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One Of The First Compton Interactive
1,504 wordsThe Chinese have long since been an enterprising group of people. Long before the introduction of Western technologies and ideas, this country has had a history of local industry dating back some 2000 years. These innovative people, from an early time, produced paper, gunpowder, and silk, and printing with one of the first movable type. In all, the manufacture of luxury items, fine handcrafts, metal crafting and the manufacture of tools were all well established businesses long before the onset ...
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Family Ties Strong Family
404 wordsWritten by Alexander Kill - Holocaust Survivor. The Jews were a strong people that survived 2000 years of dispersion without assimilation. Their strong survival mechanism was based on adaptation to persecution. They were like a reef that bends to the hurricane and survives, while an old tree is broken. Even their Arch-enemy, Hitler grudgingly acknowledged this strength. In Mein Kampf Hitler wrote: In hardly any people in the world is the instinct of self preservation developed more strongly than...
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2000 Years Ago Thousands Of Years
1,175 words2000 years ago, Plato, one of the forefathers of Western civilization, materialized the foundational ideas on reflective thinking in the Allegory of the Cave, which stemmed from the Republic. In his essay, he symbolically shows the stages and value of reaching a higher level of thinking. Being able to reflectively think is so important, it is still being discussed in our modern times. In the essay How do we know? Why do we Believe? , by Patricia King, the stages of thinking are outlined in order...
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Jesus Christ Feel Secure
1,213 wordsWill the teachings of Jesus Christ be able to survive the 3 rd millennium? Jesus emphasized the actions and teachings of God by using his life as an example of God's ways. He was an exact representation of God which made him God as well. Jesus referred to the history of God in his teachings. He used the basis of God's teachings that God demonstrated through Adam, Abraham and David. There were approximately 4000 years between the start of man up to the time of Christ's birth. Then for the last 20...
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The Cause And Effect Of One Man Actions
800 wordsCan one man alone affect the way a whole world thinks? Albert Einstein, Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, and others have all impacted the way many think. However, how vast and wide have their insights and knowledge spread? So, can one man alone affect the way a world thinks and works? The answer to this question can be answered with one persons name, Jesus Christ. This one poor carpenter became the greatest teacher the world has ever known. His teachings have lasted for more than 2000 years and the m...
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Punched Card Machines John W Mauchley
1,250 wordsThe History of Computers Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the United States. This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years has the computer changed American...
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West Mexican Cultures 2000 Years Ago Shamanism
1,602 wordsThe Siberian shaman's soul is said to be able to leave the body and travel to other parts of the cosmos, particularly to an upper world in the sky and a lower world underground. How can anyone know what the people of Mesoamerica were seeing if they in fact were even in these states of trance. A broader definition is that shamans would include any kind of person who is in control of his or her state of trance, even if this does not involve a soul journey. This broader definition stills does not i...
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2000 Years Ago Men And Women
1,419 wordsLiterary theory and the Bible using feminist theory. The bible speaks about women not what most of them (especially the feminists) nowadays want to hear. The bible openly shows that women are somewhat inferior to men and are supposed to assume subservient position, which nowadays raises many questions and debates. In the following essay I am going to speak about what the bible said about women. I will try to use the direct quotes and examples from the bible to corroborate any thoughts about what...
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Don T Make 2000 Years Ago
2,364 wordsIn this essay, I am to define the meaning of discipleship, for the first disciples and for Christians today. The word disciple means to learn, but there are many differences between disciples today, and disciples 2000 years ago, in the midst of a hostile Roman Empire. The very first disciples of the resurrection were the holy women, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome. If Christianity is defined as the belief that Jesus died, and was resurrected, and then to me, these women were...
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Forces Of Nature Dark Ages
4,449 wordsThe education of the Greeks exhibits a progressive development. The ideal of Athenian education was the completely developed man. Beauty of mind and body, the cultivation of every inborn faculty and energy, harmony between thought and life, decorum, temperance, and regularity such were the results aimed at in the home and in the school, in social intercourse, and in civic relations. We are lovers of the beautiful, said Pericles, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of...
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2000 Years Ago Oedipus The King
901 wordsOedipus the King, written by Sophocles around 430 BC, is one of, if not the most, important and influential tragedy ever written. It became the base for most of the tragedies written since. In spite of the fact that some of the story line may seem a little out of place now, parallels can be very easily drawn with the present time. Even though it was written over 2000 years ago, Oedipus the King is still fitting and applicable in todays society. In ancient Greece, the people believed that the god...
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Ibm Compatible Vacuum Tubes
2,132 wordsWhether you know it or not you depend on computers for almost every thing you do in modern day life. From the second you get up in the morning to the second you go to sleep computer are tied into what you do and use in some way. It is tied in to you life in the most obvious and obscure ways. Take for example you wake up in the morning usually to a digital alarm clock. You start you car it uses computers the second you turn the key (General Motors is the largest buyers of computer components in t...
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