M.C. Escher occupies a unique spot among the most popular artists of the past century. While his contemporaries focused on breaking from traditional art and its emphasis on realism and beauty, Escher found his muse in symmetry and infinity. His attachment to geometric forms made him one of modernism’s most recognizable artists and his work remains as relevant as ever.
Psychologist, born in Susquhanna, Pa. He studied at Harvard, teaching there (1931-6, 1947-74). A leading behaviorist, he is a proponent of operant conditioning, and the inventor of the Skinner box for facilitating experimental observations.
Albert Bandura made significant contributions when in reference to studying behavior in humans. Some of his contributions include social cognitive theory, vicarious enforcement, extensive research on human behavior, with a significant finding in relation to children, self-efficacy, and the famous BoBo doll experiment. Bandura was Canadian born and his parents placed high expectations when it came to his education, Banduras first job was in the construction field, where he spent his days filling potholes, eventually bandura enrolled at The University of British Columbia where he carpooled with premed students and engineers, so he had to get to class pretty early. Bandura signed up for an introductory psychology course because it fit with his morning schedule while waiting for his English class to begin. Bandura eventually earned his graduate degree from The University of Iowa in 1952, which eventually led to him teaching at the University of Stanford. That was the start of his career pathway in becoming a social psychologist and contributing immensely to the field.
Gene Forrester narrates the novel by recalling his experiences at the Devon School. He tells the story in an uncomfortable and melancholy, tone describing how his jealousy and insecurity get the better of him. This resembles the song “Jealous Guy” by John Lennon as it refers to a man that puts down others as a way to compensate for his own imperfections. A lyric from the song that relates to Gene is “I was dreaming of the past and my heart was beating fast, I began to lose control,” due to his failure to compose himself in a jealous fit directed towards his best friend, Phineas for his athleticism and optimistic view of the world. The burst of emotion leads to the catastrophic and detrimental incident resulting in Phineas falling from a tree.
Oscar was born on 28 April,1908.His mother was Franziska luser and his father was Hans Schindler. He was their only child. He had two children named Emily Schlegel and Oscar Jr.Schlegel. He was married to Emilie Schindler. He was a nazi party member and while he was he saved jews for Hitler. He was killed Cardiovascular disease. He was 66 years old when he died. His wife was 93 when see died in 2001. He was buried at Mount Zion Roman Catholic Franciscan Cemetery. He saved many jews and he got notes from them. Which were just released and are on sale. He was a German industrialist. He saved them by employing them in ammunition and enamelware. He joined
The greater part a century after the death of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, scientists from numerous nations and from different controls started to express another enthusiasm for her, concentrating individually on her artworks, furniture and stage outline, and her educating in Theresienstadt, a ghetto set up by the Germans in Czechoslovakia.Friedl Dicker was born in Vienna on July 30, 1898, into a poor Jewish family. Absence of a mother and of parenthood turned into a focal injury of Friedl's life; she in the long run adjusted for it by turning into a mother for many youthful understudies in the Terezin ghetto.In 1915, after a course of photography and early encounters in a road manikin theater, Friedl joined the material bureau of the School of Art and Crafts.At Itten's school, Friedl met Franz Singer and Anny Wottitz, who both turned out to be long-term companions and colleagues.In a similar period, Friedl wound up noticeably dazzled by music and even took an amicability course in Arnold
1. What is J. M. Smucker Company’s corporate strategy? What common strategy elements are shared across its brands? Did it make sense for Smucker to expand its business lineup beyond jams, jellies, and preserves? Why or why not?
Sydney Schanberg was a New York newspaper reporter. He was station in Phnom Penh,Cambodia. Cambodia was in middle of a civil war with Khmer Rouge. Sydney became very close with a Cambodian journalist named Dith Pran. Bomb attacks seemed to be a daily encounter for the people of Cambodia. Two Khmer Rouge officers drag prisoners in public and blindfold them. After the prisoners were blindfolded, the officers shot them in the head. Sydney and Dith were caught and arrested for trying to take a picture of the execution. Soon after they were released.
After suffering from several strokes, Schwitters and Wantee moved into a house in Ambleside. During this time in Ambleside Schwitters received a grant from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The grant that Schwitters received was to be used for recreating his famous Merz constructions. A barn in Elterwater became Schwitters’ new project, and was given the name “Merzbarn”. Schwitters continuously worked on the Merzbarn until receiving his acceptance as a citizen of Brittan on January 7, 1948. Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters died the following day, on January 8, of pulmonary edema and myocarditis. He was buried at St Mary’s Church in Ambleside – later, in 1970, his body was moved to the Engesohde Cemetery in Hanover, Germany. “Schwitters died at the age of sixty, poverty-stricken and neglected, but with the knowledge that his work would one day be recognized as that of a genius.
David Schindler is an American/Canadian limnologist who has put great effort into studying inland waters, ensuring that these bodies of water remain safe for the ecosystem. Born in Fargo, North Dakota, he spent much of his childhood in his grandparents’ farm, surrounded by many lakes. For this reason, he gained great interest in fishing and studying freshwaters. He has made significant contributions to the field of limnology by helping identify detergent phosphates as major pollutants of lakes in the 1960s, determining that acid rain was the main cause of large fish deaths in the 1970s and 1980s, and pointing out the potential damage of oil sands to bodies of water.
Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher (1898-1972) was a Dutch graphics artist who specialized in many printmaking techniques, mainly lithographs as well as mezzotints. Like many famous artists such as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, and Holbein, M.C. Escher was left-handed. His trade was not limited to printmaking / graphics artist, he was also known for his book illustrations, tapestries, postage stamps as well as murals. What makes Escher’s works so intriguing is the mathematical nature that leaves the viewers in awe, looking for reason and ways that the pieces “work”. His work can be described as “meticulous realism with enigmatic optical illusions” (Encyclopædia Britannica However, a lot of his works focus on physical impossibility,
Many famous artists emerged from the renaissance, including artists such as da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian, and so on. An interesting thing to note about artists like these is that not many of them painted landscapes; they mostly painted religious, war, and mythological characters and scenes. However, there was one artist who showed a particular interest in landscape painting during this time, and is considered by many to be the “first landscape painter in the modern sense.” (“Albrecht Altdorfer”) That artist was a German man named Albrecht Altdorfer. He was an incredible painter (“Albrecht Altdorfer”) who left a considerable impact on the world of art, and deserves far more recognition
1868 to 1934 was the life span of German chemist who the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber-Bosch process, the method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen gases which he previously used to kill thousands of people. Haber is also considered the "father of chemical warfare" Fritz Haber is one of the most important and controversial scientists of the 20th century.
Kurt Hahn was born to a wealthy German industrialist and raised in the Jewish faith. At the age of eighteen or nineteen, Kurt got a severe sunstroke and it was during his recovery where he began to focus more of his studies on the educational system. Hahn completed schooling in both Germany and at Oxford, but as World War I started, he was told to go back to Germany. After World War I, he began to work on his educational theory due to all the devastation he witnessed in the war. During the Second World War, specifically in 1933, Hahn was exiled to the UK for speaking out against the Nazis.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German philosopher, poet, and dramatist was born in Marbach, Württemberg in 1759. From a young age Schiller proved to be very successful in Academia, and began writing plays while still attending military academy. Although talented, Schiller did not aspire to be a dramatist, in some of his personal memoirs he mentioned “I wanted only to be a clergyman-and have never got beyond the theatre!”(Pilling, 2005). In 1782 he was appointed theatre poet at the Mannheim Court Theatre, it was here where he produced the revolutionary Sturm und Drang drama The Robbers. Sturm und Drang was a period of German Literature that sprung up after the Enlightenment and before Weimar Classism; typically the works from this period revolve around a protagonist who is driven by revenge or material possessions, not by nobility and good motives, and achieves what he wants through aggressive action. This movement also rejected Enlightenment principles of rationality to support emotion and motivation of the human spirit. “The movement was distinguished also by the intensity with which it developed the theme of youthful genius in rebellion against accepted standards, by its enthusiasm for nature, and by its rejection of the rules of 18th-century neoclassical style” (Thomas, 1901). It is an almost sort of reckless attitude or view towards the established orders. These were young men who wanted to “overthrow the ‘reasonable’ compromises, the caution of the realists,