Influenced by the German tradition, Boas argued that the world was full of distinct cultures, rather than societies whose evolution could be measured by how much or how little " civilization " they had.

Influenced by psychoanalytic psychologists including Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, these authors sought to understand the way that individual personalities were shaped by the wider cultural and social forces in which they grew up.

Influenced by his " favorite living hero in public life ", the British liberal, John Bright, Carnegie started his efforts in pursuit of world peace at a young age.

Influenced by Keynes, economics texts in the immediate post-war period put a significant emphasis on balance in trade.

Influenced by Buddhist teachings, the document focuses more on social morality than institutions of government per se and remains a notable early attempt at a government constitution.

Influenced by the sounds and style of no wave and noise rock bands, Love convinced Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon to produce Hole's first studio album.

Influenced perhaps by his experience as a state governor, Hughes authored a series of decisions that upheld state laws that affected — and, it might be argued, infringed on — congressional authority over interstate commerce.

Influenced like Pound by German social and legal thinkers, Ely in 1903 had ascribed " the coercion of economic forces " in American society " to the unequal strength of those who make a contract.

Influenced by the Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), Griffith was convinced that feature films were commercially viable.

Influenced by the doctrine of " natural right ", the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself.

Influenced by the views of Brentano's pupil Alexius Meinong, and by Edmund Husserl, Germanophone and Francophone philosophy took a different direction regarding the question of existence.

Influenced partly by the fact that Gregory was the son of his father's enemy, he ordered Gregory imprisoned for twelve ( some sources indicate fourteen ) years in a pit on the Ararat Plain under the present day church of Khor Virap located near the historical city Artashat in Armenia.

Influenced by his dreams, he wrote his first novel, A Goddess Arrives, over the next few years.

Influenced by Jones's psychoanalytic approach, several productions have portrayed the " closet scene ", where Hamlet confronts his mother in her private quarters, in a sexual light.

Influenced by the doctrine of natural rights, these rights were deemed universal and valid in all times and places, pertaining to human nature itself.

Influenced by the crossover success of Ray Charles, Brown backed away from his musical roots and incorporated productions of pop standards, finding success with his first Top 20 single, " Prisoner of Love ".

Influenced by the words of the prophet Ahijah (), he began to form conspiracies with the view of becoming king of the ten tribes ; but these were discovered, and he fled to Egypt, where he remained under the protection of pharaoh Shishak until the death of Solomon.

* René Bosch, Labyrinth of Digressions: Tristram Shandy as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne's Early Imitators ( Amsterdam, 2007 )

Influenced by the constructivist theories of Piaget, Vygotsky and Bruner, Seymour Papert developed his constructionist theory ( Sefton-Green 2004 ).

Influenced by Lenin, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party stated that the development of the socialist workers ’ culture should not be ‘ hamstrung from above ’, and opposed the Proletkult ( 1917 – 25 ) organisational control of the national culture.

Influenced by Henry Salt's writing, he joined the Vegetarian Society, was elected to its executive committee, and started a local Bayswater chapter.

Influenced by the anthropologist Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, several prominent writers and artists were involved in these organizations, including William Butler Yeats, Maud Gonne, Arthur Edward Waite, and Aleister Crowley.

In response to a suit filed by the group that met in Tampa, leaders of the Reform Party filed a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) complaint claiming the Tampa group were extremists and guilty of conspiracy.

Influenced by Ruthless Records founder and gangsta rapper Eazy-E and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Uzzi joined the group in early 1995, after he had performed with them at a series of local hip hop concerts in Bucharest.

Influenced by fellow student Malcolm Garrett, who had begun designing for the Manchester punk group, the Buzzcocks, and by Herbert Spencer's Pioneers of Modern Typography, Saville was inspired by Jan Tschichold, chief propagandist for the New Typography.

Influenced by Fluxus, and founded the group Die Maulwerker.

Influenced by such artists as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, the group combined eastern themes, mysticism and vivid psychedelia with acid-rock.

Influenced by a trip to Paris, where he saw the studios of Brancusi, Picasso, and Giacometti, he became a founder of the " Forma I " group in 1947.

Influenced by Gabriel Tarde, he later criticized American research into majority influence ( conformity ) and instead investigated the effects of minority influence, where the opinions of a small group influence those of a larger one.

At the end of the team's second season, Galante was arrested on 72 various charges including conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ).

Influenced by a wide range of musical genres including psychedelic rock, electronica, krautrock, dub and industrial, the band's sound is constantly changing, moving between live rock sounds, electronica and minimal techno.

Influenced by early Kiss, punk and rock bands such as MC5, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Stooges and The Heartbreakers as well as heavier bands such as Venom, Blue Cheer and Motorhead the band's debut album-Supershitty to the Max!

" Influenced by Galileo's work, the Sicilian astronomer Giovanni Hodierna became possibly the first astronomer to use a telescope to find previously undiscovered open clusters.

Influenced by theosophy and the perception of a coming New Age, a common theme among Kandinsky's first seven Compositions is the apocalypse ( the end of the world as we know it ).

Influenced by Verne's books and ideas, Oberth constructed his first model rocket as a school student at the age of 14.

Influenced by the Great Awakening in New England, in 1772 Daniel Marshall established Kiokee Baptist Church, the first Baptist church in Georgia.

" Influenced by Superman, " the first sign of a royal persona was evident in the cape that he wore only on Sundays, made from his " blankie " by his grandmother.

Influenced generally by Karl Kautsky's reformist views on socialism, Hansson succeeded Hjalmar Branting as editor of Social-Demokraten in 1917 and was appointed his Minister of Defence in Sweden's first Social Democratic cabinet in 1920, following a Liberal-Social Democratic coalition enacting equal suffrage for men and women ( in effect as of the 1921 election ).

Influenced by Russell's ideas, Davis implemented his first modal composition with the title track of his studio album Milestones ( 1958 ), and his first sessions with Bill Evans, 1958 Miles.

Influenced by his tutor Ferdinand von Hochstetter ( who later became the first superintendent of the Imperial Natural History Museum ), Rudolf became very interested in natural sciences, starting a mineral collection at a very early age.

Influenced by movements for reform and by his desire to legitimize his marriage to Anne Boleyn in 1533 ( without the blessing of the Pope ) after divorcing his first wife Catherine of Aragon, Henry's government influenced Parliament to enact the 1st Act of Supremacy in 1534.

Influenced as a child by blues, soul and jazz music on American Forces Radio, Robert Palmer joined his first band, The Mandrakes, at the age of 15 while still at Scarborough Boys ' High School.

Influenced by Dutch landscape painting and the landscape of Norfolk, the Norwich School were the first provincial art-movement outside of London.

Influenced by the recent release of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's first album, DeYoung – a novice synthesizer player at the time – used a modular Moog to record the keyboard tracks for the first Styx album.

Influenced by the movie Mad Max and the popular Judge Dredd comics, they specialised in organising illegal parties in London throughout the 1980s, driven at first by eclectic assortments of fringe music such as psychedelic rock and dub reggae, but then embracing the burgeoning acid house music movement by the late 1980s.

In 1981, Tieri became the first Cosa Nostra boss to be convicted under the new Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ).

Influenced by Diana Ross, Watley made her first stage appearance at 8 years old with family friend and godfather Jackie Wilson.

Influenced by Dada he started to write experimental poetry, first published in the journal " Neue Wege " (" New Ways ") in 1952.

Influenced by the earlier success of Jewish philosophy in articulating a rational study of Jewish thought, Moshe Cordovero produced the first full integration of the previous differing schools in Kabbalistic interpretation.

Influenced by the earlier rational success of Jewish philosophy, especially the work of Maimonides, in producing a systematic intellectual articulation of Judaism, the Ramak achieved the first accepted systemisation of Kabbalah, based on its rational cattegorisation and study.

Influenced by the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa, 1967.