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- 7881: Pythagoras of Samos
- Pythagoras of Samos Born: about 580 BC in Samos, Ionia Died: about 500 BC in Metapontum, Lucania Pythagoras (fl. 530 BCE) must have been one of the world's greatest men, but he wrote nothing, and it is hard to say how much of the doctrine we know as Pythagorean is due to the founder of the society and how much is later ... the other hand, few schools have shown so much capacity for progress and for adapting themselves to new conditions. Pythagoras started from the cosmical system of Anaximenes. Aristotle tells us that the Pythagoreans represented the world as inhaling 'air' form the boundless mass outside it, and this 'air' is identified with 'the unlimited'. When, however, we come to the process by which things are developed out of the 'unlimited', we observe ... and low in music. Musical tuning and health are alike means arising from the application of Limit to the Unlimited. It was natural for Pythagoras to look for something of the same kind in the world at large. Briefly stated, the doctrine of Pythagoras was that all things are numbers. In certain fundamental cases, the early Pythagoreans represented numbers and explained their properties by means of dots arranged in certain ' ...
- 7882: Carol Causs
- ... of number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy, and optics, as well as many more. The concepts that he himself created have had an immense influence in many areas of the mathematic and scientific world. Carl Gauss was born Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, on the thirtieth of April, 1777, in Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick (now Germany). Gauss was born into an impoverished family, raised as the only son of a ... The two discovered Kirchoff's laws, as well as building a primitive telegraph device. However, this was just an enjoyable hobby of Gauss's. He was more interested in the task of setting up a world wide net of magnetic observation points. This vocation produced a great deal of concrete results. The Magnetischer Verein and its journal were conceived, and the atlas of geomagnetism was published. From 1850 onwards Gauss's ... sleep early in the morning of February 23, 1855. Carl Gauss's influence in the worlds of science and mathematics has been immeasurable. His abstract findings have changed the way in which we study our world. In Gauss's lifetime he did work on a number of concepts for which he never published, because he felt them to be incomplete. Every one of these ideas (including complex variable, non-Euclidean ...
- 7883: Communism
- ... the majority of industry was made property of the people, which meant the majority of the means of production was controlled by the government. Lenin's government made many achievements. It ended a long civil war against the remnants of the old Tsarist military system and established institutions in government. During this period, censorship and the subordination of interest groups such as trade unions was imposed to stop dissension and increase ... to seize control. Once in control, Stalin's first major achievements were the Five Year Plans for industry. Russia had not yet had their industrial revolution and were far behind the other powers of the world. The first Five Year Plan worked as far as industrial output was concerned, but it was at much cost to the people of Russia. Once the Five Year Plans started to roll, Stalin decided to ...
- 7884: Everything Old Is New Again
- ... 1994 and 1999, but unfortunately, the festival in 1999 ended in violence, marring the essence of the original Woodstock. Racial tensions, civil rights disturbances, and deeply divided opinions over the American presence in the Vietnam war, all served to give the sixties a radical edge. People were passionate about what they believed in and were willing to give their lives, if necessary, to the cause. Young people became increasingly opposed to the Vietnam war and had a tendency to express their opinions more violently than Martin Luther King, Jr., who preached non-violence while leading the civil rights movement. The idea of free love and the feminist movement was ... memories. I was too young to understand, much less appreciate the significance of the events that influenced my generation. Some people called the 60’s the “decade of discontent” because of demonstrations against the Vietnam war. Some called it the decade of “peace, love, and harmony” because of the peace movement and the emergence of “flower children”. Who knows what society will call the nineties years from now and what ...
- 7885: Capone
- ... a rise in the 1920’s. And in the high ranks of organized crime was Al Capone. Al Capone ran many illegal businesses including bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, and murders. There were many gangs in the world of organized crime and Al Capone’s was at the top. Al Capone was the most infamous gangster in the 1920’s. Being a big time gangster was big business. Money was made fast and ... wanted anything to go wrong. He was sort of paranoid but Rothstein was a very powerful man. The most incredible act ever made by a thug just may have been the fixing of the 1919 World Series between the Reds and the White Sox. Many of the White Sox star players wanted higher wages, owners of the club refused. But Rothstien changed that. It was said that he paid off eight ... is, Yales Christmas party was held in New York, and by murdering these men Capone was showing his superiority. As Alva Johnston said in the New Yorker “Chicago is the imperial city of the gang world and New York a remote provincial place.” The incident was known as The Adonis club massacre. Prohibition may have caused the highest crime rate ever in organized crime. Frankie yale was a longtime friend ...
- 7886: Analysis Of A Streetcar Named
- Analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire Every person in this world feels the necessity of been loved at least one time in their life. Blanche feels this necessity and she tried to make herself loved but she has failed. Blanche arrives in New Orleans in a ... desire; to find someone who would love her. Her sister, Stella, was her only family member left; and Blanche goes to her in order to find a solution for her problems. Blanche lives in a world of illusions that she uses to hide from the real world. In the first scene we notice Blanche is very nervous and drinking alcohol to elude her reality. Then she tells her sister about the lost of Belle Reve, the family mansion. In this scene ...
- 7887: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... property. A witch they thought was a person who believed to have received such powers from evil spirits, such as the devil. Many people believed in witches because more than half the people in the world assumed it was true. People were certain that witches could harm their victims in various ways. Such as, by giving them a magic potion which would make her victims fall in love against they're ... or a lock of hair. She then would destroy the image by cutting it with a knife, burning it, or sticking pins into it. The victim supposedly would then suffer severe pain or even death"(World Book 310). Also they thought a witch could cast a spell by reciting a magic formula. The spell would make her victim suffer. The witch usually muttered the victim's name while she cast the ... some societies, people would often use false names so those witches wouldn't have any power over them. People blamed witches for any unexplainable misfortune, such as illness, a sudden death, or a crop failure (World Book 310). So when two girls first started acting disturbed, it was after hearing stories about children who had been tormented by witches. The girls would throw tantrums and have fits in which they ...
- 7888: The Feminine Mystique
- ... has to fit a certain role as a little girl, an uneducated and unemployed teenager, and finally as a wife and mother who is to happily clean the kitchen and cook things all day. After World War II, a lot of women's organizations began to appear with the goal of bringing the issues of equal rights into the limelight. The stereotype even came down to the color of a woman's ...
- 7889: Transcendentalism
- Transcendentalism Transcendentalism is the belief that man should reject the material world and concentrate on the simple things in life. Transcendentalism expresses the idea that man should be his own person. The basic principles of Transcendentalism are individualism and self-reliance. Transcendentalism also inspired a back to ... that believes that man should rely on himself and to be his own individual. It also states that man should get back to nature to find his true self. Rejection of technology and the material world for the spiritual world is also another component of Transcendentalism. It applies to today’s life in the sense that man is too focused on obtaining material items and conforming to society. Today’s man relies too much ...
- 7890: Battle Royal
- BATTLE ROYAL Everyday , racism is perceived as one of the most negative aspects of society . When people think of racism , they obviously see hatred , evil , and ignorance . It has been a part of world culture since recorded history and , no doubt , before that . When one thinks of racism in the United States , invariably , though not only , the struggle of the African-American is singled out . That is the main issue Ellison so powerfully addresses in his short story "Battle Royal". In it the author allows us to see the world through the eyes of a young black boy who is struggling to succeed in a predominantly white society . The thing that is absolutely essential to our understanding of the story is the understanding of this ... become more aware of . We have to get past the cover, and open up the book and read it before we judge. If people would do this it would rid the cause to many major world problems.
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