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Vivien Thomas is a brilliant hero recognized for his groundbreaking research regarding the illness called the “Blue baby syndrome”. Due to Thomas’ unfaltering determination and passion for pursuing a career in the medical field, his innovative ideas and inventions have immensely advanced our medical technology. With hands blessed by the Almighty, he saved countless numbers of infants diagnosed with the Tetralogy of Fallot. The Great Depression that plagued America in the 1930’s is held…

question for this project was How does music helps expand our interaction in society by being taught in our school system? The first thing I looked at in doing my research was Johns Hopkins School of Education website. The title of their article was “Music and Learning: Integrating Music in the Classroom” (John Hopkins University School of Educatio). The author of the article was Chris Boyd Brewer. The article starts with a quote from Ludwig van Beethoven “Music…

Growing up in a town where someone shares the same name can be difficult, especially in the Wes Moore’s situation. One Wes Moore “is free and has experienced things that he never even knew to dream about as a kid. The other will spend every day until his death behind bars for an armed robbery that left a police officer and father of five dead” (Moore 1). Each decision both individuals made had either a positive or negative impact on their life, according to which Wes Moore was described. Both…

Benjamin Solomon Carson was born on September 18, 1951 in Detroit Michigan. He grew up poor and a single-parent household with his mother he had bad grades and a horrible temper to take six were not in his favor. Suddenly Ben's mother uneducated herself challenge for two children to read and believe in themselves, Carson give a lot of credit to his mother for pushing them to do their best. At 33, he became the youngest major division director in the hospital's history as director of pediatric…

“Life is a balanced system of learning, adjusting, and evolving. Whether pleasure or pain, every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.” - Dr. Steve Maraboli There is nothing comparable with the happiness of knowing my purpose in life. Being a nurse gives me a great sense of personal fulfillment that brings on new challenging experiences every day. It is a field that allows me to constantly evolve and has given me many meaningful…

Eugenie Clark entered the male dominated world of marine biology. In the early 1940s, she participated in her first underwater dive. Shortly after, she carried out several more and the Navy presented her the invitation to study in the Southern Seas. While in this region, she viewed over three hundred unique species of fish, which were basically nonexistent during this time. Only after a few years, Clark journeyed hundreds of feet beneath the ocean’s surface to examine sleeping sharks that were…

Did you know that Dr. Benjamin Carson is the first American Neurosurgeon to successfully separate a conjoined twin who were joined at the top of their heads? Dr. Carson grow up in poverty with a single parent who dedicated her life to make sure her son would become successful in life. “As a child I hated poverty,” Dr. Carson stated within his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Although he was born in a situational stage were poverty was his main obstacle, Carson mother didn’t allow the…

this town are mostly farmers. However, the farmers in this town aren’t as wealthy as other farmers in other provinces especially Warren’s family. Warren’s parents use their entire life to save up money in order to give him an opportunity to go to university. His father,…

one of the founders of biogerontology, studying the aging process of drosophila to offset her financial difficulties. Carson lost interest in the lab very quickly but was lucky enough to be offered a summer fellowship in marine biology through John Hopkins University’s Master’s Program. During her time at JHU, she began focusing on the conservation of marine life. This focus soon became her career upon graduation when she took a job with the Bureau of Fisheries and Wildlife (Mahoney 2007).…

As Rachel Carson once said, “ If I had influence with the good fairy, I would ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.” My scientist that I chose for this assignment was Rachel Carson. She was a Marine biologist, and studied Natural science. She was known for her writings on nature. Rachel was born on May 27, in 1907. She was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania, where she had grown up. When she was 57 on April 14, she had…