... a pianist made a promising start. Other compositions from the 1790's include piano sonatas, cello sonatas and violin sonatas. The two forms that were to have special significance for Beethoven were still to come: he completed his first symphony in 1800 and his first set of string quartets in 1801. Beethoven was Vienna's first successful freelance musician: he never again held a court position after leaving Bonn. Instead he had wealthy aristocratic friends, patrons and perhaps loves, to whom he dedicated his early compositions in return for payment. Begining in 1798, Beethoven experienced a continual humming and whist ...

... his father lost customers to the bigger companies which began to open. The Edison’s were forced to move to Port Huron, where he first began his education. When he was only seven years old his teacher, the Reverend G.B. Engle considered Thomas to be a dull student, and was terrible in math. After three months of school his teacher called him "addled," which means confused or mixed up. Thomas stormed home.(minot, pg1) The next day, Nancy Edison brought Thomas back to school to talk to Reverend Engle. He told her that Thomas couldn’t learn. His mother became so angry at the strict Reverend that she decided to home ...

... in the treasury in which he represented at the Paris Peace Conference 1919. Keynes decided to resign his position in office because he disagreed with economic terms of the Treaty of Versailles. After resigning Keynes wrote another book called “The Economic Consequences of the Peace� in 1919. In this book he predicted that the staggering reparations levied against Germany would goad that country into economic nationalism and resurgence of militarism. Keynes being a well-educated man, made some great investments in a decades time. Within that decade he made his two million fortune by speculating in internati ...

... and the Europeans who followed him brought civilization to two immense sparsely populated continents, in the process of enhancing and altering the Old World from where they had came from. The 19th century, was a period whereby soceity of the Europeans altered the Western culture of the Native Americans. The Europeans had brought many new changes to the "New World", such as pigs, horses. Columbus had opened the seeds of change. The European society as a whole, had thought that the Europeans were doing a favor, by changing their primitive ways, when in fact, some of the Native American customs were far more s ...

... his education at the Military academy of Paris. After one year there, he became second Lieutenant of artillery, at the age of 17. As a Lieutenant, Napoleon did a lot of reading, mainly in the subjects of history, geography, economic affairs, and philosophy. Napoleon was assigned to a post at the Valence garrison when he became a Lieutenant, but spent most of his time in Corsica, without permission. During one of these visits, Napoleon had trouble with a Corsican nationalist, named Pasquale Paoli, and Napoleon and his family fled to Marseille in 1793. Later in 1793, the beginning of the French revolution, Na ...

... 1904. Skinner was the father of modern behaviorism. Skinner did not get into psychology until he was in graduate school at Harvard. He was driven to Psychology after reading about the experiments of Watson and Pavlov. He received his doctoral degree in three years and taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of Indiana and finally returned to his alma mater at Harvard. Skinner contributed to psychological behaviorism by performing experiments that linked behaviors with terms commonly used to describe mental states. Skinner was responsible for some famous experiments such as the “Skinner box�. Sk ...

... impossible for humans to conquer, but that never discouraged Franklin. He once stated, “but on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was by the Endeavor a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it. His inventions, such as the open heating stove, the bifocals, and other neat gadgets helped suit the needs of people across the world. He was a tinkerer, one that was always playing, trying to figure out, asking himself just how can I improve this or invent something better. Another reflectio ...

... in southern Arkansas. His first house was a houseboat on the Ouachita River. His dad worked at the toll bridge over the river. In 1941 he and his family moved to Long Beach, California. They moved there so his dad could work on ships during the war. When the war ended he moved back to Crossett, Barry just finished the third grade. His dad went through many jobs but didn’t gain any money. Then he decided to go to Louisiana and buy a few cases of whiskey. He brought the cases back to the dry county of Crossett and made a good profit. After this he became a bootlegger. Barry grew up as a poor kid and ...

... when he sailed to India with the fleet of Francisco Almeida, Portugal’s first ruler to that country. In 1506, Magellan went on an expedition sent by Almeida to the east coast of Africa to strengthen Portuguese bases there. The next year, he returned to India, where he participated in trade and in several naval battles against Turkish fleets. In 1509, Magellan sailed with a Portuguese fleet to Malaka, a commercial center in what is now Malaysia. The Malays attacked the Portuguese who went to shore, and Magellan helped rescue his comrades. In 1511, he took part in an expedition that conquered Malaka. After this v ...

... to cast doubt upon all which he knows, in order to build a solid foundation of knowledge out of irrefutable truths. Borrowing an idea from Archimedes, that with one firm and immovable point, the earth could be moved, Descartes sought one immovable truth. Descartes’ immovable truth, a truth on which he would lay down his foundation of knowledge, and define all that which he knows, was the simple line ‘Cogito ergo sume�; I think, therefor I am. This allowed for his existence. Where this line failed, however, was in the proof or disproof of the external world. Once Descartes established himself as a “t ...