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Muhammad Ali
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professional boxer
won a gold medal in the 1960 olympics converted to islam and changed his name from cassius clay refused to fight in the vietnam war charged with draft evasion stripped of his liscense to box perhaps greatest boxer of all time |
prominent boxer, converted to Islam
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Hannah Arendt
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german-born jewish american political theorist
noted for her writings on totalitarianism escaped the nazis and became a US citizen taught at major american university wrote book "origins of totalitarianism" where she discussed totalitarianism, imperialism and anti-semitism |
jewish american political theorist, author
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
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born in latvia
recognized as the leading ballet dancer in the world by late 1960s defected to west while touring canada with bolshoi ballet lived in new york ever since since 1980s started to tend more toward modern dance most famous dancer of the 20th century |
famous ballet dancer from latvia
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Samuel Beckett
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Born in dublin but lived in paris for over 50 years and died there
playwright, novelist, poet who wrote in french and translated his work back to english nobel prize for literature writings concentrated on fundemental questions of human existence expressed deep anguish of the human condition wrote "waiting for godot" and "endgame" |
playwright, novelist who wrote of fundamental questions of human existence
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Simone de Beauvoir
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french pioneering feminist, existential philosopher, novelist
wrote on philosophical, social, cultural and political problems concerning the status of women companion of jean-paul sartre wrote "the second sex" |
french pioneering feminist
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Neils Bohr
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danish physicist
theory of the structure of the atom proposed a "quantum theory" held that electrons could be found at different energy levels but exist in no fixed state nobel prize for physics fled copenhagen because of nazis and moved to NM where he advised on the develepment of the first atomic bomb later became opponent to nuclear proliferation |
danish physicist "quantum theory"
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Albert Einstein
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german-born jewish physicist
published 3 famous papers which transformed the understanding of the world arguing the nature of light, special relativity, argued for equivalency of energy and mass and importance of observer position published general theory of relativity received nobel prize for physics |
jewish scientist, theory of relativity
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Frantz Fanon
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french west indian psychiatrist, political theorist/writer and revolutionary thinker
took medical degree in france and became radicalized while providing psychitric services to colonized algerians joined algerian national liberation front committed to algerian independence from france wrote "black skin, white masks" and "the wretched of the earth" wrote that colonialism caused a unique pathology in the colonized and colonizer that could only be cured through revolutionary struggle against colonial rule |
french west indian revolutionary thinker, part of algerian national liberation front
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Henry Ford
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american automotive and industrial pioneer
born near dearborne MI to irish parents was a machinist's apprentice and became a mechanical engineer f founded ford motor company and began the model T in 1908 pioneered use of standardized interchangeable parts and assembly lines and mass production ford now a global giant selling over 250 million cars |
inventor of the model T, pioneer of the mass-production and assembly lines
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Michael Foucault
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french philosopher and social theorist
degrees in philosophy and psychology wrote on challenging social norms and "truths" social actibist on behalf of prisoners, the mentally ill and sexually different notable works=madness and cibilization, history of sexuality died as a result of AIDS |
french philosopher, social theori
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Sigmund Freud
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austrian-born jewish physician and neurologist
founder of psychoanalysis developed theories of unconscious mind argued for psychological rather than physiological bases of illnesses and conditions used hypnosis, dream analysis and free association major books include "the interpretation of dreams" and "the ego and the id" and "the psychology of everyday life" |
austrian-born neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis
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Paulo Freire
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brazilian educator and educational theorist
exhiled from brazil after military coup consultant at UNESCO and world council of churches known for controversial approach to teaching the powerless and impoverished by "consciencization", in which education is seen as development of critical account of one's own life wrote pedagogy of the opressed |
brazilian educational theorist, teaching by means of "consciencization"
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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colombian novelist
nobel prize for literature studied law at the national university in bogota and then turned to journalism wrote "100 years of solitude" which was an early example of magical realism which brought fantasy and reality together |
colombian author, magical realism
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Bill Gates
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Born in seattle
co-founder of microsoft, first microcomputer software company developed operating software for IBM personal computer richest man in the world |
wealthiest man in the world, co-founder of microsoft
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Franz Kafka
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jewish novelist and short-story writer
wrote disturbing symbolic fiction that anticipated 20th century despair and bureaucratic or state power term kafkaesque refers to grotesque, anxeity-producing social conditions most works published after his death against his order to burn his writings include "metamorphosis" |
jewish novelist, wrote symobolic fiction
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Thomas Kuhn
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american historian and theoretician of science
book "the structure of scientific revolutions"pioneered the notion of paradigm shifts argued that science does not move closer to a fixed truth |
american historian, theoretician of science, paradigm shifts
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Bob Marley
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Jamaican musical and political figure
popularizer of raggae rastafarian writer of uncompromising songs for poor caribbean people exploded into the international scene in the 70s mesh of rhythm and blues, rock and other influenced one of the first major "third world" musicians |
jamaican musician, raggae
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Karl Marx
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german philosopher and founder of marxism and proletarian socialism
worked with frederick engels to produce two major texts of marxism "the communist manifesto" was a revolutionary call to action on behalf of the workers of the world led most of his life in political exhile most of his major influence came after his death |
german philosopher, wrote "communist manifesto"
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Margaret Mead
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american anthropologist
studied the impact of culture on teh development of human personality focused on primitive societies and the way they veiwed social, sexual and educational standards wrote "coming of age in samoa" |
american anthropologist, culture on development of human personality
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Friedrich Nietzche
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german philosopher and classical scholar
critic of religion, christianity and repressions of society infamous for statement "god is dead" works celebrated power of the human "will to power" influence on early 20th century european literature, philosophy and psychology |
critic of religion "god is dead"
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Salman Rushdie
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anglo-indian novelist
influenced by magical realism became famous with his book "midnight's children" condemned to death by iranian clerics for alleged blasphemy of islam in his novel "satanic verses" went into hiding in england |
anglo-indian author, condemned for criticizing islam
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Edward Said
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palestinian-american literary critic and cosmopolitan palestinian activist and humanust
educated in egypt and the US most important figure in the 20th century rise of "global" social and cultural literary criticism in which he confronts domination of europe over vast areas of the world most influential book="orientalism" |
palestinian-american activist,
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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french novelist, playwright and philosopher
anti-nazi resistance fighter during WW2 leading european philosopher of the 1950s and 60s advocated existentialism emphasized the nothingness of human existence and responsibility of people to take responsibility over their actions and existence refused the nobel prize for literature as a way of maintaining his integrity as a writer |
french novelist, advocated existentialism
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Max Weber
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german sociologist, political economist and historian
known for thesis of "the protestant ethic" relating protestantism to capitalism became a founding father of sociology |
a founding father of sociology, protestant ethic
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Virginia Woolf
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british author recognized for her contribution to the changing form of the novel and her critical essays
explored how people experience time and events and the transitory nature of characters author of Mrs. Dalloway one of the pioneering women of literature in the english language |
british author, explored transitory nature of characters and time
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