What Was the Most Important Consequence of the Printing Press? The most important consequence of the printing press was the spread of knowledge. Knowledge is the greatest aspect and power. Before Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press‚ there was the development of language‚ writing with hieroglyphs‚ the alphabet and then printing. Scribes would write a book by hand from the dictation of a scholar. Most citizens were uneducated while few were well educated. Handwritten books were expensive
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1982 Lebanon War After the 1948 Arab-Israeli war‚ Lebanon became home to more than 110‚000 Palestinian refugees‚ after their settlements in Palestine and Israel had been depopulated as a result of the war. The large influx of Palestinians from Jordan after "Black September" caused an additional demographic imbalance within Lebanon. By 1975‚ the refugees numbered more than 300‚000 and the PLO in effect created an unofficial state-within-a-state‚ particularly in Southern Lebanon. These rapid demographic
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March on Washington Arsen - Yelnikov 7.02 Summarize each event‚ including which of the civil rights organizations and leaders were responsible for it. March on Washington The March on Washington was a civil rights movement to abtain Jobs and Freedom for all people regardless of race. It took place in Washington‚ D.C.‚ on August 28‚ 1963. Attending were about 250‚000 people‚ which made it the largest protest/demontration ever seen in the capital. It was organized by a number of civil rights and
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HP Headquarter Protest One sunny day in November‚ about 200 people just fell down laying on the ground on the park and in front of buildings with signs next to or on them. These people were laying down at Hewlett Packard headquarter which is also known as HP as a sign of protest. This protest showed the importance and effectiveness of peaceful protest which is happening very often in modern days. People have different opinions on this particular protest because the reason of pretest has
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The German invasion of Stalingrad started on 22 June 1941 which was the start of summer in Russia. The Germans assumed it would be a quick victory. (Yoder‚ 2003) However‚ the battle dragged on into the severe Russian winter‚ weather that the Germans were not prepared for. The German 6th Army was only given summer uniforms due to the battle starting towards in the summer. This lack of preparation for the Russian winter proved disastrous to the Germans as the summer uniforms could do little to prevent
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Most people would say their mental stability is more important than making a big play in a game. So why are athletes being allowed back on the field before they are fully healed? Unfortunately this happens more often then not. Athletes with injuries of any sorts‚ especially head injuries‚ should be sat out for long periods of time to heal properly. The effects of a concussion can sometimes last longer than the symptoms. This has become problematic because‚ athletes will believe they have healed
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Opportunities‚ choices‚ failures‚ and consequences and what was the character’s conflict? As we can interpret from the book‚ John Purcell had always been very distant from the rest of his family. He rarely attended church‚ was in the war etc. John was given a chance to redeem himself by attending a very important ceremony/banquet with his son. All night his son had been constantly giving the impression that he would rather be at the banquet with anyone other than his father. John had started to
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Why was there an American Revolution? There are different ways of interpretation. Generally‚ it was agreed that the revolution originated in France and Britain about the war‚ ended in 1789 George Washington was elected the first President of the United States. One of the points on the two views of the American Revolution‚ the American Revolution in fact can not be regarded as revolutionary‚ because it does not dramatically change the entire colonial society‚ but simply replaced a distant government
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Why did Tsarism survive the revolution of 1905 but not that of March 1917? There were a lot of different factors in 1917 which were not there in 1905 some of these factors strongly suggest why Tsarism was abolished in 1917 but not the years before. Some of the events that occurred where World War One which had a catastrophic impact on Russia at the time‚ the lack of Faith in the Tsar as he had lost one war before and was losing another‚ the lack of faith in reforms such as the October Manifesto
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Rainforests The rainforest is under threat from destruction but why is it being destroyed? An area the size of a football pitch is being destroyed every second. Structure of the Rainforest The rainforest is made up of 4 layers: Emergent Layer- The tallest trees are in this layer they can be 200 feet above the forest floor. These trees can also have trunks that are 16 feet round. Animals found here include eagles‚ bats‚ monkeys and butterflies. Canopy Layer- This layer forms a type of roof above
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