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Peter Tchaikovsky
Words: 2527 - Pages: 10.... strange two-sidedness: on one hand his intense emotionality in all personal matters, his headstrong impetuosity, leaping first and looking afterwards; on the other his candor and modesty, his intelligent acceptance of criticism, even his carefulness and good workmanship-he had covered France with his hand"! If he had only been able to reconcile that lifelong feud between his over-personal heart and his magnanimous mind, he would have been saved endless suffering. But he was not: in his music his self-criticism, as on of his best biographers, Edwin Evans, has remarked, "came after and not during composition"-he destroyed scor .....
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Words: 474 - Pages: 2.... del Verrocchio. Verrocchio was the leading sculptor and painter of the time. At the studio he met other famous painters such as Botticelli and Ghirlandaio.
In 1478, Leonardo became an independent master of his trade. His first large painting, The Adoration of the Magi, was never completed. It introduced new different style of composition. In this style the main figures are placed in the foreground. The background consists of distant views of imaginary ruins and battle scenes. In 1482 Leonardo worked his way up to the services of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan. He was the principal engineer in military enterprise in the celebrated w .....
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Steve Jobs
Words: 1731 - Pages: 7.... impetus from the Homebrew Computer Club.
Beginning work in the Job's family garage they managed to make their first
"killing" when the Byte Shop in Mountain View bought their first fifty fully
assembled computers. On this basis the Apple Corporation was founded, the name
based on Job's favorite fruit and the logo.
Steve Jobs innovative idea of a personel computer led him into revolutionizing
the computer hardware and software industry. When Jobs was twenty one, he and a
friend, Wozniak, built a personel computer called the Apple. The Apple changed
people's idea of a computer from a gigantic and inscrutable mass of vacuum tubes
only used by .....
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Katherine Anne Porter
Words: 1030 - Pages: 4.... II. Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of also appeared in 1970. Many of Porter's works portray a rejected individual.
The short story "The Circus" tells about a large family's first visit to the circus. The main character, a young girl named Miranda, gets very upset when she sees a clown, with a horrid expression on his face, almost fall off a thin wire high in the air. Dicey, Miranda's older relative, is ordered by Miranda's father to take Miranda home. Dicey is very upset about missing the circus. Later that evening, Miranda's family returns joyfully. Miranda and Dicey have to hear all about the magnificent circus they mi .....
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John Keats
Words: 482 - Pages: 2.... development of Keats, as Sandell only played a minor one. These circumstances drew him extremely close to his two brothers, George and Tom, and his sister Fanny. When he 15, Abbey removed him from the Clarke School, as he became an apothecary-surgeon’s apprentice. Then in 1815, he became a student at Guy’s Hospital. He registered for a six- month course to become a licensed surgeon. Soon after he decided he was going to be a doctor he realized his true passion was in poetry. So he decided he would try to excel in poetry also. His poetry that he wrote six years before his death was not very good. As his life progressed .....
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Woodrow Wilson
Words: 758 - Pages: 3.... and the author of a popularly acclaimed book on George Washington.When Professor Wilson was 39, he suffered a minor stroke that left him with weakness of the right arm and hand, sensory disturbances in the tips of several fingers, and an inability to write in his usual right-handed manner. As often happens following minor strokes, there was recovery: his
right-handed writing ability returned within a year.
Was his career impeded? No, in 1902 he became the president of Princeton. But the problem recurred in 1904. In 1906 it happened again, this time with blindness in the left eye (also supplied by the left internal carotid artery, which is pr .....
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Bob Dylan
Words: 736 - Pages: 3.... & The Rock Boppers. His fellow students were shocked to hear such a voice come from the small kid, when he sang at a high school talent show.
After high school graduation in 1959, Dylan enrolled in the University of Minnesota, but never graduated. Instead, he started playing in nearby coffeehouses, and was quickly taken in by the artistic community. There he was introduced to rural folk music of artist like Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Roscoe Holocomb, and the great Woody Guthrie. Throughout his life, Dylan will blend these three (blues, rock 'n' roll, and folk) musical styles together. Dylan soon realized that if he wante .....
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Allen Sapp
Words: 646 - Pages: 3.... On his second visit Dr. Gonor saw a painting of Cheif Sam Swimmer and liked it. He bought it and asked for more. Allen began painting what he knew from the reserve. He turned out many paintings at a tremendous rate. Dr. Gonor arranged for him to see an art professor from the U of S. The little instruction he got form her was the only formal instruction he has ever had. In September 1968 she showed some of Allen’s paintings in her backyard. The show was a great success. On the Easter weekend of 1969 Allen had his first major exhibition. The people loved him. He became a great success. The value of his paintings went way up .....
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Rosalind Franklin
Words: 509 - Pages: 2.... an efficient and driven researcher. Franklin utilized the X-ray diffraction techniques (that she has become most famous for) while working in a Paris laboratory between 1947 and 1950, with crystallographer Jacques Mering.
X-ray crystallography helped determined the three dimensional structure of DNA when Franklin returned to England. She became the first person to find the molecule¡¯s sugar-phosphate backbone while working with a team of scientists at King¡¯s College in London. Unfortunately, leadership misunderstandings and personality conflicts depreciated Franklin¡¯s effectivness in the laboratory. Maurice Wilkins, the lab .....
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Saint John Bosco
Words: 650 - Pages: 3.... people in his village occupied by doing magic tricks and acrobatic moves, and only ask prayers for payment. Also, he would speak to children about God, and even some adults occasionally. The seminary school that Bosco entered was Chieri at the age of 16. Father Cafasso helped John through seminary school because he could not afford it, neither could his mother help him pay for it.
John became a priest in 1841 at the age of 26, and was named Don Bosco, which means Father Bosco. After Sunday Mass's he would have a catechism class
which would teach young people about God. After a while the catechism class turned into a school were boys could .....
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