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Edmund Botsford, a Baptist Minister

The young English ex-soldier was converted to the Baptist faith during the time when Oliver Hart was in charge of the Charleston church and the ministry in that region especially training the missionaries and young [...]

The Life of Harold Cardinal

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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.

Painter Jean Metzinger and His Works

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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 [...]
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Frank Gehry’s Life and Career

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.
  • Subjects: Art
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Frank Sinatra’s Life and Career

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.

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop

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.

Edward Ruscha, an American Artist

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 [...]

Albert Einstein, His Life and Career

Newton was one of the key pioneers in the transition from astrology to astronomy and he formulated scientific laws that assisted scientists and ordinary people to understand the intricacies of planetary motions and how objects [...]

Richard Feynman: Life and Work

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.

E. E. Cummings Life and Poetry

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 [...]

The Life of Alessandro Scarlatti

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.

Adam Smith: The Noted Economist

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 [...]

The Life and Work of Thomas Paine

Washington gave an order to read it to soldiers to support their fighting spirit In 1787 Thomas Paine came to France, in 1791 he published the first part of the work "Rights of Man", in [...]

Walt Whitman and His Poetry

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, [...]

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington

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 [...]

Chinua Achebe and His Works

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 [...]

Bertolt Brecht: Life and Works

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 [...]

Eudora Welty: Life and Works

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 [...]

Nina Simone: An American Singer-Songwriter

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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 [...]

Sigmund Freud: His Life and Work

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 [...]

Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra

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 [...]

Miuccia Prada: Luxury-Fashion Pioneer

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.