Duchy of Warsaw

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…

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…

Gestapo, and Sendler spend the rest of the war in hiding. After the war, Sendler worked to reunite the children she saved with their relatives, but nearly all of them were by then orphans as their families had been killed. Only one percent of the Warsaw Ghetto survived the war. She was honored for her wartime work, when people called her, telling her, “I remember you. I remember your face, you took me out of the ghetto.” One of the children which Sendler saved said, “To me and many…

1962; the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which, beginning in the late '60s, was starting to look more and more like a second civil war; the May 1968 Paris Crisis; the Polish uprisings and "Prague Spring" Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968; all of which could have been the spark that started the great fire.…

Introduction The North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact were two defining features of the Cold War, formed early in the period and lasting the entire duration of the Cold War. Both treaties were initially formed with the predominant idea of mutual protection, as evidenced in NATO’s Washington Treaty article five, and the Warsaw Pact’s Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance’s similar article four. These two articles both state that an attack on one of the member…

15,1910 in Otwock Warsaw. She was greatly influenced by her father who was one of the first polish socialists. Her father died February 1917 from typhus. After her father death, Jewish community leaders offered her mother help in paying for Irena education. Sendler studied polish literature at Warsaw University. She married Mieczyslaw sendler in 1931,but got a divorced after she married Stefan Zgrzembski, they had 3 kids and later got a divorced. On May 12,2008 Irena died at Warsaw poland at the…