Rothenstein‚ a celebrated British painter. The poem appeared as song 35 in the English ‘Gitanjali’ published by the Indian Society‚ London in 1912‚ and with a special introduction to Tagore’s work by the famous Irish poet‚ William Butler Yeats. The following year‚ in 1913‚ Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for his ‘mellifluous music and vague sweetness’ of his Song Offerings. Tagore had a religious bent of mind and profound humanism. His spiritualism was not about
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of India’s greatest mathematical geniuses. He made contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions‚ continued fractions‚ and infinite series. Ramanujan was born in his grandmother’s house in Erode on December 22‚ 1887. When Ramanujan was a year old his mother took him to the town of Kumbakonam‚ near Madras. His father worked in Kumbakonam as a clerk in a cloth merchant’s shop. When he was five years old‚ Ramanujan went to the primary
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starting on the 15th of July 1918 with the option of sale with the defendant “Lotriet”. The plaintiff was a minor at the time the contract was entered into in June 1916 and yet the contract was only going to commence after the plaintiff had reached majority. The plaintiffs farther (the guardian) did sign the contract on 15th of July 1916 but it is argued that It was merely a mechanical signature as the farther did not know what the contents of the contract were and so did not give informed consent
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hell that the Australian men would be sent off to if the votes were ‘yes.’ It also included ‘blood’ trickling down from the title to emphasise the blood that would be spilt if the men were sent overseas. The referendum was held on the 28th October 1916‚ and the outcome was 48% ‘yes‚’ and 52% ‘no.’ Another referendum was held on the 20th December 1917‚ and the outcome was 46% ‘yes‚’ and 54%
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It was there at Harvard where he first published his poetry in 1912 in Harvard Monthly. Then‚ in 1915‚ cummings graduated Harvard as Magna cum Laude with a B.A. It was at his graduation where he gave his commencement speech‚ "The New Art." In 1916‚ cummings received an M.A. for English and Classical Studies at Harvard. After completing his college education‚ he volunteered to be an ambulance driver with Norton Harjes Ambulance Corps (The American Red Cross) in France in 1917‚ during World War
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“Bricklaying Yields to Science for First Time‚” New York Times Sunday Magazine (March 30‚ 1911)‚ n.p.‚ Box 3‚ File 0030-20A‚ Gilbreth Collection‚ Purdue University. 3. Fred H. Colvin‚ “The Latest Development in Motion Study‚” American Machinist‚ 38 (June 5‚ 1913)‚ 937-39. 4. Committee of Bricklayers Union No. 44‚ Mass.‚ to Mr. Askins‚ Superintendent‚ F.B. Gilbreth Company (May 19‚ 1908)‚ File 59A‚ Taylor Collection‚ Stevens Institute of Technology. 5. John Galliard‚ Daily Letters to Frank B. Gilbreth on the
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CHAPTER – I INTRODUCTION 1.1. Origin and Development of American Literature A fundamental difference subsists between American literature and proximately all the other major literary traditions of the world: it is essentially a modern‚ recent and international literature. The American continent possessed major pre-Columbian civilizations‚ with a deep heritage of culture‚ mythology‚ ritual‚ chant and poetry. Many recent American writers‚ especially recently‚ have looked to these sources as something
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Blixen-Finecke (1886-1946)‚ twin brother of Hans. 1913‚ December: Leaves for Africa by ship from Naples. 1914‚ January: At age 28‚ joins Bror in East Africa marries (on 14 January) and starts a pioneer coffee plantation (1500 acres) near Nairobi. 1914‚ August 5: Beginning of the Great War‚ which includes the East African colonies governed by Germany and Britain. 1915‚ July: KB returns to Denmark with syphilis contracted from her husband. 1916: KB returns to Africa with Bror; Karen Coffee Corporation
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great at what he did.As Edward got older he had few jobs. He would rather be writing. In 1913 he published his very first collection of drawings and paintings. Edward was attending classes at Harvard University in 1914. He was taking a classes of grave interest‚ the Poetry of Avant-Garde Writers‚ like Gertrude Stein. He got many writing ideas for this person and class. In 1915 he received his BA and in 1916 he received his MA. Edward at this time was working for a mail-ordering company. In 1917 he
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Roaring Twenties Culturally and socially‚ the Roaring Twenties were a heady time of rapid change‚ artistic innovation‚ and high-society antics. Popular culture roared to life as the economy boomed. New technologies‚ soaring business profits‚ and higher wages allowed more and more Americans to purchase a wide range of consumer goods. Prosperity also provided Americans with more leisure time‚ and as play soon became the national pastime‚ literature‚ film‚ and music caught up to document the times
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