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J.D. Salinger's Personal Life
<view this essay>.... and then get angry
when you don't? Even if every letter and every person just said "thanks for
everything you gave me", I suspect it would get a bit old. Remember, he's
not "the writer", he's a regular person who happens to have a talent for
writing.
The same goes for dishing the dirt on his life. He's a private person who
wrote very personal stories. I feel that, even if there is not enough on
the pages to satisfy, what is there is filling enough. He gave the world
one novel and 35 short stories and that's all. He has actively resisted
surrenderring his whole life to public scrutiny, and that is not an easy
thing to do. I refuse to chip away at that shell. .....
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Gailileo
<view this essay>.... mathematics at the
university of Padua (the university of the Republic of Venice). There his duties were
mainly to teach Euclids geometry in order to make use of astrology in their medical
practice. However, Galileo apparently discussed more unconventional forms of
astronomy and natural philosophy in a public lecture he gave in connection with the
appearance of a New Star (now known as "Kepler's supernova") in 1604. In a personal
letter written to Kepler (1571 - 1630) in 1598, Galileo had stated that he was a
Copernican (believer in the Theories of Copernicus). No public sign of this belief was to
appear until many years la .....
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Caravaggio
<view this essay>.... he derived his name, in 1573. After the death of his
father he was orphaned and apprenticed to the painter Peterzano, a pupil of
Titan. During his apprenticeship to Peterzano he learned the fundamental
technical skills and developed a style of representing nature and events in
nature realistically.
In about 1573 he went to Rome. During this time he fell ill and
was admitted to the Hospital of the Consolation, where he did some painting
for the Prior. Having no money, he moved into a decaying neighborhood
which suited his personality well. Caravaggio struggled to live in Rome
for the first five years. According to biographers he was needy and
stripped .....
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Biography: Helen Keller (1880-1968)
<view this essay>.... the age of six, Helen's parents took her to see Dr. Alexander Graham
Bell, who recommended Anne Mansfield Sullivan as a teacher, a post she
assumed on March 3, 1887. That April, the miracle occurred in which Helen
associated water with the letters "w-a-t-e-r" which her teacher had signed
into her hand. Helen learned 30 words the first day and soon learned to
sign the alphabet, write and eventually speak. Helen learned to read lips
by pressing her fingertips to the speaker's lips and feeling the vibrations
and movement. This method, called Tadoma, is extremely difficult; very few
master it.
Helen had mastered Braille, the manual alphabet and the typewrite .....
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Sigmund Freud
<view this essay>.... school. He was interested in science above all; the idea of practicing medicine was slightly repugnant to him. He hoped to go into neurophysiological research, but pure research was hard to manage in those days unless you were independently wealthy. Freud was engaged and needed to be able to support a family before he could marry, and so he determined to go into private practice with a specialty in neurology.
During his training he befriended Josef Breuer, another physician and physiologist. They often discussed medical cases together and one of Breuer's would have a lasting effect on Freud. Known as Anna O., this patient was a young woman suffering fro .....
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Pierre De Fermat
<view this essay>.... no systematic exposition of his methods. He had a habit of scribbling notes in the margins of books or in letters rather than publishing them. He was modest because he thought if he published his theorems the people would not believe them. He did not seem to have the intention to publish his papers. It is probable that he revised his notes as the occasion required. His published works represent the final form of his research, and therefore cannot be dated earlier than 1660. Mr. discovered many things in his lifetime. Some things that he did include: -If p is a prime and a is a prime to p then ap-1-1 is divisible by p, that is, ap-1-1=0 (mod p). The proof of th .....
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Giorgione
<view this essay>.... influence on the style of . Vasari tells us that DaVinci’s chiaroscuro made its impression on ’s work after he visited Venice in late 1499 and March of 1500. However, Hieronymus Bosch also greatly influenced his work. Bosch was also in Venice at this time, and has presented several demons done in a style similar to that of Bosch in several of his paintings. Both use minimal or sketchy underdrawings to preserve the atmosphere and colors of the painting. Their brushstrokes are quick and delicate, 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, how .....
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Sir Isaac Newton
<view this essay>.... (Westfall 1). Though his father had died before Isaac was born, he was given his father’s name. He was born into a farming family that had worked their way slowly up the “social ladder”. The Newton’s were one of the few families to prosper in Lincolnshire (Westfall 1). At the age of three Isaac’s life would take a drastic turn. When Isaac was three his mother, Hannah Ayscough, remarried to the Reverend Barnabas Smith (Internet-newtonia). Isaac and the Reverend never got along and the Reverend would not have a child that was not his living with him. Isaac stayed with his grandparents when his mother went to live with the Reverend in North Witham. His maternal g .....
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