The Work and Life of Alfred Wegener Alfred Wegener was born on November 1st 1880, he studied the natural sciences at the University of Berlinreceiving a PhD in astronomy, graduating in 1904. As well as this qualification Wegener was knowledgeable in the areas of in geophysics and the newly developing fields of meteorology and climatology. He already played an active role in pioneering the scientific world in such things as the use of balloons to track air circulation, joining a trek to Greenland to study polar air circulation in 1906. Also on the list of achievement in Germany the text book that Wegener became standard. In 1914 he was enlisted into the German army, but was released from combat duty after receiving injury, and served out the war in the Army weather forecasting service. After the war, Wegener returned to Marburg, but became irritated with his lack of promotion within his field. In 1924 he accepted a specially created professorship in meteorology and geophysics at the University of Graz, in Austria. Wegener made what was to be his last expedition to Greenland in 1930. While returning from a rescue expedition that brought food to a party of his colleagues camped in the middle of the Greenland icecap, he died, two days after his fiftieth birthday. The theory of plate tectonics is that the world was made up of a single continent through most of geologic time. That continent eventually separated and drifted apart, forming into the seven continents we have today. Scientists believe that Earth's surface is broken into a number of shifting slabs or tectonic plates, which average about 50 miles in thickness. These plates move relative to one another above a hotter, deeper, liquid part of the earth called the mantle, at average rates as great as a few centre meters per year. Most of the world's active volcanoes are located along or near the boundaries between shifting plates and are called plate-boundary volcanoes continental drift continental drift Wegener first noticed a close similarity between fossils found on
15. The pictures above show how the continents on Earth’s surface have changed position over a very long period of time. What explains this change? (S6E5e, f)
In 1678, Pachelbel obtained the first of the two important positions he was to hold
Figure 5: portrays the interaction between the individual from the shelter and the pouch. Here are some images of it. Figure 5 shows one key aspect of it, which is the interaction between one of
Edmund Emil Kemper III was born on December 13, 1948 in Burbank, CA. He was born to the union of Edmund E. Kemper Jr. and Clarnell Strandberg. After his parents divorced, Clarnell took Kemper along with his two sisters to live by her very high standards and abusive ways. She berated Kemper mentally by having him sleep in a windowless basement because she feared of the harm he may cause to his sisters. In turn, this caused the hatred that he had for her to fester and turn into hatred against all women. On many occasions Kemper would break off the heads and hands of his sister’s dolls and also have them play the game he called “The gas chamber” in which he was the victim to be executed (Fisher, 2003a).
Heidegger opines that human existence is grounded in our always finding ourselves in a ‘world’.
Charles Albert Dutch Ruppersberger is one of the congressman for the state of Maryland in Baltimore County, specifically the second district. Born in the city of Baltimore Maryland on January 31, 1946, Ruppersberger has made many contributions to the area of which my family and I live. Growing up, Ruppersberger lived the life of a typical student in America. He attended Baltimore City College where he received his high school diploma, while later furthering his education to the University of Maryland College Park; there he earned his B.A. Finally Ruppersberger obtained his goal of earning a Juris Doctorate from the University Of Baltimore School Of Law. Along with receiving a higher education Ruppersberger loved to play lacrosse. All of the schooling that Ruppersberger went through prepared for him for the role that he currently plays in our community.
Nester's excerpt begins with a description of where she worked and what her coworkers did to pass the time. She also mentioned an attempt at maximizing their wages under the piecework system. Next, she recounts the company's additional fees for their machines such as oil, needles, and the electricity necessary to operate them. Along with this, the foreman instituted absurd rules to keep the girls in line. When the company introduced a trial procedure that would subdivide the work. The banders group walked out after this announcement and were supported by Nester's group of workers. One of the banders went to the press and news spread to the Chicago Federation of Labor and they began recruiting the women of the factory to the union. However,
Joseph Eichler, born in 1900, was a post-war American real estate architect who developed residential housing of Mid-20th century modern style tract housing throughout the state of California. To this day, Eichler is known for creating these custom modernist houses and influencing other developers. His work is seen throughout many homes, along with, larger corporate buildings, across the state. Most of his own work was built in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the metropolitan area of Los Angeles.
My name is Lyman Beecher. I was born in New Haven, Counnecticut, on October 12, 1775. In 1793, I attended Yale for a formal education. My most notable achievements include serving as a Presbyterian minister, serving in the First Church in Litchfield, CT, and being asked to be the Professor and President of Theology at Lane Seminary. I am especially known for being a successful revivalist and my ideas are ones that many Americans can connect and relate with. During the course of my career, I supported the Temperance Movement, suggested an easier way to deal with slavery, and aided with moral reform.
It is widely considered that media was forever changed with the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1450. The printing press made it easier for people to convey their thoughts and ideas while simultaneously reaching the maximum amount of people possible. Within the last century, the evolution of media has been staggering. We can now read the news online from halfway around the world or watch stories on television as they happen. All of these innovations have not come without their problems. In 1774, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote the book The Sorrows of Young Werther, a book that by all accounts was The Catcher in the Rye of its generation. It was banned because it was said to have influenced thousands across Europe to commit a form of copy-cat suicide. Copy-cat suicide is when one person commits a form of suicide that they learned from either local knowledge or accounts of the suicide in the news and other forms of media. This paper will analyze Goethe's influence on what we now know as “The Werther Effect” and its prevalence in other forms of modern media. First I will look at The Sorrows of Young Werther and how it influenced numerous studies.
“All good ideas arrive by chance” (Max Ernst). Max Ernst born 1891 in Bruhl, Germany. He was a painter, sculptor, graphic artist and a poet. Max Ernst came from a large middle-class family of nine and was the third born. His father Phillipp was an amateur painter and was a teacher to the deaf. A good deal of Ernst's work as an adult sought to undermine authority including that of his father. Max was a founding member of the Surrealist group in Paris. Although many speculate on the ideas that Max had there are numerous pieces of artwork that are an amazing sight. His works and iconic paintings have been seen all around the world and
Fluid Dynamics is a subject that is well over 2,000 years old. Archimedes, da Vinci, Galileo and Newton are all classical forerunners of modern fluid dynamics researchers such as Bernoulli and Euler (Anderson 42). However, until the early 19th century, this subject was not well quantified; instead, textbooks were comprised of endless tables and figures demonstrating phenomena. When Daniel Bernoulli, Claude Navier and George Stokes introduced mathematics to the realm of fluid flow, new research was possible, but this work was highly theoretical and required extensive use of differential equations (Eckert 15). Ludwig Prandtl was the man who quantified many fluid flow principles and created his own theories about boundary separation and airfoil dynamics.
Graphic designer and typographer Stefan Sagmeister has always had a unique way of viewing the world, therefore has created designs that are both inventive and controversial. He is an Austrian designer, who works in New York but draws his design inspiration while traveling all over the world. While a sense of humor consistently appears in his designs as a frequent motif, Sagmeister is nonetheless very serious about his work. He has created projects in the most diverse and extreme of ways as a form of expression. This report will analyse three of Stefan’s most influential designs, including the motives and messages behind each piece.
German-Americans are the largest ethnic group in the United States. 50 million people living in the US can trace their roots back to today’s German borders. German-Americans have flourished in the United States and have had a profound impact on American culture. This paper will serve to outline the history of German migration to the United States, the characteristics and assimilation of this ethnic group, and my personal ties to this group as a 5th generation German-American.
One important piece of technology is the steam train. Development for the steam train first started with not the train itself, but the engine used to run it. Development for the steam engine first started in the late 17th century, by English inventor Thomas Savery. Although the steam engine was at first designed to remove water from mines, the design as improved by another English inventor, known as Thomas Newcomen, but that wasn’t the last improvement of its design. It was again improved by a Scottish inventor called James Watt. This is the design that would inspire the steam train.