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and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant1. Because he has no way of checking his ...

author notes that, "the most usually presented idea - that Euclid was an ordinary mathematician/scholar, who simply lived in Alexa...

independent thinker as well as an individual who was perhaps rebellious against the "norm." One author notes that this became quit...

how evil is nothing tangibly heinous, but instead reflects the "absence of good."ii In other words, man merely makes bad choices ...

conditioning is one of the simplest, but most profound discoveries concerning human behavior and the behavior of animals as well. ...

Porter, 2005). Her education was obtained at convent schools and when she was 16 she ran away (Books and Writers, 2005). This i...

a good university (Hole, 2005). "Marie studied physics and mathematics and quickly received her masters degrees in both subjects. ...

the Imperial Court, Mozart was such a mischievous child that he climbed into the lap of the Empress Maria Theresa and gave her a k...

below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

and stained glass" (Pioch). It was also in this year that he did his traveling to Italy where he did a great number of paintings t...

and early career help illustrate how he was a relatively simple man who would likely have remained obscure without WWII and Nazi G...

himself with the Western cultures, going to France and learning, it seems, as much as he could. It was while in France that his pe...

enough to get by, or is making enough money to pay bills and go on an annual vacation a worthy goal? In defining how much money on...

music and his family had a lot of musical talent. He was not the first to exhibit this unique gift and his desire for a musical li...

one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...

in Cleveland he learned about how sewing machines work and then opened a store where he sold machines and fixed them in 1907 (Blac...

honorable discharge (Blackinventor.com, 2006). After the war he worked in a patent law firm as an office boy (Blackinventor.com, 2...

globe he would presently find it out" (OConnor; Robertson). Halley then attended Queens College Oxford (Edmund Halley: 16...

many stereotypes are laid open, simple working class people are illustrating with incredibly warm and loving depth, grandmothers a...

in her life her output was quite chaotic and uneven. In an examination of her art, and the development of her art, we present an a...

the Civil War and when he heard that his brother was wounded he left for Fredericksburg and cared for his brother, along with othe...

these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: His Childhood). In an understatement perhaps, we ca...

Blair family was not very wealthy - Orwell later described them ironically as lower-upper-middle class" and "They owned no propert...

"disparate pieces of collage and assemblages round the studio walls, which over time were connected by string, then wire, then woo...

also began to develop an interest in electronic devices such as variable speed turntables. He "invented the prepared piano, placin...

children, including their education. She "fell in love with the handsome preceptor and together they eloped along with her three c...

also a renown architect, and it was his influence that first spurred the imagination of his sons (Robert Adam, 2003)....

(1822-1890) was born in Liege where he also first studied as a piano virtuoso from 1830-1835. Franck first toured Belgium at the a...

to love scholarship and excelled. Though John did love the church as well, he found there was far too much controversy taking p...