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.…
Stephen Hawking decided to turn his life and his scientific discoveries into entertainment. Hawking’s achievement in his science and living with his disease caused him to become internet famous. After he published his book called A Brief History of Time when he could only move his hands he was invited to give lectures everywhere on his physics on the black holes.…
Ben Carson: gifted, intellectual, and one of the most talented surgeons of his generation. Those are just a few words to describe the well-renown and inspiring Dr. Ben Carson. Unfortunately, people didn’t always use these words to describe the talented surgeon. At a young age Ben Carson was forced to overcome obstacles in school. Carson struggled academically throughout elementary school, and was often referred to as the “class dummy”. Carson began to rise to the top in middle and throughout high school, and he eventually graduated high school with honors. The talented young black man went on to attend Yale University with a scholarship, earning a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. After Yale, Carson went into medical school at the University of Michigan, where he specialized in neurosurgery. One writer describes Carson’s life obstacles as inspiring, “The lessons imparted by Dr. Carson are inspiring because they are an echo of his own life. He faced more than his share of hard knocks on the rough necked streets of Detroit” (BASU).…
Stevie Wonder should be remembered for inspiring many artists and winning many awards in musical arts. Stevie has influences on artists such as Kanye West and has also inspired artists such as Prince, Drake, Michael Jackson and many more. Stevie Wonder has also won many awards including more than twenty Grammy awards. Stevie Wonder also attempted to make Martin Luther King Day a national holiday in the United States.…
Stephen William Hawking is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity.…
Albert Einstein, a well-known physicist, wrote a letter to a 6th grade student, Phyllis Wright, in response to her question as to whether scientist pray, and if so, what they pray for. The reason she would have most likely be asking this question is probably because the world at the time is going through tough times such as The Depression and it also being post World War 1 era. Einstein’s response to Phyllis’s question was ineffective because it lacks ethos, pathos, and it did not give a straight forward answer to the question.…
“It was one of those beautiful starlit nights, and it occurred to me that at some point that somebody should write a hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. I fell asleep and forgot about it for six years” (Douglas Adams). Douglas Adams was a brilliant, well known writer who discovered his gift of writing as a teenager. He was from an educated family who supported his writing through his childhood and into his college years. Douglas Adams shows what he values in and is best known for writing the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.…
Seventy-five years ago today, in a concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland, a scientist named Josef Mengele conducted experiments to study the results in war-like scenarios that benefit the Nazis. Mengele was worse than Hitler himself and was one of the most wanted people for capture after WWII ended. Mengele was a notorious doctor responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. The Angel of death had the tasks of deciding whether people would be working in the camp or be sent to the gas chambers, and used people at Auschwitz as guinea pigs for gruesome experiments.…
Stephen Curry scored his 400th three pointer in this game. He is one of few ever to be able to do this. Curry had to go through more than what you think to get where he is right now. With the support he got from his fans and his Splash Brother, Klay Thompson, it made it all possible. Curry and Thompson have been there for eachother since the beginning. There has been a lot of questions asked about the two players. Who is better? Why do they call eachother Splash Brothers? Why are they the only two players you really hear about? So between the two players you decide, who's better.…
The success of the Baby Einstein concept depends upon identifying the appropriate target market. Because Baby Einstein provides a line of multimedia products and toys that specializes in interactive activities for children aged 3 months to 3 years old. Where Discovery Begins" is what we market and new/expecting parents who are working professionals, educators, and those whom take the time to educate themselves on the latest brain research. The target market of the Baby Einstein requires parents who desire to provide an early boost to their children's development; products like this will have the support of parents who want to emphasize the crucial role education to their children. From newborn through 18 months, our products…
Nikola Tesla was born in the Austrian territory. Tesla obtained an excellent education in engineering and physics in the 1870s. He gained practical experience in the 1880s working in telephony. He worked on telephony in Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. Tesla came to the United States in 1884, where he would become naturalized citizen. Tesla worked for a short time at Edison, in New York City, before he ventured out on his own. With the help of some friends to finance and advertise his…
Isaac Asimov was a russian science fiction, history, scientific divulgation, mistery and fantasy writer, and a biochemistry profesor at Boston’s University, nationalized as an American when he moved with his parents at the age of three (on the eleventh, January of 1923) to Brooklyn, in New York from his homeland…
Edgar Rice Burroughs Analytical Essay Edgar Rice Burroughs is best known for his series of fantasy novels featuring Tarzan. While this famous series is not science fiction, that does not mean that Edgar Rice Burroughs is not a science fiction author. Burroughs incorporated many elements of sci-fi into his books and short stories, so he can be considered a sci-fi author. The Gods of Mars, The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw, and The Land That Time Forgotare all stories by Burroughs that incorporate elements of science fiction. The main literary devices that Burroughs used were estrangement, social critique, and novum. These devices are the cornerstones of science fiction. Burroughs would take politics, events, and inventions from his empirical life…
Many of us, having heard that Microsoft was started out of Gate’s garage, would be tempted to think that he was a kid with no prior knowledge and managed to start a multi-billion dollar business from those little experiments done there.…
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