Andre Ampere biography Andre-Marie Ampere & Electromagnetism Andre-Marie Ampere was first‚ a Frenchman‚ second a physicist and third a mathematician. Andre was born on 20 January in the year 1775 at the Parish of St. Nizier‚ Lyon‚ France. During his childhood his father tried to teach him Latin‚ but he found that Andre’s interests and abilities lied in the study of mathematics. Certainly‚ Andre cherish the time that his father spent teaching him‚ for later‚ during the French Revolution‚ his
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English 101 Summer 2013 David Kossy Written Assignment: Literacy Autobiography lit er a cy n. The condition of being literate‚ especially the ability to read and write. // lit er ate adj. 1. Able to read and write. 2. Knowledgeable; educated. American Heritage Dictionary Purpose: To prompt reflection on the subject of language and literacy‚ to get you thinking about its meaning in your life and about some of the experiences that have influenced you in this area. Writing the paper should help
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Amanda Villanueva Lais of Marie de France World Literature Paper In Lais of Marie de France‚ the author‚ Marie de France‚ uses symbolism to portray human experience through inhuman things. Lais of Marie de France is a collection of short stories that tell about the different kinds of love and chivalrous knights around the medieval times. Marie uses animals like a werewolf and a swan‚ objects like an arrow‚ a ship‚ and a knot to portray human experiences like selflessness‚ unconditional love‚ selfishness
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The person who had the greatest impact on the French Revolution was Marie Antoinette. Marie was known for her extravagant lifestyle‚ because of her abnormal lifestyle (always wonder why she was able to spend so much money?)‚ a large amount of money was spent‚ and funding the American Revolution also took a humongous of money‚ eventually France was declared bankruptcy. In 1789 about 10‚000 people had gather outside the palace of Versailles. They demand that the King and Queen be brought to Paris‚
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Betty Marie Tallchief always had big dreams. She thought of herself as a typical Indian girl. Her dreams made her more than that. She wanted to be a dancer. She got lessons and found that she was a natural. Betty Marie soon found out that raw talent wasn’t enough. An instructor told her that she hadn’t learned the basics properly. She had to go back to the beginning and start all the way over. She realized that there was always room for improvement. She started over and became an even better dancer
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Biography on homer By * Is the author of the Iliad * Is the author of the Odyssey‚ and * is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet * When he lived is controversial. * Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus’ own time‚ * which would place him at around 850 BC * Other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the War‚ around in early 12th century BC. * For modern scholars "the date of Homer" refers
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600+ Word Biography: Leontyne Price Leontyne Price is an American operatic soprano was born on February 10‚ 1927‚ in Laurel‚ Mississippi. Her full name is Mary Violet Leotyne Price. Leotyne was born in the segregated Deep South‚ also commonly referred to as the Lower South or the "Cotton States". She rose to international fame during a period of racial change in the 1950s and 60s‚ and was the first African-American to become a leading prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera. Leontyne’s
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Cultural Biography Cultural backgrounds can change the way we define ourselves‚ other people‚ and all other things. Cultural backgrounds can shape how we view the world‚ and must be taken into account when teaching students of different backgrounds in our classrooms. I will define my own cultural background and how it affects me‚ and then I interviewed someone‚ Curtis from (and currently resides) Chicago‚ from a complete different background. I grew up in Charleston Illinois for the most
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Biography of Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2‚ 1869.When he was thirteen he was married to Kasturbia who was also thirteen. Gandhi’s family was strictly vegetarian but he ate goat meat a friend gave him and immediately felt sick. Later that night he dreamed that a goat was bleating in his stomach. He ate meat six other times until he decided it was not worth it. When Gandhi was sixteen his father died. Whatever Gandhi did for humanity he didn’t think it was enough. “To
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Marie de France’s twelve lais are thought to have been written between 1155 and 1170 in England (Rikhardsdottir 26). The writer of the prologue to the set of lais introduces herself as Marie. Because she only offers her name and her wish for herself and her works to not be forgotten‚ not much is known about Marie de France (Kinoshita and McCracken 202)‚ but her writings and the authors who mention her in their works help provide more information about Marie de France (Kinoshita and McCracken 207)
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