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- 7281: Isaac Newton
- ... waves. This notion led to years of clashes with Robert Hooke, a fellow member of the Royal Society, who believed that light was a wave and not particles. In 1704, a year after Hooke’s death, Newton published Opticks, a book explaining his theories of light and color (Ipsen, 28). As a result his theories about light particle and the scientific method he used to prove them were universally accepted. Although ...
- 7282: Is Chivalry Alive Today
- ... that chivalry is in our world today I would answer yes and no. I believe that it is still around but it is not very strong. I believe that chivalry is dieing a very slow death. It seems like the world is losing all of its morals. It’s like whatever amount of chivalry is left is decaying. Breaking the law of chivalry seems to be spreading faster than a malignant ...
- 7283: Origins Of Buddhism
- ... elevated position in society he was forced to live a life of seclusion. When he was twenty-nine years old, he ventured out into the world and was confronted with the reality of suffering and death in the world. The next day he left his wife and son to search for a way to put an end to human suffering. After six years of living ascetically, he realized that the path ...
- 7284: Open Arms
- ... only kept her figures fresh and free, but has given them an unexpected hold upon our laughter and tears. There is the famous Mrs Poyser. It would have been easy to work her idiosyncrasies to death, and, as it is, perhaps George Eliot gets her laugh in the same place a little too often. But memory, after the book is shut, brings out, as sometimes in real life, the details and ...
- 7285: Edison
- ... a way to produce the energy needed to power the light bulb. (Cousins 111) Even in his old age, Edison still worked hard and tried to continue inventing. Up to a couple years before his death when he became very ill, he was experimenting with a way to grow a plant that would produce rubber in the U.S. so that rubber would be cheaper than importing it. His perseverance even ...
- 7286: Eastern Philosophy
- ... mysticism was carried still further by Chuang-tzu, a Taoist philosopher of the late 4th century BC, who taught that through mystical union with the Tao the individual could transcend nature and even life and death.
- 7287: Report On Historical Fiction B
- ... this book "a real page turner. The whole subject of the story seems important to me, in that life is valuable but when someone/something is so totally evil that it must be cleansed by death, and the author was never boring in expressing the idea. I personally liked the entire book and look forward to reading the sequels again.
- 7288: Jack London(biography)
- ... the United States today than in his home country. He remains a key figure for examining the contradictions in the American character, and key movements and ideas prominent during the Progressive era. Following London's death, for a number of reasons a biographical myth developed in which he has been portrayed as an alcoholic womanizer who committed suicide. Recent scholarship based upon firsthand documents challenges this caricature. But its persistence has ...
- 7289: Hitler - The Life Story
- ... opposition to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry." The only people which would be spared where the Scandinavians to the north, since they were closely related to the German race. With Hitler's death the Nazi party quickly fated. But there is still a lot of tension in todays Germany. Adolf Hitler is a animal in his own rights.
- 7290: Louis Sullivan An American Arc
- ... until 1909. Infact, Elmslie had an influential hand in Sullivan’s work during the last years of the operation. After the turn of the century however, Sullivan became destitute with few commissions. Prior to his death in 1924, he wrote A System of Architectural Ornament. In the book, he illustrates “natural world” theme apparent in his work. In a relatively short amount of time, Sullivan achieved many strides in American architecture ...
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