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.
There he wrote for the Michigan Daily, the student paper, and completed his first play, No Villain. Arthur Miller was inspired to create much of the conflict in his play, Death of a Salesman, on his relationship with his uncle, Manny Newman. Miller had actually written a short story about an unsuccessful salesman in his youth but discarded it. After meeting with his uncle in 1947 in Boston, Arthur Miller reworked his play to include the conflicted relationship among he and his uncle into his characters and the plot of the play. Newman was a man who refused to accept failure, and demanded the appearance of great confidence in his family.
English C/A: Of Mice and Men: Lennie Of Mice and Men is a novella written in 1937 by John Steinbeck, which is set during the Great Depression in California. John Steinbeck, born in 1902, was an activist for equal rights and was inclined towards migrants when he discovered material about them in the 1930’s, which lead him to interview itinerant workers about their livelihood. This continued into a recollection of the poor, dispossessed people that he had grown up with, inspiring him to produce a novella that states the true events, raw opinions of people, and lives of those that had occurred during the Great Depression. He has based the title on the poem,”To A Mouse” by Robert Burns, that expresses the thoughts of a farmer that has accidentally killed a mouse, but the farmer proclaims that the mouse is blessed as it lives in the present and we always worry about the past and future. Guilefully he uses microcosm and macrocosm, which is a literary devise where a smaller scale is explained but it represents a much larger scale in reality, such as a character in Of Mice and Men like Crooks, represents a whole race of people in reality.
In the industrial age, when labor rights were still in their infancy, there were people like Terrance Powderly who wanted to better the status of labor through unions. On the other hand, there were men like Jay Gould, who thought of labor as a source to make money and did not think it important to treat them fairly. In this paper, I will discuss the works of these two men. Terrance Powderly was born in Carbonate, Pennsylvania, in 1849. Terrence gave up his education at the age of thirteen and started working as a switch operator for Pennsylvania railroad.
Benjamin Banneker, the son of former slaves, was a farmer, astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, and author. In1791 he wrote to Thomas Jefferson, framer of the Declaration of Independence and secretary of state to President George Washington. Read the following excerpt from the letter and write an essay that analyzes how Banneker uses rhetorical strategies to argue against slavery. Banneker, the son of former slaves, was a farmer, astronomer, mathematician, surveyor and author. Applying Pathos, repetition, aphorism and logos to his letter, Banneker comes off strong and emotive about the topic at hand.
The leader I chose is President and businessman Franklin Roosevelt C. The purpose of this paper is to explain why I chose Franklin Roosevelt as my inspiration and how he relates to my success D. Main ideas include his success in the Great Depression and his influences on society during his time. II. Accounting A. I chose accounting because I was fond of how intricate math as a subject was and the discipline it took to stay organized to be successful. B. My expected graduation is within two years III.
He attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1620s. In Bordeaux he began his first serious mathematical researches and in 1629 he gave a copy of his restoration of Apollonius's De Locis Planis to one of the mathematicians there. Certainly in Bordeaux he was in contact with Beaugrand and during this time he produced important work on maxima and minima which he gave to Étienne d'Espagnet who clearly shared mathematical interests with Fermat. There he became much influenced by the work of François Viète. From Bordeaux, Fermat went to Orléans where he studied law at the University.
In 1661 he went to Cambridge University, where he became a very well educated student. When he went to school he studied mathematics, optics, physics and astronomy. In October 1665, a plague epidemic forced the university to close and Newton returned to Woolsthrope. After, Newton’s experience with education he began to think about gravity. However in 1687, with the support of his friend, Edmond Halley, Isaac Newton published his greatest work, the ‘Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.’ Also
Carlos Schwabe was an exponentially great artist; he gave very real very strong emotions and projections of feelings through his work. He was born in Altona, Holstein he then later moved to Geneva, Switzerland where he studied as a child. As a young man he moved to Paris where he worked as a wallpaper designer; and became acquainted with symbolist artists. He was requested as novel illustrator frequently, which he accepted the jobs he saw fit. He lived in France for the rest of his days, dying in the region of Avon Seine-et-Marne.
Charles Spearman was born on September 10, 1863 in the town of London. Spearman first started study philosophy but later decided to stop his research. His loss of interest in philosophy prompted him to join the British army, where he spent almost a quarter of his life. It was during his service in the army when Spearman discovered how important psychology really is. Spearmen newly found interest in psychology, and in mental ability, led him to research intelligence of 24 children.Charles Spearman's model of intelligence is most widely used theories of intelligence.