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    I choose my essay to be about Emmy Noether. Emmy Noether is a very important and influential mathematician. As, a mathematician Emmy Noether innovated contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. Some people such as Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl, and Norbert Wiener had highly valued her. Many people to this day describe her as “the most important woman in mathematics”. There are many fun and interesting facts about Emmy Noether. Emmy Noether was born

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    provide are to draw customers in to help sell their products. Whether my instincts were correct or not, I played it safe and stuck with medical specialist websites. Some of the websites I visited were from the College of Allergies, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), LiveScience, Bryn Mawr College, Health Line and more. Before I started collecting information, I always checked for an author who had a medical background or experience, a list of credible sources, and if it was reviewed by other medical

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    Nettie Stevens Woman

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    case I've found is from 1851. Vermont born Nettie Stevens was an extremely smart woman who determined that an organism's sex is dictated by it's chromosomes rather than natural environmental factors. Stevens received her doctorate degree from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and proceeded in the study of sex determination with a colleague named Edmund Wilson, who did the same work, but came to conclusions later than Stevens did. Stevens discovered and researched sex determination by chromosomes much

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    Amalie Emmy Noether was a great and noble mathematician to be a woman, a Jew, living in the 19th and 20th century. She was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl, and Norbert Wiener as one of the greatest women in mathematics history. Amalie Emmy Noether was born in Erlangen, Germany, April 15, 1882. She was born as Amalie Emmy Noether but was known as “Emmy”. Emmy was born to Ida Amalia Kaufmann and Max Noether, and was a Jew living in Germany. When Max Noether

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    decisions on the righteousness of his options, making him to later be one of the most prominent Progressives and reformers. Wilson’s distinguished education background proved to help him with his reforms and Presidency. In 1873 Wilson entered Davidson College in North Carolina, starting his education career. After taking a year off from school, Wilson enrolled in Princeton University in 1875. He graduated in 1879 with academic and extracurricular honors. Within the same year, Wilson enrolled in the law

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    Addiction and the Reward Circuit Most people are affected directly or indirectly by drug addiction. Many stereotypes including race and socio-economic class are associated with drug addiction. Despite longstanding stereotypes there is more and more evidence being discovered pointing to an explanation from within the brain of the addict. Free will is generally associated with drug addicts as is their choice to use drugs, but free will may not be a factor in addiction. The key to addiction lies

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    Morgan. Even as a child, Morgan was interested in natural history, he was often found outside observing, exploring and collecting objects in the wild as well as fossils. Morgan died in December 4, 1945. At an early age of 16, Morgan attended the State College of Kentucky in the Preparatory Department finishing with a bachelor in science. Morgan was very involved in his field of study and worked with U.S. Geological Survey and at the Marine Biology School in Annisquam, Massachusetts during the summers.

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    readers with stories of women’s lives who have returned to college through Smith College’s Ada Comstock Scholars Program. These stories intertwine with evidence supporting the implied claim; the typical college student is no longer the 18 to 20 year old. Providing intimate details about the lives of these diverse women, Rimer leaves the reader admiring their triumph over gendered expectations of generations past by going back to college. Rimer hooks the reader immediately in the opening paragraph

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    self-reports of behavior, cognitions, and feelings towards body image, eating, and societal standards of body shape. Method The participants in this study were of a connivence sample of 49 students in Laurel Peterson’s Introductory Psychology class at Bryn Mawr College. The students were emailed a link to anonymously complete a Qualtrics survey that asked

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    Roles of Women in the late 1800s Around the late 1800s, the roles of women were different than todays. Women could not participate in majority of the occupations that men are allowed too. Women could not vote, they were unauthorized to own property, and were restricted to working. Women were only seen as stay at home wives, and completed all the duties as a housewife. Women cooked, cleaned, and nurtured the children while the fathers worked outside the home. The womanhood was considered to be

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