D Argens: A Brief Biography

Biographical information about the author: Francois-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, was born in 1694 in Paris, France. Though his father wanted him to become a lawyer, Voltaire long held a great passion for writing, and rather than going to law school, spent his time extensively composing poetry, essays, and historical studies. His widespread recognition as an author was established with the publication of the play “Oedipus”, a variation on the original Greek tragedy, in 1718. In 1726, after a fight with a French nobleman, Voltaire was exiled to England. There, he was exposed to a

“Lettres philosophiques” describes the English political system and then ends with an attack on Pascal for his optimistic views on religion. He was exiled once again, this time he lived with Émilie du Châtelet in France. Voltaire and Émilie became lovers and partners until the death of Émilie in 1749. After her death, Voltaire moved to Potsdam to work for Fredrick the Great. Unfortunately Voltaire attacked in his writing the president of the Berlin Academy of science, which resulted in Voltaire running away to avoid

Ardipithecus has been discovered, an Ancestor that dates back prior to the remains of Lucy. In the article written by Ann Gibbons and others, it dives into the discovery of our most ancient ancestor and the clues given to us from all 110 remains that have been found of A. ramidus. First let me begin with Lucy whose remains were found in 1974 and that dated back to 3.2 million years ago. These skeletal remains gave us the evidence needed to prove that our ancient ancestors were bipedal before evolving their big brains. After Lucy was discovered the scientist found themselves with even more questions, such as, were any previous ancestors before Lucy bipedal or did

Ardipithecus and other early Australopithecines lived in a habitat much wetter than the environment of Aramis, Ethiopia today. The set for scene one could at times experience a “rain fall,” and should include a woodland habitat with patches of denser forest and an abundant amount of monkeys just as what would have been seen between five and three million years ago. In 1992, an expedition led by Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley discovered the fossil of Ardipithecus ramidus, dating back to 4.4 million years ago. The skeleton nicknamed “Ardi” ended up weighing around 112 pounds, stood almost four feet tall, (somewhat larger than a male chimpanzee but smaller than a female gorilla) and was most likely a female. Ardi’s ape sized brain has a cranial capacity of only 300 to 350 CC.

Dr. Ardizzone’s lecture was extremely thought provoking and eye opening for me. Of the topics discussed in her lecture, it was interesting to learn about the systematic steps in place to promote patient safety in an institution. Additionally, the steps implemented at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, as part of their Crisis Resource Management initiative, is commendable.

R/s Nicole (mom) and Arrian (9) are homeless. R/s Nicole has mental issues. R/s Nicole is very combative, she is threatening people, and she is calling the police on people. R/s Nicole is allowing Arrian to talk to her father, Lorenzo and be around his family. R/s Arrian is not allowed to have contact with neither her father nor his family due to him being in jail for molestation. R/s Nicole will lay in bed all day and doesn’t feed Arrian.

Abelard was born to lesser nobility in La Pallet, in Brittany. When he turned 13, he gave up his inheritance as firstborn to instead build a career studying philosophy. He moved to Paris, an important center of learning for his time, and studied with the greatest philosophers of his day (iep). He initially studied under Roscelin of

During the Renaissance of the sixteenth century, Europe experienced a golden age of new works of art, literature, and advancement in medicine. However, as these advancements spread across the European nation-states, the order of the Protestant Reformation began to rise. Christian humanists and middle-class patrons opposed the religious mores, creating unorthodox standpoints of the European Christendom. Likewise, in Erasmus' The Praise of Folly, the allegorical figure, Dame Folly, criticizes the follies of influential groups and individuals of the sixteenth century. Rather than creating a written work that agrees with the conventional views and methods of the period, Erasmus takes a modern approach instead. Erasmus uses a peculiar technique

Francis Marie Arouet was born on November 21, 1694 in Paris, France. As a child, Arouet grew up in an atmosphere that strictly obeyed the rules of the church. During this time, faith in the church was an obligation for everyone in society and the authority of the church was never questioned, for this would definitely mean instant death. Meanwhile, Arouet enrolled at the Jesuit College of Louis-Le-Grande where he excelled in academics especially his skills in writing. After his schooling, Arouet became noticed by much of the aristocracy for his writing and eventually was imprisoned for supposedly composing two offensive works, the Puerto Regnanto and J’aivu.1 While serving his confinement, he assumed the name de Voltaire. After choosing the

In 1726 Voltaire was beaten by a nobleman’s servants and was imprisoned without trial. He asked to be exiled to England and lived there for two years; he learned to admire England’s society. He wrote letters, “Candide”, and “Treatise on Tolerance” in response to French and other European societies. In Voltaire’s excerpts he argued for religious toleration, separation of state and church, and basic human rights.

Carl Christian Anton Christiansen (C.C.A Christiansen) is considered one of the finest nineteenth-century painters of Mormonism. He captured important moments of early Mormo¬n history on 23 large oil-on-canvas paintings, stitched them together into a lengthy scroll, and called it Mormon Panorama. Before arrived at BYU Museum of Arts, it was stored in long wooden boxes in the wagon and transferred to different galleries. When viewing up close to the painting, I saw the weathered marks of the past – of the scroll being rolled up in the harsh weather. Those marks surprisingly enhance the content of the paintings – the sufferings of Joseph Smith and the pioneers. Amazingly, that is the beauty in the imperfections.

When François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pen-name Voltaire, secretly published Candide, ou l 'Optimisme simultaneously in five European countries in January of 1759, it was met with widespread denouncement due to its controversial content and scandalous portrayal of politics and religion. Nevertheless, the bitingly satirical novel fervently spread throughout Europe and was translated into several more languages, selling tens of thousands of copies within its first year of publication (Barnes). Despite being first categorized as dangerous blasphemy, Candide is now regarded as one of the most influential books of all time. Almost 300 years later, Candide is considered an unparalleled criticism of politics and religion during the Age of Enlightenment.

From the records that remain of Alfred 's rule it is quite obvious that the man had an obsession with the written word, and the power associated with knowledge. Both Asser 's Life of Alfred and the prose preface to Alfred 's translation of the Pastoralis show glimpses of a man who is preoccupied with writing and its inherent worth. In Asser 's Life of Alfred one section describing Alfred 's youth makes the man out to be something innately

Alexandre Dumas’s novels and in particular The Three Musketeers are so great for his ability to mix fact with fiction. As a historical novel, The Three Musketeers bases its story around some major characters and events of 17th century, French history. Cardinal Richelieu, Anne of Austria, and other important characters really lived and acted the way they do in the novel. In fact, the historical basis of Dumas's story extends all the way to his initial idea for the novel, even to the Musketeers and d’Artagnan themselves.(history 1)

Daniel Rogers’s discourse on the political, commercial and religious environment of Denmark-Norway, Jean Hotman’s musings on the ideal diplomat and Francois Dubois’s representation of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre appear disparate and unrelated; however, their wider significance as a vignette of the evolving diplomatic and religious landscape of Western Europe in the latter half of the sixteenth century is extremely noteworthy.