One of few great composers to be recognized in their lifetime, Johannes Brahms stood out among the crowd of composers in the Romantic period of music. During this period, musicians discarded the intelligence and form of the Classical period in favor of emotion and feeling. Experiencing one's inner-child became a prominent inspiration as well as forces of nature, including thunderstorms and crop-circles. Brahms developed talent early on and, with the help of his father, flourished into a powerful composer blending the sounds of the Classical and Romantic periods.
Johannes Brahms was born on Tuesday 7th may 1833, in the city of Hamburg the birthplace also of Mendelssohn. Johann Brahms was himself a musician, and played the double bass for a time at the Karl Schultze Theatre, and later in the Stadttheater orchestra. In 1847 Johannes attended a good Burgerschule (citizens? school), and in 1848 a better, that of one Hoffmann. When he was eight
To begin, Lichtenberg was born in December 3, 1875 at Ohlau in the “Prussian province of Silesia” where he grew up a normal childhood, being the second oldest of five siblings and, of course, went to school. His town had a
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17th, 1706. He was the tenth son of a soap maker, Josiah Franklin. His mother Aliah Folger, which was a second wife of his father. His father had 17 children in all that he took care of. When he was 15, his brother started The English Courant, the first newspaper in Boston. Although, there were two more papers in the city prior to that. Benjamin wanted to start writing on his
Johannes Gutenberg is best known for his invention of the printing press, otherwise known as the Gutenberg Press, an innovative printing machine, which uses movable type. Gutenberg was a goldsmith and business from the mining town of Mainz, Southern Germany. He was born between 1394 and 1400, in Mainz, Germany to the Gensfleisch aristocrat family. As a teenager Gutenberg worked in a mint, where he gained experience in metalwork. He realised that if he could use cut blocks with his machine, he could make the printing process a lot faster.
He learned to read when he was four years old. His dad sent him to school to be a pastor. They quickly learned that a pastor just wasn't right for him so that's when he went into the printing business with his brother.
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17th, 1706. He was the tenth son of a soap maker, Josiah Franklin. His mother Aliah Folger, which was a second wife of his father. His father had 17 children in all that he took care of. When he was 15, his brother started The English Courant, the first newspaper in Boston. Although, there were two more papers in the city before then as well. Benjamin wanted to start writing on his own and he so he did. He would sneak letters into the print shop so that no one knew who was writing the pieces. Then all out of no where "BOOM," the pieces became
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts to his parents Josiah and Abiah Franklin on January 17, 1706. Josiah, Franklin’s father, was a soap maker and desired for his son to become a clergy. Unfortunately, clergymen needed an educational background that required years of schooling. Thankfully, Josiah always saw Franklin’s intelligence and love for reading. Therefore, Josiah sent Franklin to apprentice is older brother James who was a printer. At the age of twelve, Franklin would set type, compose pamphlets, and sell products on the streets. Three years later James Franklin created The New England Courant, the first newspaper in Boston. After the creation of the newspaper, Benjamin started realizing his potential. Due to this, much conflict arose between Benjamin and James. In 1723,
Benjamin Franklin was born in January 17, 1706 in Boston. His father was Josiah Franklin, a soap maker. His mother was Abiah Folger, Josiah's second wife. Looking at his early ages of growing up, his brother, James Franklin, would go on to create The New England Courant ,basically the first newspaper ever in Boston. Ben became an apprentice to his brother, but wasn't allowed to write for the paper. Going behind his brothers back, he used a name of a fictional widow, Silence Dogood.James Franklin eventually figured out that the writer's name was fake, but the quality of the work was exceptional. After writing sixteen letters, he would find himself confessing, but also alienating his brother by drawing the attention of the Couranteers, "as the
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Though Ben only had one year of schooling he was educated and loved to read and write. He worked as an apprentice to his brother, James, who was a printer, when he was fifteen years old. At the age of seventeen, Ben ran away and started a new life in Philadelphia as a result of arguments with James. Franklin found work as an apprentice printer and did so well the provincial governor of
Abraham Lincoln named after his murdered grandfather, was born in a log cabin in Hardon Kentucky. His parents were Thomas and Nancy Hank. They had two other children; Sara was the oldest, and later on dies while giving birth, along with the younger brother Thomas who died as a baby. Lincolns father was really hard on him and used to beat him and treat him like a slave. By law he had to work for his father until he was twenty-one years of age. On the other hand Lincoln’s mother was a strong women and encouraged him to read. He loved reading and his neighbors recalled him walking miles just to get a book. He taught himself how to write by the age of seven, using a key feathered pin and black berry ink.
There is a constant revolving door of people that come and go in an individual’s life. However the question stands: who influences you most? In Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, Siddhartha learns the best from his parents, Govinda, the Samanas, Buddha, Kamala, Kamaswami, Vasudeva, the son, and himself. Just as he had his many teachers, so do I.
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston. His father, Josiah Franklin, who was a tallow chandler, had seventeen children; Benjamin was the fifteenth child and the tenth son. His mother, Abiah Folger, was his father’s second wife. After he went to grammar school from age eight to ten, Benjamin started working at his father’s business. He didn’t like the work very much, however, and so he began to work for a cutler. When he was just thirteen, he became an apprentice to his brother James, who had just returned from England with a new printing press. Benjamin learned the printing trade, but in his spare time he tried to improve his education. In 1721 his brother
Johannes Gutenberg, a creator of the Renaissance, invented one of the greatest devices of all time, the printing press. Gutenberg was born in 1398 in Mainz, Germany to his parents, Friele and Else Gensfliesch. He also had two brothers. Not many people during Gutenberg’s time could read. But he was determined to be able to read. The only books back then were written by hand by monks and were very hard to come by. These books were also very expensive and would take a couple months to make. Because of this inconvenience, all books were preordered ahead of time so that the monks could have enough time to write them and get them to the person buying them when they needed the book. Gutenberg had a few other jobs before he became an
It can be said that all fiction is autobiographical in that no matter how different from the author’s life experience it may be, marks of their life can be found in any of their works and characters. One such example is Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, which is largely based on Hemingway’s own personal life experiences. Frederick Henry, the main character in the story, experiences many of the same situations that Hemingway lived out in his own life. Some of events and situations are exact, while others are less similar, and some have a completely different outcome all together.