Joseph-Louis Lagrange Joseph-Louis Lagrange was born on January 25‚ 1736 in Turin‚ Sardinia-Piedmont (which is now known as Italy). He studied at the College of Turin where his favorite subject was classic Latin. After reading Halley’s 1693 work on the use of algebra in optics Lagrange became very interested in mathematics and astronomy. Unfortunately for Lagrange he did not have the benefit of studying with the leading mathematicians‚ so he became self-motivated and was self-taught. Then in
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The Hobbit: Movies Are Better Than The Book Over time‚ it has become more and more desirable for movie makers to create movies from globally popular novels. JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit is no exception. In 2012‚ the world had the opportunity to watch the story of Bilbo Baggins unfold on the big screen with the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. In 2013‚ the story continued with the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug. Since the release of these two additions to the Lord Of The
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President Joseph Jobrani’s numbers had been sliding in the polls for a second consecutive year. He had to do something to stop his increasing unpopularity. After the glory of winning a historic and improbable election‚ things had gone south. Not only was Joseph Jobrani the first president of Middle Eastern descent‚ no one outside of his friends foresaw him beating a very powerful superdelegate from Missouri with very powerful friends no less. He had to fight an up-hill battle from the beginning
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Joseph Stalin’s Genocide: 50 Million Deaths From 1919 to 1953 when Stalin died about 50 million lives were taken in the Gulags of Russia (“Videofact”). In total there were 53 Gulags and 423 labor camps (“Gulag”). Stalin was considered one of the most feared dictators because of his secret police and the Gulags. During a series of interviews in 1996‚ a Soviet veteran who lived in Minsk claimed to have seen a U.S. POW in May or June 1953. The POW was a Korean War F-86D pilot whose plane had been
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If we are asked to think about the cruelest leader in history‚ the first person to pop into our head would probably be Adolf Hitler. He is an obvious choice‚ having killed about 11 million noncombatants. However‚ the actions of Joseph Stalin are comparable and maybe even worse than Hitler. Stalin‚ leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics‚ or the Soviet Union for short‚ was responsible for 7-8 million deaths of his own country’s citizens. There were social‚ economic‚ and cultural influences
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deal with the situation. They didn’t want another world war‚ but they had to do something. The more people that converted to Nazism‚ the harder it was going to be to stop Germany. The man in charge of all the anti-Semitic propaganda at the time was Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels was responsible for the dehumanization of millions of Jews in the 1930s to 1940s. Once he accomplished this‚ the elimination of Jews didn’t seem like murder at all to the people he brainwashed. Joesph Goebbels discovered Nazism
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In Joseph Campbell’s Myths to Live By: Chapter One‚ he first describes a situation in which a young boy writes a scientific paper about the evolution of man. However‚ both the boy’s teacher and mother discredited the paper and claimed that man’s first parents were Adam and Eve. Campbell thought this was absurd--especially for a “twentieth century child!” (3). He then compares the very different beliefs of the shape of the earth in the Middle Ages with the ancient Greek ideas. Although the ancient
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In the novel‚ The Orenda by Joseph Boyden‚ power is a central theme‚ and is a hugely important aspect of conflict present in the lives of the male main characters. The aspiration to have control over enemies‚ and allies plays a crucial role in the thoughts and actions of the protagonists. Both these men‚ Bird and Christophe‚ have strong connections to the notion of power and dominance. This desire is can be seen throughout their culture and spirituality‚ particularly in their war time traditions
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In this piece we will be discussing the similarities between Macbeth and another important dignitary in throughout history. I choose to compare Macbeth to Joseph Stalin‚ and his reign over the Soviet Union. Stalin shares a lot of the characteristics of Macbeth in that they both we’re in a position of power that commanded their personalities and shaped who they would ultimately become in their final form. My belief is that both of their ambitions to rule turned into obsessions that changed them to
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The Hobbit Essay Many science fiction fantasy novels have a hero or heroine. In J.R.R Tolkien’s novel the hobbit Bilbo Baggins is a hero‚ Even though he finds a ring of invisibility that allows him to preform surprising feats. Some of his acts of heroism are when Bilbo make his first attempt at burglary when he steals from the trolls‚ when he creates a plan to free his friends from the ElvenKing and follows it through and when he goes down to visit Smaug for the first time to fulfill a promise.
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