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- 2531: Robert Andrew Millikan
- ... a dock, falling in the water, and almost drowning. Here he had his first account with physics - Newtons Third Law of Motion: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". Even in High School Physics courses Millikan was not so spirited, which may have had a little to do with his teachers habit of spending the summers using a divining rod to find water. After Millikan graduated from Maquoketa High he was accepted into Oberlin College. Robert actually began his physics career when he taught an elementary course at the request of his Greek professor during his sophomore year. He then transferred to Columbia ...
- 2532: Robert Frost
- Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. He moved to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard, but never earned a formal degree. Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem, "The Butterfly," was published on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent. In 1895, Frost married ...
- 2533: The Pigman
- THE PIGMAN The Pigman is a story about John and Lorraine, high school sophomores who, not getting what they need from their families, must surreptitiously seek love, reassurance, and meaning on the outside. In each other and Mr. Pignati (the Pigman), owner of a porcelain pig collection, they ... with Mr. Pignati and the drama leading to his death. John, a handsome and wild boy, drinks and smokes excessively; and, as Lorraine points out, only his good looks have kept him out of reform school. Lorraine, a shy girl John's own age, has low self-esteem and mild paranoia. John becomes attracted to her because he sees in her the same spontaneous, crazy quality that he has and ...
- 2534: Henry Ford
- ... his father approached him and asked Henry why he was doing it for free he said, "Why should I charge when I enjoy doing it so much." He fixed watches until 17 when he left school and walked to Detroit to get a job at Michigan Car Works making repairs for $1.10 a day. He then received a apprenticing job at Dry Dock Engine Company where he was a natural ... in awe when he would ride about town almost bragging that he had built a car. Soon after he was working as chief engineer at Detroit Edison Co. making $1,800 a year; an extremely high salary for the '90's. At the same time business man after business man approached Henry offering him great sums of money to build their cars in his spare time. In 1901 Henry and many ... Henry then took over the company on account of Edsel's son Henry II not yet experienced enough to run the company. On April 7, 1947 Henry Ford died. Known for making a low priced, high quality automobile and introducing mass production into the car market Henry revolutionized the automobile industry. In just a few days marking the fiftieth anniversary of his death everyone should look back and see just ...
- 2535: Individual Organization Behavior
- ... back. *(That includes mine of course).* - Single soldiers tend to miss UTA's more than married ones. - J/S is found more with higher rank soldiers instead of looking at marital status. d. We provide school, day-care and counseling programs to dependents. This helps the soldiers cope with the stressful job of parenting. This helps the organization deal with absenteeism, J/S and turnover. e. Tenure to the US Army ... depends on others' decisions. Or that luck and chance have much to do in it. [Found in most of my soldiers]* Machiavellism = A way to characterize a persons ability to manipulate, gain or lack power. - High Machs = (Most of my First Line Supervisors) - Low Machs = People that don't like to persuade, believe in SOP Reg's and rules. (My higher chain of Command including myself) Self Esteem = This is found ... and women. All at mgmt level use a formula: Every mission is given a number, if the sum equals 18-21 the degree of risk man-agement calls for Low caution 22-25 is a High caution #>25 is a Dangerous Mission. * We can say that Risk taking is the big factor in O/B in my organization* D. Personalities and National Cultures Type A = These personalities are found in ...
- 2536: Billy Sunday
- ... make it on his own. He worked for a Civil War veteran and his wife. Colonel and Mrs. John Scott took him in, loved him, worked him hard, and sent him to two years of high school. No one knows whether or not he graduated, but he was much better educated than the typical American was. In 1880, two months before his eighteenth birthday, Billy Sunday decided to give up the rural ... 256. In 1886 Sunday played twenty-eight games and batted .243. During the season of 1887 he was a starter in fifty games and rapped out fifty-eight hits, pushing his average to a career high of .291. He also stole thirty-four bases that year. Establishing himself as a professional ball player was important to the Iowa farm boy, but it paled in comparison to an event that took ...
- 2537: Apollo 4
- ... is going to compare the Apollo 1 and the Challenger disasters. Both space programs were unfortunate disasters, caused by a series of oversights and misjudgments. How did this lost of life occur in such a high tech environment? Apollo 4 On January 27, 1967, the three astronauts of the Apollo 4, were doing a test countdown on the launch pad. Gus Grissom was in charge. His crew were Edward H. White ... at NASA had received enough information about faulty O-rings by August 1985 that they should have ordered discontinuation of flights. The shuttle rocketed away from the icicle laden launch pad, carrying a New Hampshire school teacher, NASA's first citizen in space. It was the worst accident in the history of NASA in nearly 25 years. 11:38 a.m. cape time, the main engine ignition followed by clouds of ... rocket. Seventy-three seconds after lift-off the Challenger suddenly disappeared amid a cataclysmic explosion which ripped the fuel tank from nose to tail (Timothy 441). The explosion occured as Challenger was 10.35 miles high and 8.05 miles downrange from the cape, speeding toward space at 1,977 mph. Lost along with the $1.2 billion spacecraft were a $100 million satellite that was to have becooome an ...
- 2538: Reference Pricing How Effectiv
- ... under a wide range of conditions and be routinely predictable. The problem found by Gijsbrects (1993) is that different product classes have greatly different levels of price recall. He found that knowledge of prices among high involvement products, regularly purchased brands and items of budgetary importance were high while others were not. This suggests that the reference price concept may be suited to only some product classes, such as regularly purchased F.M.C.G.s. A further problem with the concept's ... applied to other pricing methods such as cost plus pricing - it can help shape more appropriate pricing levels for a firm. References Barwise, P. (1995). Good Empirical Generalizations, Working Paper, Center for Marketing: London Business School. Biswas, A. & Blair, E. (1991) Contextual effects of reference price in retail advertisements. Journal of Marketing, 55(July), 1-12. Biswas, A., Wilson, E.J. & Licata, J.W. (1993). Reference Price Studies in Marketing: ...
- 2539: Themes Of Italian Renaissance Art
- ... every individual figure stood out separately, as in Boticelli's Adoration of the Magi. One form of art representing the individual was the portrait. Wealthy families and individuals commissioned artists to create statues and paintings. High regard for individual personality is demonstrated in the number and quality of portraits painted at this time (Flemming, 286). Italian Renaissance humanism were motivated by a rediscovery of the values of Greco-Roman civilization. An ... the studying and learning of art in the Renaissance, it would be of little wonder that the subject of some of the art was learning itself. The most famous example of this is Raphael's School of Athens. Raphael, along with Michelangelo, was placed in the painting among the ranks of artist-scholars. As members of a philosophical circle intent on reconciling the views of Plato and Aristotle, Raphael and his ... of it. For humanism it was David, for naturalism it was Annunciation, for individualism, it was The Last Supper, for classicism, it was St. Peter's Basilica, and for learning and reason, it was The School of Athens. It was these themes, which dominated every other aspect of the Renaissance, that dominated the artistic aspect. Works Cited Barrett, Maurice. Raphael. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1965 Calder, Ritchie. Leonardo and the Age ...
- 2540: Microsoft The Company
- Microsoft: THE COMPANY The thought of forming a company which supplies its customers with software, was a great idea--especially coming from a college dropout. Bill Gates, along with high-school friend Paul Allen, formed a software company in 1975. From the beginning, Microsoft had a tremendous potential to become a very successful corporation. Beginning with a revenue of sixteen thousand dollars, and three employees, Microsoft ... Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. Gates' father was a lawyer, and his mother was a teacher (Cusumano and Selby 23). Much of Gates' programming started while he was a thirteen year old, from Lakeside School (tripod 1). He learned BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction) programming with, then sophomore, Paul Allen. By 1973, Gates was a student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Allen had enrolled at the University ...
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