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Bioengineering is a rapidly developing field that relates the principles of engineering to a wide variety of biological applications. Many applications of bioengineering are crucial for the dietary and medical needs of many people around the world, and without them starvation and disease would be far more widespread than they are today. As bioengineering becomes more widespread foods will become more plentiful, pharmaceuticals will become more advanced, and more people will be able to live…

The general topic of the Stanford experiment is about prison life ,events that take place, the behaviour of prisoners and prison guards in and the relationship between the prison guards and prisoners in a prison environment. The authors' hypothesis is called the dispositional hypothesis ,Haney, Banks and Zimbardo (1973).It states that the social institution of prison is due to the nature of the people who are in charge(the guards and other staff)and the nature of the people who populate…

in the newspaper about this experiment. Only 24 random college men to be the “prisoners”, and a few men to be the “guards” in this experiment. Zimbardo would pay them 15 dollars a day till the experiment was over, which had to last 2 weeks. The Palo Alto police surprised the men by arrested at the location they were in and was taken to the Stanford psychology department basement. They were assigned an imaginary case and number when they were entering the prison. The men that took the…

Marine in 1968. Repass initially worked as a Computer Engineer, but after few years he left the job and retreat his hobby as his profession. Repass started selling nylon ropes by mail order out of his garage and later opened a small boating outlet in Palo Alto, California in 1975, where he sold different accessories to boats. Then gradually grown as a company for boaters where he had a friendly customer base and started obtaining and opening sculling supply stores along the west drift. By 2002,…

THE WAVE- “Research the original story” The movie ‘The wave’ is based on a true story that occurred at Cubberely High School, Palo Alto, California. The point of the wave was to experiment and to demonstrate how a typical democratic society can be ‘fascism’. This experiment was performed by Ron Jones; his stage name in the movie was Mr Wegner. Both men were well-known as history teachers and this experiment was introduced as a trial in April 1967 and went horribly wrong. As he failed to get…

company that could build tools to help people unleash their passion. Passion is everything. Innovation won’t happen without it. 2. Vision. In 1979 when Steve Jobs saw the graphical user interface demonstrated at the Xerox research facility in Palo Alto, California, he knew immediately that this new technology would make computers appealing to "everyday people." His vision was to put a computer in the hands of everyday people. Xerox scientists didn't realize the potential because their "vision"…

company on January 17, 2011 for medical reasons. Despite this Jobs was still part of the company’s major decision making and was even there to unveil the iPad 2. On August 24, 2011 Jobs resigned his duties at Apple. Two months later Jobs died at Palo Alto California on October 5, 2011 from respiratory arrest due to his pancreatic cancer. His funeral was held on October 7, 2011. Steve Jobs was perseverant man. His life was full of struggles and issues. But even through all of his problems he…

ondoleezza Rice was born on November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama to John Wesley Rice Jr. and Angelena Rice. Her father, was a Presbyterian minister in Birmingham's Westminster Presbyterian Church, as well as a coach and a guidance counselor in a black public school. Her mother, was a teacher and an avid opera lover, which explains why she named her only child after and Italian expression "con dolcezza" which means "with sweetness." Despite growing up in the segregated south, attending a…

are present in California itself. With the revolutionary Apple, it is unlikely that one that is connected to the modern world have never visited an Apple store before. I have visited Apple store numerous of times in San Francisco Union Square, in Palo Alto Stanford Mall, and in San Diego, UTC. I have chosen Apple simply because I love the brand. Especially for a complete technological amateur like myself, Apple’s products had made my life in dealing with folders, flipping through the Internets,…

“Life can get hard and things can go wrong, but no matter what, you've got to stay strong.”(-Unknown) Not many people have heard of Clarence ‘Skip’ Ellis, but the people that have, have been amazed by his story of perseverance, which caused him to break the social norms in America in the 60’s and 70’s. Clarence, known by his close family and friends as ‘Skip,’ was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1943. He was born into a family filled with poverty being one of five children being raised by a single…