made a change during this time due to believing in different aspects. The world was changing economically and socially. There is eight human beings that really made a change. Each person believed in different things and reflected a different image. Some preached for women/girls to have equal power and same education as men/boys. Some even preached for changing the government. Making sure that the government didn’t have too much power. The main idea of The Enlightenment period was to change government
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9/11/01 was a day that changed both America and the world drastically. Security all around the world was heightened‚ people began to fear flying‚ and a war resulting in many casualties was started‚ all based on that one day. Ever since 9/11‚ airport‚ and many important building’s security has become a hassle for all. Passengers must go through great lengths of security‚ which includes the checking of all carry-on bags‚ removal of shoes and metal objects‚ and passing through a high-tech body scanner
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years. She has lived through World War Ⅱ‚ the Great Depression‚ and just her day-to-day life‚ which has instilled an aura of great wisdom. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said‚ people will forget what you did‚ but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou states in an exclusive interview with CBS. “If you don’t like something‚ change it. If you can’t change it‚ change your attitude.” And‚ I think we all can agree‚ she has changed the world and their attitudes. Maya
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spoke these words: "...we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation‚ under God‚ shall have a new birth of freedom” (Abraham Lincoln Quotes). In Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address‚ he explains that the soldiers‚ who fought so bravely in the Civil War‚ did not die without cause. Instead‚ they fought to change America for the better in multiple ways. There were a number of reasons for the Civil War‚ however‚ the unplanned realities which arose from this conflict‚ would
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Do you imagine yourself taking advices from the one who saved us from extinction? Alan Turing was a great mathematician and he is the father of Computer Science and Digital Electronics. He also was the first scientist that thought that machines could actually learn‚ but one of the most important things about him is the fact that he helped defeating the Nazis by cracking the “Enigma code”. So‚ there are several reasons why anybody would be lucky to meet him: to know about history‚ how he
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amount of time a lot of things have happened and turned Malcolm X’s life around. He started to view things in a different way that many didn’t seem to understand at first. Malcolm has converted to the nation of Islam‚ changed his eating habits‚ changed the way he viewed the world and the treatment of African Americans in society. The most significant thing that happened was the changing of his last name. Malcolm had went from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X. Many people change their last names generally
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India has changed a great amount since the days of Gandhi. If he were to see where it is today‚ he probably would not recognize the country. There have been many changes in how people live their lives because of the change in government. Many of these political changes were sparked by Gandhi’s commitment to free India from British rule. His peaceful approach to protest continues to inspire many. He chose to make his own traditional loincloth-style clothing as a rejection of western culture‚ participated
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think they have a tough life or complain about every little thing‚ but they are missing the point. No one ponders about what it was like to survive before the industrial revolution. This event changed the world in many different ways. Creating such catastrophes including problems like transportation‚ child labor‚ education‚ and medicine. Many pros and cons reached the surface through this time and helped our world spin round even to this time. While you have the choice to go to school and have sick days
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Wilbur Wright were self taught. They did not go to college and learned how to fix things by watching their mother when they were growing up. This knowledge led to them inventing many gadgets and also began the age of flight. The Wright Brothers are an excellent examples of American revolutionaries because they changed the way we travel‚ changed the way wars are fought‚ and contributed to the new convenient way of life we have now in America. Before the airplane‚ we relied on trains to travel long
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Robert Oppenheimer forever changed the world with his work on the Manhattan project during WWII‚ contributing to the Cold War‚ creating a nuclear warfare‚ and showed the potential for nuclear energy. He was the lead scientist of this world-shattering project. The Manhattan Project developed the atomic bombs that were nicknamed “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” that put an end to WWII and forever changed the way the world fights wars. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed 250‚000 people
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