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    The Mad Hatter

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    The Hatter is a fictional character initially encountered at a tea party in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and later again as "Hatta" in the story’s sequel‚ Through the Looking Glass. He is popularly referred to as the "Mad Hatter‚" but is never called by this name in Carroll’s book- although the Cheshire Cat does warn Alice that he is mad‚ and the Hatter’s eccentric behavior supports this. (Likewise‚ the chapter in which he first appears‚ "A Mad Tea-Party"‚ is often called "The

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    "Look at the ships also‚ though they are so great and are driven by strong winds‚ are still directed by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot desires. So also the tongue is a small part of the body‚ and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!" (James 3:4-5) A sanctified heard is congnescent in understanding the importance of the soul. The soul is the main target of battle. If you stay in sin‚ and do not put yourself back into

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    In Star Wars: The Force Awakens‚ John Williams’ song “The Ways of The Force” plays during the final battle scene. In this scene‚ the dark and light sides of the force face off‚ represented by the characters Kylo Ren and Rey. The music of the scene is highly effective in relaying the emotions of the fight. Through his composition of film music‚ Williams has been able to greatly influence American culture for decades. In “The Ways of The Force‚” Williams creatively incorporates references to his previous

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    Botticelli Code

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    Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Rome University‚ said that scholars had sought for centuries to interpret Botticelli’s masterpiece‚ painted in or around 1482 for Lorenzo de Medici‚ better known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492)‚ the great ruler of Florence and patron of the arts. The scholars‚ Professor Guidoni says‚ missed the real point of the masterpiece. It was a codified representation of Lorenzo’s ambitious‚ and abortive‚ plan for unifying Italy through a network

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    Persian scholar and doctor al-Razi (865–925) published a short treatise on diseases among children.[3] The first printed book on pediatrics was in Italian (1472) – Bagallarder’s Little Book on Disease in Children.[4]Paulus Bagellardus a Flumine (d.1492) De Infantium Aegritudinibus et Remediis 1472‚ Bartolomaeus Metlinger (d.1491) Ein Regiment der Jungerkinder 1473‚ Cornelius Roelans (1450-1525) no title Buchlein‚ or Latin compendium‚ 1483‚ and Heinrich von Louffenburg (1391-1460) Versehung des Leibs written

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    New World Settlement

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    The New World was discovered by Spain’s Christopher Columbus in 1492. Many believed that the settlement of the Spanish in the New World was the original settlement. For many years before the arrival of the Europeans‚ various tribes were scattered all throughout the Americas. There was an estimated 10‚000 people living in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. America was not a virgin wilderness for nearly 12‚000 years. The Spanish were the first to arrive in the New World. They

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    During the time before the conquest on Inca the civilization began to face a crisis. The death of their emperor Huayna Capac‚ brought about a power struggle between the two sons of the former emperor‚ that initiated a civil war. This civil war weakened the imperial state and effectuated the conquering of the Inca by Fracisco Pizaro in 1532. All these conquest and many more of the Latin Americas provide the background information of the commencement of the changes in religion and beliefs in Latin

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    Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

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    allowing the inhabitants to move about freely‚ basking in the agreeable weather. Character Descriptions The main characters in this story are Ransom‚ Weston and Lady. Readers will be familiar with Ransom and Weston‚ both having appeared in the prequel to Perelandra‚ Out Of the Silent Planet. Ransom has been brought to Perelandra and he does not know why. He supposes that it was to keep a watchful eye on Lady because she is naive and does not understand the concept of evil or deception. Ransom is

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    History Paper Who discovered America? By: Deanne Mastrocola Why is it that American culture today attributes its geographic discovery to a man named Christopher Columbus? Could it be that he was the first European to claim this land as part of an Imperialistic expansion or is it merely out of convenience for the history books? It is known that the American continent was populated by 1000 AD which is long before settlements by Viking fisherman and even longer before the arrival of Columbus

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    Columbian Exchange

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    The Columbian Exchange “Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492” is a common expression used today about the discovery of the Americas. What happens after the discovery of the Americas? Transculturation. This is the mixing of cultures in which both sides change in one way or another (Murphy‚ 1-14-13). The Columbian Exchange happened when people from Europe and Africa settled into Latin America and the Caribbean after the discovery of the Americas. The Columbian Exchange brought over

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