Confucius
.... The commercials should be on the
poor famined kids in the United States. We have our own poverty problem in our
country. We should take care of that before we solve another countries problem.
The U.S. has also money and military force in the middle east. Sure we get some
valuable products from them, but we should solve our own problems before we
decide to dive into the rebuilding of some foreign nation.
These two teachings of Confucious if applied today, would result in the
superiority of the Untied States of America over the rest of the world. The past
does repeat itself, and if our government is too foolish to realize th .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
.... the name
of Edgar A Poe. Before he left his training he got financial help from the other
cadets to publish his third version of the book, although Poe called this book a
second version. In this book there are famous poems as "To Helen" and "Israfel".
These poems show the musical effect that has come to characterize Poe's poems.
Later Poe moved to Baltimore to live with his ant. There he married his cousin
who was only 13 years old. Then Poe moved to New York to become famous, but with
almost no success. Poe had after 1837 his best period with his greatest works as
"The murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) and "The fall of the house .....
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Machiavelli
.... mentality have not lasted
very long. It seems that these days the general populace have much less
tolerance for those rulers that believe in doing anything for the sake of
themselves and supposedly the society at large. I believe that such rulers
today are not tolerated (and should not be tolerated) There is no room for this
type of thinking in modern day life. Respect is another factor that was very
important to Machiavelli and his way of thinking. The Prince, as Machiavelli
stated, must do anything to keep his respect with the people, but at the same
time to make sure that he has ultimate control. I believe that so much co .....
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Friedrich Nietzsche
.... school at the nearby
Schulpforta Academy. The school was famous for its grandeur of alumni that
included “Klopstock and Fichte”(Brett-Evans, p.76). “It was here that
Nietzsche received the thorough education in Greek and Latin that set him upon
the road to classical philology.”(Brett-Evans, p. 76) On many occasions
Nietzsche's zeal to prove himself at the Pforta school spurned legendary tales.
One certain tale is when Nietzsche “could not bear to hear of the courage of
Mucius Scaevol, who did not flinch when his hand was burnt off, without seizing
a box of matches and firing them against his own hand.”(Bentley, p.84) A .....
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Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire): French Author And Philosopher 1694 - 1778 A.D.
.... Voltaire purchased an estate called "Ferney" near the French-Swiss
border where he lived until just before of his death. Ferney soon became the
intellectual capitol of Europe. Throughout his years in exile Voltaire produced
a constant flow of books, plays, pamphlets, and letters. He was a voice of
reason, and an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and persecution.
Voltaire returned to a hero's welcome in Paris at age 83. The excitement of the
trip was too much for him and he died in Paris. Because of his criticism of the
church Voltaire was denied burial in church ground. He was finally buried at an
abbey in Champagne. I .....
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Albert Einstein And His Theories
.... the time to study physics on his own or to play
his beloved violin. He passed his examinations and graduated in 1900 by studying
the notes of a classmate. His professors did not think highly of him and would
not recommend him for a university position.
For two years Einstein worked as a tutor and substitute teacher. In 1902
he secured a position as an examiner in the Swiss patent office in Bern. In 1903
he married Mileva Mariç, who had been his classmate at the polytechnic. They had
two sons but eventually divorced. Einstein later remarried.
Early Scientific Publications
In 1905 Einstein received his doctorate .....
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Albert Einstein
.... of publications in theoretical physics. Most parts of there were written
in his spare time. In 1905 he submitted one of his many scientific papers to the
University of Zurich to obtain a Ph.D. degree. In 1908 he sent another
scientific paper to the University of Bern and became a lecturer there.
In 1914 Einstein returned to Germany but did not reapply for citizenship.
He was one of only handful of German professors who was opposed the use of force
and did not support Germany's war aims. After the war, the allies wanted the
removal of German scientist from international meetings, but Einstein was a Jew
and trav .....
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Albert Einstein
.... Europe as a leading scientific thinker.
In 1909 the fame that resulted from his theories got Einstein a job at the
University of Prague, and in 1913 he was appointed director of a new research
institution opened in Berlin, the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute.
In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a paper that extended
his theories. He put forth new views on the nature of gravitation. Newton's
theories he said were not accurate enough. Einstein's theories seemed to
explain the slow rotation of the entire orbit of the planet Mercury, which
Newton's theories did not explain. Einstein's theories also predicted that light .....
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Charles Babbage
.... in them.
During this analysis, it occurred to him that all these tables could be
calculated by machinery. He was convinced that it was possible to construct a
machine that would be able to compute by successive differences and to even
print out the results. (He conceived of this 50 years before type-setting
machines or typewriters were invented.)
In 1814, the age of 23, Charles married 22-year-old Georgina Whitmore. Georgina
would have eight children in thirteen years, of which only three sons would
survive to maturity. Babbage really took no interest in raising his children.
After Georgina died at the age of 35, his mother took .....
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Georg Simon Ohm
.... published Die galvanishce Kette, mathematisch bearbeit (The
Galvanic Circuit, Mathematically Treated). This was a mathematical description
of conduction in circuits modeled after Fourier's study of heat conduction.
This is also known as Ohm's Law.
Ohm's Law, which is Georg's greatest accomplishment, started as an
experiment. The experiment's purpose was to find the relationship between
current and the length of the wire carrying it. Ohm's results proved that as
the wire increased the current decreased.
Ohm came up with a formula to state these findings. It is V=IR, where
as V=Voltage, I=Current, and R=Resistance. Ohm .....
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Nikola Tesla
.... and in May 1885,
George Westinghouse, head of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh,
bought the patent rights to many of Tesla's inventions. After a difficult period,
during which Tesla invented but lost his rights to many inventions, he
established his own laboratory in New York City in 1887, where his inventive
mind could be free. In 1895, Tesla discovered X-rays after hours upon hours of
experimentation. Tesla's countless experiments included work on different power
sources and various types of lightning. The Tesla coil, which he invented in
1891, is widely used today in radio and television sets and other electroni .....
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Abraham Lincoln And Jefferson Davis
.... he simply could not
back down (DeGregorio 89). Davis had been a fire-eater before Abraham Lincoln's
election, but the prospect of Civil War made him gloomy and depressed. Fifty-
three years old in 1861, he suffered from a variety of ailments such as fever,
neuralgia, and inflamed eye, poor digestion, insomnia, and stress. Lincoln also
suffered from illnesses during the war. He had severe cases of headaches and
stress.
Both presidents had a lot of pressure of them due to the fact of
defending their region. Lincoln had difficulties growing up because of the
deaths early in his childhood, poverty, and little education. Davis; .....
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