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Maria Mithchell
939 Words - 4 Pages.... of God as in the natural world. By the time Maria was sixteen, she was a teacher of mathematics at Cyrus Pierce's school for young ladies where she used to be a student. Following that she opened a grammar school of her own. And only a year after that, at the age of eighteen she was offered a job as a librarian at Nantucket's Atheneum during the day when it opened to the public in the fall of 1836. At the Atheneum she taught herself astronomy by reading books on mathematics and science. At night she regularly studied the sky through her father's telesscope. ....
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Charles Dickens: Biography
1070 Words - 4 Pages.... He
never stepped out of it until he died. He was a good man, as men go in the
bewildering world of ours, brave, transparent, tender-hearted, and honorable.
Dickens was always a little too irritable because he was a little too happy.
Like the over-wrought child in society, he was splendidly sociable, and in and
yet sometimes quarrelsome. In all the practical relations of his life he was
what the child is at a party, genuinely delighted, delightful, affectionate and
happy, and in some strange way fundamentally sad and dangerously close to tears.
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At the age of 12 Charles worked in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of
shoe polish. He held the job only for a few ....
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Arnold Schönberg
264 Words - 1 Pages.... was eight and almost immediately started to compose. Berlin was very important for Schönberg's further artistic development. In 1902, he received on Richard Strauss' recommendation the popular Liszt-scholarship as well as a, apprenticeship at the Stern conservatory. Before returning to Vienna in 1903, he composed the symphonic poem "Pelleas und Melisande" op 5, where the limits of tonality were appreciably extended.
Schönberg revolutionized modern music by establishing the 12-tone technique of SERIAL MUSIC as an important organizational device. After the end of the war, Schönberg founded the "Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen" (society for private music perfor ....
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Ben Franklin’s Involvement In The Age Of Reason
770 Words - 3 Pages.... discouraged
Franklin. He once stated, “but on the whole, though I never arrived at the
perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,
yet I was by the Endeavor a better and happier man than I otherwise should
have been if I had not attempted it. His inventions, such as the open
heating stove, the bifocals, and other neat gadgets helped suit the needs
of people across the world. He was a tinkerer, one that was always playing,
trying to figure out, asking himself just how can I improve this or invent
something better.
Another reflection of the Age of Reason that involved Ben Franklin
was him being so pragmatic. His practical personality put r ....
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Peter The Great
1573 Words - 6 Pages.... the other hand implies that Peter’s main goal was to create a strong and powerful army, and that the ‘westernization’ of Russia was a byproduct of that. My third source, Infopedia (computer encyclopedia) stated that the modernization of Russia included the creation of an army capable of contending with the western world. Another point that the video stressed which the text book and the encyclopedia did not was the opposition that Peter faced from Russian traditionalist church followers. Also, Peter’s stepsister was only mentioned in the video viewed in class.
Peter Alexeevich, later to be known as , was born on May 30, 1672. He was the fourteenth child of his moth ....
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Socrates
643 Words - 3 Pages.... These people know the consequences of their actions. They know that every person that becomes addicted to tobacco will suffer terrible effects, and probably die from it in the end. believed that one, if healthy himself, should put the well being of others ahead of his own material goals. If the tobacco industry shared his views, they would stop deliberately harming their own kind and help repair the damages they have already done.
One more act of greed concerns the auto industry and its planned obsolescence of cars. If the people in charge of car companies respected the Socratic philosophy, they would do everything in their power to further the development of the industry. ....
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A Reflection On Herman Melville's Accomplishments
2516 Words - 10 Pages.... of eight children - four boys and four girls - who was
raised comfortably in a nice neighborhood in New York City. Herman Melville
came from a famous blood line out of Albany, NY. Melville's grandfather, General
Peter Gansevoort, was a hero. Even though the General died six years before
Melville was born, Melville still put him in his book, Pierre.
On the outer side of the blood line there was Major Melville. The Major
was a wealthy Boston merchant who was one of the famous "Mohawks" who boarded
the ship of the East India Company that night of 1773, and dumped the cargo in
to the Boston Harbor. Later Major Melville became the Naval Officer of The Port
of Boston, ....
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Hedda Gabler
643 Words - 3 Pages.... she once rejected as a suitor. She is meddling in Eilert’s life for her own amusement and control.
She lives in a male dominance society and environment which caged her and made her lose her freedom. Her desire to escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom come to the surface as she discovers her father’s pair of pistols. Comparing Hedda with the other women of the play we can see that thea wasn’t the woman with the more control. She also had an unhappy marriage because of Eilert’s work. Aunt Julia is different; she likes to help people, she raised George and took care Rina. As far as Berda is concerned, there is not much to say because she is th ....
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