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Galileo Galilei
Number of Words: 993 / Number of Pages: 4
... to allow Galileo to study mathematics on the condition that after one year, all of Galileo’s support would be cut off and he was on his own.
In the spring of 1585, Galileo skipped his final exams and left the university without a degree. He began finding work as a math tutor. In November of 1589, Galileo found a position as a professor of mathematics at the university of Pisa, the same one he had left without a degree four years before. Galileo was a brilliant teacher, but his radical ways of thinking and open criticism of Aristotle’s teachings were not acceptable to the other profe ...
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Susan B Anthony
Number of Words: 660 / Number of Pages: 3
... was fifteen years old intill she was thirty. After she settled in her family home in Rochester, New York. It was here that she began her first public crusade on behalf of temperance.
This was one of the first expressions of feminism in the United States, and it delt with the abuses of woman and children who suffered from alcoholic husbands. In 1849, Susan gave her first public speech for the Daughters of Temperance, and then help found the Woman’s State Temperance Society of New York. It was one of the first organizations of its time.
In 1851 she went to Syracus to attend a series of antislav ...
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Galileo 2
Number of Words: 1186 / Number of Pages: 5
... without a degree in 1585. For a time he tutored privately and wrote on hydrostatics and natural motions, but he did not publish. In 1589 he became the professor of mathematics at Pisa, where he is reported to have shown his students the error of Aristotle's belief that speed of fall is proportional to weight, by dropping two objects of different weight simultaneously from the Leaning Tower. His contract was not renewed in 1592, probably because he contradicted Aristotelian professors. The same year, he was appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Padua, where he remained unt ...
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Aristotle Vs. Copernicus
Number of Words: 1467 / Number of Pages: 6
... feeling developed in Athens, and Aristotle retired to a family estate
in Euboea. He died there the following year.
His works on natural science include Physics, which gives a vast amount of
information on astronomy, meteorology, plants, and animals. His writings on the
nature, scope, and properties of being, which Aristotle called First Philosophy
( Prote philosophia ), were given the title Metaphysics in the first published
edition of his works (c. 60 bc ), because in that edition they followed Physics.
His treatment of the Prime Mover, or first cause, as pure intellect, perfect in
uni ...
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David Hume
Number of Words: 926 / Number of Pages: 4
... it never could suggest to us
the notion of any distinct object, such as its effect; mush less, show us
the inseparable and inviolable connexion between them. A man must be very
sagacious who could discover by reasoning that crystal is the effect of
heat, and ice and cold, without being previously acquainted with the
operation of these qualities.” Therefore, cause and effect is learned
through experience.
2. The circular reasoning in Section IV, Part II, paragraph 6, is, “we have
said that all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of
cause and effect; that our knowledge of the re ...
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Mark Twain 5
Number of Words: 752 / Number of Pages: 3
... an occupation that he followed until the Civil War closed the river, and that furnished the background for "Old Times on the Mississippi" (1875), later included in the expanded Life on the Mississippi (1883).
In 1861, Twain traveled by stagecoach to Carson City, Nev., with his brother Orion, who had been appointed territorial secretary. After unsuccessful attempts at silver and gold mining, he returned to writing as a correspondent for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. At first he signed his humorous and imaginative sketches "Josh," but early in 1863 he adopted the now-famous name Ma ...
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of Words: 583 / Number of Pages: 3
... went to Rome, where he was able to look at many newly discovered classical statues and ruins. He soon sculpted his first large-scale sculpture, Bacchus. At about the same time, Michelangelo also did the marble Pietà. One of the most famous works of art, the Pietà was probably finished before Michelangelo was 25 years old, and it is the only work he ever signed.
The high point of Michelangelo’s early style is the gigantic marble statue David which he made between 1501 and 1504, after returning to Florence. David, Michelangelo’s most famous sculpture, became the symbol of Florence and originally was pla ...
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Calvin Coolidge
Number of Words: 1929 / Number of Pages: 8
... have become convinced that government in this country has become dangerously complicated and top heavy.." (Touchman 90).
It is no wonder, that Coolidge was known as the "do-nothing" president.
The road to the presidency was not a hard road for Coolidge to come by. He was born on the 4th of July in the summer of 1872 at Vermont. He was originally named John but he later dropped the "John" (Askin 67-68). His parents were John and Victoria Coolidge. His father was a jack-of-all-trades, but was later known to be an exceptional politician. His mother loved poetry and was very beautiful, unfortunately sh ...
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John Alexander Macdonald: A Good Role Model?
Number of Words: 494 / Number of Pages: 2
... others, people
enjoyed being around the Prime Minister. He left a good impression on the people
of Canada because he cared for not only the English, but also the French and
Natives. One example is when he visited the Council House of the Six Nation
Indians near Brantford. Mr. Macdonald met more than thirty farmers and after
only thirty minutes of chatting with them he knew them all by name# . In another
instance, a guest of John A. Macdonald was so impressed with the hospitality he
received that he described him as "courteous in his social relations--a very
prince". In both cases he made those inv ...
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Frederick Douglass's Physical And Intellectual Struggles
Number of Words: 2380 / Number of Pages: 9
... exactly what a slave felt, and sympathize completely with a slave. "... I say, let him be placed in this most trying situation, -the situation in which I was placed, -then, and not till then, will he fully appreciate the hardships of, and know how to sympathize with, the toil-worn and whip-scarred fugitive slave." (70) Douglass felt that no one would ever know what slavery was like unless he or she had been a part of it.
As a slave, Douglass was not given many opportunities; although, through intellectual and physical struggles, Douglass developed into a very strong man. Douglass overcame many o ...
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