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    Born Marie Sklodowska on November 7, 1867,1864 in Warsaw, Poland. She was the youngest of five children that were born to poor school teachers. After her mother died, her father could no longer support her so she became a governess while reading and writing in her spare time to quench her thirst for knowledge which she always had. Becoming a teacher was never a possibility because of her lack of money, but when her sister offered her housing in Paris, France with a view of going to a university

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    Satrapi shows how femininity and gender ideals was used as an encouragement to support the revolution objectives. The revolutionary leaders needed a motive to make people strongly believe in the revolution, religion and gender was used as the main motive and to strengthen the passion. For instance, in Persepolis, women were depicted as guardians of the nation since they are understood to be the careers of tradition through motherhood. The Islamic regime used the cultural norms and turned women into

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    Many people wonder who made a more significant contribution to society,Marie Curie or Louis Pasteur. Well, i'm here to voice my opinion to you all. Marie Curie was an spectacular at her studies when she was younger. Being born in Poland, opportunities for studies were limited so she went to Paris. After working as a governess, she studied in Sorbonne, Paris. She struggled to learn in French, so she studied more and more. She eventually got a degree in physics and finished at the top of her school

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    Gilgamesh Is A Hero

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    What is a hero to you? Is it just someone you admire and look up to or does it have to be someone who has made a difference in the world. According to Merriam Webster, a hero is “a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability”. While this is true in some cases the idea of what a hero can differ from person to person. A hero doesn’t always have some magical power that helps them in a quest. Sometimes a hero comes in a less obvious package and have

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    During the early years of the Western countries, women did not have the same rights and privileges as men. For example, women could not to vote and they should surrender the control of their property to their husband because of marriage. In ancient China, women could not have any education. As the time passed, the world was changed, the rights of women are rising. The word “gender” in the dictionary is means “the physical and/or social condition of being male or female.” (Cambridge Dictionary). According

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    Feminism 6 Running Head: PSYCHOLOGY STUDIES:A STUDIES OF FEMINISM PSYCHOLOGY STUDIES: A STUDIES OF FEMINISM CUIYI P. Student Pasadena City College Feminism 1 Psychology Studies: a Studies of Feminism What Does it Means to Run Like a Girl 21th Century Earlier Centuries Feminism became a hot topic in 21th century, but anyone know what is Feminism means? Definition on Macmillan Dictionary says, Feminism is the belief that women should have the same

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    First, Marie Curie should be considered as a modern day hero because she exhibits leadership for women. One example is Curie graduated first in her class, even though she was a women. A book indicates, “On June 12, 1883, Manya received the gold medal awarded to the top student in her high school graduating class” (Cobb 18). Marie was excellent in school, even though she was in the minority. At age fifteen she graduated as the top of her class. With this she earned the gold metal to show how much

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    My Career Role Model

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    Do we need a career role model? “To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” - Tony Dorsett. ( Former Running Back in the National Football League) A role model is someone who other individuals aspire to be like, either in the present or in the future. Does everyone need a role model? There are many people who have achieved great things in life without having a role model. Is a career role model important to progress in your

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    When was Chemistry invented so to speak? Well the answer is that no one truly knows the exact date. It was thought be discovered around the time of 3,000 B.C., but was considered more of an art at the time rather than a science. Anyway the history of Chemistry is long and has no end in sight, so rather than try and fit that in a paper let’s discuss some of the key minds that made Chemistry what it is today. Lets start with Joseph Gay-Lussac; he was a French physicist that was born in 1778. In

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    Over one hundred years ago, in 1911, a French-polish woman was awarded not her first but second Nobel Peace Prize. This time for discovering a new element. She was awarded, “"in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element." This was and still is a fascinating and remarkable element. Radium has had an intense history of misuse which

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