In 1993 two minors had committed burglary, and murder. The minors names are Christopher Simmons age of 17, and Charles Benjamin age of 15. The victim was a neighbor of Christopher Simmons. Her name is Shirley Crook age of 46. Christopher Simmons and Charles Benjamin had tied up Shirley Crook to the chair and thrown her in the St. Louis Meramec river. Drowning her at the age of 46 .…
The precipitated calcium carbonate is then filtered, dried, and weighed. The moles of calcium carbonate, CaCO3, are equal to the moles of Group 1 metal carbonate, M2CO3, added to the original solution. Dividing the mass of the unknown carbonate by the moles of calcium carbonate yields the formula weight, and thus the identity, of the Group 1 metal carbonate.…
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960.After spending his adolescence there, he attended Brown University in 1983 and Stanford University somewhere around 1986. Jeffrey Eugenides wrote novels like, "The Virgin Suicides","Middlesex", and "The Marriage Plot". Jeffrey Eugenides has received many awards for these novels which had brought him success. For example, he won the Pulitzer Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, won the Prix Fitzgerald and The Madame Figaro Literary Prize. However, one of these novels has been considered to be one of the most memorable ones. That is the "The Virgin Suicides", this novel was written in the 1990's and published in 1993 by FSG. The readers are amazed by the…
The things that come to mind when thinking about Igor Stravinsky, is the contribution he did for the musical industry and the many lives he’s changed just but doing that. If one were to study the truths and countless attributes about Stravinsky, we will most definitely learn many things in the process. Unfortunately now a days, many are unfamiliar with this great composer. Even in his home town, people are forgetting. They may forget his face, but it is impossible for them to forget what his has done. Igor Stravinsky has created numerous contributions over the years, some of his most popular ballets have changed music and the way we see it: The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring.…
I 100% agree that Asimov’s argument is true. In our first unit, we learned and researched the events of my generation and analyzed how those events shaped our generation. It is very likely that the next generation will be the way they are due to Gen Z events such as the legalization of same-sex marriage and the legalization of medical marijuana. Our influence on the next generation will reflect on them. This has been proven easily from Generation X. The divorce rates in the 60s-70s have greatly influenced my generation’s social. Many children (about 25%) are raised by one parent. That large portion of single parents did not come from nowhere. Before the 60s and 70s, divorce was seen as a taboo, or something that rarely happened.Girls and Women…
Rising from rags to riches gaining a lot of power and making immense amounts of money was the successful story and life of Andrew Carnegie. Born on November 25th, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland , Andrew Carnegie was born into poor family of a mother who was a shoe maker and tanner and a father who was a handloom weaver . Immigrating to the United States in the May of 1848 , Andrew Carnegie started a whole new life there. “The Carnegies’ passage was relatively uneventful and mercifully short—there seems to have been no ship fever, cholera, or typhus… on board.” When reaching to the United States growing up in near Pittsburgh, and later on working in the Pennsylvania Railroad company in his later years is where the great rise of money and power…
Brin’s coming to America has led to one of the most important contributions to the internet, but undoubtedly, this isn't the only aspect of American culture, where we can evidence Russian influx. No greater compliment could be paid to a Russian immigrant, or immigrant, for that matter, than to use Jerome Kern’s words stating that Irving Berlin, the Belarussian composer, had no place in American music, but rather was American music (Johnson 56). Irving Berlin was born in Siberia, Russia, the youngest of eight children, during a time of turbulence within the Soviet world. As if the harsh environment of Siberia were not enough of an unfavorable start for the young Irving, his birth to a Jewish family provided even more challenges. For after the…
After reading the biography of Elon Musk, my dreams of becoming a professional athlete faded away. Growing up, like many young boys, I aspired to be an athlete. I had no preference of what sport that would be, I just knew that I wanted to feel the sensation of scoring a game winning goal or shooting a game winning basket. I constantly dreamt about being on a large athletic stage and performing a task that would set a crowd full of fans into a frenzy. The image of a soccer player kicking a game winning goal then looking out at thousands of people in a state of elation due to his action, would flash in my mind when I was playing the sport. The impact athletes have to alter the emotions of a crowd draws me to sports. However, reading about Musk and how he impacts…
The piano was Debussy’s favorite instrument and in Claire de Lune, he achieved his most sensitive speech with it. At one point, in help financially, Debussy became a music critic under the pen name M. Croche. He became well known for his unrivaled wit within his critiques. Debussy has been described by various handles such as unsociable, catlike, sensual, hedonistic, and rebellious. However he was extremely indifferent to the opinion of others, in fact he preferred the company of his cats to that of men. Also a convinced atheist, he once said “I have made a religion out of mysterious nature.” Although he cared little for the company of other people, Debussy was married several times…
When the average person thinks of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the first thing that comes to mind is either there sports teams or that it is the birthplace of mass-produced steel. Steel is what made Pittsburgh such a major city in today’s world; without steel, it would be a normal suburban city. It only took one person to make Pittsburgh such a major thriving city, Andrew Carnegie. Without him, Pittsburgh would not be as advanced as it is today. Without Andrews’s passion we could possibly not have steel. Ever since Andrew was a child he put his full effort into everything he did. He was taught to never give up and keep going forward with life. If he had slacked off even one day while working as a messenger boy or a telegraph operator he may not have died as a steel tycoon, or one of the brightest entrepreneurs that America has ever seen.…
References: Asimov, Isaac (1964). Asimov biographical encyclopedia of science and technology: Doubleday & Co. Publishers…
I believe that the best practices in early childhood education include children’s ideas, parent’s values and teacher’s suggestions. All of these will benefit children’s learning as well as give them a good understanding of the environment around them. Teachers should be flexible with the daily schedule and open to different learning opportunities. This way, children will have less structured time and more opportunities to explore and learn. As I observe in some of the childcare centers, children do not have enough time to play or finish their investigation and projects. They are hurried to be putting their toys away, and this does not benefit their learning. Teachers should encourage children to explore and investigate the topic further. The center’s policies should exclude time outs, as it does not improve children’s behavior, but rather stimulates him to get more attention. Teachers should encourage children to solve problems, and help them out if they see that serious issue occurs. Also, the physical environment has a big impact on best practices too. It should be filled with warm colors and feel like home to children. If the children will feel like at home, they will feel safe, which will benefit their learning.…
It is surprising that out of eight-hundred people that have been honored on a postage stamp, Stephen Hawking is not one of them. In his long life of seventy-three years, he has received about sixteen major awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Albert Einstein Medal. He is becoming old and should be celebrated before he passes. People that are on postage stamps usually fit within certain criteria, like contributing to the progression of the human race, or being famous for helping and inspiring other people. Stephen Hawking deserves to be the next person commemorated on a stamp, because he has made several great and famous theories, is an inspiration to future theoretical physicists, and above all, has overcome his disability…
While each of the sociological theorists make good points as to how society works and why, I was most drawn to Karl Marx and his theories on how Capitalism plays a large role in how society operates. Marx believed that he could study various conflicts that society have and over time be able to see the outcome of those conflicts based on how similar conflicts had been handled in the past. Marx believed that society needed a change and while followers of Marx had said that a communist uprising was inevitable Marx responded by saying that “philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point however is to change it.”(Sociology Guide, 2011) Marx felt that conflict between the classes is an important factor in society. Marx thought that the classes were divided into the “haves” and the “have-nots”. This is still relevant today and can be seen all over the place with the conflict in the United States between the upper class (haves) and middle to lower class (have-nots). Society in this country has been divided more and more over the last several years with the fall of the economy. The gap between the classes continues to widen as the conflicts between the members of society become more prevalent and start to take center stage. An example of this is the Occupy protests. Members of the middle and lower classes feel that the upper class is taking money from their pockets and putting it in their own and that they are not making decisions that benefits anyone except for themselves. The division goes further than just between the classes in many cases. Political viewpoints have also played a large role in the separation between members of society. A lot of that separation revolves around the classes as well and political views can often be traced to a persons upbringing, standing in society, how much money they make and also what they religion is. This is not always the case but trends do exist. Many…
Asimov, Isaac. Asimov 's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964.…
