"Francois Viete"
Francois Viete went to many places and did a lot of things. He lived for 63 years. In his life he got to do more or at least as much he wanted to do. He got to work for Kings, and also been married twice. Francois Viete was a very interesting. He also went to a few different countries.
Francois Viete was born in 1540 in Frontenay-le-Comte, France. It is now the province of Vendee. His father was Etenne Viete, who was a lawyer, and his mother was Marguerite Dupont. They both came from well-to-do families. He enjoyed all the available educational opportunities. He did preliminary studies in Frontenay, before moving to study law at the University of Poitiers. He earned his degree in 1560. He practiced it for four years, then abandoned it for a legal profession in 1564. He wanted to enter the employment of Antionette d'Aubeterre, as private tutor to her daughter, Catherine of Parthenay. He became a friend and was confidant of Catherine during the years he spent as her tutor. He remained her loyal and trusted adviser for the rest of his life (Parshall 1).
He took his teaching duties very seriously, while he was preparing lectures for his charge on variety an of topics about science. The first scientific work dates were all from this period. It involves topics, which would continue to occupy him throughout his life. In 1571, he began publication of his track. It was intended to form a preliminary mathematical part of a major study on the Ptolemaic astronomical model. He continued to embrace the Ptolemaic (Parshall 1).
The service to Catherine's noble family took him to La Rochelle, ultimately then to Paris. In 1573, he came under the eye of King Charles IX. He appointed him as counselor to the parliament of Brittany at Rennes. Then he remained in this post untill 1580 when he returned to Paris to take up offices of the Maitre de Requetes, also as a royal privy counselor. Form 1584 to 1589, political intrigue resulted both in free time, and then for the continuation of his mathematical studies, especially when they were evolving ideas on algebra (Parshall 1).
His education was at the University of Poitiers, where he took practice of law in his hometown. Soon he rose to prominence by the astute legal services to prominent people (Parshall 1).
Henry III called him back in 1589 to serve as a counselor to parliament.
At the age of eleven, the marquis was sent to school in Paris at the College du Plessis. He resided there for four years, learning various subject matter and proper etiquette that would enable him in change to become an educated and well-mannered noble. The curriculum included Latin, the study most emphasized in France at the time; and French rhetoric, which he greatly favored (Gottschalk 18, 19).
As inappropriate as it sounds, humor was used in an attempt to cheer up the soldiers. Humor is a way to temporarily relieve the pain or stress of an ongoing issue. Laughter, or even just smiling can have positive effects on the body. O’Brien explains in an interview with Patrick Hicks on why he used humor in his story as part of a coping mechanism. He stated, “It 's very important to me when I 'm writing tragedy to have humor in it, and vice-versa. The world is not uni-dimensional. It 's not all sad or all happy. I remember reading Man 's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl 's book, and Primo Levi on the concentration camps, and even their humor was a way of coping and dealing with the world--it 's called gallows humor. It was rampant in Vietnam (Hicks, 2005).” Being in Vietnam and fighting this whole war was unpleasant, so he used humor in hopes of making things somewhat
In 1798, his grandfather died, which gave him his title and his estate. He later attended Trinity College at Cambridge University and earned his master’s degree in July of 1808 (“Lord”). Aside from his schooling he was an excellent marksman, horseman, and swimmer (Gurney 72). Many thought he was “mad- bad- and dangerous to know” (Napierkowski 38). His personality was very out of the realm of normal for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in which he lived. He isolated himself from others’ opinions about his cruel, sexual eccentric...
Tim O’Brien’s short story, “The Things They Carried” shows how a soldier balances his life at war and his personal life. The story is centered around the death of a platoon member at war and the horrible conditions of Vietnam. An unnamed male narrator tells the short story by listing the items the soldiers carry while in the Vietnam war. The items that Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carries are tangible items and intangible items. By creating a list, the narrator can describe the experience of the Vietnam war but also prepare the narrator to discuss the more emotional issues. The narrator tells the story in third person point-of-view to distance himself from the story. By using third person point-of-view, it is easier for the narrator to tell the story
Henry Dobbins wore his girlfriend’s pantyhose around his neck because he claimed, “the pantyhose had the properties of a good-luck charm,” (111) and, even after his girlfriend dumps him, he still believes the pantyhose still symbolizes the good-luck charm in them. Jimmy Cross carried pictures of a girl named Martha even though they lived in two separate worlds. Once, Martha sent him a pebble that acted as a good –luck charm for Jimmy Cross. Each of the other soldiers also carried something with them as a good-luck charm, like Dave Jensen’s rabbits foot, and/or something that could relieve them from the terror of the war, such as Rat Kiley’s comic books. Each item symbolizes a way for them to cope throughout the war. Sometimes they had to come up with ways to deal with death. One old man that they killed they all, except O’Brien, made point to talk to corpse. These rituals over the dead had “formality to it, like a funeral without the sadness,” (215) and symbolizes a way for them to cope. Twenty years after the war, when Tim returned to Vietnam with his daughter, he went back to the shitfield and buried Kiowa’s moccasins back where it was found. By doing so, it was a way for O’Brien to come to term with everything that had happened. O’Brien had finally found a way to put the past in the past, saying that he “felt something go shut in my heart while something else swung open,” (179) and let go of what
O’Brien’s techniques of blurring the lines between fact and fiction were fair. The author wrote this story as a memoriam of his experiences in the Vietnam war. The author wrote what felt right to him, he wanted to honor the fallen soldiers and honor his time spent in the war. In fact I think him lacing truth and deceit together is as close of an experience that a non war veteran will get of the war. If the book was strictly factual it wouldn’t have the element of the psychological feelings of the war, just the physical aspect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 1712 in Geneva, Switzerland. His parents, Isaac and Suzanne Rousseau, were watchmakers. Rousseau inherited the duty of being a “citizen” from his father. He was very proud of this position, and often signed his name in his books “Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva”. Geneva was a Calvinist state ruled by John Calvin’s ideas of Protestantism. His mother died nine days after his birth, and his father was exiled after getting into an argument with an aristocrat. He wrote in memoir “Confessions”, “...my birth cost my mother her life, and was the first of my misfortunes.” He was sent to live with a pastor, who soon sent him away to become an apprentice of an engraver. He was not skilled at it, and soon became unhappy. With the help of Madame de Warens, a Roman Catholic converter, he ran away to Turin, Italy in 1728. He converted to Catholicism the same year. Madame de Warens helped to educate him, and found Rousseau multiple jobs. In the course of this time, he became a traveling musician, music copyist, teacher, and trained to be a Catholic priest. He also worked as a servant in a noble household. During this time, the mistress of the household, Madame de V...
Scientific Progress as Seen in Frankenstein In the novel 'Frankenstein', scientific progress is seen as immoral
At the beginning of the 17th century, France was a place of internal strife and bickering bureaucrats. The king, Louis XIII, had come to the throne in 1610 at the age of nine, leaving the running of the kingdom to his mother, Marie de Medici. One of her court favorites, Armand de Plessis de Richelieu, rose through the ranks, eventually gaining the title of Cardinal and becoming one of Louis’ key advisors and minister. His political manifesto, Political Testament, was a treatise for King Louis XIII that offered him advice mainly concerned with the management and subtle subjugation of the nobles and the behavior of a prince. Beneath all of the obeisant rhetoric, Richelieu was essentially writing a handbook for Louis XIII on how to survive as a king in a political landscape increasingly dominated by the aristocracy. Richelieu’s ideology shows a pragmatic attitude reminiscent of The Prince, a political work by 15th century Florentine politician Niccoló Machiavelli.
This slang language came about through many means including its adaption to the Vietnamese language, coded words, phrases, profanity and initials that represent war objects, and other means, and to represent or even hide their emotional views. For example, “They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness. Greased they'd say. Offed, lit up, zapped while zipping. It wasn't cruelty, just stage presence. They were actors. When someone died, it wasn't quite dying, because in a curious way it seemed scripted, and because they had their lines mostly memorized, irony mixed with tragedy, and because they called it by other names, as if to encyst and destroy the reality of death itself” (O’Brien 21). The soldiers were presented as actors, because they were afraid of dying but they were even more scared to show it. Tim O’Brien explains to the reader about how the soldiers would make conscious effort to joke about things to have a laugh for themselves. The men would now and then panic and have the desire to cry out for the misery to stop. They would make unguaranteed promises to God and their parents in hope that they would be source of survival. During the war, the soldiers makes comical references to the worse situation or things that could go wrong. Throughout the story one will find the soldiers seriously joking or even talking to themselves all in an effort to cope with the emotional burdens of
This was the beginning of many awards in his experiments to come. He was elected to the Royal Society on May 29, 1756. This is probably one of the most influential factors in his work and this is one way that his work was seen by people all over Europe and other parts of the world. Members of the Royal Society had their scientific works published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. (DOSB,129)
recognized as a writer. He became one of the most famous and well paid French
Emilie du Chatelet was not a conventional woman, given the time. Like many girls at the time she was educated at home. She valued her independence and wanted to marry someone who would value it as well. She married Marquise du Chatelet-Laumont in 1725. At the age of 27 she had her last child and went back to her study of mathematics. She wanted to join the discussion in salons, but was not admitted to join until she went dressed as a man. “Emilie’s interest in mathematics and science overlapped with her affairs of the heart.” She had a fling with one of her tutors, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertius. Her affair with Voltaire lasted until the end of her life.
... phone use causes young people to have less concentration and being less able to focus. The facts that have been stated in this research paper shows enough facts that cell phone use has a great effect on young people’s life. Sooner or later the cell phone use may become a major problem in school, so parents need to regulate all use of cell phones.
Mobile phone is a necessary part of everyones life especially teenagers. In the 20th generation, mobile phones have made our lives much easier and convenient. However, teenagers should limit their usage of mobile phones as along with its benefits it can also cause a lot of problems. Mobile phones cannot be ignored as they help us with our day to day work in life but the usage of them can be limited.using a mobile phone has both a good and a bad effect on a teenagers , it depends on how the person is using the device in the right way or the wrong way.