... and creating new and innovative products. Her downfalls though were her violent temper, she was a very demanding and difficult employer who easily blew up at hr employees and was often too proud and arrogant to apologize. In 1904, Arden began her career in cosmetics working at the Eleanor Adair shop. Later in 1909, she opened her own shop and facial cream line. In 1914, at a time when women scorned make-up and women who did wear it were gossiped about terribly, Arden opened a new cosmetic line. Where many others had failed in the past, her products and advertising changed the way women viewed makeup forever. In 1940, she began designing and selling clothing. In ...
... major themes in his silent comedies. was taught to sing before he could talk and danced just as soon as he could walk. At a very young age Chaplin was told that he would become the most famous person in the world. A sign of this was when he was five years old and sang for his mother on stage after she became ill and taken for crazy. The audience apparently loved him and hurled their money onto the stage. By the age of ten, Charles was a skilled singer, acrobat, juggler, pantomime, and comic improvisor. From the ages of twelve to fourteen, Charlie's places of employment included a barbershop, stationary store, doctor's office, glass factory and printing plant. ...
... him is correspondingly enormous." His poetry is of numerous styles, ranging from the Renaissance to his own times. At the age of sixteen he was sent to study law at a university, but would have more gladly read classics at another university. After ten years he was invited by Duke Karl August to come to Weimar (this city would be his actual home until his death there on March 22, 1832). He was already a good lawyer and had written the novel Werther. His work in Weimar caused him to observe the natural world around him and led him towards science. He would yet write fourteen volumes on the subject. At that time Weimar was an important city in Germany. C.P. M ...
... 1806. Gauss conceived almost all his basic mathematical discoveries between the ages of 14 and 17. In 1791 he began to do totally new and innovative work in mathematics. In 1793-94 he did intensive research in number theory, especially on prime number. He made this his life's passion and is regarded as its modern founder. Gauss studied at the University of Gottingen from 1795 to 1798. He soon decided to write a book on the theory of numbers. It appeared in 1801 under the title 'Disquisitiones arithmeticae'. This classic work usually is held to be Gauss's greatest accomplishment. Gauss discovered on March 30, 1796, that circle, using only compassses and stra ...
... Also, he was very close with his younger sister, Maja, and hey could often be found in the lakes that were scattered about the countryside near Munich. As a child, Einstein's sense of curiosity had already begun to stir. A favorite toy of his was his father's compass, and he often marvelled at his uncle's explanations of algebra. Although young Albert was intrigued by certain mysteries of science, he was considered a slow learner. His failure to become fluent in German until the age of nine even led some teachersto believe he was disabled. Einstein's post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when he was ten. It was here that he first encountered the G ...
... comparable banality.” ( Hoffman, p. 20 ). This explains how other ts respect and admire the ms written by Edgar Allan . There is not just admiration and respect for ’s ms, there is also negative critism. A critic named John Neal stated If Edgar Allan of Baltimore whose lines About “ Heaven” , though he professes to r- Egard them as all together superior to any thing in the whole range of American try, Save two or three trifles referred to, are non- sense, rather exquisite nonsense- would but do himself justice (he) might make a beautiful and perhaps a magnificent poe ...
... take Hitler seriously both as an individual and as an effective politician in order to understand how he gained so much power and how he abused that power. Only then will we be able to appreciate the profound evil of Hitler and Nazism. Adolf Hitler: The Man Behind the Mask! Adlof Hitler was born April 20, 1889 to Alois and Klara Hitler and had a little sister Paula and half-brother Alois J.R. and half-sister Angela. Young Adolf was a good student in elementary. Energetic and smart, leader among children his own age. Loved warlike games. Had an outstanding gift as a speaker. It was also discovered Adolf could draw which encouraged him to want to become an artist. ...
... affected his family’s life, forcing them to move until they found a place where his asmtha could be stabilized. Che was home schooled until the age of nine because of his illness. Guevara took after his mother in that he was attracted to danger and he ended up with his father’s temper. Guevara did all right in school, but it wasn’t until he got to college that he started to shine. At first Che wanted to study engineering at the University. After the death of his grandmother Che decided to study medicines instead of engineering. He was accepted to the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine. By college, his parents were separated, though ...
... While at Oxford he met his first wife Helen Palmer to whom he was married for 40 years until her death. They moved to New York. While in New York he worked drawing cartoon advertisments for Flit, an insect repellant. It was he who coined the phrase “Quick Henry, the Flit” which was to 1930s advertising what “Just Do It” is to 1990s advertising. Sort of. They later moved to La Jolla, California where Ted lived for the rest of his life. They loved children although they were unable to have any of their own. About five years after Helem's death he married Audrey Stone. He died in 1991 in his sleep at the age of 87. He wrote 57 books spanning seven decadesfro ...
... that was trying to establish a socialist society through co-operation with the ‘ bourgeois' classes. He wrote a great number of speeches, pamphlets and articles for the Fabians, and in 1889 he edited the Fabian Essays, an import document in the history of British socialism. His work with and for the Fabian Society continued until the end of his life, during which period he wrote a number of important socialist articles, such as the anti-war pamphlet ‘Common sense about the war' in 1914 and the ‘Woman's guide to Socialism and Capitalism' in 1928. Between 1885 and 1898 he wrote many critical reviews on literature, art and music for a number of important maga ...
