Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. ~John Wayne

John Wayne, the 20th century is one of the most popular movie actors, to this day remains a popular American icon.

John Wayne Winterset, Iowa, May 26, 1907 happened. He said that his first leading film role in The Big Trail (1930) received. Working with John Ford, he (1939) in the stagecoach got his next big break. He is the director Howard Hawks’ Red River (1948) worked with, when an actor as his career took another leap forward. Wayne died of cancer in 1979. He said his first Academy Award in 1969.

Actor John Wayne Winterset, Iowa, May 26th, 1907, was born Marion Robert Morrison. (Some sources also Marion Michael Morrison and Marion Mitchell Morrison as her list.) One of the 20th century’s most acclaimed actors, John Wayne remains to this day a popular American icon. He said that already he was born nearly 13 pounds, had a sizable presence.

Clyde and Mary “Molly”, the oldest of two children born to Morrison, Wayne around the age of seven years, Lancester, moved to California. Clyde failed in his quest to become a farmer after the family moved a few years later.

While there, in Glendale, California settlers, Wen your specific nickname “Duke” received. He was called a dog, and according to the official website of John Wayne, “Big Duke” pair “Little Duke” and is known as spent so much time with their pets. In high school, Wen your classes and various activities including student government and excelled in football. He also participated in several student theatrical productions.

University of Southern California (USC) to win a football scholarship, Wen he joined the Sigma Chi fraternity and continued to be a strong student started college in the fall of 1925. Unfortunately, two years later, an injury took him off the football field and finished his scholarship. In college, Wayne Harvard (1926), the gray appearing as a football player did some work as a film extra and Kick (1927) was dropped.

Out of school, Wayne an extra in the film industry and worked as a prop man. Mother Machree (1928) while working as an extra before he met director John Ford. The Big Trail (1930), the Wayne, thanks to director Raoul Walsh received his first leading role. Walsh often his now legendary screen name, John Wayne is credited with helping to create. Unfortunately, the Western was a box office dud.

For nearly a decade, Wayne worked in different studios for several B-movies, mostly westerns. Among his many roles, he also played the role of Sandy Saunders, a singing cowboy. During this time period, however, later on Wayne will serve as the basis for many popular characters, the personality of his man of action, started developing.

Working with Ford, he (1939) stagecoach got her next big break. Wayne marginal land on a dangerous journey through an unusual assortment of characters who joins Ringo Kid, an escaped robber, showed. During the visit, the child Dallas (Claire Trevor) name for a dance hall prostitute falls. Movie-goers and critics alike in the film well received by the seven Academy Award nominations, including one for direction of Ford was earned. Finally, the music for the Mitchell and Thomas took home awards for Actor in a Supporting Role.

With Ford and Michelle again, Wayne Long Voyage Home (1940) to become a Swedish sailor departed from his usual western roles. Film Eugene O’Neill drama adapted from a move to a consignment of explosives and a steamer ship’s crew had followed. With many positive reviews of the film earned several Academy Award nominations.

This time around, Wayne Marlene Dietrich, German actress and sex symbol known for several films made before. Two Gwen set out to seduce her, as a woman playing with a naval officer and seven sinners Dietrich (1940) appeared together. Wayne was married at the time but off-screen, they became romantically involved. In other cases, the rumors about Wayne, but Dietrich as much as their relationship was nothing. Their physical relationship ended after the pair remained good friends and two more films, Pittsburgh (1942) and failed (1942) starred.

Wen in the late 1940s as a producer started working behind the scenes. He produced the first film Angel and Badman (1947) was. Over the years, he’s John Wayne Productions, Wayne-Fellows Productions and produced by many different companies, including Batjac Productions, operated.

He is the director Howard Hawks’ Red River (1948) worked with, when Wayne’s career as an actor took another leap forward. Wayne provided with an opportunity western drama is not an actor, just to show his talent as an action hero. Stockman Tom Dunson playing conflicted, he took on the character of a profound sort. He deftly played by Montgomery Clift with his adopted son took his character’s slow decline and difficult relationship. Also around this time, Wen also with Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple, John Ford’s Fort Apache (1948) received praise for his work.

Taking on a war drama, Wayne him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, which had sand of Iwo Jima (1949), a strong performance given. He also appeared in Western Ford now considered classics plus two: a yellow ribbon with the Maureen O’Hara (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) was worn.

Wayne most notably perhaps, quiet man with several films O’Hara (1952) worked in. She is a local woman (Maureen O’Hara) fell in love with, where an American boxer playing with a bad reputation, his character moved to Ireland. Many critics in the film Wayne’s romantic leading role is considered the most convincing.

A well-known conservative and anticommunist, Wen his personal beliefs and his professional life in 1952 at Big Jim McLain merged. He worked to root out communists in all aspects of public life, which the US House Un-American Activities Committee in the role of an investigator working for. Off screen, Wen Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals has played a major role and even for a time served as its president. The organization wanted to stop the communists from working in the film industry, and other members including Gary Cooper and Ronald Reagan was a group of conservatives.

In 1956, Wayne and Ford western, searchers have starred in, and then morally dubious as Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards showed some dramatic range. He said that shortly after the Rio Bravo Howard Hawks (1959) with the reteamed. Playing a local sheriff, a powerful rancher Wayne’s character and to free his jailed brother who must face off against his henchmen. Dean Martin and Angie Dickinson were unusual cast.

Wayne Alamo (1960), his directorial debut with. Davy Crockett as a film, for his efforts both on and off the screen received decidedly mixed reviews. Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Lee Marvin with Liberty Valance (1962), directed by John Ford shot and the man received a very warm welcome. Some other notable films of the period, The Longest Day (1962) and How the West Won (1962) include the amount. Continuing to work faster, Gwen refused to let the disease slow him down. He successfully to defeat disease battled lung cancer in 1964, Wayne was removed a lung and several ribs.

In the later part of the 1960s, Wayne had some great successes and failures. He was well received, the El Dorado (1967) starred with Robert Mitchum. The next year, Wen again professional and pro-Vietnam war film The Green Berets (1968) mixed with the political. He has directed and produced to be worn as well as heavy-handed and was derided by critics, who starred in the film. Seen by many as a piece of propaganda, the film still did well at the box office.

This time around, Wayne continued to espouse his conservative political views. He said that his 1966 bid for governor of California as well as friend Ronald Reagan in his 1970 re-election effort support. In 1976, Wen Reagan to become the Republican presidential candidate’s first attempt recorded for radio ads.

Wayne True Grit (1969) his first Academy Award for Best Actor. He Mattie (Kim Darby) to name a young woman track down her father’s killer which helps Rooster Cogburn, a drunken eye stripe and lawman, played. A young couple joined Glen Campbell on his mission. Rounding out the cast, Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper trio had to defeat the bad guys were in the middle of. Katharine Hepburn, Rooster Cogburn (1975) with the sequel, critical acclaim or fail to attract much of an audience.

His last film Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Lauren Bacall with Shootist (1976), an aging gunfighter dying of cancer showed. His character, John Bernard Books, peace is hoped to spend his final days, but during the last encounter was included. In 1978, Wen life being diagnosed with colon cancer with art imitated.

Wayne California, Los Angeles, June 11, 1979 passed away. He said his three marriages, two of her seven children had survived. 1933-1945 Josephine Saenz during her marriage, the couple has four children, two daughters and two sons Michael and Patrick was Antonia and Melinda. Michael and Patrick, both as an actor and a producer Michael Patrick followed in their father’s footsteps. His third wife, Pilar, with palette, she Ethan, Aissa, and Marissa had three more children. Ethan has worked as an actor over the years.

Shortly before his death, the US Congress, the Congressional Gold Medal for Gwen approved. In the same month as the Duke’s death in 1980, was given to his family, Orange County Airport was renamed after him. He later was featured on a stamp in 1990 and again in 2004 and in 2007 was inducted into the California Hall of Fame.

In honor of his charitable work in the fight against cancer, Wayne Children Organization for several cancer-related programs and Santa Monica, California, John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John’s Health Center provides support for the John Wayne Cancer Foundation in 1985 installation.

Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love.~Bradley Whitford

Wheat Bradley Ford (October 10, 1959) is an American film and television actor born. The NBC television drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip in Fox police search-comedy on The West Wing, Danny Tripp, Dan Stark at the White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman, played good guys, Timothy Carter, who was a character in the movie Billy Madison Red John Mentalist CBS series, and is believed to be the antagonist Eric Gordon.

Whitford outstanding award in 2001, the West Wing Actor in a Drama Series for his role from 2001 to 2003 for three consecutive Emmy awards, was nominated for the role by her three Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Performance There have been an actor in a supporting role. He said a second Emmy in 2015 for his role in the transparent award.

November 2009, was an occasional columnist for The Huffington Post

Whitford Madison, Wisconsin, Genevieve Louis (née Smith) and George Van Norman’s son was born in Whitford. He was the younger brother of his roommate future castmate Richard Schiff, where University (BA 1981), in English and theater majored 1977 graduated from East High School in Madison. Whitford also includes actor Thomas Gibson, a member of the Group of 14 (1981-1985) attended the Juilliard School’s Drama Division.

Whitford first appeared on television in 1985 in an episode of the equalizer. His film debut was in the 1986 film room. The Aaron Sorkin drama written a few good men, Lieutenant Jack Ross is playing his Broadway theater debut in 1990 (a few months later, Lt. Daniel Kaffee followed in the lead role). The Whitford and Sorkin was the beginning of a working relationship between a recurring. Whitford March 1995 episode of the Emmy Award-winning “Love’s Labor Lost” in a guest role on ER.

Whitford in 1999 for his role in the premiere of the show with Josh Lyman as Sorkin has joined the cast of The West Wing, for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, he won an Emmy Award in 2001. Whitford also (the sixth and seventh session in “internal displacement” in “faith-based initiatives”) wrote two episodes of the series. West Wing after the end of May 2006, Whitford Danny trip after playing the role of Aaron Sorkin series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip appeared. He appeared in July 2008 in the British drama on BBC burn.

He April 19, 2008. In the preview began and he left the show in September 2008, May 4, 2008 which opened on Broadway in Boeing-Boeing acted on, and succeeded in the role by Greg Germann was. Cabin in the woods, was filmed in 2009 but not released until April 2012 in 2010, Whitford canceled Fox TV series Colin Hanks starred opposite good man Dan Stark as Joss Whedon / Drew Goddard starred in the horror film.

In 2011, a man combatting Whitford guest stupor as the United States acted in plain view on the network. He said that Patrick Jane, Red John’s long-standing demands for slavery and temptation as a minion of Mentalist season finale of the three appeared. As a lawyer in Los Angeles: He also appeared on Law & Order. September 15, 2011 at the American Foundation for Equal Rights, in partnership with Broadway Impact, only 8, federal chronicling the historic trial staged reading of a new play for a night including full cast and roles Whitford announced in 2013 California Proposition 8 legal challenge, Whitford 2015 Whitford as transparent Amazon’s recent series appeared early in the season and will be a guest star in the ABC drama canceled after the castle was in the ABC comedy trophy wife Pete Harrison Jeffrey Tambor played a recurring role opposite a dressing trader.

Lois on Malcolm in the Middle Whitford best known for her role as actress Jane Kaczmarek, was married to fellow Wisconsin native. San Marino with their three children, lived in California, Frances Genevieve (b. October 31, 1997), George Edward (b. December 23, 1999), and Mary Louisa (b. November 25, 2002). In 2007, the family 2008 Chrysler Town & Country van appeared in the magazine ads. June 19, 2009, the couple filed for divorce after 16 years of marriage they have been announced. They were seen together in public for the last time one was starring Kaczmarek, a Los Angeles production of The House of Blue Leaves, which at the opening was in September 2008.

Whitford is a political liberal and has appeared many times on Real Time with Bill Maher. He once Janeane Garofalo on Air America Radio co-host of the majority report, and made an appearance on Al Franken Show Party Album.

Then on NBC television drama series The West Wing of the White House deputy chief of staff Josh Lyman was playing, November 2004 general election, Whitford, during the run-up to support President George W. said that a satirical video made re-election, but for which the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy Bush condemned.

On February 26, 2011, Whitford Governor Scott Walker’s controversial budget bill in Madison, Wisconsin in opposition (his birthplace), spoke in one of several protests.

During the run-up to the November 2012 general election, Whitford and courage founder and chair of the campaign, Rick James, “is actually happening and who is really behind California Proposition 30 and Proposition 32.” explained a video by a margin of 54-46 percent with the visible video was approved by California voters on Prop 32 Proposition 30 “no” on Prop 30 “yes” votes for and encouraged the audience. Proposition 32 was defeated by a margin of 56-44 percent.

During the run-up to the November 2014 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Governor Mary Burke Whitford campaign in support of the Democratic candidate visited the campuses of the University of Wisconsin System.

In May 2007, Whitford in 2007 as champions of justice, justice, a non-profit organization was honored by the Alliance. He said that as of 2012 at Princeton University Class Day in June 2007, was the main speaker, Whitford, his alma mater, the University serves on the Board of Trustees.

Deserve your dream. ~Octavio Paz

Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

Octavio Paz was born into a family of writers on March 31, 1914, in Mexico City. In 1933, he published his first collection of poems, Luna silvestre. Several years later, he founded and edited a literary magazine called Taller. Over his lifetime, he produced more than 20 books and poetry collections and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. He died on April 19, 1998.

Poet, essayist. Born on March 31, 1914, in Mexico City, Mexico. Paz was exposed to literature at an early age thanks to his grandfather’s library. The son and grandson of political journalists, he followed the family tradition and became a writer, publishing his first volume of poetry, Luna silvestre, in 1933. Paz was also a skilled editor and helped found a literary magazine called Taller in 1938. He entered the diplomatic service in 1945 and was later appointed the Mexican ambassador to India, a position he held from 1962 to 1968. Paz resigned in protest over the Mexican government’s handling of student demonstrations during the Olympic Games.

Adept at both poetry and prose, Paz moved back and forth between the two genres throughout his career. Poetry, such as Piedra de sol (1957), and critical and analytical works, such as El Laberinto de la soledad (1950) cemented his reputation as a master of language and a keen intellect. He produced more than 30 books and poetry collections in his lifetime. Paz received numerous awards for his work, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. He died on April 19, 1998, in Mexico City, Mexico.

A 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. ~Joyce Meyer

Joyce Meyer (born Pauline Joyce Hutchison, June 4 1943) is a charismatic Christian author and speaker. Mayer and her husband Dave have four grown children, and St. Louis, Missouri live outside. His ministry Fenton, Missouri is headquartered near St. Louis suburb.
Soon after her birth her father mayor to fight in World War II went into force in 1943, Pauline Joyce Hutchison was born in South St. Louis. He said he began sexually abusing her on her return that is said in the interview, and in his meetings have discussed about the experience.
St. Louis O’Fallon Technical High school graduate, he shortly after her senior year of high school, a part-time car salesman married. The marriage lasted five years. She and her husband often betrayed her salary from her employer that has persuaded the Czech steal. They go on a vacation to California, used the money for. He states that he returned the money years later. After her divorce, Mayor Dave Meyer, an engineering draftsman before meeting local bars frequently. They were married on January 7, 1967.
The mayor also said that he heard God calling her name, said that while driving to work one morning in 1976 he was praying intensely that report. He was born again at the age of nine, but her grief drove him was his deep faith. He said he did that night “liquid full of love,” a beauty appointment came home later that day and “was drunk with the Spirit of God” is to say that the local bowling alley. … I did not have any knowledge. I did not go to church. And I had a lot of problems, and I kind of need someone to help me. And I think that does not seem right that they’ve got so many problems, want to serve God, people sometimes think they do not work right and they do not behave correctly, they almost them by Someone needs to take the hand will help lead them through the early years and …
Mayor of St. Louis, in short, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church of our Savior in the gathering were members. Early one morning at a local cafeteria began leading Bible classes and life Christian Center, Fenton has been active in a charismatic church. In a few years, the mayor was associate pastor of the church. As a Bible teacher at church, largely because of their popularity to become one of the leading charismatic churches. He was also a St. Louis radio station began broadcasting a daily 15-minute radio broadcast.
In 1985, Meyer resigned as associate pastor and his ministry established initially called, “Life in the Word.” From Chicago to Kansas City on six other stations began broadcasting his radio show.
In 1993, her husband Dave suggested they start a television ministry. Initially called Enjoying everyday life now, superstation WGN-TV in Chicago and Black Entertainment Television (BET), the program broadcast on the air is still.
In 2002, mainstream publishers Hachette Book Group independently released a list of books for her backlist rights mayor paid $ 10 million.
New Life Evangelistic Center in 2004 by the Rev. Larry Rice KNLC Christian television station in St. Louis, mayor dropped the programming. According to Rice, often “Gospel” Going beyond a longstanding supporter of the mayor, the mayor’s “excessive lifestyle” and his teachings were the impetus for the program to cancel.
In 2005, Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America” ​​as Mayor ranked 17th.
Mayer with her audience to share her own shortcomings and stereotyped behaviors church taking playful jabs, jokingly speaks. Chanting a particular crowd favorite, he goes into a robot simulated a stiff armed, the “robot” is routine, “What about me? What about me?”
According to Joyce Meyer Ministries, Mayor Life Christian University in Tampa, Florida with a prohibited organization earned her doctorate. Mayor Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from an accredited institution is given.
Owns several houses and a private plane (a Gulfstream G-IV at present) who travels Meyer, to live an extreme lifestyle has been criticized by some of his peers. That he does not have to defend his spending habits that responded, “… for us to be blessed there is no need to apologize for.” Meyer commented, “You can be a businessman here in St. Louis, and people feel more and more it is amazing … but you’re a preacher, then suddenly it becomes a problem . ”
In November 2003, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Meyer “a four-part special report detailing $ 10 million corporate jet published, her husband’s $ 107,000 silver-gray Mercedes sedan, her home and her four children for $ 2,000,000 and $ 2 million The dollar value homes, $ 30,000 malachite round table, a $ 23,000 marble-topped antique commode, a $ 14,000 custom office bookcase, an “a”, and $ 5.7 million worth of furniture, artwork, glassware, and The latest equipment and machinery, “equipped with a $ 20 million headquarters,” all paid for by the Ministry – $ 7,000 Stations of the Cross in Dresden porcelain, a $ 6,300 eagle statue on a pedestal, made of silver and Eagle among many other precious objects “, $ 5000, and $ 1,000 to $ 4,000 for each purchased several paintings purchased. The article investigates the mayor and his family to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to call on Wall Watchers (a Christian nonprofit watchdog group) has led to.
His life and ministry for an IRS investigation timer after adverse publicity about the request, the mayor he (her husband also received $ 450,000) was received from Joyce Meyer Ministries $ 900,000 per year and a reduction in salary Plans announced in 2004, instead of taking personally donated back to the mayor before the Joyce Meyer Ministries, which are more out of royalties from book sales. His conferences, catalogs, websites, and television programs sold through royalties from books to donate to their ministry continues like this, he said that Walmart Amazon.com, and through retail outlets such as bookstores The ministry retains royalties on books sold out. “The net effect of all this, a Joyce Meyer has increased greatly and the individual compensation for JMM lower revenue was most likely,” the ministry clock, “notes.” In an article in the St. Louis Business Journal, public relations director of the Mayor Mark Sutherland, the new income “way up” that confirmed his previous level. Meyer Joyce Meyer Ministries do not have relatives and submitted to a voluntary annual audit, which is a majority of the board, to maintain transparency in financial transactions to publish its annual report, has made a commitment says. December 18, 2008 to watch the ministry for financial transparency a “C” grade (71-80 points) received.
Joyce Meyer Ministries Senator Chuck Grassley tax-exempt status of religious organizations in the United States Senate investigated by the investigation was one of six. Mayor cosmetic surgery and foreign bank accounts and, as previously mentioned $ 23,000 commode citing such costs for such things as asking for a detailed account, any personal profit from financial donations the investigation sought to determine. Meyer Ministry Grassley Grassley also answer his November 29 December 6, 2007 available information, to note that in a chest of drawers commode mayor requested. The 150,000 square feet of Meyer Ministries 2001 commode price assigned by a “misleading price,” said bought (14,000 m 2) that $ 262,000 was needed to put the headquarters of the items was part of a large lot that writes agent sales and apologized for the ‘typical’ values ​​assigned ‘not paying close attention to put on pieces. “Joyce Meyer Ministries on November 9 for customers of its e-mail list responded with a newspaper, 2007. The organization in 2006, its total expenditure for ministry outreach and program services” 82 percent of the cost, stressed that, in its annual financial report referred to in the independent accounting firm Stanfield and O’Dell, as verified by LLP, to reach people with the gospel of Jesus Christ. “We also send you [Joyce Meyer Ministries] IRC Section 501 (c) as an organization exempt from federal income tax under the set that continues to qualify,” said the Internal Revenue Service October 10, 2007 The letter quoted (3). “The same information was also posted to the website of the Ministry. Joyce Meyer ministries for financial records comply with the request of the Senate, was one of the two ministries. It also made commitments for future financial transparency. Neither party has any wrongdoing is found.
In 2009, Joyce Meyer Ministries Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) was recognized. In a declaration on March 12, 2009, ECFA Joyce Meyer Ministries and Oral Roberts University, met their needs, said “financial accountability, which includes the ministries ‘responsible management’, transparency, board governance and fund-raising practices.”

“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.” ~Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel (11 जनवरी 1907-23 दिसंबर, 1972) is a Polish-American rabbi and prominent Jewish theologians and philosophers of the 20th century was one of the Jews. Heschel, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, a professor of Jewish mysticism, Jewish philosophy widely read author of books and was active in the American civil rights movement.

Abraham Joshua Heschel Reizel Perlow Moshe Mordechai and in 1907 as the youngest of six children, was born. On both sides of his family was descended from preeminent European rabbi. His paternal great-grandfather and namesake was Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of apartments in the present-day Poland. His mother was a descendant of Avraham Yehoshua Heshel and other Hasidic dynasties. His siblings Sarah, Dvora Miriam, Esther Sima, Gittel, and were Jacob. Moshe Abraham was nine when his father died of influenza in 1916.

Orthodox rabbinical ordination semicha after studying for a traditional Yeshiva education, Heschel Hochschule Berlin University and pursued his doctorate in a liberal rabbinic ordination Judentums Wissenschaft des fur die. Chanoch Albeck, ISMAR Elbogen, Julius Guttmann, and Leo Baeck: There he studied under some of the finest Jewish educators. Heschel later taught Talmud there. He said that a group of Jewish poetry, war Vilna joined, and in 1933, the volume of Yiddish poems, published Der Shem Hamefoyrosh: his father dedicated Mentsch.

Heschel, a Jewish family in Frankfurt, was living in a rented room in the house since late October 1938, he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Poland. The Jewish Institute for Studies in Warsaw lecturing on Jewish philosophy and Torah spent ten months. Six weeks before the German invasion of Poland, Heschel Jewish scholars in Europe was working to get the visa, which Julian Morgenstern, president of Hebrew Union College, with the help of left Warsaw to London.

Heschel’s sister Esther was killed in a German bombing. His mother and two other sisters murdered by the Nazis, Gittel and Devorah, who died in Nazi concentration camps. He said that Germany, Austria or never returned to Poland. He once wrote, “I, Poland or Germany, for each stone must go, then every tree contempt, hatred, will remind me of murder, child of man asphyxiated, burned alive, killing the mothers.”

Heschel said that for five years in Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College (Huc), the main seminary of Reform Judaism served on the faculty of New York City in March 1940 arrived. In 1946 the New York City, the main seminary of Conservative Judaism’s Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) took a place. Jewish until his death in 1972. He served as professor of ethics and mysticism is.

Heschel Los Angeles, December 10, 1946 Sylvia Strauss, a concert pianist, married. His daughter, Susannah Heschel, a Jewish scholar in her own right has become. Heschel Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University’s papers are held in.

Heschel medieval Jewish philosophy, Kabbalah, and Hasidism, including studies on many aspects of Jewish thought, explicated. According to some scholars, he was more interested in spirituality than the critical text study; The latter was a feature of many scholars at JTS. He was not a graduate assistant for many years and graduate academic programs, mainly in education to teach school or rabbinical school was gone. Heschel was friendly enough with his colleague Mordecai Kaplan. They differ in their approach to Judaism, they had a very cordial relationship and periodically visited each other’s homes.

Heschel teachings of the Hebrew prophets, a call for social work in the United States were considered and African Americans’ civil rights and against the Vietnam War, worked.

He also specifically said, “All halakhism”, or rabbinic tradition to ignore the religious dimension of the illegal behavior consistent criticism of what is called a special attention.

Heschel the most influential work of man is not alone, God man, the Sabbath, and the prophets are looking for a widely read scribes. As representatives of American Jews in the Second Vatican Council, Heschel eliminate or humiliate Jews, or sent to conversion to Christianity is a hope that after his death to modify the route of the Roman Catholic Church persuaded. His religious works, a fundamental human impulse religious experience, not just a Jew argued that one. He said that no religious community can claim a monopoly on religious truth that is considered.

Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath and festive nature of the work. Judaism is a religion of time of the work, not the space that lies in research, and that the Sabbath is a symbol of sacred time.

Man is not alone: ​​a philosophy of religion to the people of God can understand the views of Heschel. Judaism sees God as being very different from humans, so a person ineffable with Heschel Judaism teaches that one may encounter that explores ways. A recurring theme in the work experience of the Divine Presence is when people think that radical amazement. Heschel doubt and faith goes on to explore the problems; What Judaism means to preach that God is one; The essence of the problem of humanity and human needs; Judaism in general and in particular the definition of religion; And the human yearning for spirituality. The Jewish religion is a pattern for life, as is his idea.

Man looking for God: Judaism, a companion volume to a philosophy of man is not alone. Heschel thought of this book is the belief that, in the discussion about the nature of religious thought, and how faith in believer produces reactions. He said that we receive in return is that people can seek ways of God’s presence, and discusses radical amazement. He criticized the worship of nature provides; We can consider God that humanity’s spiritual loneliness, and his view of humanity’s quest to be in a study. The first section of the Jews as a chosen people end up with a study. Section idea of ​​revelation, and what it means to be a prophet with the two related. Section as opposed to a process, as a phenomenon gives us his view of revelation. It is related to the commitment of Israel to God. Section three of Judaism as a religious nature must understand how to discuss your idea. Jewish law he sees as adding too many restrictions warns against rabbis and the discussions (without the law) only rejects the idea that faith alone is sufficient, however. He spirituality and love, Kavanah (intended) mitzvot need to correlate the performance of the importance of complying with the rituals discussed. He engaged in a discussion of religious behaviorism, when people strive to comply with the law outside, but ignore the importance of inner devotion.

This work was awarded his Ph.D. Starting out as he later expanded and translated into English, the thesis in German. Originally published in a two-volume edition, this work is the study of the books of the Hebrew prophets. It covers his life and his mission is set in the historical context, the essence of his work, and his mental condition is discussed. The Heschel in his theology will become a central idea to say: Prophecy (and eventually, Jewish) as anthropomorphic view of God is not understood that the best (God takes human form), but God human anthropopathic -That but as emotions.

Abraham Joshua Heschel in his book Prophets than other similar figures describe unique aspect of the Jewish prophets. Heschel other countries, according to the prophets and their gods will attempt to discover the future of humanity turning towards God the Hebrew prophets theotropism- what he calls his experience featuring. Heschel that his country abandoned him God’s wrath and grief of the “goddess of compassion” as the Hebrew prophets of the receiver logic to the scene. They silence the voice of God for the poor and oppressed to remind his audience as in this scene, so do not talk to the prophet of God.

He writes:

Prediction for God in the world profane riches, plundered the poor, have a voice that is the voice of silent suffering. It is a form of living, God and man is a crossing point. In the words of the prophet of God is furious.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel, Nabi Chaudhary. 1

Several be his masterwork (generations in the mirror of heaven Torah) Heschel the Torah minutes HaShamayim BeAspaklariya Shel HaDorot, consider. halakha (Jewish law.) The nature of the Torah, God’s revelation about the Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash explores the ideas of the rabbis, as opposed to the three volumes of this work, a study of classical rabbinic theology and aggadah Are mankind, prediction, and expansion of the Jews and to understand these core Jewish texts written the way the vaccine is used. In this work, Heschel Jewish theology criteria for the two major world views as the 2nd century sages Rabbis Akiva and Ishmael ben Elisha Ben-Yosef’s views

Soncino Press by two Hebrew versions were published during his lifetime, and the third Hebrew volume was published posthumously in 1990 by JTS Press. Notes, essays and appendices with all three segments, with an English translation, translation and Rabbi Gordon Tucker, entitled Heavenly Torah was edited by: as refracted through the generations. This in itself could be the subject of intensive study and analysis, and beyond the world of Judaism in the relationship between God and man, and provides insight for all monotheism.

Heschel Holy Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD after the destruction predicted the existence of Judaism, in the original Hebrew, wrote a series of articles. The essay was translated into English and published as prophetic inspiration was the Prophetic: Maimonides and others by the Judaica publisher Ktav.

Publisher of the book states, “the standard Jewish view of the ancient prophets has ended with the prediction, somewhere in the early Second Temple era. Heschel. This view is not entirely correct to believe in the possibility of predicting continued inspiration is performed, and its actual occurrence in much of the Middle Ages, and even in modern times appear. Middle Ages article originally appeared in Hebrew in two long predicted Heschel’s work on motivation. He later was possible to predict the motivation is focused on the idea that in the Talmudic times, and, in fact, Geonim and beyond the Maimonides, at various times and in various schools had taken place. ”

Four schools in New York City, Northridge, California, Agoura Hills, California, and Toronto, Canada’s Upper West Side, Heschel was nominated for. In 2009, a highway in Missouri to a neo-Nazi group “Adopt-A-Highway” plan as part of a clean stretch of highway in Springfield, Missouri area after “Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel Highway” was named. Heschel’s daughter, Susannah, his father’s name in this context has objected to the adoption.

“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” ~Gordon B . Hinckley

Gordon Bitner Hinckley (June 23, 1910 – January 27, 2008) until his death on March 12, 1995 Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), the 15th President of the Church who served as a religious leader and author. A prophet by church members, seer, and revelator considered, Hinckley presided over the church in its history was the oldest person.

Hinckley’s presidency than half of the existing temples Nauvoo Illinois Temple reconstruction and building of 21,000-seat conference center is being built under the supervision of his leadership.He with more than the construction of temples, famous for was. During his tenure, was released and Perpetual Education Fund “Proclamation on the Family ‘was established. At the time of his death, nearly one-third of the membership of the church led by Hinckley joined the Church.

Hinckley was awarded ten honorary doctorate degrees, and in 2004, the George W. Bush. Bush was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Hinckley also America’s highest award, the Silver Buffalo received the Boy Scouts, and the trustee / education served as chairman of the church board. Hinckley has died of natural causes on January 27, 2008, and was survived by her five children. His wife, Marjorie Pay, was president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the more important thing is, first counselor in the First Presidency had served as the Thomas S. Monson, was succeeded as president of the church, and died in 2004; Therefore, according to LDS doctrine and practice, Monson anticipated successor to Hinckley said.

Latter-day Saints a muiti generational Hinckley and Ada Bitner Hinckley prominent LDS writer and educator Bryant S. Hinckley, to Salt Lake City, Utah, was born. He said he grew up in East Millcreek farm in a residential high school in 1928 graduated from LDS. His home library almost literary, philosophical and historical works contained a thousand volumes. Hinckley was known for his optimism and plain speaking. Hinckley, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English, attended the University of Utah, and ancient languages ​​minored. He studied Latin and ancient Greek could read. Hinckley LDS Church, depression era, an unusual occurrence for Latter-day Saints has become a missionary. He said later he would write the words to an LDS hymn in London from 1933 to 1935 served in the British Mission. 135, “my redeemer lives”.

Hinckley taught in both Berlin and Paris, including the European continent in 1935 after completing a short trip back to the United States. The First Presidency of the Church to fulfill its mission with the President, Joseph F. Merrill had a job and better materials that are made available to the missionaries for conversion was requested. As a result of this meeting, Hinckley of the Church Radio, Publicity and missionary literature committee (the College as a journalist had received schooling) was employed as the executive secretary. Hinckley’s responsibilities fledgling church era of radio broadcasting development and use of new communication technologies are included. Starting in 1937, he worked at the Sunday School General Board. After World War II, Hinckley’s missionary church served as executive secretary of the committee. He is also the Church, Thomas S. Monson are working with the touch of Deseret Book, Deseret Book served as the church’s liaison. [8] At various times, especially at the end of 1940, Hinckley also a journalist for the Church News, a publication of The Deseret News was.

In the 1950s, Swiss Hinckley introduced temple ordinances in the temple was part of a committee that considered how to. The need to provide them in at least 10 languages ​​existed when the concern was how this could be done; Eventually a film version of concern endowment was solved through the use. Hinckley in journalism and public relations, increasing media coverage it has received in the background during a time when the church was ready to head with him.

Salt Lake Temple – On April 29, 1937, Marjorie Pay Hinckley (April 6, 2004 November 23, 1911) married. They are Richard G. Hinckley, since 2005, a general authority of the LDS Church, and Virginia Hinckley Pearce, general president of the Church, a former member of the Young Women organization, including five children.

One of his daughters and Kathleen Hinckley Barnes Walker, Virginia [citation needed] with the co-author of many books, and ran an events company. Her first husband, Alan Barnes, died in 2001 and in 2004 she married M. Richard Walker. Walker, president of the Salt Lake Temple and served for three years as matron and Preston in 2010, England began the missionary training center headed.

Hinckley’s second son, Clark, also Spain Barcelona Mission of the Church (2009-2012) as president, stake president has served in leadership positions, including the Church, and which will be dedicated in December Tijuana, Mexico, Temple, will serve as Chairman of 2015.

In 1958, Hinckley of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is currently in the closed position of assistant general became a church. In September 1961 he became inspired to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He Hugh B. Brown, a vacancy created by David O. McKay in the First Presidency as a third counselor added full.

On July 23, 1981, Hinckley became a counselor in the First Presidency. As the 1980s progressed, the Church President Spencer W. Kimball and his aging advisers, N. Eldon Tanner and Marion G. Romney of the First Presidency Hinckley’s health led to the healthy members. Tanner died in 1982, Romney succeeded him as first counselor and Hinckley succeeded Romney as second counselor. Kimball and Romney because of ill health, Hinckley First Presidency over responsibility for day-to-day affairs had increased.

Mark Hofmann forgeries documents, bombings, and the investigation took place during this time. In addition to Hoffman forged documents, Stowell forgery in gold appeared to implicate Joseph Smith excavation was purchased by the Church under the direction of Hinckley. Two years later, Hofmann initiated by media inquiries, the document is released to scholars for study and was determined to be a forgery.

Kimball died in November 1985 of the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, which was Ezra Taft Benson, as the second counselor in the twelve Thomas S. Monson President of the Church as the first counselor and named Hinckley, has become. For many years, the first three members of the Presidency were able to perform their duties. In the 1990s, however, Benson Benson died in 1994, long before many of the duties of the Presidency to carry out the Hinckley and Monson have removed him from leaving the public scene that developed serious health problems.

After the death of Benson and Howard W. Hunter became President Hinckley and Monson as counselors in the First Presidency maintained. At the same time, Hinckley became President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on the basis of seniority.

Hunter died nine months after the presidency, Hinckley November 2, 2006 March 12, 1995, the 84-year-old succeeded to the presidency of the Church, in Hinckley, the oldest LDS Church President David O. McKay to be Cross history.

Hinckley was known to accelerate the construction of temples. He became president of the church had 47 operating temples; At the time of his death, convention centers and other important construction projects, including the construction of extensive repairs, inspections under Hinckley dedicated or rededicated, 14 others had been announced or under construction.Hinckley, of which two-thirds More than 124 were there Salt Lake residence.

On September 23, 1995, Hinckley, “Family: A Proclamation to the World” is released, the First Presidency and Twelve.In February 1996, prepared by the family of church membership, quorum and beliefs about the sanctity of marriage and to advocate a statement the United States In countries other than the United States of America in 1996 at the LDS Church during a block by Mike Wallace of Hinckley saw a 60 Minutes interview broadcast cross. In 1998, Hinckley was a guest on CNN’s Larry King Live. Hinckley until his death, Wallace and maintained a friendship with the king.

In November 2000, Hinckley spoke to the youth of the church is named, the work gave them six symptoms “is Six,” who were the first (prayer Be polite, be true, be clean, Be smart, be thankful) stand for something in his New York Times bestseller was introduced and subsequently be expanded on in the way.

March 31, 2001, Hinckley Perpetual Education Fund, that provides loans to students in developing countries announced the creation of an endowment. On October 22, 2002, Brigham Young University in Rexburg Idaho Hinckley Gordon B. Hinckley Building, Idaho, attended the dedication. The first building in Idaho BYU- a living church then had to be nominated for president.

In April 2003, Hinckley ongoing war in Afghanistan and had started just two weeks ago, which is addressed to the Iraq war, that gave a sermon. He said, “[f] urthermore, adding” We all are under the direction of their national leaders as citizens. They usually greater than those used for political and military intelligence, said, “We are a freedom-loving people to defend freedom wherever it is threatened is committed.” He It also noted that “[I] may also impede us or with the forces of evil and repression are involved in a competition like those who tried to rescue from above, so [God] us that will be held responsible. ”

Thomas S. Monson and James E. Faust, together with the March 2005, Hinckley, in a First Presidency personnel had continued for a period of time without the church’s First Presidency in history as the first time celebrated its tenth anniversary change.

January 24, 2006, his large intestine Hinckley underwent surgery to remove the cancerous growth. He was diagnosed with diabetes at the time. In June 2006, Hinckley Mormon handcart companies speaking at a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Iowa City, Iowa, to visit. June 23, 2006 (his 96th birthday), Hinckley was named in his honor for a new building, Provo, Utah at Brigham Young University took part in an important event. Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center building was named and completed and was dedicated on Hinckley’s 97th birthday.

March 31, 2007 and, after extensive renovation Salt Lake residence Hinckley rededicated. He offered prayers at the rededication of the Utah State Capitol when Hinckley’s last public appearance, January 4, 2008 was.

During his tenure as President Hinckley left 2,000 speeches; He met with members of the church and dedicated meetinghouses and temples, as he more than 160 countries for more than a lifetime of almost a million miles traveled.

Hinckley became President of the Church, the church was dedicated to the 23 of the 47 temples and church president, Hinckley presided at the dedication of 65 additional temples four of the remaining 24 was rededicated. Hinckley also said he was initially dedicated, five temples, four of which the president of the Church, rededicated. In all, Hinckley dedicated or various temples -70 -92 97 separate dedicatory service as president of the church rededicated

June 23, 2004 (Hinckley’s 94th birthday) US President George W. Bush. Bush in a ceremony at the White House awarded Hinckley the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Presented by the White House press release stated: “Gordon B. Hinckley … has inspired millions and worldwide humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and education funding has led efforts to improve.”

Hinckley Distinguished Citizen Award from Southern Utah University, Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Utah and Westminster College, Utah State University, Utah Valley University, University of Utah, Brigham Young University, including 10 honorary doctorates from schools, including Brigham Young University received academic honors Idaho, Weber State University, and Southern Utah University. He is the highest honor awarded by the Boy Scouts of America, which received the Silver Buffalo Award, for his contributions to tolerance and understanding in the world community and was honored by the National Conference for justice.

“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome”. – Wilma Rudolph

In 1960, Wilma Rudolph won three gold medals in a single Olympics, the first American woman.

St. Bethlehem, Tennessee, June 23, 1940, born prematurely, Wilma Rudolph on his left leg had to wear a brace, which was a sickly child. She challenged him through physical therapy and hard work overcame, and became a talented runner. Rudolph in the Summer Games in Rome in 1960 one became the first American woman to win three gold medals in the Olympics, and later worked as a teacher and track coach. He died in 1994 in Tennessee.

Wilma Rudolph Glodean St. Bethlehem, Tennessee, Ed and Blanche Rudolph 22 for parents of children in the 20th, the first time June 23, 1940, was born sick, and track and field to become an African-American pioneer went on. But the road to victory was not easy for Wilma Rudolph. Is stricken with polio as a child, he had problems with his left foot and had to wear a brace. It is capable of great determination and overcome the disease, as well as her physical disabilities as a result of that was with the help of physical therapy.

My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I considered my mother.

Segregation was outlawed before heading south, Rudolph, where he played on the basketball team, an all-black school, Burt attended high school. A naturally gifted runner, track coach Ed Temple soon with Tennessee State University, was recruited to train.

Still Melbourne, Australia qualified for the 1956 Summer Olympic Games for her renowned speed “Skeeter” nickname in high school, Wilma Rudolph, is in. At age 16, the youngest member of the US team, she won a bronze medal in the sprint relay event. After finishing high school, Rudolph Tennessee State University where she studied education enrolled in. He also said that hard training for the next Olympics.

Rome, Italy for the 1960 Olympics, Rudolph was a golden time. In the semifinals of the 100 meter dash in 11.3 seconds after setting a world record, he won the 100 in the final round with a time of 11.0. Similarly, in the final 200 (24 seconds) in the semifinals before winning the 200-meter dash (23.2 seconds) broke the Olympic record. He is also in the final relay in 44.5 seconds in the semifinals before winning the Olympic 100-meter relay 4-rate (44.4 seconds) and was part of the US team that beat the world record. Most notably, Rudolph in a single Olympic Games became the first American woman to win three gold medals. First-class runner instantly appreciated throughout the world for her groundbreaking achievements Rome’s most popular sport with athletes in an international superstar became one.

After the game, Rudolph became a teacher and a 1960 and long after he retired from competition in 1961, in both the two times, the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year awards, including numerous appearances on television and track coach received many honors, but on the Olympic track became her best known for his achievements: During the ’60s, Rudolph widely considered the world’s fastest woman.

Rudolph his autobiography, Wilma in 1977 with his remarkable story with the world shared. His book was later turned into a TV movie. In the 1980s, the US Olympic Hall of Fame inducted and promote amateur athletics was Wilma Rudolph Foundation. Wilma Rudolph lost a battle with brain cancer, Nashville, Tennessee, to November 12, 1994, passed away.

Rudolph track as one of the fastest women and African-American athletes as a source of great inspiration for generations are remembered. He once Sure, winning is great, “he said, but you’re really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. You have a crush After losing lift, and can go on to win again, you’re going to be a champion someday. “In 2004, the United States Postal Service on a 23-cent stamp featuring his likeness by the Olympic champions honored .

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (/ ruːsoʊ /; French [ʒɑʒak ʁuso]; 28 जून 1712 – July 2, 1778), the 18th century philosopher, writer, and was composer. In his political philosophy of the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and modern political and influenced the overall development of educational thought.

Emil Rousseau’s novel on education, or a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise tale romanticism and romanticism in the former was of importance to the development. Introduced modern autobiography, which his Confessions, a solitary walker and his Reveries – – Rousseau’s autobiographical writings known as the age of Sensibility movement of the late 18th century is an example, and the trait of modern writing an increased focus on the intimacy and introspection featured. His Discourse on Inequality and Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thinking.

In other forms of Rousseau wrote seven operas with music, the music was a successful musician, and as a thinker contributed to music. As a composer, his music from the late baroque style was a mixture of classic, fashion and casual, and Christoph Willibald Gluck and CPE Bach as transitional belongs to the same generation of musicians. One of his more famous works by Beethoven later as a standalone song rearranged, which was the duet “Non, Colette trompeuse containing n’est point”, one act opera Le Devin du Village.

During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophes among members of the Jacobin Club. Russo, 16 years after his death, in 1794 in the Pantheon in Paris, and was buried as a national hero

Rousseau time a city-state and the Federation of Swiss Protestant colleague was born in Geneva. Since 1536, Geneva was a Huguenot republic and was the seat of Calvinism. Five generations before Rousseau, his father Didier, Protestant areas may be published, a book seller, in 1549 where he became a wine merchant from Geneva to escape the persecution of French Catholic had escaped.

Rousseau his family, moyen order (or middle class), the city had the right to vote was proud. Throughout his life, he’s usually in his books, “Jean-Jacques Rousseau, citizen of Geneva” sign.

Geneva, in principle, its male voting, “citizens” was controlled by the democratically. Citizens whose descent “Native” is called and the lack of voting rights were issued to “residents” as referred to in a minority of the population were immigrants compared. In fact, instead of “citizens”, “The city council of two hundred” that made the vote was ruled by a small number of wealthy families from being run; In the “Little Council called” a twenty-five-member working group from among the surrendered their sovereignty.

Tradespeople within the Geneva-down was much political debate. Oligarchic ruling class was making a mockery of the discussion, which was over the idea of ​​people’s sovereignty. In 1707, a democratic reformer named Pierre Fatio he was shot by order of a council, “never does an act of sovereignty that a sovereign being a fantasy”, saying that the case against . Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s father, Isaac, was not in town at the moment, but Jean-Jacques’s grandfather supported Fatio and was punished for it.

By the time of the trade of watchmaking Rousseau’s father, Isaac Rousseau had become a family tradition. Isaac a brief stint as a dance teacher in addition to teaching dance, the business his grandfather, father and brothers followed. Isaac, notwithstanding his artisan status, was well educated and a lover of music. “A Genevan watchmaker,” Rousseau wrote, “is a man who can be present anywhere, a Paris watchmaker watches is fit to talk about”. In 1699, in response to Isaac drew their swords and threatened him with a visiting British officials from entering into a feud ran into political trouble. After local authorities stepped in, the Geneva foreign powers was concerned with maintaining their relationships, was sentenced, which was Isaac.

Rousseau mother of Bernard Rousseau, was a high-class family. She said her uncle Samuel Bernard, was raised by a Calvinist preacher. He died in 1695 in his early thirties.In (adultery and having a mistress had run into trouble with the law and religious authorities who) cares for his father Jacques Suzanne after she disguised as a nook attended drama, to answer charges that Suzanne had married a peasant woman who, despite his continuing presumption that M. Vincent Sarrasin, could gaze upon. After the hearing, he never spoke with him again was ordered by Genevan Consistory. She was pregnant and he was punished by Consistory after Rousseau’s father at the age of 31, Isaac’s sister married eight years ago, Susan’s brother was married. The child died at birth. A story of young love patriarch refused an approval but in the story, was in love conquering all, the faithful brother had prevailed, where – later, the young Rousseau position by adults in their family about a romantic fairy tale was told and the two married on the same day unite families. Rousseau never learned the truth.

Rousseau was born on June 28, 1712, and he would later related: “I was born almost dying, he was expected to save me.” In the great church, was baptized on July 4, 1712. Nine days after his mother, he “Unfortunately for me, the first” is described as, who died of puerperal fever after their birth.

He and his father and his older brother François was also named a paternal aunt, was brought by. Rousseau was five when his father had received from relatives that his mother’s family sold the house. Consider your sons have grown between the principal heir and live off the interest owed, in the end, the father has sufficient income. With home sales, Rousseau family moved out of the upper-class neighborhood and silver smiths, engravers, and moved into an apartment house in the neighborhood of other watchmakers. Artisans moving around, Rousseau later, “but the artists are called craftsmen, those individuals, passive and totally work for the rich, and an arbitrary price on their baubles put” writing, more Beauty works produced, which would be contrary to those favorable to them. Geneva craftsmen often running a campaign of resistance against the privileged class as Rousseau too excited, the atmosphere in the square was exposed to politics.

Rousseau had no recollection of learning to read, but when he was 5 or 6, his father encouraged his love of reading that he remembered:

Every night, after dinner, we went to my mother, who Romance [ie, adventure stories] to read a small part of the collection. Read my father’s design was for me to improve, and he works in entertaining me an affection for it was thought to have been calculated; But we soon we alternately read a whole nights and at the conclusion of a volume that can not afford to lose until they contained adventures, found himself so interested in. Sometimes, in the morning, our window on hearing the swallows, the weakness quite ashamed that my father, “Let us go to bed, come, come. I am a child than thou art”, will cry (Confessions, Book 1)

(Such as L’Astrée by Honoré d’Urfé) as escapist stories that had an impact on the reading of Rousseau; She later they “experience and reflection, I have not been able to cure me, quaint and romantic notions of human life that” was written. They had read the novel, they left by his uncle, a collection of ancient and modern classics began to read. One of them he sees his favorite, while he read his father, who was the life of the Noble Greeks and Romans Plutarch. Another type of novel-worthy works of Rousseau’s work seen as heroes of Plutarch and he said he was reading about the characters will act out the works.

Rousseau made a big impact on the fighters participating in the local townsfolk witness. Volunteer militia had finished their exercises, they began to dance around a fountain and most of the people from neighboring buildings, including her and her father came out to join him, in his life where he A scene will remember. Rousseau always seen as shameful terrorist forces of the rulers against the militias would see as the embodiment of popular sentiment.

Rousseau was 10, her father, an avid hunter, a wealthy landowner on whose land he was caught trespassing with got into a legal dispute. To avoid certain defeat in the courts, she’s with her aunt Suzanne Rousseau, taking in Bern were taken away in Nyon. He remarried, and from that point Jean-Jacques saw little of him. Jean-Jacques Geneva a Calvinist minister in a village outside the board for two years with his own son, Abraham Bernard, who along with her pack was left with his uncle. Here, the boys picked up elements of mathematics and drawing. Always deeply for a time, was moved by religious services, which Rousseau, even dreamed of becoming a Protestant minister.

Virtually all our knowledge about the youth of Rousseau recent scholarly evidence to fill in the blanks combed archives to confirm that, although chronology, some complication in which his posthumously published Confessions, has come from. At age 13, Rousseau, who beat him for an engraver and then apprentice for the first time was a notary. At 15, he is returning to the city and the curfew has been closed after finding city gates (March 14, 1728) ran away from Geneva.

Who was separated from her husband in nearby Savoy, a noblewoman of Protestant background, he Françoise- Louise de Warens, age 29 was introduced, a Roman Catholic priest who took refuge with. As professional lay proselytizer, he helped bring Catholicism to Protestantism was paid by the king of Piedmont. Their conversion to complete, (which is now in Italy Piedmont which includes), Turin, capital of Savoy sent the boy. He later returned to Calvinism in order to achieve it, though it resulted in her having to give his Genevan citizenship.

In converting to Catholicism, de Warens and Rousseau both the total depravity of man on the possibility of Calvinism were responding to the request. Leo Damrosch writes: “An eighteenth-century Genevan liturgy still good to us wanting to harm himself unworthy by the miserable sinners, born in corruption, that are” necessary to declare the believers “. De Warens, leaning a believer, the forgiveness of sins was attracted to the doctrine of Catholicism.

His father and uncle had rejected him more or less, since finding himself on his own juvenile Russo Italy (Piedmont and Savoy) and in France wandering, the secretary and the teacher as a servant for a time to support themselves did. During this time, he said he and his idolized “Maman”, which is called the de Warens, who lived on and off with. His devotion happy, De Warens tried to initiate her into a profession, and His formal musical education system. At one point, he briefly considered becoming a priest, attended a seminary.

Rousseau reached 20, De Warens intimate with the manager of his home also taken as her lover. The sexual aspect of their relationship (Trois in fact a household) Rousseau, confused and made her uncomfortable, but she always considered De Warens the greatest love of her life. A rather profligate spender, he had a large library and loved to entertain and listen to music. She and her circle, including members of the Catholic clergy educated, Rousseau introduced to the world of letters and ideas.

Rousseau was an indifferent student, but long bouts of hypochondria is marked by a 20, while the philosophy, mathematics, and to study music in earnest to introduce ourselves. At 25, his mother came into a small inheritance and financial assistance for her to repay a portion of the used de Warens. At 27, he took a job as a teacher in Lyon.

In 1742, Rousseau he must believe his luck with a new system of numbered musical notation in order to present the Académie des Sciences in Paris were taken.

“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.” ~Bernard Williams

Full Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams Sir Bernard Williams (September 21, 1929 birth, Westcliff, Essex, June 10 2003 Eng.- died, Rome, Italy), English philosopher, for his writings on morality and history in particular As mentioned in Western philosophy, both ancient and modern.

Williams School in Chigwell, Essex, and Balliol College, Oxford and was educated. During the 1950s, the Royal Air Force (1951-53) and served Souls College and New College, Oxford, was a partner of all. The King’s College, Cambridge philosophy professor and provost at the University of Cambridge in Knightbridge 1967 was appointed, in 1979, the Monroe Deutsch 1988-2003 California, Berkeley Professor of Philosophy at the University, and was a professor of moral philosophy at Oxford White 1990-1996.

In 1955 Williams as Shirley Williams, a prominent political figure in the UK have become a Shirley Catlin, married; Baroness Williams of Crosby in 1993 he was created. The marriage was dissolved in 1974, and Williams married Patricia Skinner. Williams headed or public commissions, obscenity and Film Censorship (1977-79) served on a number of the particular committee, and was a director of the English National Opera. He was knighted in 1999.

Williams trained in classics and Plato, Aristotle, and Greek moral consciousness wrote about remembrance, but he also was one of the philosophers of the time most prolific and versatile. His published personal identity, ethics regarding human motivation at the idea of ​​René Descartes (1596-1650), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote (1889-1951) and important papers and books of social and political equality, the nature and value of truth, death and the role and importance of science, morality is in the range of fairness, and human life. He did not put forward a systematic philosophical theory; In their view, human life, accidental, complexity, and personality to really failed, because really, he arranged especially ethics principles, was suspected.

As a graduate of Williams was recognized for his talent. JL Austin led the Oxford linguistic analysis, or ordinary language philosophy, the philosophy of the new movement were trained in the home, but its cultural, historical and political interests of the width of that school were kept him from becoming a follower . Clarity of expression and rigor in the case met our standards, but still conceptual analysis appeared in its purpose (see the analytical philosophy) went beyond. He said that a deeper understanding of human life and human point of view in its many dimensions to achieve the vision is regarded as an attempt. For the same reason, he also saw the growing influence of American philosopher WVO was strong during his lifetime that a more abstract level, a trend which should aspire to as a model for understanding scientific knowledge regarding Quine and the United States to resist the trend in the UK in the English language, a shift of the center of gravity of philosophy. Williams did not make sense for physics human subjects that one could wish for fairness and universality that is held, and it has the greatest impact, but also in the established tradition, particularly as expressed in utilitarianism, ethics universality and fairness to the ambition of his challenge came from Immanuel Kant.

In his book, Descartes: Net Investigation (1978) of the project, the reality of Williams’ absolute conception is called “the ideal of objectivity in science gave a compelling explanation. According to this concept, various human perspectives and representations of the world as a component of the world, the product of the interaction between human beings and the world as well as an independently existing reality. Or represents some form of human perception, the world can not arrest; Yet they can identify, and to some extent, your point of view and from their connection to the rest of reality that borders and to compensate for distortions or try to. What is the purpose of objectivity in science-a conception of the absolute conception to approach as closely as possible, this method is by “Anyway,” independent of the human point of view. Casual elements in the process of historical self-consciousness of human beings who are trying to make progress towards a single reality is consistent with the idea.

Williams is the ideal self-explanatory that doubt exists about what was knowledgeable, human thinking must start from a certain historical moment happens to be in the hands of the parties should use the biological faculties and cultural instruments in light of the fact that , let alone attainable. But in pursuit of this ideal may be difficulties, he said it makes sense as an ambition that is considered. As it is the only way things are, to know what it is that way and it would like to explain the nature of human attitudes in the case makes sense.

In his book, Descartes: Net Investigation (1978) of the project, the reality of Williams’ absolute conception is called “the ideal of objectivity in science gave a compelling explanation. According to this concept, various human perspectives and representations of the world as a component of the world, the product of the interaction between human beings and the world as well as an independently existing reality. Or represents some form of human perception, the world can not arrest; Yet they can identify, and to some extent, your point of view and from their connection to the rest of reality that borders and to compensate for distortions or try to. What is the purpose of objectivity in science-a conception of the absolute conception to approach as closely as possible, this method is by “Anyway,” independent of the human point of view. Casual elements in the process of historical self-consciousness of human beings who are trying to make progress towards a single reality is consistent with the idea.

, let alone attainable. But in pursuit of this ideal may be difficulties, he said it makes sense as an ambition that is considered. As it is the only way things are, to know what it is that way and it would like to explain the nature of human attitudes in the case makes sense.

“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” ~Mary Pickford

A great silent film actress Mary Pickford, and was known as “America’s Sweetheart.” He was a founder of United Artists and the Academy helped establish.

Mary Pickford in Toronto, April 8, 1892, was born. In 1909, he D.W. Griffith has appeared in 40 films for the Biograph company. He would become her second husband Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., a manufacturer and co-founded and acted as joint artist. Pickford retired from the screen in 1933, but continued to produce. He died in 1979.

Actress, producer and scriptwriter Gladys Marie Smith, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 8, 1892, was born. Known as America’s Sweetheart, Mary Pickford silent during the age of the paintings was a great actress. He often she was an adult, even when the young girl appeared on screen in roles. Pickford began performing on stage at the age of five years and for a time was known as “Baby Gladys.” For more than nine years in different shows and touring productions, she went to New York to conquer Broadway. Stage name, Mary Pickford, Taking she made her Broadway debut in Warrens of Virginia.

Soon after the show’s run, DW Griffith, Mary Pickford, a director of the company and head for the biography are working, the film got. At the time, most films were low and the operation next year in California Griffith, Pickford went with him were taken in 1909 when she appeared in over 40 films. Over the years, his fame as well as his salary increased. He is beloved for her beauty and charm, became an international star.

Some of the biggest films of Mary Pickford and friends with writer-director Francis Marion was a collaborative effort. Together they Sunnybrook Farm (1917) and the poor little rich girl (1917) and Rebecca worked on such hit. Pickford also worked behind the scenes as a producer and who would become her second husband DW Griffith, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., as well, in 1919, United Artists (UA), a film company founded. She is married to actor Owen Moore and Fairbanks had divorced her to be with.

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, becoming one of Hollywood’s earliest supercouples, married in 1920. Fans adored pairing, and the couple has attended many of the leading figures in the film, which is called Pickfair their home, but were known to host great events.

In the 1920s, Mary Pickford more box office Polyanna (1920) and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1922) continued to score hits with. He was referring to the film industry is changing and the pictures were on the rise around this time in 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences went on to help establish. In 1929, Pickford explored the dark side of a wealthy family, her first talkie coquette who starred in. She won an Academy Award for his work on the film. Yet he said he was in silent pictures with sound films phenomenal success was not quite able to recreate. His last film was the 1933 rule.

After retiring from the screen, Mary Pickford continued to be involved in filmmaking. He was a rainy afternoon (1936) has worked as a producer on such films, Susie Steps Out (1946) and Sleep, My Love (1948). He also was on the board of directors for many years for UA. He said they stayed together until his death in 1937 and her third husband adopted two children, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, married.

In her later years, Mary Pickford became reclusive. He Pickfair largely stayed home and only a select few to choose to view. The Santa Monica, California, May 29 1979, died.