Did Atlantis Exist? Known as one of the world’s greatest mysteries‚ Atlantis is a legend written by the Greek philosopher Plato. The legend was written thousands of years ago‚ but it is still talked about today (Smith Michael and Debora Smith). Scholars often argue that Atlantis existed‚ but those that do not agree remind those scholars that there is no evidence to support that Atlantis ever existed and that Plato “added fantasy and excitement to his writings” (“Atlantis”). The question is‚ how
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electricity created a new way to power America. No longer did citizens need to have coal-powered sub-stations spewing thick pollution every mile in already over crowded and overbuilt cities. Alternating current allowed for higher voltages and less power outages than its counterpart DC electricity. However‚ the rivalry escalated to dramatic proportions when Edison felt threatened by the new invention. A campaign to smear Tesla’s invention was launched by Edison and his financers J.P. Morgan. Edison used
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Did Socrates commit suicide and why? Upon taking the ethics class and learning and understanding the teachings of great philosophers such as Socrates‚ Plato and Aristotle I am even more driven to gather more knowledge about ethics as well as information about the above mentioned philosophers who have been instrumental in shedding light into the complex view on ethics. This is why I chose this topic‚ in order to explore whether Socrates actually did commit suicide and why he did so. After being
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scene that fortunately‚ the United States will never have to worry about. However‚ unfortunately for Rome‚ a series of events just like the scene described‚ is what ultimately caused the great empire to fall. The United States will not fall like Rome did. Rome’s senate lost power during the height of its decline‚ however‚ the United States’ senate still has lots of power and decision making abilities. Rome’s senate ultimately had no power as it was overshadowed by the Emperor. The Emperor made every
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The Bombay Plague Epidemic There were several important events that occurred during the Colonial era which are highly noticeable. One such was the abrupt attack of the Plague in the city of Bombay which was one of the major cities under the control of the Colonial government. The Plague which came to Bombay was a Bubonic Plague which was highly dangerous in nature. The city has no memory of ever having harbored it in the winter of 1896.It was considered likely to have arrived from its sinister
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How Did The Stalemate End? The stalemate came about at Christmas 1914 along the Western Front. From there the different countries fought each other in different battles and tried to outflank the other. By March 1918 the stalemate was broken. In this question I will explain why the war ended and why Germany was finally beaten. New Technology like the Tank New technology was very important for the reason in which the stalemate on the western front was broken. The idea of tanks was brought
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So how did Alcatraz start and what was its initial purpose‚ was there previous escape attempts besides Morris’s escape? What was the big deal with Morris’s escape and how did he do it. The Closer of Alcatraz? What is Alcatraz? Alcatraz is a penitentiary opened by the Federal Government as a maximum security‚ minimum privilege penitentiary to deal with the most incorrigible inmates in Federal prisons. This prison was thought to be inescapable. Frank morris would disprove this in his successful escape
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the ashes. Both companies did not solve all of their problems on their own. GM received a good chunk of money from the government in hopes that they would be a promising new company. Chrysler on the other hand received less money from the government. Instead‚ the got their financial backing from Fiat‚ who now owns a good percentage of the company. Ford decided to not accept a bail out because they were in a better position then the other two companies to begin with. They did not have all of the burdens
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enormous casualties would often result. This was most apparent in the failure of plan XV11 where the French believed that they would be able to cover 50 metres in a 20 second charge before the Germans were able to draw their rifles. This plan obviously did not succeed with the majority of French troops being killed within the first 10
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30 years (Eck 2001). However‚ there has been good things that have happened recent years as well. In 2006‚ history was made in America as the first female monk became ordained and took vows from an American monk. Experts often ponder on why Buddhism did not advance or grown on people as much. Some believe that‚ the religion is too passive to public life (Eck 2001). Also believed that most people that are part of the Buddhist religion were not people that converted to it‚ but rather people that came
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