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- 12721: Albert Einstein
- ... would not be difficult to come to an agreement as to what we understand by science. Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thoroughgoing an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at the posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. But when asking myself what religion is I cannot ... imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without ... youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favor by means of magic and prayer. The idea of God in the religions taught at present is a sublimation of that ...
- 12722: Albert Einstein 5
- ... theories he developed 85 years ago are still the most accurate that we have. Einstein comes from humble beginnings, born to a not-so-well-to-do family in Ulm, Germany. He came into this world on March 14, 1879, born to Hermann and Pauline Einstein. Early in life, he showed a great interest in mathematics and the sciences. When he was about eight years old, his father gave him a ... relativity and the fourth dimension (time). In his last paper of 1905 he stated the ever-famous formula, E=mc2, saying that mass and energy are equivalent. These papers made him known throughout the scientific world. He was offered honorary doctorate degrees from many colleges, some of which would not even let him into their college when Einstein had applied. He taught at many different schools. He did not like it ... Royal Society s Copley Medal, the Royal Astronomical Society s Gold Medal, the first German Max Planck Medal, and the Nobel Prize for physics (Swisher 62). Around this time, Hitler and Germany were becoming a world power. In 1932, Einstein and Elsa fled Germany never to return again. In 1940, eight years after fleeing Germany, Elsa and Einstein became citizens of the United States of America. Einstein became a friend ...
- 12723: Albert Einstein Biography
- ... small amount of energy. Einstein used Planck's quantum hypothesis to describe the electromagnetic radiation of light. Einstein's second 1905 paper proposed what is today called the special theory of relativity. He based his new theory on a reinterpretation of the classical principle of relativity, namely that the laws of physics had to have the same form in any frame of reference. As a second fundamental hypothesis, Einstein assumed that ... to make preliminary predictions about how a ray of light from a distant star, passing near the Sun, would appear to be bent slightly, in the direction of the Sun. About 1912, Einstein began a new phase of his gravitational research, with the help of his mathematician friend Marcel Grossmann, by expressing his work in terms of the tensor calculus of Tullio Levi-Civita and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro. Einstein called his new work the general theory of relativity. After a number of false starts he published, late in 1915, the definitive version of general theory. When British eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed his predictions, Einstein was ...
- 12724: The Hundred Years' War
- ... the side of a small hill, while the heavy number of French men-at-arms and hired Genoese crossbowmen were at the foot of the hill on a plain. The English were ready with their new longbows at hand. The Genoese crossbowmen attacked the English, but were too tired due to the long day's march and because of an earlier rainstorm, their crossbow strings were loose. The English's longbow ... by the corrupt royal officials and military commanders. Moreover, the military began to decline. "King Richard II was not a good general. Most of Edward III's captains were dead or in captivity and the new generation of officers showed little aptitude for war." 15 But King Richard II had to fight France not only for glorious tradition but to save the wine trade with Gascony and the wool trade with ... and the unstable economic conditions made it difficult to meet military crises as they arose. Consequently, the English army in Gascony disbanded. 18 When it seemed as if there was no hope for France, a new light appeared for them. She was Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans. Joan of Arc and Charles VII were able to organize France. They invaded Gascony with an overwhelming force and began to ...
- 12725: The Middle East: A Great Deal Of Variation?
- ... to wage Jihad against pro-western Arab regimes, with the aim of setting up Islamic republics in their place. 3. However, the Islamic fundamentalist challenge is not directed solely at incumbent regimes in the Moslem world. Frequently they widen their range of targets to include westerners within their country. For example, the GIA in Algeria has deliberately targeted French citizens in Algeria since September 1993, because they allege that France is ... is a further highly dangerous aspect to the threat of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism against Western targets. The findings of the FBI and the judiciary in America indicate that the group responsible for blowing up the World Trade Center building in February 1993 was operating as a type of independent or freelance group of Islamic fundamentalists 4. The Middle East is also the major region of state sponsors and supporters of terrorism ... Western country to see terrorism just for the fact of how there government and country is ran. So there is a lot of variation in types and causes of terrorism in different parts of the world.
- 12726: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... finally were successful on March 10, 1876, when the first complete sentence was transmitted: "Watson, come here; I want you." The demonstration at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania introduced the telephone to the world and led to the organization of the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Six Major Events 1871 Bell started teaching deaf students in Boston. 1874-75 he began work on his great invention. Bells attorney had ... mankind was obviously the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1876. One year later Bell founded the Bell Telephone Company and began licensing telephone exchanges to route telephone calls through New England. Bell Telephone Company got in a fight with the Western Union Telegraph Company, which had filed a patent for the telephone just hours after Alexander Graham Bell. As part of the deal, in 1879 ...
- 12727: Natives Were Destroyed By European Prejudice and Material Ambitions
- Natives Were Destroyed By European Prejudice and Material Ambitions When the Europeans came over to visit the Natives, they did not understand that life in this new continent was different then life in their own. They were extremely ignorant about the Natives customs and their different way of living. It was clear that the natives' goals in life were much different then those of the Europeans. The Europeans were not welcome to accepting new culture and therefore the opportunities for accommodation and peaceful coexistence between Europeans and Natives were destroyed by European prejudice and material ambitions. To start with, when the Europeans came to North America they weren't ... that are of great value. Cartier also describes the Natives' land as being horrible. "If the soil were as good as the harbours, it would be a blessing; but the land should not be called New Land, being composed of stones and horrible rugged rocks;...in fine I m rather inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain." (43) It is obvious that he is an ...
- 12728: Almost A Woman
- In the autobiography Almost A Woman by Esmeralda Santiago, there are many cultural differences. She feels alienated from the rest of the people in New York or the United States, for that matter. When Esmeralda was thirteen she moved to New York with her family from Puerto Rico. She did not know a word of English nor did she have any idea of what the American culture was like. To top off her ignorance of the ... Hispanic who was sometimes lost in the ideas of the American. Some of that is true, but she didn t like the idea that people thought she was dumb just because the American culture was new to her. The other person that most people related her to was Rita Moreno s character in "West Side Story". Esmeralda hated this one even more. Moreno s character was a Puerto Rican girl ...
- 12729: The Spanish-American War: What It Meant For Cuba And America
- The Spanish-American War: What It Meant For Cuba And America Over 100 years ago, 1898, Cubans fought for independence from Spain and Americans sought to gain greater world power, wealth and to become a more prominent nation. Both Cuba and the Americas could gain from this war if they played it right, and that's exactly what they did. It all started on ... a story in order to gain more readers. The papers began printing colored comics as well, one being named "The Yellow Kid" a child who always wore a yellow gown. Soon people were calling the World, the Journal, and other papers like them "the yellow press." "They color the funnies," some readers chimed, "but they color the news as well." This is where the name Yellow-Journalism originates. While the press ... The Army troops pulled through and defeated the Spaniards quite easily, as well as hastily. The saying, "Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!" paid off in the end, the United States was now a world power and Spain was forced to grant independence to Cuba.
- 12730: Bangkok's Thammasat University Uprising
- ... ago by right-wing groups and police. The massacre was followed by a military coup and ended a brief flowering of democracy ushered in by a students movement in October 1973 that had stunned the world by toppling a well-entrenched military dictatorship. Two decades on, with official versions of history still coy about these events, numerous Thai citizens are demanding an honest depiction of the past. This, in turn, has ... forces, General Suchinda Krapayoon, forced an elected government to declare him prime minister though he was not a member of parliament. The military has stayed out of politics since then. Commentators say that given the new air of introspection and debate, Thailand will find it hard to continue denying the nation it really is -- a melting pot of cultures, ethnic groups, religions and languages.
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