The Life Of Leonardo Da Vinci
.... and Leonardo had picked up a
variety of skills. He spent several years there practicing a variety of
things, drafting engineering, architecture, and building, but most of all
he study painting and drawing. The education Leonardo received from
Verrocchio was very practical. For his first project, Leonardo was
assigned to build a golden sphere and cross to sit on top of the domed
cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiori. It was a huge undertaking that
required complicated mathematical calculations and casting techniques. The
project taught Leonardo that “scientific knowledge and ate could work hand
in hand”. Although most people .....
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Biography: Helen Keller (1880-1968)
.... manual alphabet and the typewriter by the
age of 10. By age 16, she could speak well enough to go to prep school and
college. In 1888, Helen and her teacher went to the Perkins School for the
Blind, where Miss Sullivan continued to teach her. In 1894 they went on to
the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York, and later to a prep
school, the Cambridge School for Young Ladies.
College
In the fall of 1900, Helen Keller entered Radcliffe College, graduating in
1904 with a bachelor of arts degree cum laude. Anne Sullivan stayed with
her, interpreting class lectures and discussions.
While still at college Helen published The .....
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James "Jimmy" Earl Carter
.... the treaty of peace between Egypt
and Israel, the SALLT II treaty witht he Soviet Union, and the
establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of
China. He championed human rights throughout the world. On the domestic
side, the administration's achievements included a comprehensive energy
program conducted by a new Department of Energy; deregulation in energy,
transportation, communications and finance; major educational program order
a new Department of Education; and major environmental protection
legislation, including the Alaska Land Act. On January 19, 1981, Jimmy's
turn was over.
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The Life And Work Of Edgar Allen Poe
.... can be noted in Poe's "Fall of the House
of Usher". The idea of incest is insinuated here. The character Roderick
Usher has taken his sister for his wife. Poe has not married his sister
but his cousin however the subject of incest still remains. Poe married
his cousin Virginia, who was only 13. Poe's wife in 1843 had begun showing
symptoms of tuberculosis a year after she burst a blood vessel in her
throat. Madeline Usher - the sister to Roderick in Poe's tale, is also
deathly ill. She had a "settled apathy" a gradual decaying of the body.
Madeline later dies (by one interpretation) in this tale as does Virginia
in Januar .....
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Andrew Jackson
.... he was sixty-one
and perhaps the most unhealthy. He had two bullets permanently lodged in
him, and often spat up blood because of them. Many missions of Andrew
Jackson's were self-righteous and stubborn. By his victory at the Battle
of New Orleans, where he killed many Native Americans, he gained enough
momentum for the American people to adore him. With this momentum as "Old
Hickory," "Old Chieftain," and "Old Hero," people felt forever indebted to
his military value, therefore staying aboard his zany political wagon.
"The Bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill
it." After accomplishing his goal, stu .....
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Biography Of Edgar Allen Poe
.... She took him home with her, and another family took Rosalie. This
was in 1811, long before Juvenile Courts and official custody of orphaned
children.
Mrs. Allan would have liked to adopt Edgar, but her husband was
unwilling to commit himself to a step of such permanence. The acting
profession was despised at that time and even considered immoral. John
Allan could not help regarding the little son of actor parents as a
questionable person to inherit his name and the fortune he was busy
accumulating. He was willing however, to support the child, and in time
came to be proud of Edgar's good looks and intelligence.
En .....
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Kenichi Ohmae
.... of Heisei", a citizen's political
movement estavlished on November 25, 1992, to promote and catalyze the
reform of Japan's political and administrative systems. This organization
has two elect Diet members commited to this program.
Reform is almost unheard of in Japan. He is doing rallies, television
appearances, and bus tours, to recruite members across the country, who'll
support his organization with contributions of 10,000 yen($90).
Ohmae is also the founder and Managing Director of the "Ohmae and
Associates". Since October 1996, Ohmae has been a visting professor of the
Global Management Course, Graduate Sc .....
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Albert Einstein From Start To Finish
.... mastered it! He then moved on the violin. He took his violin to
school and everywhere he went. Albert's father had business problems as he
was growing up. His father was never around to love or help Albert. When
he was home he drank and had no patience for poor Einstein.
When Albert was going through high school he had many problems. He
didn't get any recognition for his efforts in math or science. He felt
hopeless. He did not do the subjects he fell to be pointless. In 1896, he
entered the Federal Institute of Technology, in Zurich, Switzerland. Here
Albert received his first recognition for his abilities. Albert was
su .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... me, I shall
be obliged if you will omit the 'Mr.' "
If we can imagine Washington doing so undignified a thing as did President
Lincoln, when he first met our present Secretary of State, (John Sherman)
and compared their respective heights by standing back to back, a sheet of
paper resting on the crowns of Washington and Jefferson would have lain
horizontal and been six feet two inches from the earth, but the one was
magnificent in physique, of massive frame and prodigious strength,—the
other was thin, wiry, bony, active, but with muscles of steel, while both
were as straight as the proverbial Indian arrow.
Jefferson's hair was .....
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Euclid And His Works
.... of the properties
of the five regular polyhedral and a proof that there are precisely five.
More than one thousand editions of The Elements have been published since
it was first printed in 1482.
The Elements Helpfulness
The Elements were obviously helpful because Zeno of Sidon about 250 years
after Euclid wrote The Elements, seems to have been the first to show that
Euclid's propositions were not deduced from the axioms alone, and Euclid
does make other subtle assumptions.
Other Publishing of Euclid
Euclid also wrote Data, On Divisions, Optics and Phenomena which have
survived. His other books Surface Loci, Porisms, Co .....
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Stephen King
.... ferocious dog that
starts out so innocent and kind , and ends up a brutal man killer(Bleiler, 1031).
The Shining, takes place in a motel that is haunted(Beacham, 748). Jack
Torrence is a writer who is ridden by guilt and failure(Beacham, 749). After
Torrence, his wife, and his five year old son are snowed in for the week, they
finally realize the evil that the motel actually possesses. In Firestarter, a
little girl possesses the power to start fires with her mind. These powers were
givin to her as a test by the government(Bleiler, 1041). Pet Semetary is about
a man name Louis Creed(Beacham, 754). After his cat and son die, h .....
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Robert Penn Warren
.... to become
a writer, in fact, one of his earlier dreams was to become an adventurer on
the high seas. This fantasy might have indeed come about, for his father
intended to get him an appointment to Annapolis, had it not been for a
childhood accident in which he lost sight in one of his eyes.
Warren was an outstanding student but there were also many books at home,
and he savored reading. His father at one time aspired to be a poet. His
grandfather Penn, with whom he spent much time when he was young, was an
exceptional storyteller and greatly influenced young Red. But both of these
men whom he loved had in some sense failed to .....
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