Warsaw Uprising

it one of the best times of her life. All that she cared about was her studies, and classes. Then all of her work payed off on her final exams in science because Marie had the best test results. She had finished her schooling, she would go back to Warsaw to care for her…

future. Science branches all the way from helping us get into space, to creating new medicine to help people. There are many important scientist out there. One very influential scientist was Marie Curie. Marie Curie was born on November 17, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Poland is a country in the eastern part of Europe. She was the youngest of five siblings and her parents were Wladyslaw and Bronislawa Slowkowski. Marie Curie was very religious, as was her family, growing up early in life but she…

Marie Curie once said, “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be misunderstood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Marie Curie, a female rights activist who fought to not be ridiculed for her intelligence as it did not match her gender, justified that you do not need to be a man to be able to discover something that is helpful and key. In present day, we still use what Curie enforced. She forced upon the use of radioactive elements to be used in medical…

What makes Marie Curie outstanding is the fact that she is the only person to win two nobel prizes in different fields of science and the first woman to win one too. Most of her research and discoveries were with her husband. Together they discovered the elements: Radium and Polonium. Both of those elements were found in pitchblende. Pitchblende is basically a rock but it has a bunch of elements in it including Radium and Polonium. Marie Curie was remarkable chemist and physicist who had won…

Along with the gorgeous set, the appropriate choice in music and interesting “mood” lighting added to the ambiance of the performance as a whole. Start at the very beginning of Marie Curie's life, the presentation went through her upbringing in Warsaw, located in Russia at the time. The presentation went through the strict curriculum implemented by the Russian authorities and the oppression of the Polish people. One of the main points made by Carrie was the inability for her to speak in her own…

1867 in Warsaw, Poland. She is the daughter of Wladyslaw and Bronislava, who were both teachers. (Famous Scientists) Marie was the youngest of five children. As she grew up, she faced many obstacles such as, her family did not have a lot of money and when she was only ten years old her mother died due to Tuberculosis. (biography.com) Curie was one of the smartest out of all the children in her family. She graduated at the top of her class. She wanted to go to the University of Warsaw,…

In The Pianist begins in Warsaw, Poland at the beginning of the Second World War,first introducing Wladyslaw (Wladek) Szpilman, who works as a pianist for the local radio. The Polish Army has been defeated in three weeks by the German Army and Szpilman's radio station is bombed while he plays live on the air. While evacuating the building he finds a friend of his who introduces him to his sister, Dorota. Szpilman is immediately attracted to her. Wladyslaw returns home to find his parents and…

Marie’s father had a dream of becoming a chemist that he could not achieve because of social and financial obstacles. Marie achieved this goal for her father. During the 1940s, women in science career fields was a new and controversial topic. Marie Daly, with the disadvantage at the time of being African American and a woman, fought the stereotype that women should be “in the kitchen” and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry. Since then, Marie Daly has been a part of many…

Missile Crisis of 1962; the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which, beginning in the late '60s, was starting to look more and more like a second civil war; the May 1968 Paris Crisis; the Polish uprisings and "Prague Spring" Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968; all of which could have been the spark that started the great fire.…

The integration of West Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) petrified the Soviet Union and caused them to create their own military and economic alliance known as the Warsaw Pact. Even though it was initially referred to as a Treaty on Friendship, the Soviets became increasingly authoritative in regard to the actions of their so called allies and provided these nations with the impetus to withdraw from the Pact. Two countries that felt the sting of Russian authoritarianism…