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Louis Pasteur
Number of Words: 1348 / Number of Pages: 5
... he wanted to learn to teach chemistry and physics, just like his favorite professor.
In 1847 he earned a doctorate at the Ecole Normale in Paris, with a focus on both physics and chemistry. Becoming an assistant to one of his teachers, he began research that led to a significant discovery. He found that a beam of polarized light was rotated to either the right or the left as it passed through a pure solution of naturally produced organic nutrients, whereas when polarized light was passed through a solution of artificially synthesized organic nutrients, no rotation took place. If bacteria or other ...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Number of Words: 1485 / Number of Pages: 6
... or Denouement (Gray 6)".
Napoleon thought himself to be invincible and God-like. He felt that he had a destiny to be one of the greatest military leaders to ever live. The man thought that he could not be killed on the battle field, he was right. He went from a soldier to the Emperor of France in just ten short years; he fell in less than three.
Napoleon led an army of six-hundred-thousand men into Russia (Reihn 159). Napoleon was always very concerned about his soldiers and made sure that they were well taken care of (Segur 58 ). Napoleon attacked Russia from the Neims River on June 24, 181 ...
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Albert Einstein 3
Number of Words: 2009 / Number of Pages: 8
... to pass my examinations, I would go to Zurich. I would stay there for four years in order to study mathematics and physics. I imagine myself becoming a teacher in those branches of the natural sciences, choosing the theoretical part of them. Here are the reasons which lead me to this plan. Above all, it is my disposition for abstract and mathematical thought, and my lack of imagination and practical ability.
Indeed Einstein succeeded with 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. Ein ...
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Thomas Edison
Number of Words: 566 / Number of Pages: 3
... favorite book ever was Isaac Newtown's Principia Mathematica. Thomas was interested in inventing the light bulb. Thomas was a scientist as a kid. He like to test many things. When he was young he built a laboratory in the family's basement. Thomas did experiments he found in science books and got jars and chemicals for experiments from local shopkeepers. Thomas also used a spare train car for another laboratory. Thomas studied books on mechanics, manufacturing, and chemistry at the public library. He spent a long time studying Newtown's Principles. He also read lots of books such as Gibbon's Decline a ...
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Doris Lessing's Life And Her Writings
Number of Words: 1181 / Number of Pages: 5
... story is about a family and their farm hands trying to save a
maize crop from a huge swarm of locusts. Although their crop is ruined,
they are thankful that the swarm of locusts did not settle and lay eggs on
the farm. As a result, Margaret, the wife, who was brought up in the city,
slowly learns to adapt to her harsh yet beautiful surroundings” (Bloom,134).
In the story the main character is Margaret, a city girl is now a
farmer’s wife thrown into a way of life that is all new to her. “Margaret’
s love for her husband opposed to her despair for his future as a farmer”
(Thompson,1258). H ...
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Theodore Roosevelt
Number of Words: 3342 / Number of Pages: 13
... broadly, to say the least. Many conservatives worried about Roosevelt overextending his powers, and, on at least a few occasions, he was guilty thereof. Yet did not wish to abuse his office, though he might have. The decisive and benevolent—if possibly unconstitutional—actions that took benefitted America by making it a more equal and progressive place.
had several negative examples for commanding the couny. In 1798, in the wake of the French Revolution and to stave off Republican criticism, John Adams’s Federalist adminisation passed some of the most resictive acts in the United States’ histor ...
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Charles W. Chesnutt
Number of Words: 971 / Number of Pages: 4
... and
languages. He left Charlotte to take a job as assistant principal of the State
Normal School. By age 22, he was its principal. "There's time enough, but
none to spare."(1)
Lack of opportunity to advance led him to go to New York City
to find work at Dow, Jones and Company and also writes a financial
news column for the New York Mail and Express. Later that year his
son Edwin J. Chesnutt is born. In November, he leaves New York for
Cleveland where he begins to work in the accounting department of
Nickel Plate Railroad Company. While in Cleveland Chesnutt studied
La ...
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Adam Smith
Number of Words: 826 / Number of Pages: 4
... best interests the market would automatically produce what the people demand. He knew this would work be more effective and efficient than any governing body or groups of planners to decide the Three Economic Problems: What to produce? How to produce it? For whom to produce? He knew because the people, the consumers would be making those decisions for themselves. Smith also noticed that self-interest lead to increased trade and bargaining. "It is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of" (Classic Readings in Ec ...
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Bach, Johann Sebastian
Number of Words: 668 / Number of Pages: 3
... at Arnstadt to go and have lessons with him. This turned into a four-month leave, causing trouble with Bach's employers when he returned. Not only had his presence been missed for four consecutive months, but he had come back writing in an advanced and unusual style that wasn't exactly what was required. It was great music but it was just a little ahead of its time.
So Bach moved on to the job in Weimar, which gave him greater musical freedom. His main duties were court organist and chamber musician to the reigning Duke Wilhelm Ernst, and he afterwards attained the job of conductor to the court orch ...
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Linus Carl Pauling
Number of Words: 267 / Number of Pages: 1
... 1901, and educated
at Oregon State College and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He
began to apply his insights into quantum physics as professor of chemistry at
Caltech, where from 1927 to 1964 he made many of his discoveries. By devising
techniques such as X-ray and electron diffraction, he was able to calculate the
interatomic distances and angles between chemical bonds.
During the 1930s, Pauling introduced concepts that helped reveal the
bonding forces of molecules. The Nature of the Chemical Bond, the result of
these investigations, has been a major influence on scientific think ...
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