It is used to learn about opinions on a designated topic, and to guide future action. Examples: 1  A focus group of parents of preschoolers meets to discuss child care needs. 2  Parents share their views on local child care programs, and on what could be done to improve them.
Born 13 years after da Vinci, Michelangelo followed in his footsteps as a Renaissance man. He was an accomplished artist, poet, architect, and engineer. His best-known work is probably the sculpture David, which was completed in the opening years of the 16th century.
A Renaissance man named Thomas Kyd is particularly famous for writing revenge tragedies, not just his Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587) but maybe also a lost play that scholars call the Ur-Hamlet âa predecessor to Shakespeare's.