|
» Biographies Essays and Papers
Isaac Newton
<view this essay>.... in Grantham. Then later he attended Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. Newton ignored much of the established curriculum of the university to pursue his own interests; mathematics and natural philosophy. Proceeding entirely on his own, he investigated the latest developments in mathematics and the new natural philosophy that treated nature as a complicated machine. Almost immediately, still under the age of 25, he made fundamental discoveries that were instrumental in his career science. The Fluxional Method, Newton's first achievement was in mathematics. He generalized the methods that were being used to draw tangents to curves and to calculate .....
Number of words: 679 | Number of pages: 3 |
|
Madonna
<view this essay>.... she attended school at the University of Michigan. Before she even attended college, she was already well talented in the field of dance. She was so good that she won a dance college scholarship in high school. This was the main reason she continued onto college. In the beginning of her college education, she enjoyed going to school on a daily basis. In addition, she enjoyed learning and meeting new friends.
However, she began to get bored with her college education and her stay in college was brief. Within the next two years she dropped out of the University of Michigan and decided to pursue a career elsewhere. She knew that she wanted to either .....
Number of words: 1055 | Number of pages: 4 |
|
Dylan Thomas
<view this essay>.... in August and The World I Breathe was released in December.(Bookshelf ’98)
In April of 1940 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was published and in September Dylan began working for Strand Films, Inc. He remained with Strand through the conclusion of the Second World War. His second child Aeronwy, Byrn Thomas was born in March of 1943. Deaths and Entrances was released in 1946. Three years later his child, Colm Garan Hart Thomas, was born. In 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems, was published. In addition to the work previously mentioned, he also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories, did a series lecture tours .....
Number of words: 1180 | Number of pages: 5 |
|
Miller's Incident At Vichy
<view this essay>.... while waiting to be seen by the police captain. The
seven main characters had very dramatic parts. The main characters I
identified with were Bayad, a master electrician who is 25, Marchand, a
cheerful and impatient businessman who was 25, Lebeau, a bearded, unkept
painter who was also 25 and very out spoken, Monceau, an actor, Leduc, a
doctor of psychiatry and captain in the French army, Von Berg, an Austrian
prince, and Ferrand, a cafe proprietor.
What a profound insight Arthur Miller has given us on these
characters who all lead very different lives and were thrown together in
similar circumstances.
What was similar amongst these characters were t .....
Number of words: 497 | Number of pages: 2 |
|
Clement Richard Attlee
<view this essay>.... health care, improved education, and rebuilt housing destroyed by the war. After the Conservative Party won the 1951 elections, Attlee again became opposition leader in Parliament. He resigned in 1955.
The British government began to think about Newfoundland 's future in 1942. The Commission of Government would have to be terminated when the war ended, but what should replace it? British officials, like their Canadian counterparts, thought Newfoundland should join Canada. But this could only be done by consent. So what did Newfoundlanders want?
The Dominions Secretary, Clement Attlee, visited Newfoundland in 1942, and he was followed the next year by a " .....
Number of words: 532 | Number of pages: 2 |
|
Bootleggers Boy
<view this essay>.... 5, 1937. He was born in Crossett, a small town in southern Arkansas. His first house was a houseboat on the Ouachita River. His dad worked at the toll bridge over the river. In 1941 he and his family moved to Long Beach, California. They moved there so his dad could work on ships during the war. When the war ended he moved back to Crossett, Barry just finished the third grade. His dad went through many jobs but didn’t gain any money. Then he decided to go to Louisiana and buy a few cases of whiskey. He brought the cases back to the dry county of Crossett and made a good profit. After this he became a bootlegger. Barry grew up as a poor ki .....
Number of words: 1475 | Number of pages: 6 |
|
Albert Einstein Biography
<view this essay>.... and while there he completed an astonishing range of theoretical physics publications, written in his spare time without the benefit of close contact with scientific literature or colleagues. Einstein earned a doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1905. In 1908 he became a lecturer at the University of Bern, the following year becoming professor of physics at the University of Zurich.
By 1909 Einstein was recognised as a leading scientific thinker. After holding chairs in Prague and Zurich he advanced (1914) to a prestigious post at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft in Berlin. From this time he never taught a university courses. Einstein remained on the st .....
Number of words: 662 | Number of pages: 3 |
|
Frederick Douglass And Slavery
<view this essay>.... She was
drawn to the questioning mind of Douglass. Her husband however, put a stop to
this stating the teaching of Douglass to read would, "Spoil the best nigger in
the world... forever unfitting him for the duties of a slave."
As a slave child some experiences were hard to describe. Douglass
witnessed, as a child, what he called a "horrible exhibition." He lived with his
Aunt in one of the master's corridors. The master was an inhumane slave holder.
He would sometimes take great pleasure in whipping a slave. Douglass was often
times awakened by the screams of his Aunt. She would be tied and whipped on her
back. The master would whip her till he was literal .....
Number of words: 663 | Number of pages: 3 |
|
|