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Minor White
Number of Words: 578 / Number of Pages: 3
... make the viewer think about and try to "read" the photograph. Often, Minor compared his work to religious or spiritual events that have happened throughout history. Sometimes he would express his thoughts in his poetry and publish the poem along with the photograph and display them together.
Being proclaimed as one of the most creative photographers of our time would not be far off. Every photograph he took was supposed to inspire thought. He wanting for this was inspired by George Guerdjiff, who wanted to energize the 3 centers of being; intellectual, emotional, and spiritual; in every picture. Guer ...
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Georg Simon Ohm
Number of Words: 631 / Number of Pages: 3
... at Cologne Gymnasium. He now looked to research electrical
current. In 1827 he published Die galvanishce Kette, mathematisch bearbeit (The
Galvanic Circuit, Mathematically Treated). This was a mathematical description
of conduction in circuits modeled after Fourier's study of heat conduction.
This is also known as Ohm's Law.
Ohm's Law, which is Georg's greatest accomplishment, started as an
experiment. The experiment's purpose was to find the relationship between
current and the length of the wire carrying it. Ohm's results proved that as
the wire increased the current decreased.
Ohm c ...
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James Joyce
Number of Words: 1326 / Number of Pages: 5
... naturalism, and symbolism” (Encarta, 1). “In 1941, suffering from a perforated ulcer, Joyce dies in Zurich on January thirteenth” (Encarta, 1).
“Joyce’s story, “Clay”, starts off on Halloween, which is the Celtic New Year’s Eve and Feast of the Dead. In Irish customs, it is a night of remembrance of the dead ancestors and anticipation of the various fortune telling games” (Masterplots, 1). The story is about Maria, a middle age spinster who works in the kitchen of a laundry established for the reform of prostitutes. She makes her way ac ...
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Earl Warren
Number of Words: 434 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the center chair early October 1953. His first two months with the court flew by fast with no major cases, while everyone focused on the upcoming case of school desegregation.
Warren waited another six months before receiving the chance to announce his first major opinion, in the decision in the case Brown. Instead of commenting on the 14th Amendment, he spent his time agreeing with the arguments of Thurgood Marshall, that separated schools are actually unequal.
A year later, after Warren had already convinced the rest of the court that schools should be desegregated, on May 31, 1955 he annou ...
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Descartes
Number of Words: 1099 / Number of Pages: 4
... are not completely trustworthy, it is irrational to place complete trust in them. However it is no small leap of faith to presume that everything our senses tells us is false. In fact, it seems almost preposterous to say such a thing. But as points out, we have dreams regularly and in these dreams everything we experience is a figment of our imagination, or at least not real in the physical sense. So, at least according to , it is reasonable to doubt everything our senses tell us, for the time being. Now, using similar logic, we can say that everything we have learned from physics, astronomy, med ...
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Richard Wright
Number of Words: 731 / Number of Pages: 3
... event: "I
would feel hunger nudging my ribs, twisting my empty guts until they ached.
I would grow dizzy and my vision would dim."
In Black Boy, Wright used his own life to exemplify what qualities of
imagination and intellect are necessary of a southern African-American in
order to understand the meaning of his life in the United States. Black
Boy also reveals it's 'author hero' as a man controlled by an absolute
certainty of his own virtues.
The ethics of living Jim Crow require that Wright be obedient and
silent. So although he was not a slave, he in essence was. He shared the
same ...
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Theodore Roosevelt
Number of Words: 795 / Number of Pages: 3
... in 1889, appointed Roosevelt as a member of the Civil Service Commission of which he later became president. This office he retained until 1895 when he undertook the direction of the Police Department of New York City. In 1897 he joined President McKinley's administration as assistant secretary of the Navy. While in this office he actively prepared for the Cuban War, which he saw was coming, and when it broke out in 1898, went to Cuba as lieutenant colonel of a regiment of volunteer cavalry, which he himself had raised among the hunters and cowboys of the West. He won great fame as leader of the ...
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Elizabeth Arden
Number of Words: 371 / Number of Pages: 2
... arrogant to apologize. In 1904, Arden began her career in cosmetics working at the Eleanor Adair shop. Later in 1909, she opened her own shop and facial cream line. In 1914, at a time when women scorned make-up and women who did wear it were gossiped about terribly, Arden opened a new cosmetic line. Where many others had failed in the past, her products and advertising changed the way women viewed makeup forever. In 1940, she began designing and selling clothing. In addition, by 1957 she owned over 150 Salon branches that sold anything from make-up to face cream to clothing. I became interested in ...
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Similarities Between Neil Armstrong And Leif Ericson
Number of Words: 602 / Number of Pages: 3
... to
discovering America. According to the “Saga of Eric,” it occurred on of his
return trips from Norway. His ship was blown to the south by a wind from
the north. Since Leif was on a different longitudinal course without
knowing it, he continued on his westward way. He overshot his home land
and ended up being carried west by favorable winds to the New World.
Another saga is called “The Songbook,” says that in 985AD Bjarni
Herjulfsson saw land—most probably the uninhabited coast of North America--
but did not go ashore. Back home in Greenland, Bjarni told of his sighting.
Leif heard the s ...
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Booker T. Washington
Number of Words: 571 / Number of Pages: 3
... leadership. He convinced southern white employers and governors that Tuskegee offered an education that would keep blacks "down on the farm" and in the trades. To prospective northern donors and particularly the new self- made millionaires such as Rockefeller and Carnegie he promised the instillment of the Protestant work ethic. To blacks living within the limited distances of the post- Reconstruction South, Washington held out industrial education as the means of escape form the web of sharecropping and debt and the achievement of attainable, self-employment, landownership, and small businesses. Was ...
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