Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist Aspirations come from hopes and dreams only a dedicated person can conjure up. They can range from passing the third grade to making the local high school football team. Marie Curie’s aspirations‚ however‚ were much greater. Life in late 19th century Poland was rough. Being a female in those days wasn’t a walk in the park either. Marie Curie is recognized in history by the name she took in her adopted country‚ France. Born in Poland in 1867
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Marie Curie LIFE OF MARIE CURIE Marie Curie(1867-1934) was a French physicist with many accomplishments in both physics and chemistry. Marie and her husband Pierre‚ who was also a French physicist‚ are both famous for their work in radioactivity. Marie Curie‚ originally named Marja Sklodowska‚ was born in Warsaw‚ Poland on Nov.7‚ 1867. Her first learning of physics came from her father who taught it in high school. Marie’s father must have taught his daughter well because in 1891‚ she went
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In the 1980s‚ Cassandra Wilson was one of the most ingenious‚ original‚ and enthralling musicians working in the progressively difficult-to-expound world of jazz. Cassandra Wilson won two Grammy awards; One for her album New Moon Daughter in 1996‚ and one in 2010 for her song Loverly. The American jazz musician and Grammy award winner released an album in the year of 1999 called Traveling Miles. Traveling Miles is purportedly Cassandra’s salute to Miles Davis‚ who was a well respected American jazz
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Marie Curie How were the elements of the periodic table discovered? Who discovered them? These are questions that some people may ask. Marie Curie and her husband‚ Pierre Curie‚ were two scientists that discovered two elements of the periodic table‚ polonium and radium. She and her husband worked all of their lives to understand radium and radioactivity. When something is radioactive‚ it produces radiation‚ which is moving subatomic particles.The interesting thing is‚ that radium‚ what Marie Curie
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Marie and Meursault: Meant to Be or Want to Be? “It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over‚ that Mamam was buried now‚ that I was going back to work and that really‚ nothing had changed.”(1.1.15) These are some of the words that ran through Meursault’s mind after his mother’s death. He was very isolated from her so he felt as if nothing had changed. He was not the most outgoing person but the same cannot be said about his love interest‚ Marie. Throughout the novel‚ The Stranger‚ Meursault
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Queen Marie Antoinette A young girl‚ whose love was used to mend two countries together‚ stripped of her true self and molded into the ideal‚ pristine French Woman. Marie Antoinette was by far the most hated queen of France that ever lived. During her reign she was unmercifully associated with scandal‚ and very often blamed for the revolution. Although she was despised‚ she held herself on a high pedestal by dressing extravagantly and in ways‚ used her clothing to make statements about her wealth
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Marie Antoinette‚ was she the careless women that said to the citizens of her country “Let them eat cake?” While they were starving to death in the streets‚ or was she a woman trying her best to keep her life in order during a great crisis? Marie Antoinette was the Queen of France during the French Revolution‚ and her entire life was being changed in front of her eyes. She had an extremely posh lifestyle‚ one full of the amenities that you would expect a Queen to have‚ and she was desperate to
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our names known years from now. In the case of Marie Antoinette‚ her legacy has lived well beyond her time. Though‚ some believe she was a horrendous person‚ others seem to think she was a respectible queen‚ and overall a good person. She is famously known for the ignorant comment said to be made when she was informed that the peasants had no bread‚ "Let them eat cake". By many she is perceived in a negative manner‚ just as she was when she lived. Marie has been the subject of much historical debate
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Marie-Laure had always been curious and questioned what ordinary people did. “‘Why not‚’ she asks‚ ‘just take the diamond and throw it into the sea?’” (pg. 23). When she went blind however‚ even small tasks seemed daunting‚ and her father had to help her regain her courage. The Nazi’s invasion of France forces her to use that courage and not lose her mind in a seemingly difficult situation. “‘You did well‚ Marie-Laure. I’m proud.’” (pg. 117) says her father as they evacuate the city. Upon reaching
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“Marie Antoinette” In Vienna‚ on November 2‚ 1755 the thirty-eight-year-old sovereign‚ ruler of an empire‚ Marie Theresa‚ was to give birth for the fifteenth time in her life to‚ Maria Antonia Josephina Johanna. Since all the archduchesses were given the first name Maria‚ they were usually addressed by their second name. Maria Theresa would refer to her youngest daughter as Antonia. It was the French who would call her Marie Antoinette. In the meantime Antonia blossomed she grew and developed
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