Rakiyah Burks March 22‚2012 Science 3B Percy Julian Project Percy Julian: Forgotten Genius Percy Lavon Julian Born: April 11‚1899 Montgomery‚ Alabama Death: April 19‚ 1975 Occupation: Academic‚ Civil Right Activist‚ Medical Proffessional Chemist Education: De Pauw University‚ Harvard University Who is Percy Julian? I have to be very honest‚ at first I did not know who he was‚ No wonder the movie that was shown to my fellow classmates in science class called Percy Julian:
Premium
Ancestry and History of Sulfur Sulfur has been known to man since ancient times. In fact‚ it is mentioned in the Bible under the name “brimstone” at fifteen different places. Ancient peoples also used sulfur‚ in the form of sulfur dioxide‚ for household tasks such as bleaching cloth and preserving wine. The ancient Greeks were known to use sulfur as a fumigant. Because sulfur has been used since ancient times‚ no one is credited with its discovery; however‚ Antoine Lavoisier was influential in the
Premium Sulfur Oxygen Hydrogen
Samantha Hartling Hartling‚ 1 Mr. Denette History 5/31/2013 A war had a huge impact on our history and society‚ which makes us who we are today. This war created terror and spread throughout the whole world. The “Holocaust” was caused by the dictator Adolf Hitler; he caused the bloodiest war in history killing 11 million people‚6 Million of them were Jewish. He was the main problem of this war and needed to be taken down right away. The Holocaust was one of the twentieth century’s greatest
Premium Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler The Holocaust
Night is just one of many memoirs written by Eliezer Wiesel‚ who survived the vicious and the infamous Holocaust during the calamitous WWII. The renowned legend Eliezer Wiese‚ including his book Night‚ showed a variety of different concepts as in his dauntlessness‚ intrepidity‚ and sanguineness for his desire to survive. During this period he faced many tribulations as in tyrannical hardships; he experienced many spiritual differences as well. He had to face many crucibles during his time at the
Premium Schutzstaffel Auschwitz concentration camp
Braden Townsend January 23‚ 2015 Night Journal #1 Page 18- “Besides‚ people were interested in everything—in strategy‚ in diplomacy‚ in politics‚ in Zionism—but not in their own fate.” I believe that what he means by this is‚ that people think that just because they’re so small‚ or that they’re race is spread out over many countries‚ that people will think that they will not be noticed and left alone. However this mindset got them killed. The Nazi’s didn’t care about how hard it would be to exterminate
Free Nazi Germany Nazism World War II
age of the scientific discoveries of Galileo and Newton‚ and advances in math of Descartes‚ Newton. Baroque period included production of some of the greatest music of all time. The Baroque era was filled with musical geniuses. People like Franz Josef Haydn‚ George Frideric Handel‚ and Claudio Monteverdi. All of these people were amazing when holding an instrument‚ sitting at a piano‚ or writing on manuscript paper‚ but the finished products were always superb. Among the influential composers
Free Baroque music Johann Sebastian Bach Music
In the ‘not-to-distant future’‚ the world of Gattaca is where genetic engineering has become the normal approach to procreation. Gattaca’s society involves a culture of self-advancement through genetic determinisms‚ a caste system of valid and in-valids and social discrimination based on ‘genoism’. This sterile and cold society of elitist collaborations like Gattaca promotes competition‚ isolation and discrimination. This is something that is dangerous to individuals and relationships and shows an
Premium Genetics DNA Gene
MLA CITATION INCLUDED WITH SOURCES Historical look at the the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather My Antonia: An In Depth Analysis of Immigration in the 1800s The novel My Antonia by the author Willa Cather is set in the late eighteen hundreds. In the story it described an age of change indicating a progression in the social rankings of foreigners. During that time‚ immigrating to America was quite popular among European nations. There were several factors that inspired this mass movement.
Premium United States Willa Cather Fiction
World War I started in 1914‚ Europe due to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Why did this happen exactly? Nationalism; the loyalty and devotion to a nation‚ spread to all‚ if not most of Europe due to Napoleon’s rise and quest to conquer and “liberate” all of Europe. Due to his successes‚ many recently unified countries‚ such as Germany and Italy have decided to endorse many nationalistic and patriotic features into their country. Another factor that has lead towards the start of World War I
Premium World War II World War I Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
he necessarily rejects both the comfortable and presumptuous offer to accept “what everyone knows” and the absurd‚ though deeply tempting‚ proposition that nothing really can be known.4 Gallagher’s treatment of wonder is commensurate with that of Josef Pieper who‚ in writing precisely about wonder in his essay The Philosophical Act‚ makes the observation that wonder bears a similar structure to hope and that philosophizing is preeminently hopeful in its
Premium Philosophy Epistemology Cognition