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- 5001: Carl Gauss
- ... time that Carl was teaching himself to read aloud, he also taught himself the meanings of number symbols and learned to do arithmetical calculations. When Carl Gauss reached the age of seven, he began elementary school. His potential for brilliance was recognized immediately. Gauss's teacher Herr Buttner, had assigned the class a difficult problem of addition in which the students were to find the sum of the integers from one ... out of his own pocket and presented them to Gauss, who reportedly flashed through them. In 1788 Gauss began his education at the Gymnasium, with the assistance of his past teacher Buttner, where he learned High German and Latin. After receiving a scholarship from the Duke of Brunswick, Gauss entered Brunswick Collegium Carolinum in 1792. During his time spent at the academy Gauss independently discovered Bode's law, the binomial theorem ...
- 5002: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
- ... suffered through the ravages of integrated schooling. Although an intelligent student who shared the dream of being a lawyer with Martin Luther King, Malcolm X’s anger and disillusionment caused him to drop out of school. He started to use cocaine and set up a burglary ring to support his expensive habit. Malcolm X’s hostility and promotion of violence as a way of getting change was well established in his ... about getting this equality through a non-violent way. King’s popularity was more than any other black leader’s popularity. "King urged blacks to win their rightful place in society by gaining self-respect, high moral standards, hard work and leadership. He also urged blacks to do this in a non-violent matter," (pg. 255, Reflecting Black) The difference is in Malcolm X and Martin Luther King’s backgrounds had ...
- 5003: Gas Prices In The Bay Area
- ... Transit and BART, can be very convenient and sometimes cheap. The main problem about having a car is you have to pay for your gas for your own car. Right now gas prices are tremendously high right now in the Bay Area. If gas prices are not lowered back down to $1.05 in the Bay Area, people will start taking BART and AC. Transit, and any other sources of transportation ... be used more, I was right. Of course I would be somewhat right off of personal opinion because I am one of those people who is using A.C. Transit and BART to get to school and class on Saturday mornings.
- 5004: Counseling A Compulsive Gamble
- ... they happen to have, or one who makes a friendly wager over a basketball game, which might not even include any type of currency, would be okay. It is the people who receive a major high from risking a lot of money on a card game, and who enjoy it so much that they do it often that need help. It is the compulsive gamblers that are the ones who really need help. What makes one a compulsive gambler? This is a question that many counselors should be aware of. A compulsive gambler is one who can never turn down a wager, not matter how high it is, nor how much risk is involved, would be considered a compulsive gambler. One who lives their lives in a way in which they rely on gambling as a form of making money, would ... help if they know they have a problem, or for others to seek help for them. If gambling continues to be such a significant part of American's lives, there is little hope for the high divorce rate and suicide rate to decrease in this country. Something needs to be done about this dangerous hobby and counseling is definitely a step in the right direction. References Barthelme, F., & Barthelme, S. ( ...
- 5005: Biography of Ernest Rutherford
- ... of Ernest Rutherford Ernest Rutherford was born at Bridgewater, close to Nelson, New Zealand. His parents had emigrated to New Zealand from Britain approximately 30 years earlier. Rutherford was a successful all-round student at school, though did not show any real interest in science. He entered Canterbury College at Christchurch, where his interest and ability for science developed and he graduated with first class degrees in science and mathematics. He ... gas was placed within a glass container which also contained an evacuated glass tube containing electrodes at each end (similar to a fluorescent tube). The apparatus was left for a few days after which a high voltage was applied across the two electrodes, the resulting electric discharge was analysed with the emission spectrum the same as that produced by the electric discharge from Helium gas. The alpha particles had travelled through ...
- 5006: William Stafford’s Inspiration
- ... my own weak, wandering, diffident impulses”. Through Stafford’s essay I discovered that creative writing is all about my own meandering thoughts and ideas and that what occurs to me is what matters most. In high school I became programmed to think like the teacher. When I would write an essay I would compose it with what the teacher wanted to read, not my ideas. I was convinced that I would get ...
- 5007: The Wright Brothers
- ... of a clergyman who later became a bishop of the United Brethren Church. The boys demonstrated their mechanical abilities at an early age. A skating accident made Wilbur an invalid for several years. While in high school Orville built a printing press and started a weekly newspaper. The Wright brothers became inseparable, and neither married. In 1892 the brothers opened a bicycle/repair shop, and manufactured their own bicycles. At a young ...
- 5008: Teenagers Wasting 2.3 Million
- ... else’s puke. Another big reason is boredom. This where my syndrome stems from. There is honestly NOTHING to do in Tuscarwaras County. If you have money in the winter you can bowl, watch a High School basketball game, go to the YMCA, see a movie, go shopping, drive around, experiment with make-up and different types of clothes, get on the Internet, and watch TV. With no money in the winter ...
- 5009: The Life of Edvard Munch
- ... of illnesses interrupted his studies. A year later Munch became more interested and more serious with the art of painting and sculpting, so he left the Technical College. In 1881, he enrolled in the Royal School of Drawing. There Munch studied the old masters, attended courses in painting of the nude, and he learned the skills of freehand and modeling. He was instructed by Norway's leading and finest artist, (at ... the Students'Association in Christiania. It was very unusual, or for that matter unheard of, for a young, controversial artist to have a one-man show. According to the newspaper Aftenposten, the retrospective "revealed a high degree of boldness and lack of self-criticism." However, impressed by the intensity and creativity of Munch's work, Munch's teacher, Christian Krohg, wrote an outstanding article in the newspaper Dagbladget: "He paints- that ...
- 5010: Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg Glenn Theodore Seaborg was born in Ishpeming, Michigan, on April 19, 1912. At the age of 10 he moved with his family to California, in 1929 he graduated at David Starr Jordan High School in Los Angeles as valedictorian of his class. He entered the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1929, and received the degree of Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1937 ...
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