.... and was imprisoned in the Bastille. During his eleven months in prison he wrote his first major play, "Oedipe," which achieved great success in 1718. He adopted his pen name "Voltaire" the same year. In 1726 Voltaire insulted a powerful young nobleman and was given two options: imprisonment or exile. He chose exile and from 1726 to 1729 lived in England. While in England Voltaire was attracted to the philosophy of John Locke and ideas of the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton. After his return to Paris he wrote a book praising English customs and institutions. The book was thought to criticize the French government and Voltaire was forced to flee Paris aga .....

.... of working various jobs. He did everything from making cabbage-growing more efficient to making political decisions to being the first person to study and chart the Gulf Stream movement in the Atlantic Ocean. Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706. He was the fifteenth child in a family of seventeen kids. His parents, Josiah and Abiah Franklin, were hard working devout Puritan/Calvinist people. Josiah Franklin made candles for a living. Since the Franklins were so poor, little Benjamin couldn't afford to go to school for longer than two years. In those two years, however, Franklin learned to read which opened the door to further educa .....

.... the Sunday services at the Church of St. Thomas in Leipzig, which were probably the best of it's kind. Bach was always was in high demand and held a continuation of excellent jobs throughout his lifetime which included posts at the courts of Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Weimar and Prince Leopold of Cöthen. Life, however, was not always that great though. In the early years Bach was heavily influenced by the composer Buxtehude (another great writer for the organ) and he left his first job as organist at Arnstadt to go and have lessons with him. This turned into a four-month leave, causing trouble with Bach's employers when he returned. Not only had his presence bee .....

.... of large numbers of colored freedmen would have upon the whites. Jefferson had no doubt of the outcome. If the blacks were permitted to remain, it would be a disaster for the white race. Thomas Jefferson compared the Native Americans to the Afro-Americans. Jefferson had many views on both the Native Americans and Afro-Americans. Jefferson did not fear the Native Americans in the way he feared black slaves. Jefferson believed that the Native Americans had higher order of intelligence and imagination than he found in Afro-Americans. The Native Americans seemed to Jefferson to be happier than the oppressed and degraded peasantry of Europe. Jefferson compared .....

.... public meetings, picketing, riots (both peaceful and not), and told the blacks to stand up for who they are and be proud of their background. Both of the men were very talented speakers and used this talent to their advantage. They spoke to everyone, but as individuals. This made the blacks believe in what they were saying and made it easier to comprehend. Another similarity of both men, that really is a tragedy is they were both assassinated. Both were assassinated for the same reason: saying, believing, and making it happen of the equality of blacks and whites on the same level. There were a lot of whites out there that believed whites were superi .....

.... of his paintings. He was horrifically indifferent towards his education at the Christian Brothers' Immaculate Conception primary school which likely gave him ample time to expand his imagination. Perhaps the only knowledge he acquired while being taught there was the French language. This was the sole language spoken at the school, and he was forced to adapt to the communication. The first flame of creativity was sparked by Siegfrid Burmann, who gave Dalí his first set of oils and pallete. He undoubtedly employed these materials in one of his first sophisticated paintings, View of Cadaqués with Shadow of Mount Pani of 1917. His family noticed his artis .....

.... Chinese martial artist and actor whose main style of fighting was Kung-Fu among many other styles that he practiced. From all of the things that I've read and seen about Lee, I think that he was the type of person that would never give up. He could get beat and come back for revenge, but there weren't many times that he was defeated. He was also a very inspiring person to many people. He taught that mental actions overcome physical ones, that people should only result to fighting when it was the last option, and that a person shouldn't determine the outcome of a fight before it starts because underestimation could lead to defeat. Bruce also had clever met .....

.... sufficiently aware of subjectivity of our own thought and senses. The only thing we directly experience is the nature of our own ideas and we do not realise how our own appreciation of certain concepts may be very different from the objective character of the external world. Descartes takes a look at memory, imagination, hallucination, dreams, predictions, etc. which he calls our (sensory awareness) as these are part of the way we perceive the external world, he doubts at first that any of these internal experience holds any truth or existence. As he is very sceptical he raises the problem whether any of these given experiences contain truth or objectivity .....