Middle Passage is divided into nine entries made by Rutherford Calhoun in a ship’s log. A newly freed slave, twenty-two-year-old Rutherford Calhoun arrives to New Orleans awaiting the new experience. His mischievous nature causes him to become deep in debt with a creole gangster, Papa Zeringue. He meets soon Isadora, although their personalities collide he is drawn to her unconventional attractiveness. Isadora soon becomes determined to marry Rutherford, she figures a woman like her would calm him down.…
Rutherford B. Hayes, the nineteenth President of the United States, was born on October 4, 1822, in Ohio. He was the fifth born child to Rutherford and Sofia Bichard Hayes. Before getting the chance to be president, he served In a recognized legitimate, military and congressional posts and was the legislative leader of Ohio. In 1877, Hayes was elected as the 19th president of the United States, after winning one of the most corrupted election in American History. After winning the presidency, he began to the heal the nation after the desolated of the civil war and led the country through the end of Reconstruction.…
Before 1900, scientists made several breakthroughs about the atom. First, in 450 BC, Leucippus and Democritus were the first people to propose that matter is made of atoms (Doc. 1). Next in 1661, Robert Boyle suggested that chemical elements were the simplest forms of matter(Doc. 1). After that, in…
Honor means great respect for what you have done especially big accomplishments. Honor is when someone respects you for your accomplishments. Scientist Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Spring Grove New Zealand. A pioneer of nuclear physics and the first to split the atom in half he was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of atomic structure.…
Gold has played a significant role in the course of human history. It has been the source and cause of great conflict, vast riches and wealth, and the unprecedented growth and expansion of societies. Author Peter L. Bernstein writes about all of these ideas in his book, The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession. Bernstein’s The Power of Gold is a worthwhile work because Bernstein uses relatively simple and straightforward language and several sources—a combination of primary and secondary—to explain the economic and social effects of gold, which help to articulate his message that gold has and continues to be a hugely influential precious metal that can shape societies. Despite these positive aspects, the author does not incorporate images or charts and he does not elaborate on cultural and political themes.…
Alfred the great was a famous ruler of the Anglo Saxons. He was king of the western Saxons in Wessex England from 871-899. He actually had four older brothers who were king before him but sadly they died so the crown was past on to him when he was 21 years old. He is best remembered for fighting vikings and is also remembered as the king who burnt a peasant woman's cakes, running from the vikings he ran into her cottage just as she had finished setting her cakes in the window. She said “watch me cakes wile…
Later, he began focusing on uranium. Rutherford discovered that placing it near foil resulted in one type of radiation being easily blocked, while a different type had no trouble…
In 1896 I had the opportunity to go to America give four lectures based on my researches. They were later published as Discharge of Electricity through Gases. I later went back to America to give lectures at Yale University which had some theories about the structure of the atom. With having discovered the electron and earned medals I have also wrote books about my discoveries.…
In 1896, Henri Becquerel expanded the field of chemistry so nuclear changes would be included, after he discovered that uranium could disembogue radiation. Not very long after his discovery, Marie Curie began studying in the field of radiation, and completed most of the pioneering work on nuclear changes. Marie Curie discovered that radiation was related to the amount of radioactive element that is present, she also discovered that radiation was a property of atoms. Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win 2. In 1927, Herman Blumgart uses a radioactive tracer (nuclear medicine) to diagnose heart disease. In 1938, two German scientists, named Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, had demonstrated nuclear fission.…
The transition into the atomic age began in the early 1900s, when scientists began researching the atom. In 1938 they discovered something called fission, the process of splitting an atom. Due to the second world war breaking out the research of atoms eventually turned to the research of weapons. A few of the leading countries in the race for an atomic weapon were Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union. After several years of research the U.S. developed and tested the first atomic bomb named either the Gadget or project Trinity.…
In 1937, Ernest Rutherford published The Newer Alchemy, a book written about his work with nuclear physics and radiation. At the time, the public thought that radiation was an all-powerful source of energy that could power entire cities. The concept took on…
This paved the way for progress because now scientists could define an element later to create the periodic table of elements. A secondary way to look at information to look at information in new ways to pave the way for progress. Finally You can learn from scientists in the past. Dimitri Mendeleev also created the periodic table of elements.…
Each new discovery brought a new point of view which caused someone to build a new model, using a mix of traditional ideas along with new theories. J.J. Thompson was the first to design a contemporary model of the atom. His model is referred to as the plum pudding model, because it mirrors a bowl of pudding with plums inside. The next great change to this came from Bohr.…
Rutherford did an experiment where he hit a thin piece of gold foil with alpha particles and was able to see the alpha particles pass through the gold foil. Alpha particles are positively charged due to the losing their electrons. This made Rutherford realized two things. He realized that atoms are made mostly made of empty space and that the positively charged particles, called a proton, were all packed together in a place called the nucleus. Rutherford made a model that fits his new atomic theory.…
“What he noted was that although most of the particles passed right through the gold foil, a very small percentage (approximately 1 in 8000) would "bounce back". What exactly did this imply?”(The Discovery of Radioactivity). This, in mister Rutherford`s head, meant that matter was made of empty space, but there is a tiny dense portion of matter that deflects particles. His discovery led to the universally accepted atom model. Not only did the discovery of radiation find a new source or energy but it also helped shape the atom as we know…