Good morning ‚ . Alfred Bernhard Nobel born on October 21 ‚1833 was a Swedish chemist‚ engineer‚ innovator‚ and armaments manufacturer. Nobel held 350 different patents‚ dynamite being the most famous. Born in Stockholm‚ Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ‚ and Andriette Nobel . Following various business failures‚ Nobel’s father moved to Saint Petersburg in 1837 and grew successful there as a manufacturer of machine tools and explosives. He invented modern plywood and started work
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Alfred Stieglitz The Steerage Noah Browne 4A March 30‚ 2015 1. What are the messages? The messages behind The Steerage are the divide between the upper and lower class‚ the struggle of lower class people living in the steerage‚ over crowding in the steerage‚ and immigration. 2. What choices in composition has the creator made? What has been omitted? The image conveys the architecture of the ship by describing an elaborate counterpoint of line‚ volume‚ and tone. Across the picture’s width is
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Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) In 1881‚ Alfred Stieglitz went to Berlin to study mechanical engineering and met Hermann Wilhelm Vogel whose experiments with orthochromatic emulsions and active role in photographic societies convinced Stieglitz to pursue in photography. In 1890‚ Stieglitz decided to pursue a life as an independent medium. His role was as a “choose one” guiding his people out of the slavery of old practices. Stieglitz desired to produce a major exhibition reflecting the principal
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When Hitchcock made Psycho in 1959 and early 1960‚ it was a hard sell to begin with considering the subject matter and that no studio wanted to pick it up‚ so Hitch had to put up his own money and on the off season from “ Alfred Hitchcock Presents”‚ he filmed the film. However‚ the subject matter was just the beginning of the tricks that Hitchcock had up his sleeves for the film and his viewing public. By the time Psycho rolled around‚ Hitchcock had already made a name for himself as a filmmaker
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Hitchcock was affected by major events of the era like the First World War or the Great War. As he failed medical examination he couldn’t enter military service. Hitchcock showed active interest in movies and plays which was a recent form of entertainment. He was captivated by motion pictures frequented movie theatres and turned to be an avid reader of film journals and these were not fan magazines but trade publications that gave a detailed account of business and technical side of filmmaking
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The scientific understanding of life has been shaped with the guidance of intellectual breakthroughs in history. One of these breakthroughs is Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)‚ a British naturalist born in Monmouthshire‚ England who gained a reputation of greatness upon exploration of Malay Archipelago. Unlike other great intellects like Charles Darwin‚ Wallace had dropped his formal schooling at the age of fourteen to start providing for his family as a carpenter. Later in life Wallace acquires
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Alfred Binet Binet attended law school in Paris‚ and received his degree in 1878. He also studied Natural Sciences at the Sorbonne. His first formal job was as a researcher at a neurological clinic‚ Salpetriere Hospital‚ in Paris from 1883 – 1889. From there‚ Binet went on to being a researcher and associate director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology at the Sorbonne from 1891 – 1894. In 1894‚ he was promoted to being the director of the laboratory until 1911 (his death). After receiving
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“Alfred was not only a great warrior‚ but more importantly a nation builder”. Explain whether or not this quote is a true assesment of Alfred. King Alfred the Great was not only a great warrior‚ but more importantly a nation builder. I think this quote is a true assesment of Alfred and I will explain why in the pages that follow. Alfred was born into a royal family in 849 in Wantage (now in Oxfordshire). Alfred was the fourth child and it was therefore unlikely he would ever be considered as
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Hitchcock and Dualism in Psycho The characters in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) each have a dual nature that is masterfully portrayed through character development and use of mirrors throughout the film. The very first shot in Psycho is zooming in from an open view of the city where it is a bright and sunny day. As the shot zooms in further and further it comes into a dark and shaded room that shows Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) and Sam Loomis (John Gavin) having an affair in a undisclosed hotel
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Alfred Hitchcock was and still is considered one of the best horror directors of all time. He is considered the "Master of Suspense" for his very well written and directed horror films‚ which have left his mark on the movie-making industry. Hitchcock told his stories through intelligent plots‚ witty dialogue and just the right amount of mystery and murder with his works Vertigo‚ Psycho‚ The Birds and Rear Window .The films revolutionized the Horror/Thriller genre‚ other filmmakers began mimicking
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