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Georg Simon Ohm
<view this essay>.... Gymnasium, like a college, in Erlangen, Bavaria (now
Germany) . During his time at this Gymnasium a professor noticed how he
excelled in math. This professor's name was Karl Christian von Langsdorf, Georg
owes this man much credit from his recommendations to others.
After he graduated he took a job teaching mathematics at Erlangen
University in 1805. He spent the next years looking for a better teaching
position. He found what he was looking for in 1817 when a job was made
available to him at Cologne Gymnasium. He now looked to research electrical
current. In 1827 he published Die galvanishce Kette, mathematisch bearbeit (The
Galvanic Circuit, Mathemati .....
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Albert Einstein 2
<view this essay>.... in human affairs and was one of the first supporters of a World Government, and had great compassion for people who were politically oppressed or economically oppressed. He was also fond of classical music, and was a great player of the violin. He was born to Hermann and Paulina Koch Einstein on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Württemberg Germany. As a young boy at the age of five his father Hermann, showed him a little pocket compass. Einstein was deeply impressed by the mysterious behavior of the compass, because it always pointed at the same direction no matter what direction he was holding the compass itself. He later said “something deep .....
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Abe Lincoln
<view this essay>.... where he learned to read, write and do arithmetic. Because there were no close neighbors during his earlier years in life, Abe got used to being alone, though he did not mind because of his fondness of nature and the outdoors. Even his later years as a politician, did he remember his knowledge of nature and of the differences in the trees that he passed by in Washington.
In December of 1816, Thomas Lincoln moved the family to the backwoods of Indiana, but to get there they had to cut a trail themselves out of the wilderness in order to reach their destination. In the autumn of 1818 Abe's mother Nancy died from "milk sickness", and so young Sarah, who wa .....
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Robert E. Lee
<view this essay>.... which would be instilled in him for the rest of his life. He was a very serious boy and spent many hours in his father's library reading as many books as he could get his hands on. He loved to play with his friends, swim and hunt. Lee looked up to his father and always wanted to know what he was doing. George Washington and his father, "Light-Horse Harry Lee," were his two heroes and he wanted to be just like them when he grew up. In 1811 the Lee family moved to a larger home in Alexandria, Virginia. The next year his father received injuries in a Baltimore riot from which he never fully recovered and that also caused his leaving of Alexandria for a wa .....
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David Guterson And His Use Of The Theme Of Nature
<view this essay>.... same aspects and characteristics of nature
in two different ways. First he describes in visual detail the literal or
actual effects that elements of nature have on the characters in the story.
But more importantly Guterson uses nature to convey substantial and
symbolic meaning in the lives of the characters in his stories.
One of the elements of nature that Guterson uses as a tool to
develop the conflicts in Snow Falling on Cedars are the strawberry fields
on the island. These fields represent an important source of income for
the community. Traditionally the Japanese laborers worked the fields and
the white Americans owned the fields. The question of the .....
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Bill Clinton
<view this essay>.... had sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.” Several videotapes, sapeanas, and cigar jokes later, the American public found out that he did, indeed, had sex with that woman.
Many were outraged, many thought it was his personal business, and many just didn’t care. The nation became divided on what actions should be taken against a popular president that had just admitted to lying to his public and possibly lying under oath. Every constitutional scholar had an opinion about what constituted high crimes and misdemeanors. The 146th congress had to determine that for themselves, and in early January of 1999, William Jefferson Clinton w .....
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George Berkely Philosopher
<view this essay>.... perception. In this realization, he postulated that everything we know we learned through some sort of sensory perception. He demonstrated that there was a veil of ignorance separating the materialist’s real object and the perceived object. For instance, if one could not ever perceive the pen, how could one ever know of its existence? He held that if an object is independent of one’s perception, then how could one know it to be real. He thought that you could not truly know something without first perceiving it in some way.
It was an easy step from that ideology for him to adopt the phrase – Esse Est Percipi, which means, “To be is to be perceived.” The .....
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Alvin Ailey
<view this essay>.... of Frank Thomas. The piece as originally performed consisted of danced portions and music interleudes grouped under three broad headings, “Pilgrim of Sorrow,” “That Love My Jesus Gives Me,” and “Move, Members, Move.” The work was revised extensively a month after its first performance and was again given at the Ninety-second Street YM-YWHA. Revelations has been seen in every country that the company has toured and has been universally acclaimed.
Born in Rogers, Texas on January 5, 1931, spent his formative years going to Sunday School and participating in The Baptist Young People's Union. At age twelve, he mov .....
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