Louis Agassiz

In Scudder and Shaler, Professor Agassiz always thought highly of them because of challenges he put forward and accomplished with hard work. College is not easy. However, I know I can accomplish many things through here if I just set my priorities first which is my education. Scaler with little to no experience on fishes was brought a small fish. Professor Agassiz instructed him to study the specimen, but he specified that “[he] should on no account talk to anyone concerning it, nor read anything relating to fish until [he] had [professor Agassiz] permission to do so (1). He wanted Shaler to think for himself and not depend on any outside resources but his own intellectual mind and sense of comprehension or observation. Professor Agassiz is usually always around but after the set of instructions “[he] concerned himself no further with [Shaler] that day, nor next week, nor for a week. Due to this situation it got him stressed. He later realized it was put to the test so kept moving forward. In college when this occurs that professor is not around, it is always our one responsibility to complete any given assignments. In the end of the day, that grade depends on the time, effort, and work we put in. Even though Shaler was challenged many times he realized “[professor Agassiz] was playing a game with [him] to find if [he] was capable of doing, hard work, continuous work, without the support of…

When glaciers leave behind new landforms and the glacier begins to melt, the water find a way into those new landforms caused by the glaciers to create a glacial lake. There were many glacial lakes formed by the Wisconsin Glaciation, there were only seven major lakes. The largest glacial lake of them all, was Lake Agassiz which is all drained now due to the Glacial River Warren. Lake Agassiz had a greater surface area of all of the Great Lakes combined. Lake Agassiz was located near modern day…

There are many definitions of the word story, but one definition in particular fits the topic of human origins perfectly; a narration of the events in the life of a person or the existence of a thing, or such events as a subject for narration. The story of human origin and the creation of human nature is a difficult story to tell, created by miniscule pieces of evidence and guesswork through paleoanthropology, and advances in the ability to look at and study DNA. Exactly where we came from and…

Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France on December 27th in 1822. He was the son of Jean Pasteur and Jeanne-Etiennette Roqui. His father was a poorly educated tanner, who had high hopes for his son to excel in his education. * Pasteur gave a significant impact to the world of scientific research through his numerous contributions. Earlier in his life, Pasteur worked as a chemist, and dealt with the specific nature of tartaric acid. Tartaric acid is a type of acid that occurs naturally in many…

the French defeat though, with the end of the war it eventually lead to the United States acquisition of Missouri as a territory from the Louisiana Purchase. Travel to the mid-west and specifically to the area that would become Missouri was easier than most areas of the United States and many groups took advantage of this travel. One group that took advantage of this was the Germans. German immigrants began coming to the Missouri area in the eighteen forties and fifties. Unlike the immigration…

Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong “My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn…” (Louis Armstrong). He possessed no formal teaching and yet he broke all barriers when it came to music. Louis Armstrong remains one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time. He not only revolutionized the sound of jazz with his embellished, improvisational solos and “scat” singing, but also his humble personality and charismatic presence won him the hearts of millions. Often known as…

play. A Streetcar Named Desire, although meant to a play that anyone can relate to, also contained characters and situations from his life. In both plays, the characters are drawn from his life. This essay will discuss is the similarities between The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire, which have similar characters and themes throughout them. A Streetcar Named Desire takes place in New Orleans. The characters are Blanche Dubois, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski (Blanche’s…

Intro “There are two kinds of music, the good and the bad. I play the good kind” (Armstrong). Millions of people, starting in the 1930s until today, have agreed with Louis Armstrong’s famous words and have been huge fans of the famous musician. Louis Armstrong was an outstanding jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance Era. He was especially known for his spectacular trumpet playing, unmistakable voice, and exceptionally recognizable, broad smile. The beginning of his inspirational life set…

The African American population’s increasing struggle to earn equal rights in areas such as education, facilities, politics, and employment were extremely prominent during the 1950s and 60s. The use of publicity earned by civil right figures within their given organizations, specifically Martin Luther King Jr. (SCLC), Rosa Parks (NAACP), and Malcolm X with the Nation of Islam (NOI), created palpable tension between whites and blacks. Malcolm X and the NOI brought to the table what others civil…

Karl Marx indicates that the positions, principles, standards, and ethics collectively shared by the majority of the people in any given society will be the methods of social control. The dominant social class, therefore controls how society thinks about their outlook and their place in humanity. Louie Althusser regards the State as a severely constricting apparatus, which is used by the dominant social class as a tool to repress and control the working class. Contrasting to the Repressive State…