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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proceeded to invest in a job as a clerk. He was an engineer for most of his life. He was a manufacturer and produced sleeping cars for railroads. But later on‚ Pullman had treated his workers extremely poor. However‚ Pullman acted as if his workers would not direct their attention to their cut wages or longer work hours. To sum it up‚ Pullman was irresponsible and carless towards his workers and took advantage of them. In this cartoon‚ Pullman seems to be killing his worker with “low wages” and “high rent
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Plato’s Objection to Poetry by dilipbarad ‚ 08-24-2008 at 08:34 AM (8266 Views) He was the first systemic critic who inquired into the nature of imaginative literature and put forward theories which are both illuminating and provocative. He was himself a great poet and his dialogues are full of his gifted dramatic quality. His Dialogues are the classic works of the world literature having dramatic‚ lyrical and fictional elements. According to him all arts are imitative or mimetic in nature
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information: Describe the proposed amendment and what it would do. When was the amendment proposed? Why was the amendment proposed? Why did some individuals believe there was a need for such an amendment at that time? Why did the amendment fail? Could this amendment pass today?
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and his Law In 1787‚ Jacques Charles performed an experiment that would change science forever. And all that he had to do was to fill 5 balloons to the same volume with different gases and to raise the temperature. From this experiment came Charles’ Law. The law that affects everything from footballs to the human lungs. Jacques Charles is very important to today’s scientific studies because of what he invented‚ his achievements‚ and his studies on volume and temperature. Jacques Charles was born
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would be to go from being dirt poor to very rich in life? Gatsby grew up a poor man and his parents died giving him lots of money. He then set goals to make more money. Doing so made him lots more money which made him a goal oriented person. Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby does deserve his title. The main reason Gatsby deserves his title is because he is very goal oriented. For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a calm-digger and a salmon-fisher or in
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1. What are the bases of our high level of certainly regarding the text of the New Testament? E&Y‚ p.35 #6 - There is extensive evidence supporting it‚ the authors of the books wrote them within living memory of Jesus’ life. - All of documents were in manuscripts form‚ consulted by scholars to make the modern translations and produce English versions. - There was Wealth of evidence. “The New Testament is by far the best-attested writing of antiquity. Over five thousand manuscripts
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11. Compare and contrast abstract classes and interfaces. Why would you use an abstract class? Why would u use an interface? -abstract class‚ ex: (public abstract class Employee{...}) -For related classes only‚ inheritance (last week examples) -extends keyword -contains both instance and static variables -contains both abstract and concrete methods only An abstract class is only to be sub-classed (inherited from). In other words‚ it only allows other classes to inherit from it but cannot
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Cato of Utica is the gatekeeper of Purgatory because he sought freedom in his life from the evilness what was occurring in his like on earth. He wanted to escape so much that he killed himself “...He goes in search of liberty-so precious‚ as he who gives his life for it must know”. It is important that we meet him first when Dante arrives in purgatory so we can begin to understand the mercy that God offers us when we do things for the right reason. Purgatory is about freedom and escaping from evil
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Concept of Law – what do you think is the best descriptive concept of law‚ what do you think is the purpose or value of law? Have your views changed over this semester‚ if so how?" Most people’s concept of law is limited‚ their view on law is commonly based on a set of rules which they do not want to break because of either fear of a bad image in society as well as fear of being penalized and incarcerated legally. This point was emphasised by the legal philosopher John Austin whose theory on law suggested
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