Historical
Einstein's Legacy
Einstein is known as the renowned scientist whose family escaped Nazi Germany to live in America. His family thought they were leaving behind all the bigotry and hatred, however, they had to deal with the injustices in America. There was a social caste system for White Americans in America, according to Sociologists. In this system, Anglo-Saxons were the highest, and immigrants from warlike countries were seen as the lowest. This affected job placement and livelihood because employers would base their decisions on your race and reputation. However, Einstein fought this with his mind and his knowledge, being born to a dedicated Jewish family and being undermined for lack of social skills even talking late did not stop the man. He would use his mind to advance his studies and become great. Einstein had Christian friends in college, who helped him advance. They help his reputation and got him jobs so he could build his family. They believed in his innate abilities and modest capabilities that he should be recommended to prestigious universities and ultimately to the President of the United States. Einstein did not want to invent the atomic bomb but he had to prove his loyalty to his nation, America especially when Nazi Germany knew of many prominent scientists of Jewish descent leaving to America. Nazi Germany plotted to take them out sending a message retrieved in the Carribeans. The President of the United States had to react and he called upon every able scientist to build mass weaponry. Einstein reluctantly accepted and became known for being a leading scientist of the nuclear weapons project. Einstein knew in his mind, that he did not want to be known for destruction and he fought to undo the harm of building that weapon, which could have been his greatest work. Einstein retreated from any further research and development after he saw the defeat of the Mad Genius of Nazi Germany. He led a reclusive life in expanding science and learning. Einstein did not back down from any academic dispute, when his students objected to his teachings and ridicule him, he would silently write on the board a greater achievement, the universal formula. He would quietly stand next to his greatest achievement and not allow anyone to leave his class without asking what it is. And he would teach about the formula in many different ways and make the whole semester about his greatest achievement to ingrain in their minds. Einstein hoped to make science more than formulas and power to transform it into the knowledge of brainstorming and thinking outside the box. He even tried to instill this into his children who followed in their father's footsteps. When he won the Nobel Peace Prize, he finally got his chance to change science for the good and to recognize intelligence as a force for good. Einstein believed that the mind should not be wasted on war and violence. And that we should undo the hatred in the world starting with children and build a world where people use their minds to solve real-life issues and create a future-ready to take on the challenges of the past. Einstein invested in an organization that teaches children to use their minds. His organization would share the knowledge of the community and collective learning. This created the brand of Einstein around the world as the master genius who inspires all people to achieve success through education. This brand made Einstein one of the greatest minds in human history and the genius behind collective world knowledge. He dedicated his brain to science asking his friend and colleague to remove his mind for science and that this was his last request. Einstein trusted his professor friend because he wanted to inspire the next generation to greatness and he felt that our minds should not be wasted. His friend respected his wishes and carefully displayed the mind which made Einstein so great.
By Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous5 years ago in FYI
Know your American History
The world turns upside down. - Lin-Manuel Miranda I think a lot about those words, I unabashedly listen to my show tunes and Iโm always proud of who I listen to. Iโm always proud of what I do, What I listen to while I make my magic and recently Iโve been driven to write my own powerful piece about immigration.
By ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข โพ5 years ago in FYI
History's Trainwrecks
What kind of nerd do you want to be when you grow up? There are so many choices: role-playing games, science fiction, chess, Renaissance festivals, comic books, and many more. The number of ways open to me to avoid popularity and the chance of ever touching a woman recreationally seemed without limit.
By Stacey Roberts5 years ago in FYI
Don't Lose Your Cool
Some temper tantrums can change history. The Roman Empire of the 4th century AD wasnโt doing very well at all. Constantine the Great managed to consolidate the empire under his rule, make Christianity the official religion, and move the capital to Constantinople, which was more strategically located. However, Constantine was a brutal ruler and father (he boiled his first wife to death, killed his oldest son, and ordered his name stricken from the historical record). His three remaining sons, raised in this cutthroat political environment, inherited the empire after his death and were immediately at each otherโs throats, sparking civil wars that raged for sixteen years until Constantius II emerged as sole emperor in 353.
By Stacey Roberts5 years ago in FYI
You Can't Fire Me
The Secretary of the Treasury had to resign four times before Abraham Lincoln finally accepted. Salmon P. Chase was a contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 1860 and like the other heavy hitters who ran against the Illinois โcountry lawyerโ, Chase believed himself to be far superior and better qualified. After his victory in the presidential election, Lincoln appointed most of his rivals for the nomination to his Cabinet, making Chase Secretary of the Treasury.
By Stacey Roberts5 years ago in FYI
It's Who You Know
Having the right drinking buddy can be good for your career. The third century AD Roman Empire was in trouble. A fifty-year period saw 26 claimants to the Imperial throne, barbarian invasions, economic contraction, plague, natural disasters, and a split of the Empire into three separate territories. Not for nothing was this historical period called โThe Crisis of the Third Century.โ
By Stacey Roberts5 years ago in FYI
Keep Your Pants On
One privilege of rank is getting to keep your pants on. Major General Mark Clark was on a top-secret mission in Algiers in 1942. A British submarine had brought him and several other Allied officers to meet with the commander of the French army in North Africa. Clark was there to persuade General Charles Mast, the French commander, not to resist the planned American invasion of North Africa, codenamed Operation Torch. French forces had been under German authority since the Nazis had invaded France two years earlier, so it wasnโt clear whose side they were on. They met in an isolated villa, and General Mast agreed to Clarkโs plan. If Mastโs cooperation was found out by the Germans, he would have been executed for treason.
By Stacey Roberts5 years ago in FYI
Stick In The Mud
Sometimes a Republic on its way to becoming an empire could really use an intractable stick-in-the-mud to run things. Cato the Elder was a simple fellow of simple tastes. He farmed his estate with his own field hands, dressing and eating the way they did. His penchant for tough living gained the admiration of his neighbors, who often enlisted his support to settle disputes, which sparked his career as an orator.
By Stacey Roberts5 years ago in FYI
Temper, Temper
If one more bad thing happened today, Mary Todd Lincoln was going to lose it. She had invited herself along on Abraham Lincolnโs trip to Union army headquarters at City Point, Virginia. Julia Grant, wife of commanding general Ulysses S. Grant, had suggested to her husband that he invite the President to come visit. She had been โstruck by constant newspaper reports of the exhausted appearance of the Presidentโ and thought a break from Washington would do him good. Grant worried about the protocol involved in sending an invitation when the President could go where he liked whenever he wanted, but he sent a note to Lincoln in March, 1865 suggesting that โthe rest would do you good.โ
By Stacey Roberts5 years ago in FYI
I'll Go When I'm Good And Ready
General George McClellan was outnumbered. At age thirty-four, he was an internationally-respected military thinker and strategist (except where the cavalry was concerned; he only wanted them for guards and advance patrols. However, his inventionโthe McClellan saddle--was in continuous use from 1859 until the horse cavalry was disbanded in World War II. The Confederate cavalry made widespread use of it after 1863. Thanks, George).
By Stacey Roberts5 years ago in FYI
Why Civilization is the cause of discontent?
At an early stage of development, the actions of an infant are controlled by its instinct. Try snatching a rattle from its hand, and it will come at you with force to take it back. A one-year-old toddler does not think twice to latch at its mother's breast when hungry. It cannot differentiate between the self and the outer world as it is driven by pure ego and wants. Freud defines this phenomenon as infantile narcissism.
By Vaibhav Bhosle5 years ago in FYI
