.... a half sister Angela and the two parents. Alois found retirement to be difficult around the noisy little farm. The oldest, Alois Jr., 13, spent much of his time getting beat and listening to his fathers' harsh words. At age 14 he ran away, never seeing his father again. That put Adolf , the next oldest boy, in his shoes. At this time, the family sold the farm and moved to a small town of Lambach, Austria. The family would make many moves after that. This meant less chores and more free time to Adolf. Adolf attended a school in an old Catholic Benediction Monastery. The monastery was decorated with carved stones and woodwork that .....

.... design. While training for a career as an art director, Penn worked the last two summers from Harper's Bazaar as an office boy and apprentice artist, sketching shoes. At this time, he had no thought of becoming a photographer. Milestones In addition to his work for Vogue magazine (the American, British, and French editions) Penn has been represented in many important photographic collections, including those of the Museum of Modem Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1958, Irving Penn was named one of "The World’s 10 Greatest Photographers&qu .....

.... gift of geometric blocks. Growing up, Wright spent much of his summers at a farm owned by his uncles; here, his favorite pastime was building forts out of hay and mud. In 1882, at the age of 15, he entered the University of Wisconsin as a special student, studying engineering because the school had no course in architecture. Wright left Madison in 1887 to work as a draftsman in Chicago. Wright worked for several architectural offices until he finally found a job with the most skillful architect of the Mid-West, Louis Sullivan, soon becoming Sullivan's chief assistant. Wright was assigned most of the firm's designing of houses, and .....

.... In 1954, King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Later, in 1959, he became co-pastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. King’s serious behavior and positive requests to a Christian relationship that will end discrimination between black and white people made a positive impression on whites outside the south. To protest against discrimination, King did marches, demonstrations, and boycotts. He boycotted buses in an effect to gain better treatment; but not end segregation. During his demonstrations, King was arrested and was sent to jail. National reactions to the .....

.... He also warned against overspending while he was doing just that with defense budgets. At this point his plans were failing but when Dulles came into the picture he not only didn’t go through with his plans but he actually changed them completely. Truman was known for being soft on communism, however, he always stuck to his policies. When General MacArthur wanted to attack China, Truman refused to let him do so and, even after being accused of practicing appeasement, he stood his ground and fired MacArthur. Eisenhower, on the other hand, was not capable of standing his ground with his original policies, especially when he wo .....

.... to make direct, clinical observations probably influenced the other authors of these works and had much to do with freeing ancient medicine from superstition. Among the more significant works of the Hippocratic Collection is Airs, Waters, and Places, which, instead of ascribing diseases to divine origin, disusses their environmental causes. It proposes that considerations such as a town's weather drinking water, and site along the paths of favorable winds can help a physician ascertain the general health of citizens. Three other works- Prognostic, Coan Prognosis, and Aphorisms -advanced the then- revbolutionary idea that, by ob .....

.... similar in many ways. The names Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin are synonymous with the word propaganda. In order to understand how Hitler and Stalin used propaganda, an understanding of what the word means, is required. According to Merriam-Webster, "propaganda is the spreading of ideas to further or damage a cause; also the ideas or allegations spread for a purpose". Hitler and Stalin each used propaganda as their tool to further their ideas and help them gain the backing of the people in their countries. The form of propaganda that Hitler used, and was successful in using, was his words. Hitler made many speeches, but the one .....

.... to death, but the police said that his death took place because he went on a hunger strike. Stephen Biko achieved many great feats during his life. One of these feats was his acceptance to the University of Natal. He entered the institute to study medicine, though he did not complete the course because of his political activities. Mr. Biko also put forth many ideas to help the black people understand what the whites were doing to them. He said that treating of the blacks poorly itself was not the worst problem they had, the big dilemma was that the blacks were accepting the treatment. Biko also founded the Black Consciousne .....

.... attend Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for two semesters. Though her stay there was brief, she impressed her teachers with her courage and directness. They felt her writing was sensational. At the age of twenty-one, Emily and her family moved to the Dickinson Homestead on Main Street. This move proved to be very difficult for Emily. This was difficult for Emily because she became very attached to her old house, which shaped her writing and personality for fifteen years. They now lived next door to her brother Austin and his wife Susan and their daughter Martha. Emily and Susan became so close that many people believe they may have .....

.... were built on a false premise- the misinterpretation of an obscure passage of the Bible. Douglass continues to support the claim when he describes his experience with the Aulds concerning learning to read. Those "who proclaim it a religious duty to read the Bible" denied him "the right of learning to read the name of the God who made" him. Mr. Auld stopped his wife from teaching Douglass to read because it would "spoil" him, make him "discontented and unhappy", make him "unmanageable" and "unfit to be a slave." Despite his motive, Mr. Auld unknowingly pointed the way to Douglass's freedom. By far the greatest support gi .....