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Socrates
<view this essay>.... in this way, behaving against the city. It is a way of destroying the cities laws and so you are hurting citizens by doing so. An example of this is the general understanding that you shouldn’t hurt your father. If you do so than you are disrespecting laws within your city. Of course you will get convicted for this, and it doesn’t change the idea that you acted against the city.
follows by explaining what is taught to each citizen. You are told that you were born with certain laws. Your father and mother brought you to the world in which they live and thus you should respect and obey by their rules. The laws were already there. That means, that your mother a .....
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Winston Smith
<view this essay>.... dreams of an idyllic Golden Country which represents freedom from the drabness of London, and from the always pervading presence of the Party, the Thought Police and Big Brother. A Golden country in which any form of expression is considered natural. The party discourages sexual fulfilment and makes any love affair with a party member impossible. Winston notices two people, O`Brien a party leader, and a young girl by the name of Julia. Winston hates Julia for what she represents and yet he lusts for her. She appears to be a faithful party member devoted to purity and Winston suspects that she may also be a member of the Thought Police.
Winston shares his .....
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Pablo Picasso
<view this essay>.... of frequent changes of residence between Barcelona and Paris. During this period, he would spend his days in Paris studying the masterworks at the Louvre and his nights enjoying the company of fellow artists at cabarets like the Lapin Agile.
1905 and 1906 marked a radical change in color and mood for Picasso. He became fascinated with the acrobats, clowns and wandering families of the circus world. He started to paint in subtle pinks and grays, often highlighted with brighter tones. This was known as his "rose period."
For Picasso the 1920's were years of rich artistic exploration and great productivity. Picasso continued to design theater sets and painted i .....
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Mark Twain
<view this essay>.... humor. Unlike many writers of his time, Samuel Clemens, better known as his pen name, never secluded himself or slaved over a piece of work. He enjoyed playing billiards or sitting on his porch, smoking a pipe. He lived with his wife and three daughters, and did most of writing in his billiards room or on his bed. He lived a simple, casual life, which proved to encourage his laidback, humorist attitude. (Whipple, Sally) William Dean Howells once compared Twain’s lifestyle to the other famous writers of his time. “Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes… they were like one another and like other literary men; but Clemens was sole, incomparable.” (Twainweb) T .....
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Alfred Nobel
<view this essay>.... all of them. He perfected his French when sent to Paris by his father in his
late teens to study chemistry. His letters in French are particularly elegant.
Those in English sometimes bear traces of the early nineteenth-century style
generally associated with Byron and Shelley (his two favourite poets) and are
remarkably free of grammatical and idiomatic errors. To his mother he always
wrote in Swedish, which is also the language of the will he composed in Paris.
The fields embraced by the prizes stipulated by the will reflect Nobel's
personal interests. While he provided no prizes for architects, artists,
composers or social scientists, he was gen .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright
<view this essay>.... of architecture, and an example of what it means to live life based on the way things should be, not the way they are. He created some of the most monumental and intimate spaces in America. He designed everything: banks and resorts, office buildings and churches, a filling station and a synagogue, a beer garden and an art museum. ’s life truly was a work of art.
Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. His early influences include his clergyman father's playing of Bach and Beethoven and his mother's gift of geometric blocks. Growing up, Wright spent much of his summers at a farm owned by his uncles; here, his favorite pastime was buil .....
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Sergei Grinkov And Ekaterina Gordeeva
<view this essay>.... rink. At first it wasn't easy for Sergei. One day he would do good, and another other day so-so, but he was determined to make it to the top.
The much more mature Sergei enjoyed choreographing (the study of dance moves). He also appreciated weight-training and gymnastics. But Skating still proved to be his greatest interest. However, because of his high height at age 15, it was very difficult for him to perform high maneuvers, and twists. So in 1982 Sergei's coach and mother decided to pair him with Ekaterina Gordeeva, who at the time was 10 years of age.
Ekaterina was born on March 20, 1972 to Alexander and Elena Gordeeva. Ekaterina's mother Elena was a .....
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Isaac Newton's Life
<view this essay>.... which is the "corrected" Gregorian calendar date bringing it into line with our present calendar. (The Gregorian calendar was not adopted in England until 1752.) Isaac Newton came from a family of farmers but never knew his father, also named Isaac Newton, who died in October 1642, three months before his son was born. Although Isaac's father owned property and animals which made him quite a wealthy man, he was completely uneducated and could not sign his own name.
How Newton was introduced to the most advanced mathematical texts of his day is slightly less clear. According to de Moivre, Newton's interest in mathematics began in the autumn of 1663 when .....
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