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    lived with their aunt while acquiring an education. Dorothea, raised her six children until 1808 when she passed away. At 23 years old, Jacob is left to raise his 5 younger surviving siblings. From 1802 to 1806 Jacob, and then Wilhelm, go to the University of Marburg for

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    Likened to Albert Einstein, Emmy Noether didn’t care for her appearance and rather preferred to be judged on her mental capabilities. She played a pivotal role in the creation of abstract algebra, as well as a collaborator on multiple crucial cases one of which involved equipping a formula to Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. She was eccentric at times, unkempt, didn’t wear the traditional clothing for a woman of her time, and above all else she was brilliant in a time when women’s minds were

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    Disney has been a household name since the late 1930s, which marked the cinematic release of the film, ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves’ (History Channel, 2014). With the 2013 release of Frozen, the Disney Princess range has become the most profitable Disney franchise, grossing over $5 billion worldwide (Sheridan, 2014). This report aims to identify the similarities and differences between Disney's versions of princess-centric tales and their popular counterparts through critical analysis and contrast

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    It doesn't matter how rich or poor, but how they value others. Social class is a big part of any society. It defines how people look and treat each other. In theory the rich have more and the poor have less. The Grimm Brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, use social class in many of their stories and fairy tales to convey the idea that the poor have less to offer, but they will offer anything and everything if it means they could help another person. Basically, it’s saying by doing the right thing there

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    In Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Little Snow-White, justice is represented through the development of Snow-White's character, and can be portrayed by the pronounced attributes that contribute to her transition, such as purity, gullibility, and beauty. The Grimm brothers explore how the bounds of justice are empowered by the specific characteristics of an individual. Throughout the short story, it becomes evident that Snow-White is portrayed as pure. She beholds the innocence of youth, which can be

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    The Romanticism Era How did the fairytales we know today came about in our world? Years ago, the Era of Romanticism was started by men and women who let their imagination take them away from a world where religion and politics dominated. Nature became the root of their ideas and literature was glorified like a religion. The human spirit was examined in their eyes and they formed stories that intrigued the people in that time period. The origin of the literary movement, the lifestyle, and the literary

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    Felix Klein graduated from the gymnasium in Düsseldorf, he went to the University of Bonn and studied math and physics from 1865-1866. Before Felix Klein had studied non-Euclidean geometry, he first wanted to be a physicist. While still at the University of Bonn he was

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    Emmy Noether

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    their application to commutative fields and its cross products. In the last years of her career she was one of the she was the most influential mathematician at Göttingen.Due to Nazis seizing germany in 1933, Emmy and multiple Jewish professors at Göttingen were ordered to leave. A year later in 1934, Nazi political pressures led her brother Fritz Noether to quit from his pose at Breslau and whereas she was offered a visiting position to be a professor at Bryn Mawr College. She later left to the United

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    in Breselenz, Germany, was a prominent and influential mathematician during the nineteenth century. At a young age, Riemann was recognized by his teachers for his swift grasping of complicated mathematical operations. Riemann attended the University of Gottingen where he developed a strong foundation in theoretical physics from Johann Listing and other notable professors. Riemann introduced concepts of mathematical importance such as the complex variable theory, analytic number theory, and differential

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    born in Erlangen, Germany. And she died on April 14, 1935. Emmy Noether died in Lower Merion Township, PA. One award that she won was the Ackermann-Teubner Memorial Award. Emmy Noether got her education from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1904–1907. She also studied in University of Göttingen in 1903–1904. Emmy Noether’s siblings includes Fritz Noether, Alfred Noether, and Gustav Robert Noether. Fritz noether was a German-born mathematician just like Emmy Noether. Alfred Noether was born on 1883

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