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Feminism
Words: 552 - Pages: 3.... Women had the right to an education and the progress of all society depended on the fact that both sexes must be equally educated. Wollstonecraft explains that women should move away from their old emotional stereotypes and see education as the fundamental access to achieve a place in society.
The Rights of women contained other unconventional beliefs on society's standards of which Marriage was a constant theme. Marriage gave the husband legal ownership of his wife, her property, and their children. To divorce meant to leave everything behind. By being against Marriage Wollstonecraft was far ahead of her time, for in 18th century Engl .....
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Sir Isaac Newton And Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Words: 539 - Pages: 2.... Leibniz's method of
notation, known as mathematical symbols, were adopted universally. He also
contributed in 1672 by inventing a calculating machine that was capable of
multiplying, dividing, and extracting square roots. All this made him to be
considered a pioneer in the developement of mathematical logic.
Sir Isaac Newton is the other major figure in the development of Calculus. He
was an English mathemetician and physcist, whose considered to be one of the
greatest scientists in history. Newton was born on December 25, 1642 at
Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. He attended Trinity College, at
the University of Cambridge. .....
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Michael Jordan: The Early Years.
Words: 1164 - Pages: 5.... good, but he had lost some of his focus. Later, in his high school career,
he dropped baseball to pursue another interest.
Basketball and Michael.
When Michael was younger he adopted the game of basketball. Mike used
to work with his father in the garage. While working with his father, Michael
picked up the habit of sticking his tongue out in an intense situation. When
Michael reached the ninth grade, he tried out for basketball. Coach Lynch,
Michael's coach, cut Michael which in turn may have made the best player alive
today. Michael then took practicing basketball to another level. He played his
brother Larry whenever he could .....
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Burr, Aaron
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Political Career
In 1789 Burr was appointed attorney general of New York by Gov. George Clinton. Two years later the state assembly, which was controlled by partisans of Clinton and Robert Livingston, elected Burr to the U.S. Senate. His career in the Senate was not particularly memorable. Hamilton hated him, Clinton soon learned to distrust him, and George Washington refused his request to be appointed minister to France. But in and out of Congress, Burr managed to maneuver so skillfully, and with so much personal charm, that he won the support of many Federalists as well as Democratic Republicans.
In 1796 and 1800, Burr ran .....
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George Orwell
Words: 761 - Pages: 3.... on his own in India until he retired in 1911. Orwell continued his education at "St. Cyprian's Preparatory School under the regime of Mr. and Mrs. Wilkes," which he later brutally portrayed in his novel Such, Such Were the Joys" ("Orwell," The Oxford Companiion 516). After leaving school, he joined the "Imperial Indian Police," and after five years in Burma, resigned in 1928 ("," The Oxford Anthology 2140). Burma left him with a "lifelong distaste" for power ("," St. Martin's Anthologies 398). Orwell remained living a "life of poverty" in England and Europe until the mid-1930's (Wadsworth 866).
In 1927 after an attack of "dengue feve .....
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Martin Luther King Jr
Words: 1971 - Pages: 8.... public-speaking was looked upon as average and he received Cās in each of his public-speaking classes in his first year. But King worked and worked on his public-speaking that, by the end of his third year at Crozer, the professors were praising King for the powerful impression he made in public speeches and discussions. Throughout his education, King was exposed to influences that related Christians theology to the struggles of oppressed peoples. At Morehouse, Crozer, and Boston University, he studied the teachings on the nonviolent protests of Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi. King also read and heard the sermons of white ministers .....
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Sergey Bubka
Words: 1303 - Pages: 5.... championships, second to his younger brother, Sergey. The two brothers had competed against each other for years and years, and Sergey being the younger brother upset his older brother when he beat him.
Sergey started his illustrious career as a late arrival in the 1983 World Championships. At the height of five point five meters he cleared the bar with out a problem. At five point six meters he cleared on his final attempt at that height. When he cleared the bar at five point seven meters he was the only competitor to clear and was suddenly world champion. It was a start to a long and victorious career.
Battling through injuries and ot .....
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Charles Darwin
Words: 746 - Pages: 3.... his student to be a meticulous and painstaking observer of natural phenomena and collector of specimens. After Char-les had graduated from Cambridge he was taken aboard the English survey ship HMS Beagle, largely on Henslow’s recommendation, as an unpaid naturalist on a scientific expedition around the world.
Now was around the age twenty-two while he was on the HMS Beagle. Darwin’s job as a naturalist aboard the Beagle gave him the opportu-nity to observe the various geological formations found on different continents and islands along the way, as well as a huge variety of fossils and organisms. In his geo-logical observatio .....
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Nies Bohr
Words: 291 - Pages: 2.... in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father, Christian, was a professor at the University of Copenhagen and his brother, Harold, was a great mathematician. He entered the university in 1903. In 1907, he earned his PhD went to England to study with J.J. Thomson and Ernest Rutherfurd. He returned to Copenhagen in 1916 as a professor at the university. He became the director of the university's Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1920, to which he attracted many world-renowned physicist. In 1922, he won the Nobel Prize for his work on the atomic structure. When he visited the United States in 1939, he brought the knowledge that the German scientists .....
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Beethoven 2
Words: 576 - Pages: 3.... He became Beethoven’s second mentor and taught him new styles of music.
Beethoven did his first shows in Vienna in 1795. He was the first composer that was not supported by wealthy persons; instead Beethoven supported himself with money from selling his music. By 1778, Beethoven started hearing humming and whistling sound in his ears, and it got worse. A few years later, he became completely deaf. Although he was deaf he could still write music. He finished his first symphony in 1800.
In 1802, Beethoven became depressed and thought a lot about suicide. He went to a small village in Germany where he stayed for a few years. .....
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