Article of Han van Meegren life In 1889 in a small village of Germany, Han van Meegren was born. If their parents, looking at the newborn, had hazarded a guess that his child would become a painter they would have been right, but sadly, not a successful one. When our painter at their early age was trying to make a name by himself he found himself being accused of painting unoriginal work, that had a profound effect on him. For this reason, he decided to rebel against the system that wasn't embracing him and his work by doing exactly what he was accused of. Within the further years, Meegren's new occupation will be to paint forgeries of a reputed well-known painter; Vermeer. There's no doubt that Meegren conned a lot of people out of their money. Meegren's would spend a lot of time a lot of time studying old master's techniques, mixed own paints using old formulas, even used badger hair paintbrushes which were common in the 17th century. Consequently, his fake paintings were nearly perfect, he reached the peak of forgeries makers. However, his career started to go abruptly downhill when he was charged with treason for selling Dutch property to an enemy official. It was when he was facing death penalty that he finally decided to reveal the truth. However, they justice didn't believe him so he was obligated to draw one forgery to prove his innocence, being allowed to spend his remaining lifetime on the darkness of a poky prison cell.

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Does the school prepare students for real life? Does the school prepare students for real life? Nowadays, in a lot of countries, the basic education is a universal right. You could either be born into a very rich family or in a poor one that you’ll have a similar education although the adequacy of this education to the real-life work has been put into question. In order to answer this question you have to, at the first time, check the subjects that are taught in the classrooms; Maths, physics, economics, biology, philosophy, literature etc… It is possible to separate the subjects in two groups, one composed by the more useful in life like maths and physics and the other by the subjects that seem to be less useful in an average person’s life. ‘Will it be useful to know which author wrote that poem?’ Is a question that can be heard by the people that criticize the actual study plan. One part of the life is to be able to do a work in a society but another is to live in this society, the second group of subjects introduced previously could be adequate for this task. For example, to study philosophy would prepare a citizen to be able to think by himself and not be fooled by propaganda. Another example could be found in the knowledge of literature, such knowledge could lead to having more expressive citizens, happier and with different points of view. To sum up, although there are some subjects that don’t have a direct impact into our daily activities, they have in making us the persons that we are, in the way we live our lives, therefore, they are necessary for our education.

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