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Helen Of Troy: The Face That Launched One Thousand Ships
1421 Words - 6 Pages.... the voices of all the wives of the Greeks while they waited inside the Trojan Horse, she is also in possession of an Egyptian drug which removes all sorrow.
Helen's role in the War is ambiguous. In the Iliad she is critical of herself and of Paris (and of Aphrodite), while the Trojan horse episode seems like an attempt to trick the Greeks and save the Trojans. After Homer the tradition becomes even more complicated. The 6th century poet Stesichoros was said to have been blinded for saying that Helen went to Troy and only recovered his sight when he wrote the following Palinode (recantation):
No, that story is not true
You did not sail in the well-decked ships
Nor did you r ....
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Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein
746 Words - 3 Pages.... was on the photoelectric effect, which contained a
revolutionary hypothesis on the nature of light. I proposed that under certain
circumstances light can be considered as consisting of particles, and I also
hypothesized that energy carried by any light particle, called a photon, is
proportional to the frequency of the radiation. The formula for this is E=hv,
where E is the radiation, h is a universal constant known as Planck's constant,
and v is the frequency of the radiation. This proposal, that the energy
contained within a light beam is transferred by individual units, or quanta,
contradicted the hundred year old tradition of considering light as a
manifestation of ....
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Mozart
916 Words - 4 Pages.... and her husband, Emperor Francis I, received them cordially. Later the Mozart children displayed (1763-66) their talents to audiences in Germany, in Paris, at court in Versailles, and in London (where Wolfgang wrote his first symphonies and was befriended by Johann Christian Bach, whose musical influence on Wolfgang was profound). In Paris the young Mozart published his first works, four sonatas for clavier with accompanying violin (1764). In 1768 he composed his first opera, La Finta Semplice, for Vienna, but intrigues prevented its performance, and it was first presented a year later at Salzburg. In 1769-70, Leopold and Wolfgang undertook a tour through Italy. This firs ....
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Van Gogh
1920 Words - 7 Pages.... worked for a while as a lay
preacher among proverty-stricken miners. Van Gogh represented the
religious society that trained him in a poor coal-mining district in
Belgium. Vincent took his work so seriously that he went without food and
other necessities so he could give more to the poor. The missionary
society objected to Vincent's behavior and fired him in 1879. Heartsick,
van Gogh struggled to keep going socially and financially, yet he was
always rejected by other people, and felt lost and forsaken.
Then, in 1880, at age 27, he became obsessed with art. The intensity
he had for religion, he now focused on art. His early drawings were crude
but strong and fu ....
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Malcolm X
327 Words - 2 Pages.... became interested in the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the black Muslims, also called the Nation of Islam. Malcolm spent his time in jail educating himself and learning more about the black Muslims, who advocated racial separation. When Malcolm was released in 1952, he joined a black Muslim temple in Detroit, and took the name . In 1958 he married Betty Shabazz, and they had six daughters.
By the early 1960s, the Nation of Islam had become well known and Malcolm was their most prominent spokesperson. In 1963, however, the black Muslims silenced Malcolm for his remark that the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy was like "the chickens comin ....
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Peter The Great
846 Words - 4 Pages.... of serfs, the merchants, nobles, and elite only populated five percent of Russia. The elite, like the serfs, were not very well educated at all. Timmerman, a knowledgeable man from Germany, taught and showed Peter all of the nautical instruments need to navigate a ship. Peter became very interested in nautical things. Peter soon left Russia and plundered Europe for knowledge, inventions, and great minds to bring back to Russia. His voyage ended in the rich and luxurious city of Amsterdam. Peter began to study Holland’s ships and navy, and hired ship builders to go home with him, and help him prepare a sea power. Peter, wanting to really learn how to build a ship, signed on ....
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Ernest Miller Hemingway
489 Words - 2 Pages.... 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 the smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always.
Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation.
The town ....
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D.H. Lawrence
779 Words - 3 Pages.... of Lawrence’s writing reflected nature. The nature in his book came from his own experiences he had while traveling abroad with his wife or just on the nature of where he grew up. His most original poetry, published in Birds, Beasts, and Flowers, flowed from his own experience of nature in the southwestern U.S. and the Mediterranean region. Also, the most significant of his early fiction, Sons and Lovers, dealt with life in a mining town. Another
wonderful example of the nature in ’s writing would come from The Shadow in the Rose Garden. In this book, the images he has given to a person, make it seem like they really are there. "She closed her sunshade and walked s ....
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