Outline the main features in the background and rise to prominence of the twentieth-century personality you have studied. Albert Speer Albert Speer was a prominent figure in Hitler’s quest to build support for the Third Reich. Speer was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1905 to a wealthy middle-class family. His father was a successful architect and with his busy lifestyle Speer’s childhood lacked affection causing an emotional distance between Speer and his parents which would later have an impact on relations which Speer created in the ultimate search for a mentor. After abandoning his dream of becoming a mathematician Speer began his career in architecture and in 1923 attended the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, finishing his architecture course in 1927.
The first person to write a dictionary of American English and permanently alter the spelling of American English, Noah Webster through his spelling book taught millions of American children to read for the first half-century of the republic and millions more to spell for the following half-century. Born a farmer's son in what is now West Hartford, Connecticut, Webster attended Yale College from 1774 to 1778, during the Revolutionary War. After graduating, he taught at Connecticut district schools before studying for the bar. The dismal conditions of these schools, combined with his patriotism and a search for self-identity, inspired him to compose three schoolbooks that, he believed, would unify the new nation through speaking and writing a common language. (Previously, almost all American schoolbooks had been reprints of imported British ones.)
The book that I going to talk about is Johnny Tremain the author of this book is Esther Forbes. Retells in narrative form events in pre-Revolutionary Boston prior to and during the outbreak of the American Revolution Johnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War.Johnny Tremain is boy who is proud—too proud his pride made him overconfident. He pretty much planned all of his life while he was young; he would be a silversmith and marry Cilla. His mother dies when he is fourteen years old before his mother died, he was apprenticed to a silversmith named Mr. Lapham. When his mother died, she gave him a silver cup that showed that he was a member of the Lyte family.
It took over a century to build Santa Maria del Fiore, the cathedral of Florence. In 1418, builders realized that constructing the cathedral’s dome was a bit of a challenge, and they asked for proposals. A goldsmith and clockmaker called Filippo Brunelleschi submitted the winning plan and spent almost 30 years vaulting the dome. Here, King tells the tale of the genius Brunelleschi and sheds light on the travails of life in 15th-century Italy, to boot. The cathedral dome contest was not the first time Brunelleschi had competed to public acclaim: when he was 24—just three years after he was designated a master goldsmith—he offered a design for the bronze doors to the baptistery of San Giovanni that was very nearly accepted.
Due to his job at the shipyard Joe was granted differed status during World War I. Some would later call him a draft dodger. Starting a family In 1914, Joseph P. Kennedy married Rose Fitzgerald; the couple would eventually raise four sons, Joseph Patrick "Joe" Jr. (born in 1915), John Fitzgerald (born in 1917), Robert Francis (born in 1925) and Edward "Teddy" (born in 1932), and five daughters: Rose Marie "Rosemary" (born in 1918), Kathleen (born in 1920), Eunice (born in 1921), Patricia (born in 1924) and Jean Ann (born in 1928). To Joe his family was the most important thing in the world and his children was the center of his universe.
Thomas Nast was born September 27, 1840, Landau, Bandan, which is now Germany. He was the son of a musician in the 9th regiment Bavarian band. His mother took him to New York in 1846. He studied art there for about a year with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Design. After school (at the age of 15), he started working in 1855 as a draftsman for Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper; three years afterwards for Harper's Weekly.Nast drew for Harper's Weekly from 1859 to 1860 and from 1862 until 1886.
He has claimed he was born in 1938, by Elisabeth (born Bahlman) and his Swedish father Otto Lagerfeldt. [5] He is known to insist that no-one knows his real birth date. Lagerfeld grew up as the son of a wealthy businessman from Hamburg who was introducingcondensed milk (Glücksklee-Milch GmbH) to Germany;[8][9] his mother is from Berlin. [10]According to Alicia Drake,[vague] Lagerfeld's mother, Elisabeth Bahlmann, was a lingeriesaleswoman in Berlin when she met her husband and married him in 1930. In 1955, at the age of 22, Lagerfeld was awarded a position as an apprentice at Pierre Balmain after winning second place, behind Yves Saint-Laurent, in a competition for a coat sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat.
Benjamin Franklin Born January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts Benjamin Franklin was one of 20 children and the youngest boy. Father Josiah Franklin and Mother Abiah Folger, Benjamin had one child. Benjamin was one of the founding fathers of America and was a author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. Benjamin attended Boston Latin School until he was 10 years old and his father pulled him out to work with him making candles. Dipping wax wasn’t cutting it for Ben’s creative mind so he apprenticed at his brothers print shop when he was 12 despite his brothers harsh treatments.
Lucas Cranach (1472 - 1553) Lexa Ale History Honors: Hars November 19, 2013 Life of Lucas Cranach Lucas Cranach, born as Lucas Sunder on October 4, 1472 in the town of Kronach in Northern Franconia, was known as one of the most famous Renaissance artists of his time. He was one of the four children to Hans Maler, the painter. His mother’s name, however, isn’t known, only her maiden name; Hubner, was able to be found. Like other famous painters, Lucas took the name of his hometown in place of his original last name. Lucas lived his long, inspiring life as not only a painter and printmaker, but an entrepreneur and politician as well.
He grew up from stonemason family. Because of this background, he learned to value crafts, practicality, understood the materials, mastered the use of tools skillfully and the slow, measured pace of transforming raw material into cultural artifacts. Mies did not attend to high school or university. However, In 1899, through a scholarship he started to study in trade school where education was offer several lessons, particularly on life drawing as well as technical drawing. Learning to draw was pivotal for Mies, the early on demonstrated his talent is occasionally lettering for one of his father’s tombstones, then in technical drawing at school and shortly theater in drafting large scale decorative details fora stucco fabricator for whom he worked for two years.