|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 1951 - 1960 of 8980 matching essays
- 1951: Albert Einstein 3
- ... his plan graduating in 1900 as a teacher of mathematics and physics. One of his friends at ETH was Marcel Grossmann who was in the same class as Einstein. Einstein tried to obtain a post, writing to Hurwitz who held out some hope of a position but nothing came of it. Three of Einstein's fellow students, including Grossmann, were appointed assistants at ETH in Zurich but clearly Einstein had not impressed enough and still in 1901 he was writing round universities in the hope of obtaining a job, but without success. He did manage to avoid Swiss military service on the grounds that he had flat feet and varicose veins. By mid 1901 he ... became a citizen of the United States, but chose to retain his Swiss citizenship. He made many contributions to peace during his life. In 1944 he made a contribution to the war effort by hand writing his 1905 paper on special relativity and putting it up for auction. It raised six million dollars, the manuscript today being in the Library of Congress. By 1949 Einstein was unwell. A spell in ...
- 1952: A Dream Deferred - Poetry Explination
- ... was born into an abolitionist family. As the grandson of James Mercer Langston, the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855, Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didn't think he would be able to make a living at writing, and encouraged him to pursue a more practical career. His father paid his tuition to Columbia University on the grounds he study engineering. After a short time, Langston dropped out of the program with a B+ average, all the while he continued writing poetry. (Hughes) The poetry of Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of Harlem, is an effective commentary on the condition of blacks in America during the 20th Century. Hughes places particular emphasis on Harlem, a ...
- 1953: Anne Tyler
- ... lived among various Quaker communities in the rural south before settling in Raleigh, North Carolina. At the age of 19 Tyler graduated from Duke University, Raleigh, where she won the Anne Flexner Award for creative writing. She did post-graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. Before settling in Baltimore Tyler was the Russian bibliographer at Duke University and worked in the law library of McGill University. As a writer ... by the past and are unable to see their selves or to feel alive, but Tyler also ponders the possibility of a happy accident, which could change one's life and open new ways of personal development. In 1989 Tyler won Pulitzer Price for Breathing Lessons . Among her other works are Saint Maybe (1991) and Ladder of the Year.
- 1954: Adam Smith
- ... Lastly, when Smith developed the concept of the invisible hand he assumed that the economy would relatively remain unchanged. Let us start with my first hypothesis. Self-interest is defined as regard for one s personal advantage or benefit. We see and carry out this everyday. It is natural to look of one s self first and Smith knew that, in fact he encouraged it. He observed that if everyone acted ... man would promote selfishness as the only way to think and act? This leads to my next hypothesis. Smith s first book the Theory of Moral Sentiments was published just five years before he began writing his second, the Wealth of Nations which dealt with the pursuit of self-interest. It s hard to believe that Smith could have written the second book devoid of morality not too long after finishing ...
- 1955: A Political Biography On Jfk
- ... his marriage to Jacqueline Bouvier, Kennedy was troubled by back problems, and as it got worse in 1954 and 1955 , he underwent spinal operations. During his long absence from the senate, he occupied himself by writing a study of notable acts of courage by eight United States senators. This book, published in 1956 entitled Profiles in Courage, received the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957. After Kennedy returned to work in ... Senate by a margin of more than 874,000 votes. This firmly established him as a leading contender for the presidential nomination. In January 1960, he formally announced his candidacy. Backed again by a formidable personal organization, he defeated Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr., of Minnesota and other rivals in several hard fought primaries. At the convention he deployed his forces so skillfully against those of Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of ...
- 1956: Marco Polo
- ... 69) as merchants. When they left (1271) Venice to return to China, they were accompanied by 17-year-old Marco and two priests. Early Life Despite his enduring fame, very little was known about the personal life of Marco Polo. It is known that he was born into a leading Venetian family of merchants. He also lived during a propitious time in world history, when the height of Venice's influence ... a lucky turn. In prison Marco met a man named Rustichello from Persia, who was a writer of romances(Stefoff 21). To pass the time, Marco dictated his observations about Asia to Rustichello, who, in writing them down, probably employed the Italianized Old French that was the language of medieval romances. Their book was soon circulating, since Marco remained in prison only a year or so, very likely gaining his freedom ...
- 1957: Bram Stoker
- ... in the Dublin Castle. His literary career began as early as 1871 and in that year he took up a post as the unpaid drama critic for the "Evening Mail," while at the same time writing short stories. His first literary "success" came a year later when, in 1872, The London Society published his short story "The Crystal Cup." As early as 1875 Stoker's unique brand of fiction had come ... information given to Stoker by an Egyptologist. In 1905 Henry Irving died, leaving the aging Stoker without a steady jot for the first time in his life. A year after Irving's death Stoker wrote "Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving." Stoker managed to write other novels after this point until the time of his death in 1912 at the age of 64.
- 1958: Karl Marx
- ... Engels was the one who gave Marx and his family money to survive on during these years. His only other source of money was his job as the European correspondent for The New York Tribune, writing editorials and columns analyzing everything in the "political universe." Marx published his first book on economic theory in 1859, called A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Marx's "political isolation" ended when he ... but was personally opposed to him because Marx had an "ethnic aversion" to Russians. Bakunin believed that Marx was a "German authoritarian and an arrogant Jew who wanted to transform the General council into a personal dictatorship over the workers." Bakunin organized sections of the International for an attack on the "dictatorship" of Marx and the General Council. Marx didn't have the support of a right wing and feared that ...
- 1959: Marco Polo
- ... 69) as merchants. When they left (1271) Venice to return to China, they were accompanied by 17-year-old Marco and two priests. Early Life Despite his enduring fame, very little was known about the personal life of Marco Polo. It is known that he was born into a leading Venetian family of merchants. He also lived during a propitious time in world history, when the height of Venice's influence ... a lucky turn. In prison Marco met a man named Rustichello from Persia, who was a writer of romances(Stefoff 21). To pass the time, Marco dictated his observations about Asia to Rustichello, who, in writing them down, probably employed the Italianized Old French that was the language of medieval romances. Their book was soon circulating, since Marco remained in prison only a year or so, very likely gaining his freedom ...
- 1960: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... Women's Suffrage Association, the Women's Trade Union League, housing and consumer movements, and the Women's Division of the New York State Democratic Party. Working at all these different places, she made several personal friends who were so different from those with whom she had grown up. Her readiness to work and good sense enchanted all. She was quickly recognized as a leader. Steadily she developed as a speaker ... it now" Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 A month before Roosevelt's election, a month as black as any as the depression approached its nadir, she had done a magazine article on the meaning of relition, writing: "The worst thing that has come to us from the depression is fear. Fear of an uncertain future, fear of not being abel to meet our problems, fear of not being equipped to cope with ...
Search results 1951 - 1960 of 8980 matching essays
|
