Papers on History
Albert Einstein
Words: 713 - Pages: 3.... in a Swiss patent office. Not long after he married Mileva Maric and had two sons.
1905 was the biggest year for Einstein. It is called his "Miracle Year". He published a paper on the Brownian Motion and the seminal papers on his theory of relativity. He received his doctrine from the University of Zurich for a theoretical dissertation of molecules. He published three very important papers to twentieth century physics.
The first paper on Brownian motion made significant predictions on the motion of particles that are randomly distributed in a fluid, which were later proved by an experiment
The second paper on Photoelectric effect pr .....
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The Discovery Of The New World Changed European Conceptions, Views, And Material Conditions
Words: 1421 - Pages: 6.... all Europeans. Merchants, bankers and lawyers with rising cash incomes adjusted to the economic conditions and they prospered. Workers rioted and had strikes, in attempt to obtain higher wages. Sixteenth century intellectuals blamed this inflation on the import of American treasure in Europe.
Modern historians have a different opinion on the causes of inflation. The price of wheat and other basic foods increased before the arrival of American gold and silver. Evidence shows there was a population increase. Therefore, the demand for food rose faster than the production did.
The inflation had a negative effect on all of society. Much tensi .....
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Terrorism As An International
Words: 2706 - Pages: 10.... terrorism and intelligence agencies throughout the world. First is the spy, agent or combatant. This is the person who carries out a mission. He/she does not necessarily work alone. Depending on the mission one or many spies may contribute in various ways. The entire team of spies, combatants or agents is called a “pod”. These pods can act in a plethora of ways. One such way is a clandestine operation, where the actions are taken on foreign soil, specifically in the State, or Country where the result will occur. Generally there are two different types of combatants: those who work in the in the field actually performing opera .....
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The Effect Of Militancy In The British Suffragette Movement
Words: 2505 - Pages: 10.... started long before the turn of the twentieth century. One of the very first "suffragettes" (the term coined as an insult by the London Daily Mail, but adopted easily by the female suffragists1) was Mary Smith, an unmarried property owner. In 1832 she quietly petitioned Parliament urging the inclusion of propertied women as those priveleged to vote for members of Parliament. The House of Commons laughed at the petition, a reaction that would be repeated several times over the next few decades, until the entire nation was forced to consider the question of women's suffrage seriously.Through much effort, by the early twentieth century Eng .....
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Biography Of Adam Smith
Words: 909 - Pages: 4.... what was to be his lifework.' Smith was not happy with the money that was being spent toward an education that was not stimulating his needs at the time. He left Oxford in 1746 due to the lack of intellectual stimulation, but not before expressing his views. "Smith's hostility to Oxford's educational inefficiency and expensiveness is well brought out in his letters of this period:
Adam Smith to William Smith 'at the Duke of Argyle's House in Brutin St. Oxon: August 24, 1740.
Sir,
I yesterday receiv'd your letter with a bill of sixteen pounds enclos'd for which I humbly thank you, but more for the good advice you were pleas'd to .....
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Japan: After World War II
Words: 1662 - Pages: 7.... most Japanese. When the first signs of winter set in, the
occupation forces immediately took over all the steam-heated buildings. The
Japanese were out in the cold in the first post war winter fuel was very
hard to find, a family was considered lucky if they had a small barely
glowing charcoal brazier to huddle around. That next summer in random
spots new ho uses were built, each house was standardized at 216 square
feet, and required 2400 board feet of material in order to be built. A
master plan for a modernistic city had been drafted, but it was cast aside
because of the lack of time before the next winte r. The thousands of
people who .....
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Slavery - A Cruel Institution
Words: 2010 - Pages: 8.... of ten or fifteen minutes, which is given them at noon to swallow their allowance of cold bacon, they are not permitted a moment idle until it is too dark to see, and when the moon is full, they often times labor till the middle of the night (Northrup 15). The slaves lived in constant fear of punishment while at work, and it was that fear that drove them to obey. Northrup continues to say that, "No matter how fatigued and weary he may be…a slave never approaches the gin-house with his basket of cotton but with fear. If it falls short in weight—if he has not performed the full task appointed him, he knows he must suffer" (10). .....
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John L Lewis
Words: 815 - Pages: 3.... four years to work out west in coal mines. With him doing this he saw many disasters and aided in many heroic deeds to lend him authenticity to his claim to speak for the working class. In 1905 John returned to Lucas and in 1907 he ran for mayor however he was not elected and all the Lewises left Iowa and moved to southern mining town in Illinois. There the men in the family soon established themselves among the large labor force as hard workers. In 1910 John was elected president of the local mining union 1475, one of the largest in the state. Shortly before leaving Iowa, he had married Myrta Edith Bell, the daughter of a local physician. .....
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The Aztec Empire History
Words: 1274 - Pages: 5.... were constructed, bridges
were built, and chinapas were made. Chinapas were little islands formed by
pilled up mud. On these chinapas Aztecs grew their food. The Aztec Empire
included many cities and towns, especially in the Valley of Mexico. The
early settlers built log rafts, then covered them with mud and planted
seeds to create roots and develop more solid land for building homes in
this marshy land. Canals were also cut out through the marsh so that a
typical Aztec home had its back to a canal with a canoe tied at the door.
In the early 1400s, Tenochtitlan joined with Texcoco and Tlacopan, two
other major cities in the Valley of Mexi .....
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The Invention Of The Atomic Bomb And Its Use
Words: 5238 - Pages: 20.... in other country. It was America that they chose to cooperate for inventing the first atomic bomb. That was called "the Manhattan Project". An enormous mount of money was invested in the project. The project started in 1942 and improved step by step. Finally, on July 16th in 1945, the members of the project team experimented with the atomic bomb for the first time, and they realized that they succeeded inventing the first atomic bomb. How was it a milestone? I will explain the mechanism and the power of the atomic bomb. Ronald Takaki explains the principle of it in his book. "There is an atom that releases two neutron at the same time abso .....
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