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- 20041: Niels Bohr
- ... Thomson and Ernest Rutherfurd. He returned to Copenhagen in 1916 as a professor at the university. He became the director of the university's Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1920, to which he attracted many world-renowned physicist. In 1922, he won the Nobel Prize for his work on the atomic structure. When he visited the United States in 1939, he brought the knowledge that the German scientists were successful in ...
- 20042: Pierre De Fermat
- ... can be found into the product of powers of primes in only one way. These were some interesting things that Mr. Fermat did in his life. During Mr. Fermat's life many things happened as world events. First Ludolph Van Ceulen died, there is a site dedicated to this long-ignored mathematician, who spent his entire life, approximating Pi to 35 places. Then Blaise Pascal lived his entire life, born in ...
- 20043: Hamlet Literary Analysis
- ... Claudius, he is not a good actor and when he rises Hamlet responds with, "What, frighted with false fire" (3.2.243). Hamlet is saying it is only a play, it is not real. This new proof drives Hamlet to use more words. Later, Hamlet again talks himself out of character and does not kill the King. He puts it off until later and says: When he is drunk asleep, or ...
- 20044: On Mr. Booker T. Washington's Trickery
- ... its social structure, and the consequences usually last for generations. Some examples of this are most modern nations of Africa. The tribes that live on such territories when the colonist from Europe came, were imposed new social, political and economical structures, they were forced to skip several steps in the economical scale. After the colonist left these Africans were left with a system they could hardly manage themselves, for they omitted ...
- 20045: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... barrister-at-law. There were several important influences that he encountered here: the Western material style of life, which he decided not to follow, and in the simple Russian way of living he found: the New Testament, and the Bhagavadgita, the bible of the Hare Krishna movement. It was here that he developed a sense of the presence of God in his life and the lives of men. Gandhi then returned ...
- 20046: Robert E. Lee
- ... Lee was 18, he went to West Point. There were only 6,000 other men in the entire army. Later that year, Lee said goodbye to his mother and took a stagecoach from Virginia to New York. At the end of his first year at West Point, he was appointed Staff Sergeant. When he was twenty-two, he took his money that he earned; $103.58 in cash and he started ...
- 20047: Thoreau as a Prophet
- ... taught that man can live with the four basic necessities of life, but often chooses not to do so. After reviewing Walden, Thoreau has shown himself as being a prophet of twentieth-century problems. The world has increasingly become worse in regards to a materialistic outlook.
- 20048: Black Powder
- ... upon the dimension of the original grain. Large powder grains which allow more time for their burning are used in the larger guns. This was also worked on and the burning method led to two new improvements. One, the use of multiple perforations in the prismatic grain by f which the burning surface was made actually to increase as the burning progressed, with a resultant acceleration in the rate of production ...
- 20049: Ray Bradbury: Literary Influences
- ... In addition to having several of his works in high school textbooks, Bradbury recently released The Martian Chronicles on CD-ROM (Sci-Fi for you D: Drive 89). Works Cited Johnson, Wayne, L. Ray Bradbury. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1980. Kunitz, Stanley, J. and Haycraft, Howard. Twentieth Century York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1942. Mogen, David. Ray Bradbury. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986. ---. Ray Bradbury. The Electronic Encyclopedia. CD-ROM ...
- 20050: How The Scarlet Letter Effects
- ... upon her and concentred on her bosom" (55). Hester is doing everything possible from going completely crazy. So many people are staring at her as if she's the most unfaithful, awful person in the world. She knows that she will never regain the respect she had before this incident. The scarlet letter she wears will constantly remind her and the townspeople that she is a sinner. While at Governor Bellingham ...
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