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Emersons Self-reliance
Words: 1340 - Pages: 5.... every one to pass for what he is, and to speak from his character, and not from his tongue, and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand, and become wisdom, and virtue, and power, and beauty(52). In this quotation Emerson says that the common instinct instilled in man lets him see the truth for himself. This reality found from the shared over-soul, is the purest form of truth. All men have this ability to perceive the truth, and a common knowledge of goodness unites and unifies us all. Man’s instinctive actions in making moral choices are all part of the over-soul. Man can perceive that which is ultimately good, only if h .....
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Words: 583 - Pages: 3.... style at a very early age. His patron Lorenzo died in 1492, two years later Michelangelo fled Florence, when the Medici family was temporarily expelled. He settled for a time in Bologna where he sculpted several marble statuettes.
Michelangelo then 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 Michelange .....
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Plato And Aristotle
Words: 762 - Pages: 3.... mean different things. On the lowest level, the left side is made up of our imagination, perception, and conjecture. The right side is made up of shadows and mirages. The next level up, on the left, is where we believe something because we see it. The right side of this level is where we find all physical things. At the top of the physical realm before entering the spiritual realm, is the sun. The next level up is the lowest level in the spiritual realm. The left side of this level includes thinking from hypotheses, while the right side includes objects of math and science. The top level in Plato’s model contains true knowledge a .....
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Joan Of Arc
Words: 1058 - Pages: 4.... other children, spent much time praying to the statues of saints that stood around the church in her
village.
At the age of 13 in the summer of 1425, she began having religious visions and hearing what she believed were voices of saints. They started occuring once a week and as she got older they happened daily. She said the voices told her to always behave, obey her parents, pray, etc. She claimed they were the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret. She was said to be a Clair Voyant,
a person who has knowledge of events happening far away or in the futures without using any of the five senses. The visions and voice .....
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Socrates
Words: 3008 - Pages: 11.... began to mature and grow older, he did not see much of his friends. They would always be down at the gymnasium working seriously at the outdoor exercises. He did not like to work out like his friends or be a stonecutter like his father because he knew that sort of thing was not for him. He thought about everything in a more abstract way.
The Gods during time seemed to be further away from humanity, they did not disguise themselves as humans to help or punish them anymore (1). He only knew of them from old stories, myths, and Homer. He had a voice in him that stopped him from doing certain things as he was about to, and he thought that that .....
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Linus Carl Pauling
Words: 267 - Pages: 1.... State College and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He
began to apply his insights into quantum physics as professor of chemistry at
Caltech, where from 1927 to 1964 he made many of his discoveries. By devising
techniques such as X-ray and electron diffraction, he was able to calculate the
interatomic distances and angles between chemical bonds.
During the 1930s, Pauling introduced concepts that helped reveal the
bonding forces of molecules. The Nature of the Chemical Bond, the result of
these investigations, has been a major influence on scientific thinking since it
was published in 1939. Pauling also investigated the .....
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James Boswell
Words: 1174 - Pages: 5.... lately, by the favour of Mr. Faulkner, seen your account of Ireland, and cannot forbear to solicit a prosecution of your design. Sir William Temple complains that Ireland is less known than any other country, as to its ancient state. The natives have had little leisure, and little encouragement for enquiry; and strangers, not knowing the language, have had no ability.
"I have long wished that the Irish literature were cultivated.2 Ireland is known by tradition to have been once the seat of piety and learning; and surely it would be very acceptable to all those who are curious either in the original of nations, or the affinities of languag .....
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Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent Into Metaphorical Hell
Words: 1653 - Pages: 7.... his writing skill and knowledge make
it evident that he was well schooled. It is thought that he attended
Florentine schools but also continued learning on his own. He seemed to be
influenced greatly by Brunetto Latini, who has a large part in The Divine
Comedy. His early writings attracted the attention of Guido Cavalcanti, a
popular Italian poet of the day, as Dante's skill became more defined the
two became friends. It is also thought that Dante studied at the
university in Bologna around the year 1285.
He became involved in some political altercations, he joined the
Guelphs, as opposed to the Chibellines, and he was involved in a ba .....
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Biography Of Edgar Allen Poe
Words: 1936 - Pages: 8.... had already written
enough works to publish a book but John would not allow it. Poe was also very
fit as a teen. Poe was supposedly a very fast swimmer and runner. It is
reported that Poe once as a teen swam the James river from Lundhams Wharf to
Warwick Bar which is six miles against a strong current (Woodberry 20). At 15
Poe was the Lieutenant of the Junior Morgan Riflemen. Poe was then reviewed by
the famous Marquis De Lafayette. Poe's grandfather General Poe is where Poe
most likely got his military influence from.
In 1826 Poe enrolled into the University of Virginia. Poe wanted to
become a translator. Poe was considered to be .....
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Adolf Hitler 2
Words: 888 - Pages: 4.... torn clothes which people gave to him out of pity.
In 1913 Hitler moved from Vienna to Munich. Hitler's experience in Munich was as uncertain and miserable as it was in Vienna. When the war broke out in 1914 he volunteered for a Bavarian regiment, He was a good solider and for the first time he found some recognition and felt himself to be part of community. Over the years Hitler became very devoted to the German military and Germany its self. The collapse of Germany was a personal catastrophe for him. Hitler did not want to believe that the fall of Germany was due in part to his admired military leaders. In the eyes of Hitler the collapse o .....
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