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One mathematician that I discovered is Hypatia of Alexandria. Hypatia was born in C.355CE and lived in Alexandria. Hypatia lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria’s history, she was the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of the mathematics and is daughter of Theon. She was also killed by a fanatical Christian sect. What did Hypatia teach? Hypatia was the earliest female mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher and was also the first woman to…

1951 while she studied at the University of Wisconsin. She and her husband, Joshua Lederberg produced a way that they could easily transfer bacteria from one petri dish to another. They called his process replica plating. In 1958, Joshua received the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine because of his and Esther's work. In Joshua's acceptance speech, he mentioned that he enjoyed the company of his colleagues, including his wife. He did not however, mention the important role she had in their…

Vladimir Lenin was a large figure in the revolution of the USSR and the future of Russia. Vladimir Lenin was born April 22nd, 1870 in Simbirsk, Russian Empire as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Владимир Ильич Ульянов). Some days later, he was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church. He took on the alias Lenin in 1901 while doing underground party work. (http://www.biography.com/people/vladimir-lenin-9379007#early-years). He was born into a wealthy middle-class family, third of six children, along…

Testimonial for St. Frances Cabrini St. Frances Xavier Cabrini was a perfect example of the Catholic faith, beginning her lifelong service as a little girl, following in the the steps of one of her primary role models: me, Rosa, her sister and teacher. Although our uncle and I guided her initially on her spiritual journey, Frances was an independent and self-sufficient young lady, securing a teaching license with the highest honors from the Daughters of the Sacred Heart. With her new license…

whatever he was working on, causing him to look up at her. She smiled at his expression, obviously disgruntled that she had interrupted his concentration that he was giving his essay on the Holocaust. “You are looking at the new up and coming scholar, Nobel prize winner, the most amaz-,” “-Ing B ever received on a test in the history of ever,” Peter finished for her, smiling and sliding her test off of his thesis statement. Maya glared at him, snatching her B up she smacked him in the face with…

♣ to the audit committee, as in the GM case. NYSE requirements require the audit committee to discuss policies with respect to risk assessment and risk management. However, the NYSE commentary clarifies that the “audit committee is not required to be the sole body responsible for risks assessment and management” [See Part I, Exhibit C Rule 303A.07(b)(iii)(D)]. If the board allocates risk responsibilities to the audit committee, these responsibilities should be thoughtfully addressed in the…

A beautiful mind is set in the late 1940’s, a movie based on a true story of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, Directed by Ron Howard in 2002. This story emphasizes Nash 's graduate years at Princeton University where he starts to develop a mental disorder. Later doctors diagnose Nash with paranoid schizophrenia which causes Nash to start hallucinating. Nash struggles through his life and with the help of friends and especially his wife is able to recover. A beautiful mind is about a…

Ernest Hemingway had a very big influence on the entire world. He was born on July 21st, 1899 in Cicero, Illinois. He started his writing career with the Kansas City newspaper office when he was seventeen. When the United States entered the war he volunteered for the Italians in an ambulance unit. He was injured on the front and spent a lot of time in hospitals in Italy. When he returned to the States he became a writer for the Canadian and American newspapers. He later returned to Europe to…

delivered one of the most famous speech all around the world; then at 35 he won a nobel prize for peace "for the furtherance of brotherhood among men and to the abolishment or reduction of standing armies and for the extension of these purposes." stated the Nobel Institute. And instead of keeping the 54,000 dollars he received with the award, he put it right back into the civil rights movement(“Martin Luther King WIns the Nobel Prize for Peace”). Sadly, at age 39 he is assassinated in Tennessee…

World War II and Civil War brought the most horrifying time in American History which killed countless people with nuclear gas and atomic bombs.There was one author who wrote about this time.He was William Faulkner, who also won the noble prize at the time for his outstanding and unique contribution to the American literature on December 10,1950. Faulkner addressed his speech in Stockholm, Sweden to the guests, the nation and his fellow writers that he believes will one day stand where he is.…