was forced to raise Jim with only the help of sympathizing relatives who believed in ideas such as "Children should be seen and not heard ... philosophies including the ideal of The Superman and how to become an existentialist. By the time Jim Morrison turned 23 he had become an existentialist and it was because of his psychological views of the world that inspired Jim's lyrics in his poems and music. The first of example of Jim involving existentialism in his lyrics comes from the song "An American Prayer" where Jim says "Grant us one ...
- 6307: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... 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 her perception of the world as beautiful. She hated dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and ... forbidden words just to create a ruckus. Ernest, though wild and crazy, was a warm, caring individual. He loved the sea, mountains and the stars and hated anyone who he saw as a phoney. During World War I, Ernest, rejected from service because of a bad left eye, was an ambulance driver, in Italy, for the Red Cross. Very much like the hero of A Far
- 6308: Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
- ... read some of their works before he went to secondary school (1941), the Colegio Nacional Dean Funes, Cordoba, where he excelled only in literature and sports. At home he was impressed by the Spanish Civil War refugees and by the long series of squalid political crises in Argentina which culminated in the 'Left Fascist' dictatorship of Juan Peron, to whom the Guevara de la Sernas were opposed. These events and influences ... guerrilla teachings of Mao Tse-tung, and 'Che', as he was now called (it means chum or buddy and is Italian origin), became his star pupil and was made a leader of the class. The war games at the farm attracted police attention, all the Cubans and Che were arrested, but released a month later (June 1956). When they invaded Cuba, Che went with them, first as doctor, soon as a ... even the merely discontented- youth of the later 1960s and early 70's a focus for the kind of desperate revolutionary action which seemed to millions of young people the only hope of destroying the world of bourgeois industrial capitalism and communism. Che's remains were found near Vallegrande, Bolivia at the end of June 1997. His remains were identified and were returned to Cuba .
- 6309: Judith Sargeant Murray
- ... of today are still fighting off stereotypes place on women years ago. It seems that the feminist movement has only just begun. We still have many battles to fight if we are to win the war. Murray is an early voice in the feminist movement. Her literary masterpieces engage the intellect and imagingation of her readers. She has given the feminist movement a solid foundation of which to base their arguments, even in the politically correct world of today. Dunlop informs us that "Judith Sargent Murray illustrates the historiometrician Dean Keith Semonton's dictum that "the most illustrious intellects tend to be those who least conform to the domination views of their ... playwright, and poet. She was a woman of independent means, a woman I admire and would emulate if I but knew how. Murray was an icon representing the hopes and dreams of women around the world. She accomplished that which many could only dream about. Although i see evidence of Murray's beliefs in effect today, I don't think she would approve the modern feminist movement. It was Murray' ...
- 6310: Marco Polo's Influence
- ... themselves were explorers and they were the ones who had brought him to China and other countries in Asia. They visited and traded a lot, therefore he was more open to other people in the world. His travels especially to China inspired him to write a book in prison. Kublai Khan was another important person in the life of Marco Polo. He was the Mongol leader in China when Marco Polo ... Chinese. He was also the writer of a book on his journey to China, which motivated a lot of other European explorers to go to China. This was a big contribution and impact to the world, for he had introduced the East to the West. Marco Polo has been said to be a genius and a confident man, but a lot of people have argued that statement. Did he actually go ... search for China and its riches. The foreigners to China then were very powerful and could have gone to China to strip their goods. This may have linked to some events such as the Opium War, and almost getting China colonized. Even though Marco Polo did not "corrupt" the Chinese deliberately, it did cause some effect by triggering a lot of people to going to China. Not only bad effects, ...
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