Oliver Wu was an old man who died peacefully on March 20, 2108. The remaining members of his family were his sister, wife, son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, and his 13 grandchildren. His parents had died a few decades ago, but sadly, because he had very important work, he never heard about it, so he did not go to his parents’ funerals. Oliver was born and raised in Fremont, California. He attended Fred E. Weibel Elementary, where he is remembered as a chess champion. Throughout elementary school, Oliver won many chess awards and was in fact the best and highest rated chess player from third grade to sixth grade. He won a number of state championships and other tournaments. In fact, when he was just 9 years old, he won the Kirshner …show more content…
He continued to stay at MIT until the year of 2035, in which he graduated with a PHD in Applied Math and Computer Science. In the summer of 2035, when he was 31, he went to his good friend, Princeton’s, funeral. For Princeton’s obituary, you can go to www.greatmathematicians.com/obituaries/Princeton_Liu. With that obstacle removed, the way was clear for Oliver to be a famous mathematician. But, Oliver became tired of mathematics, so he started playing chess again. For two years, he played many chess tournaments and won most of them. He even won both of the Millionaire Chess Tournaments within those two years (Top Prize is $100,000)! On the third year that he started playing chess again, he qualified for the World Championship because he had won the Candidates Tournament. To his great surprise, his childhood friend, Louis Law, was World …show more content…
Jonathan, a childhood friend, who had a PHD in Automotive Engineering, was looking for a good job. Oliver, who wanted to help Jonathan, teamed up with him and started a manufacturing company. Oliver wanted to conserve the company’s money, so Oliver only hired 20 people. The 20 people that he hired, though, were the best in the world at designing and manufacturing cars. He hired 10 people to work with him to program the design the computer within the car, and he hired 10 people to work with Jonathan to design the motor, outside design, and all of the other parts of the car. Within just 1 year, their company had produced the first hovercar! The hovercar was a great success, and after manufacturing for just 1 more year, Oliver’s company had made tens of
Mao Zedong was a very influential man in history. He forever changed the face of Chinese politics and life as a whole. His communist views and efforts to modernize China still resonate in the country today. Jonathan Spence’s book titled Mao Zedong is a biography of the great Chinese leader. Spence aims to show how Mao evolved from a poor child in a small rural village, to the leader of a communist nation. The biography is an amazing story of a person’s self determination and the predictability of human nature. The book depicts how a persuasive voice can shape the minds of millions and of people. It also shows the power and strength that a movement in history can make. This biography tells an important part of world history-the communist takeover of China.
In the epilogue to The Death of Woman Wang, we see several ways in which Chinese culture determined the sentence meted out to the Jens by Huang. False accusation of innocent persons was a capital crime in 17th century China, punishable by death. The Jens, however, were not executed. The largest factor in sparing the younger Jen, was based around the cultural importance placed on continuation of family lines and the strict ways in which this could acceptably happen.
Feng Ru was the first Chinese Aviator to lift of the ground in china for more than a minute. He had to face many turning points like when he had to relocate oakland because of the earthquake. He changed hi country which was china by bring aviation there that is why he is called “The Father of Chinese Aviation.He had immigrated and quickly understood that America’s industrialization made America successful. So Feng Ru tried to learn about all about mechanics. He was the only one who did not face racism but death itself. He changed the way of transportation for his country. He faced
Ah Xian born in Beijing in 1960 left china following the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, also known as tank man incident, and moved to Sydney Australia. Having moved from his native country, Ah Xian wanted his work to represent that “cultural identity is permanent and no matter what other places and influences one
Smarr, Janet. “Emperor Wu”. Making of the Modern World 12. Ledden Auditorium, La Jolla, CA. 17 Feb. 2012. Lecture.
Henry Ford wanted to build a high-quality automobile that would be affordable to everyday people. He believed the way to do this was to manufacture one model in huge quantities. Henry Ford searched the world for the best materials he could find at the cheapest cost. During a car race in Florida , Ford examined the wreckage of a French car and noticed that many of its parts were made of a metal that was lighter but stronger than what was being used in American cars. No one in the U.S. knew how to make this French steel a vanadium alloy. As part of the preproduction process for the Model T, Ford imported an expert who helped him build a steel mill. As a result, the only cars in the world to utilize vanadium steel in the next five years would be French luxury cars and the Model T. Ford realizes he needs another efficient way to produce the cars in lower prices. Ford saw what he was missing was 4 principles that would help with the Model T which was interchangeable parts, continuous flow, division of labor, and reducing wasted
Meryl Davids is a professional writer/editor with an education from the University of Pennsylvania. With an outstanding twenty plus years of experience under her belt, Davids has work featured in magzines and journals such as: U.S. News & World Report, Wall Street Journal, and The Journal of Business Strategy. In this article Davids brings to our attention the successfulness of Henry Ford as well as the some of the struggles he faced trough out his life. Davids lets us know right from the start that Ford was a smart man and he knew that time was money. Ford states, “Time loves to be wasted.” The solution to this was a large-scale assembly line. With the successfulness of the assembly line and the money Ford was saving he double the wages of his employees from $2.50 to $5 overnight as
...h he forgot it for many months together, when spring came each year he must go out on to the land." (Chapter 34, pg. 257) Wang Lung was not aware of his son's interest in selling the land though, and thus died contently. He wished he had done things differently with O-lan and probably would have been happier if he was still a pheasant but we all wish there were things we could have done differently. To Wang Lung the earth was good. He never saw the ending picture and how his faith in the earth wouldn't carry on because of his money hungry sons, but his love for the land ended with him, and peace in his heart.
... emerge. After he died, his group of disciples spread to various states finding employment in either government or education. They became instrumental in the new government and their ideas would remain in China, and Chinese policies until this day.30
Henry Ford was the pioneer of the American automobile industry. He was born in 1863 near Dearborn, Michigan. Forty years later he started Ford Motor Company with the help of Thomas Edison. In 1908, Henry Ford forever changed the world with his Model T. Ford was known as a revolutionary person for not only making the automobile inexpensive but also for teaching workers proper skills and paying them steady wages. (Henry Ford Bio, 1) Only a mere six years later, Ford changed the world again with his invention of the moving assembly line in 1914. With the modern assembly line he was now able to mass produce his Model T. Nearly everything mass produced in the world is assembled on an assembly line thanks to Ford’s 100 year old idea. Not only did Ford make life easier for civilians by giving them affordable access to
on October of 1908 Henry Ford proclaimed “...I will build a motor car for the great multitude...,” (Steven C. Stanford). To Ford, this meant that an average American worker would be able to afford the automobile, with no need of a chauffeur conversant to its mechanics. Although many believed, that the idea of an Average american, being able to afford and operate an automobile was absurd, Ford was determined to provide for the “...great multitude…”.Out of this determination, Ford developed the Model T, and the assembly line. Two innovations that “...Revolutionized American Society and Modeled the world we live in today…-Charles, E. “...My Forty Years with Ford…” (1956);
“Thus in arithmetic, during the few months that he studied it, he made such progress that he frequently confounded his master by continually raising doubts and difficulties. He devoted some time to music … Yet though he studied so many different things, he never neglected design and working in relief, those being the things which appealed to his fancy more than any other.”
...ope and eventually went to America with his wife and two daughters, but instead of composing he focused on being a pianist. He stayed there for the rest of his life, dying at the age of seventy from cancer, but not before becoming an American citizen, which he was able to do just five weeks before he died.
The audiences seems to recognize the “The Match of the Century” where the best American-born chess player, Bobby Fischer, compete against the best Russian-born chess player, Boris Spassky, resembles World War II, where people risk their lives to fight for their nation. Bobby Fischer Goes to War, a nonfiction story by David Edmonds and John Eidinow, is about Bobby, who is put to a challenge of competing against Boris Spassky, and will face many challenges throughout the story.The two legends were impossible to be cornered, but soon the world will know who really the champion of the world is. The most extraordinary chess match of all-time will be assembled in Yugoslavia. Who will win the world chess championship? The meaning of Bobby Fischer Goes to War is determination which is presented through Bobby Fischer’s
In conclusion, Wu made us remember how important our grandparents no matter how different are we from each other. Also, I learned a lot from my grandparents, and some of things that I learned are that we should treat others with good manners and secondly, we shouldn’t blame others for things that we are uncertain they did it. What I learned from my grandfather made me owe both of my grandparents a lot. And off course one of the things that I and Wu share is that we miss our grandparents a lot and we hope to see them as soon as possible in the