Essays Tagged: "Gymnasium"

Werner Heisenberg

sity of Munich and undoubtedly greatly influenced young Werner, who was a student at the Maximilian Gymnasium. Heisenberg had the opportunity to work with many of the top physicists in the wor ...

(6 pages) 89 0 4.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Through the Eyes of a Tiger

semble nurses uniforms (except for the curly, green "W" on the right breast pocket) parade into the gymnasium. Pretty soon all I can see are rows and rows of girls seated on the bleachers, as small as ...

(7 pages) 54 0 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

The Changing Face of Basketball

and is a big part of American society today.In 1891 James A. Naismith invented basketball at a YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Massachusetts (Hollander 4). He told a custodian to nail two peach baskets ... s (Hollander 4). He told a custodian to nail two peach baskets 10 feet high on opposite ends of the gymnasium walls. The first teams consisted of nine players on each side (this was later changed to f ...

(6 pages) 104 0 4.1 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Sensory Writing

o many people surround me it's like I'm a little grain of sand in a huge ocean. The people in round gymnasium all form a crimson, white, and blue rainbow. Their shirts mesh together like a finely wove ...

(2 pages) 79 0 4.8 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Life of Georg Simon Ohm

iness, wanted young Georg to study mathematics before joining the family business. Georg attended a Gymnasium, like a college, in Erlangen, Bavaria (now Germany) . During his time at this Gymnasium a ... position. He found what he was looking for in 1817 when a job was made available to him at Cologne Gymnasium. He now looked to research electrical current. In 1827 he published Die galvanishce Kette, ...

(2 pages) 47 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

In An Oldster's Mind

events that I had involved in. Rapidly, I climb on the bed. Bed is my lovely place. I call it, the gymnasium.I used to roll on my bed. Whenever my mind cannot function or do not know what should do n ...

(6 pages) 32 0 3.0 Feb/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Sigmund Freud This is a biographical essay about Sigmund Freud

etter understanding of the small things that shape our lives.In 1873 Freud graduated from the Sperl Gymnasium. He worked at the University of Vienna with one of the leading physiologists of his day, E ...

(5 pages) 343 2 4.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Your successful life at age 35!

e in New York and one in the 51rst state of Puerto Rico. Each has 15 bed rooms, 2 movie theaters, a gymnasium, game rooms, small water parks and lots of cultural paintings and sculptures.I wouldn't li ...

(2 pages) 115 4 4.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Franz Kafka.

ing language of the empire was German, so Franz attended German grammar school and later the German Gymnasium. He finished his Doctorate of Law in Prague, studying at the German Language University. H ...

(2 pages) 76 0 4.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

What it's really like to be a freshman. The essay is about being a freshman from a freshmans point of view (that it's hard) Some dates will need to be changed in order to update it!

en bleachers and staring down at the cheerleaders and the band who were placed in the middle of the gymnasium. The only thing missing was cowbells from our necks. We were herded like cattle, by our su ...

(3 pages) 34 0 4.6 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Was increased expenditure on educational provision in nineteenth century Europe a sound investment?

asic knowledge. Only those who could afford it sent their children to secondary education, like the Gymnasium or the Oberrealschule, where the school leaving examination, the Abitur, could be attained ... acy and from the wealthy merchants.The most important secondary school in Germany was the so-called Gymnasium. It was a nine-year classical education. The curriculum was modelled on the Greek antique ...

(10 pages) 41 0 4.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

College essay

From the Sideline, All the World's a StageIt was the largest gymnasium I had ever been in. It was June 2000 and I was about to try-out for my high school's cheer ...

(2 pages) 47 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Select and explain the most important turning points in the life of Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924

the writings of Karl Marx and Chernoshevsky, who had as well socialistic beliefs.Graduated from the gymnasium and moving on to the University of Kazan, Lenin firstly came into contact with revolutiona ...

(5 pages) 46 1 4.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Dmitri Mendeleyev, a short biography spanning his early life, family, education and career.

ld of Maria Dmitrievna Korniliev and Ivan Pavlovitch Mendeleev. His father was a teacher at a local gymnasium, but died while Dmitri was very young, leaving his wife to support the large family. Mende ... eyev possessed a brilliant mind for complex topics. At 14 years old, Mendeleyev was enrolled at the gymnasium in Tobolsk, but because he was so focused on science, his performance in other areas of st ...

(3 pages) 22 0 0.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Sport is not, and can never be a profession.

g hours of precious sleep, long periods of endurance training and also monotonous afternoons in the gymnasium. As a profession, a sportsman requires a fair amount of 'specialized study' as well. He ha ...

(2 pages) 36 1 3.5 Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

John Augustus Roebling

orothea (Mueller). At an early age he was educated in the public schools of Muhlhausen and the city Gymnasium, and was also tutored privately to qualify him for entrance to the Royal Polytechnic Schoo ...

(11 pages) 45 0 3.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

An Event That Changed my Life.

July 12, 2005 when I heard the news that has forever changed my life. I was going to the Bowie City gymnasium as I did almost every day to play basketball, and start some pick-up games. When I arrived ...

(2 pages) 49 0 4.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

"God given gifts and talents" narrative creative writting English

The entire gymnasium was silent. Every single person in the gym was standing at this moment, with his or her ey ...

(9 pages) 27 0 3.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Deep Sea Creatures Project

imal, so I made a habitat of some sort somewhat like an aquarium. It would have to be the size of a gymnasium. I had to install super thick glass so the shark wouldn't break through. I had to put salt ...

(3 pages) 23 1 3.4 May/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Georg Heyms Der Gott der Stadt

ym in Hirschberg in Schlesien geboren und besucht von 1893-1899 die Grundschule und später das Gymnasium in Posen und Gnesen. Als die Familie im Jahre 1900 nach Berlin übersiedeln muss, wech ... die Familie im Jahre 1900 nach Berlin übersiedeln muss, wechselt Heym auf das Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Nach einem erneuten Schulwechsel folgen schließlich die Reife ...

(14 pages) 3757 0 5.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature