Leaning over a microscope wearing a crisp white lab coat is a biochemist developing the cure for cancer. Wearing faded blue jeans and a red polo shirt is the company information technologist fixing the company security system. An engineer designs a reusable space shuttle powered by interstellar radiation. Human computers calculate the moon landing to assure the safe arrival of the first men on the moon. Imagine a person in these positions. What did they look like? What color was their skin? Was it
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Becquerel In 1896‚ Becquerel’s earlier work was surpassed by his discovery of the occurrence of natural radioactivity. Becquerel decided to investigate whether there was any connection between X-rays and naturally occurring phosphorescence‚ after his discussion with Henri Poincaré on the radiation which had been recently discovered by Röntgen (X-rays) and which was accompanied by a type of phosphorescence in the vacuum tube. He had inherited from his father a supply of uranium salts‚ which exhibits
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Trudeau said he was willing to fight during World War II‚ but he believed that to do so would be to turn his back on the population of Quebec that he believed had been betrayed by the government of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Trudeau reflected on his opposition to conscription and his doubts about the war in his Memoirs (1993): "So there was a war? Tough... if you were a French Canadian in Montreal in the early 1940s‚ you did not automatically believe that this was a just war... we tended to think
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Marie Curie LIFE OF MARIE CURIE Marie Curie(1867-1934) was a French physicist with many accomplishments in both physics and chemistry. Marie and her husband Pierre‚ who was also a French physicist‚ are both famous for their work in radioactivity. Marie Curie‚ originally named Marja Sklodowska‚ was born in Warsaw‚ Poland on Nov.7‚ 1867. Her first learning of physics came from her father who taught it in high school. Marie’s father must have taught his daughter well because in 1891‚ she went
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Marie Curie How were the elements of the periodic table discovered? Who discovered them? These are questions that some people may ask. Marie Curie and her husband‚ Pierre Curie‚ were two scientists that discovered two elements of the periodic table‚ polonium and radium. She and her husband worked all of their lives to understand radium and radioactivity. When something is radioactive‚ it produces radiation‚ which is moving subatomic particles.The interesting thing is‚ that radium‚ what Marie Curie
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The French revolutionary has paved the way for Pierre Louis’s first clinical trials with the medical emphasis on a new concept of the medical gaze‚ detached and impersonal (Gere). Louis’ skepticism in the traditional medical practice arose when he found himself helpless during the mid of an epidemic of diphtheria (Gere). Eventually‚ Louis grew to become a therapeutic nihilist and came up with an experimental design to seek for the numeric evidences‚ indicating the inefficiency of the traditional
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Elvira Shatayev” both these poems are about women who once were oppressed and told that they couldn’t follow their dreams. Rich wrote about them paying the price to follow those dreams. In the poem “Power” she talks about the famous scientist Marie Curie‚ and how she found both elements Polonium and radium. She also discovered radioactivity‚ which means that she was working with radioactive elements her whole working life. The radioactive elements caused her to get sick and eventually die. In her poem
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Pierre Frankel in Moscow: Unfreezing Change Case Analysis and Solution Submitted by: Nipun Malik The case describes the conundrum of Pierre Frankel‚ a devoted employee of H-IT which is a global IT company. He was sent to the Russian subsidiary of H-IT in Moscow‚ to improve the subsidiary’s performance and increase profitability. The environment that greeted Pierre on reaching the Moscow office is not at all welcoming: (i) Lebedev‚ who is the MD for the Russian subsidiary tried to
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Pierre Trudeau Pierre Trudeau‚ former Prime Minister of Canada‚ was once described as "A French Canadian proud of his identity and culture‚ yet a biting critic of French-Canadian society‚ determined to destroy its mythology and illusions". He has also been identified as "A staunch‚ upholder of provincial autonomy holding the justice portfolio in the federal government". Such cumulative appraisal and observation made by past fellow bureaucrat provides high testimonial for the ex-Democratic Socialist
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social theorists did not delay in providing the counter argument that was agency‚ sparking the structure/agency debate that is still relevant in social thinking today. More recently‚ attempts to synthesise the two have been made‚ where in this essay‚ Pierre Bourdieu’s take on the matter will be explored. On the one hand‚ social theorists present the concept of ‘structure’ as an objective‚ external constraint influencing individual behaviour‚ where structure is the‚ ‘recurrent‚
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