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- 7661: Ancient Civilizations
- ... sustaining the universe. The Mayas also practiced advanced irrigation methods, they also focused on astronomy, mathematics, and elaborated on their script. The Maya script was written in hieroglyphs, which is one of the five basic writing systems ever developed. This script was made up of phonetic symbols, standing for units of sound, and ideographs, standing for words. According to Dr. Freidel, Although the stone writings discuss only royalty, evidence indicates a ...
- 7662: Alcoholism 2
- ... high tolerance to alcohol, consuming more and showing less adverse effects than others. Subsequently, however, the person begins to drink against his or her own best interests, as alcohol comes to assume more importance than personal relationships, work, reputation, or even physical health. The person commonly loses control over drinking and is increasingly unable to predict how much alcohol will be consumed on a given occasion or, if the person is ...
- 7663: American Indian Stories
- ... a wee girl nor a tall one; neither a wild Indian nor a tame one. This deporable situation was the effect of my brief course in the East (69) In a sense, she created a personal culture including both her Indian heritage and also that of the white man. Judging from the great deal of anguish and frustration Zitkala-sa encountered, it appears that the work of the Quakers was in ...
- 7664: American Exceptionalism; The P
- ... people. Also, by repressing, the government protects itself from the people collecting and become politically active. "By raising the costs of political action to individuals - in money, physical pain, imprisonment, or the destruction of their personal lives - repression makes it less likely that individuals will be willing to engage in collective political activity at all." This is especially important in understanding repression. Although repression protects the nation from unruly masses, it ...
- 7665: Charles Darwin And Richard Owen
- ... importance. (Rupke 239) In this quote, Owen is referring to the topic of spontaneous generation, a topic in which Darwin himself, wasn't quite able to account for. One of the reason that Owen maybe writing in the plural form (the use of we) was due to the knowledge that, if anyone were to criticize the above, the blame would not be shifted upon him directly. Thus, the probability of Owen ...
- 7666: Absolutism And Peter The Great
- ... coups d'etat, constant threats of violence against his family, seven years of semi-exile, his first military campaigns, an unprecedented journey to western Europe and a major revolt against his rule. From these bitter personal experiences, these painful political struggles, and these tentative approaches to war and government, Peter slowly learned the strengths and weaknesses of his heritage." As stated by V. O. Kliuchevsky, Peter's "contradiction in work, his ...
- 7667: Immigraton Laws
- ... Laws of 1885, 1887, 1888, and 1891 prohibited the immigration to the U.S. of persons entering the country to work under contracts made before their arrival; professional actors, artists, singers, lecturers, educators, ministers, and personal and domestic servants were exempt from this provision.(Immigration) Immigrant skilled laborers, under these laws, were permitted to enter the U.S. to work in new industries. A diplomatic agreement made in 1907 by the ...
- 7668: A Social History Of Truth
- ... in countries abroad. He preferred to have direct testimony, multiple testimonies and knowledgeable testimony. He relied heavily upon traveler s texts. Especially that of Captain Thomas James (1633) Stranger and Dangerous Voyage and the direct writing of letter from Samuel Collins a physician in Russia. James and Collins had recognizable signs of credibility in which Boyle did not doubt.In his study about icebergs, Boyle found inconsistency in the testimonies of ...
- 7669: A Fatal Mistake The Vietnam Wa
- ... the U.S. would end up doing much more than just advising. The Vietnam War was supposed to be a demonstration of how willing the U.S. was to battle communism, but ended up a personal vendetta against the North Vietnamese as the U.S. escalated its commitment in Vietnam infinitely greater than it had ever intended. After World War II, France returned to Vietnam to reclaim their Indochinese colonies after ...
- 7670: A Dolls House-victorian Morals
- ... values. Maybe Ibsen feels Nora s freedom and independence, symbolism of gender equality and feminism, will bring about gender equality in the Victorian or post-Victorian Era. Maybe he sees himself as a Nora Helmer, writing agnostic books in order to promote change. On the other hand, maybe he feels that women have been pushed too far. Nora herself says it is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done ...
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