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Dr Jack Kevorkian: Disrupting The Universe
Number of Words: 434 / Number of Pages: 2
... ill or
they wanted to be killed due to other serious medical problems. There have been
reports of a person beating her son in tennis one week before she killed herself
with the help of Jack Kevorkian and his suicide machine, but she was terminally
ill and Dr. Kevorkian would not help kill people unless their life was in
danger or they were not living comfortably. Kevorkian was previously a doctor
dealing with terminally ill people and death counseling. From this experience
he knew that for some people suicide was the only Solution.
On the other hand, some people believe that what he started was ...
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Archibald Macleish
Number of Words: 1421 / Number of Pages: 6
... at he was the best at writing. Archibald graduated at the top of his class and was accepted to Yale University. While at Yale MacLeish studied law, but continued his writing and in his off time the university published a book of his works.
After Yale, MacLeish decided to focus on his poetry and his new wife and children. During this time off he wrote his first collaboration called Tower of Ivory Then in 1917 he went to France to serve in the war as a private. He rose from private to captain in just one year of service. Upon his return to the United States MacLeish began teaching at Harvar ...
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Michelangelo
Number of Words: 567 / Number of Pages: 3
... classical statues and ruins. He soon sculpted his first large-scale sculpture, Bacchus. At about the same time, also did the marble Pietà. One of the most famous works of art, the Pietà was probably finished before was 25 years old, and it is the only work he ever signed.
The high point of ’s early style is the gigantic marble statue David which he made between 1501 and 1504, after returning to Florence. David, ’s most famous sculpture, became the symbol of Florence and originally was placed in the Piazza Della Signoria in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall. With ...
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Giorgione
Number of Words: 552 / Number of Pages: 3
... and highlights on details, such as metals and fabric, are wispy.
No signed and dated works of exist, and few original paintings by have survived the ages, however, he had a sweeping effect on the style of the masters to come. His better-known works include Laura, La Veccia, La Tempesta, the Castlefranco Altarpiece, The Three Philosophers, Sleeping Venus, and the decoration on Fondaco dei Tedeschi, on which he worked with Titian. Most other works that are attributed to him are based on indirect evidence. His innovation of “tonal painting”, created images using only color and light. His us ...
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Number of Words: 378 / Number of Pages: 2
... Constanze Weber, Aloysia's sister. Poverty and illness endangered the
family until Mozart's death. While Mozart was working on the "Magic Flute" in
1791 an emissary requested a requiem mass written by Mozart but he never got to
finish this because he died. He supposedly died of typhoid fever, in Vienna on
December 5, 1791. His funeral was attended by a few friends. Mozart died young
and had an unsuccessful career, but he ranks as one of the greatest composer of
all time. With more than six hundred works it shows that even as a child he had
a feel of the resources of musical composition as well ...
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Francios Rabelias
Number of Words: 835 / Number of Pages: 4
... works, but it is believed there is more. " Below I have listed a believed chronology of Rabelias, it may have inaccurate due the lack of information on Rabelias.
"1494 Now the Generally accepted date of Rabelias’s birth, although at times it has
been published back as far as 1483. Born at La Deviniere, a family
property near Chinon, where his father, Antoino Rabelias, was a lawyer. "
"1511 Possibly date for his entry into a monastery of the Franciscan order at
Fontenay-le-Comte "
"1525 Passes to the Benedictine Order with the hope that he can pursue more ...
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Maurice Sendak
Number of Words: 2104 / Number of Pages: 8
... the childrens' section of the library. Sendak writes the type of books he wished he had as a child; entertaining stories which are not limited by any effort to make things so simple for children that they become mundane.
Sendak's greatest influence as a writer was his father. Phillip Sendak was a wonderfully creative storyteller who amazed Maurice and his brother and sister. "He didn't edit," remarks Maurice in an interview with Marion Long. "It's funny, because that's what I'm accused of now: being a storyteller who tells children inappropriate things." Sendak strongly believes that children ...
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Marcus Aurelius
Number of Words: 2598 / Number of Pages: 10
... the two. Verus was a headstrong man, who was more apt to want a war than the contemplative Aurelius. Verus was an "Epicurean" and definitely would never be called a philosopher. However, Verus died suddenly in 169, leaving Aurelius to rule Rome on his own. It is important to mention that during basically all of Aurelius’ rule, Rome was engaged in a long series of defensive wars. In fact, the book Meditations was written during these wars, possibly during the darkest of conditions. And even though these wars were successful, they were taxing both on Rome as a state, and on Aurelius himself. ...
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Adolf Hitler
Number of Words: 1185 / Number of Pages: 5
... beyond private first class because his superiors thought him lacking in leadership qualities. After Germany's defeat in 1918 he returned to Munich, remaining in the army until 1920. His commander made him an education officer, with the mandate to immunize his charges against pacifist and democratic ideas. In September 1919 he joined the nationalist German Workers' party, and in April 1920 he went to work full time for the party, now renamed the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party. In 1921 he was elected party chairman with dictatorial powers.
Organizing meeting after meeting, terrorizing ...
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Cesar E. Chavez
Number of Words: 1432 / Number of Pages: 6
... p.22). Chavez had worked in the fields as a child and had encountered the reality of being poor, as well as a member of a discriminated class of people (Altman, p.87). The land shaped the thinking and emotional being of Cesar Chavez. The reality of hard work in the hot fields at low wages, the planting, hoeing and harvesting of the agricultural produce that was the foundation of a multi-billion food chain industry impressed Cesar. He discovered his place in the whole enterprise and that the workers were merely expendables obtained at the lowest price with the least personal protection and job be ...
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