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Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On
Number of Words: 954 / Number of Pages: 4
... to read. By the age of 12 he was reading Gibbon's 'Decline and more books of that nature. He had also begun to do chemistry experiments and had his own laboratory in his father's basement (Day and McNeil 231).
Second, the world revolves his fulfillment's. But his fulfillment's didn't come easy. He was newsboy on the Grand Trunk railroad. Between the trips from Port Huron to Detroit he would publish his own paper called The Herald. On day, he had two arms full of papers and was trying to climb into the freight car (Day and McNeil 231). The conductor helped him, so to speak. The conductor took ...
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Mozart
Number of Words: 479 / Number of Pages: 2
... write nearly a thousand works in his lifetime, with the significant ones to include over fifty symphonies, twenty seven piano concertos, and seven of the greatest operas of all time (). Some say that he was not an original composer because he never actually did invent a form or style, and his work leaned heavily on his predecessors. One can argue though that through his original contributions he changed the forms of the works entirely ( the Modernist pg.2). He had great emotional depth and his symphonies would combine perfect formal symmetry and symphonic design with emotional expressions that ...
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Louise Brooks
Number of Words: 1518 / Number of Pages: 6
... that all attempts to acknowledge her as just another representative of the Roaring 20’s are doomed. The motion picture camera renders her dreamlike; her spirit injects dark blood and ivory flesh into and onto the shadowy image. Onscreen, she is, she lives a merciless, innocent creature, frankly carnal yet whimsically childlike. She is the conscience of a murderer and the expressive generosity of a saint.
Brooks was loved for her youth and beauty, hated for her boat-rocking tantrums, envied for her success, and pitied for her defeat and despair. She was a rebel and an outsider. She did not make muc ...
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Colt: A Man And His Guns
Number of Words: 970 / Number of Pages: 4
... that Colt first conceived the idea of a revolving firearm. Some
think it may have come from watching the revolving wheel of the ship, turning
and locking. While on board ship, Colt must have seen other revolving firearms
in London or India. He carved a wooden model of his ideal gun while he was at
sea. None of what Colt may have previously seen on revolving guns could have
led to his invention. His ideas were not copied from any source, even though the
revolving idea was not unique.
When Colt arrived home from sea, he showed the wooden model to his
father and a family friend. This fri ...
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The Life Of Henry Ford
Number of Words: 2795 / Number of Pages: 11
... he picked up a few tools and headed for the old mill to find how steam was regulated to enable the saws to work. He examined the steam ports and saw how the slide valve controlled the steam. Shortly afterwards, as Henry and his father were going into town, they met a huge, steampowered vehicle on the road. Henry had his father stop so he could talk to the driver. The driver explained to him how the engine boiler and cylinder worked.
A year or two later, Henry fixed a broken watch that his friend had and soon after, everybody started bringing their broken watches to him. He fixed all of them ...
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Nelson Mandela
Number of Words: 2925 / Number of Pages: 11
... sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement! Let freedom reign. God bless Africa!
MANDELA 1994
When elected, Nelson Mandela spoke words the entire country had been longing to hear. He spoke of freedoms and luxuries that many Black South Africans had never been given the privilege to experience. Beginning with colonization and through to the present, South Africa has been stricken with racial tensions. The election of Nelson Mandela in 1994 marked the first time all race elections were held in South Africa and the end of all White rule. Prior to 1994, only White people held political c ...
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Freud
Number of Words: 4758 / Number of Pages: 18
... lost feeling in his foot with no evidence to any sensory nerve damage. wondered if the problem could be psychological rather than physiological. Dr. evolved as he treated patients and analyzed himself. He recorded his assessment and expounded his theories in 24 volumes published between 1888 and 1939. Although his first book, The Interpretation of Dreams, sold only 600 copies in its first eight years of publication, his ideas gradually began to attract faithful followers and students - along with a great number of critics. While exploring the possible psychological roots of nervous disorders, spe ...
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Tiger Woods
Number of Words: 955 / Number of Pages: 4
... his swing. His golfing talent took off from there. At age 2, he appeared on the “Mike Douglas show” putting with Bob hope. At age 3, he shot a 48 for 9 holes (Amazing for a 3 year old). The first time I played on the golf course at age 19, I shot a 96 for eighteen holes (which is just as good as Tiger at the age of 3). Golf is known to be an “older man’s” sport. To say the least, it is not “ordinary” to have a three-year-old playing on the golf course. Tiger didn’t stop there. Tiger just dominated almost every tournament he entered as a child. He went on to win the Optimist International Junior ...
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Van Gogh
Number of Words: 1920 / Number of Pages: 7
... 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 full of feeling: "It is a hard and a difficult struggle to
learn to draw well... I have worked like a slave ...." His first
paintings had been still lifes and scenes of peasants at work. "That
which fills my head and heart must be expressed in drawings and in
pictures...I'm in a rage of work."
In 1881, he moved to E ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Number of Words: 250 / Number of Pages: 1
... that subject.
At age 15, Bach got his first job as a court musician at Weimar. There
he became known as a great organist. In 1717, the Prince of Cothen invited Bach
to become Kappelmeister in Cothen. The Duke of Weimar refused to let Bach go to
Cothen, however, and confined him in a gaol for a time.
After Bach was released by the Duke of Weimar, Bach took up the Prince
of Cothen on his offer and stayed with him in Cothen for a period of six years.
It was there in Cothen that Bach became widely known for his skill as organist
and his ability to compose sacred and secular music. His stay in Cothen ...
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