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
Premium Homer
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
Premium Metropolitan Opera Opera
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
Free Middle class Social class Working class
daughter of an innkeeper (Kepler Biography). Although he was a sickly child‚ he proved excellent in his academics (Encyclopedia of World Biography). At the age of five Kepler took the opportunity of watching the Great Comet of 1577 and an eclipse of the moon (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Shortly after that‚ his father also left never to return (Kepler Biography). Kepler’s curiosity about
Premium Albert Einstein Physics General relativity
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
Premium Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Satyagraha World War I
Biography of Shakira Shakira (Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll) was born on February 2‚ 1977 in Barranquilla‚ Colombia. Shakira knew early on that she wanted to be a professional musician and by the time she was 8‚ she was already writing her own songs. The debut album of Shakia is Magia (Magic).That album was recorded with Sony Music in 1991 when Shakira was only 15 years old‚ but the album wasn’t well received. The album Peligro (Danger) was realised by Shakira in 1993 and is an sophomore album
Premium
Name Professor Management 368: Business Ethics Date Jeremy Bentham Biography “Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher” that “is primarily known” for his philosophical contribution‚ the ethical theory of utilitarianism (Sweet). Utilitarianism is the ethical theory that states that the best action is the one that brings about the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people (DeGeorge 44). Specifically‚ Bentham was a hedonistic utilitarian arguing that “what ultimately motivates
Premium Ethics Jeremy Bentham Utilitarianism
Mirabai Biography Mirabai was a great saint and devotee of Sri Krishna. Despite facing criticism and hostility from her own family‚ she lived an exemplary saintly life and composed many devotional bhajans. Historical information about the life of Mirabai is a matter of some scholarly debate. The oldest biographical account was Priyadas’s commentary in Nabhadas’ Sri Bhaktammal in 1712. Nevertheless there are many aural histories‚ which give an insight into this unique poet and Saint of India.
Premium Krishna Bhakti
LuYu Chen (Jessica) Ms. Cohen VA 402-1 Sep 26th 2014 Biography of Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was born on January 4th 1643 in Woolsthorpe‚ England. He was an outstanding physicist and mathematician and was credited as one of the great minds of the 17th century Scientific Revolution. Newton had accomplished on several subjects‚ such as: Math‚ Physics‚ Astronomy and so on. He was died in London on March 31th 1727. He lived for 85 years. Isaac Newton was the only son of
Premium Isaac Newton
Aysegul Torun Mr. Swiencicki Soc 2 Apr. 29th‚ 2013 Social Biography In this paper I’m going to write about a sociological biography of a person who I interviewed and I’m going to analyze some of the social problems such as “drug war and race”‚ race discrimination‚ drug abuse‚ and importance of a well structured family based on my interviewee’s answers. I like to talk about family because I think family is where everything starts. If we want to define what the social problem actually means
Premium Gang Illegal drug trade Sociology