about Atlantis. I am interested in Atlantis because it has a long mystery that remains untrue. Another reason that finding Atlantis is interesting is because it rewrites our understanding of history. It would mean there was another advanced civilization that was probably more advanced‚ or perhaps even before what we know. If Atlantis gets uncovered‚ it might hold forgotten knowledge about astronomy‚ medicine and even mathematics. I hope to learn why and where Atlantis sank. What caused Atlantis to fall
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The city of Atlantis. Described by many as the most advanced of the human civilizations. Some believe that the city was destroyed by one of the greatest natural dThe Legend of Atlantis begins with two dialogues: Timaeus and Critias‚ written by a classical Greek philosopher‚ Plato. He describes the inhabitants of Atlantis as a noble and powerful race who lived on the island located in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. Greek myths tell us that Poseidon created a dwelling for a mortal woman he fell
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For many years scientists have doubted and tried proving if Atlantis was real or not‚ and Atlantis is real. Atlantis is real because of the evidence that cutting-edge technology has found such as satellite photographs and new discoveries‚ Plato’s writings‚ and the fact that Atlantis is a logical myth. Atlantis is real due to the new evidence just found. This evidence was found due to the advanced technology of today. Satellite photographs found by Richard Freund recently identified what looked to
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Did the Ancient Greek Gods exist? The Ancient Greeks regarded their religion and mythology with much respect and loyalty. Although the Ancient Greek Gods are now seen as an explanation created by man‚ for natural forces and the world around us‚ there has been much evidence both for and against the debate that these Gods were real. The Greeks believed that the Earth was created with the birth of Gaia‚ or Mother Earth‚ from the dark void known as Chaos. It was believed that Gods were all-powerful
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children were not automatically slaves. Captive Africans and their descendants paid with their blood and sweat for the phenomenal expansion of human possibilities in the Atlantic world.’ (Robin Blackburn) Europeans changed the scale of slavery. Did slavery exist before the Europeans began to exercise its power
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without being able to read one line of the writings that made her father wealthy and locally famous) From where did William Shakspere secure his knowledge of modern French‚ Italian‚ Spanish‚ and Danish? Not to mention classical Latin and Greek? (Ben Jonson‚ who knew Shakspere intimately‚ stated that the Stratford actor understood "small Latin and less Greek") No record exists of William Shakspere as having ever played a leading role in the famous dramas he is supposed to have written or in
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conditions‚ beatings‚ ripping people from their homeland and racism. Three major questions come to mind when I think of slavery in America‚ why did it exist? What was slavery like? And lastly‚ what did it do to America? Through my personal readings I have come to understand these three questions and the vast answers that follow them. Why did Slavery Exist in the New World? To say that slavery existed solely because of racism is far beyond the real reasoning. Through my readings‚ The Peculiar Institution
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tall and is covered in ornate biblical carvings as well as an early Christian poem in Latin. The cross both exists in the world and has the world existing inside of it. Its location in its environment‚ both past and present‚ play a vital role in how the cross exists and is experienced by those who go to see it. The complex backstory and composition play a role in the ways in which the world exists in the Ruthwell cross. Although we may never know for sure where the cross came from or why it was built
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to Earth‚ and since we do not‚ such life does not exist. Though Enrico Fermi did question the apparent absence of extraterrestrial life‚ he did not publish any material on the subject suggesting that the absence is paradoxical. The paradox was introduced shortly after Fermi’s death‚ first in a paper published by Michael Hart. Though it is frequently cited as such‚ the Fermi paradox is not positive evidence that extraterrestrial life does not exist‚ and should not discourage the search for extraterrestrial
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congressmen and senators‚ today we convene to discuss the repercussions of events that occurred nearly three-hundred years before our nation’s birth; events that‚ had they not occurred‚ it is a certainty that the United States of America would not exist as it does today. The event I am speaking about of course is the world famous voyage of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus‚ and his subsequent discovery of the American continents. One thing that is not disputed by any historian of merit is
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