Warsaw

Marie Curie is famous, but we only remember two or three of her achievements & discoveries. We remember even less about who she was, not as a historical figure, but as a person. How did she spend her free time? What was her occupation? What happened to her near her end? Marie isn’t just a historical figure, but she was a real person like anyone; she left a lasting impact on the world around her. Marie Curie had many jobs. Marie Curie was a governess for a short amount of time to fund her…

Along with the gorgeous set, the appropriate choice in music and interesting “mood” lighting added to the ambiance of the performance as a whole. Start at the very beginning of Marie Curie's life, the presentation went through her upbringing in Warsaw, located in Russia at the time. The presentation went through the strict curriculum implemented by the Russian authorities and the oppression of the Polish people. One of the main points made by Carrie was the inability for her to speak in her own…

Marie’s father had a dream of becoming a chemist that he could not achieve because of social and financial obstacles. Marie achieved this goal for her father. During the 1940s, women in science career fields was a new and controversial topic. Marie Daly, with the disadvantage at the time of being African American and a woman, fought the stereotype that women should be “in the kitchen” and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry. Since then, Marie Daly has been a part of many…

William Wegman is a photographer that was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1943. He received his degree in Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art, located in Boston in 1965, and a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Illinois in 1967. Wegman’s artwork began to be put in museums and galleries in the early 1970’s. He had solo shows with multiple galleries from New York to Paris to London. R. Smith explained Wegman’s significance to the art industry by stating, “ He is most famous for…

Marie Curie once said, “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be misunderstood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Marie Curie, a female rights activist who fought to not be ridiculed for her intelligence as it did not match her gender, justified that you do not need to be a man to be able to discover something that is helpful and key. In present day, we still use what Curie enforced. She forced upon the use of radioactive elements to be used in medical…

What makes Marie Curie outstanding is the fact that she is the only person to win two nobel prizes in different fields of science and the first woman to win one too. Most of her research and discoveries were with her husband. Together they discovered the elements: Radium and Polonium. Both of those elements were found in pitchblende. Pitchblende is basically a rock but it has a bunch of elements in it including Radium and Polonium. Marie Curie was remarkable chemist and physicist who had won…

members while the Warsaw Pact remained the same. NATO: In 1949, the United States and 11 other Western nations were afraid the further Communist expansion, so they created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Its original members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark,France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. THE WARSAW PACT The Soviet Union and its Communist nations in Eastern they created an alliance, the Warsaw…

April 1943, the Nazi’s returned in greater number with the task to liquidate the ghetto of Warsaw. This was met with another resistance from the Poles. The plan of the Nazi’s was the systematically decimate the entire ghetto. They did this by going block to block burring all the buildings and destroying any bunkers they would find resistance fighters hold up in. It has been described that the sky’s over Warsaw were completely red during the uprising. Despite being outnumbered in terms of…

people saw their families being deported some decided to take a stand. Those that were more enraged were the teenagers in the ghettos. Other people knew that resistance would mean punishment and they thought that it was better to avoid altercation. Warsaw ghetto was not the only ghetto that decided to take a stand Bialystok ghetto rebelled against the Nazi police.…

1962; the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which, beginning in the late '60s, was starting to look more and more like a second civil war; the May 1968 Paris Crisis; the Polish uprisings and "Prague Spring" Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968; all of which could have been the spark that started the great fire.…