Leonardo Pisano(1170-1250) was an Italian number theorist‚ who was con-sidered to be one of the most talented mathematicians in the Middle Ages. However‚ He was better known by his nickname Fibonacci‚ as many famoustheorems were named after it. In addition to that‚ Fibonacci himself some-times used the name Bigollo‚ which means good-for-nothing or a traveller. Thisis probably because his father held a diplomatic post‚ and Fibonacci travelledwidely with him. Although he was born in Italy‚ he was
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The short story “To Da-Duh in Memoriam”‚ written by Paule Marshall‚ is extremely similar and mirrors the concepts that are presented in the first chapter of Thomas Foster’s “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”. The chapter‚ which is titled “Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It’s Not)” states that there are five conventions that a quest consists of “a quester” or someone who is going on the quest. In “To Da-Duh in Memoriam” this quester is the narrator‚ who is a young child from New York City
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Giovanni Da Verrazzano was an Italian explorer who charted the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland‚ including New York Harbor in 1524. Giovanni was born around the year of 1485 in Val di Greve‚ 30 miles south of Florence‚ Italy. He began to pursue his maritime career in about 1506 or 1507 and in the 1520’s he was sent by King Francis I of France to explore the East Coast of North America for a route to the Pacific. After returning to Europe from discovered New
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The Last Judgment is a fresco by Michelangelo Buonarroti in Sistine Chapel around 1534-1541‚ depicting one of the most famous scenes in Hebrew Bible. The Last Judgment is about Christ judging human sins. In this fresco‚Michelangelo exhibits the beauty of human beings and his desire for a just and fair society. His desire can be seen in every detail in this fresco. In describing the beauty of human world‚ he uses strict mathematical support in depicting the 3 dimensional space‚ and he uses the chiaroscuro
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Who is Vasco Da Gama? Vasco Da Gama was believed to be borned around 1460s in Sines‚ a Portuguese seaport on the Atlantic ocean. The Da Gamas were minor aristocrats‚ and Vasco’s father‚ Estevao Da Gama and his wife‚ Dona Isabel Sodre had five sons. Vasco was the third. Skills of Vasco Da Gama Gaspar Correia ‚Sixteenth- Century historian‚ written that it was at Evora where he may have learned mathematics and navigation. It is evident that Gama knew astronomy well‚ and it is possible that
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Da Lat is a city which I know and want to introduce for everybody. It is a familiar place that almost visitors often choose when they have chance to go to a vacation. At Da Lat‚ you can see a lot of beautiful landscapes‚ buy a lot of fresh food or good souvenirs and enjoy fantastic weather. First of all‚ about landscapes‚ Da Lat has a lot of beautiful views and all of them are symbols or special places of it. For example‚ Than Tho Lake‚ Xuan Huong Lake‚ Romantic Valley‚ Cam Ly Waterfall…. When you
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CONFESSIONAL MODE IN POETRY OF KAMALA DAS Confessional mode of writing has its virtual origin in the mid50s in America. It is hybrid mode of poetry which means objective‚ analytical or even clinical observation of incidents from one’s own life. Confessional poems are intensely personal and highly subjective. There is no ‘persona’ in the poems. ‘I’ in the poems is the poet and nobody else. The themes are nakedly embarrassing and focus too exclusively upon the pain‚ anguish and ugliness of life at
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This popular film ’Boyz N the Hood’‚ which was nominated for both best director and original screenplay takes place in South Central Los Angeles‚ California. Before the opening seen of the movie there are two messages that come across the screen about violence in South Central‚ LA. The one message states that one out of every twenty one black American males will be murdered in their lifetime. The other message says that most will die at the hands of another black male. The plot of the movie is based
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My grandmother’s house - Kamala Das About Kamala Das: Kamala Das is one of the best poets in contemporary Indo-Anglian literature. Kamala Das‚ born in Kerala in 1934‚ is a bilingual writer. She writes in Malayalam‚ her mother tongue‚ under the pseudonym Madhavikkutty. Her poetry is an exploration of the geography of her own mind‚ and the lyric is an instance of such self-exploration. Through images of repulsion and horror‚ she brings out the emotional emptiness and sterility of her married
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