Famous Canadian Entrepreneurs James Hillier and Albert Prebus (Electron Microscope) James Hillier‚ one of the entrepreneurs of the electron microscope‚ was born on August 22nd‚ 1915 in Brantford‚ Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto‚ where he received a PhD in 1941. After graduating‚ Hillier spent most of his career at the Radio Corporation of America (or RCA)‚ discovering the principle of stigmator‚ which is used to correct astigmatism in a microanalyser‚ while being the first person
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which just happens to be where this story comes into place. What would it be like to live during the war? How would it affect the daily lives of families in Germany or Czechoslovakia? These few questions can be answered by Joan Wolf in the book Someone Named Eva. The setting of the book is in Czechoslovakia in 1942 to 1945 during World War II. Three towns or places are emphasised in this book. Lidice‚ Czechoslovakia‚ is
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Walking a Mile in Someone Else’s Shoes As we grow our experiences teach us lessons and shape how we view the world. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave‚” he uses the example of the prisoners to show how our view of the world changes when we are faced with new information that contradicts the reality we thought we knew. The world as I viewed it completely changed when a close friend committed suicide. I learned the true meaning of what it means to “walk a mile in someones else shoes”. Its a saying
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Famous people of the UK Orlando Bloom Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born January 13‚ 1977) is an English actor. He had his break-through role in the early 2000s as the elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and blacksmith Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy of films‚ and subsequently established himself as a lead in Hollywood films‚ including Troy‚ Elizabethtown‚ and Kingdom of Heaven. Bloom’s most recent releases are the sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s
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“10 famous physicist and their contributions” 1. Isaac Newton quantified and qualified the laws of motion and gravity. He also invented the reflecting telescope and co-invented the mathematic process of calculus. 2. Albert Einstein developed theories of relativity‚ and won a Nobel Prize for his work on the photoelectric effect. 3. Galileo Galilei improved on the refracting telescope and discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter‚ but he is most well-known for standing up
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For my famous entrepreneur I decided to do Bill Gates. Bill Gates started the company called Microsoft. Bill Gates was at one point the richest person in the world. He took interest in software when he was only 13 years old. Bill Gates wrote a payroll program for Science Inc. when he was in high school. He scored an almost perfect score on the SAT. He was accepted by Harvard to study pre-law‚ but he spent most of his time on the school computers. He met Steve Balmer at Harvard who is the current
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Isn’t it ironical‚ how someone can say “Make America Great again” when they can’t even follow the law or treat everybody equally regardless of their gender and not have the willingness to help others? Yeah‚ as you all know or should know‚ from the debate of the presidential election and the CNN news report on the 13th of September‚ 2016‚ Donald Trump has not only been harassing women but also did not make a single donation since the last donation he made in 2009‚ which the amount that didn’t exceed
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Should we admire heroes but not celebrities? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading‚ studies‚ experience‚ or observations. The term "hero" comes from the ancient Greeks. For them‚ a hero was a mortal who had done something so far beyond the normal scope of human experience that he left an immortal memory behind him when he died‚ and thus received worship like that due the gods
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ When I saw the poster that my English teacher brought in to class this week‚ it said write a composition about ’’a hero that you most admire’’. I thought for a second who would it be. It didn’t take me long to choose my very own mom. Well‚ to start off‚ my mom was not born anywhere near Ireland. She was born on the other side of Europe; Kraslava‚ Latvia. She grew up during a time when making
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Five On a Treasure Island Review by Keith Robinson (June 15‚ 2005) Ah‚ the Famous Five! In this first book‚ we open with Julian‚ Dick and Anne at home with their parents‚ chatting around the breakfast table. Julian asks his mother if they’re going to Polseath as usual for the summer holidays—but to the childrens’ surprise their parents have decided they want to go away on their own to Scotland. The children must go to stay with their Aunt Fanny and Uncle Quentin‚ down by the sea at Kirrin Bay.
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