14. Who is Thomas a Becket? Why do you think he was important? Thomas a Becket was the archbishop of Canterbury. He was a close friend of Henry II and this is how he accomplished to become the archbishop of Canterbury. He was important because as Archbishop of Canterbury‚ Thomas Becket stubbornly resisted the efforts of King Henry II to include members of the church clergy in his reformation of the English court system and later became a saint. "Thomas Becket." UXL Biographies. Detroit: U*X*L‚
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Thomas Jefferson and His Effect on America Thomas Jefferson possessed one of the greatest leading minds of colonial America. Literate in political theory‚ scientific farming‚ natural history‚ and architecture‚ Thomas Jefferson personified the optimistic spirit of Enlightenment thinking. Thomas Jefferson proved to be one of the major forces in the founding and developing of America. When Jefferson became the third President of the United States‚ he immediately made an impact on the lives of average
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García Landa (University of Zaragoza‚ Spain) Thomas Carew (1595-1640) (English poet; b. Kent; st. Corpus Christi‚ Oxford‚ no degree; traveller‚ Cavalier courtier and wit under Charles I‚ gentleman of the Privy Chamber‚ reputation as a libertine‚ d. penitent) Works Carew‚ Thomas. "A Divine Mistress." In The Poems of Thomas Carew. Ed. Arthur Vincent. London: George Routledge & Sons‚ Ltd.‚ n. d. 6. _____. "A Divine Mistress." In Thomas Carew (Luminarium).* http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/carew/divine
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Thomas Keller born October 14‚ 1955 is an American chef‚ restaurateur‚ and cookbook writer. He and his landmark Napa Valley restaurant‚ The French Laundry in Yountville‚ California‚ have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation‚ notably the Best California Chef in 1996‚ and the Best Chef in America in 1997. The restaurant is a perennial winner in the annual Restaurant Magazine list of the Top 50 Restaurants of the World. Thomas was the youngest of five boys. In his teenage summers‚ he
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the Snail‚ biologist Lewis Thomas‚ asserts that if mistakes are not made‚ then nothing useful can be accomplished. Lewis Thomas’s assertion is very reasonable and should be considered accurate due to the great amount of inventions and discoveries created by mistakes. Mistakes are a part of human nature‚ no matter how hard one tries‚ there will be mistakes sooner or later
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The Green Girdle The meaning of the host’s wife’s girdle changes over the course of the narrative. It is made out of green silk and embroidered with gold thread‚ colors that link it to the Green Knight. She claims it possesses the power to keep its wearer from harm‚ but we find out in Part 4 that the girdle has no magical properties. After the Green Knight reveals his identity as the host‚ Gawain curses the girdle as representing cowardice and an excessive love of mortal life. He wears it from then
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TOWARDS GREENER AMRITA In India‚ Mother Earth –Bhoomatha is considered sacred.We worship our Mother Earth and therefore it should be well conserved and protected.Mother Earth is a home to all living beings‚we don’t litter our home‚then why do we litter our earth?. There is nothing called waste in this universe.It is a misplaced resource‚taking the example from the nature itself-the trees absorb all the nutrients from the mother earth and shed their leaves back to the nature.These leaves acts
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We interviewed Andra Zommers from Greenpeace. The questions we asked were as follows: 1) What is Greenpeace? 2) How is Greenpeace run/structured? 3) Why did you get involved in the environment? (Your motivation) 4) Why Greenpeace? 5) In your opinion‚ where is the greatest concern? 6) Is there any Spiritual emphasis Greenpeace has or that you personally have? 7) What is Greenpeace’s vision for the future? 8) What gives you hope? Taken from www.greenpeace.ca: "Greenpeace is an independently funded
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Rasheed Juan SJCJC January 27th‚ 2014 Literature in English: American Poetry Hardy’s Poetry Presents the World as Terrible According to one of the Thomas Hardy’s autobiography‚ he presents a picture of himself as a sensitive young man who attended church regularly and believed in a personal God who ruled the universe. Then when Hardy went to London in his early twenties and discovered such intellectual ferment as caused by Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species by Means and Natural
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Thomas Edison Thomas (Alva) Edison was one of America’s most important and famous inventors. Edison was born into a time and place where there wasn’t much technological advancements. His inventions helped a lot of things quickly change in the world. His inventions contributed to many inventions today such as the night light‚ movies‚ telephones‚ and records and CDs. Edison is most famous for the development of the first electric light bulb. Like I said Edison was born into a time where
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