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- 1411: Ben Franklin
- ... design of the stove. This meant that he could earn money for every Franklin stove made. He refused saying that he was glad to be able to serve others.” (Parker 13) This was a truly great inventions for the people of that time and the present. During that time, wood burning was everyone’s source of heat, now there are many sources of heat. People still burn wood and it is ... probably the cheapest way to heat a house. Many people also use it as their primary source of heat or just as back up heat just in case something happens. Ben Franklin next invention was great for the people with a vision impairment. They were the bifocals. They are a pair of glasses which have one lens separated into two halves. “ One had a convex lens for reading and close work ... pair for when he was walking about (Cousins 95). Many people loved this because they did not always have to carry around two pairs of glasses everywhere they went. The invention of bifocals was a great idea that the people of the future liked and use a lot. When it comes to electricity, Ben Franklin is the first thing that pops up in most people’s head. Ben didn’t ...
- 1412: Religion: Jerusalem
- ... Jews as their holiest city. In 586 B.C.E., the Babylonian, Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and exiled the Jews to Babylonia. Fifty years later in 537 B.C.E., Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered Babylonia and permitted the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their Temple. ( Safdie, 1990, p.107) Jerusalem is the holiest city for Jews because their Temple, their place of worship was ... Temple in Jerusalem they obviously had a religious attachment to this city and that is why today it remains a holy pilgrimage for Jews. Persia held Jerusalem until 333 B.C.E., when Alexander the Great added Palestine to his empire. About 198 B.C.E, king Antiochus III conquered Judea of which Jerusalem was a part, making it a tributary to Syria. The Jews later revolted under the leadership of ... C.E., and the Maccabean dynasty ruled until Rome took the city in 63 B.C.E. The Romans set up a local dynasty, the house of Herod, to rule most of Palestine. Herod the Great rebuilt much of Jerusalem, including the Temple. While suppressing a major Jewish revolt, the Romans destroyed the second Temple in 70 C.E. In 135 C.E., after the failure of the Bar Kochba ...
- 1413: George Bizek
- ... father was a singing teacher and his mother was a well-known pianist who had attended the Paris Conservatory. His parents encouraged him in music. His father was confident that his son would become a great musician. His father was actually too supportive of his musical education. He had been known to hide young Georges' other school books so he would not be distracted from his musical studies. He received his ... at a small Paris theater. Ten days after his arrival in Rome Bizet was asked to play at one of the Villa Medici's Sunday evening dinners. Of his experience Bizet said, “I had a great success, it was the first time since M. Schnetz has been director that a musician has been heard and applauded at the Academie. It is fair to say that there are no pianists in Italy, and if you can play your scales with both hands you are regarded as a great artist.” This is a great example of Bizet's modesty. Bizet had very positive things to say about his stay in Rome. He loved the Academie and learned to love Italy and its people. ...
- 1414: The Life of Harry Houdini
- ... spellings of names as people adjusted to English. At the age of 12, young Ehrich left home to make his way in the world in an attempt to help support his family. This was a great sign of independence. This is contrary to those who incorrectly claim he was overly obsessed with his mother. However he did love her very much. Houdini moves to New York City at the age of ... in a garment center sweatshop, Richter & Sons, a tie factory to help support his family. He was very athletic and won awards in swimming and track. He would use these athletic and swimming talents to great use in his future as an escape artist. Houdini began performing magic as a teenager first calling himself Eric the Great. Always a reader, two books would change his life. He read, as a teenager in New York, "Revelations of a Spirit Medium" by A. Medium, which exposed the tricks of phony psychics, who after ...
- 1415: Study of Environmental Issues Associated with Industrialization
- ... our well being as well as the beauty and comfort of our own home, earth. Ozone depletion, climate change as well as the direct effects of chemicals from industrial emissions and fuel combustion are a great threat to our planet and if nothing is done to resolve this problem soon, the results may be disastrous. There is a layer of chemicals twenty kilometers up in the stratosphere called the ozone layer ... chemical clouds in the upper stratosphere called polar stratospheric clouds. These polar stratospheric clouds destroy the ozone layer at a much faster pace then the industrial halocarbons. The depletion of the ozone layer is a great threat to mankind and all other living things on earth because without this layer of chemicals, we will be exposed to excess UV rays. This excess exposure can lead to many things such as malignant ... several years ago. An industrial company near the river had spilled sixty different chemicals mixed together into the river. This accident had sterilized the river and had effected much of the agriculture around it. The Great Lakes is another example of the direct effect of chemicals on living things. There are chemicals in our body today that there not present back in the early 90's, the polluted Great Lakes ...
- 1416: Stephon Marbury
- ... arm. He said: "A panther is quick and smart and always alert to everything. He's sitting on top of a mountain...That's where I want to see myself" (Wolff, 62). Mr. Marbury had great pressures exerted on him to put up big numbers. He was frustrated that very few people could comprehend how much pressure was exerted on him to do this. Mr. Marbury even had international recognition by ... and to make big plays. Mr. Marbury was known as the "go to" guy on the team. The coach expected him to be on top of everything all of the time. There was also a great amount of pressure exerted on him from the fans and the media. Also, he knew that if he failed to make it to the National Basketball Association, he would be ridiculed in Brooklyn. New York ... struggling St. John's guard Felipe Lopez, who sat for Richard Avedon's camera while still in high school, only to turn their backs on both when they turned out to be anything short of great. This fear of being ridiculed back at home frightened him. Stephon Marbury had always dreamed of going to the professionals. He had mentioned it to the press many times and was not fibbing about ...
- 1417: An Examination of Similes in the Iliad - and how Homer's Use of Them Affected the Story
- An Examination of Similes in the Iliad - and how Homer's Use of Them Affected the Story In the Iliad, Homer finds a great tool in the simile. Just by opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the ... his personal views, as happens with modern day political "spin". These views that Homer might be trying to get across might be trying to favor Troy. It could easily be imagined that throughout time, only great things were heard about the Greeks mettle in war, and that Homer is attempting to balance the scales a bit by romanticizing the Trojan peoples, especially Hector, and bringing to light the lesser-heard tales ... also feel pity for them? This is a wonderful simile that brings home the nervous twitchiness that would denote a person scared to death in such a situation. Later in Book Five there is a great dichotomy of similes. First, Hera comes down "flying like turtledoves in eagerness to help the Argives." followed by a scene surrounding Diomedes where his men are "fighting like lions or wild boars." Both of ...
- 1418: Bacon’s Rebellion
- ... who are impoverished and are in a terrible situation in one way or other contributed to the producing of. Then the merchants are able to sell it for a higher price in England making a great profit for them and as a result impoverishing these people even more. Gutman’s excerpt discuss many issues that were raised as a result of Bacon’s rebellion. Firstly, the fear of leveling. For leveling ... This was due to the primogeniture- the law which said that eldest son inherited his father whole territory or estate, leaving the second son with nothing so they flocked to Virginia with desires to get great lands. Since all these second sons of rich men had nothing in England except for his money which is used to buy fields or plantations in the colony with hopes of gaining profit. Due to ... result of peace Berkeley and his men have their land and wealth. So in this situation everyone should be happy however since more people are coming to the colony and the demand for land is great Frontiersman were forced to push this boundary and get more land westward. Due to this necessity to quench this land hunger the frontiersman had to take away even more land from the Indians and ...
- 1419: Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
- ... Mr. Maury a correct classical scholar, with whom I continued two years, and then went to Wm. and Mary college, to wit in the spring of 1760, where I continued 2. years. It was my great good fortune, and what probably fixed the destinies of my life that Dr. Wm. Small of Scotland was then professor of Mathematics, a man profound in most of the useful branches of science, with a ... 1772 I was married to Martha Skelton widow of Bathurst Skelton, & daughter of John Wayles, then 23. years old. Mr. Wayles was a lawyer of much practice, to which he was introduced more by his great industry, punctuality & practical readiness, than to eminence in the science of his profession. He was a most agreeable companion, full of pleasantry & good humor, and welcomed in every society. He acquired a handsome fortune, died ... of law in Wmsbg. I attended the debate however at the door of the lobby of the H. of Burgesses, & heard the splendid display of Mr. Henry's talents as a popular orator. They were great indeed; such as I have never heard from any other man. He appeared to me to speak as Homer wrote. Mr. Johnson, a lawyer & member from the Northern Neck, seconded the resolns, & by him ...
- 1420: Old Man And The Sea
- ... somewhere’" (32). Santiago must be convinced that he still has it in him to make the catch that he is waiting for, as Young clarifies: "[Manolin tells Santiago], ‘There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you.’...[Santiago] musters his confidence: ‘I may not be as strong as I think... But I know many tricks and I have resolution’. Santiago needs these things, for he is ... fish, and his suffering. His life of illusion has finally led him to the passage, the journey into enlightenment. The Journey is a necessary part of life, before one can reach full potential. It entails great suffering and pain, but will lead to true happiness. Santiago experiences symptoms of pain, suffering, confusion and deeper thought in his struggle with the fish, and with himself. Santiago first begins to experience delusions, talking ... the fish. He begins to think of things he may never have pondered before, feeling sorry for the fish that he has caught, realizing the greatness of such a creature: "... he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange..." (46). Santiago seems to develop an appreciation for nature, and for the universe of which he is a crucial element. Later into his struggle ...
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