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Term Papers on Biographies
Georg Simon Ohm
Number of words: 631 - Number of pages: 3.... 1805. He spent the next years looking for a better teaching
position. He found what he was looking for in 1817 when a job was made
available to him at Cologne Gymnasium. He now looked to research electrical
current. In 1827 he published Die galvanishce Kette, mathematisch bearbeit (The
Galvanic Circuit, Mathematically Treated). This was a mathematical description
of conduction in circuits modeled after Fourier's study of heat conduction.
This is also known as Ohm's Law.
Ohm's Law, which is Georg's greatest accomplishment, started as an
experiment. The ex .....
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Charles Manson
Number of words: 1567 - Number of pages: 6.... but John
Flynn, a man who testified at his trial, testified to some very
incriminating admissions by Manson. Barbara Holt, a "Family" member, fled
the group before a raid. She later showed up as a prosecution witness, a
potential danger to Manson, so faithful members of the "Family" tried to
kill her with a hamburger laced with LSD. Before her testimony, another
"Family" member, Gary Hinman, who had also fled he group, was killed
because he had betrayed the "Family." As you can see, the punishment for
crossing the "Family" was severe.
Manson makes cla .....
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Picasso
Number of words: 2069 - Number of pages: 8.... His father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, was a painter as well and he loved art. was quick to express his desire for art. At the age of four, he was drawing detailed pictures with astounding results. (Duncun, 47) During school, would pay little if any attention to his work or the lecture that the teacher was giving. Instead, he spent his time making sketches of his fellow classmates. (Duncun, 52) At the age of 13, was enrolled at an art school where his father taught, and suddenly his academic habits changed. He began to apply himself to his work, showing interest in wh .....
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Maurice Sendak
Number of words: 2105 - Number of pages: 8.... books that were available to him. He attempted to read what he called "real books" even when he was a young child; he felt it was an embarrassment even to enter the childrens' section of the library. Sendak writes the type of books he wished he had as a child; entertaining stories which are not limited by any effort to make things so simple for children that they become mundane.
Sendak's greatest influence as a writer was his father. Phillip Sendak was a wonderfully creative storyteller who amazed Maurice and his brother and sister. "He didn't edi .....
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Ben Carson
Number of words: 557 - Number of pages: 3.... Ben ran. He ran into his house and locked himself in the bathroom. He stayed in the bathroom and read his bible until he came to a revelation. Ben realized that his temper would destroy him and vowed to not let it ever control him again. The change in Ben's attitude only led to better thing for him. Later in high school he joined the ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) program. He did so well in ROTC that Ben was offered a full scholarship to the United States Military Academy. In 1968, received a scholarship to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut an .....
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Biography Of Galileo
Number of words: 655 - Number of pages: 3.... to the Tower of Pisa. He proved the isochronism theory in 1602. In 1606, he invented the hydro-static balance this device that found the specific gravity of substances by weighing them under water. Galileo also found that Aristotle's belief that objects fall at velocities proportional to their weight was wrong. He found that all objects fall at the same rate; it’s only the density of the median they fall through that causes larger objects to fall slower. Galileo made many discoveries while he was teaching at the University of Padua including a calculati .....
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The Mathematical Art Of M.C. Escher
Number of words: 997 - Number of pages: 4.... started and German troops occupying Brussels, Escher returned to Holland and settled in Baarn, where he lived and worked until shortly before his death.
His work mostly unnoticed until the 1950's. Among his first admirers were mathematicians, who saw that his work was the visualization of many mathematical principals and ideas. This was remarkable because he had never had any math courses after high school, where he had learned only the basics. As his work developed he read more about mathematics and showed in his art an understanding of projective geometry a .....
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Thomas Alva Edison
Number of words: 557 - Number of pages: 3.... for new inventions. He worked at a railroad station when he was only twelve years old. That is where he was lead to the invention of both the Stock printer and the telegraph transmitter, as well as many other patents dealing with telegraphs such as the Automatic Telegraph, Duplex Telegraphs, Quadruplex Telegraph Repeater, Telephonic Telegraphs, and Acoustic Telegraphs.
When he was working at the train station a choice that he had no idea would lead to his interest in telegraphs came about. The station operator’s son had fallen on the tracks. Thomas made a wise .....
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