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The Life and Work of Marie Curie, 2000.
A look at her life and impact in the fields of physics and chemistry.
1,530 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 10 sources, $ 50.95
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This paper is a biography of Marie Curie's life, as well as her work and impact in the fields of physics and chemistry. It also pays particular notice to radioactivity. The paper is based on the strong theme that ?nothing in life is to be feared, only understood,? a quote attributed to Marie Curie herself.
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"Marie?s childhood was not a perfect one by any means. She was the fifth child in her family, and soon after she was born, both of her parents lost their jobs as teachers. Despite losing their jobs, Marie?s parents still managed to instill into their daughter the value of education, and had taught her to read by age 4. Her parents also instilled in Marie a sense of duty. This, combined with the family?s economic circumstances lead Marie to lead ?the most Spartan of lives.? [?Marie Curie?, Minist?re des Affaires ?trang?res de la R?publique Fran?aise, 1.] Marie?s childhood continued to be harsh, as she had to deal with the deaths of both her mother, and one of her sisters by age 11. This only served to create a sense of ?agnosticism that would later bolster her faith in science,? [?Marie Curie?, Minist?re des Affaires ?trang?res de la R?publique Fran?aise, 1.] however. Despite the many setbacks that seemed to litter her childhood, Marie persevered. In spite of the long hours she spent helping cook meals for the boarders that her family had taken in, at age 15, Marie won a medal for excellence at her high school, where the examinations where administered in Russian. She dreamed of someday becoming a scientist?something that was not socially-acceptable for women to do in Poland in the 1880?s."
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Madame Marie Curie: Early Martyr to the Atomic Age, 2004.
A comprehensive analysis of Madame Marie Curie's life and contributions.
1,658 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper provides a scholarly biography of Marie Curie and an assessment of her unique contributions to humanity, followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.
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"Albert Einstein said she was "the only person to be uncorrupted by fame" (Davis 1986:1). Marie Curie (n?e Maria Sklodowska) was born September 12, 1897, in Paris and died there on March 17, 1956 (Marie Curie 2004). While many people suggest that it takes 35 years to become an overnight success, Marie Curie was successful from the outset and while her personal life was marred by tragedy, her professional career has been widely recognized as being an early example of the contributions women in the scientific community could make given the opportunity. According to Lydia Davis, Curie ?was a proud, passionate, and hard-working woman who played an important role in her time because she had the ambition and the means to do so, and who has played an important role in our own time too, since there is a direct relationship between Marie Curie-Sklodowska and atomic energy. It was also atomic energy that caused her death? (1986:2)."
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Marie Curie and Albert Einstein As Outsiders, 2002.
This paper studies the status of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein as outsiders and addresses the influence of this status on their scientific work.
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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The following paper examines how both Einstein and Curie were two geniuses of the world of science who were declared outsiders because there were great odds against their success. This paper looks at the way in which they managed to overcome all obstacles and dissolve all barriers to turn their dreams into reality. The way in which their persistence and perseverance in early life also helped them later in their scientific work, is also discussed.
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"It has often been noticed that people who contribute much to a particular field are the ones who were either at some disadvantage in their early life or suffered from some obstacles that stopped them from entering the field. Yet these very people managed to overcome all odds to reach the place where they had dreamed of arriving and thus revolutionized the world in their own way. We see that extraordinary people all around us are the ones who were once considered even less than ordinary and were therefore barred from entering their chosen area of work. It was only after they managed to overcome the obstacles and through single-minded determination managed to bring revolution in their own sphere that the world was forced to take notice."
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Marie Curie, 2006.
This paper reports on a conversation between Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 35.95
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The paper relates that Marie Curie was a Polish-born French scientist. She was a pioneer in many ways. Her work in radiology and chemistry opened the door for a whole new scientific revolution and what we know today as the atomic age. The paper discusses how with her husband Pierre, she discovered two new elements and coined the term radioactive. The paper reveals that she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only one to win it twice.
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"The Lais of Marie de France" by Marie Defrance, 1990.
This paper analyzes "The Lais of Marie de France" about attitudes and behavior of women in medieval tales, emphasizing sexuality.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 47.95
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"The Lais of Marie de France presents an unorthodox view of the attitudes and behavior of women in Medieval Europe, a view which demonstrates that the male prescriptions designed to subjugate women and control their attitudes and behavior were not always followed by women of that era.
The women portrayed in the lays written by Marie are much stronger, independent and passionate than the official powers of that era would like us to believe. This female strength meant that men were not always as strong and dominant over women as those same official powers would have it.
As Marie writes in "Guigemar," one knight's love for his woman (who was herself married to the "lord who ruled over the city") put him in a position of subjugation to her: "The knight remained alone, mournful and downcast . . . He knew that, if he ... "
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Work Life and Family Life, 2003.
Discusses issues involved in these two major aspects of life.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 10 sources, $ 63.95
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Shows conflicts between the two. Examines the problem of achieving a balance between both. Discusses stresses felt by workers and the need of employers to be less demanding and workers to accept responsibility for balancing their lives.
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"There are several unique phases of individual growth identified by Stanley (2002), as moving the individual from a first adolescent job to graduation from high school or college and on to working and living as a single adult, moving into autonomous ..."
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"Life After Life" ( Raymond Moody ), 1996.
Examines 15 common stages of experience of near-death phenomenon(NDE)
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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" This study will examine the fifteen different kinds of experiences described by Raymond A. Moody, Jr. in Life After Life: The Investigation of A Phenomenon---Survival of Bodily Death. These experiences are features of the dying experience. Moody's book depends on the accounts of individuals who have "died" and returned from that experience. Therefore, it cannot be seen as a scientific work. Moody admits that a "proof" of these experiences are not "presently possible" (xvi). If the reader is to get anything out of the book, he or she must open his or her heart and mind to the possibility of the near-death experience.
Moody wants to try to answer the question "What is it like to die?" (1). For such an answer, he goes to people who have had, or who claim to have had, an experience in which they have physically "died" and come back to life. They are the only ones.."
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Marie Alexandrine Becker, 2002.
A biography of the life of the Belgian serial killer Marie Alexandrine Becker.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper looks at the life of Belgium serial killer Marie Alexandrine Becker and how she murdered those who were close to her to gain riches and to take herself out of the low life that she had been born to.
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Queen Marie Antoinette of France, 2008.
This paper discusses Queen Marie Antoinette of France and the French Revolution.
1,740 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper states that Marie Antoinette is probably one of the most remembered yet most misunderstood women in history. This paper points out that the life of Marie Antoinette was similar to the lives of most women in the 18th century. The paper relates that women, especially ones in royalty, were seen more as bargaining tokens than human beings, and marriages were not based on mutual love, respect or caring, but on some political alliance or property arrangement. The author underscores that Marie Antoinette was not only a pawn of historical circumstance but her excessive tastes, flippant wit and devotion to Catholicism contributed to the class animosity that underlay the French Revolution. The paper concludes that, if she and her husband King Louis XVI had been more focused on what France needed rather than themselves, the revolution could have been prevented.
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"Marie Antoinette was born to the great Austrian empress Maria Theresa on November 2, 1755. Maria Theresa was a woman who capably ran the Austrian monarchy even after her husband died, leaving her at a country that was clearly unwilling to accept a female monarch. As a young teenager, she was obliged to wed Louis XVI of France to symbolize an alliance made between Austria and France. Ironically, at the beginning of her marriage to the dauphin, Marie Antoinette was much loved by the French people for her kindness to peasants and her willingness to interact with her subjects."
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"Marie Antoinette: The Journey", 2004.
This book discusses Lady Antonia Fraser?s ?Marie Antoinette:The Journey? and the reviewers of this book.
1,375 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper explains that Lady Antonia Fraser?s ?Marie Antoinette: The Journey? is a good introduction to this period of French history and, after more than two centuries of criticism, is a needed antidote to the bad image the reader may have of Marie Antoinette because she is shown to be much more a victim than a victimizer. The author points out that the story is told in a straightforward fashion with numerous citations, so the interested reader can delve further if desired. The paper relates that Fraser includes a great deal of information on the social and cultural attitudes of the time, as well as painting a picture of the world of the 18th century, especially of the world of the royals.
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"Marie Antoinette lived from 1755 to 1793; her life cut short by the guillotine once the rebels had taken over France and started eliminating remnants of the aristocracy. She was the youngest daughter of Francis I and Maria Theresa, Emperor and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, and she had been told from a young age than it was her destiny to be queen of France. Her parents arranged the marriage of her to the crown prince of France in 1770, and she would become queen in 1774 when her husband was crowned King Louis XVI."
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Letter from Marie De L'Incarnation, 2005.
This is an examination of historical evidence, specifically a letter from Marie De L'Incarnation.
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The paper analyzes a letter from Marie De L'Incarnation, a missionary in New France, to a lady of rank in France. The paper proposes that the primary purpose of this letter was to persuade the lady in France to raise money for the mission in New France. The paper discusses how this letter tells us an enormous amount about 17th century inhabitants of the area today called Canada. The paper further discusses how white people such as Marie De L'Incarnation were foreigners, visiting the country on a specific mission.
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"This document is a letter from Marie De L'Incarnation, a missionary in New France, to a lady of rank in France. The primary purpose of this letter was to persuade the lady in France to raise money for the mission in New France. This letter tells us an enormous amount about 17^th century inhabitants of the area we today call Canada. For example, it reminds us that white people such as Marie De L'Incarnation were foreigners, visiting the country on a specific mission."
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Marie de France's "Eliduc", 2008.
An analysis of the social conventions and gender differences in Marie de France's "Eliduc."
1,173 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper introduces and discusses Marie de France's "Eliduc," which is a typical Medieval story of courtly love. It describes the plot of the story, as well as the main characters. The paper then discusses Gayle Rubin's theories about the the social conventions of the story of "Eliduc" in her work, "Traffic of Women." It also describes how Rubin specifically looks at the social conventions regarding the gender differences in Marie de France's story.
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"By taking the example of the animals, the characters highlight the importance of unrestrained desire, which does not wait for social confirmation or acceptance of an action. Expectedly, the triangle would have been solved either with Guilliadun's death or with the sacrifice of the unlawful couple. Here however, social oppression is shaken off by the sacrifice performed by Eliduc's wife. Without further thought, she is so rejoiced at the revival of Guilliadun that she decides instantly to go to a convent and take the veil, thus leaving her husband free to marry his chosen lady. Love is thus placed hierarchically above the constraining marriage. The end of the story brings back the reconciliation of the characters with God, as they marry and then all retire to a convent: "Eliduc married his beloved; the celebrations were conducted with great honor and a noble service on the day of their wedding. They lived together for a long time, and their love was entirely courtly. They gave generous alms and did good deeds, until finally they turned towards God."("Eliduc") Earthly love and divine love are thus brought together and reconciled."
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Reputations and Realities: Marie Antoinette, 2004.
An examination of the role of Marie-Antoinette as the decadent Queen of France.
3,867 words (approx. 15.5 pages), 15 sources, APA, $ 105.95
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This paper describes the portrayal of Marie-Antoinette in the French press and in popular opinion from her reign as queen to her execution. Her image is shaped around her portrayal as a decadent monarch and as the "Other" (both woman and foreigner). Although the paper's primary argument is for this division in Marie-Antoinette's image in popular opinion, it also subtly argues that the portrayal of the Queen reflects many of the anxieities of the time and that her actual personage in many ways contradicted the rumours.
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"Although recent historians have revealed that Marie-Antoinette was in many ways thriftier than many nobles at the time, the pamphleteers used her as a representation of the decadence of monarchy. In popular opinion the queen was frequently portrayed as extravagant in dress and of indulging in a taste for jewels, though Mercy, the Austrian ambassador in Paris, reported that he had found, ?her Majesty very much disposed to avoid all needless or superfluous expense? . Mercy was also able to show that Marie-Antoinette, ?had never chosen or demanded a single dress but had left everything to her lady of the bedchamber?, and in going through the accounts it was found that the expenses were carried out largely by the queen?s maids, who demanded large quantities of ribbons and materials which were never used."
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A Critique of ?Television Addiction? by Marie Winn, 2006.
The paper critiques Marie Winn's essay, and argues against her use of the word addiction.
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The writer explains that Marie Winn states that the word addiction is sometimes used jokingly to denote a tendency to overindulge in a pleasurable activity. She proceeds to develop her thesis that watching television must be addictive because many are unable to turn if off. The writer argues that Winn has no valid point and no scientific value, as this encourages the belief that anything requiring will power and self control is addictive, and therefore beyond the control of the individual. The writer shows that the word addiction is not only used loosely, but incorrectly. In conclusion, the paper states that addiction is a specialized condition and that overindulging in pleasurable activities is a habit and not an addiction. The writer states that habits can be broken with the use of self-control and discipline.
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"She then goes on to associate virtually all pleasurable feelings with the feelings of an addict relieved of his withdrawal symptoms. This is silly and an exercise in semantically stretching a point beyond any sense of reality. She also goes on to describe the "denial" phenomenon, or the sense addicts have that they are really in control of their habit and "can quit anytime they want to." After defining this psychological dynamic, she mentions that many "television addicts" feel that they can stop whenever they want to. There is no scientific proof that there is any relation between these two states of mind. May be the "TV addict" thinks he can stop when he wants to because he can stop when he wants to. He just doesn't want to.
"The harm of this kind of rational lies in the fact that more activities are described as addictions today than ever before. We frequently hear that someone is addicted to nail-biting, or talking on the phone, or gossiping, as well as watching television, sleeping late, taking naps or reading The National Enquirer. Virtually any activity that is enjoyable to someone can be described as addictive by the loosely woven set of criteria in Winn's essay."
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Marie de France's ?Eliduc?, 2002.
This paper describes, based on Marie de France's ?Eliduc, how love can be fickle yet strong when needed .
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The paper asks the questions: Is love blind or does love bind us to the faith of a higher form of selflessness? This paper argues that a character from Marie de France's ?Eliduc? has a higher strength with love and, when the time of her strength is called for, she uses that power within her.
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