Essays Tagged: "self taught"

A look at Huckleberry Finn and the many themes being portrayed through the book

ericans. Another theme that is prevalent in society is lying among American children.Huck Finn is a self taught liar, and a very good one at that. On the raft, while floating down the Mississippi, Huc ...

(2 pages) 118 0 3.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Walt Whittman

a printer. At this time he began to learn to love reading books. He read whenever he could and was self taught. When he was seventeen, he became a teacher in a small school. Five years later he took ...

(3 pages) 127 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Carl Friedrich Gauss

auss showed early and unmistakable signs of being an extraordinaryyouth. As a child prodigy, he was self taught in the fields of readingand arithmetic. Recognizing his talent, his youthful studies wer ... l responsibility, Gauss undertook ageodetic survey of his country and did much of the field work himself.In his theoretical work on surveying, Gauss developed results he neededfrom statistics and diff ...

(3 pages) 73 0 4.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

Essay on Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass

always been aproblematic and fiery issue throughout United States' history. Frederick Douglass was aself-taught black man who wrote about his experiences as a slave. In his book, "FromNarrative of the ... a numerical or power majority group compelsa minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself."(King 127) King's rationalewas simple.Applying King's arguments and knowledge to Douglass's st ...

(4 pages) 123 0 3.6 Mar/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Uranium.

ck, and blende, meaning mineralUranium's first full analysis was done on 1789 by Martin Klaproth, a self-taught well educated german chemist.Klaproth, having extracted from pitchblende what he called ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.7 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Uranium.

ck, and blende, meaning mineralUranium's first full analysis was done on 1789 by Martin Klaproth, a self-taught well educated german chemist.Klaproth, having extracted from pitchblende what he called ...

(2 pages) 53 0 4.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Strategic Analysis of Jet Blue Airlines: Executive Summary, Financial, Internal and External Industries, Competitors, Substitutes, and Stategies.

ess.From his humble beginnings as a University of Utah drop-out, CEO David Neelman shorlty became a self-taught airline industry guru - gaining a comprehensive understanding of the inner workings of t ... are in the plans of the company. As previously mentioned, JetBlue is successfully differentiating itself by providing an airline with superior customer service and low-price. The company is combining ...

(31 pages) 2506 4 3.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Alexander Bell and how he came to make his invention.

at Edinburgh University and at University College in London, but he was largely family-trained and self-taught. He moved to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an in ... diner Greene Hubbard-- who would go on to play a vital role in Bell's life and work. While Mabel herself would one day become his wife. Bell felt that a course had been set and he would go on to consi ...

(4 pages) 49 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Nathan Bedford Forrest. This biography tells about his involvement in the Civil War, KKK, and other important information.

. At the fort he slaughtered more than 300 blacks after they surrendered the fort.Forrest was a self-taught man that bought horses, cattle, and slaves as well as traded them before becoming a weal ... planter in Mississippi. When the war broke loose he raised a cavalry unit and being a lieutenant himself he lead them in defending Fort Donelson in Tennessee. He felt that working with other Confedera ...

(1 pages) 23 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

The Life and Times of Nathanial Hawthorne is a summary of his life, his career, and an analysis of his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales

dy of work, Nathaniel Hawthorne experimented with different forms and techniques of writing. He was self-taught and self-inspired. Hawthorne's works are deeply concerned with the ethical problems of s ... d not share the optimism and idealism of the transcendentalist participants, and he did not feel himself suited to communal life.On July 9, 1842, Hawthorne married Sophia Peabody and they settled in C ...

(6 pages) 48 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

A literature review concerning Rousseau's Emile. Including Some factual info.

ching his work. Beginning with a brief outline of Rousseau's main concerns with education.Rousseau, self-taught genius of the age of enlightenment (J. Palmer 2001: 55), changed the genre in which educ ... nent idea of his time . He could not see how a child, directly brought into the world from nature itself, could suddenly inherit such a heavy load. Some claim that he was part of the movement concerni ...

(8 pages) 107 0 4.1 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Martin Luther Kings Jr. and Malcolm X

e education was stressed. On the other hand, Malcolm X came from and underprivileged home. He was a self-taught man who received little schooling and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and dete ... eam-like. He was raised in a comfortable middle-class home where strong values matured his sense of self-worth. Sure, many have admired Malcolm X and Martin Luther King for the way that they preached. ...

(9 pages) 156 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

M.C Escher

truggles of a misdirected youth. This very same artisan became a legend. Maurtis Cornelis Escher, a self-taught mathematical genius, created widely recognized graphic masterpieces. Escher had the rare ... s program (users). Under De Mesquita's watchful eye, Escher became a new young man. He enveloped himself "in the [study of] graphic and decorative arts, in particular woodcuts (Locher 18)."Soon after ...

(9 pages) 65 0 3.8 Jul/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Microwaves

eloped?It was during a radar-related research project around 1945 that Dr. Percy LeBaron Spencer, a self-taught engineer with the Raytheon Corporation developed the microwave.2. Where did the technolo ...

(1 pages) 18 0 0.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Art of Astronomy 1) Why do people find it hard to get into astronomy 2) How do you become an astronomer

Theses steps include tackling your local library. Astronomy is a learning hobby and you must become self-taught. Your local library is your most important tool in becoming an astronomer. Learn the sky ... he 110 "M objects", the start clusters, galaxies, and nebulae. Also find other amateur astronomers. Self-education is fine as far as it goes but sharing the interest with others is a much greater expe ...

(1 pages) 30 0 4.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

REPORT ON LINUS CARL PAULING: Chemsitry Quiz , Rebellious and a peace Keeper

nk and live.BACKGROUND:Linus Pauling was born on the 28th of February 1901 in Portland,Oregon, to a self-taught druggist, Herman Henry WilliamPauling, and Isabelle Pauling. At age 14, a visit with a f ...

(2 pages) 35 0 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Martin Luther King and Malcolm X: how these two men were vying for the same outcome

re education was stressed. On the other hand, Malcolm X came from an underprivileged home. He was a self-taught man who received little schooling and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and dete ... eam-like. He was raised in a comfortable middle-class home where strong values matured his sense of self-worth. Sure, many have admired Malcolm X and Martin Luther King for the way that they preached. ...

(9 pages) 57 0 4.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays

The History of William Shakespeare

rivaled any school, citing tath no records exist to verify his education, but he clearly was not a self-taught genius. His knowledge of the world and human psychology did not come fromt he streets, b ...

(3 pages) 18 0 3.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

School vs. online education.

no longer need to go to school in order to learn somethings new. They can do home schooling or even self-taught. Internet's become a very useful device for every uses, especially for study. There are ...

(3 pages) 53 0 0.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

"Cummins Engine Company Analysis"

an unproven engine technology invented two decades earlier by Rudolph Diesel.Clessie Cummins was a self taught mechanic and inventor with the desire to develop the first diesel-powered automobile. He ...

(20 pages) 109 0 3.5 Jan/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies