Although there are many famous mathematicians that I do not know of‚ Maria Gaëtana Agnesi is an important mathematician of the Renaissance period. Born on May 16‚ 1718‚ Maria was the oldest of twenty one. “She was the daughter of Pietro Agnesi who came from a wealthy family who made their money from silk.”(O’Connor and Robertson) Recognized as a child prodigy‚ early‚ Maria’s father made sure to provide the finest tutors for his daughter. All of Maria’s tutors were men educated by the Church
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Various threads are needed to form one unique quilt. Similarly‚ a mother quilts together the best and diverse threads of life to form one unique identity in which a child lives with forever. In the poem "My Mother Pieced Quilts" by Teresa Palomo Acosta‚ the mother chooses the different aspects of the quilt‚ forms those aspects to make one quilt‚ and releases that one quilt on which it lives. In the beginning‚ the mother must choose the best treads to form the quilt. The mother chooses how to make
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the life and works of Dr. Maria Montessori Born 31st August 1870 in Chiaravalle‚ Ancona‚ Italy‚ Maria Montessori grew up as the only child of educated parents. Because of his military profession‚ her father‚ Alessandro‚ was often transferred‚ giving Maria unequalled opportunity of education in larger Italian cities. Unlike Alessandro‚ her mother‚ Renilde Stoppani‚ was less conservative supporting Maria’s strong‚ lively character and unconventional convictions. Maria was not an outstanding student
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Describe the life and work of Dr. Maria Montessori . One of the world greatest educators Maria Montessori ‚ gave us the method of teaching children popularly known after her own name . She believed God had invested human beings with the urge and the power to fulfill themselves . In finding a way to liberate this power ‚ she gave the world a new approach to education ‚ as a joyful process of self discovery and self realization . She was born in july ‚ 1870 in Italy . She
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Leonhardt’s article‚”Inequality Has Been Going On Forever...but That Doesn’t Mean It’s Inevitable”‚ illustrates the mechanisms and possible solutions to economic inequality. He starts off on a negative note‚ by emphasizing the detrimental effects that economic inequality brings for the impoverished and contrasts them with the affluent. Then‚ he introduces the fundamental principles behind the formation of economic inequality using hypotheticals to explain the disparity between the rich and poor.
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Julian Bangash All Quiet on the Western Front‚ a soldier’s bloody account of World War I‚ was written by Erich Maria Remarque in 1929. It was first made into a movie in 1930‚ and then re-made in 1979 directed by Delbert Mann. All Quiet on the Western Front is the story of a young German named Paul Baumer who is drafted into the German Imperial Army along with many of his high school friends. They are sent to the battlefield on the German western front seeking glory and adventure only to discover
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Paper: Maria Full of Grace Washington Irving said once‚ “There is in every true woman’s heart‚ a spark of heavenly fire‚ which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity‚ but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity”[1] which I feel describes the main character of Maria in the movie Maria Full of Grace (MFG); Maria lives in Columbia and due to her financial situation becomes a drug mule for money all the while pregnant at the age of seventeen. In the movie‚ Maria struggles
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There’s no doubt that Citizen Kane is a great movie. It is a pioneering film that forever changed film making. Its plot is one of the most creative and original in all of movie history. The cinematography is stunning. Citizen Kane is about those images that we all reflect and project‚ the sum total of which -the impressions we make on other people- are all we that leave behind us. That central‚ unsolveable riddle of personality is at the core of what makes Citizen Kane so endlessly watchable.
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JOHN LOCKE "Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to‚ but himself." – John Locke Childhood John Locke was born on August 29‚ 1632‚ in Wrington‚ a village in the English country of Somerset. He was baptized the same day. Soon after his birth‚ the family moved to the market town of Pensford‚ about seven miles south of Bristol‚ where Locke grew up in an old fashioned stone farmhouse . His father was a county lawyer to the Justices of the Peace and his mother
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Unexpected event that change my life forever Unexpected event that change my life foever because when Face a sudden crises that impact my means. When my grandmother fell sick with Cervical cancer. I can relate to Rachel statement “ the change was the reality of a life I’d never imagined myself to be in myself. In my mind I could not see anyone else who has been there fo me through thick and thin. I moved in with her. I made sacrafices like quiting my job i knew she would need
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