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John Gough
Words: 670 - Pages: 3.... comments on my weather apparatus that I carried around everywhere I went. I couldn’t help but to always study the weather and atmosphere.
Lately I have been working on the law of multiple porportions, but I’m still trying to acquire as much as I can on it first before I make a public advent with it.
Take care
Sincerely,
Jonathan Dalton
Mr. John Gough was the blind son of a wealthy tradesman who taught Dalton almost every thing you possibly could have needed to acquire the brilliance that John Dalton had. Dalton really flourished with Mr. Gough and they were very good friends during this period of learning for Dalton.
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Gandhi: A Man With Virtues
Words: 964 - Pages: 4.... found himself being treated as a member
of an inferior race. He was shocked at the denial of civil liberties and
political rights to Indian immigrants to South Africa. He then “threw”
himself into the struggle for basic rights for Indians.
Gandhi stayed in South Africa for 20 years, being imprisoned many
times. In 1896, after being attacked and beaten by white South Africans,
Gandhi began to teach a method of “passive resistance,” to, the South
African authorities. _Part of the inspiration for this method came from
the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Christ and Henry David Thoreau, a 19th
century American writer, also inspired Ga .....
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Einstein
Words: 543 - Pages: 2.... were terribly important to the journal Annalen der Physik. The achievements in his papers brought widespread attention, but he was not recognized for his work until many years later. A few years after marrying his cousin, published his general theory of relativity. One of his predictions was how an eclipse was formed. Two British expeditions on the solar eclipse of May, 1919 tested this theory. His prediction was then confirmed and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.
lived in Berlin, Germany for the next ten years. He was hardly ever actually in Berlin though, for he was constantly traveling to other countries to give le .....
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August Tubbe
Words: 1483 - Pages: 6.... He considered himself a citizen and had evidence of a good record as a loyal citizen of the United States as well as any natural born citizen would have. professed to have done at all times everything in his power to uplift the country and her people morally and religiously as God gave him light to see it.
The German Emperor nor the German Empire was not in existence until seven years after left his birth place, Prussia. August corresponded with his sister who remained in Europe for only his first twelve years in the United States because his sister died the twelth year that August lived in the United States. August never participated .....
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Lewis Latimer
Words: 1035 - Pages: 4.... that Latimer still belonged to his Virginia owner, an African-American minister paid $400 for his release. Although free, George was still extremely poor, working as a barber, paper-hanger and in other odd jobs to support his wife, three sons, and one daughter.
, the youngest child, attended grammar school and was an excellent student who loved to read and draw. Most of his time, though, was spent working with his father, which was typical of children in the 19th century. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that a slave named Dred Scott could not be considered a free man although he had lived in a free state. George Latimer disapp .....
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Courageous John Quincy Adams
Words: 887 - Pages: 4.... Quincy was not the most liked person in the country, but he stood up for what he thought and believed in.
There was a time in the early stage of John Quincy Adams' career when he was a Senator, when many Senators careers would end because they did not follow the thought of their constituents. By this time Senate was to be a more executive council than a legislative body. If they became more of a executive council they would help advise the President. Senate was an executive council to the President for a while, until the Federalist Party didn't agree on foreign policy, and many more political issues came up. Senate started criticizing .....
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My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Words: 1020 - Pages: 4.... dressed in common country dress, which makes him appear as though he has never left the safety of his farm. Hawthorne begins to make references to sight imagery, such as, 'with an eager eye', and 'scrutinizes the small and mean wooden buildings'. Robin begins to use sight as a method of guidance, and tries to find the way to his uncle's dwelling through sight observation. Robin attempts to find his uncle's house by analyzing the exteriors of the houses on the streets. He uses the appearance of the houses to judge if the house is prestigious enough to be his uncle's home. Once Robin fails to find his uncle's house, he walks slowly down the st .....
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George Washington Carver
Words: 606 - Pages: 3.... talents and encouraged him to transfer to Iowa State College at Ames, which he did in May 1891.
At Iowa State, Carver found that he was especially gifted in plant hybridization and the study of fungi. In 1894, Carver earned a bachelor of science degree and, in 1896, a Master of Science degree in agriculture and bacterial botany. That same year, Booker T. Washington offered Carver a job teaching at Tuskegee Institute. During his first few years at Tuskegee, he made many improvements in the agricultural program. With the help of other colleagues, he created the Farmers’ Institute. This was a group of farmers who met monthly to acquir .....
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Isaac Newton And Albert Einstein
Words: 539 - Pages: 2.... start until later. In collage Albert was considered lazy and stupid. Newton and Albert practically studied the same thing, but just at different times. Such as light and its colors, motion, science in general, space and the universe, gravity was a really big one. They also studied orbit and calculus. Einstein studied about being a teacher, electricity and how things worked. Newton studied telescopes, light and that the word of god is more important then chemistry.
Newton was excepted into the “society” and then he became the head of the “society” and that was a really big deal back then. He also publishes a .....
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Ray Bradbury
Words: 640 - Pages: 3.... was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma," printed in 1938 in Imagination!, an amateur fan magazine. In 1939, Bradbury published four issues of Futuria Fantasia, his own fan magazine, contributing much of the published material himself. Bradbury's first paid publication was "Pendulum" in 1941 to Super Science Stories. In 1942 Bradbury wrote "The Lake," the story in which he discovered his distinctive writing style. By 1943 he had given up his job selling newspapers and began writing full-time, contributing numerous short stories to periodicals. In 1945 his short story "The Big Black and White Game" was selected for Best American Short Stories. .....
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