Warsaw Pact

future. Science branches all the way from helping us get into space, to creating new medicine to help people. There are many important scientist out there. One very influential scientist was Marie Curie. Marie Curie was born on November 17, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Poland is a country in the eastern part of Europe. She was the youngest of five siblings and her parents were Wladyslaw and Bronislawa Slowkowski. Marie Curie was very religious, as was her family, growing up early in life but she…

Marie Curie once said, “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be misunderstood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Marie Curie, a female rights activist who fought to not be ridiculed for her intelligence as it did not match her gender, justified that you do not need to be a man to be able to discover something that is helpful and key. In present day, we still use what Curie enforced. She forced upon the use of radioactive elements to be used in medical…

What makes Marie Curie outstanding is the fact that she is the only person to win two nobel prizes in different fields of science and the first woman to win one too. Most of her research and discoveries were with her husband. Together they discovered the elements: Radium and Polonium. Both of those elements were found in pitchblende. Pitchblende is basically a rock but it has a bunch of elements in it including Radium and Polonium. Marie Curie was remarkable chemist and physicist who had won…

Along with the gorgeous set, the appropriate choice in music and interesting “mood” lighting added to the ambiance of the performance as a whole. Start at the very beginning of Marie Curie's life, the presentation went through her upbringing in Warsaw, located in Russia at the time. The presentation went through the strict curriculum implemented by the Russian authorities and the oppression of the Polish people. One of the main points made by Carrie was the inability for her to speak in her own…

1867 in Warsaw, Poland. She is the daughter of Wladyslaw and Bronislava, who were both teachers. (Famous Scientists) Marie was the youngest of five children. As she grew up, she faced many obstacles such as, her family did not have a lot of money and when she was only ten years old her mother died due to Tuberculosis. (biography.com) Curie was one of the smartest out of all the children in her family. She graduated at the top of her class. She wanted to go to the University of Warsaw,…

What I am aiming to show in my essay is that humans can overcome anything if they have the right type of determination. This essay communicates a message aimed at teenagers. I am writing about this character because he shows that anyone can survive if they have what it takes. The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, presents viewers with the story of Wladyk Szpilman and his desire to survive against all odds, as he endures terrible hardship and pain. He manages to survive this terrible ordeal…

In The Pianist begins in Warsaw, Poland at the beginning of the Second World War,first introducing Wladyslaw (Wladek) Szpilman, who works as a pianist for the local radio. The Polish Army has been defeated in three weeks by the German Army and Szpilman's radio station is bombed while he plays live on the air. While evacuating the building he finds a friend of his who introduces him to his sister, Dorota. Szpilman is immediately attracted to her. Wladyslaw returns home to find his parents and…

Marie’s father had a dream of becoming a chemist that he could not achieve because of social and financial obstacles. Marie achieved this goal for her father. During the 1940s, women in science career fields was a new and controversial topic. Marie Daly, with the disadvantage at the time of being African American and a woman, fought the stereotype that women should be “in the kitchen” and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry. Since then, Marie Daly has been a part of many…

help young Jews. Her courageous actions helped save 2,500 children from the warsaw ghetto smuggling them from their certain death at the hands of the Nazis. By taking a stand, Irena impacted the world in many ways. She not only saved the lives of many jewish civilians but she saved the generations of their families. Background After coming to power in 1934, Adolf Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with Poland. The pact was put in place in order to minimize the possibility of a military alliance…

Warsaw, the capital of Poland, witnessed firsthand the highs and lows of World War II. After numerous bombings and invasions the city still stands and people live to tell it tale. Warsaw was a targeted by Germany during WWII by Hitler who had plans for the city to be destroyed. The change Warsaw went through can be pieced together by looking at the invasions and bombings that took place within the city and country. Further analysis of the events that actually occurred in Warsaw during World War…