Essays on Scientists & Inventors

Noam Chomsky is a well-respected man for the extensive work he has done in linguistics and philosophy. Chomsky is “one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world” (UA), he has published over one hundred books and many articles whom people refer to all...

In Noam Chomsky’s paper “On the Nature, Use, and Acquisition of Language”, he discusses the study of language. Chomsky is coming from a rationalist point of view on language acquisition. He believes that the initial state of the language faculty is an input-output system that...

Introduction Requiem for the American Dream is an intense and insightful documentary with Noam Chomsky, the narrator of the film, who elucidates the fundamental flaws of our political system that detract from democracy. Noam Chomsky discusses ten principles in which he refers to them as...

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, social critic, and political activist; he is also a professor at MIT that wrote many books on different topics that he mastered; according to Wikipedia. The setting in Chomsky’s argument is the world and more specifically the US, it...

Introduction In the field of Psycholinguistics, language acquisition is a sensitive topic which distinguished scientists have argued upon. In (1957) in book B.F. Skinner – one of the pioneers of behaviorism- proposed one of the earliest scientific explanation concerning the language acquisition topic; his theory...

The well-known linguist, activist and author Noam Chomsky is a person who I greatly admire. His work has influenced many people in many different fields, from linguistics to psychology to politics. Through all his many achievements he has still remained a humble and down to...

Louis Pasteur is the most influential in terms of comprehension of disease of the entire time frame as he is truly a giant in medicine. He was born on December 27, 1822, and he would die on September 28 1895. He was a revolutionary chemist...

Imagine a world without medicine. Those who became ill were given days to live until the disease completely overtook their bodies. Their organs began to shut down, eventually killing the person suffering from this disease. This was the world before the year 1860. People were...

Born in Dole, France, on the 28th day of September 1822, Louis Pasteur would become a chemist who helps to develop methods of sterilizing and safe-proofing many of the things we take for granted today. Before he was a renown chemist, he went through high-school...

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is considered to be the founder of English empiricism. He belonged to a noble English family. Bacon’s father was a major dignitary – the guardian lord of the great royal seal. Bacon spent his young years in France, where he witnessed the...

A machine no bigger than a microwave doubled the population of slaves in the US and also made world economies blow up. This machine is called the cotton gin and was invented by Eli Whitney, an innovative and crafty man. His intent for the machine...

Eli Whitney transformed the South with his invention. It is hard when no one knows the solution to a question or when someone holds a different view on a question. An opinion is a view or perspective made about something, which does not have to...

Growing up with social media and news outlets, I have been exposed to believe that autism is a disorder that makes interaction and communication more challenging. I have been told that it is disrespectful to say someone has autism rather than they are autistic. This...

Autism is ais a bio-neurological formative incapacity that by and large show up before the age of three. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is evaluated that 1 out of 59 kids in the United States meets the criteria for ASD....

Mary Temple Grandin broke barriers by changing the stereotype of spokespersons with autism which educated individuals on the effects of autism and animal awareness. Temple Grandin became a leading influencer for animal rights activism all while facing the hardships of being a person with autism....

Nikola Tesla, a Serbian American Inventor, largely absent from history, despite the high regards his brilliance has been awarded in the modern day. Born to the Tesla family in modern-day Croatia in the village of Smiljian on July 10th, 1856, Nikola as the fourth child...

Nikola Tesla was a generous man who only meant good to the world, but unfortunately in his time he did not have the best financer, yes, the man you are thinking of is J.P. Morgan, the man who had ended Tesla’s career. The fact that...

The human mind is an incredible thing, capable of speech, imagination, critical thinking and thought. When we think of the historic minds of the world, we think of the brilliance of Einstein or Isaac Newton. But for the actual discoveries that are the basics for...

The famed writer Hugo Gernsback once said “if you mean the man who really invented, in other words, originated and discovered – not merely improved what had already been invented by others, then without a shade of a doubt, Nikola Tesla is the world’s greatest...