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When he was nine years old, his parents divorced and this was another rough episode in his life. This shows that he was not afraid of challenges and was devoted to his work.

Juana's quest for books made her want to join the university, she would plead with her mother to dress her up as a boy for her to get the opportunity to attend the University of [...]

In 1958 Brown and his band were propelled to the top of the charts by the hit single Try Me and it remained to be the best of Brown's best tracks for a period of [...]

Since the two separated when the actress was still a youth and the mother decided to migrate to New York and stay with her, she learnt a lot from her mother about relationships and it [...]

Nevertheless, Parks' heroic act in the evening of December 1, 1955 in a bus in Montgomery Alabama brought a revolution that led to the famous Montgomery bus boycott and the subsequent birth of numerous human [...]

The first reason for this reconstruction was the danger of destruction of the building. She was the first person who implied such business skills in Pennsylvania.

However, he is now regarded as one of the influential figures in the history of both poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age since his works talk about the supremacy of the imagination over [...]

She was one of the poets who extensively participated in Asian American poetry, which is one of the schools of thought used in writing poems in U.S.A.

In 1963, he co-authored with Anna Schwartz in an examination of the significance of money supply and economic activity in the history of U. Milton Friedman is certainly a figure to reckon with in the [...]

He was the first to do and to prove a lot of state affairs. As far as he was rather successful military man and it was in time of Vietnam War, when Colin Powell was [...]

The memorizing capability was very important to him, and it is said that during his early years of acquiring knowledge he committed over three thousand hadithas to his memory.

Most scholars are skeptical about the magnanimity of Sarmiento's contribution to literature but it is often agreed that his works are an accurate reflection of the social and political situations in the 1800s' Argentina.

John Stuart Mill is definitely one of the famous philosophers of the modern era. In the work, Mill examines the question of liberty and the power of the society.

In addition to his leading role as a peace and desegregation crusader, prior to his election as the 34th American president and even after his rise to the top seat, Eisenhower was a well known [...]

The Black Panther Party fell into disarray in 1970, and Abu-Jamal joined radio journalism where he was called as the 'voice of the voiceless'.

This occurred in the late seventeen century and summarily she was quoted to have harbored the ambitions of becoming a Catholic nun in her teenage age.

In the early 1950s, he became the Executive Director of the Adult Education of the US. The knowledge he acquired in the scouting process was important in his development in high schools and in the [...]

Karl Marx expressed his sentiments on alienation and pain in the lower class workers imprisonment by the private individuals who have the resources to manipulate and twist social, development, and welfare aspects of the masses [...]

He works as a film producer, director, and screenwriter, who came to global recognition through his films The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

His ninth symphony was the best ever composed making a summary of the previous eight. The ninth symphony is in the form of a choral.

He also used to stress he was one of his people as he had the same background and he had to face the same hardships.

This essay is, hence, a summary of the life of John Calvin and his impact on Christianity. According to Calvin, the advancement of the church depended on God's mercy.

Later on, Spielberg's work as the director of a full episode of "The Name of the Game" impressed studio bosses and Universal Studios signed him on for a four-film contract.

Some of the most important of these transformations include the 'Long March' that took place before his leadership, development of the Five-Year Plan, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution that is the subject [...]

He is considered to be among the pioneers of medical surgery in medieval age. Moreover, he was the first physician to draw hooks with two tips for utilisation in surgery.

Specific attention deserves such works as The Unjust Society: The Tragedy of Canada's Indians written in 1969 and The Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian, which is also famous as the White Paper.

John Locke, who was also widely regarded as the inventor of classical liberalism, was thought of as one of the most known intellectuals of enlightenment.

Ibn Firnas created a workshop in which he performed various experiments. In the field of astronomy, Ibn Firnas created various instruments that he applied in studying the sky.

He divorced three times and finally settled with the fifth wife He was the only male in a family of six children.

Metzinger was fascinated by the idea of different dimensions and different retrospectives and regarded objects as multidimensional ways to convey the meaning. I speculated on the idea of wonders of nature and depicted a mermaid [...]

His role in the French and Indian War was significant, as he was a commander of the Virginia Regiment, raised to oppose the French in the Ohio Valley.

Other than his architectural designs, Gehry has been working as a lecturer at Columbia University in Yale and the University of Southern California in the recent past.

Dwight Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States born in 1890 in Denison, Texas. Dwight Eisenhower served as the president of the United States at a time when achieving tranquility and affluence was [...]

As a result, he became conversant with the political opinions of the university and went ahead to join one of the gangs.

The paper discusses the life of violinist called Andre Rieu with interest laid on the effects he had in the world and people, qualities of his life and the difficulties he encountered in his life.

However, as he attained the age of 30, his appeal among teenagers waned and his music career faded. He was controversial for his political ideologies and alleged involvement in organized crime.

Between 1968 and 1973, the actress cum singer was at the mantle of the Doris Day Show. She was a composer and singer.

Damien has managed to be successful in a dynamic and competitive global art scene because he understands the value of beauty and morality through his works.

He was the seventh president of the USA between the years 1829 and 1837. The southern region mainly practiced farming and became the producers of raw material for the northern frontier that was industrialized.

To have a clear indication of what the other part of the world needed, the couple toured Africa in 1995, and they resolved to donate part of their wealth to help the poor Africans.

And Joe Pass demonstrated a complex nature of this style, becoming one of the epitomes of jazz in the middle of the 20th century.

In the case of Buddy, he was indeed dedicated to serve the whole of Canadian culture as a singer and dancer of fiddle music.

The early life of Michael Jackson as a part of The Jackson 5 team started with the family music project where Michael Jackson performed the role of a singer and dancer.

Over the years, scientists and researchers from every corner of the globe have hailed his theory of relativity as the only practical explanation of the physical world today.

The "greatness" of Zora as a proficient American folklorist, anthropologist, and writer is evident when he became one of the writers at the center of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s.

During the period around the First World War, Einstein was among the individuals that were against the usage of violence in resolution of conflicts.

Ruscha was born in 1937 in Omaha, the largest city in Nebraska, and is currently based in Culver City, California. In 1969, Ruscha also worked as a guest professor of art at the University of [...]

In fact, Mural, which is one of his unique pieces of art, was a design for his entrance hall that was executed in a single day.

Kwan was introduced to skating at the tender age of five when she followed her elder siblings to the local skating rink.

He could have attained the name because of the nature of his forehead or because of his extensive knowledge. Due to the wealth and political influence of his family, his father gave him the best [...]

President Yeltsin supported the career of Putin, and Putin was appointed to become the Prime Minister in 1999, and then in December of 1999, Putin was named as the President of Russia because of Yeltsin's [...]

At the age of 11, he joined an art school and began to develop his art career until he became a professional artist, who left a legacy in the world of art.

The first novel was written by Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther was the foundation of his establishment as a novelist.

He has rather an ordinary background, not the one of a millionaire's heir, and neither poverty that rose from the ashes to the top of the modern world.

In his most famous play, A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler, Ibsen concentrated on the roles of women in the family and society.

Eventually, the duo broke apart and for almost a decade Lewis dedicated himself to a music career and doing prominent shows in Las Vegas, New York, and Miami which were the staple of his career.

In her time, Victorian society prevented women from acquiring formal education and practicing medicine; thus, Barry adopted a male persona throughout her career, a strategy that enabled her to rise to the rank of Inspector [...]

The sudden death of her mother in 1895 and the death of her half-sister Stella several years later led to Virginia's first nervous breakdown.

Thus, being a physics student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he suggested an unusual approach to calculating forces in molecules as a part of his undergraduate thesis in 1939.

This paper will provide his brief biography, the historical context in which his theories were created, his educational background, influences, contemporaries, and how his theory is applied in the field of anthropology. This time was [...]

The outbreak of civil war in Lebanon in 1958 resulted in her being dispatched to live with her mother's parents in Chile.

In January 2011, the Apple Board of Directors approved the medical leave requested by Steve Jobs, and Tim Cook was appointed to the CEO position.

He came to be known as the Butcher of Uganda for the despotic and brutal policies that he followed while he was the President of Uganda during the 1970s.

He was the son of a farmer His family fled Israel's war of independence in 1948 and spent a year as refugees in Lebanon, before returning to Israel.

While in Florida, he was not allowed to live in the same hotel as his teammates, so he had to stay at the house of a local African American.

This paper describes the life of Stephen Hawking and his most important works. During his university studies, he was diagnosed with ALS a disease that made him lose the ability to move and speak in [...]

In the following paper, I have my goal to observe the creative work of Alexey Brodovitch, and his role in the development of the world's art and design.

She had a great interest in the poor and this was motivated by her mother's generosity in Cedarville. However, being a woman, she was not sure of her role in enhancing the same.

The essence of business firms' existence, as well as the functioning of the economy, was also highlighted in his explanation of the nature of the firm.

The shift that occurred in the fashion industry toward Italy and designing dresses for movie stars and celebrities linked his name with luxury style and opulence.

During that time Joan was considered to be one of the VIPs and she occupied a visible seat in the coronation ceremony.

He was elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee and became an appointee to hold the seat of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee.

In the year 1892 Louis Lozowick was born in Ludvinovka, a state in Ukraine, an Eastern European country, bordered the countries of Belarus to the north, Russia to the north-east, Moldova and Romania to the [...]

Art is a not only a tool used to reflect the happenings in a society, but it also reflects the feelings of the artist towards the society and towards themselves. Through the paintings of an [...]

In this treatise, he talks about the office he occupied in a town called Delphi in his old age where he actually became one of the most reliable priests responsible for the interpretations of the [...]

When Pollock was 15, his elder brother Sanford and he spent summer with a group of land surveyors in the Grand Canyon.

He was able to succeed in his career because he was deeply in love with it and all his efforts were direct to it.

The development of the Harlem Renaissance has led to the recognition of a considerable influence of the Negro culture on American culture.

Before his current tenure as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown served as the Chancellor to the Exchequer from the time they came to power in 1997 to 2007.

Alessandro Scarlatti was one of the composers of Baroque times, who managed to create a lot of pieces of music and develop the music world through innovations.

When Olympia was pregnant, the god's are said to have communicated to her and the husband in a dream on the nature of the child to be born.

So, on the example of Bob Bennett, it was proved that people's choice is motivated according to psychoanalytic, humanistic, and diversity aspects.

Eventually becoming a noted lecturer and author, his most notable works include 1959's The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry Into The Wealth and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which he wrote in [...]

His family was a religious one headed by the father of Carl Jung, a pastor in the local church. In this sphere, Jung identified anima and animus as the main points of unconsciousness.

He exposed the wickedness of the slave masters and the suffering of the Negro slaves. Douglas was able to show that it is not only the Negro slaves that needed salvation from the deadly plague [...]

No rubber stamp of her husband's administration, she fought for the kinds of human justice that appealed to her heart and soul - equality for African-Americans, a fair chance to earn a living for the [...]

Before his expression as India's leader, he regarded himself as an engineering prophet and was awarded India's superior civilian honor Bharat Ratna in 1997 for his work with DRDO and his position as a scientific [...]

His first work in poetry was published in his school magazine and in a short span of time he was taken in as a staff member of the magazine in which he regularly contributed his [...]

Ford was treated in the hospital and was assigned in one of the rooms reserved for the black patients in the hospital.

One of the books that raised his popularity in America as well as among other readers of the world was his collection of books published under the Rabbit series.

There are a number of reasons why Whitman's poetry might have been different from what had been introduced in academic circles to that point these having to do with the time in which he lived, [...]

Kafka's writing was predominantly influenced by two factors the environment of the time and place in which he lived, and the events in his personal life.

Once this is a revealing part of her biography which will later be linked to the way she writes her novels.

He was recognized as an American musician whose reputation has increased after his death as he was awarded a citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board."American Music" is the style of music that Ellington performed in [...]

Unfortunate for her Jonathan also aspired to be a successful writer and was in a way, jealous of Erica and her writing abilities.

He also painted several posters for the inauguration ceremony of the President Bill Clinton and also got an opportunity to be invited at White House for painting of the historical moment of the day - [...]

Though critics might argue his best work was earlier in his career, his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, St Louis Walk Hall of Fame and Down Beat's Jazz Hall of Fame [...]

He was much fascinated with Marco Polo who had managed to travel across Europe to India in reaching the far East, and it was in this context that the idea was born in him to [...]

At the school, Bandura notes that most of the learning was left to the initiative of the students as there was lack of teachers as well as resources.

It acknowledged the interdependency of the masculine and the feminine or community values such as the earth and sky. Achebe's stories are also known to use proverbs that incorporate the values of the rural Igbo [...]

What makes the work of Peter Rice unique is that he has the ability to step out of the limits and constraints which formed a part of his professional training; as a result he was [...]

His art is ill-suited to the sort of subjects that appealed to Verdi, but he is more often mysterious than mystical; and the more forbidding or abstract his theme the stronger his brush.'Saturn, the Bringer [...]

He testified that he was not a member of the communist party and was allowed to return to Europe the next day. He did not like the bourgeois agenda and that was reflected in his [...]

It is not easy to distinguish the most important aspects of Eudora Weltys life, because all of them are closely intertwined, though, while analyzing her stories one should pay attention to her family relationships, her [...]

The central argument of the present paper is that Simone's music is based greatly on her own experience, in particular on the involvement in the civil rights movement, combined with her African American identity, so [...]

This idea is supported in Freud's Civilization and its Discontents as he discusses the aggressive energy associated with the super-ego."According to one view, that energy merely carries on the punitive energy of the external authority [...]

He became the founder of the Industrial Organization congress and he also played a major role in reshaping national labor for employees and welfare legislation of workers during the New Deal.

After the war, he retired back to New York where he was assigned to the Yankees New London, Connecticut club where the manager took a keen look at the talent of the player and offered [...]

She was born in Gambia and was made a slave at the age of seven in having been purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston where she learned to read and write and then developed [...]

The restlessness of her essence makes her perfect in modern-day fashion circles as she absorbs the dynamism of her world. Miuccia Prada is a symbol of the union between fashion and art.

In the process of describing the creative process of Andy Warhol it is evident how closely the word 'Genius' is intertwined with their creativity.

Gershwin music was very popular with the public and the music critics did not know where to place his music in the standard repertoire.

In late 1940s, he managed to do his doctoral thesis and helped Scudder to collect blood plasma and distribute it in Britain to assist the soldiers in Britain with the blood.

Nat King Cole is considered one of the greatest Jazz musicians in the 20th century. As A result of that, the band's name became the "King Cole Trio".

It can be stated that he earned his degrees from the University of Nature, his name being associated with the emancipation of a great majority of people and the salvation of the American Republic.

One of her eyes is a stone eye and with the other eye she is trying to view something on her left side.

He went to a boarding school where he went through one of the most difficult and unhappy phases of his life. He also contributed a lot in the theory of elections.

One example of that is when he believed he was chosen to save the souls of his people, but he was the one who brutally killed thousands of people.

In his 50 years of career in jazz, he played the trumpet in a lyrical and melodic style and made his sound more intimate and personal.

His switch attracted mixed reactions, with the Republicans celebrating the defection of a Democrat to join them and the Democrats displeased with the defection of one of their members.