Marcel Duchamp arrived in the United States less than two years prior to the creation of Fountain and had become involved with Dada‚ an anti-rational‚ anti-art cultural movement‚ in New York City. According to one version‚ the creation of Fountain began when‚ accompanied by artist Joseph Stella and art collector Walter Arensberg‚ he purchased a standard Bedfordshire model urinal from the J. L. Mott Iron Works‚ 118 Fifth Avenue. The artist brought the urinal to his studio at 33 West 67th Street‚ reoriented
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Albert Einstein was born at Ulm‚ in Württemberg‚ Germany‚ on March 14‚ 1879. He is a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. He is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. Einstein’s parents were secular‚ middle-class Jews. His father‚ Hermann Einstein‚ was originally a featherbed salesman and later ran
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Camilla Calicchia. Immediately after his birth he was baptised in his home by the mid-wife. It is believed that his baptism is a result of his poor health or an earthquake that took place in Venice that day. The day he was born‚ his mother dedicated his life to priesthood and two months later his official church baptism took place. Vivaldi had five siblings: Margaritta Gabriela‚ Cecilia Maria‚ Bonaventura Tomaso‚ Zanetta Anna‚ and Francesco Gaetano. Vivaldi’s father‚ Giovanni Battista‚ was a low
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Lev Vygotsky was a Russian psychologist who lived from 1896 t0 1934 and he was born in small town of Orshe near by city of Gomel (Republic of Belarus). Vygotsky advanced the theory of Social Development which aims at social interaction which plays a fundamental role in the process of cognitive development of young children in construct to Jean Piaget understanding of child’s development in which development necessary precedes learning. Vygotskian framework based on four principles underlying his
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Craig Kielburger is best known for being a famous Canadian activist for the rights of children. Kielburger is the founder of “Free the Children” and co-founder of “Me to We”. In 1995‚ Kielburger was twelve years old at the time when he saw a headline in the Toronto Star that read “Battled Child Labour‚ Boy‚ 12‚ Murdered.” The story was about a young Pakistani boy who was forced into bonded labour in a carpet factory at the age of four‚ and became an international figurehead for the fight against
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Kiichiro Toyoda (豊田喜一郎 ’Toyoda Kiichirō’‚ June 11‚ 1894 – March 27‚ 1952) was a Japanese entreprenuer and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. He made the decision for Toyoda Loom Works to branch into automobiles‚ considered a risky business at the time. Shortly before Sakichi Toyoda died‚ he encouraged his son to follow his dream and pursue automobile manufacturing — Kiichiro created what eventually became Toyota Motor Corporation. He resigned from the company in 1948 due to flagging
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The Pascaline Blaise Pascal was born June 19th‚ 1623 in Clermont. He was the third to be born and the only son. He was kept at home as a child because they wanted to make sure that he was not overworked. His father homeschooled him‚ but he was not allowed to study mathematics before the age of 15. And because of this there were no mathematical things in the house at all. Soon Blaise gave up his play time at the age of twelve to study geometry.
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Kayla Dowling and Kalia Johnson 1.) a) They had to wear the patch in the ghetto to humiliate them and enabled them to identification of Jews easily. b) Ruth felt anger ‚ sadness and humiliation. Ruth felt humilited because she felt ostracized and alone. However Bilha had completely different view she felt proud to be Jewish and nobody could take that away from her. 2.) a) Hassia Ben -They were thrown out with nothing had to leave there house. they kept being urged to move faster
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What do I care if Mohammed was a good man‚ or Buddha! Does that alter my own goodness or evil? Let us be good for our own sake on our own responsibility! Not because some body way back there was good! (Reminisces of Swami Vivekananda p. 273) We are responsible for what we are‚ and whatever we wish ourselves to be‚ we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions‚ it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be
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History Essay - Tom Hromin Sturm - XV. Gimnazija‚ I.B. School Teenager Life in the Nazi Regime ( 1933-1939 ) vs Teenager Life Today ! Regarding the life of teenagers in the nazi regime‚ it is most definitely a life that a person does not want to live. Hitler having gained power had had to control the minds and bodies of teenagers because the last thing he needed was an uprising of people who understood what was going on. Grown ups can only be mislead‚ but children can be taught to think and act differently
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