I often wonder about teachers who educated famous people such as Einstein‚ Abraham Lincoln‚ and the like. Were these teachers specially qualified to inspire their students to achieve fame and success? Or were these teachers just plain lucky to have exceptionally talented students? Do some teachers have the rare quality of turning dust into gold? The answer may not be easy to find. Andy Rooney Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people
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In the 1920s also known as the Roaring 20s‚ reading became more and more popular as people became literate. After World War Ⅰ they had time to read‚ write‚ and enjoy all of their new leisure time. Leisure time was enjoyed mostly by the upper class who were stuck in their materialism and wealth. The obsession with money and power was a popular theme in the literature of the decade. Americans valued only money and reputation which changed the way the nation was viewed. After the war America’s youth
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To what extent did external influences shape what modernist design became in Europe in the 1920’s? Focusing on chair designs by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer. In design‚ external influences have always played a vital role in any given trend. In the 1920’s‚ an era commonly referred to as the Machine Age ‚ modernist design followed a very focused approach: a desire to create a better world. In this essay‚ I will make a brief overview of the socio-economic situation of this time period
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For my famous entrepreneur I decided to do Bill Gates. Bill Gates started the company called Microsoft. Bill Gates was at one point the richest person in the world. He took interest in software when he was only 13 years old. Bill Gates wrote a payroll program for Science Inc. when he was in high school. He scored an almost perfect score on the SAT. He was accepted by Harvard to study pre-law‚ but he spent most of his time on the school computers. He met Steve Balmer at Harvard who is the current
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“10 famous physicist and their contributions” 1. Isaac Newton quantified and qualified the laws of motion and gravity. He also invented the reflecting telescope and co-invented the mathematic process of calculus. 2. Albert Einstein developed theories of relativity‚ and won a Nobel Prize for his work on the photoelectric effect. 3. Galileo Galilei improved on the refracting telescope and discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter‚ but he is most well-known for standing up
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The Female Body in Advertising in the US during the 1920s The 1920s was a quite controversial decade concerning women’s position. People‚ trying to forget about the shock of the Great War‚ buried themselves in an unabashed materialism and hedonism. It was a decade when all old norms were extinguished not only for women but for the whole society. It was the time of one of the greatest changes American society ever experienced. Probably‚ this change was especially true for women’s position
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In the 1920’s women’s roles were soon starting to change. After World War One it was called the "Jazz Age"‚ known for new music and dancing styles. It was also known as the "Golden Twenties" or "Roaring Twenties" and everyone seemed to have money. Both single and married women we earning higher- paying jobs. Women were much more than just staying home with their kids and doing house work. They become independent both financially and literally. Women also earned the right to vote
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Jeffri Fernandez Annotated Bibliography Ancient Greece was the birth place of many sciences‚ famous philosophers and the arts. A time where humans where constantly discovering many different things‚ forming new ideas and opinions about life each and every day. Various gods ruled these different city states. Mythology was very huge in Ancient Greece. There are so many different myths from Ancient Greece. Do you ever wonder if any of those ancient Myth’s were true? Ever believe that
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The 1920’s was the time of the stock market crash‚ and the beginning of The Great Depression. However‚ in the 1920’s‚ the economy was highly improving‚ along with our culture‚ and political views were shaping to be closer as we know them today. Therefore‚ the 1920’s was a decade of cultural innovation and liberation. Between 1920 and 1929‚ the nation’s total wealth more than doubled. This meant that the majority of Americans finally had extra money to spend on luxuries‚ such as radios‚ electric refrigerators
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How does Tom Buchanan represent 1920’s society? Tom Buchanan plays a large role in the great Gatsby and is greatly representative of the rich “old money” part of society‚ and‚ in many ways what was wrong with it. F. Scott Fitzgerald may have made Tom a villain because of their rejection of him in his earlier life. Fitzgerald has used Tom in The Great Gatsby‚ to demonstrate the power that men had during the 1920s. In order to understand Tom’s purpose in the book‚ it must be known that he has been
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