Renaissance - Leonardo da Vinci

     I, Leonardo da Vinci, am an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, cartographer, geologist, botanist, and also a writer. I have achieved many things in my lifetime, and as you can see, I am a diversely talented man.
     My father, Piero da Vinci, was a notary and my mother, Caterina, was simply a peasant woman. I was born out of wedlock, at Vinci, Italy in the region of Florence. I was born on the 15th of April in 1452. I never remember seeing my mother often.
     When I was at a very young age, I lived with my grandparents but then after some time, my father took me into his home. I was raised and educated in his house. You could say I was a child prodigy, because even at a young age I showed extraordinary talent, or so my father said. I was always sketching plants and animals. In my childhood, I learned to play the lyre and I loved to sing.
     My most famous artworks were each paintings - "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper". But painting was not my only talent. I had many engineering ideas, and images of a flying machine. Unfortunately, I never ha the opportunity to complete my inventions.
     I passed away at the age of 67 on the 2nd of May in 1519.

Notes on "The Italian Renaissance" : Chapter 15.

Section 1 :
- The word "Renaissance" means rebirth.

- The Renaissance began in Florence, Italy.

- Began with the Medici family.

- Humanists were those people who returned to the classics. (Socrates,Plato.., etc.)

- Francesce Petrarch was a poet who wrote sonnets to "Laura", who was an imaginary - woman. She was everything he looked for in a woman.

- The artists used Perspective.

- Michealangelo was famous for the Sistine Chapel, and was also one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance.

- The Sistine Chapel was located in the Vatican City.

- Leonardo DiVinci was famous for the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.

- Rafael was famous for frescoes, and madonnas.

- Titian was known for the assumption of the virgin.

- Niccolo Machiavelli was a Florentine writer, who wrote the essay, The Prince.

the book of accordier - written by castiliana
- The biggest question he posed was, "Is it better to be loved than feared, or feared than loved?"
- - I believe that it is better to be feared than loved. Because if you're trying to get people to love you by being something you are not, then they don't honestly love the real you. Not every person in the world will love you, for you. 

If you were a leader, is it better to be loved than feared, or feared than loved?

- - Loved than feared, because as a leader you not only want to take charge, but you want to have respect and you want your people to love you.


Section 2 :
- Joan Gutenburg invetned the printing press to mainly print copies of the Bible.
- Erasmus wrote the book, "In Praise Of Folly".
- Thomas More was a friend of Erasmus, and pubished "Utopia".
- Flemish people were the first to write with oil on canvas.

Black History Month

Harriet Tubman
1. Born into slavery around 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland; Harriet Tubman was a spy, nurse, feminist, and social reformer. 
2. In 1844, she married John Tubman, a free African- American from Cambridge.
3. She guided three hundred to freedom in the North, because of the underground railroad.

Langston Hughes

1.) Langston Hughes was a writer, who was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902.

2.) During his senior year of high school, he was declared class poet and yearbook editor.

3.) He attended Columbia University.

James Baldwin

1.) A writer who was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York.

2.) He became known as the most eloquent literary spokesperson for civil rights fro African Americans.

3.) He returned to France in the early 1970s.

Clarence Thomas

1.) He was a US Supreme Court Justice.

2.) He was born in Point, Georgia a small coastal town outside of Savannah.

3.) When the Civil Rights act was enacted, his grandfather forced his to attend an all-white boarding school.

W.E.B DuBois

1.) He was an African American scholar.

2.) Early leader in the 20th century African American protest movement.

3.) He was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Marcus Garvey

1.) He is from the West indies.

2.) The first to forcefully articulate the concept of African nationalism.

3.) He was born on August 17, 1887.

Michael Jordan

1.) Basketball player and buisnessman.

2.) He was born on February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York.

3.) He played for the University of North Carolina and led them to a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I championship.

Frederick Douglass

1.) An African American abolitionist.

2.) The first African American leader of national stature in US history.

3.) He was born in eastern Maryland in February 1817.

Louis Armstrong

1.) He was a jazz musician and entertainer.

2.) He was born in New Orleans, Louisianna.

3.) His father rose to become a straw boss in a turpentine factory.

Elijah McCoy 

1. He was born in Colchester, Ontario, Canada in 1843. 
2. He was a famous inventer, who invented the air-brake lubricator and the vehicle wheel tire.
3. His parents were both slaves in Kentucky before escaping on the underground railroad before the Civil War.

Sojourner Truth
1.Born into slavery in Ulster County, New York, the young woman was known as Isabella.
2. She was active in the suffrage movement and a featured speaker of woman suffrage.
3. In 1827, Truth led Dumont's farm and became a runway.

Tiger Woods
1. Born Edrick Woods on December 30, 1975 in Orlando, Floirda.

2. He is a professional golfer, who became the youngest player to win the Masters.
3. He was the first golfer since Jack Nickalous to captures the years first two major tournaments.

 Wilma Rudolph
1. On November 12, 1994, Wilma died at her home in Brentwood, Tennessee of a brain tumor.
2. Her accomplishments were extremely remarkable because she came from a chilhood of sickness and disability.
3. Wilma was the first American woman runner to win theree gold medals in the Olympic games.


Muhammad Ali
1. He began boxing at the age of 12 after his bicycle was stolen.
2. Muhammad Ali and his "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" style of fighting dominated the heavyweight boxing.
3. He was born on January 17, 1942, as Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.


Jesse Owens
1. He was apart of the annual Big Ten Track and Field Championship.
2. He was a famous track and field athlete that set national records.
3. He was born James Cleveland Owens on September 12, 1913.


Ralph Bunche
1. He was the highest American official in the United Nations.
2. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles on schorlarships and graduated in 1927.
3. He was born in 1904 in Michigan, and died in 1971.

George Washington Carver

1. He was born in Kansas Territory near Diamond Grove, Missouri during the bloddy struggle between free-soldiers and slaveholders.
2. He started his life as a slave and ended his life as a respected chemist.
3. They pronounced him to be "the least imposing celebrity the world has ever known."