FILIPINO SCIENTIST Julian Banzon - Filipino Chemist: Filipino chemist‚ Julian Banzon researched methods of producing alternative fuels. Julian Banzon experimented with the production of ethyl esters fuels from sugarcane and coconut‚ and invented a means of extracting residual coconut oil by a chemical process rather than a physical process. Julian Banzon - Degrees: * BS in Chemistry from the University of the Philippines - 1930 * Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from Iowa State University
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British Literature 1. the Middle Ages the oldest literature monument of the Anglo – Saxon period is the old Germanic legend called BEOWULF. This heroic poem is about the strong and courageous pagan hero Beowulf John Wycliffe – is a professor of Oxford University. With his students he translated the whole Bible into English - he influenced Master Jan Hus and our Hussite movement very much 2. the renaissance and humanism Geoffrey Chaucer – Canterbury Tales – brilliant portrait of 30 pilgrims
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because she knew what she wanted. While she was studying at University she met Pier Curie‚ who she married and raised a family with. Together‚ they developed the studying of radioactivity and shared with Henri Becquerel their Nobel Prize in Physics. After that Marie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It is amazing how much strength she had to overcome her social condition to study and research radioactivity up to give her own life due to all of the years of exposure that made her developed cancer and died
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gift is to discover a beautiful heart.” - John Forbes Nash Jr. Those wise words that John Nash spoke a few years back still resonate today. The story starts at Princeton University‚ where John Nash is the recipient of a scholarship. (The Carnegie Prize for mathematics.) Then we are introduced to his roommate Charles‚ a literature student‚ he greets John and they instantly hit it off and become friends. John also meets an interesting group of men. They also are math and science grad students‚ Hansen
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Ghost of a city lives in another” is a very interesting piece; it questions the modern meaning of globalization. Globalization is often seen as a positive term‚ a consequence of human improvement. According to Joseph Stiglitz‚ an economist and Nobel Prize winner defines globalization in this way: “Globalization is the closer integration of the countries and people of the world brought by the enormous reduction of costs of transportation and communication. Globalization is also helping to people
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Dr. Zhivago Movie The 1965 movie‚ Dr. Zhivago‚ takes a slight diversion from the novel by Boris Pasternak. My initial reading of Pasternak’s Nobel Prize winning novel told me a story of war‚ identity‚ and morality. It took individuals under normal circumstances and threw them into the tribulations of war and tragedy. This is emphasized by Yuri’s relationship with Lara. Though there was a strong sub-plot of love and romance‚ the strongest theme‚ to me‚ was that of the individual struggles during the
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Selma Lagerlof was born in Sweden. She enjoyed reading. During the tenure as a schoolteacher she was able to improve her storytelling skills. Varmland‚ her home town served as the background for most of her stories. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1909. Her portrait appears as the Swiss currency to Kronor not since 1992. About the Story: This story revolves around a vagabond who sold rattraps and at times begged and stole. Vagabonds are normally despised by the society
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him to do so. But‚ as Kevin Arnold‚ a noted psychologist‚ says‚"The price of comformity is the loss of creative potential...Children reared by a Tiger Mom risk having never learned to think outside the box."(1) Perhaps that ’s the reason why Nobel Prize winners are not always among Chinese. Children are least likely to have creative minds because of Tiger Parenting. In addition‚ Tiger Parenting fails to make children become self-determined and alienates them from society. Typically‚ most
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author of the book How Children Succeed: Grit‚ Curiosity‚ Hidden Power of Character. The book is about qualities that matter most to children’s success have more to do with character. Ira Glass also had Professor James Heckman‚ an economist and Nobel prize winner‚ his researched is on the GED (Graduate Equivalency Diploma)‚ it discussed about the character traits that make a crucial difference for people who graduate from high school versus people who earn GED certification. There are
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She deserves to live a better life. 2. She is not free to live her own life because of her father’s overprotection. 3. Her father’s overprotection results in monstrous deeds in her life. ESSAY William Faulkner‚ the laureate of Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950‚ is considered one of the most influential writers of twentieth century American Literature. His talent is greatly shown in “A Rose for Emily”‚ a dramatic story about Emily Grierson’s hard life. She lives a real miserable
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