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    Travel Tracer

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    Travel Tracer Pg.25 Controller is introduced The Controller is Mustapha Mond. He is the resident controller for Western Europe. The Controller is man of middle height‚ black hair‚ a hooked nose‚ red lips‚ and eyes that are dark and piercing. The Controller talks to the students about the past‚ and seems to be the only knowledgeable person on the history of human kind. He talks of the bible‚ mothers‚ home‚ and the moral values of humans back then. The students find this very intriguing‚ which tells

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    After travelling successfully though time I met a man by the name of Van Helmont and discussed some results from an experiment he was currently observing. I told him that I was from the future and scientist had discovered how the plants use chemical cycles to feed. I explained to him how plants use photosynthesis and respiration to produce sugars for food then releasing the used energy into our atmosphere. Four main factors needed to produce these processes are sunlight‚ oxygen‚ carbon dioxide‚ and

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    Rizal in Berlin‚ Germany 1 November 1886 At 1:25 P.M.‚ Rizal arrived at Berlin and boarded at the Central Hotel. 2 November 1886 Rizal wrote a letter to his friend Pastor Karl Ullmer informing the latter of his arrival at the big German capital the day before. He wrote: "Remembrances to your loving wife‚ Eta and to Friedrich." 4 November 1886 In a letter he informed Prof. Blumentritt about his meeting with Dr. A.B. Meyer last October 31 in Dresden. He was already residing at Jaeger Straesse

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    The Enlightenment is the most important part of World History 2. The Enlightenment spread from Europe to the American colonies in the 1700s through newspaper articles reprinted from Great Britain. Many of the ideas for the making of the Enlightenment itself was from the Americans‚ Enlightenment thinkers and philosophies. Americans applied Enlightenment ideas of natural and political science to the problems that interested them. These ideas was marked by highly creative and thought-provoking

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    The Age of Enlightenment originated during the 1650s and lasted all the way until the 1780s. Including philosophers such as Francis Bacon‚ John Locke‚ and Rene Descartes‚ it encouraged the people to be educated‚ and to use their reason and knowledge to challenge authority. It was during this time that not only did Enlightenment philosophers write many eye opening and thought provoking books‚ but also the reference manuals like the Encyclopedia was immensely advanced during this rise of reasoning

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    Notes on Kant’s What is Enlightenment? Posted on March 16‚ 2012 ‘Enlightenment is the human being’s emergence from his self-incurred minority. Kant means emergence from a form of slavery‚ in which one is not free to think for oneself‚ but instead is told what to think. In a sense‚ I think it relates to religious and state imposed rules. This is reinforced when Kant suggests to ‘have the courage to make use of your own understanding’‚ making that the motto of the Enlightenment. He‚ perhaps ironically

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    During the Enlightenment‚ or the‚ “Age of Reason‚” many intellectuals came together and established a sort of movement during the eighteenth century in Europe. The main objective that was trying to be completed was to present the power of reason to reform society‚ including also to promote knowledge‚ sciences‚ and to go against any sort of superstition that went about. Of those intellectuals that participated in this movement‚ many of them went on to influence future leaders that would establish

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    These days‚ we Geeks don’t travel anywhere without our laptops. It’s a given that we need to have them on us! How would we survive?! Thankfully‚ Seth sent in the following tips to help us keep them safe while we are on the road. Pad The Laptop: Make sure the laptop bag or carrying case you transport your laptop in provides adequate padding. As you move about the airport or shove the laptop under the seat in front of you or into the overhead storage compartment‚ the laptop can be jarred and jostled

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    As the most profound and significant intellectual movement since the Renaissance in Europe‚ the Enlightenment in eighteenth century was never a coincidence‚ instead it was set in complicated economical‚ scientific and social context. With the growing power of emergent capitalist industrialism‚ the new middle class who had known poverty and hardship‚ and most of whom had obtained their present social statue through hard work‚ put high value on the virtues of self-discipline‚ thrift and hard work.

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    The Enlightenment shook the grounds of Europe‚ seeking a more intellectual society. Centuries later‚ the Great Awakening had a similar effect on America; pulling the colonies back to religion. Although the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening were pushing for two different causes‚ and took place on opposite sides of the globe‚ the two eras are quite alike. Both of these time periods produced profound intellectual and religious ideas. A major goal of the Enlightenment was to utilize the means learned

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