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Income Per Capita 100 000 People
2,106 wordsUntil the late 1770 s Middle Tennessee was largely unexplored, until a contingent of men and livestock made the difficult trek from Hillsborough, N. C. They traveled during the coldest winter of the century in total isolation in the undeveloped territory. They arrived on Christmas day 1779, and were met six months later by women and children. A fledgling community had been created. Expansion happened almost immediately for this small farming community. At the same time the Colonies had fought fo...
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Life Style Calhoun Experiences
447 wordsThe Middle Passage, by Charles Johnson is a log of events form a slave ship authored by the main character, Rutherford Calhoun. Our narrator, Calhoun, recalls the tale of a voyage half way around the world, a six-month transitional period which thoroughly reconstructs his previous life-style. His life-style of survival, crime and ill-sincerity transforms him into a domesticated man who has discovered, and can now express, genuine feelings of love. Examining and comparing his initial and final st...
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William Carlos Williams 20 Th Century
1,020 wordsWilliams, William Carlos (1883 - 1963), American writer, whose use of simple, direct language marked a new course in 20 th-century poetry. Unlike some other writers of his time, such as T. S. Eliot, Williams avoided complexity and obscure symbolism. Instead, he produced lyrics, such as this one from "January Morning" (1938), that contain few difficult references: "All this-/ was for you, old woman. / I wanted to write a poem/ that you would understand. " Williams's greatest achievement as a writ...
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Alpha Particles Nuclear Physics
758 wordsErnest Rutherford was born in New Zealand in 1871 as one of 12 children. It was Rutherford who first "split" an atom and who discovered the atomic "nucleus", a name that he invented. For this he is regarded as the greatest experimental physicist of his time. Rutherford was one of the first and most important researchers in nuclear physics. Soon after the discovery of radioactivity in 1986 by the French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel, Rutherford discovered the three different types of radiatio...
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The Life Of William Carlos Williams
1,147 wordsNothing whips my blood like verse. These are the famous words of the great poet, William Carlos Williams. Williams was born on September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey. He spent most of his life in Rutherford, so today he is a local hero. Williams mother was Puerto Rican and almost had pure Spanish blood. His father was American. As a child, Williams dad was a salesman and was often away from home. Thus, they didnt see each other very much. When Williams was four, he attended school in Switz...
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The Passage For Spiritual Renewal
1,057 wordsThe Passage for Spiritual Renewal The Middle Passage by Charles Johnson, which received the National Book Award in 1990, is one of the greatest works of the contemporary African-American literature. The story is set in 1830 and it tells about the freed slave Rutherford Calhoun. Calhoun was a very educated person who used to be a thief. In search of escape from his creditors and undesirable marriage he boarded a ship which he believed to be a New Orleans river board. But the ship tuned out to be ...
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University Of Cambridge Nobel Prize
1,240 wordsT 3 IBS Chemistry Historical Development of Atomic Structure The idea behind the atom goes back to the Ancient Greek society, where scientists believed that all matter was made of smaller, more fundamental particles called elements. They called these particles atoms, meaning not divisible. Then came the chemists and physicists of the 16 th and 17 th centuries who discovered various formulae of various salts and water, hence discovering the idea of a molecule. Then, in 1766 was born a man named J...
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University Of Cambridge Alpha Particles
664 wordsRutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand. He was educated at the University of New Zealand and the University of Cambridge. He was a professor of physics at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec from 1989 to 1907. He was also professor at the University of Manchester in England. After 1919 he was professor of experimental physics and director of the Cavendish Lab at the University of Cambridge moreover held a professorship, after 1920, at the Royal Institution of Great Brit...
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Gold Foil Experiment Model Of An Atom Thomson's
268 wordsThe evolution of the modern atom model took several years to evolved with contribution from different scientists. One of these scientists, the first to come up with a modern model of the atom is JJ Thomson. Thomson proposes that the structure of an atom is mainly a sphere. A sphere that is filled with positive electronic field and contains tiny particles that has a negative charge. He called the tiny particles corpuscles. Thomson's model of the atom is often refer as the plum pudding model becau...
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University Of Cambridge Nobel Prize
1,250 wordsYazan Fahmawi T 3 IBS Chemistry Ms. Redman Historical Development of Atomic Structure The idea behind the " atom" goes back to the Ancient Greek society, where scientists believed that all matter was made of smaller, more fundamental particles called elements. They called these particles atoms, meaning " not divisible. " Then came the chemists and physicists of the 16 th and 17 th centuries who discovered various formulae of various salts and water, hence discovering the idea...
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