the Raymond C Brock Commission given by the American Choral Directors Association‚ awarded in 2001‚ as well as numerous other awards from the ACDA‚ the Barlow international composition competition‚ and American Composers’ Forum. (Official Website Biography) Although Whitacre is known for his choral works‚ he also writes and composes for wind ensembles‚ full orchestras‚ a full musical titled "Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings"‚ as well as pieces for solo voice and supporting instrumentals. The most known
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Biography: Mary Rowlandson was born circa 1637-1638 in England. With her parents John and Joan White‚ she sailed for Salem in 1639. Joseph Rowlandson became a minister in 1654 and two years later he and Mary were married. They had a child‚ Mary‚ who lived for three years; their other children were Joseph‚ b. 1661; Mary‚ b. 1665; Sarah‚ b. 1669. At the time of their capture‚ the children were 14‚ 10‚ and 6. In 1675 Joseph Rowlandson. went to Boston to beg for help from the Massachusetts General
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Alessandro Volta Biography Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Volta was an Italian scientist that is known for inventing the first battery. Volta was born into a noble family in Como‚ Italy on February 18‚ 1785. When Volta was twenty-nine years old he became a physics professor at the ‘Royal School’ in Como‚ Italy. He studied chemistry gases in the years of 1776 through 1778. By 1778‚ Volta managed to make an electrical spark using methane‚ which he discovered in 1776 by collecting the gas from
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Biography of Allan Pinkerton Malina Wiese CJS 250 May 5‚ 2013 Robyn Ring Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton was born on August 25‚ 1819 in Glasgow‚ Scotland. He was the founder of a famous American private detective agency called the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (biography.com). Pinkerton prevented an assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln. He was a man with great power of observation and courage. Allan Pinkerton’s achievements and those of the organization he shaped from
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Biography of Allan Pinkerton Jasmine Acevedo CJS/250 April 20‚ 2014 Ann Meek Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish that was born in August 25‚ 1819 in Glasgow‚ Scotland and died in July 1‚ 1884‚ in Chicago‚ Illinois. He has been well known for his career as a detective and for being a founder of a famous American private detective agency called Pinkerton Detective Agency. As a child‚ Allan Pinkerton suffered the loss of his father‚ a police sergeant‚ resulting his life
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reasoning skills.” It was all to increase understanding.” (eric biography). He always sought to make a sort of Mathematics cheat code‚ a way that anyone could join in on the fun. The Venn Diagram originally developed from John Venn was modified by Charles (St. Andrews). The Diagrams boundaries were made more linear and brought in “colored counters that could be moved around to signify class contents”(Dictionary of Scientific Biography‚ 1971‚ p. 137) His method has been forgotten though‚ the Venn
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Mary Pleasant‚ A Biography Mary Pleasant‚ also widely referred to as “Mammy Pleasant”‚ is the considered Mother of Civil Rights in California due to her work with the Civil Rights movement during the 1860s. She was an icon during the Gold Rush and Gilded Age San Francisco because of her political power‚ mainly due to her large fortune and as well as her influence‚ in the cause and in her fellow citizens. Her achievements as an abolitionist went unmatched until the late 1960s‚ during which other
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Michael Jordan Michael Jordan is an American Professional Basketball Player . I picked Michael for my biography because I consider him to be the best basketball player in the NBA . Michael is recognized for his spectacular ball handling skills and for his outrageous dunks . He is also the leading scorer in the NBA ‚ and a winner of three NBA most valuable player award in 1988‚1991‚ and 1992 . Jordan was born in Brooklyn ‚ New York ‚ and
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Biography of Apolinario Mabini This biography on Apolinario Mabini was written and published in English in 1922. Apolinario Mabini was undoubtedly the most profound thinker and political philosopher that the Pilipino race ever produced. Some day‚ when his works are fully published‚ but not until then‚ Mabini will come into his own. A great name awaits him‚ not only in the Philippines‚ for he is already appreciated there‚ but in every land where the cause of liberty and human freedom is revered.
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1931‚ Cather accepted honorary degrees from the University of California Berkeley and Princeton. She is the first woman to receive such a degree from Princeton”. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1938 (“Willa Cather Biography”). One of Cather’s greatest awards was in 1944‚ when she received “the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and letters‚ an award given once a decade for an author’s total accomplishments” (“Willa Cather.”). It is believed
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