Biography Of Samuel Clemens
.... Mark Twain stopped piloting the riverboat in 1861, at the start of
the Civil War, to join the Union. He went to war for two weeks and left
immediately after being involved in the shooting of a civilian. He said he
knew retreating better than it's inventor did.
He soon decided to travel 1,700 miles from the Missouri Territory ,
to the Nevada Territory. He passed through Overland City, Horseshoe City,
and many large and small cities in between.
Clemens commented that Salt Lake City was he .....
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Marie Curie
.... crystals excite small electric potentials. He
discovered that the magnetic susceptibility of paramagnetic materials is
inversely proportional to the absolute temperature, and that there exists a
critical temperature above which the magnetic properties disappear, this is
called the Curie temperature.
Marie Curie was interested in the recent discoveries of radiation, which
were made by Wilhelm Roentgen on the discovery of X-rays in 1895, and by Henri
Becquerel in 1896, when he discovered uranium give .....
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Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist
.... very poor. In the same year of 1873, her mother died of tuberculosis.
As if that wasn't enough tragedy for the family already, two of her sisters died
of typhus as well. Her oldest sister, Bronya, had to leave school early to take
care of the family. Despite all these hardships and setbacks, Manya continued
to work hard at school.
Although her sister Bronya had stopped going to school to act as the
family's housekeeper, she desperately wanted to go on studying to become a
doctor. Th .....
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Max Planck
.... at Kiel by
means of professional connections. At the age of thirty he was promoted to full
professor at the University of Berlin.
After he decided to become a theoretical physicist he started a quest for
absolute laws. His favorite absolute law was the law of the conservation of
energy which was the first law of thermodynamics that stated that you could take
any equal amount of energy and transform it into the same equal amount of energy
ideally, meaning no energy was lost. The second law of thermo .....
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Benito Mussolini: Biography
.... Armstrong
Benito Mussolini was one of the great dictators of Italy. Mussolini
was lived from 1883-1943. Mussolini started Fascism, witch was the blck
shirt milerty. Fascism spead fast over Italy. HE was the editor of the
Socialist party News Paper. Mussolini rise to power In tribute to the
postwar Milan, Mussolini and other war vetrines founded Fasci di
Combattimeto in March 1919. The Nationalistc,antilieral, and antisocialist
movement attracted the lower and middle-class support and took its na .....
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Robert Andrew Millikan
.... in 1893 as the only student graduate in physics. After
this accomplishment Millikan travelled to Germany to study with such professors
Planck and others. When this period was on his resume Millikan was offered a
position in the Physics department at the University of Chicago and Millikan
took it. After teaching for a period Millikan decided that physics could only
be taught properly through the practice of experimentation and getting your
hands in it just as many other things are. Thus, he began wri .....
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Greatest Anti-Transcendentalist Writer
.... walking tour in New Hampshire.
The period of time during which Hawthorne wrote was the New England
Renaissance in America. By the year 1840, it was clear that the American
experiment in Democracy had succeeded. England, trying again to retake
their old land in ‘The Second American War for Independence', was no
longer a threat to the survival of the republic. Andrew Jackson, the
first “people's president”, had served 2 terms in office. New states were
entering the Union. One French observer stated tha .....
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Alfred Binet
.... in defending Charcot's doctrines on
hypnotic transfer and polarization until he was forced to accept the
counterattacks of Delboeuf and the Nancy School, which eventually caused a split
between student and teacher.
Having been married in 1884 to Laure Balbiani, whose father was E.G. Balbiani,
an embryologist at the College de France, Binet was given the opportunity to
work in his lab where his interest in 'comparative psychology' was piqued and in
which he eventually wrote his thesis for his doctorate i .....
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John F Kennedy
.... Address
offered the memorable line: "Ask not what your country can you--ask what
you can do for your country."
As president he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America
moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest
sustained expansion since World War II. Before his death, he laid plans
for a massive plans for assault on persisting pockets of privation and
poverty.
John F. Kennedy was called the dreamer President. This inspiring
president challenged America to be t .....
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The Identity Of Thomas Pynchon
.... who is dead when
the novel opens yet remains an active presence throughout the work. This
seems to fit Pynchon's situation rather nicely as the ghostly moderator of
a tired world, leading his main character Oedipa Maas on a quest for
meaning while blindly groping for clues about a conspiratorial mail system
known only as the Trystero. Oedipa's quest echos the quest of everyone; she
wishes for an identity that makes some sense within the framework of her
world. Thomas Pynchon, by erasing himself from the .....
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Queen Elizabeth I
.... the latter part of the Middle Ages.
Since then the term Gothic has been restricted to the last major medieval
period, immediately following the Romanesque (Gothic Period). The
Renaissance, following the Elizabethan age was a rebirth of scholarly
interests. It was based on the classics of art, religion, science and
inventions, philosophy, and humanism (Renaissance).
Queen Elizabeth I was a powerful political figure in English
history. Her background was definitely relative to her choice of words and
her t .....
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Mark Twain And Racism
.... lumps them together, attributing similar
characteristics to all of them by the use of a term like "nigger." By doing
this, he is also offending about 15% of the United States population. Every
character in the book is racist, even Huckleberry himself. With such lines
as: "Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped run away, coming
right out flatfooted and saying he would steal his children-children that
belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no
harm"(Twain, P133), .....
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Biography Of Rasputin
.... comes after prolonged debauchery. Rasputin did not become a monk.
Instead he returned home and married Proskovia Fyodorovna, who bore him
four children. Marriage did not satisfy him, so he left home and wandered
to Mount Athos, Greece, and Jerusalem living off peasant donations as a
self-proclaimed holy man with the ability to heal the sick and predict the
future.
Rasputin's travels took him to St. Petersburg where he was welcomed
with open arms. The court circles at that time were entertaining
th .....
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Ray Bradbury: Literary Influences
.... a job a
local radio station because of his experience in Waukegan as an amateur
magician. “‘I was on the radio every Saturday night reading comic book
strips to the kiddies and being paid in free movie tickets, to local cinema,
where I saw ‘The Mummy,' ‘The Murders in the Wax Museum,' ‘Dracula' ...and ‘
King Kong.'” (Johnson 2). In reference to his one year in Tucson Arizona,
Bradbury recalls “‘It was one of the greatest years of my life because I
was acting and singing in operettas and writing, beginni .....
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Reflections Of Milton In Is Works
.... dictated to them a sonnet he called "On
His Blindness" in which he asks how God expects him to do his work blind.
Milton's ambitious side says that his writing talent is "lodged with [him]
useless"(Text 417). His religious side soon realizes that he is
"complaining" to God and he takes it back. He discovers that God will not
look down on him if he does not write a masterpiece. He granted Milton a
great talent, and he expects Milton to be happy. He has to learn to do his
work in a dark world. This poe .....
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