magazine titled "Success is a Job in New York" (Andy Warhol: Biography). In the 1950s he was known as a very successful commercial artist and won several awards from the Art Director’s Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. It was around this time he shortened his last name to "Warhol". In 1952 he had his first art show at Hugo Gallery and had his first group show at The Museum of Modern Art in 1956 (Andy Warhol: Biography). In the 1960s‚ Warhol began producing some of his most recognizable
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Biography Outline for Class For your 2-4 paragraph-Biography‚ you may include information about some or all of the topics below: * Where you live (city‚ state‚ country) * What you enjoy/pet peeves * Interests/Hobbies * Current job/title and a short description of what you do‚ and perhaps your level of computer expertise * Strengths/Weaknesses (that you think your class/instructor would benefit from knowing about you) * Family information (kids‚ etc.) * Your
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Kopytoff begins his essay voicing support for Appadurai’s unusual methodology that follows things-in-motion‚ as if they had biographies and social lives as humans do. “In doing the biography of a thing‚” Kopytoff counsels‚ “one would ask questions similar to those one asks about people” (66). He asks: What‚ sociologically‚ are the biographical possibilities inherent in its “status” and in the period and culture‚ and how are these possibilities realized? Where does the thing come from and who
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Mark Twain was an author‚ a riverboat pilot‚ journalist‚ lecturer‚ inventor‚ and entrepreneur ("Mark Twain Biography”). His full name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. But his pen name is Mark Twain. He was born in Florida‚ Missouri on November 30‚ 1835. He died in Redding‚ Connecticut on April 21‚ 1910. He was the sixth of seven children of Jane and John Clemens. His siblings’ names were Orion‚ Henry‚ Pamela‚ Margaret‚ Benjamin‚ and Pleasant ("Mark Twain"). In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon ("Twain’s
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CarCarl Linnaeus Report Born in 1707 to a country parson in Rashult‚ southern Sweden‚ the young Linnaeus showed a keen interest in plants and flowers and by the age of eight‚ was given the nickname ‘the little botanist’. Linnaeus studied medicine‚ first at the University of Lund and then at the University of Uppsala. Medicine at this time was based on herbals so it meant he also studied plants. He shared his passion for plants with Olaf Celsius whom he met at Uppsala. Linnaeus is most widely known
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Thornton Wilder was born in Madison‚ Wisconsin on April seventieth‚ 1897. He was born into the family of Amos Parker Wilder‚ his father‚ and Isabella Niven Wilder‚ his mother. Although Thornton was born alongside a twin brother‚ this brother sadly did not survive. He lost one brother‚ but he also had one older brother and three younger sisters. The family moved and lived in China for some time due to his father’s work. His father was a US consul general in Shanghai and Hong Kong. This family not
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Forcing himself on radio shows‚ freestyle battles‚ Marshall threw himself head first into the rap game‚ where he was swallowed up most of the time. His very first album was titled "Infinite" and‚ while the album sold less than a thousand copies‚ it was the gearing up stages for the rapper who became a millionaire. It was then that his daughter‚ Hailie Jade Scott‚ was born on December 25th of 1995 with long time girlfriend Kim Scott. Having nothing to lose at all‚ flat broke and not knowing where
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BHAGAT SINGH: AN EVERGREEN ICON OF INDIAN YOUTH DEBABRATA BISWAS‚ M.P; General Secretary‚ All India Forward Bloc The name Bhagat Singh has become a synonym of revolution. He was one of the great revolutionaries who made supreme sacrifice for the nation. Thousands of young people sacrificed their lives in the altar of India’s liberation struggle but the name Bhagat Singh has a special place in the history of our independence. No other young revolutionary of India got much empathy in the minds of
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Paulo Coelho No one thought Paulo would ever amount to anything. While attending a Jesuit school as a teenager‚ he dreamed of becoming a writer. When he revealed his career goals to his mother‚ she told him “My dear‚ your father is an engineer. He’s a logical‚ reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?" He was determined to prove to them that he could accomplish his dream‚ whether they approved or not. After he turned seventeen‚ his
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Alexander Grothendieck Alexander Grothendieck is a prominent mathematician who is well known for his theories in algebraic geometry‚ homological algebra and functional analysis. He was born in the capital of Germany‚ Berlin‚ in 1928‚ one year before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Grothendieck’s parents were Sascha Shapiro and Hanka Grothendieck. Shapiro was a Russian anarchist of Jewish decent‚ prosecuted by the Czar and later by the Bolsheviks. He’d lost his left arm during an attempted prison
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