Art History Cross in the Mountains Caspar David Friedrich - 1774 - 1840 Caspar David Friedrich was a melancholic‚ sensitive and devout 19th century German artist of the Romantic style. Friedrich was born into a strict Lutheran family in Greifswald‚ Pomerania‚ on the Baltic coast of Germany and experienced tragedy at a very early age. Friedrich was the sixth child from a family of 10 children and by the time he turned 13‚ he had lost his mother‚ a sister‚ and saw one of his younger
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History of Gymnastics The word gymnastics derives from the common Greek adjective γυμνός (gymnos) meaning "naked"‚ by way of the related verb γυμνάζω (gymnazo)‚ whose meaning is "to train naked"‚ "train in gymnastic exercise"‚ generally "to train‚ to exercise". The verb had this meaning‚ because athletes exercised and competed without clothing. Exercises of the ancient Greeks began with athletic feats performed by each individual according to his own notion. The youth were encouraged to combine
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devoting up to three hours per day to educating through the physical. Basedow required a specific uniform for his students so they could have unrestricted movement. He also offered camp for two months during the summer for his students. In 1810 Friedrich Jahn‚ "the father of gymnastics"‚ began working outdoors with his students using simple exercises and games sometimes taking long hikes. The thing that motivated Jahn to develop a system of physical training was his deep sense of patriotism. Germany
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_The Commanding Heights: The Battle of Ideas_ episode explains the economy’s change in structure between 1914 and 1970‚ as well as the functioning of the markets and government during that time. John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek both had influential roles on the economy in the 20th century due to their opposing arguments regarding aggregate demand and classical liberalism‚ respectively. Keynes’ "planned economy" idea and Hayek’s "market economy" both fought to shape the economy into what
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algebra‚ and analysis‚ but is most renowned for his many theorems of plane and solid geometry. He was first to prove Heron’s formula for the area of a triangle. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30‚ 1777 – Febuary 23‚ 1855) Died: February 23‚ 1855 Cause of Death: Unspecified Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss is a german mathematician‚ astronomer‚ and physicist. Although Gauss made many contributions to science and to the understanding of the nature of
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Hayek Vs. Keynes Friedrich Von Hayek and John Maynard Keynes were very credited economists of the early 1900’s. They both had different ideas on how the government should run regarding capitalism. While Hayek believed that the government should have a laissez-faire type of policy‚ Keynes did not. He believed that the government should not be involved less and that if anything it should be involved more. Hayek proclaimed his views through a book titled The Road to Serfdom and Keynes’ were expressed
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Dalibor Vesely (in Brooker and Stone‚ 2007‚ p. 57). The Neues or New Museum (see figure [1]) was completely built in 1855. The building was design by a Prussian architect‚ Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The purpose of the building was originally built as an extension house to accommodate Altes Museum. Most of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s works were Neo-Classical‚ such as‚ Neue Wache also known as New Gate House and The Konzerthaus Berlin (von Buttlar‚ A. Architectural Guide [2012]‚ pg 4). Architecture
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economic prosperity. Along the lines of these readings‚ there is also discussion of the battle against free market and government control. One piece excerpted from these history discussions is the struggle between the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek that arose during the 20th century. Both of these men held large ideas on how a country’s economy should be run. As time passed between the 1900’s and the turn of the millennium‚ the ideas of these men would lead to the greatest battle
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later became the men’s event that we know today as pommel horse. Awhile later‚ Roman Emperor Theodosius banned the sport. It was not seen or used again until the late eighteenth century. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn is credited with starting gymnastics clubs in the late 1700s. Another physical educator‚ Johann Friedrich GutsMuths‚ influenced Jahn. Johann had been studying ancient gymnastics‚ and was interested in bringing it back and improving it to be compatible with the (then-current) culture. Jahn’s contributions
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reveal her identity to him. Lagrange apparently considered her a talented mathematician and became her mentor. While Napoleon was invading Prussia in 1806‚ she convinced some high ranking Generals to personally protect the great Mathematician‚ Carl Friedrich Gauss. He later found out what she had done for him‚ and accepted her as student. In 1811 Germain entered the French Academy of Sciences’ contest. After failing twice she finally won in 1816‚ thus bringing her into the ranks of great mathematicians
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