Reese CTR Subject: Request to Research How Credit Was Awarded for the Discovery of Nuclear Fission For my EPD 397 project‚ please grant me permission to study the way in which credit has been awarded for the discovery of nuclear fission. Although Otto Hahn received the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery‚ several people assert that Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassman should have also received credit. In my research‚ I will attempt to discern how credit should have been bestowed. This topic
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The session that I attended at The Anne Frank Project on September 11‚ 2009 was Beyond the Diary: Behind the scenes of a Jewish Family in Hiding with Sophia Veffer. Even though I learned some things about the Holocaust during middle school‚ there still were things that I did not know. The reason why I attended this session is because I wanted to know how some of the Jews were able to survive the Holocaust and I also wanted to know what Sophia’s experience was like actually being a child during the
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During world war 2 many terrible things had happened. The Diary of Anne Frank is one of many truly horrific stories. Anne has lived way beyond her death. She obviously has because we still talk about her today. There is tons of books about her that keep her spirit alive. Her dream was to become famous. She definitely wasn’t famous during her lifetime‚ but after she died her journals were found and once they were published and the word got out she later then became famous. I think that what she had
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Dear grandson‚ It is your grandfather‚ Otto Robert Frisch. I am an Austrian-British physicist‚ born on October 1‚ 1904‚ in Vienna‚ Austria‚ to your great-grandparents‚ Justinian and Auguste Frisch. My mother was a great musician‚ and my father a painter. I got my passion for science from my aunt‚ Lise Meitner; I’ll talk more about her later. I was schooled privately‚ as my family had high expectations for me. In the year 1926‚ I graduated from the University of Vienna with a Ph.D. in physics.
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Title The novel "Dune" by Frank Herbert centers on a man named Paul Atreides and his struggle to gain back a planet that was given to him and brutally taken away by his longtime rivals. While the novel is one of science fiction’s best because of its plotline‚ the philosophical points made in the novel make it truly great. The novel uses religion as a driving force in politics at a time when religion was believed to be dying down. Another important revolutionary idea was the human control over ecology
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Anne Frank once said‚ "In spite of everything‚ I still believe people are really good at heart." This quote was written right before the Annex was found by the Nazis. I feel this expresses three of Anne’s personality traits. It indicates how honest‚ humble‚ and brave she is. Even when her whole world is crumbling and she has every right to be angry at the unfairness of her situation‚ she still chooses to believe that people are good. Anne Frank‚ a Jewish girl alive during World War II‚ believed
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These were the words of Anne Frank which were contained in her beloved‚ leather-bound‚ red and white checkerboard-patterned diary. Handwritten in her beautiful scrawl‚ these few simple words have impacted minds around the world and refreshed those with intents of hatred and harm. Despite the bad deeds of those around her‚ and the horrid happens depleting the population of her kind as a Jew‚ Anne Frank could still see the inner light shining through the dreary‚ gray smoke of all of humanity.
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her father‚ who later published her diary. The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank is historically accurate because of the anti-Semitic laws‚ the destruction of Jewish culture‚ and the Nazi presence. Indeed‚ there are many anti-Semitic laws. There are many examples of anti-Semitic laws. Anti-Jewish laws were used in the 1930s and 40s in Germany and other Nazi-controlled countries. "Jews must wear a yellow star..." (Frank 4). Wearing a yellow star was a tactic that the German government used to dehumanize
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Anne frank begins her journey as she is forced with her Jewish family to go into hiding in the annexe of a non-Jewish family’s home. Her journey is depicted through her diary until the day her family is discovered and captured by the Nazi and sent to concentration camps. At the beginning of her journey‚ Anne expresses her thoughts to her diary through a connotation‚ in the line‚ "’This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is‚ perhaps‚ the end of the beginning.”‚ on Monday
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Ishtar Gate and Bronze Doors Saint Michael’s Abbey Church II. Analysis of Artwork # 1: a. How does this work relate to its style movement and historical context? The monumental Gate of Ishtar was built in 575 B.C. making use of enamelled bricks which are in cobalt blues and sea greens. The gate is decorated with reliefs of 575 dragons and bulls (BBC Culture‚ 2009). The gate is the most potent symbol of ancient Babylon’s magnificence. The gate was marks the entrance to the city at the beginning
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