...Stan Lee: Genius Award Daniel Orminski HUM/102: Introduction to the Humanities- The Renaissance to the Present July 29, 2013 Rachelle Williams Stan Lee: Genius Award According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary (2013), “A genius is a person with extraordinary intellectual power, especially as manifested in creative activity.” Stan Lee may not have the amount of intelligence or inventions as Albert Einstein or Benjamin Franklin, but he is a genius in his own in way. Stan Lee is responsible for some of the best known characters in literature, except there is not an Oliver Twist or a Huckleberry Fin in these books. These characters are super heroes and super villains trying to save the world from destruction. Born during the great depression, Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922 in New York City. After Stan changed his last name to Lee, he was hired as an office assistant by Timely Comics in 1939. In the early 1940’s he was promoted to an interim editor. Stan Lee also served time with the United States Army during World War II. During the war, Lee worked as an illustrator and writer for the Army (Stan Lee, 2013). After World War II, Stan Lee continued working with Timely Comics, which was now known as Marvel Comics. In order to compete with DC comics and their new Justice League of America comics, Marvel instructed Lee to create a new comic series. With this, Stan Lee created the Fantastic Four in 1961. After this, a multitude of new characters were created...
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...I find it really interesting how the company name he choose was Fred Harvey (not The Fred Harvey Company or Fred Harvey Enterprise or the incorporation, so that the customer could feel a personal touch of service by Fred Harvey himself. Just a genius, this genius, genius, intelligent entrepreneur. --He established an exemplary for delivering quality food service at affordable prices, and recognized patterns of standardization and franchising that enabled roadside service at this day and age such as Howard Johnson's and fast food like McDonald's and others did not flourish until the next century. --He sophisticated the culinary standards with fresh ingredients prepared in healthy and tasty recipes offering at a fair price., --He raised social...
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...Faith, commitment, hard work, equality among the people; these are some of the keen attributes associated with the value system in the United States of America. The literal definition of faith, according to Oxford, is “the complete trust or confidence in someone or something;” while meritocracy is, “a system in which the talented are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of their achievement.” Both of these definitions, along with equality, are deeply rooted within the veins that govern the United States and its people. Most Americans defend their religion with a great deal of passion. People claim to be very devoted to their religion and call themselves a “good Christian” or get defensive whenever their religion is being belittled or talked down upon. Yet, whenever it comes to doing the right thing for your religion or actually being a good Christian a lot of people fail to do so. Judith, a philosopher, stated in her article ““ that even if a fetus is a human, it still makes abortion okay. However, this statement violates the value of faith tremendously. Nobody, neither you nor me, have the right to choose who lives and who dies. Birth control is provided through government aid if individuals cannot afford it, yet a lot of women don’t use the resources offered to them. Instead, when they find out they’re pregnant; abortion is used as a method of “birth control.” Abortion, no matter which trimester and/or reason, should be completely obliterated, not only from the United...
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...Ms. St. Clair p.2-C14089 Who’s the Real Genius? Thomas Jefferson, a man of great intelligence, was mistaken in his argument about ”American Genius”. The document states that the country was so young and undeveloped to produce any genius’s except George Washington, Ben Franklin, and David Rittenhouse, “whose memory will be adored while liberty shall have votaries, whose name will triumph over time” (American Genius ). In the document “American Genius” he talked with great enthusiasm about these key figures and how major empires expected genius’s from a newborn nation, and America kept failing to provide, yet everyone forgot to acknowledge his own achievements. Jefferson wrote one of the most important political documents in history, the most...
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...Alexander Hamilton “Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought” (Hamilton). This quote shows Alexander Hamilton's task commitment and how he was devoted to everything he did. He had made and overcame many mistakes during his life, building him stronger and leading him on his path to eminence. Alexander Hamilton created America’s current financial system, used Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision to innovate ways to overcome challenges, and illuminated the...
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...it for ourselves or are we just doing it for others’ approval? This is a short story called ‘’Two Kinds’’ (1997) by writer Amy Tan dealing with a mother and daughter who have two different ideas of what succes is. The short story is about a young Chinese immigrant girl called Jing-Mei who lives with her mother and father in the United States of America. The mother set voyage for America in the 1950’s after she had lost her family, her home and her first husband and children in China. She has hopes and dreams for herself and her daughter that the American dream surely will happen to them at some point. She wants her daughter to be a child prodigy while the daughter is trying to live up to her mother’s expectations. As I wrote earlier, the story takes place in the United States of America. Unlike her mother, Jing-Mei has lived her whole life in the U.S.A. Her mother did not have the same opportunities as Jing-Mei back in China, so she is frustrated that her daughter is not even trying to seize any of the many opportunities that she has got in her life, and that she is ignoring the fact that she can become anything, even a genius. She is sacrificing a lot for her daughter by cleaning for Mr. Wong and in return he will teach her daughter to play the piano. The only piano teacher she can afford is Mr. Chong who is deaf and retired, which shows that perhaps the money is a bit scarce and that she must have worked hard to get it. The daughter is at first just as exited as her mother...
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...An Essay about ‘Two Kinds’ by Amy Tan The short story ‘Two Kinds’ was written by Amy Tan and published. It’s about a woman from China who immigrated to America with great success, and therefore has big expectation of her daughter. Tan herself is also the daughter of a couple who emigrated from China which explains why she writes about this topic. The narrator is first-person which gives the impression that Tan is telling her story. The story is set in Chinatown, America during the late 1950’s. Amy Tan doesn’t tell us a lot about the setting other than the narrator lives with her mother and father in an apartment. They don’t have a lot of money. The mother works as a cleaning lady, and earns her money from cleaning people’s houses. It also shows how little money the family has that the mother has to clean a blind retired piano teacher’s apartment in order for her daughter to get piano lessons. Even though they don’t have a lot of money they seem to be quite happy with their situation. This may be because the mom came from China where she lost everything because of the war, so the little they have is still a lot more then what she would have in China. Most of the story takes place on the floor of the apartment they live in, either in their own or else in the apartment of the protagonist’s piano teacher Mr Chung. The narrator is a girl. She has short hair, because her mom thought it would help her get to be a famous child actress. She’s properly in her teenage years, because...
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...James Allen was an unrewarded literary genius that barely made enough money to cover his expenses (Unrewarded Genius). Allen endured many financial ordeals throughout his childhood. Since the family was losing what little money they had Allen’s father left Central England for America to try and make money for his family. But before his father could send any money home, he was robbed and murdered (Unrewarded Genius). After his father’s death, at the age of 15 Allen was forced to leave school due to his family’s financial crisis. Although he dropped out of school, he became a writer and wrote about doing good in the world, even though his life had been a series unfortunate events. “If your real desire is to do good there is no need to wait for...
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...Running head: 20th-Century Genius Award 20th-Century Genius Award After hours of extensive research I have discovered an individual whose work and artistic contributions can be classified in both the Age of Modernism and the Age of Pluralism for the 20th Century Genius Award. I nominate American television writer and producer Norman Lear for the 20th-Century Genius award. Norman Lear has enjoyed a long career in television and film, and as a political and social activist and philanthropist. I be believe that his accomplishments were significant with the major changes that have happened around the world in the past 50 years or greater and will impact the world for many years to come. New Haven, Connecticut was the place of Norma Lear's birth. He was born on July 27, 1922, and attended Emerson College for over a year before deciding to drop out and fight in World War II. In 1945 he decided to leave the Army to pursue a career in comedy writing, but this later changed into screenwriting and producing for television. Lear's family was Jewish his parents, Herman and Jeanette Lear, had jobs in sales. At the age of 9 his father was sentenced to a three year prison sentence for fraud. While his father was incarcerated, his role models were his grandfather and his uncle. Lear's grandfather composed regular letters to the president on the different political issues . Lear later announced that his grandfather's political participation...
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...Dubois, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. It was authors such as these, along with many jazz musicians, dancers, and other painters, who inspired so much of the genius that emerged from Harlem during this epoch of cultural and social shifts. Additionally, Douglas’ ability “to combine art and politics” (Susan Earle) aided the Harlem Renaissance in later influencing the spark of the civil rights movement in the...
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...“Family features shared by mother and daughter in those Chinese-American families are not something to be proud of, but rather something that causes embarrassment on one side or the other, and often on both sides” (Xu 13). With various interwoven events happening among these four Chinese immigrant families, the conflicts and misunderstandings between mothers and daughters seem to be the guideline throughout the whole novel. Amy Tan uses stories narrated by the mothers and daughters to display their daily contradictions and their inner thoughts, which are the mothers’ strong desire to control their daughters’ fate; contradicting opinions on interracial relationships and identity crises. All these “battles” could be found both in these four daughters’ childhood, and in their adulthood as well. The Chinese mothers try so hard to pass on their culture and instill Chinese character, but their efforts are resisted strongly by their daughters to different degrees. The daughters try to make their mothers accept ways of life ingrained with American features, which is also insufferable to mothers. The greatly different family backgrounds, different ways of thinking and identity crisis between these two generations contribute a lot to their contradictions, as well as generation and cultural gaps. Although the author provides a vivid description of the conflicts between the two generations, “Amy Tan’s special accomplishment in this novel is not her ability to show us how mothers and...
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...The plot is the repetitive cycle of the conniving and egocentric mouse, Brain, continuously trying to take over the world which always ends in failure, often due to the actions of his co-star, Pinky, who is seen as an “idiot”. It states in the article, “A theory practically confirmed by even the most casual of “Pinky and the Brain” fans, is the fact that Pinky is the real genius. Evidence being that in the theme song, it states ‘one is a genius and the other is insane’ but it never dictates which one is which” (Rodriguez). It then follows by pointing out that insanity is the repetition of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. In my opinion, the theory could very well possibly be true,...
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...they come from, their family background, their intelligence and much more. Malcolm Gladwell examines several scenarios of individuals whose environment, along with their ambition and motivation affects their ability to succeed in his third book Outliers: The Story of Success. The extraordinary individuals that triumph throughout Outliers range from hockey players born on the “perfect date,” to rock stars putting in 10,000 hours of work. From geniuses with exceptional IQ’s who do not succeed, to a Jewish immigrant in America who went from rags to riches, Gladwell tells their...
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...Macarthur as a young adult was considered by many in his class as “a man of duty, honor, and country.” (Kenny) Macarthur was commissioned as a junior officer in the army following his graduation and his first duty station outside of the country was in the Philippines in 1914. After the United States entered world war one, Macarthur lead the 42nd “rainbow” division in France and was promoted to brigadier general following the end of the war. This brief time in world war one and as a commanding officer was the first step in becoming “the most dangerous man in America” (Sempa) In between the first world war (1919-1922) and the second world war he served as the superintendent at West Point. In 1930 Macarthur was appointed chief of staff of the Army by then president Herbert Hoover. In 1937 he decided to resign from the army and remained in the Philippines and served as a civilian advisor to the then president Manuel...
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...John Serian 12/14/13 Professor Powers FYIS class The Legacy of a Man Who Changed the World “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” –Steve Jobs. (Steve Jobs Quotes) His very voice echoed in the ears of millions across the globe, his saga, leaving a lesson to be taught to the indigenous people of the twenty first century. Steve Jobs, a man whose innovative thoughts transpired to develop one of the highest technological advancements in the history of mankind. Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ejected in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built it into the world’s most valuable company. (Isaacson). After the release of Job’s biography, other inspired leaders got a chance to scope out how he lived, thought, and ran his company. All the lessons that can be passed down from his life cannot be simply described in one sitting. Although, there are seven key components that helped shape his life of success; being a rebel, an optimist, a dreamer, an enabler, an adaptor, and a philanthropist. Steve Jobs was the ideal figure head of his company’s Apple and Pixar. Yet with his success there were other contributors that, without...
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