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    Les Paul‚ known to friends as Lester William Polsfuss was born on June the 9th 1915. He is on the most important figure heads in the creation of a solid-bodied electric guitar and overdubbing recording techniques‚ not to mention various effects also. Paul’s interest in music began when he took up the harmonica at age eight In 1947‚ Paul released a song through Capitol Records that had originally begun as an experiment in his garage‚ titled "Lover (When You’re Near Me)" which featured Paul playing

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    ped and often murdered in Ontario. The perpetrator behind these crimes became known as “The Scarborough Rapist.” This offender was Paul Bernardo. However‚ Bernardo did not act alone. He and his wife‚ Karla Homolka‚ tragically raped and murdered a number of young women‚ including Homolka’s younger sister‚ Tammy Homolka. In 1993‚ both Bernardo and Homolka were charged with sexual assault and murder. The investigations that followed exposed one of Canada’s most infamous killer couples. Kenneth Murray

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    Madame C. J. Walker

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    Madame C. J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove from Owen and Minerva Breedlove on a cotton plantation. Her parents were recently freed slaves; therefore‚ Sarah‚ the 5th child‚ was free born. In 1875‚ her mother died‚ and her father passed the following year due to unknown causes‚ which made Sarah a 7 year old orphan. Sarah was sent to live with her sister Louvinia and brother-in law. In 1877‚ the three moves to Vicksburg‚ Mississippi where Sarah picked cotton and most likely employed with household

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    Paul is the most significant figure in all of Christianity. Although he was previously Saul and killed many Jews‚ God was able to convert him to a Jew/Christian which he hated most. This is such an inspiring story that shows the power of God and that anyone can become Christian no matter their background. Paul is the most significant person in Christian history because he wrote letters to the Church so they can change their ways from corruption‚ he wrote the most books in the Bible‚ and he shaped

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    Howard Zinn and Paul Johnson Howard Zinn‚ born August 24‚ 1922‚ grew up in the slums of New York City. He recalls moving around a lot as his father ran candy stores during the Depression. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School and became a pipe fitter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It was here that he met his wife‚ Roslyn Shechter. Zinn was a revolutionary and an activist. He spent his early life organizing labor rallies and participating in marches for civil rights. In 1943‚ Zinn joined

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    this reason all people interpret events through their own life experiences and historical contexts. Artists express their own unique perspectives in their artworks which are influenced by their worlds and experiences. Both John William Waterhouse and Paul Gauguin interpret these world though the different uses of art making approach‚ intentions and influences. John William Waterhouse created paintings in the Romantic style. Producing work mainly in oils‚ his canvases consist of realistic and natural

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    Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Patrick Ennis Mrs. Carter Research Monday‚ December 9‚ 1996 "Physical Laws should have mathematical beauty." This statement was Dirac’s response to the question of his philosophy of physics‚ posed to him in Moscow in 1955. He wrote it on a blackboard that is still preserved today.[1] Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-1984)‚ known as P. A. M. Dirac‚ was the fifteenth Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933 with

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    and Mill would answer the question of if it were right or wrong for Paul Gauguin to quit his job and abandon his family to pursue a career in art. I will then develop my own view about Gauguin’s actions‚ explain why I think there are two important points in this issue that need to be addressed and why I think his actions were both permissible and impermissible‚ and compare my view with the views of Nietzsche and Mill. In 1885‚ Paul Gauguin quit his job to pursue a full-time career as an artist. He

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    Paul Gauguin was born in June 7‚ 1848‚ Paris‚ France and died May 8‚ 1903‚ Atuona‚ Hiva Oa‚ Marquesas Islands‚ French Polynesia. He is one of the leading French painters of the Post-impressionist period‚ whose development of a conceptual method of representation was a decisive step for 20th-century art. From 1891 he lived and worked in Tahiti and elsewhere in the South Pacific‚ where his art work Under the Pandanus setting at. Under the Pandanus was painted shortly after Gauguin arrived on the

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    music presentation‚ the focus was on how some musicians‚ despite adversity‚ were able to overcome their obstacles and go on to produce some of the best music the world has ever heard. To start things off‚ Dr Bartnick brought up a man by the name of Paul Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein was an Austrian born pianist who was widely known in the 1900’s for his ability to play the piano with one hand. While serving in WWI the then young Wittgenstein lost his arm to a grenade‚ and by many standards‚ he was

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