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- 17421: St. Gregory Of Tours
- ... born around the year 538 at Arverni, which is now Clermont-Ferrand. He belonged to the Gallo-Roman family, which was a very prestigious family. He was also related to the houses of Gaul. Gregory’s original name was Georgius Florentius. He took the name Gregory to honor his late grandfather who was named Gregory. His Grandfather was the Bishop of Langres. When Gregory was young, his father died and he went to live with his Uncle. His uncle, Gallus, was the Bishop of Clermont. Gallus educated him until his death in 554. Gregory’s mother left to live with friends in Burgandy and left her son to Avitus who became Bishop of Clermont after Gallus. Avitus taught Gregory all about the Scriptures. Gregory was not too impressed with the scriptures. Gregory got seriously ill and wasn’t supposed to recover. He did recover though and this made him more mindful of God and the scriptures. Gregory then became a friend with the Bishop of Tours whose name was Euphronius. Euphronius died ...
- 17422: World War 2
- ... by boats or watchtowers? I just found that it interesting how hundreds of planes traveling a few thousand miles could go unnoticed. I remember a clip of a movie I Once saw, but in don't remember the name. It was about the bombing of Pearl Harbor which showed a watch tower up in the mountains with military personnel keeping guard did not call in that there were hundreds of planes ... being detected? Could it have been any different if the US noticed at the first sight of the Japanese attack? The teaching style of this subject in this class was great, more to say it's incredible, and fascinating. Showing the class all the clips pictures, maps, and interviews with veterans who involved, whose are there during the WWII help student for the better understanding the subjects. Also showing the class ... a big help, writing down tall the new information, following all the phases from the starting point of the war to the end. Also, from the study guide it easy to follow and knowing what's going on even if I screw up during the lecture. Before I was scare when I hear anyone talked about history; as a matter of fact I even had a nightmare when I hear ...
- 17423: Cognitive Development in Children: Experiment
- ... is called to dinner. She (he) starts to go into the dining room, but behind the door there is a chair: On the chair is a tray with 15 cups on it. Susan (Jim) doesn't know that all of this is behind the door. She (he) pushes on the door, the door knocks against the tray, and bang, goes the 15 cups! They are all broken. B. A girl (boy) named Mary (Robert) wants to get some candies. But her (his) mother tells her (him) that she (he) can't have any more candies, and she (he) leaves. But Mary (Robert) wants a candy, so she (he) climbs up on a chair and reaches up to the shelf. But she (he) knocks over one cup ... must arrange a time to meet with the child in the his/her environment with no other children present in the room. Set a rapport with the child for a few minutes, if you don't know the child. When the child has settled down and there is no distractions proceed with the investigation. Tell the child that you will be reading a pair of stories about children. As you ...
- 17424: The Roots of Blues Music
- The Roots of Blues Music Blues is a very important type of music. Most music that you hear today has some form of blues in it. If it wasn't for the blues there wouldn't be any rock and roll, country, rap, pop, or jazz . Blues is also important for African American culture. African Americans were also the people who started the blues. The Blues started in the late 1800's in levee camps or plantations in places like Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were many African Americans lived. The blues of that time was called country blues. It was a mixture of African music, field ...
- 17425: Nuclear Fusion
- ... have grown used to it. I taught Einstein, Newton, and Ron Popeel (inventor of things like the pasto-matic, hair-in-a-can, and the pocket fisherman) everything they know. Besides, the two shmucks didn’t even follow my instructions for the experiment. However, until I reveal my secrets about cold fusion, it will remain only a proposed theory. nuclear fusion is also what powers the rest of the stars in ... would quickly be radiated away by impurities if the plasma touched a wall and began to vaporize it. A thermonuclear plasma is thus self-limiting, because any significant contact with the vessel housing causes it’s extinction within a few thousandths of a second. Therefore, plasma must be carefully housed and handled while it is occurring (For further information on plasma refer to the 2 essay in my series entitled "Why ... with plasma has not been to practical for me. Another approach to fusion pusued since about 1974, is termed inertial confinement. During my many patrols during the Viet..-NAM war, I further developed my theory’s and opinions regarding inertial confinement fusion. When I arrived home with a severely hyper-extended earlobe, I was in great pain and suffering, but I still managed to explain my findings to the scientific ...
- 17426: Circadian Rhythms: Experiment
- ... test to see if circadian rhythms differ from people who perceive themselves as night-time people and people who perceive themselves as morning people. What is your hypothesis? My hypothesis is that night-time people's circadian rhythms are extremely different than morning people's circadian rhythms. What population are you going to study? How will you sample this population? Participants for my experiment will be ninety-nine undergraduate female students from Iowa State University. Prior to the experiment all ... At the end of the three days they will come back to my laboratory. They will then be put in an isolation booths. In one of the booths there will be a clock that doesn't have the right time on it. In another one there will be a window so that they can see where the sun is. In the third one there will be no windows and no ...
- 17427: How To Buy A Computer
- ... as a home-based business system? The fact is, the average home user who needs a general purpose PC (personal computer) to surf the ¡¥Internet¡¦ and run gaming software differs little from the average worker¡¦s system in an office. The novice buyer will need to determine which applications and software they will need. They must also consider the overall operating speed and data storage capacity of the computer that will function the most efficient for their new computer system¡¦s intended use. Consumers contemplating the purchase of a computer should expect to pay between $1,200 - $2,200 for a new well-equipped system. Second, a person unfamiliar with computer configurations and terminology will have ... from a computer storeowner. They see you as a potential customer, and if the small business owner is satisfactory in helping you make an informed decision, you may represent future sales. Even if you don¡¦t purchase your system from them, you will always need supplies and upgrades in the future. Another source for information is the Internet. Most community libraries have access to the Internet with knowledgeable people that ...
- 17428: Comentary For English
- ... m discussing in my contemporary issue is a poem called Lost. It is one of many poems from the book My Country. it is about a person being alienated from the surrounding people and he's got a disease called AIDS . Lost is a poem about a person being alienated because he or her has got a disease . It shows the way people treat you differently when you're different to ... example, the person mentioned in the poem that "they keep their distance in case i breath and by saying four little letters stand for so much". A for alone I for ignorance D for death S for suspicion Personel Choice because he or she made a choice to trust people in the blood transfusion and because of that mistake the person got the deadly disease called AIDS . He or she made ... and so the person had to make that decision. Like it mentions in the issue " I made a mistake, two in fact, a blood transfusion and I trusted people I'm different now, I don't make mistakes anymore. after all, life's too short. Isn't it? ". The society had a major influence on the way that people live and act, and the society in this poem had a ...
- 17429: The Holocaust
- ... The buildings were infested with many billions of fleas and other insects. The buildings were also heavily infested with rats. Diarrhea and dysentery were epidemic. Prisoners were always denied free access to latrines. The people's clothing, bunks, and the floors were fouled. That resulted in the spreading of many, many diseases which killed even more people. Prisoners often said, “They had condemned us to die in our own filth.” They ... nourishment whatsoever, and a scrap of potato. If somebody were to drop a little bit of their soup or potato, people would quickly jump on that spot. Even if there was mud there, that didn't stop them from getting that extra microscopic piece. People would take their spoons and dip it into the mud and stick the horrible and disgusting mess into their mouths. There were often people fighting over ... some others were. Nazi officers loved to amuse themselves by using Jews as target practice. If a person escaped from his barrack, the Nazi officers would take the rest of the Jews in that person's barrack and murder them. Jews were brutally beaten and humiliated by German soldiers, and by local anti-semites and by the SS officers. SS men would rip huge clumps of hair from the beards ...
- 17430: Getting Into College
- ... role, ready to determine his/her destiny. For each event in your life, you can reflect upon a stimulus, a cause. Yet there are so many events, so many years, days, hours, seconds in one's life. Which is the one, that one moment in time which knowingly or unknowingly changed your life to lead you to be just that, you? For many, it is impossible to pinpoint that moment. Yet ... a plump young boy of age ten. Never before had he, been exposed to life outside his fifth grade classroom and his immediate family. Timid and shy, he decided he had listened to his mother's continuous nagging for the last time. That weekend, he would do as she said and "just go" to see an audition for the community's production of the musical Oliver. He arrived on time, the hustle and bustle of signing in all very new to him. There was no way he would actually get up on stage and sing ...
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