today. The people I am choosing to explain are Albert Einstein‚ Otto Frisch‚ Arthur Compton‚ Enrico Fermi‚ Lise Meitner‚ Ernst Marsden‚ and Hans Geiger. All of these physicists impacted the development of the atomic theory one way or another. Albert Einstein was a German physicist who moved to America to share his knowledge about the atomic theory. In 1905‚ he wrote a famous paper that concerned tiny particles and how they moved in a liquid or gas. Einstein took Brownian motion(Browns law) and confirmed
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Lots of people have heard of the Little Albert study performed by John Watson. The first I had heard of it was in my psychology class that I took in my junior year of high school. There‚ we learned what Watson supposedly did to the nine-month-old little boy named Albert. The short version of this study is that Watson conditioned Albert to fear certain objects‚ such as a Santa Clause mask‚ and animals‚ such as a white rat‚ with a loud banging sound produced by a steel bar‚ a sound that scared the
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Albert Fish: A Man Made Murderer Albert Fish was irreversibly affected by his environment and the people in it. In the case of nature vs nurture‚ Fish’ abusive and twisted upbringing and his state of mind was permanently alternated and forever corrupted. With his traits of sado-masochism‚ being a sex pervert‚ cannibalism‚ coprophilia‚ urophilia‚ and pedophilia being introduced to him at a rather young age his actions towards his victims were beyond cruel. In the beginning‚ Albert grew up as the
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The A-Bomb‚ one of the most deadly bombs in history‚ was being researched by Hitler. He would have beaten America to it if it weren’t for Einstein’s letter to President Roosevelt. Although Einstein later regretted sending the letter‚ It prioritized the production of the bomb using a famous scientist’s reputation‚ increased interest in a bomb and started work on the bomb. If he had not sent the letter‚ America may have not built the bomb in time to stop Japan‚ possibly not at all. At the
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Social groups are often marginalized or misrepresented in various pieces of literature. In Albert Camus’s novel The Outsider‚ there are a variety of social groups that are portrayed in a negative light‚ but the most prominent is the female population. Throughout the book‚ many women are disregarded‚ or are seen as unimportant. From Marie to Meursault’s mother to Raymonds mistress‚ each woman is portrayed as destitute and desperate for love. Thus‚ Camus uses the character of Meursault to present women
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for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself”. Rita Mae Brown displays the message of nonconformity and existential views throughout her writings. Brown supports the idea of individuality and originality through forms of isolation. Albert Camus displays his existential views through the motif of conformity and confinement in his novel The Stranger .This portrayal of the difference between society’s expectations and a character’s mentality of refusing to conform to society’s expectations
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Albert Einstein‚ one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century‚ received a letter from Phyllis Wright in 1936. In this letter‚ Phyllis asks Einstein whether or not scientists pray. In his response‚ Einstein’s purpose was not only to answer Phyllis’ question‚ but he wanted to express to the public that everyone has a belief in the unknown‚ whether it be religion or scientific knowledge. Einstein uses words which mirror those used in religion and a neutral diction‚ and he structures his letter
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Isaac Newton once said‚ “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Newton’s quote explains how the scientists of the past are the Scientific Giants of today. Einstein‚ Galileo‚ and Newton all defied the odds of their time periods to discover amazing things. Today people use simple things that all were major developments of some scientists’ time. In Galileo’s era‚ people had no concepts of the solar system but now anyone can look up live pictures of space with the touch
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we can not accomplish it. There are many kinds of thoughts or philosophies of life; some think that life is already determined by God or destiny when they were born‚ while others think that they decide what they do by themselves. In "the stranger"‚ Albert Camus creates Meursault as a protagonist‚ who does not think about anything deeply. Because of that‚ he can not really enjoy his life. However‚ finally‚ he thinks about his life when he faces death; he truly realized how to face to the absurd world
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Albert Bierstadt‚ whose “gigantic and romantic landscapes…introduced Americans to the awesome beauty of their own frontier‚” (Kernan‚ 86) is a good example of how visual representations played a significant role in the dissemination of the mythic West. Being one of the first artists to join expedition tours‚ Bierstadt’s paintings of the West offered Americans visual confirmation of what they had been told through literary media as well as their cultural and religious traditions. Because Bierstadt
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