The book “Child of the Dark” is written from Carolina’s point of view. She begins writing on July 15th‚ 1955‚ the birthday of her youngest child and daughter; her daughter’s name is Vera Eunice. The story continues to detail her life during 1958 and 1959. Carolina wants to buy her daughter new shoes for her birthday but they are poor. They live in the favela (ghetto) and Carolina struggles everyday to manage to feed her family. She has three children total‚ two sons and one daughter. Her sons’ names
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Carolina Maria de Jesus’ journal "Child of the Dark" is a complete account of five years spent living in a favela in Sao Paolo‚ Brazil. Carolina and her children spent their days and nights trying to survive in the most horrific of slums while the rest of the nation looked down upon them‚ scolding them for being poor and complaining about how the residents of the favela were nothing but a burden on the rest of the world. Rarely did anyone take pity on the single mother and her young‚ defenseless
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Explain how technology was a stimuli to the Age of Discovery? There were many technological advances in the Age of discovery. The development of the cannon‚ which was able shoot iron or stone balls. This device could take down city walls or fortresses. A western technician built 56 small cannon’s and gigantic gun that could hurl stone balls weighing 800 lbs. The gun could only be loaded and fired only by about a hundred men working together‚ and reloading took 2 hours. Although the cannon had serious
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History: Now a days we know newton as only inventor of ‘g’ < acceleration due to gravity >. But we are never ever interested in his dark secrets. He was not only english physicist but also a mathematician and a natural philosopher. Sir Issac Newton was born on 25 December 1642. 3 months before his birth‚ his father died and her mother remarried. In June 1661‚ he was admitted to Trinity College‚ Cambridge. he was awarded a scholarship in 1664. Revolution of earth: Newton studied Keplar’s law
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“The Dark Continent” Voltaire once said‚ “To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” Europeans “gold diggers” had a big interest in African resources and were willing to get them at any cost. Africans were mistreated and abused with no pity by the colonizers. European leaders felt the urge to make Africans seem defenseless and not equally as important as the Europeans. African colonies had a man betrayed their religion and they did not want to bury the man
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Dark Matter: A Basic Understanding Introduction Many people‚ from the inquisitive‚ to those involved in the astronomical sciences have questioned the existence of Dark Matter. While it is called many things today‚ I will continue to refer to this unseen substance by its original name‚ Dark Matter. As it is still a theory being researched today to validate its existence and make-up‚ the discovery of dark matter was first presented to the world some time ago by two very intelligent astronomers
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The Dark Knight presents an apparent connection of communication through media’s influence. The movie is an example of a remake of the Batman comic book series‚ which most adults today were either a big fan of or were at least familiar with in their adolescent years. The unique quality of the Dark Knight is the popularity in both the adult age group as well as in the youth. Also one interesting facet of the movie‚ as well as in most popular films today‚ is the presence of strong violence and action
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Is old age really golden age? What are its pros and cons? Human life is a long and complex process which passes through many stages. Each stage contains new circumstances and requirements to which one has to adapt. The great English poet W. Shakespeare described and divided the human life span into a number of stages: an infant‚ a schoolboy‚ a lover with agonies of adolescence‚ a soldier as a youngish‚ a justice as an adult‚ a pantaloon who is over the hill‚ and the second childhood with "sans teeth
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Dark matter is a hypothetical substance that is invisible to the eye and accounts for much of the universe. In fact‚ dark matter makes up 27% of the universe. There is not much information that says directly what dark matter is‚ but instead what dark matter is not. Scientists know that it is not a form of antimatter or normal matter. This is proven by the fact that dark matter does not have interactions with the electromagnetic force like normal matter does. If the dark matter did interact with
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has historians debating a proper label. Appropriate labels would be; The Dark Ages‚ representing the lack of knowledge and chaos that occurred; The Age of Feudalism‚ for the social structure; and The Age of Faith‚ expressing the amount of power the Pope and the Church had. The Dark Ages included a lot of battles and chaos. Many people blame it on the lack of knowledge that led to the invasions and the chaos. The Dark Ages were caused by the fall of the Roman Empire and all the Barbarian invasions
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