Emmy Noether – Woman in Science Women throughout history have struggled against restrictions placed on them from their patriarchal society. There are many exceptional women who have fought and continue to fight against societal norms that prevent women from achieving their goals. Emmy Noether is a Jewish and German mathematician who faced many challenges to become one of the most important mathematicians of all time. Albert Einstein said “In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians
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In 1492 Christopher Columbus made a discovery that would change the world as they knew it; however‚ he did now know it at the time. What he discovered was the Western hemisphere. Columbus was a man from Genoa who wished to discover a direct sailing route from Europe to Asia‚ as everyone else who tried before only got as far as South Africa. He first asked Portugal to fund his voyage but they declined because they did not think he would make it all the way to Asia with the resources that he had without
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What did the people of the Upper Paleolithic period eat and how did they obtain this food? Throughout Africa‚ the Middle West‚ Asia‚ the Americas‚ and Australia‚ complicated and elaborate technologies and other cultural decorative artifacts are found in abundance (Scupin‚ 2008). This is known as the Upper Paleolithic period‚ which dated between 40‚000 and 10‚000 years ago. This was the earliest era of human development and transformation of the entire human species from apelike to true
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In the mid 1400’s‚ a lot of the people were poor and uneducated. They didn’t know how to read or write. They only people who were educated were the popes or the people working in the church. The popes and the church people really took advantage of the poor and the uneducated. They told them that they only way their relatives are going to heaven is by them paying indulgences. After all of this‚ the Renaissance happened and it changed everything. The renaissance was a cultural movement that began
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woman. "Do not take this life of mine before its dying time.?[Pg. 176 Iphigenia] "They came for the judging‚ for the hateful battle of beauty which to me brings me death.?[Pg. 179 Iphigenia] After the truth was uncovered‚ Iphigenia broke down into tears‚ and wept for mercy and life. She wanted life and did not want to be sacrificed for the purpose of war. But near the ending of the play when the Greek army came to see that Iphigenia was to be sacrificed‚ she had a change of attitude when Achilles
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for the people that died and all they did was fight for what they believe in. Before I learned about the Holocaust I did not stand up for what I believe in‚ but now I do. The holocaust changed me and the way I feel. I don’t like what happened but I do like the person I have become out of it. Mr. Arbeiter means when he prays for a new love of humanity to be born out of the horrors of the Holocaust is that he wants kids to love everyone and treat everyone the way you want to be treated. People need to
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for agricultural backwardness.”‚ not only does this phrase describes the state of U.S.S.R but also Stalin ambition and sensitivity towards his country. Stalin design was to insure that Russia would no longer trail behind the rest of the world as it had done in the past. The Five Year Plan as it was called‚ would help Russia obtain authority and dominance over Europe. The first phase was to overhaul Russia’s heavy manufacturing and industry. This would include the production of steel‚ cast iron
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“The Jews survived all defeats‚ expulsions‚ persecutions and pogroms‚ the centuries in which they were regarded as purish people‚ even the Holocaust itself‚ because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear”. Six million Jews were captured‚ harshly treated at concentration camps‚ and most of the Jews eventually died. Jews were taken away from their homes in various ways. Jews got handled horribly during the Holocaust‚ Lastly ‚ Most Jews died in very
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coming together of all creative people and secondly a dream of creating a school that could change the world. The Bauhaus was evolutionary. It became one of the most influential modern art school of the 20th century as Gropius focused on bringing all creative people together in one school with a different teaching way then there was at the time as they centered their interest in understanding art’s relationship to the world’s society at the time along with technology. This caused the school to achieve
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century was a period that marked great change in the United States. Immigrants from all over the world reached the American coasts hoping to achieve their dreams in the Land of Opportunity; women began to realize they had the potential to do certain things only men did‚ and change lay upon everybody in one way or another. But the question is: Was the country ready for these changes? E.L. Doctorow shows the reactions of the different people in America at the time through the characters in his historical
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