Marie Curie Marie Curie was a medical physicist from Warsaw‚ Poland. (Schley) She earned her doctoral degree in Paris‚ France at Sorbonne University‚ being the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate. During her career‚ Marie earned two Nobel Prizes‚ her first was awarded to her in 1903 along with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for physics. Marie’s second Nobel Prize was awarded to her in 1911 for her work in chemistry. (Aronson) She received honorary doctorates from Yale University and Columbia
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Marie curie was born on November 7th 1867‚ in Warsaw‚ once the capitol of Poland. Her close friends and family had a nickname for her‚ Manya. Before Marie turned eleven‚ her mother had died of Tuberculosis‚ and her oldest sister had died of Typhus. Despite her grief and short comings‚ Marie graduated from high school at the early age of fifteen with the highest honors. Marie started to feel depressed‚ so her father sent her to live with her cousins in the country side. A short time later‚ Marie
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Marie Curie‚ originally Maria Sklodowska‚ is a renowned scientific figure in our world today. Born on November 7‚ 1867 in the city of Warsaw which was at the time under Russian control‚ Marie was bound to become something special from the start. Even though hardships were thrown her way at a young age‚ such as the death of her mother and one of her sisters‚ Marie pushed onward and overcame her grief. Although her family was poor‚ she was determined to persevere through the difficulty and make
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about you. Betty Marie Tallchief was faced with prejudice and hatred but she overcame it. During the 1920s and 1930s being a Native America was very hate because you were a different skin color than a normal person skin color which was White but that didn’t affect Marie. When Marie started to dance‚ she became special to the people of the dancing world but people they weren’t in the dancing world disliked her because she was Native American‚ as stated on lines 18-20. When Marie and her family moved
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Kaydian Roberts Professor Nazos English 101-53 03/29/13 The faces behind Stay at home dads The belief that men are not capable of taking care of a child is now being challenged. Fathers are now taking on a more active role in their child’s life by allowing their wives to peruse her career goals while they stay at home with the children. Women are now left with the task of being the family’s primary breadwinners. As both step outside their expected gender roles the challenge of gender stereotypes
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Stay at Home Dads When we think of a stay-at-home dad‚ we think of a deadbeat dad that can’t get a job and support his family. In reality in these economic hard times more and more men are forced to stay home and raise their children while the wife works. In our culture we’ve had fixed gender roles where men were the breadwinners and the women stayed home raising the children. We should not judge those dads that are taking on the role of Mr. Mom because they are doing their part in rearing their
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Dad In paragraph 3 when Manning says his fathers‚ “words were physical” he means that he and his father rarely communicated with words. During the time he and his dad were arm wrestling to him that was their way of communicating. During Manning’s trip home he and his father each learned that they both are not the same people they use to be‚ each and developed and changed. Manning realizes that his father is getting old and is much weaker. Manning’s dad learned that his
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START: Marie Antoinette was quickly appreciated and even admired at the court. She was a beautiful young lady who enjoyed the party-filled life of Versailles. The frivolous‚ high-spirited tomboy who arrived at Versailles at age 14 was quickly embraced by her subjects. Yet by the time of her execution 23 years later‚ she was reviled. Marie Antoinette was actually extremely popular with the people when she arrived in France. They liked how she looked‚ how kind she was and the charities she pursued
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Recovering My Kid author Dr. Joseph Lee‚ is well known in the field of psychiatry. Dr. Lee has been featured on a number of TV shows nationally including The Dr. OZ Show‚ NPR‚ CNN‚ and the Wall Street Journal and regularly contributes to a blog for Psychology Today; locally on news stations as well as press conferences with senators. He completed his Adult Psychiatry residency at Duke University Hospital; his fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital; He is a diplomate
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D She was an African American woman biochemist. Marie Daly also served as an investigator for the American heart association; she was especially interested in how hypertension affects the circulatory system. While teaching at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine‚ she continued research on arteries and the effects of cigarette smoke on the lungs. She was a member of the prestigious board of governors of the New York academy of scientist for two years. Additional fellowships that Daly received
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