Roman Engineering: Pont du Gard The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct that crosses the Gardon River near the city of Nīmes‚ previously known as Nemausus‚ in southern France. It was fabricated during the first century AD. The bridge portion of the Pont du Gard is made up of three tiers‚ and is a staggering nine-hundred-and-two feet long and one-hundred-and-sixty feet tall at its uppermost point. The entire aqueduct stretches for roughly thirty miles. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa‚ deputy to
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Do not fight fire with fire. Edmond Dantes had a twisty kind of life. He went from a young captain‚ in love‚ too scraggly man in prison‚ to a millionaire‚ to a revenge seeking count. Dante’s was wrongfully imprisoned for treason; throughout his time in prison‚ Dantes learned the whereabouts of some long lost treasure‚ as well as received an education. Dante’s was able to escape from prison‚ obtain the treasure Abbe Faria told him about‚ and return to Marseilles‚ France as a ‘new and changed’ person
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Reading Response #3 Of Mr. Booker T. Washington by W.E.B. Du Bois AFRS 210 September 20‚ 2013 Prince In chapter three of the Souls of Black Folks‚ W.E.B. Du Bois argues that although Booker T. Washington has took many stands in opposition of the injustices done to black people‚ his “Atlanta Compromise” speech has done more to hinder the black community than help it. Washington believed that reconstruction failed because African Americans were offered too much too
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Prophet From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Not to be confused with Profit. For other senses of this word‚ see Prophet (disambiguation). In religion‚ a prophet is an individual who is claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine‚ and to speak for them‚ serving as an intermediary with humanity‚ delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other people.[1][2] The message that the prophet conveys is called a prophecy. Claims of prophets have existed in
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Booker T vs. WEB Du Bois Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois both had their own individual approaches for dealing with Black America’s poverty‚ discrimination‚ and segregation problems at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Their opposing strategies both greatly assisted their race through the times of struggle. They fought for the same thing‚ but had different ways of handling the situation in order to change the country at that time. Although WEB Du Bois’ strategy
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The main symptoms of cri du chat are first and foremost is that when they are babies they have a very distinct high pitched cry that sounds like that of a cat‚ which explains the name cat cry syndrome‚ intellectual disabilities‚ delayed development and low birth weight. The other symptoms are abnormality of the voice‚ cognitive impairment‚ low set‚ posteriorly rotated ears‚ microcephaly (head is smaller than expected)‚ muscular hypotonia (decreased muscle tone)‚ round face‚ wide nasal bridge and
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The story of Du Tenth is an upsetting rollercoaster ride. Du Tenth‚ a mistress‚ and Li Jia‚ a scholar‚ found love in each other despite their circumstances. Li Jia went from a wealthy scholar to a poor beggar all in the name of love. Only to throw it all away in the end. The best option to show the emotion between Du Tenth and Li Jia was number two. I chose to use Photoshop to create my four scenes. The scene I am capturing is when Du Tenth and Li Jia are on a boat sailing to Li Jia’s home to the
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really thought-provoking themes in your poems‚ and I think were largely successful in doing so. I think if you just revisit some specific aspects of each piece‚ they could be even stronger. In “L’appel du vide”‚ I thought your poem perfectly captured the feelings associated with the phrase “l’appel du vide”‚ itself. At the beginning‚ your word choices of “shattering”‚ “cut”‚ and “jagged”‚ all of which have negative connotations‚ started to create a darker‚ ominous tone. However‚ by the end the speaker
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Nat Turner is the most famous and most controversial slave rebel on American history. He was living in the innocent season of his life‚ in those carefree years before the working age of twelve when a slave boy could romp and run about the plantation with uninhibited glee. Nat in his young years cavorted about the home place as slave children did generally in Virginia. He was first lived in Turner’s house‚ who owned a modest plantationin a remote neighborhood "down county" from Jerusalem. His daytime
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University of Central Oklahoma CRI-DU-CHAT SYNDROME By James Truby May 3‚ 2006 BIO 2233 Heredity Paper Assignment CRI-DU-CHAT SYNDROME (CDCS) Cri-du-chat syndrome (CDCS) refers to a unique combination of physical and mental characteristics associated with a loss of genetic material on the distal short arm of the fifth chromosome. This loss of genetic material is referred to as a deletion. CDCS is also called 5p- syndrome (5p-S)‚ 5p monosomy‚ or Cat Cry syndrome which was
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