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- 2601: Women's Roles in the Revolution
- ... make a living by themselves B. Army Camps 1. Women came to be with soldiers a. were fed by military b. were cared for by military 2. The women: a. cooked b. cleaned c. sewed d. served as nurses e. were not treated specially 1. marched with men 2. slept in the snow C. Women Soldiers, “Molly Pitchers” 1. reloaded muskets 2. carried pitchers of water a. when men fell in battle, women took over the guns b. played an important role 3. Marly Ludwig Hays McCauley a. original “Molly Pitcher” b. fought in the Battle of Manmouth, 1778 c. recieved D. Women Spies 1. Women act as spies a. Culper Ring 1. organized spy ring 2. Long Island 3. consequences if captured a. imprisoned b. hanged b. many organized spy rings 2. Secret messengers a. relied ... the war 1. Women continue to be interested in politics 2. Spoke of themselves as Republican Mothers 3. strengthening of a nation a. Marcy Otis Warren b. Abigail Adams c. John Adams and Benjamin Rush d. position of women II. Abigail Adams A. Childhood B. Marriage III. The Declaration of Sentiments A. Elizabeth Cady Stanton B. Lucretia Mott C. Seneca Falls Convention D. 1920: women recieve full citizenship When people ...
- 2602: Fire 2
- ... in Rome. The Mayas and Aztecs kept sacred fires burning on top of high pyramids or fire altars. The Iranian religion Zoroastrianism maintains a sacred fire that must be fed at least five times a day ([CD-ROM] 1996). The history of fire is the history of progress. As people have learned how to tame fire and make it their servant, they have been able to develop the forces of nature ... gets out to space. As they absorb long-wave energy from the surface, these gases heat up, making the air warmer. This is roughly the same thing that happens inside a greenhouse on a sunny day, and why it is called the greenhouse effect. As you might expect, the gases that do this are called greenhouse gases ([On-line], 1998). The atmosphere's main greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane ... than at any time in the 10,000 years that represent human history ([On-line], 1998). Climate is usually something humans take for granted. It changes far too slowly for us to notice on a day-to-day basis. But by looking at long-term climate records, and with new techniques for determining ancient climates from ice, sediments, and other natural deposits, we can see climates have changed dramatically in ...
- 2603: Brave New World
- ... the needs of the state. Individual expression is impossible because everyone is conditioned to think alike. Brave New World is a book about a future that seems more viable and less brave with each passing day as our values become more materialistic and as our faith in God dwindles slowly to be replaced by technology. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World to increase our awareness of this frightening future we seem ... religion in the early part of the century eliminated the prospect of a final judgment or some other kind of divine intervention in human existence as fears in the minds of many philosophers of the day. It was common belief in that day that if humans were to be saved, they must not look to unseen and imagined forces, they must look to themselves for guidance; and if not to themselves, but to exceptional members of society. ...
- 2604: Islam
- ... way of the angel Gabriel. The message Muhammad received told him that there was but one God, not many gods, as most Arabs believed. This God was creator of the world, and He would one day judge mankind. The word Islam means "surrender" or "submission," submission to the will of Allah, the one God. Muslims are those who have submitted themselves. The basic creed of Islam is brief: There is no ... and sustainer of the universe. This God, Allah, is compassionate and just. Because He is compassionate, He calls all people to believe in Him and worship Him. Because He is also just, on the Last Day He will judge every person according to his deeds. On the Last Day, all the dead will be resurrected and either rewarded with heaven or punished with hell. The life of each Muslim is always within the community of the faithful, all are declared to be "brothers ...
- 2605: Five Components Of My Humanness
- ... perform daily activities without being exhausted. My energy usually depends on the amount of sleep and food I get. If I have too much or too little sleep, I don't look forward to the day and am not enthusiastic about doing things. If I do not have a complete breakfast, it affects my energy level. When I have a good breakfast, and enough sleep, I can go through a whole day with enough energy and alertness to do many things. I have relatively good flexibility because I stretch a lot which increases the range of movement around my joints. I have muscular endurance which means that ... meet those demands to the best of my ability. I consider myself to be very emotional or sensitive to serious issues. I am usually stressed when I have more than one test on the same day. Exam time usually gets me stressed. During that time, I don't get enough sleep, and that causes me to become grumpy and miserable. During the times when my brother and sister were being ...
- 2606: Durga Puja
- ... gem of dew on the top of the grass and the pleasant fragrance of Sheeuli flower - this is how nature during the Autumn grooms up herself to welcome Goddess Durga. Generally this is a four day Puja (Worship), starting from the day of Bodhan on MahaShasthi and ending up with the immersion of the clay made Idols in the sacred river Ganga (the Ganges) on the evening of Dashami. Indian Mythology tells - long back, Mahishasura, the king ... However over the years, this Akal Bodhan has become the major festival of Bengal. Though the sojourn of the goddesss on earth is only of four days, but seven days before the puja, from the day of Mahalaya (October 12, 1996) starts Devipaksha; on this very day people prays for their 'passed away' relatives and take holy dip in the river Ganga - the act is called Tarpan. In Bengal, goddesss ...
- 2607: Macbeth - Symbolism And Imager
- ... of a sailor. Interestingly the witches do not say that they want to murder the sailor. Instead, they plan to destroy his sleep, "I will drain him dry as hay / Sleep shall neither night nor day / Hang upon his penthouse lid / He shall live a man forbid" (1.3.17-20). For the witches, the inability to sleep is symbolic of a tormented soul. The man who can not sleep lives in chaos, night is day and day is night. To the characters in "Macbeth" sleep is the, "chief nourisher in life's feast" (2.2.37) without it one becomes mad. Characters invoke the word sleep as a symbol of order. ...
- 2608: Mark Antony As A Developing Ch
- ... In Act 5 Antony expresses his feelings towards Brutus before they go into the battle that will decide who is the rightful ruler of Rome. Villains, you did not so, when your vile daggers Hack'd one another in the sides of Caesar: You show'd your teeth like apes, and fawn'd like hounds, And bow'd like bondmen, kissing Caesar's feet; Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind Struck Caesar on the neck. O you flatterers! Antony has become just as those he hates ...
- 2609: Rosa Parks
- ... fail in making any progress, it wasn’t until Dec. 1 of 1955 that Rosa made a decision that would later make her known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”. On this significant day Rosa simply refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man who was Mcclain 2 standing. Though it seems ridiculous today, she was arrested, jailed, and put to trial because of ... the Civil Rights Movement. In 1987 she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, which is committed to career training for young black Americans. It was a dream of hers to one day create an institute to help reduce the dropout rate of black youth. An excellent feature of this Institute is the annual summer program, Pathway to Freedom, for teenagers. The teenagers in the program trace the ... the views society held then would make almost anyone assume that such an action would be nothing more than a way to gratify oneself. Ironically, the end result of Rosa Park’s actions on that day did much more than bring her self satisfaction. Right away black leaders who had already discussed a boycott against the public bus system decided to put it into effect. An organization was formed to ...
- 2610: Fluorescence Study Of Dyes
- ... x10-5 mol dm -3 Here max was 500.5 nm at an absorbance of 2.0922 Summary of the results obtained. Dye max (nm) max (m2 mol-1) (m2 mol-1) ' (m2 mol-1) D (Coumarin) 376.5 1.82 x 109 --- 1.25 x 106 A (Fluorescein) 500.5 5.17 x 107 1.41 x 106 8 x 106 2.2. Fluorimetry a) Perylene standard /nm I Emission ... K being the Stern-Volmer quenching constant a) Experimental study To test the Stern-Volmer equation, as well as to prove the dipole-dipole transfer, we did fluorimetric measurements with mixtures of different concentrations of D and A. [D] [A] I m ratio 0.003 0 70.238 1.001188 0.9883 0.003 4.042E-04 49.052 1.002212 1.4288 0.003 8.084E-04 38.766 1.003237 1. ...
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