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- 3461: Canada 2
- ... foot on Canadian soil. He marked his presence with a flag claiming it his land. Over the years, Canada has developed into the home of the largest free-standing structure in the world. Canada,(a great tourist attraction)is also home of the largest water fall in the world. Our farmland unlike a lot of others has a variety of climate. The warmer summer climate ranges from +10 - +30 and the ... who's is? Canada is highly industrialised by manufacturing Automobiles, food, liquor and tobacco. We as a Unified country accept other cultures and religions. Canada has about every nationality possible and together they form a great home. Despite the many cultures, Canada's main languages are english and french. Canada is a democracy. This means the government is elected by all the people. It is responsible for managing the country, forcing ... the Governor General is in charge. He ranks higher than the Prime Minister. In conclusion, I hope I have raised your awareness of Canada's varied history, geography, economy, climate, cultures and government. This is great country that we live in. I am truly proud to be a Canadian. Extras Canada in it's history to date has had five flags. "The First, was a white flag with three gold ...
- 3462: Florence Nightingale 2
- ... of the time. Florence was very pretty like her mother. She had a very vivid and active imagination. She would day dream all of the time. She imagined herself as a monster and as a great heroine. Flo and Pop were educated by their father. Their education was very thorough and classical. Florence was very smart, and was especially good at math. Besides the fact that she loved to daydream, Florence ... at home most of the time and worked there. She worked on writing. She was happy because she was surrounded by the things she loved: papers, notebooks, and many cats. Queen Victoria admired Florence a great deal. She supported Florence s push for improved medical care for the British soldiers. Because of this, a Royal Commission was started. Florence gave the commission a 1,000 page report. It was called Notes ... so good and clean today. She also worked to make nursing an important and well respected profession. Florence Nightingale changed the lives of those around her and those who heard about her. She was a great inspiration to others who wanted to make a difference in the world. One way that Florence Nightingale made hospitals like they are today is that she insisted that the wounded soldiers of the Crimean ...
- 3463: Fredrick Douglass 5
- Frederick Douglass the most successful abolitionist who changed America s views of slavery through his writings and actions. Frederick Douglass had many achievements throughout his life. His Life as a slave had a great impact on his writings. His great oratory skills left the largest impact on Civil War time period literature. All in all he was the best black speaker and writer ever. Douglass was born a slave in 1817, in Maryland. He educated ... writer and politician. These works do not stand alone, though. Frederick also was famous for his abolitionist speeches. He successfully published an abolitionist newsletter, the North Star. All of Douglass s achievements combines with his great literature to redefine the writings of the time. After reading any of his works, one might realize just how important Frederick Douglass was to the abolitionist movement. He changed many people s lives, and ...
- 3464: Contraception
- ... them, take them at different times everyday or use antibiotics while on the pill, then they are about ninety percent effective. Some women experience side effects, such as, painful breasts, weight gain, nausea, headaches, and depression, while others experience no side effects. There are different varieties of the Pill so a switch can be made if the user is having problems. One good note for women with painful periods is that ... effective if used consistently and correctly. There are almost no side effects or dangers and it offers some protection against the gonorrhea and trichomoniasis. It costs around $20 plus the clinic costs. Finally, Spermicides are great to use with a condom but they are not as safe when they are used alone. They increase your protection against gonorrhea and chlamydia. Spermicidal foams and suppositories seem to work better than creams or ...
- 3465: Helen Keller
- ... next few years. She talked to her about all the things that were happening around them. She spelt everything into her hand using complete sentences rather than single words. In this way Helen gained a great deal of information in the same way that a hearing child does. By doing this, Anne was equipping her pupil with the words and the ideas she would need when she was ready to talk ... success and earned her enough money to buy her own house. Helen was very religious and her faith led her to examine the world more and more carefully. She began to realise that there was great injustice in the world and that people were not treated equally. Blindness was often caused by disease which was itself often caused by pove 84f rty. She became a suffragette and a socialist, demanding equal ... International, is one of the biggest organisations working with blind people overseas. It is important to remember that without the help of others Helen Keller would never have succeeded as she did. She relied a great deal on Anne Sullivan, who accompanied her everywhere for almost fifty years. Without her faithful teacher Helen would probably have remained trapped within an isolated and confused world. Even so, there is no doubt ...
- 3466: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream for America
- ... used as a model for speech writers all over the U.S. Martin Luther King, Jr. begins his speech by discussing the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. He states, This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves . . . (King, 1996, p. 358). He is showing great moral character by doing this. However, King points out the Blacks are still not free. This country is still segregated and the Afro-Americans are being discriminated against. Rev. King is appealing to the people ... this speech Martin Luther King, Jr. uses many important writing techniques to introduce all the issues at hand. I found that he intermixed all three elements of ethos, pathos, and logos. This speech has had great importance over the years because of the strong values it instills on the people of our nation. He touched many lives and he gave the Black Americans faith and hope to help them through ...
- 3467: Chef
- ... She then explained to him that her name was Cartman, Mrs. Cartman. She had been forced into engagement with not only Mr. Garrison but Mr. Hat as well. The sorrow this caused her was too great, so she planned to end her life. The Chef then uttered back to her Woman that would be a crime to ugly up a fine body like yours, let me take your picture and send ... Giant squid come out of nowhere and takes Kenny! They all say Let s go back inside and have more Irish water the show is over Kenny is gone. The mighty Titanic heads toward the great big iceberg. Cartman, Stan, and Kyle say Oh my God.... We missed it!!! Yeah They all go to the dining hall and are going to have a snack they worked up an appetite pissing in ... Cartman then finds out there are no cheesy poofs and gets pissed and they all hell breaks loose, he starts jumping up and down causing bolts to loosen and the ship starts to crack! The great Titanic begins it tragic blunge into the sea. Everyone gets to the life boats but there are not enough but some how, the five of them float on Cartman to safety.
- 3468: Freud
- ... system. There are other psychologists, however, whose theories demand respectful consideration. Erik Erickson, born Eric Homburger, whose theories while not as titillating as Freud's, are just as sound. This paper will compare the two great men and their systems. In addition, this paper will argue that Freud offers the more useful foundation for understanding the Jenny Masterson's confused psyche. Sigmund Freud showed signs of independence and brilliance well before ... 1888 and 1939. Although his first book, The Interpretation of Dreams, sold only 600 copies in its first eight years of publication, his ideas gradually began to attract faithful followers and students - along with a great number of critics. While exploring the possible psychological roots of nervous disorders, Freud spent several months in Paris, studying with Jean Charcot, a French neurologist from whom he learned hypnosis. On return to Vienna, Freud ... student upset about a bad grade may snap at their roommate. 7. Sublimation is the transformation of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motivations. Sublimation is therefore socially adaptive and may even be a wellspring for great cultural and artistic achievements. Freud suggested the da Vinci's paintings of Madonnas were a sublimation of his longing for intimacy with his mother, from whom he was separated at a very young age. ...
- 3469: Fritz Haber
- ... capacity. Without his process, Germany would never have had a chance to win the war. Another contribution Haber made to Germany's war effort was in the development of chemical warfare. With strong purpose and great energy he became involved in the production of protective chemical devices for troops, but more infamously, directed the first gas attacks against enemy troops. Haber is often referred to as the father of modern chemical ... he was near nervous exhaustion. The Swedish Academy of Science had passed him over for a Nobel Prize for his ammonia synthesis discovery, but later decided to give him the award in 1918. Despite the great honor, his role in chemical warfare had left him isolated from the foreign scientific community. He strongly felt some responsibility for the enormous war debt of the German state and attempted to make a contribution ... wide activity, not necessarily a geo-political one. Bibliography "Editor's Outlook," Journal of Chemical Education, 1931, 84, pp. 1-3. Farber, Edward, Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry, Abelard-Schuman, New York, 1953. Farber, Edward, Great Chemists, Interscience Publishers, New York, 1961. Gillispie, Charles C., Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol.5, Scribner's, New York,1973. Goran, Morris, "The Present Day Significance of Fritz Haber," American Scientist, July 1947, pp. ...
- 3470: Igor Stravinsky
- ... is sarcasm. He shows a quote naming a conductor to be a "titan of the podium, and is such very nearly the worst obstacle to genuine music making." Furthermore, he names the conductors to be "great," and he discusses the "cult of the great conductor." These names, as opposed to his entire passage, are ironic. After spending an entire passage criticizing conductors and their so--called "greatness," praising them seems satiric. As we have seen from his language and ... people mistake the conductors gestures for the meaning of the music, and place more emphasis on the conductors looks rather than the way he makes music sound. This makes the people think the conductor is "great" while the conductor is actually unfit for his role. This is part of a human tendency to "judge a book by its cover," to formulate an opinion based on what something appears to be, ...
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