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Jules Verne The Father Of Science Fiction
662 wordsJules Verne: The Father of Science Fiction The father of Science Fiction, a visionary French novelist, a short story writer, and a dramatist. This is the essence of the man we know today as Jules Verne. In his voluminous writings he foresaw a number of scientific devices and developments that were more than a century ahead of his time. Some of the inventions he imagined were created later in his lifetime, but some are still to be invented. He wrote over 80 books mostly before 1900 and a few of t...
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The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
926 wordsThe Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, is about a small-minded village that savors on tradition. The town holds a lottery once a year where all the families gather around in a big crowd in the Village Square. The lottery is conducted by Mr. Summers, a man who often leads the town's activities such as square dances, Halloween parties, charities, etc. In the crowd, wives gabber about the daily gossip. Fathers chat about tractors, crops, and taxes, while the kids playfully gather small smooth stones, pil...
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Spoke Too Freely Women Who Gossiped Crime
761 wordsA notable time during the late middle ages was when Queen Elizabeth was in power, from 1558 - 1603. She was a dictating, powerful, and cruel monarch. She also believed in extreme punishment for crime, in order to run a peaceful country. The death penalty could be prescribed for any offense, even some as minor theft, or highway robbery. During this time, a person of higher social standing could accuse a peasant of a crime without any evidence. Chances are the peasant would be tortured until they ...
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Arnold Palmer Tiger Woods
1,030 words... its Open, U. S Open, and the U. S. Amateur. After golf he became very successful in law. The next person who really changed and improved the game of golf was Arnold Palmer. Palmer was a golfer that everyone followed and watched. His golf combined with his personality made him very famous. The people who followed him on the course where known as Arnies Army. He was basically Americas golf icon. This was especially during the 1958 - 1964 seasons. Palmer had 60 tour victories on the PGA Tour. O...
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Passage Of Time Keeping Track
1,025 wordsNot until somewhat recently (that is, in terms of human history) did people find a need for knowing the time of day. As best we know, 5000 to 6000 years ago great civilizations in the Middle East and North Africa initiated clock making as opposed to calendar making. With their attendant bureaucracies and formal religions, these cultures found a need to organize their time more efficiently. After the Sumerian culture was lost without passing on its knowledge, the Egyptians were the next to formal...
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Hooke Was Born Law Of Elasticity Robert
530 wordsRobert Hooke was and English scientist born in 1635 and died in the year of 1703. Robert Hooke was born in the town of Freshwater, which is located in the Isle of Write. Hooke was born to a minister named John Hooke. Robert received a great deal of education that did not take place in the classroom. He studied with the portraitist Sir Peter Lely (in his youth). He was educated at the University of Oxford. Then after college he was an assistant of Robert Boyle. He made curator of experiments to t...
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World Health Organization People With Aids
1,735 wordsThesis: The AIDS and HIV viruses are getting worse in the United States and the rest of the world. Although more people die of heart disease and cancer each year, AIDS has become the health problem people fear the most. Much of the fear comes from ignorance and misunderstanding. Education is the most effective tool against AIDS. It is more important than ever for young people to learn the facts about AIDS. Many teenagers don't know anyone who has AIDS. It is hard for them to believe they are at ...
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One Of The Greatest Solar System
363 wordsIn 1609 Galileo Galilee Constructed his first telescope. Little did he know that this would be one of the greatest inventions the world would ever see. This fairly simple creation enhanced our ability to see things that are very far away and that cant be seen with the naked eye. We also learned a great many more things about earth, the rest of the solar system and the role it played in the universe. We were able to see the phases of the planets more easily and could see moons revolving around ot...
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Tcp Ip User Friendly
1,076 wordsThe Internet began by a vision of a psychologist named, SCR Licwriter in the 1950 s. Lickwriter was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His vision was to connect all the computers together so they would be more useful in sharing information. This vision was just a thought of imagination then. In 1958 US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military. The ARP...
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Women Mom Day
1,064 wordsHave any men out there ever wondered why women act the way they do? If you havent, you either dont care or you have never met one. Women are the number one most confusing thing that goes through a mans emotional cycle every day. From the beginning of time we (men) have wondered "What is going on up their, were they tipped upside down as a young child or do they just not have reasoning skills that dont involve emotion. " Women are mystical, and no man will understand it, but we try. "Do I look fa...
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Younger Generations Lives Easier
1,421 wordsPlastics are a product that is very common in our everday usage. We use plastics everywhere ranging for Tupperware to the cars that we drive. Although most everyone has accepted the fact that plastics make our lives easier and has become essential to us, there are people out there who are perhaps unaware of how important plastics are to our society, or people who just don't approve of plastics because of its environmental harm. An advertisement in a Health Care magazine tries to convince this au...
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Age Of Exploration Catholic Church
417 wordsIn the 1400 's, the feudal system became weak and national governments became stronger. People put more emphasis on humanism than on the church. This period was called the Renaissance. I believe that this period led directly to the Age of Exploration. During this time, technology became more advanced. Martin Luther started the Reformation against the Catholic church. As the effect of the Reformation, a middle class emerged making it possible for people to travel more. During the Renaissance, tec...
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Ultimate Goal Historical Facts
1,293 wordsThe issues that are raised in this source by Marc Trachtenberg are is whether or not objectivity is still a relevant idea, and if it is not then is history in fact dying. Keith Jenkins What is History? , Carl Becker's What are Historical Facts? and Richard Evans In Defence of History will be used to discuss and examine these issues. Marc Trachtenberg is questioning if objectivity is possible and desirable in todays society, and this is a question that many historians have pondered. Keith Jenkins...
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Britains Population Explosion In The 19th Century
1,224 wordsThe most important factor in Britains Population explosion in the 19 th century was better medical care To what extent do you agree with the statement above? There are many reasons why the population increased in the 19 th century such as better medical care / medicine and better public health. However I believe that better medical care / medicine was partly the reason why Britains population exploded but I believe the main reason was better public health. In 1801 the total population in Britain...
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Guilt And Shame Hydrogen Bomb
1,354 words... g a pristine form just barely exists, and obviously it has ceased to exist altogether as a revolutionary movement. Like other emblematic movements of the epoch with which it shared the faith that a new kind of human being would surface once all structure and authority that wasnt internal in origin was rejected, free jazz was ultimately ambushed by its naivet. But on purely musical terms free jazz has not been without an ongoing impact. If it never achieved what Alan Silva expected it to, it ...
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Listen To Music Style Of Music
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Electronic Beep Signaled Touch A Book Professor
1,386 wordsAnymore questions? The captain ask to his five-man squad sitting before him in the brightly lit interior of the van. The rookie lieutenant spoke up. Yeah captain, why do the books want us to infiltrate a college because of one man, especially on such short notice? We could be capturing twenty, twenty-five traitors in length of time this mission is going to take. The captain grinned to himself at the young lieutenants unsenceable attitude. He hadnt grasped the untold importance of the mission yet...
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Johann Gutenberg And The Invention Of Printing Press
609 wordsJohann Gutenberg, thought to be the father of modern printing, lived from about 1400 to 1467, where he died at Mainz. He was the son of a coin maker, which may have perhaps influenced him while working around those machines all day. In 1430, Gutenberg and his family migrated to Strasburg, because of political difficulties at the time. There he starting teaching students of his trades, including, gem polishing, making looking glasses, and the printing press. Gutenberg perfected his printing press...
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Electron Beam Television Programming
1,822 wordsDid you know there are more television sets in the world than there are telephones? Even the television professionals find it hard to believe. However the statistics prove it. According to official figures from the International Telecommunication Union there were 565 million telephones in 1983, and 600 million television sets. Other statistics are just as impressive. In Belgium, from 1967 to 1982, the average time spent watching television by children from 10 to 13 years, increased from 82 to 14...
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Hard Telephone Things One
711 wordsThe unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except the way we think? Technology has developed and changed so much over the past century. Each day new things are being developed, and new things are released to the buyer? s market. Who would ever thought we? d be able to talk live with someone who lives on the other side of the world. It? s truly amazing all the luxury? s we have, and it? s amazing how one those these inventions has the capability to change the world in a very drastic w...
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