Harvard Mark I Essays

Grade. In 1944 she was assigned at Harvard University as a member of the Bureau of Ships Computation Project that programmed the Harvard Mark I computer system, a team that was led by Howard H. Aiken. The Harvard Mark I was used to process all sorts of large mathematical data for the WWII war effort up to and including the computations used to determine the viability of the first atomic bomb which was detonated only a year later. Hopper stayed with the Harvard team until

Even though Grace did not serve many tours, she was still an exceptional leader. She worked behind the scenes to not only better the U.S. Navy but to also better the world of technology. I would consider Grace a transformational leader due to the fact that she is known for her expertise, knowledge and motivation. She would always look at an issue and try to find a better way around it instead of say "well this is how everyone else does

School-W at Northampton, Massachusetts. Upon graduation, she was commissioned lieutenant (junior grade) and ordered to the Bureau of Ordnance ComputationIn 1949, she joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. in Philadelphia, then building the UNIVAC I --the first commercial large-scale electronic computer--as a senior math

(MW1:30-3:00) Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869–1935 Robinson 's "Richard Cory" Edwin Arlington Robinson was born on December 22, 1869 in Head Tide. Later than high school, Robinson did study for two years at Harvard University as a special student. And his early poems were released in the Harvard Advocate. Robinson then printed and divulged confidentially his first volume of poetry,The Torrent and the Night Before, in 1896; this selection was largely improved and released in 1897 as The Children of

Close Reading: The Awakening Chapter I-XIII In the story, the birds symbolize women and flight represents freedom. The birds are in a cage which inhibits their flight; this can be compared to women in captivity lacking freedom. What’s important to point out is that the bird, specifically the one mentioned in the passage, speaks a language that only other birds can understand. “He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understand, unless it was the mockingbird hung on the other

Margaret Atwood, an internationally acclaimed novelist, poet and short story writer is widely considered as a major figure in Canadian litrature. In her works, she focuses on the themes of alienation and self-identity. As a poet, her works concentrate on the question of identity with as much pasion as Neruda and Walcott. There is a style and force in her writing.The major themes of Atwood’s poetry include the inconsistencies of self-perception, the Canadian identity and experience, the paradoxical

On the chance that one is born in to a world of godless gloom, without religion and no path to salvation, a bleak and heavy hopelessness is bound to be engrained in the way of the land. T.S. Eliot paints a picture of a woeful world of despair where the “hollow men” live solely with religious reverie and of salvation in slumber. By joining literary methods of imagery, tone, and diction in his poem, “The Hollow Men,” the hopelessness is visible all over the whole poem, and is established as the poem’s

About this time, we were grouped according to our hometowns with respect to the occupation zones in which Germany had been divided. I was reassigned to another company in the camp with fellow POWs whose hometowns, like my own, were now in the Russian occupation zone. In preparation for leaving the camp, we were directed to wear our black uniforms with the familiar white letters “PW”

My Thoughts, Feelings, Questions Page 148 Page 149 Page150 Page 152 Page 153 Page156 Page 156 Page 161 Page 175 Page 176 Page 179 Page 184 Page 189 Page 200 “Perhaps we ought to go to….I mean to make sure nothing happens.” “take them some meat” “And the conch doesn’t count at this end of the island.” “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” “Leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit in tore.” “That

one at that with his father being a minister. Ralph Emerson was born into a family of five children but only Ralph and his brother survived to become adults. His whole childhood was plagued with loss and heartache. After his childhood he went to Harvard University and was “class poet”. He became the figurehead to the ideal of Transcendentalism about 10-20 years after his graduation from College. An interesting fact about Ralph Emerson was that his mind began to slip in his later part of his life

Brown and Dartmouth are both ivy league schools with spectacular reputations. An ivy league school is the dream for thousands of students and their parents in the twenty first century. The term “Ivy League” has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. For hundreds of years parents have sent their children to ivy league schools for: a higher education, academic excellence, and social status. Brown and Dartmouth are both known for their excellent academic

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was an american born on August 29, 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his birthplace being a house just north of the Harvard yard. Who was a physician, poet, educator, author, and polymath based in Boston. As a member of the Fireside Poets he was claimed as one of the best writers of his days by his peers. Though he wrote many poems his most famous poems are the “breakfast-table” series. His father was a minister of the First Congressional Church and his mother was the daughter

her illness took charge. After that, he went on to attend Eton College. In 1908, at the age of 14, Huxley lost his mother. In 1911, Huxley himself became ill and lost, nearly entirely, his eyesight for about three years. At the beginning of World War I, he tried to join the army but was rejected as he was still half blind and deemed unfit for duty. After recovering some of his eyesight, Huxley began studying English Literature at the Balliol College in Oxford. Once finished with

"I wandered lonely as a Cloud" has a simple form that fits its simple and folksy theme and language. It has four stanzas with six lines each, for 24 lines. The rhyme scheme is very easy: ABABCC. The last two lines of each stanza rhyme are similar to the sonnets of Shakespeare, so each stanza feels separated and self-sufficient. Moreover, it has a given name, which is a "rhyming couplet." There are not any oblique rhymes to trick you. Here is the first stanza with the rhyme scheme labeled: I wandered

Common Wealth is an outstanding book written by Jeffrey D. Sachs published in 2009. Sachs has been on of the youngest professor at Harvard University, and is currently the director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. His impressive career has made him one of the most important scholars in the world. Therefore, his book is for young students an impressive source of inspiration and a tool to understand the current economic and political situation. In his second Chapter titled, ”Our Crowded

Harvard Crimson writer Matthew Siegel is worried about the consequences that the culture of success brings about. She wonders, “Could it be at all possible that the culture of success at Harvard drives people to skip right over the most important part of cognition—getting to know themselves and what they want and need—and instead, sends them straight

blood sugar levels and help patients’ lose weight (Sotaniem). I believe our results are similar in the aspect that Asian Ginseng is effective in reducing sugar levels in living organisms. If this experiment was repeated, I suggest that a larger experimental group is used. It would be interesting to see what the optimal concentration of Asian Ginseng would be to eliminate any bubbles at all would be. When pouring the sugar into the yeast, I recommend using more than two lab assistants for an even more

1.1 Introduction to William Carlos Williams and His Imagist Poems William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, closely associated with Modernism and Imagism. Williams was also a physician with his own practice and he worked as one for all his life in America. He met Ezra Pound when he entered the University of Pennsylvania and they became friends. Pound introduced Williams to the Imagist Movement and encouraged him to write poetry. However, he did not agree with

his mother a widow with six children. Emerson was the son of a Unitarian minister, who himself was descended from a line of Unitarian ministers. His professional calling seemed all but etched in stone. In 1825 Emerson enrolled at the newly formed Harvard School of Divinity, while continuing to teach. Ralph Waldo Emerson inspires

writing was very distinct. At the beginning of his writing career, he had a hard time finding publishers to publish his earlier works, and later he decided to publish them himself. He went to, and graduated from, Harvard University; and after his graduation, he went to Paris to join the World War I ambulance corps. On his arrival, he had time to explore the Paris art scene. He used this experience to put more style into his writing. The movements of Impressionism and Cubism influenced E. E. Cummings’s