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On June 16, 1917 in New York City, Katharine Graham was born. Coming from two successful parents, her father Eugene Meyer and Agnes Elizabeth Meyer, it seemed that she was destined to be a hard working and accomplished young women in the city of opportunity. Katharine Graham ended up being an incredibly influential woman in the field of journalism and women’s rights and will be remembered of her accomplishments for many years to come. She is a wonderful role model for young girls and hopeful…

Graham Norton, famous host of the comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show hinted that he may quit the BBC next year. The show’s been running for almost a decade and its guests were most famous actors and actresses, singers and writers of our contemporary pop culture. Among the high profile celebrities are Madonna, Will Smith, Tom Cruise and many others. The Graham Norton Show’s been extremely successful, and its charismatic host won 5 BAFTA TV Awards for Best Entertainment Performance. Who…

Since the primordial times, the humanity felt the necessity to devise tools that would facilitate their daily activities. In a time where the world was craving for new devices, the inventors appeared. However, the rise of inventions is not limited to today’s world, and to understand that we should first define what an invention is. From my understanding, an invention is nothing more than a complex process of creating a new device; to rephrase it, when someone invents a tool, he or she is…

Photographs became an important tool for the National Geographic and helped with its ongoing efforts of positioning itself between the boundaries of science and entertainment (Lutz and Collins 1993:27). Alexander Graham Bell took over the National Geographic Society in 1898, and hired Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor who saw the potential in photographs increasing the magazine’s popularity (Lutz and Collins 1993:27). In 1905 Grosvenor published photographs that were sent…

It has been exactly one hundred and forty years since Alexander Graham Bell made the first phone call to his assistant, Watson. It has been more than thirty years ever since the debut of cell phones. It has been forty five years since the first email being sent with the message QWERTYUIOP, from Ray Tomlinson, who invented email, to himself. It has been over a decade since the birth of Facebook, a whole new wave of technology revolutionize us.And now, at 2016, almost everyone who is thirteen and…

catalog of innovative technology on display, the Exhibition was very well known for hosting some of the most iconic inventors in history. “One new invention which interested hardly anybody, yet which would affect the nation profoundly, was Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone. It attracted less notice than the packages of magic tricks on sale nearby” (Brown 132-133). Although Bell was not a United States citizen at the time, his invention was displayed on American soil and it would greatly improve…

Canada’s Economics and Science Technology by Kristina Canada’s Economics Canada’s economy creates resources, it uses land, it provides the country with money, goods and services and it employs citizens. All these factors help to define Canada’s identity. About one hundred years ago Canada was identified as a country of farmers, fishers, hunters and loggers. Along with these industries Canada is now known for its mining and for supplying gas and oil to the world. Canada currently has a diverse…

People have always needed to communicate with each other, and the invention of the telephone has changed the human life. Today we have a very advanced telephone but it all started 140 years ago with a simple microphone. Year 1876 Alexander G. Bell received his patent on the telephone. This was a revolutionary invention that awed the general public. Only three days after filing the patent Bell called his assistant Mr. Watson from a nearby room and said the famous first message on the telephone…

one of the most used inventions. (Thesis Statement) The invention of the telephone has had one of the biggest impacts on society impacting communication, technology, reading and writing. The telephone was invented on March 10, 1876, by Alexander Graham Bell in Ontario, Canada. Bell established a school for the deaf and taught in speech and vocal physiology. While teaching he started to experiment with transmitting telegraph messages over a single wire, which began…

National Geographic society is a non profit organization that has been going on since 1888 and still is going on today caring about our education and our planet. I think it is a great organization and you should go check it out they do a lot of events so if you don't like one you may like another or you just might like all of them. I am encouraging you to at least read about it to see if you like it if you dont you dont have to go if you do you are more than welcome to come out to some of the…