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- 2481: The Channeled Scablands Of Eas
- ... ever known. Geologist J. Harlen Bretz of the University of Chicago first named the Channeled Scablands in 1920. He was conducting a survey and a study of the land when he first thought up the great flood theory. He was ridiculed and laughed at when he first proposed the idea, but he stuck to his guns. He finally received support, and his theory still stands strong today. During the Tertiary period ... Colfax area at 200 feet. The Northern Hemisphere's Ice Age began more then 2 million years ago, but the Scablands history was not yet formed until 100,000 years ago. At this time the great continental glaciers began to make their march from British Columbia to what is now known as northern Washington, Idaho, and Montana. The ice sheet divided its self in to lobes along south-trending valleys including ... earth and rock immerged in the chris-crossing of the tributaries to form the Channeled Scablands. The largest Scablands are in the Grand Coulee system. There is somewhere between 25 and 40 "scars" from different great floods through out the northern Montana-Washington region. Canyon walls are a testament to the years of flooding with their layers of sediment and basalt cut away for us to see. The plunge pools ...
- 2482: Personal Writing: Museum of Tolerance
- Personal Writing: Museum of Tolerance On a Wednesday during Christmas Vacation, Coley Delaney, Danielle Miller, and I drove down to the Museum of Tolerance to remind ourselves of the great suffering that the Jews endured during the Holocaust. We met at Coley's house at around 11:15 a.m. and prepared ourselves for some things we have never seen before. On our way up ... to think about all of the other kinds of people that have been victims of prejudice, the Blacks, the Chinese, the Indians, and many more people. I found myself wondering how someone could believe the great lies that Hitler told his fellow Germans to get them to literally volunteer to kill innocent Jews. We then were told to pick up a card. The card had one of the Jew's faces ... them and their family. I got a young girl that was killed along with the rest of her family in the concentration camps. Going to the Museum really gave me a new perspective on the great and inconceivable prejudices that these people faced and the prejudices that we still are faced with today. I learned a valuable lesson: No matter what we do or how we try to stop it, ...
- 2483: The French Revolution
- ... life was the nobility. They enjoyed extensive rights and privileges. They made up less than 2 percent of the population. They, like the First Estate, paid hardly any taxes. Economically, the nobility was characterized by great land wealth. Nobles were generally the richest members of the society. Typical sources of income were rents and dues for the use of their farms or estates. The First and Second Estates were grouped together ... Versailles, many citizens feared that he wanted to get rid of the National Assembly. As a result, they stormed the Bastille. Other disturbances also broke out. People were caught up in what was called the "Great Fear". Rumors passed from village to village that robbers were destroying homes all over France. When no robbers showed up, the peasants turned to their landlords. They destroyed grain towers, and destroyed tax records, showing ... of his death spread all throughout Europe. Monarchs of European nations feared that the Revolution would spread. By 1793, the French armies occupied the Austrian Netherlands and were about to invade Prussia. But, in 1793, Great Britain, the Dutch Netherlands, and Spain went along with Prussia and Austria in a war against France. With these five powerful nations fighting against France, the French were outnumbered and outmatched. This one war ...
- 2484: The Idea of Humanism and the Renaissance
- ... was most noticeable in Italy (particularly in Florence), where the divisions consisted of the old rich, the new rich nobles, the middle class, and the lower middle class(The poor didn't count). This created great conflict between these social divisions. The new rich consisted of successful merchants, capitalists, and bankers innovators of new systems of making money. The Humanism philosophy was also a very popular with the people and many political leaders rose to high positions with support of these ideals. Three humanists even became chancellors of Florence -- they used their rhetorical skills to strongly rally the people of Florence against their enemies. The great changes in Education of the Renaissance were inspired at first, by the desire of Humanists to be wise and to speak eloquently. The idea of useful education for the people, and very "well rounded" schooling ... now able to appreciated arts beyond just religious themes. Artists could also now take advantage of new techniques, such as oil painting and linear perspective to enhance the quality of their works. All of the great artists of the time used became who they were solely because of this new artistic freedom that the Renaissance brought them. These artists also created works that were more complex than before. Taking advantage ...
- 2485: The Empire of Mali
- ... as the Atlantic Ocean. They also traveled as far east as Gao, the capital of the Songhai, as far south as the Niger bend, and as far north as the Sahara desert. They built a great empire between 1240 and 1337 that underwent a course of slow decline until the seventeenth century. History The empire of Mali originated from a small country known as Kangaba. Its people where known as the ... people placed a high standard on justice. People who lived in cities were probably scholars, merchants, or government officials. Those who did not were either miners or farmers. Conclusion During its peak, Mali was a great and powerful empire. It occupied a great deal of land. It had wealth, power, learning centers, and an organized government. It was a great empire that fell only due to bad ruling. Daniel Chu and Elliot Skinner A Glorious Age in ...
- 2486: Gandhi
- ... in someone like him who immersed himself in politics, and by this time he had earned from no less a person than Rabindranath Tagore, India's most well-known writer, the title of Mahatma, or 'Great Soul'. When 'disturbances' broke out in the Punjab, leading to the massacre of a large crowd of unarmed Indians at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar and other atrocities, Gandhi wrote the report of the Punjab ... by a large crowd at Chauri Chaura, a small market town in the United Provinces. Gandhi himself was arrested shortly thereafter, tried on charges of sedition, and sentenced to imprisonment for six years. At The Great Trial, as his biographers know it, Gandhi delivered a masterful indictment of British rule. Development of Gandhi's Thought and Practice Convinced that independence had no meaning without a moral and social transformation, Gandhi launched ... new forms of action to its repertoire, and developed what he called the “new science of non-violence” involving moral conversion of the opponent by a delicate “surgery of the soul”. His actions inspired the great poet Rabindranath Tagore to call him Mahatma (Sanskrit, “great soul”). While fighting simultaneously on the social, economic, religious, and political fronts, Gandhi carried on an even fiercer battle at the personal level. Determined to ...
- 2487: Taoism
- Taoism is one of the two great philosophical and religious traditions that originated in China. The other religion native to China is Confucianism. Both Taoism and Confucianism began at about the same time, around the sixth century B.C.E. China's third great religion, Buddhism, came to China from India around the second century of the common era. Together, these three faiths have shaped Chinese life and thought for nearly twenty-five hundred years. One dominate concept in ... process, the Taoist version of reincarnation, is repeated until tao is achieved. The following translation from The Tao Te King best summarizes the the theory behind tao and how a Taoist can achieve Tao. The Great Way is very smooth, but the people love the by-paths. . . The wearing of gay embroidered robes, the carrying of sharp swords, fastidiousness in food and drink, superabundance of property and wealth: - this I ...
- 2488: Talk Show Tension
- ... common events with no major emotional value as strong signs of his fiancée's cheating. As he thinks about these memories, his anger towards the situation will increase greatly. Jerry is able to cause a great increase in the anger felt by the guest by framing the question in a certain way. Besides Jerry's questions, though, many factors influence the emotional content of the show. When a guest enters the ... make matters worse, when the guests try to fight they are torn apart by security guards. Yet, they have enough time to activate a fight response; their sympathetic nervous system is aroused greatly, releasing a great deal of adrenaline causing an even greater increase in heart rate and breathing rate. This intensifies their emotions in multiple ways. First of all, the physiological state is further intensified, corresponding to even stronger emotions of anger. Yet, along with this, there seems to be a great deal of frustration evoked in the guest. Based on the frustration-aggression hypothesis, frustration causes aggression. In other words, failure to obtain something causes raised aggression. In the case of the guests, their failure ...
- 2489: Standardizing The Mind
- ... field other than Science? We don t think about things unless we get paid for it. Why is an artist not as important to us as a brain surgeon? I think both can show us great and interesting things, but for now I think that an artist can tell us more about human thought. From as early as grade school we are taught the Scientific Method , when maybe we should spend ... consider it a strong subject, but I know how hard it is to get rid of that feeling of inadequacy. The alternative is also true. Telling people they are good at a certain subject is great, but to make them focus on it if they really have no interest is stupid. Take for example children that we would consider gifted. What do we do with this type of child? Usually they ... our world a greater place. One I truly believe in is reviewing the consequences of the standards we set. Sometimes I feel like schools don t always offer enough freedom, while most colleges have a great number of different majors all students must still meet certain general education requirements and pass certain tests. Sometimes it seems like students are just jumping through hoops that someone else holds up for them. ...
- 2490: The Pyramids of Egypt
- The Pyramids of Egypt Imagine living in Ancient Egypt about 3,000 B.C. Imagine a society teeming with life and happiness. Imagine looking around and seeing beautiful buildings, fields of crops, and the great pyramids with their white limestone façade blazing in the sun of the midday. It would be quite the experience to have lived back then. The history of Egypt begins with the unification of Upper and ... apex of the Nile, where it fans out into the silt plain. This city was named "White walls" by the Egyptians but later called Memphis by the Greeks. It is here at Memphis that the great pyramids where built. The pyramids were built to house the dead pharaoh of that time. Death was seen by the Egyptians as just the beginning of a journey to the other world. In Egyptian society ... would go at will. It was found that the Egyptian people actually liked working on the pyramids. Many youths would travel down the Nile to work on the pyramids so that they could see the great city of Memphis. Furniture and riches not to mention body parts of the dead king were buried with him in the pyramid, so that in the afterlife the king would be able to have ...
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