.... in film making for quite a bit of time. He was employed at Paramount as a "title designer" for silent films meaning he wrote out the lines that are displayed after each shot in the film. From that job he worked his way up through the business to assistant director and directed a small film that was never finished or released. Hitchcock's directorial debut took place in 1925 with the release of the film "The Pleasure Garden". His breakthrough film came just a year later with "The Lodger", a film that came to be an ideal example of a classic Hitchcock plot. The general idea of the plot is an innocent man is accused of a crime he did not commit and th .....

.... and uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. He was fortunate to have an excellent family with which he held a strong relationship. Albert's mother, Pauline Einstein, had an intense passion for music and literature, and it was she that first introduced her son to the violin in which he found much joy and relaxation. Also, he was very close with his younger sister, Maja, and they could often be found in the lakes that were scattered about the countryside near Munich. As a child, Einstein's sense of curiosity had already begun to stir. A favorite toy of his was his father's compass, and he often marvelled at his uncle's explanations of algebra. Altho .....

.... and saw excessive violence in Massachusetts, he moved his family to Upper Canada. When Laura was eighteen they moved again to Bustling Port, which is near the Niagara River below the falls. After Laura had moved there she met a young man named James Secord. After dating for a long period of time, James asked Laura to marry him. They married in 1797 at the Church of England. They were very wealthy. Laura was a big help to James in his business since she came from such an affluent family. By 1812, the Secord's had five children, two servants, a small pleasant house and a wealthy store. When they first got married, they lived in St. Davids and after b .....

.... with the help of lady luck. Hitler’s ambitions to gain power may have been caused by an abnormal life. Hitler was born on April 20,1889 in a Braunan Am Inn. When Hitler was young he lived in carefree days under his loving mother, Klara Hitler, and his father Alois, was an officer in the army. At the age of six Hitler’s father received a pension from Austrian civil service and retired from the army. Another event happened that year, Hitler’s half-brother, Alois Jr., ran away from home because of the constant beatings he had received from his father. Now Hitler’s father’s abuse was put upon Hitler (Flood, p6-7). When the time to choose a secondary schoo .....

.... the Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli, obtaining his master's degree at the age of 16. In 1727, at the invitation of Catherine I, empress of Russia, Euler became a member of the faculty of the Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. He was appointed professor of physics in 1730 and professor of mathematics in 1733. In 1741 he became professor of mathematics at the Berlin Academy of Sciences at the urging of the Prussian king Frederick the Great. Euler returned to St. Petersburg in 1766, remaining there until his death. Although hampered from his late 20s by partial loss of vision and in later life by almost total blindness, Euler produced a number of import .....

.... a view toward entering a university. In secondary school nobody recognize his is talent for math and science because he rapidly distinguished himself in ancient languages. When Gauss was 14 he impressed the duke of Brunswick with his computing skill. The duke was so impressed that he generously supported Gauss until his death in 1806. Gauss conceived almost all his basic mathematical discoveries between the ages of 14 and 17. In 1791 he began to do totally new and innovative work in mathematics. In 1793-94 he did intensive research in number theory, especially on prime numbers. He made this his life's passion and is regarded as its modern founder. Gauss st .....

.... very influential to many people in the 17th throughout the 20th century. Locke wasn’t a man who studied and did work in one field or specific topic. Locke has written The Treatise on the Civil Magistrate, Essays on the Law of Nature, the Fundamental constitution of Carolina, essays concerning Human Understandings, an Two Treaties of Civil Government. (Cranston) Locke has had great influence on all the presidents and political leaders throughout American history. One man that was affected by Locke’s theories and influential ideas is Thomas Jefferson. He was the second president in America’s history. Jefferson followed a great president, Washington. Washingt .....

.... works in literature. Some of these works include Walden, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts and A plea for Captain John Brown. In his essay Civil Disobedience, Thoreau expresses his belief in the power and the duty of the individual to determine right from wrong… “It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even to most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.” (C.D.) In addition, Thoreau believed that his greatest skill was to “ .....