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Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Groot-Zundert Netherlands. His father Theodorus van Gogh was a minister. His mother Anna Cornelia Carbentus was a moody artist whose love of nature, drawing and watercolors was transferred to her son Van Gogh. Gogh was born exactly one year after his parent’s first son also named Vincent but he was stillborn. When Gogh was 15 his family was poor so he had drop out of school and start work. He worked for his uncle Cornelis ’at his art dealership.…

Brazil is a federal republic, consisting of 26 states and the Federal District of Brasília. Each state has its own elected legislature and governor.Brazil's legislative body is the National Congress, which is composed of the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate. Deputies are elected for a term of four years. Senators serve 8-year terms, with three senators elected from each of the states. From 1964 to 1985, the military controlled the government under a succession of generals, who…

“I Denounce the So-Called Emancipation as a Stupendous Fraud” was a speech given by Frederick Douglass on April 16, 1888, in Washington, D.C. He was there for the celebration of the twenty-sixth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia. Frederick Douglass was born a slave but escaped when he was twenty years old. He later became one of the most famous intellectuals and a well-known anti-slavery activist. He would give advice to presidents and give influential speeches on important…

On September 8th, the murder of Annie Chapman was reported in the London Echo, “All the circumstances favour the theory that they (the east-end murders) are the work of a lunatic with homicidal tendencies. The swiftness and secrecy of the murders, and the success of the perpetrator in destroying all traces of his presence, rather support the theory…The dissatisfaction arises from the fact that the police, as they have become militarized, seem to have lost the art of detecting murders.” The…

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was born in Bourges, France on January 14, 1841 to Edme Tiburce Morisot, who was a high-level government official, and Marie Cornélie Mayniel, a daughter of a high-level government official [2]. As she was born into a family of wealth, her childhood followed the conventional lessons that high-born children were to receive: including lessons in drawing and painting [1]. Morisot and her sister, Edma, began to paint early on in their youth. The sisters earned respect in…

Electoral College has changed the outcome. Seth Borenstein states “History shows that candidates have won the presidency but not the popular vote four times, and in each case it was the Democrat who got the most votes but lost the presidency: 1824, 1876, 1888 and 2000” in his article “Electoral College math: Not All Votes are equal”. Four out of 56 elections had a different outcome than the popular vote due to the Electoral College. This is equivalent to 16 years and four terms, and considering…

The United States of America was founded on the ideas of freedom, independence, and social equality. The power of choice was intentionally given to the people. This included the right to decide legislation, to be represented by specified civic leaders, and the right to elect a president through the process of voting. The electoral process can be approached in various ways. For some elections, popular vote is used. Nonetheless, the electoral college system is exercised for presidential elections.…

propel their boats since 5,000 B.C. Later China used windmills to pump water by 200 B.C., and Persia used windmills to grind grain and pump water about 500-900 A.D. Eventually the windmill lead to the creation of the first wind turbine, invented in 1888 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a Scottish scholar named Charles F. Brush [1]. A wind turbine is a device that converts kinetic energy gained from the wind into electrical energy [2], and a collection of wind turbines in one place is referred to as a wind…

Author T.S. Eliot’s Influence on American Literary History Author T.S. Eliot, was an American-English poet, playwriter, literary critic, an editor and was a major contributor and leader of the Modernist movement in poetry. From his works like “The Waste Land” and then the what some call sequel “The Hollow Men,” Eliot’s style of writing not only had a huge influence on American literary history but also influenced many other writers such as Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite. After reading some…

Sandesh Pathak 31st October 2017 PHIL-1301-61 In this essay, I am going to write about the summary of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and his main arguments. Similarly, I will explain in short about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and his main arguments. Then I will compare their arguments and finally, I will give my thoughts on those arguments. Moreover, I will talk about the difference in their thoughts and my thoughts. In conclusion, I will present the…