... education was self-taught through his hard work and dedication to learning. This education helped Franklin in many ways to write many books, outsmart other politicians, and create new inventions. Franklin knows he can not relive his life so decides that writing a book would be the next best thing. In Franklin’s autobiography, which he writes to his son, he tries to retell his mistakes so others will not do the same. One of Franklin’s strongest beliefs includes his religion. Franklin did not believe in organized religion and believed strongly in Deism. This shows his concern for other Americans. One of Franklin’s most contributive works to ...
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... Paulo Uccello. Each door contains 14 quatrefoil-framed scenes from the lives of Christ, the Evangelists, and the church fathers. He also made another set of doors for the Baptistery. These bronze doors had 5 panels on each side, containing scenes from the Old Testament. They were dubbed “ The Gates of Paradise,” by Michaelangelo, and were Ghiberti’s greatest work. Ghiberti also made a larger than life statue of the Arte dei Mercani di Calimala’s(the guild of the merchant bankers) patron saint. He made two large bronze figures for Or San Michele, created designs for the stained glass windows in the cathedral, and wrote two books, as well as accomplishing other ...
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... and received his MA from Cambridge in 1817. In 1820 he founded the Analytical Society with Herschel and Peacock. Babbage started work on the Difference Engine in 1823 through funding from the British Government and in 1827 published a table of logarithms from 1 to 108000. In 1828 he was appointed to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge, though he never presented a lecture. He founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 and in 1832 he published "Economy of Manufactures and Machinery". 1833 marked the beginning of his work on the Analytical Engine. In 1834 he founded the Statistical Society of London. Thirty years later ...
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... shares when She says, "Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom" These two parts of their writings are asking a similar question. Why do you choose to seclude me from you’re world am I something you wouldn’t expect from another human? "Don’t scream about don’t think aloud turn your head now baby just spit me out don’t worry about don’t speak of doubt turn your head now baby just spit me out." This is a complex way saying why is you disrespected me because you can’t stand the way that I am. Just walk all over me treat me different act as if I’m a piece of crap. What good does it do for you by bringing me down? I think this is the ...
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... , accompanied by a handful of abolitionists intruded on this governmental land with hopes of steeling the arms. The weapons were then going to be used in the attempted freeing of slaves. It is true that Brown’s actions lasted only a short number of hours, involved only a few other kinsmen, and freed no slaves. However, are his actions wholly unjust and are they actions of a man with little or no sanity. The Northern Chronicle offers you another point of view. Think of the horrid deeds being performed in the slave states of the south. Men, women, and children being beaten and worked to death. Families being split apart, and freedom not existing for the black ...
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... He has also appeared on radio and television in countless interviews. Friedman is strictly a monetarist. This means that he believed that inflation was a direct result of growth in the supply of money into an economy. His views differed however, with those of his contemporaries, in the major point that he believed that economic stability could only be reached through non-intervention on behalf of the government. This policy is often known as laissez-faire (French for 'let things be') economics. The policy at the time was for the government to sharply increase or decrease money supply, to counteract inflation, in an attempt to attain a stable economy. Fri ...
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... one on geometry, and one on meteorology. Four yeas later he wrote Meditations on First Philosophy which is his version of a unified and certain body of the human knowledge. The Catholic and Protestant Church was angered by his book, claiming that Descartes’ hope was to replace the teachings of Aristotle. In 1644 he publish Principles of Philosophy which he hoped would in-fact replace Aristotle’s teachings. His last important work was called Passions of the Soul where he explored topics such as the relationship of the soul to the body, the nature of emotion, and the role of the will in controlling emotions. In 1649 Queen Christina of Sweden convinced Descartes that ...
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... large impact on our lives, community, and history. Our lives have been influenced largely by the wrights famous invention. Transportation for the average person using planes had become a luxury by the 1930's and by the 1950's the jet had been developed, causing air travel to grow at an even faster rate. “During the 1960's about 100 million passengers flew on airlines and now in the 90's 1.25 billion people fly annually.” (“Transportation”) Transportation from city to city, was a luxury in the early 1900's but thanks to the discoverers by Wilbur and Orville Wright it is now an event that takes place in every major city in every country in the world. Air transpo ...
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... Lessing grew up in Rhodesia also on a 3,000 acre maize farm. She uses her memories and experiences to create a feeling that a person of another background would not be able to do (Thompson, 1251). “The story is about a family and their farm hands trying to save a maize crop from a huge swarm of locusts. Although their crop is ruined, they are thankful that the swarm of locusts did not settle and lay eggs on the farm. As a result, Margaret, the wife, who was brought up in the city, slowly learns to adapt to her harsh yet beautiful surroundings” (Bloom,134). In the story the main character is Margaret, a city girl is now a farmer’s wife thrown into a way of ...
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... to the regiment that the fastest way to die is to mention Cyrano’s nose. This is “Flaw Number One,” that despite all his glowing accomplishments, he cannot get past his one shortcoming. Although Cyrano believes himself ugly and unworthy, he falls in love. The recipient of this gift is his cousin, Roxane. He writes her many poems, but does not let her know. She tells him that she loves Christian, one of the Gascons of the Carbon de Castel Jaloux. Christian has the looks, but no creativity, and since Cyrano has the creativity and not the looks, he decides to love Roxane through Christian. He supplies Christian with the words to say and the letters to send ...
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