Thomas Alva Edison Born February 11‚ 1847 Milan‚ OH Died October 18‚ 1931 West Orange‚ NJ 1859-1862 Works as a newsboy and candy butcher on the trains of the Grand Trunk Railroad 1863-1867 Works as an operator in telegraph offices in various Midwest cities and conducts experiments with telegraph apparatus. 1868 Works as an operator at the Western Union Telegraph Company’s main office in Boston and receives support from local entrepreneurs for his electrical inventions. 1869 (Boston)
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Thomas Cook Thomas Cook‚ one of the market leaders in the UK travel sector has reported that the company’s performance remains disappointing. Also‚ the company announced 2‚800 jobs loss and may reach 15% of company’s staff due to the merger with MyTravel which will result in cost savings of £2.8bn and it is thought to achieve over £94.8m predicted in the merger. The firm also assured that it will support many affected employees and will offer redeployment within the company. As the holiday
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Thomas Edison was a man who influenced America more than anyone else. Some of the inventions he pioneered are still used to this day. He was a man who spent almost his entire life working as a scientist‚ and receiving more than 1‚200 patents in his lifetime. (Anderson pg.7) Thomas Edison’s life was probably twice as productive as a modern day chemist‚ he was a firm believer of an eight hour work day‚ eight hours in the morning‚ and eight in the afternoon. Aside from his amazing history as an adult
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THOMAS WOLFE Thomas Clayton Wolfe (3 Oct. 1900-15 Sept. 1938)‚ novelist and short story writer‚ was born in Asheville‚ the eighth child of William Oliver‚ a stonecutter from Pennsylvania‚ and Julia Elizabeth Westall Wolfe‚ a native North Carolinian. In 1904 he went with his mother and some of the other children to St. Louis‚ where his mother kept a boardinghouse during the World’s Fair and where his brother Grover died‚ an event that he was to use with distinction in his fiction. In 1905 he began
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Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy‚ written by Trevor Johnson‚ is the detailed journey through the life of one of England’s greatest writers. This biography describes some of the major details of his life such as his family‚ his education‚ and his major works. 	Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 at the Village of Upper Bochampton. He was the child of a country stonemason. Hardy was the third Thomas of his family. His mother’s maiden name was Jemima Hand and she and her husband led Hardy to have an
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"necessity is the mother of invention". Thomas Edison statement was based on the dependence of society using technology. This statement means that items that are invented based off of what people need. This is because no one will be able to appreciate an item that has no use. An example in today’s day an age is the iPhone which was invented so people didn’t have to carry both a phone and an iPod. That is making an invention due to the necessity of the people. Marshall McLuhan flipped this statement
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Thomas Keller born October 14‚ 1955 is an American chef‚ restaurateur‚ and cookbook writer. He and his landmark Napa Valley restaurant‚ The French Laundry in Yountville‚ California‚ have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation‚ notably the Best California Chef in 1996‚ and the Best Chef in America in 1997. The restaurant is a perennial winner in the annual Restaurant Magazine list of the Top 50 Restaurants of the World. Thomas was the youngest of five boys. In his teenage summers‚ he
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Despite Dylan Thomas’ often obscure images‚ he expresses a clear message of religious devotion in many of his poems. He creates images that reflect God’s connection with the earth and body. In “And death shall have no dominion‚” Thomas portrays the redemption of the soul in death‚ and the soul’s liberation into harmony with nature and God. Thomas best depicts his beliefs‚ though abstract and complicated‚ to the reader with the use of analogies and images of God’s
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Thomas Hobbes believed that humans were selfish and should not be in government‚ so to control the selfishness he believed there should be one king or queen to rule. But he also believed because humans were selfish that there should be a multi-cultural and
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the Snail‚ biologist Lewis Thomas‚ asserts that if mistakes are not made‚ then nothing useful can be accomplished. Lewis Thomas’s assertion is very reasonable and should be considered accurate due to the great amount of inventions and discoveries created by mistakes. Mistakes are a part of human nature‚ no matter how hard one tries‚ there will be mistakes sooner or later
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