Reading Response # 4 “Social Grouping” Since man’s creation we have been grouping things‚ trying to make sense of the world around us. We have grouped and classified all known flora and fauna in this world. The French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet‚ Chevalier de Lamarck classified over 1‚634 species of marine animals. Carolus Linnaeus‚ often called the Father of Taxonomy believed through classification of plants and animals we would come closer to understanding the divine order. Johann
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Facts of the periodic table While Dmitri Mendeleev is most often cited as the inventor of the modern periodic table‚ his table was just the first to gain scientific credibility‚ and not the first table that organized the elements according to periodic properties. There are 90 elements on the periodic table that occur in nature. All of the other elements are strictly man-made. Technetium was the first element to be made artificially. The International Union of Pure Applied Chemistry‚ IUPAC‚ revises
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Knitter of Death There are many memorable villains in literature‚ and Charles Dickens’ Madame Defarge is one of them. Being Dickens’ notorious villain‚ Madame Defarge remembers‚ knits and executes those who are dislikable with her allies. In A Tale of Two Cities‚ Madame Defarge is the antagonist who is willing to obliterate the aristocracy because of her past. Madame Defarge knits a register to target members of the aristocracy. But because of the aristocracy she is cold and becomes a “monster”
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Personal Experience Speech Title: Road To Super Bowl 40 General Purpose: to share my personal experience Specific Purpose: to share my personal experiences of watching “The Bus” win a Super Bowl Central Idea: I saw my idol finally win a Super Bowl‚ the year before he retired. I. Introduction My Idol since I’ve been a little kid has always been Jerome Bettis‚ and since I’ve started watching him play I’ve been waiting for the year that he would finally take The Steelers to the
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Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz was a Prussian soldier who later became a major military thinker of the 19th century. Antoine-Henri Jomini was a Swiss man that joined the French revolution and even joining Russia and would become the most popular thinker of his time. Both Jomini and Clausewitz share many similarities more than their differences yet they both do focus on two different camps of ideas‚ the importance of strategy and chaos in war. One of Jomini’s main points of interest in war
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Erik Fisher‚ football celebrity‚ dating a cheerleader‚ and has two scholarship offers. He seems like the perfect high schoolar. His admirers show that‚ but nothing is that perfect‚ ever. So what is this football star hiding? What goes on behind the closed doors of the Fisher house? How about the new football superstar nearly blinding his brother Paul Fisher with spray paint? Or‚ punching a middle schoolar? Or how about stealing from families? He isn’t as perfect as he seems. Conclusively‚ Erik doesn’t
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of the body. Marfan Syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder. An autosomal recessive disorder means two copies of an abnormal gene must be present in order for the disease or trait to develop. Marfan disorder was first discovered by Antoine Marfan. He was a French doctor in 1896 that discovered the disease through a five-year-old girl who he described as having
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Dubois’s work which will be considered here is his painting of the St. Bartholomew’s day massacre of 1572. While he may not have been present‚ Dubois was a Calvinist‚ and his close relative Antoine died in the massacre. Fearing continued persecution‚ or at least a reigniting of the wars of religion which had temporarily abated‚ Dubois fled to Lausanne‚ then Geneva to escape. It was in Calvin’s capital where a Lyonnais banker‚ fellow Huguenot‚ and friend of Dubois’s commissioned the painting in order
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Reminiscent of the spilled wine smearing the faces and hands of the people of Saint Antoine‚ the setting sun bathes the Marquis in a crimson light‚ symbolically covering him in blood. Whether the blood represents that of the dying peasants‚ the child he just killed‚ or his own bloody death is uncertain. What is certain is that‚ like many
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sister in Law Tacey Derjacques and husband Keven Furneau‚ and my unforgettable mother in law Martha Derjacques; I am blessed to have you in my life‚ for you are responsible for so many incredible things in our lives. To my sister Stella Leeming‚ Antoine‚ Debra and Sandra Laporte; for being there all the time. The following people gave of themselves‚ their time and effort to support me in any way possible: Marie-Helen Dubois‚ Jacques L’etourdie‚ Bernard and Doreen Arnephy‚ Michael Laporte‚ Audrey
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