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Langston Hughes
Number of Words: 804 / Number of Pages: 3
... writer would prefer to be considered a poet, not a Black poet, which to Hughes meant he subconsciously wanted to write like a white poet. Hughes argued, "no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself'. He wrote in this essay, "We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren't, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too... If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we ...
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BF Skinner
Number of Words: 564 / Number of Pages: 3
... main contribution to the field of education would be his behavioral work with the theory of operant conditioning. Skinner himself says that, “When I am asked what I regard as my most important contribution, I always say the original experimental analysis of operant behavior and its subsequent extension to more complex cases.” (Bigge, Shermis. 95)
According to Skinner operant conditioning, like all psychological processes, is a product of natural selection and deals with stimuli or consequences that act as reinforcers to behavior. Milhollan and Forisha say that, “The stimuli that happen to act as re ...
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Gandhi
Number of Words: 777 / Number of Pages: 3
... now? Also, since Britain was just starting to recover from World War II, would this issue just be pushed aside until their own affairs are looked after? Ghandi was hopeful yet a bit sceptical.(Attenborough) "Those of us who had been hammering on the doors of the India Office for years past had an impression of a great change of attitude. Up to 1945, she had felt that the attitude of official Britain was: ‘of course, we are ready to bring the Congress leaders(or more likely they would say: ‘The Hindu leaders, including the Congress and your friends Ghandi and Nehru') into full partnership anytime ...
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Bill Gates
Number of Words: 1629 / Number of Pages: 6
... about was written at this time. It was a program that scheduled classes for students. "I surreptitiously added a few instructions and found myself nearly the only guy in a class full of girls"(Gates 12).
In 1972 Intel released their first microprocessor chip: the 8008. Gates attempted to write a version of BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) for the new Intel chip, but the chip did not contain enough transistors to handle it. Gates and Allen found a way to use the 8008 and "started Traf-O-Data, a computer traffic analysis company"(Clayton 452) It worked well however, marketi ...
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Isadora Duncan
Number of Words: 2919 / Number of Pages: 11
... started school at the age of five. In the late nineteenth century, students were expected to sit still during school, memorizing and reciting their lessons. To Isadora this was "irritating and meaningless." She hated school. She said later in her autobiography that her real education came on the nights when Isadora and her siblings would dance to her mother's music and learn about what they were interested in -- literature and music.
Isadora was told as a child that she would have to learn to depend on herself to get what she needed in life. So as Isadora grew older, she began to u ...
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Adolf Hitler
Number of Words: 1327 / Number of Pages: 5
... was wounded and received the Iron Cross for
bravery. But he was never promoted higher than lance corporal.
But after the war he found himself unable to find a job. After
Germany’s defeat in 1918 he returned to Munich, remaining in the
army until 1920.In September 1919 he joined the nationalist
German Workers’ Party. In April 1920 he went to work full time
for the party, now renamed the National Socialist German
Workers’ Party or the Nazi party. In 1921 he was elected party
chairman with dictatorial powers. He now became known as Der
Fuhrer. The Nazis aim was to organize all Germans into one
n ...
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Kurt Cobain
Number of Words: 1986 / Number of Pages: 8
... he liked
them better. Around that time people started to notice that Kurt was very good
in art. Most of Kurt's friends didn't really like things like art and music.
He loved these things so much he stopped making friends because he was different.
Kurt was not such a health kid. His whole life he suffered chronic bronchitis.
At age of seven he was diagnosed hyperactive. He was put on Ritalin. This
seemed to make him stay up until four in the morning. They soon put him on
sedatives. This did not work either. They made him fall asleep in school.
Doctors told Wendy to try subtracting sugar and ...
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Alan Turing
Number of Words: 596 / Number of Pages: 3
... to the public school. However, after a short while the Headmaster reported to his mother that if Alan
was solely a scientific specialist, that he was wasting his time. Many other teachers also felt the same was as the Headmaster.
In 1928, Turing became interested in relativity, and it was at this time that Alan met Christopher Morcom, and everything changed for him. And it was Morcom’s death that prompted Turing to get further involved and motivated to do what Morcom could not. Turing questioned how the human mind was embodied in matter, and whether this matter was released after death ...
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Life And Times Of Louis Xiv
Number of Words: 3267 / Number of Pages: 12
... twenty-three years and they detested each other. After all these years of unfruitful marriage, everyone had become resigned to the idea that the reigning couple, Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, would remain childless. This meant that the King's brother, Gaston d'Orleans would eventually inherit the throne. The birth of the new king brought national rejoicing (though not Gaston's). France finally had their longed-for "Dauphin," as the heir to the French throne has been called since the acquisition by France, in 1349, of the province of Dauphine. (Panicucci 4). Since neither parent had any doubt t ...
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Duke Ellington
Number of Words: 546 / Number of Pages: 2
... along. His opening solo is repetitive, going over the same set of notes over and over again. The overall feeling is as if the music is wooing the listener.
Ellington's other innovations include the use of the human voice as an instrument, such as in "Creole Love Call" (1927). He also placed instruments in unusual combinations, illustrated in the piece “Mood Indigo” (1930). When the orchestra performs this piece, three soloists stand out in front of the stage, playing three different instruments. Improvisation was a big part of Ellington’s music.
One of Ellington orchestraR ...
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