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- 2801: Albert Einstein 2
- ... was the theory of relativity (E=MC2), which was Einstein's theory concerning that relationship among matter, energy, space, time, and gravitation (Energy equals the mass times speed of light squared). When he was in school, he used to ask his teachers calculus questions that they could not answer. "Have you ever wondered why a man's feet will sink into either dry or completely submerged sand?" This question resulted in ... to be very heard, which he became anyway, and did not want everyone to treat him anymore special than anyone. Hoffman clearly explains this is his story of Einstein. Einstein went from being an average school student, to being the most famous scientist known to man. His theories, which were not always used for a good cause and his explanations, revealed answers to everyday things that one does not realize. He ...
- 2802: Your Chemical World
- ... deadly results that can happen. Almost any chemical in unknowing or just wrong hands can be dangerous to body, mind, and earth. As a result massive preventive education has taken place in the workplace to school to the home. Because chemicals do bring down an air of risk, we must decide whether the benefits of the chemicals are worth the risk. Personally I think not, but as the technological advances continue ... deadly results that can happen. Almost any chemical in unknowing or just wrong hands can be dangerous to body, mind, and earth. As a result massive preventive education has taken place in the workplace to school to the home. Because chemicals do bring down an air of risk, we must decide whether the benefits of the chemicals are worth the risk. Personally I think not, but as the technological advances continue ...
- 2803: A Separate Peace
- ... Peace A Separate Peace is a novel about two boy's lives and how they evolve during the course of WWII. The story was written by John Knowles, who also left home to attend a school at the age of 15. The story involves many instances in which the barriers between friendship and rivalry are cited. One of the main characters of the story, Phineas, often demonstrates that it is important ... course of his stay at Devon, Phineas wins several awards in all the sports he plays in. One day while the others are away, Phineas and Gene go to the gym and Phineas breaks the school time trial record for swimming. If Gene was not injured by his fall out of the tree then he would be able to compete in the Olympics. Phineas is a friendly and outgoing kind of ...
- 2804: Five Against The World - Perl Jam
- ... didn't get along with, a guy I thought was my father. There were fights and bad, bad scenes. I was kind of on my own at a pretty young age. I never finished high school. He was Eddie Mueller then. After moving briefly to San Diego, both his parents had returned to Chicago. Vedder, who subsequently took his mother's maiden name, had stayed behind to pursue his career in ... Abbruzzese says, "I will be the happiest f---ing gas-station attendant you ever saw." Best of all, Pearl Jam are no longer a band with only one very, very big album. "There's no school to go to for some of the weird shit that happens," says Vedder. "The f---ing weirdness of it all. But some of these guys, they can help out a bit. Bob Dylan's advice ...
- 2805: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... visible speech. The system, which was made by his father, the Scottish teacher Alexander Melville Bell, shows how the lips, tongue, and throat are used in the articulation of sound. In 1872 Bell made a school for deaf and mute people, in Boston, Massachusetts. The school became part of Boston University, where Bell was a teacher of vocal physiology. He became a U.S. citizen in 1882. Since Bell was 18, he had been working on the idea of transmitting speech ...
- 2806: Psychological Perspectives
- ... ethnicity groups, and social statuses have many different imaginary guidelines by which they follow, decisions are made based on these different aspects. For example a young child from a minority background may not feel that school is with worth while, one because they do not have any of their own people to observe that choose to do well in school. Or two they may feel that because they are labeled " minority " the fact of ever becoming anything more than that may be unrealistic. There is also the fact many of these children may not see ...
- 2807: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- ... father, Manley, also wrote a volume of poetry. His mother on the other hand was a very pious person. She was actively involved in the church and impressed her religion on Gerard. He attended Highgate School where his talent for poetry was first shown. Some sources say he won as many as seven contests while enrolled at Highgate. Gerard in 1864 enrolled at Balliol College, at Oxford, to Read Greats (classics ... three of his friends were drawn in to Catholicism. He was received by the Church of Newman in October of 1866. After having taken a first class degree in 1867, he taught at the Oratory School, Birmingham. Two years later he decided to become a Jesuit when he burned all his verses as too worldly. When he entered as a Jesuit he wrote no poems. although the though of crossing the ...
- 2808: The Bluest Eye: Summary
- ... chapter I wanted to read specifically on Pauline or Cholly was one dealing with either or both of them going to jail. Pecola endures physical and verbal abuse not only at home, but also at school. The only two friends she has, who even remotely care what happens to her. Pecola is always the target of cruel and demeaning jokes, which usually refer to her very dark skin. Once in the ... other things in Pecolas life, the facade of happiness is only temporary. Once again called ugly and black by her own race, Pecola further sinks into her well of depression. Aside from home and school, absolute strangers also torment Pecola. Almost every person that sees her comments on how ugly the child is. There is never any concern or pity for the poor girl, but just contempt and laughter behind ...
- 2809: David Copperfield
- ... Dartle's part. 'Sniveling hypocrisy,' again we see Heep classified under this category but more so there are two other very evil characters which are very hypocritical: Mr.Creakle, the cruel headmaster of Salem house school. Initially he is the cruelest most disrespectful headmaster alive but towards the end of the novel he has turned into a very nice, polite warden at a jailhouse who has respect even for the greatest ... it has: when we begin to read David Copperfield we start to feel as if the bad luck is all happening to him, his mother re-marries a cruel man, he goes to an awful school, his mother, he has to work unfairly ect... Steerforth's servant Littimer once calls David 'young innocence' (chapter 32). This name is appropriate. David is sensitive, honest and loving as a child, and remains so ...
- 2810: Bill Gates
- ... off. His father, William H. Gates II, is a prominent attorney. His mother, Mary, is the director of First Interstate Bank. Early on in life, Gates' parents placed him into Lakeside, an academically challenging private school. While at Lakeside, Gates met his close friend and future business partner Paul Allen. Together they entered the world of programming at Lakeside. It all started on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, where one of the brains behind Microsoft Corporation was born, William Henry Gates III. At thirteen he started going to Lakeside School. A year later, the Mothers' Club invested in a computer terminal for the students. Gates teamed up with three other students to form The Lakeside Programmers Group. Their first real business deal was a payroll ...
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