Edwin Hubble was born on November 20‚ 1889‚ in Marshfield‚ Missouri. Edwin Hubble served in World War One and also graduated from the University of Chicago. He went down the road in the research in the field of astrophysics at Mount Wilson Observatory in California. He found out a constant relationship between galaxies that helped prove that our universe keeps expanding. Hubble made a classification system that classifies the galaxies that have been used by other researchers for years. Edwin
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In “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” the author James Agee and the photographer Walker Evans used both their abilities to attempt a recreation of the conditions for the reader to attempt to have a better understanding. They did this in such a way that James Agee said the pictures could stand independently from the text (Agee and Evans 87). Doing this causes the reader to refrain from making their own visualizations’ of what is being described in the text. Therefore‚ helps the reader get a clarified
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Guido Fubini‚ A famous mathematician‚ was born January 19th 1987 in Venice‚ Italy. His father‚ Lazzaro Fubini‚ was a mathematics teacher so he came from a mathematical background. Guido was influenced by his father towards mathematics when he was young. He attended secondary school in Venice where he showed that he was brilliant in mathematics. It was then clear that from this stage he would follow this career. In 1896 Guido entered the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. There he was taught by Dini
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Langston Hughes was a famous African American poet‚ and novelist. Langston was born February 1‚ 1902 in Joplin‚ MO and soon after he was born his parents James Hughes‚ and Carrie Langston had separated. They both end up leaving him behind his dad took off to Mexico and didn’t return‚ and his mom end up moving. So he had to end living with his grandmother her names was Mary but she end up dying in his early teens. Hughes end up moving with back with his mom which the moved to several cities before
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Matthew Rose Mr. Schwartz Chemistry 8 March 2011 Ernest Rutherford Ernest Rutherford was one of the most famous physicists of the early 20th century. He won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1908 for his work on atomic emissions and his contributions that led to the discovery of atomic fission. Ernest Rutherford was born in Nelson‚ New Zealand on August 30‚ 1871. His father was James Rutherford and his Mother was Martha Thompson. His father was a wheelwright‚ a person who builds and repairs
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Marie Curie Marie Curie was one of the most famous female scientists in history. She was born on November 7‚ 1867 in Poland during the Russian Occupation (“Madame Curie”). Madame Curie was the youngest out of five children. She was a bright child that loved to learn‚ and was always the top in her class. Her discovery of Polonium and Radium led her to be the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize. Madame Curie passed away at age 67 on July 4‚ 1934‚ due to over exposure to penetrating radiation
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crowd. Many of these people had a huge impact on the art scene or just are very good at doing what they are doing in art. One of these people is Manny Farber‚ an american painter‚ film critic and amazing writer. Manny Farber did many things to get famous‚ and one of them is his fantastic still lives. Manny Farber is an American painter‚ critic and writer born on February 20‚ 1917 and died on August 18‚ 2008. Often described as iconoclastic‚ he developed a unique way of writing that has influenced
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In this paper I chose to visit the virtual museum of fine arts in Boston‚ MA. I chose‚ Predictive Dream‚ by a world famous artist by the name of Aoki Katsuyo. This piece of art is currently on display at Exhibition of Fine Arts Boston‚ New Blue and White. This happens to be a ceramic porcelain piece of work from a series the artist created named Predictive Dreams‚ where skulls decorated in an excessive asymmertrical ornamentation style from cast porcelain formulate the series‚ . This work is neo-ornamentalism
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insightful philosophical process. Rousseau believed that modern society has changed man into being run by his own needs‚ he thinks that this enslavement to their own needs is to blame for exploitation of others to self-esteem issues. Rousseau has a famous phrase‚ "man is born free‚ but he is everywhere in chains‚" he says that modern states withhold the physical freedom that is our birth right‚ and do nothing to secure the civil freedom for the sake of which we enter into civil society. Rousseau
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The Age of Enlightenment saw many great changes in Western Europe. The Age of Enlightenment or simple “the Enlightenment” was an intellectual movement during the 18th century. Its purpose was to reform society and to advance knowledge using reason and the scientific knowledge. It supported scientific thought and opposed superstition with its favorite target being the Catholic Church. The phrase was frequently used by writers of the period itself‚ implying that they were emerging from centuries of
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