... he was 17 he received a degree of bachelor of letters at the Collège Royal de Besançon. For the next three years he tutored younger students and prepared for the École Normale Supérieure, a noted teacher-training college in Paris. As part of his studies he investigated the crystallographic, chemical, and optical properties of various forms of tartaric acid. His work laid the foundations for later study of the geometry of chemical bonds. Pasteur's investigations soon brought him recognition and also an appointment as assistant to a professor of chemistry. Pasteur received a doctor of science degree in 1847 and was appointed professor of chemistry at the Univer ...
... who were killed. Luckily, Moshe the Beadle was able to escape. He pretended that he was dead in order to escape being killed. Not only did Moshe tell his story to Elie, he wanted to warn the Jews of Signet of what could happen to them. However, they only thought it was a vivid imagination speaking from his lips. No one wanted to believe his story and people lived life as usual. It was not until German troops would enter Hungarian territory that life would change for the Jews of Signet. At first the German soldiers did not seem like a threat. During the week of Passover things seemed to be going well. People were celebrating yet, it was not a complete celebrati ...
... Denmark to stop Christian IX. Denmark lost. This resulted in the Gastein Convention. This convention declared joint control over Schleswig-Holstein. Two years later, Bismarck accused Austria of violating the Gastein Convention. At this time he also submitted a plan for German unification to the German Diet. This plan excluded Austria (klein-deutsch). As a result of this, Austria and other German states declared war on Prussia, beginning what is now known as the Seven Weeks War. Austria and its allies were quickly defeated, and Bismarck incorporated Schleswig-Holstein, Hannover, and some other territories into Prussia. However, Austria was treated kindly ...
... boy's longing for his mother and desire to replace his father in the phallic stage of development. Furthermore, Freud believed that sex was the basis of most emotional problems. He felt that a normal, healthy sex life was essential to emotional happiness. It is odd, however, that Freud based so much importance in sex when his sex life was very unsatisfactory. Freud became resentful after his wife terminated their sexual relationship due to poor birth control. Freud felt that libido was the form of psychic energy that motivates a person to seek out pleasure. He also felt that our stages of development were guided by impulses of the id; the pleasure seeking ...
... followed the methods of Mohandas Ghandi and Henry David Thoreau. King and his followers held sit-ins at lunch counters and rode on segregated buses. Others in the country boycotted discriminatory companies and their products, that practiced legal segregation and discrimination. The largest ever non-violent protest in Washington August 23, 1968, where 200,000 people attended. This was where King gave his famous " I have a Dream " speech. Although King insisted on nonviolent ways, violence persistently occurred. Marchers and protesters were attacked by dogs and shot at with water hoses. Riot's brike out in black ghettos, and some people were even beaten to ...
... Carlisle school was set up by Lt. Richard Henry Pratt of the U.S. Army as a way to help Indians integrate into the American culture. They hired Glenn S. "Pop" Warner as a football coach. When Jim went there, in 1904, he was learning a trade as an electrician. One day in the spring of 1907 Jim walks by the athletic fields and watches the track team practicing the high jump. Jim's only 5'9" and 144lbs. He asks if he can try. So wearing a pair of overalls he clears the jump. The boys run and tell Pop Warner that Jim just broke the school record. Soon enough Jim's on the track team. That year Jim dominated the field at the PA Junior College Interscholastic meet in ...
... persuasion could slavery end, he attempted through his writings to educate slaveholders about the evils of the system they supported. He was opposed to slave uprisings and other violent resistance, but he was firm in his belief that slavery must be totally abolished. In the first issue of the Liberator in 1831, he had proclaimed “I WILL BE HEARD” (32). Ever controversial, Garrison made many enemies throughout the country. As described by Douglass in his autobiography Life and Times, Garrison made sweeping attacks on organized religion because the churches refused to take a stand against slavery. He also believed that the U.S. Constitution upheld slavery ...
... Not being able to satisfy this God meant eternal damnation. After entering the religious life he later became an Augustinian monk and entered the Augustinian monastery at Erfurt in July of 1505. While in this monastery Luther became a well known theologian and Biblical scholar. In 1512 Luther earned his doctorate in theology and became a professor of Biblical literature at Wittenberg University. Luther took his religious vocation very serious. This led him into a severe crisis in dealing with his religion. He wondered, "is it possible to reconcile the demands of God's law with human inability to live up to the law." Luther then turned to the New Testament book o ...
... a day or two earlier. (Mackay, pg.4) He was the son of Charles de la Fontaine, a royal government official who inspected forests and waterways. His mother Françoise Pidoux, who came from a nobler family from Poitou. He also had a younger brother who was born two years after La Fontaine. He also had an older step sister named Anne de Jouy on his mothers side of the family. (Carter, pg. 46) Burns 2 The education and formative years of young la Fontaine are not documented. Most biographers state that, in all likelihood, he attended château- Thierry "college". This is a secondary institution where humanities were taught to the sons of the middle cl ...
... an African-American minister paid $400 for his release. Although free, George was still extremely poor, working as a barber, paper-hanger and in other odd jobs to support his wife, three sons, and one daughter. , the youngest child, attended grammar school and was an excellent student who loved to read and draw. Most of his time, though, was spent working with his father, which was typical of children in the 19th century. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that a slave named Dred Scott could not be considered a free man although he had lived in a free state. George Latimer disappeared shortly after the decision became known. Because he had no official p ...
