Marcus Aurelius, one of the Five Good Emperors of Rome, once said,“A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions". But what is ambition, such that it defines one’s worth? Ambition is the strong desire to achieve something, to get to a certain point, to accomplish a goal. Achieving an ambition requires determination and hard work. One must be persistent, even when things get tough. Next, they must be willing to forego certain pleasures in order to devote their efforts towards their goal. Lastly, they must be entirely passionate about their aim. It is impossible to happily and successfully reach a goal if you are not passionate about it. Reaching an ambition is no easy feat. Yet, as we continue, you will hear more about what it takes to …show more content…
Curie was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. When she was 10 years old, her mother died, leaving her father to care for five children. She began attending a boarding school and later moved to a selective school for academically proficient children. At 15, Curie graduated high school as a top student with a keen interest in science. However, her father was too poor to support her ambition to go to a university, and further education for girls was not permitted in Poland. So, at the age of 21, she became a governess and began to tutor to financially support her sister, Bronya, who went to study medicine in Paris. She taught herself chemistry, physics, and mathematics by reading textbooks, and when she had time, attended labs and lectures at a free Polish university. She said,”Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be …show more content…
In 1891, when she was 24, Curie went to study chemistry, mathematics, and physics at the Sorbonne, Paris’s best university. She rented an unheated apartment with the purpose of living closer to the university, which made for quite unpleasant winters. She graduated at the top of her class with a master’s degree in physics at the age of 26 and received a master’s degree in chemistry one year later. At one point, Curie became interested in the rays given off by uranium, a powerful element discovered by Henri Becquerel. She wondered if other minerals also gave off these rays, and not just ones containing uranium. Suspecting that something even stronger than uranium was present in pitchblende (a mineral now known as uraninite), she and her husband bought a wooden shack in a schoolyard and began conducting research. For three years and nine months, they processed bucketfuls of pitchblende until they had enough radium and polonium to show the world the existence of these two powerful new elements. She described her experiences as the following: “Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the
Her hypothesis was this: The emission of rays from Uranium compounds could be an atomic property of the element Uranium-something built into the very structure of the atoms. During Marie's time, the atom was thought to be the smallest particle in existence.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Marcus Aurelius was born on April 20, 121 AD into a family of royalty. His uncle and adoptive father, Antoninus Pius, was the emperor of Rome. Aurelius, too, was trained from birth to be a great ruler like his father. At age eleven, he dedicated himself to religion, although he considered philosophy to be the "true, inward" religion, one which did not require ceremonies necessary in others. He was appointed by Emperor Hadrian to priesthood in 129. The Emperor also supervised his education, which was with the best professors of literature and philosophy of the time. From his early twenties, he deserted his other studies for philosophy. In 161, Marcus Aurelius ascended the throne and shared his imperial power with his adopted brother Lucius Aurelius Verus. Useless and lazy, Verus was regarded as Marcus’s sidekick, but he died in 169. After Verus's death, he ruled alone.
Marie Curie, a pioneer in her field and Nobel Prize winning Chemist, took a path that few women of her time dared and unfortunately, her passion for Science would be her ultimate demise. From birth to death Marie Curie lived a full life, with love, work, and passion at the center.
Greed, ambition, and the possibility of self-gain are always constant in their efforts to influence people’s actions. In Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus, a venerable politician, becomes a victim of the perpetual conflict between power-hungry politicians and ignorant commoners. He is a man of honor and good intentions who sacrifices his own happiness for the benefit of others. Unfortunately, his honor is strung into a fine balance between oblivion and belief and it is ultimately the cause of his downfall. His apparent obliviousness leads him to his grave as his merciful sparing of Mark Antony’s life, much like Julius Caesar’s ghost, comes back to haunt him. Overall, Brutus is an honest, sincere man who holds the lives of others in high regard while he himself acts as a servant to Rome.
The article that BBC New of America has provided, gives information on an archeological dig in which the tomb of a general was found. The general was Marcus Nonius Macrinus, a favorite of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Macrinus helped the emperor achieve many victories in Europe. The tomb was discovered where construction work was taking place, and was mainly preserved by the Tiber River. It is said to be the greatest Roman discovery in the past twenty to thirty years.
Ambition is a strong desire or drive to succeed or achieve something. It can help a person to strive at getting something they want. If someone wants something badly enough, their ambition will help them not give up until they achieve at getting what they want. But also, if a person has too much ambition, it could make that person do destructive things to get what they want and they will hurt anyone or anything that gets in their way.
Marie Curie was one of the shy girls, but yet one of the most famous scientists in the world. She could care less about the money, the fame, and the attention, science and research are the only things she thought about. She never did understand why people were so interested in her, her discoveries, why her?
Uranium, a radioactive element, was first mined in the western United States in 1871 by Dr. Richard Pierce, who shipped 200 pounds of pitchblende to London from the Central City Mining District. This element is sorta boring but I found something interesting, they used it to make an an atomic bomb in the Cold War. In 1898 Pierre and Marie Curie and G. Bemont isolated the "miracle element" radium from pitchblende. That same year, uranium, vanadium and radium were found to exist in carnotite, a mineral containing colorful red and yellow ores that had been used as body paint by early Navajo and Ute Indians on the Colorado Plateau. The discovery triggered a small prospecting boom in southeastern Utah, and radium mines in Grand and San Juan counties became a major source of ore for the Curies. It was not the Curies but a British team working in Canada which was the first to understand that the presence of polonium and radium in pitchblende was not due to simple geological and mineral reasons, but that these elements were directly linked to uranium by a process of natural radioactive transmutation. The theory of radioactive transformation of elements was brilliantly enlarge in1901 by the New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford and the English chemist Frederick Soddy at McGill University in Montreal. At dusk on the evening of November 8, 1895, Wilhelm Rontgen, professor of physics at the University of Wurzburg in Germany, noticed a cathode tube that a sheet of paper come distance away. He put his hand between the tube and the paper, he saw the image of the bones in his hand on the paper.
Maria Sklodowska was in born Warsaw, Poland in November 7, 1867. Maria was only eight year olds when she found out her oldest sister caught typhus and died the following year. The death of her sister, Zofia impacted her life drastically, three years later her mother lost a battle against tuberculosis at the age of forty-two. Growing up Maria never struggled aca...
was born on November 7, 1867. She had married Pierre Curie which was on 1895 at the age of 26
Ambition. A strong desire to do or achieve something, typically requiring determination or hard work. Ambition can encourage people to achieve their dreams, and can oftentimes lead to great success in attaining goals. However, sometimes ambition can negatively impact a person’s life, and the lives of those around them. In the play “Death of a Salesman” Arthur Miller walks readers through the life of Willy Loman, and his goal of achieving the “American Dream.”
Having ambition to be successful is key in getting what you want in life. Ambitions of getting a great job, a family, and any other thing that will make your life more enjoyable is all do to setting goals. Setting goals of getting paid a certain amount of money by the age of 40 is a goal that will make you work hard, and do well in the business place. Having a family and a nice house is also a goal that will make you do well in the business place, to be able to provide for your family. Also, having those extra things that make your life more enjoya...
Ambition is defined as a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work. Some may look at this to as a bad thing or a good thing. Some may say that i moderation it is fine. For example, in Julius Caesar, Brutus kills Caesar for having too much ambition. A tragic fall is considered when the main character lets something less than what they are bring them down. When they let their flaw get to them and drive them towards their own demise. The reason people see this is a bad thing is because it can lead to making the person do bad things that will result in possibly dangerous consequences. The reason why some may think ambition is good is because sometimes it is the only thing motivating someone
That same year Marie met Pierre Curie, an aspiring French physicist. A year later Maria Sklodowska became Madame Curie. Marie and Pierre worked as a scientific team, in 1898 their achievements resulted in world importance, in particular the discovery of polonium (which Marie named in honor of Poland) and the discovery of Radium a few months later. The birth of her two daughters, Irene and Eve, in 1897 and 1904 did not interrupt Maria's work. In 1903, Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Physics. The award jointly awarded to Curie, her husband Pierre, and Henri Becquerel, was for the discovery of radioactivity. In December 1904 she was appointed chief assistant in the laboratory directed by Pierre Curie.
It requires steady attention to our actions and determination for wanting to achieve something big. In order to achieve your goal in life, you need to deeply desire the goal that you want. Weak desires bring weak results. You need to have the strong desire to achieve the goal. You have to decide what you want. Start to think about what these goals means to you. Take time to think why you are setting the goal you have chosen. Make sure that you really want the goal you are setting to avoid