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Marie And Pierre Nobel Prize
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Marie Curie Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on
November 7, 1867. She was actually born to the
name Marja Sklodowska. When she was 24, she went
to Paris where she changed her name to Marie and
started school in Sorbonne. In 1893, she received
her degree in physics. When she needed a lab to
experiment in, a Professor Kovalski said that
there might be space in the School of Physics and
Chemistry. He also said that Pierre Curie, a
scientist there might be able to help her. She had
heard of Pierre and...
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Academy Of Sciences Marie Curie
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... off immense radiation. Radium is extremely
powerful and, unless used with care and in a
controlled environment, very dangerous.
Unfortunately, this was not known in the days of
the Curies. While working with radioactive
materials, both Pierre and Marie suffered from
many illnesses and pains. They encountered aching
arms and legs, sores, colds and blisters that
never seemed to go away. They often pinned these
problems to their lack of rest due to being in the
laboratory. Only later did the tw...
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Promote It Network Sale Of The Century Show
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The game show that I selected to study was the
popular quiz show, Sale of the Century. Sale of
the Century is a game show which prides it's self
on being intellectually challenging and
competitive. But while trying to comply with it's
network's demands of high ratings and major
sponsors, has this game show become just one big
add? The show relies heavily on contestants
competing to win the show's range of prizes, but
these prizes arent just randomly selected, each
time a prize is mentioned it is...
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Adam And Eve Good And Evil
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Human nature is defined as "the complex of
fundamental dispositions and traits of man
sometimes considered innate (belief that you can't
control human nature), " (Webster's 1101). In both
the story of Adam and Eve and "Seventeen
Syllables, " by Hisaye Yamamoto, human nature is
shown to be innate. Characters within each story
try to control the outcome of another person's
encounter with a serpent that represents
temptation, curiosity, and or sexual desires.
However, despite the consequences, huma...
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Nobel Peace Prize Pope Paul Vi
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We all have our own heroes, people we admire and
respect, people who made an impact on our life,
that made us look at the world with a different
eye, Mother Teresa is definitely the one for me.
Although the world is full of good people, great
humanitarians that really care, people who donate
billions of dollars, people who raise their voice
to make a difference, Mother Teresa stands out in
the "It is not how much we do, but how much love
we put in the doing. It is not how much we give,
but how m...
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Institute Of Technology Hydrogen Bonding
1,257 words
Chemist Linus Pauling; born in Portland, Ore.
After taking his Ph. D. at the California
Institute of Technology (1925) and then two years
of study abroad, he returned to that institution
for most of his professional career (1927 -- 63).
Details of those years are as follows: At the
California Institute of Technology his advisor was
Roscoe Dickinson, whose area of expertise was
X-ray crystallography. At this time Dickinson was
investigating the crystal structure of various
minerals. In his work w...
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History Of The Nobel Prize Foundation
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The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall
be dealt with in the following way: the capital,
invested in safe securities by my executors, shall
constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be
annually distributed in the form of prizes to
those who, during the preceding year, shall have
conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. The
said interest shall be divided into five equal
parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: one
part to the person who shall have made the most
important dis...
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Myrdal Alva Biographical 1902 1986
602 words
Sociologist, stateswoman, and peace reformer, born
in Uppsala, Sweden. She studied at the
universities of Uppsala, Stockholm, and Geneva,
and married Gunnar Myrdal. She was director of the
UN department of social sciences (1950 -- 6), and
Swedish ambassador to India, Burma, and Ceylon
(1955 -- 61). Elected to parliament in 1962, she
acted as Swedish representative on the UN
Disarmament Committee (1962 -- 73). As minister
for disarmament and Church affairs (1966 -- 73),
she played a prominent par...
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Developing Countries Drinking Water
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Eutrophication The importance of role that lakes
and wetlands play in maintaining the quality of
our environment cannot be underestimated. Besides
being sources of drinking water, they also have
tremendous importance when it comes to providing
people with hydropower and food. We cannot imagine
our recreational needs being fully satisfied,
without mentioning such activities as fishing and
swimming. Very often, having lakes, provide people
with only the recreational means, especially in
developing...
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Spanish Civil War Kansas City Star
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Jason Milford April 2000 Ernest Hemingway Ernest
Miller Hemingway was an American novelist,
journalist, writer of short stories, and winner of
the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature. He created a
distinguished body of prose fiction, much of it
based on adventurous life. He was born on July 21,
1899, the second of six children, in Oak Park,
Ill. , in a house built by his widowed
grandfather, Ernest Hall. Oak Park was a
Protestant, upper middle class suburb of Chicago.
He died on July 2, 1961. Early ...
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Nobel Laureate Von Neumann
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George Dantzig was born on August 14, 1914. He
studied mathematics at the University of Maryland,
receiving his A. B. in 1936. He received an M. A.
in mathematics from the University of Michigan in
1937. Dantzig worked as a Junior Statistician in
the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1937 to
1939, then, from 1941 to 1946, he was head of the
Combat Analysis Branch, U. S. A. F. Headquarters
Statistical Control. He received his doctorate in
mathematics from the University of California,
Berkele...
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World War Ii University Of California
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Harold Clayton Urey Papers Background Harold
Clayton Urey was a scientist of considerable scope
whose discovery of deuterium helped him win the
Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1934. Urey also made
fundamental contributions to the production of the
atomic bomb through his development of the isotope
separation processes for the Manhattan Project. In
the period following World War II, Urey played an
active part in advocating nuclear arms control, in
promoting space exploration and in the development
o...
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Honor Caused Hektor Situation Involving Personal Honor Occurs Akhilleus
873 words
The Role of Honor The ancient Greek culture during
the time of the Trojan War was warrior based.
Every man was expected to fight and to fight well.
A mans honor depended on many things like how well
he fought, how much material wealth he had, and
his hospitality. A man must look strong at all
times, and never appear to be weak. This warrior
based characteristic of the Greek culture caused
many problems and feuds among the people. The
Iliad consists of many different situations where
it can clear...
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T S Eliot Quot And Quot
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Walter Kalaidjian He was born Theodore Huebner
Roethke in Saginaw, Michigan, the son of Otto
Roethke and Helen Huebner, owners of a local
greenhouse. As a student at Saginaw's Arthur Hill
High School, Roethke demonstrated early promise in
a speech on the Junior Red Cross that was
subsequently published in twenty-six languages.
The poets adolescent years were jarred, however,
by the death of his father from cancer in 1923, a
loss that would powerfully shape Roethke's psychic
and creative lives. F...
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Nobel Peace Prize Martin Luther King Jr
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Thich Naht Hahn is wonderful Buddhist monk and a
great asset to the Buddhist religion. He has had
and is having an interesting life. He is known for
many things. These include he talks during the
Vietnam War for peace, organizing help for
villages, instituting schools for youths, and has
been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin
Luther King Jr. Thich Naht Hahn has one of the
most amazing backgrounds that lead up to the
legacy of this Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. Thich
Naht Hahn has been l...
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Nobel Prize Marie Curie
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Madame Curie Discoverer of Radium Originally named
Marja Sklodowska, Marie Curie was born in Warsaw
on Nov. 7, 1867. Her father taught high school
physics. In 1891 she went to Paris (where she
changed her name to Marie) and enrolled in the
Sorbonne. Two years later she passed the
examination for her degree in physics, ranking in
first place. She met Pierre Curie in 1894, and
they married in 1895. Marie Curie was interested
in the recent discoveries of radiation. Wilhelm
Roentgen had discovered X...
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Nobel Peace Prize Pope Paul Vi
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We all have our own heroes, people we admire and
respect, people who made an impact on our life,
that made us look at the world with a different
eye, Mother Teresa is definitely the one of those
people. Although the world is full of good people,
great humanitarians that really care, people who
donate billions of dollars, people who raise their
voice to make a difference, Mother Teresa stands
out in the crowd, she is unique. Yes, she fed
them, sheltered them, cleaned their wounds, but
what is mor...
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View Of The World Opposing Views
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Poetry is capable of expressing complex emotions
and ideas in words and forms that appear simple.
Discuss with reference to two or more poems.
Poetry is capable of expressing emotions,
feelings, different views and ideas. This is true
to say in many of Gwen Harwood s poems. Prize
Giving and At the Arts Club both present different
and opposing views of the world in a form that
appears simple. The age old theme that Harwood
bases many of her poems around appears; the clash
between science and art....
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Pulitzer Prize Civil War
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Robert Penn Warren, born in Guthrie, Kentucky in
1905, was one of the twentieth century's most
eminent American writers. He was a distinguished
novelist and poet, literary critic, essayist,
short story writer, and creditor of numerous
textbooks. He also a founding editor of The
Southern Review, a journal of literary criticism
and political thought. The primary influences on
Robert Warrens career as a poet were probably his
Kentucky boyhood, and his relationships with his
father and his maternal ...
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Nobel Prize For Literature Pulitzer Prize
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY: THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
BIOGRAPHY Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July
21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, and was educated
there in the public schools. Rather than attend
college, Hemingway decided to work for the Kansas
City Star newspaper. In World War I Hemingway
served as a Red Cross ambulance driver until he
was severely wounded in action. After recuperating
in Italy, he settled in Paris, where he began his
serious writing career while spending time with
other American ex...
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