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Einstein: A World Changer
Imagine you are sitting in a room and you look down at your phone as it says it’s 1:00 p.m. How do you know it is actually 1:00? If it said 2:00 a.m. would you believe it if it was sunny outside? Without Albert Einstein, we would not have many things including our current understanding of time. Albert Einstein had a positive effect on the future of the world because without his discoveries many of today's inventions would be non-existent. He changed the way scientists view everything from matter and energy, as well as light, Time Magazine even named him the most influential person of the 20th century.
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. He would not remember the place he was born, as his family moved six weeks later to Munich. Albert Einstein grew up in a secular Jewish family. His father Hermann Einstein was a salesman and engineer, and with his brother founded Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie, a Munich-based company that manufactured electrical equipment. At the age of five, Einstein was given a compass by his father for his birthday. Einstein would become amazed at the unknown behind the compass and would continue this interest in why and how things worked for the rest of his childhood. Growing up, Einstein had trouble with speech and social abilities, and for hours Einstein could play by himself twiddling with anything that amused his mind. This independence made Einstein question authority, often

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