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    An Achiever

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    defeating the barriers and obstacles on his way until  the winning pole.  Achiever is a person who strives and reaches for success despite the horrible and demeaning situations in life. For example Lord Buddha. Albert Ensteine‚ John Milton and Thomas Edison‚ can be taken as characters who made there achievements with a strong determination.They not only worked for there own self satisfaction but also they enlighten the world with their work. Why should we be achievers? As human beings we are blessed

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    Prior to making the lightbulb‚ Thomas Edison claimed‚ “Until we stop harming all other living beings‚ we are all savages.” After a plane crash‚ a group of boys become stranded on an island. The conditions on the island force a couple of the boys to turn into savages. They steal from kids on the island‚ attack others‚ and kill innocent kids. In The Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding uses the savageness of Jack and the use of face paint to portray the change of the boys from civilization to savagery

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    We should not preserve the past‚ we should look to the future. We are living in the modern era‚ where people are practical and realistic‚ optimistic that new inventions and discoveries will improve their lives. For most‚ it would be plain foolishness if one were to be so mindful about the past‚ when instead‚ one should invest his time and thought into building a better and more meaningful life in the future. Ironically‚ in the midst of their “pragmatic” judgement of keeping the past alive‚ these

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    Inventions

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    SCIENTIFIC INVENTION ASSEMBLY LINE: Primitive assembly line production was first used in 1901 by Ran some Eli Olds (1864-1950)‚ an early car-maker (he manufactured the Oldsmobile‚ the first commercially successful American car). Henry Ford (1863-1947) used the first conveyor belt-based assembly-line in his car factory in 1913-14 in Ford’s Highland Park‚ Michigan plant. This type of production greatly reduced the amount of time taken to put each car together (93 minutes for a Model T) from its

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    Edison hired Tesla and very soon after the two would work nonstop to improve Edison’s inventions. Several months later the two parted ways due to a conflicting business- scientific relationship. In 1885 Tesla‚ received funding for the Tesla Electric Company

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    even tend to give up when they first experience a setback. However‚ for those who have a solid mind to persist until the end are more likely to achieve their goals. Thomas Edison failed two thousand times before he successfully invented the light bulb. Myriad failures did not hold him back from inventing the light bulb. Contrarily‚ Edison considered it as a two-thousand step process to his goal. Moreover‚ Looking at problems as a blessing in disguise is another sort of positive attitude. There are always

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    THE GREATEST INventions

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    We all know that Thomas Alva Edison was the discover of the electricity who was born in 1847. Thomas Edison only had 3 months of formal education‚ and his schoolmaster thought that Edison may have been retarded. And no one not even his family could envision that Edison would become the inventor that he would eventually end up to be. Born in Milan‚ Ohio‚ youngest of 7 children‚ Edison would often ask questions that his father and mother both could not answer. At 21 Edison made his commercial

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    and light‚ one of the first things to come to mind is usually the name Thomas Edison. One man’s name goes unheard though. A man‚ just as influential as Thomas Edison‚ perhaps more so‚ in the electrification of America‚ was the great innovator‚ Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla is a historical figure that goes unnoticed‚ with many of his contributions forgotten‚ lost in time. Tesla was a man of equal caliber to the great Thomas Edison‚ but because of poor marketing and because his ideas were so far ahead

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    child he showed signs of intelligence in school where he would do complicated math problems in his mind which brought his teacher to the conclusion that Nikola was cheating. Then‚ Tesla came to America and worked here and there‚ but then work with Thomas Edison in 1882. Tesla created an easier and safer way to power homes and then brought some other inventions in which are still in use today. Tesla had a great impact on today’s future in order to make a mans job a little easier. Tesla

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    George Westinghouse

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    George Westinghouse II The Westinghausen family tree stretches back to that of the ninth century in Westphalia‚ Germany. Some of the family decided to emigrate to Europe and later settle in the United States. In the nineteenth century‚ George Westinghouse decided to move all over the former United States and settled in Central Bridge‚ New York where he had George Westinghouse II. Born into a family of ten (which would become twelve later on) on October 16‚ 1846‚ George Westinghouse Jr. (son of

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