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Donatello
<view this essay>.... he was really
viewed as a realist but later research showed he was much more.
Early career. Donatello was the son of Niccolo di Betto Bardi, a
Florentine wool carder. It is not known how he started his career but probably
learned stone carving from one of the sculptors working for the cathedral of
Florence about 1400. Some time between 1404 and 1407 he became a member of the
workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti who was a sculptor in bronze. Donatello's earliest
work was a marble statue of David. The "David" was originally made for the
cathedral but was moved in 1416 to the Palazzo Vecchio which is a city hall
where it long stood as a civic-patriotic symbol. Fr .....
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History Of Ozzy
<view this essay>.... industry, because without his invention of the phonograph, there might not be music on the radio, or on tapes and CD’s today(Biagi 143). In 1887, a man by the name Emile Berliner replaced Edison’s phonograph with the gramophone and in 1947 Goldmark introduced the LP, or Long-playing record(143-4).
Working in the recording industry takes a lot of time, patience, and money. Starting with making records, to 8 tracks, to 4 track tapes, and now to CD’s, there have been many changes in bettering the production. There are five separate levels of responsibility the industry must go through before it reaches the public(148). One is the Artists .....
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Issac Newton
<view this essay>.... first Isaac was a poor student. He cared little for school work, perferring to paint, make kites, write in notebooks, or invent toys. He made no friends. Silent and dreamy, he was at the bottom of his class. Oddly, it was a savage kick by a school bully that caused Newton's great mind to awaken. The mild, dreamy boy flew into a rage and beat the other boy thoroughly. Isaac determined to beat the bully in school work as well. Soon Isaac was at the head of his class.
In 1656 Newton's stepfather died. His mother returned to Woolsthorpe to take care of the farm left by Newton's father. But she could not manage the farm by herself. Isaac was taken out of school and .....
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John Napier
<view this essay>.... seem to have any relevance to him. He returned home in 1571 as
a scholar competent in Greek. He was an ardent Presbyterian who wrote A
Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of Saint John, the first Scottish
interpretation of the bible, in 1593 to demonstrate that the Catholic Church
was the beast. He was interested in mathematics at an early age and set forth
the concept of logarithms and published the first table of them. While doing
this, he also systematized trigonometry and was important in the acceptance
of systematic use of decimal notation.
He also invented many mechanical devices used for math, such as "Napier's
Bones", which were devic .....
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Zeno Of Elea
<view this essay>.... the flying arrow,
and the runner in the race. It is the illustration with the runner that is
associated the first part of the assignment. In this illustration, Zeno argued
that a runner can never reach the end of a race course. He stated that the
runner first completes half of the race course, and then half of the remaining
distance, and will continue to do so for infinity. In this way, the runner can
never reach the end of the course, as it would be infinitely long, much as the
semester would be infinitely long if we completed half, and then half the
remainder, ad infinitum. This interval will shrink infinitely, but never quite
disappear. This typ .....
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Malcolm X
<view this essay>.... Georgia, was a Baptist minister and organiser for Marcus Garvey, who wanted that all Afro-Americans go back to the land of their ancestors, Africa. Louise, his second wife, bore six children: Wilfred, Hilda, Philbert, Malcolm, Yvonne, and Reginald. Earl Little also had three children by a first wife: Ella, Earl, and Mary. Because of the father’s advocacy for Garvey’s movement, the whole family was terrorised by the Ku Klux Klan. To avoid any more harassment by these white racists, Little had to migrate with his family to Lansing, Michigan. It did not help. The white racists of Lansing killed Malcolm’s father and laid him on a railway track, claiming he commi .....
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Aristotle (384 -322 BC)
<view this essay>.... adopted daughter, Pythias. In 343 or 342 BC, Philip II, king of
Macedonia, told Aristotle to supervise the education of his son, Alexander
(later known as "Alexander the Great"). He taught him until 336 BC, when
Alexander became the ruler of Macedonia. Alexander the Great later became the
ruler of all Greece, and over threw the Persian Empire. In 334 BC, Aristotle
returned to Athens and started his own school, the Lyceum. Because he taught
while walking around, his students were called the Peripatetic students, meaning
"walking" or "strolling". When Alexander died in 323 BC, Aristotle was charged
with impiety (lack of reverence to the gods) by the Atheni .....
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Neve Campbell
<view this essay>.... soon to be put to a halt, for after various injuries and lots of competitiveness, she had a nervous breakdown and quit dancing when she was 15 years old. She also had been a model for two months but found that modeling had no satisfaction and very low. After this she turned towards the theatre for a career, since she wanted to be a performer.
Another contribution to her career was when Neve was involved in the theatre. After her quitting dancing, she had turned out to be the Degas girl in “The Phantom of the Opera”. She preformed at the Pantages theatre in Toronto. Neve had preformed in over 800 shows when she was done in “The Phantom of the Opera” Neve says .....
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