Johannes Kepler was a german scientist who played a key role in the 17th Century scientific revolution. Kepler was born 27/12/1571 in Weil der Stadt in Württemberg and his death was in 15/11/1630(age 58). Kepler came from a poor German family. He did not have it easy growing up. His father, Heinrich Kepler, was a soldier, who was killed in a war, and his mother(who was once accused of witchcraft) did not treat him well.…
Analysis: For my Digital Video Story, I had the opportunity to interview Gary J. Matus. Throughout, our interview and conversation we spoke about certain issues that are heavily present in the lives of many youths. Specifically, those individuals that come from a low social economic background and the problems that can sprout from living in a low social economical life. Kids that grow within poverty or who have financial complications are often held back due to the problems that can rise as a result of being financially unstable.…
“In 1952, polio reached its peak when over 58,000 cases were reported, including 3,145 deaths.” (About Jonas Salk) Polio is among the top ten epidemics in the United States history and the widespread panic created by it could have continued longer without the polio vaccine’s inventor, Jonas Salk. Although Jonas Salk’s intentions and methods were called into question by many, his Poliomyelitis vaccine ended the polio epidemic of the early-mid 20th century. Background…
He put himself through school, and became a teacher. He wanted people of color to have…
Chilling, true stories of serial killers can make anyone’s hair rise on the back of their neck and make their eyes pop, especially the stories of Dennis Rader. Dennis Rader is an infamous serial killer that was active in the 1970s. Rader was born February 9, 1945 in Pittsburg, Kansas. Ever since he was a child, he showed a few alarming signs of being a killer. From his own confession, he says he developed fantasies about bondage, control and torture during his early grade school years.…
It is the natural default setting of one’s mind to live a happy life with having a steady income, and what better place to be than the land of opportunity. Due to this mindset, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the United States became very overpopulated especially in New York City. Even though the city lifestyle is set out be “living the dream”, this was not the case for everyone especially for the immigrants. City living was completely different in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries than it is now in today’s day and age. Most people currently living in the city cannot even comprehend what the city life was like one hundred years ago.…
The famous duo, Kim Kardashian West and her husband Kaney West are constntly argueing, but this time, Kim is about to light a match in their already broken relationship. Radar Online, March 3, 2016 reported Kim told Kanye that he is not designing her dress for the Met Gala. The theme for the Met Gala this year is Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology. Vogue said it will “focus on the dichotomy between handmade haute couture and machine-made fashion,” because of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that will accompany the exhibition this year.…
LeAlan had a rough home life. His mother had a mental illness and so his grandmother became his main caregiver. Adolescence is already a time of turmoil and apparent dislike for authority figures. Although LeAlan had those more troubling behaviors, he also expresses his love for his grandmother. “One thing I think about almost every night is what it would be like if my grandmother died.…
Lupe's father has eyes like a bullfighter, real shiny and hard so you know he could just stand there until the very last second and stick a knife in your neck right when you thought you were winning. He was as hard as a rock. To make things worse I took Pappy's truck and lied about what I was going to use it for. I see Pappy riding that stupid bike he got me for Christmas that I never use. I knew he was going to be furious about his truck that I lied about using and crashing.…
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and, for a long time, principal developer, of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for operating systems such as GNU and years later Android and Chrome OS. Hes work in Linux has made it a very legitmate operating system. Torvalds was born in Helsinki, Finland. He is the son of journalists Anna and Nils Torvalds, and the grandson of statistician Leo Törnqvist and of poet Ole Torvalds. Both of his parents were campus radicals at the University of Helsinki in the 1960s.…
He yanks me from my bed and shoves me into the bathroom; I try screaming for help but I know that no one can help me. I am alone, trapped in this endless abusive relationship that I can’t seem to let go of. He locks the door and tells me to shut up or my mom will hear me, and I quickly obey to his rules. I feel the warm wet tears rushing down my face as I begin the agonizing process with my head in the toilet, throat burning, heart aching… as Ed began to slowly take away my entire self-worth one piece at a time. When Ed gave me this willpower over food and told me how perfect he could make me I knew I wanted him to be part of my life.…
Democritus was a famous scientist and also an Ancient Greek philosopher, who had a theory that everything was composed with atoms. He was also known for his atomic theory, he was also known as a good geometer. Democritus was born about 460 BC and died around 370 BC, he was born in Abdera, Thrace. Democritus, the “Father of Modern Science” survived for almost one hundred years until he died in 370 BC. Democritus committed suicide by starving himself, he refused to eat.…
Alexus grew up and spent most of her childhood in Jamaica. All of her family lives there. She’ll be the first out of all of her aunts, cousins, uncles and more to go to the states. She is currently living in the household with her father. He is remarrying and that’s why she has to move to the states.…
Introduction Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier were two of the world's leading pioneers in architecture and the most influential European theorists and critics of Modern architecture. Loos' most known writing was "Ornament and Crime," which encouraged the removal of decoration and the use of smooth and clear surfaces, in contrast to the lavish decorations that appeared at that time. His white stripped-down buildings influenced minimal massing in modern architecture and expressed lack of ornamentation, a crime that he thought would waste the craftsmen' time and skills. However, Loos did use natural patterns and textures in interiors, but these patterns were mostly organic instead of superfluous decoration.…
Robert J. Oppenheimer was a very peculiar person throughout his whole life. He was born on April 22 1904 in New York City. As a child he didn’t have many friends due to the way he was raised. His parents, Julius Oppenheimer was a German immigrant who came to the US at the young age of 17. His father became wealthy later on in his life with the help of an uncle, his success as a businessman and fabric merchant that he soon became the president of this company .…