Have you ever wondered how big the Milky Way really is? Well,an American astronomer named Harlow Sharpley gave us the accurate answer to this question in 1920.He began his research in 1914 with studying stars called Global Clusters.He continued his studies and stayed persistent throughout the years until he found the answers he was looking for.Our world is unbelievably big and there are so many undiscovered things out there that there is no limit for the amount that we can learn about it.Up until 1920 we didn’t even have an idea of the actual size of the Milky Way,But thanks to this man we are at least given a range of the amount of things out there that are waiting to be discovered.Throughout his early years,and adult life he has always been very interested in learning new things and in pushing with his interests he made many contributions to Astronomy.
Harlow was born on November 2nd in 1885 on a farm in Nashville Missouri.His parents were named Willis and Sarah Sharpley.Growing up even though he was an only child Harlow had no self motivation to push himself through the work and pressure that school put on him.He dropped out of school only receiving a 5th grade education.Harlow continued to educate himself at home and took up writing.He became a newspaper reporter,covering crime stories.This was not enough for Harlow,eventually he got tired of his life at home and decided that he wanted to go back to school and get a real education because he realized that it was needed for him to make it farther in life and make something of himself.He returned to school by joining a 6-year High School program in which he graduated out of in only two years and as valedictorian.Although as a young boy Harlow didn’t make the best decisions h...
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... doubt and of others doubt on him,he rose very high above that.He proved everyone wrong and proved to himself that he was a smart person who deserved to have a successful life.He is an inspiration to everyone that there is always a way to come back and fix your mistakes.He knew he was better than staying at home and doing nothing.He had a passion for learning and knew that staying at home doing nothing wasn’t who he was and wasn't what he wanted to do with his life.He wanted to make a difference and he did just that.Not only did he have a successful career but he had a great life with a big family that he created.He proved the wonders that could come from putting in the effort and believing in yourself.Thanks to Harlow,the great deal importance of a good education and how far having a good one can take you in life is shown.There are no limits out there for us.
When he was fifteen years old his mother died from appendicitis. From fifteen years of age to his college years he lived in an all-white neighborhood. From 1914-1917, he shifted from many colleges and academic courses of study as well as he changed his cultural identity growing up. He studied physical education, agriculture, and literature at a total of six colleges and universities from Wisconsin to New York. Although he never completed a degree, his educational pursuits laid the foundation for his writing career. He had the knowledge of philosophy and psychology. He attempted to write when he was a youth, but he made a choice to pursue a literary career in 1919. After he published Cane he became part of New York literary circles. He objected both rivalries that prevailed in the fraternity of writers and to attempts to promote him as a black writer (Clay...
Amos Bronson Alcott was a man of many talents and professions, including, but not limited to, educator, philosopher, conversationalist and poet. He was born on a farm near Wolcott, Connecticut, and formally educated only until he was 13, as his family did not have enough money to educate him any further. His dreams of attending Yale, therefore, died. However, he did continue teaching himself. And never really stopped reading and self-educating. Despite this, he never became very wealthy, and in fact, struggled most of his life to make enough money to support his family. Though not rich in material goods, he was rich in values. (Mott, 2). He stood up very strongly for what he believed in. He not only defended his ideals through his conversations and writings, but also through his actions.
Waller, William H. The Milky Way: An Insider's Guide. Princeton, N.J: Princeton UP, 2013. 42+. Print.
Albert Pike was born December 29, 1809, child of Ben and Sarah Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield and Newburyport, Massachusetts. He attended school at Newburyport and Framingham until he was 15. In August 1825, at the age of 16 he was accepted at Harvard University, because of a dispute over tuition fees he did not attend . He would receive an Honorary Master of Arts degree from Harvard in 1859, in recognition of his prose as a poet. In 1831, Pike left Massachusetts to journey west, joining a hunting expedition to New Mexico. During the trip he lost his horse and walked the remaining 500 miles to New Mexico. His travels ultimately led him to Fort Smith Arkansas. He taught school and went to work for the newspaper the Arkansas Advocate. He used a portion of the dowry he received when he married Mary Ann Hamilton 10 October 1834 to buy the newspaper. Under P...
“Eventually, we reach the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows and search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial,” is a quote about Hubble’s views on discovery and exploration of the universe (Hubble, 1936). Edwin Powell Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri, USA on November 29 1889 but later moved to Chicago with his family, where he completed his post secondary education and obtained an undergraduate degree in mathematics and astronomy, from the University of Chicago. To fulfill his father’s wish, Hubble being a dutiful son, later went on to study law at Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship. Upon obtaining his law degree, Hubble successfully opened and operated a small practice back in the US. Seeing as law was never a passion of Hubble’s, as he stated, “It was astronomy that mattered” and knowing his heart lied elsewhere, Hubble once again went back to the University of Chicago to obtain his doctorate in astronomy (Mayall, 1970). Earlier in his life, as having broken the state record in high jump, Hubble was better known for his athletic prowess. Hubble today is lauded as a pioneer and a visionary, who went beyond the confines of his time to seek more and see farther out into the universe, on route making major discoveries and contributions into the vast field of astronomy.
He was home schooled until the age of 13 and around 1900 enrolled in Kimball Union Academy. After graduating, Just attended Dartmouth College as the only black student, where he first studied Biology along with a plethora of other subjects and was the only student who graduated magna cum laude with many honors (“Ernest”1). He went on to receive a teaching position at Howard University, moving from English to Biology and worked his way up to becoming a professor of Biology. During the summer of 1909, Just began making yearly trips to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and it was here that Ernest first began a life-long career based on embryology and other similar areas (Echberg
I know that astronomy is getting more popular by the day since the comet came and all those people got killed. But that really did not have anything to do with astronomy, so I am not going to get into that. To me astronomy is really cool. If you have a telescope and it is a clear night you can see different constellations such as: Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Hercules, Pegasus, Perseus there are many more that is so cool. But it is even cooler to look up and see them in the sky. To do all of that you first have to be in the correct place. What you can do first is look for the north star, when you find that then you are all set. If you cannot find it just simply face north and look for the brightest star in that direction. If you still cannot find it buy a compass then hopefully you will find it. If you still cannot find it ask somebody, I made no grantee that you would find it these ways. That is really all I know about astronomy, but after this paper I bet you I will know a whole lot more.
nurture, because his parents raised him. So what was caused by genetics and what was caused by their actions could be argued. Though I still believe that due to the fact he was not close to his mother. It talked of the possibility that Harlow suffered from depression. “Or maybe it was in the distance between his mother and him; he must have longed for something soothing.” (Slater, 133) and the connection of his experiment suggests exactly that, comfort from his mother. The fact that he went to such extremes “to show that infant monkeys care more for a soft surrogate mother then a metal milk-bearing one, and with this finding, a whole science of touch was born.” (Slater 132) It wasn’t the fact that Harlow studied this that was so alarming it was more about how he went about the experiment, which was controversial, ripping young monkeys from their mothers causing them to bite themselves and rock, showing signs of autistic behavior. Showing now that even though the cloth monkey was better then the wire-feeding monkey they needed more, they needed interaction such as rocking or
“That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” were the now famous and iconic words or Neil Armstrong as he became the first man to set foot on Earth’s moon. The advanced research mankind has made to further their understanding of the vast, astronomical unknown of space has opened up numerous doors of opportunity to fathom the universe, but not without drastic repercussions.
On January 15th, noontime, in the year of 1929, a man of great pride, diligence, and intellect would be brought into the world. When his time came forth, he would display an image of humanity living, loving, and coming together as brothers and sisters under God, to outweigh the inequality ingrained in society for hundred of years. He was a smart man, smart indeed, but overall he was well motivated, driven, and willing to work for what he wanted. He embodied the mindset that anything was possible if you put your mind to it. Follow your dreams and they will become reality.
The skeletal facts of his personal struggle for light and of his rise from the coalmines of West Virginia to the summit of academic achievement are great in and of them and can be briefly stated.
Every day we look into the night sky, wondering and dreaming what lies beyond our galaxy. Within our galaxy alone, there are millions upon millions of stars. This may be why it interests us to learn about all that we cannot see. Humans have known the existence of stars since they have had eyes, and see them as white glowing specks in the sky. The mystery lies beyond the white glowing specks we see but, in the things we cannot see in the night sky such as black holes.
Richard Nathaniel Wright was born on September 4th 1908 close to Natchez, Mississippi (Ferris 542). His father, Nathaniel Wright, was an illiterate sharecropper, and his mother, Ella Wilson, was a schoolteacher. When Wright was about five years old his father left the house forcing his mother to take one more work. For several years him and his brother spent time in an orphanage. He moved from school to school for many years and graduated as valedictorian of his ninth grade class in June of 1925 from Smith Robertson Junior High School in Jackson during June 1925. Once he was finished with grade school he started at Lanier High School. After only a few weeks he dropped out to work so he could save up enough money to go to Memphis. He was a jack of all trades so he worked on many small jobs. When he was seventeen he had finally saved up enough and was off to Memphis. He worked as a dishwasher and delivery boy for an optical company while in Memphis. He star...
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