Essays on Scientists & Inventors

The Industrial Revolutions were an important part of our history that had changed our world as we know it. During the first Industrial Revolution, multiple inventions and ideas had brought many changes. Such as the inventions and ideas of James Watt, improving the steam engine,...

Ben Franklin once said, “Either writes something worth reading or does something worth writing”. This quote shines through history as we, as a society, celebrate those of great accomplishments, whether it be generous kings, lawful dictators, or even genius inventors. Invention and, more specifically, inventors...

Medicine as we know it has drastically changed over the last decade. Starting to emanate during the Industrial Revolution, medicine has saved lives and increased access to proper care, and improved the quality of life as we know it. Medicine as we know it, has...

Milk is the perfect beverage to dunk cookies in, wash down cereal with, and is delectable when combined with cocoa powder. Milk is also the key ingredient in yogurt, ice cream, and macaroni and cheese. Before milk became the foundation of many delicious meals and...

This essay will discuss the movement of medical care from the ‘patient knows best’ approach to the ‘Doctor knows best’ approach. Advances in dissection, laboratory medicine, germ theory, and medical implements, combined with contributions from many individuals, lead to this shift in healthcare away from...

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist and philosopher and a founder of the field of cognitive science. He has a nature theory that children are prewired for the development of language, and the environment in which they live triggers its emergence. According to Chomsky children...

Language is a common skill to all human beings. However, when there are 6,500 different languages it divides humanity culturally and mentally. Experts who focus on language have pondered the extend of this divide and proposed that if there are different languages it is bound...

The quest for justice within Cambodia as a response to the Khmer Rouge’s atrocities from 1975 to 1979 has encountered continuous political debate and manoeuvring. With the opening of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in 2003, it has clearly illustrated the challenges and complexities involved with...

The Definition of Syntax According to Chomsky “syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages”. The syntactic theory is aiming to depict how people create sentences by combining words, concerned with the speaker’s knowledge of how...

Genie was strapped to a potty chair and neglected by her father. Her father kept her and her mother in a ‘protective custody’ where they were ‘virtual prisoners’ to his gross interpretation of a habitable and nurturing environment. Consequently, Genie grew up, neglected and socially...

Blaise Pascal was born on the nineteenth of June sixteen twenty-three. At a young age, he was discovered to have a brilliant mind but very poor health. Blaise began attending weekly lectures in mathematics at age fourteen. At age sixteen Blaise Pascal wrote a paper...

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...