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- 14141: Archimedes
- ... Archimedes'? most famous story is attributed to a Roman architect under Emperor Augustus, named Vitruvius. Vitruvius asked Archimedes to devise some way to test the weight of a gold wreath. Archimedes was unsuccessful until one day as he entered a full bath, he noticed that the deeper he submerged into the tub, the more water flowed out of the tub. This made him realize that the amount of water that flowed ...
- 14142: Ulysses S. Grant
- ... Fifteenth Amendment. (Scaturro 4) On March 30, Grant ratified the Fifteenth Amendment which states that no citizen can be denied the right to vote based upon race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The next day he signed the first Enforcement Act, which protected the voting rights of blacks. Grant also worked to bring the North and South closer together by pardoning many former Confederate leaders and limiting the use of ...
- 14143: Andrew Jackson
- ... men. He wanted to have loyal and trustworthy men that he could depend on to help him while in office. Such men as Martin Van Buren, Senator Eaton, John Branch, John M. Berrien and Samuel D. Ingham were all men appointed cleverly by Jackson that did their job superbly under him. In foreign affairs, Jackson scored two diplomatic triumphs, one with Great Britain and one with France. These triumphs ended the ...
- 14144: Naturalism In To Build A Fire
- ... his body from all sides."(1754) The man's unfortunate mistakes cost him his life and nature felt no sympathy for him. He was just another man who failed to defeat nature for one more day. If the man had brought along a companion for the journey like the old man in the town had suggested he would still be alive. However, his stubbornness would not submit to that. "The old ...
- 14145: Oedipus Rex 2
- ... Oedipus the King will become Oedipus the Beggar. Sophocles was a pioneer in his field. The plays that he penned, that survived through the eons are revered as much now as they were during his day. He often wrote scripts for events in mythology that had already occurred and were common knowledge to the populace that viewed his productions. In order to keep these audiences returning for more, Sophocles made liberal ...
- 14146: David Hume's An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- ... of the future based on past occurrences. As humans, we tend to use the principle of induction to predict what will occur in the future. Out of habit, we assume that sun will rise every day, like it has done in the past, but we have no basis of actual truth to make this justification. By claiming that the sun will rise tomorrow according to Hume is not false, nor is ...
- 14147: Oedipus Rexs Tereisias Brings
- ... do not even know the blind wrongs that you have done them, on earth and in the world below. But the double lash of your parents curse will whip you out of this land some day, with only night upon your precious eyes. Your cries then where will they not be heard? Sophocles, 403-410This passage foreshadows the destruction and misery that will be a part of Oedipus life soon. Teiresias ...
- 14148: The Internet
- ... being revised to compensate for more updated information and interests. This growth of information will soon become a world library of topics on anything that one can imagine. A person using the Internet for one day encounters more information than a person reading in the library for a whole year. It is the convenience of the Internet that allows a person to go through an enormous amoung of information in a ...
- 14149: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
- ... slip back I it and fell safe. That s what McMurphy can t understand, us wanting to be safe. He keeps trying to drag us out of the fog, out in the open where we d be easy to get. Chief Bromden commenting on the fog. This quote illustrates the fog, which symbolizes confusion and naivete of the patients. Ignorance is bliss to these people and it s hard for McMurphy ...
- 14150: Winning for Zorich
- ... kids in the neighborhood. She would read to him and help with his homework and make sure his hand-me-down clothes were clean. chris's stuttering problem tortured him in school. In class one day he had to read an essay he wrote in front of the class. When he started to stutter he heard the kids starting to laugh he stopped half way through and sat down at his ...
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