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Aristotles Life
Number of Words: 322 / Number of Pages: 2
... philosopher, Socrates. Worried that he would be set to death for this charge, Aristotle fled to the city of Chalcis. A year after his arrival in Chalcis, Aristotle died (World Book 663).
Aristotle’s Physics
Aristotle work on basically all of the basic known subjects (Math, Science, Literature, English, Ethic, etc…). He also made his contribution in the field of Physics and Metaphysics (means after physics). Aristotle’s Physics is composed of several books and each is broken up into different parts of physics.
In Aristotle’s Physics, he thinks that natural objects are ...
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Life On Michelangelo
Number of Words: 1947 / Number of Pages: 8
... de' Medici, the Magnificent. There he had an opportunity to converse with the younger Medicis, two of whom later became popes (Leo X and Clement VII). He also became acquainted with such humanists as Marsilio Ficino and the poet Angelo Poliziano, who were frequent visitors. Michelangelo produced at least two relief sculptures by the time he was 16 years old, the Battle of the Centaurs and the Madonna of the Stairs (both 1489-92, Casa Buonarroti, Florence), which show that he had achieved a personal style at a very early age. His patron Lorenzo died in 1492; two years later Michelangelo fled Florence, ...
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Daniel Webster
Number of Words: 568 / Number of Pages: 3
... and an outstand outstanding orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected senator from Massachusetts. New circumstances enabled Webster to become a champion of American nationalism. With the Federalist party dead, he joined the National Republican party, allying himself with Westerner Henry CLAY and endorsing federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, the dominant economic interests of Massachusetts having shifted from shipping to manufacturing, Webster backed the high-tariff bill of that year. Angry Southern leaders condemned the tariff, and South Car ...
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Christopher Columbus
Number of Words: 447 / Number of Pages: 2
... society as a whole, had
thought that the Europeans were doing a favor, by changing their primitive
ways, when in fact, some of the Native American customs were far more
superior to what the Europeans had in their own. The obstinate Europeans,
did not want to make concessions because they had an assumed air of
superiority.
Columbus has been the all-time heroic figure portayed by people of
1862, they viewed him as a man of great and inventive genius. Columbus in
today's perception is a grasping fortune hunter, an incompetent governor of
the "New World" colonies, those fame to the Indians ...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Number of Words: 2959 / Number of Pages: 11
... belonged to France, the Bonapartes were French citizens and were eligible for this scholarship.
Napoleon was excited about his future. Still, he was apprehensive. He had never left the island before, and he didn’t know how to speak French. So before he could further his training, he would have to learn the language. To do this his parents were sending him first to a school in Autun in southern France. There the students were mean, they had laughed at his Corsican accent and mocked his poor clothes and rough manners. When Napoleon had learned to speak French fluently, he went to study at Br ...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams Into Reality In Much Of His 19th Century Prose
Number of Words: 1410 / Number of Pages: 6
... The Birthmark, published in 1850 during the latter part of the period of Puritanism expands his observations of mankind with keen insight.
Truth often finds its way to the mind close-muffled
in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising
directness of matters in regard to which we practice
an unconscious self-deception, during our waking
moments. (par.15)
The prophetic statement was made by Hawthorne to open the reader's mind and perhaps inject an introspective glimpse of his perspective that dreams do indeed contain precursors or warnings of future conscious realities. He also con ...
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Martin Luther Reformation
Number of Words: 2069 / Number of Pages: 8
... for him. Luther was preparing to be a lawyer to some prince or town after he received his degree in philosophy. But halfway through his training he decided to quit and take up life permanently in an Augustine monastery.
Historians speculate on why such a successful young man would want to join the monastery. Historians believe a string of events led Luther to choose the path of the Church. Being superstitious, Luther might have thought that this was god trying to get him to join the monastery. Luther made hid decision to go into the monastery during a thunderstorm. A bolt of lightening hit just a ...
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H.R. Gieger
Number of Words: 740 / Number of Pages: 3
... Underground magazines and the occassional reputational art magazines published many of his work, and eventually one of Giger's freinds helped him create posters. He even had a 10 minute interview done on him by a freind who was a movie director. Soon, Giger began getting work on movies, in creating the monsters and sometimes environments. His residences for the most part were all in condemned buildings, using the wide space for art studios. Giger also began using the airbrush, and has become known as the best aircrush artist in the world.
After college Giger's interest expanded into sculp ...
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King Arthur 2
Number of Words: 380 / Number of Pages: 2
... a warrior battling the Germanic invaders of the late fifth and early sixth centuries. Since there is no conclusive evidence for or
against Arthur's historicity, the debate will continue. But what can not be denied is the influence of the figure of Arthur on literature, art, music, and society from the Middle Ages to the present. Though there have been numerous historical novels that try to put Arthur into a sixth-century setting, it is the legendary figure of the late Middle Ages who has most captured the imagination. It is such a figure, the designer of an order of the best knights in the world, that ...
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Julius Caesar
Number of Words: 895 / Number of Pages: 4
... opposition between Caesar and some of the nobles in the political establishment. The second major theme in scene one had to do with the satisfaction and rapture of the public for Caesar. The public cheered and showered much enthusiasm for Caesar who defeated Pompey. This was an example of how the public got so easily persuaded by top authority. The publics acceptance and compliance to Marullus and Flavius is important also because it foreshadowed an influential and main part. It is the illustration for Antony’s manipulation of the public later on that determined the concluding acts of the pla ...
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