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Ford Motor Company Henry Ford
1,265 words... needed. When Henry Ford came out with this idea of using mass-production, he had many quotes like; "Good work is hard unless you have good tools and clean surroundings. Employees and employers ought to be treated by the same standard. Are they indifferent?" Or, "Old production methods say that machines must aid man. Our idea is that man should aid the machine. " He also said this, "Hard labor is for machines, not people. " (The Story of Henry Ford). A few months after this assembly line was ...
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Theory Of Evolution Origin Of Species
1,928 wordsCharles Robert Darwin is considered by many to be the father of modern biology. He introduced the theory of evolution and natural selection to a time in which science was based of the words on the Bible. He revolutionized the way life science was studied. Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. He was the fifth child of Dr. Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood Darwin. As a young child, he developed an interest in hunting and collecting rocks and insects. At the...
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King Of Athens Returned To Athens Theseus
736 wordsGOT Theseus Theseus GOT A B+ (89 %) In Greek mythology, Theseus can truely be thought of as the greatest Athenian hero. He was the son of Aegeus, king of Athens, and Aethra, princess of Troezen, and daughter of Pittheus, king of Troezen. Before Theseus was born his father Aegeus left Aethra in Troezen of Argolis and returned to Athens before he was born. But before he left king Aegeus put his sword and his pair of sandals under a large rock and said to Aethra that when Theseus was old enough to ...
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20 Th 1506 Died In Valladolid Columbus
762 wordsChristopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy on August 25 th 1451, and he died in Valladolid Spain on May 20 th 1506. His life is filled with mystery and controversy. Even though there has been controversy about his birth date and this birthplace, the historians have narrowed it down to this date and place. His childhood is another mystery. It is said that Columbus was the oldest of five children to poor wool weavers. His son has stated that Columbus had attended the University of Pavia; Columb...
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Indians Were Killed Body Was Immune Columbus
921 wordsChristopher Columbus is a very important person in our countrys history. He found the new world, the one we live in today. He started the society that makes us who we are today, the society that allowed our ancestors to come to America and start the life that we live now. This whole world owes their lives to this man and his soldiers. Columbus should always be remembered as a very important and especially good person in history. Columbus made an especially daring trip when he set sail for the In...
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Espa Ola Santo Domingo
511 wordsColumbus, Christopher (1451 - 1506), Italian-Spanish navigator, who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but landed on islands in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. In the mid- 1470 s he made his first trading voyage in the Aegean Sea. Believing that the earth was smaller than was previously thought and that it was composed mostly of land, Columbus eventually decided that Asia could be reached quickly by sailing west. His request to the king of Po...
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Don T Make Nuclear Testing
1,229 wordsGreenpeace History The year 1996 is a year of celebration for greenpeace. They are celebrating their 25 th year anniversary. Everything state in 1969; Members were part of the? ? Don? t make a wave? ? committee in vancouver. This committee was founded by Jim Bohlen. He was a forty-three year old American and was a composite-materials researcher. Another founder of the committee was Irving Stowe; he was a Philadelphia lawyer. A jew who had joined the Quaker religion. Paul Cote, a canadian lawyer ...
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Man And The Sea Hemingway Code
837 wordsThe Old Man and The Sea: Analysis of Santiago Ross Mueller Mr. Harocopos AP. English 11 29 September 1996 Ernest Hemingway had a specific type of character in each and every one of his works of literature. These characters were called the Hemingway Code Heroes. Hemingway Code Heros followed a strict code of behaviors which allowed them to live their life to the fullest. These Heros lived simple lives without all the luxuries that others had. They concentrate on the problem at hand and do not get...
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Back To Africa Black Slave
769 wordsDenmark, Very, Revolt 1. Question: How to Denmark come to this country and why was he free? Denmark came from Africa and was a slave on a ship. He played a role as a cabin boy and soon became a rower. After that he won a lottery of $ 1500 in the town of Charleston. What he did with his money was ask his master if he could buy his freedom. His master soon said what do you think you are worth? Denmark replied, I dont know, that is your decision. His master said that he could buy his freedom for th...
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Athena Tells Fathers Condition Telemachos
848 wordsBecoming a man. The goal attempted by all young boys, but achieved by few. Around the age of fifteen the dream of going on some adventure and risking death to prove bravery is envisioned in our heads and we go crazy. We scan every moment of our teenage lives for a chance at manhood and in some form or other we all get one. Usually it isnt an extravagant adventure as wed like, but some menial task we have to settle for. For Telemachos, on the other hand, its the quest of a lifetime. To sail off i...
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Huck And Jim Runaway Slave
729 wordsThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is a story of a youngman who finds himself in many unpredictable situations. In the novel, Huck is constantly changing his setting. Either he is on the land, at the shore of the mightily Mississippi river, or upon a small raft slowly floating downstream. Since Huck lives on both the shore and the river, the reader of the novel is able to compare the differences between them. To Huck the river has sense of freedom. Compared to life on the shore, ...
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Live A Life Homer
722 wordsConformity and Rebellion The poem I chose to write about is? Ulysses? , by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is a poem based on Homer? s Odyssey, which is the story of Odysseus (Ulysses) and his journeys. Odysseus was King of Ithaca and leader of the Greek army. The Greeks sailed into Troy to fight what turned out to be a lengthy battle. After ten years at war, Odysseus and the Greek army conquered Troy and set out on their voyage home. On their journey they encountered a series of adventures. I plan to ...
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Sir Francis Drake Queen Elizabeth
796 wordsAuthor John Guy Drake, a 16 th Century Explorer Ticktock Publishing- 1997 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE Sir Francis Drake is known for England's defeat of the Spanish Armada. He was a sea dog and he sailed around the world. Drake was actually the first one to sail around the world since Magellan died in his journey. Drake was a sea dog during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the first. And as everyone knows this is a good time to be a sea dog because the queen highly supported them. She gave him money and ships...
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Caboto Returned Set Sail North
777 wordsGiovanni Caboto, or John Cabot as he is known in English, was born most likely around 1451 in Genoa, Italy. In 1461 he relocated to Venice and eventually became a Venetian citizen on March 28, 1476 after fulfilling the fifteen year residency requirement. As an employee of a mercantile firm, Caboto frequently traveled to the shores of the Mediterranean and Mecca which was a great trading post at the time. As an experienced seamen, Caboto envisioned a great voyage of discovery for himself. In 1484...
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H M S Center Stage
551 wordsH. M. S. Pinafore was written by W S Gilbert and Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan in 1878. Showing at the Skylight Opera House between May 12 -June 4, 2000. Two things were beautifully done in this production of H. M. S. Pinafore set design by Dennis H. Buehler and stage direction by William Theisen. The multi-decked set was made from wood and brass, which gave it the perfect feel of an old ship, but of course with a little class. It just had a feeling of realness to it. There were ropes that were pe...
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Voyage To India Prince Henry The Navigator First
490 wordsIndian History began in the late 14 th century when everyone was trying to invade India. When asked which nation contributed the most to sea exploration in the fifteenth century, the obvious answer is Spain. What if there were another nation, a nation whose contributions were far more than landing one continent? What if there was a nation that in only 100 years managed to sail in every ocean, every major sea, touched every continent except Antarctica and possibly Australia, and were the first Eu...
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Mans Subordination To Nature Subordination To Nature Turner
634 wordsDescribe the term Sublime, Illustrating your definition through reference to the work of Two of these artists; Turner, Martin, de Loutherbourg, Danby, Ward. The Sublime is a term that has had several meanings over a period of time. The earlier usage would have been to describe very emotional scenes, depicting romance, love and glory. Later Sublime was used to mean deep thought provoking paintings of power, mans subordination to the powers of nature and dark emotions. This later meaning of the wo...
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Henry Vii King Henry
491 wordsJohn Cabot, an Italian mariner, was born in Genoa, Italy around the year 1450. He worked as a trader in what is now called the Middle East. He moved to England in 1484 with his three sons, Ludovico, Sebastian, and Santa and gained experience as a seaman. On his commercial journeys, which took him to the shores of Arabia, he heard of the countries rich in spices that lay to the Far East and wanted to find a better route to the Orient. John Cabot set out to get patents from the monarchs of Spain a...
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Group Of People Viking Culture Vikings
762 wordsOne of Vikings 2 Vikings One of the most interesting and misconceived groups of all time were the Vikings. The Vikings were the most feared of all the barbaric invaders. The people who originated from Scandinavia, which in today s world are the countries of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden were called Norsemen. The Norsemen who took part in raids along the coast of Europe were called Vikings. These men were some of the great sea traders and warriors of all time. The word Viking originated from the No...
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Life Experiences First Night
1,861 wordsPoems Poems Confessions in Rhyme Poems By: Ifayemi Willson L. A. # 201 October 27, 199 Colors Charlotte mixing in with the sailors, is like a drop of gold paint in a bucket of gray paint. Under all the pressure she must feel faint. No other drops of gold paint to accompany her. Only a fraud. Gold on the outside, but hateful clear on the inside. A fraud, trying to be a good captain, but less than the sailors. Since the golden drop of paint is all alone, it blends in with the gray. This relates to...
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