The fictional story of Gladiator is simplicity itself. General Maximus (Russell Crowe) fights in the wilds of Germania with the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius‚ is promised the throne with the mission of returning Rome to “The Republic.” Before he can finalize his anguished deliberations‚ Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix)‚ Marcus’ son‚ sends his father out and claims the throne. Maximus is sentenced to death as a possible opponent‚ and is taken to the Black Forest for a messy death. His wife and child are
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The Roaring Twenties * The flapper‚ a sign of the 1920’s‚ characterized the changes that were occurring in the decade. Flappers were young ladies‚ usually dressed in different styles. Some were also known to be cigarette-smokers and cosmetics-wearers * The Prohibition Act was in effect but places such as “speakeasies” were ways to get around this new act. People would purchase illegal alcohol * The 18th Amendment made the sale‚ distribution‚ and consumption of alcohol illegal *
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Geographical Features - Venezuela has seven physical geographic regions; The Andes Mountains‚ which include the highest peaks in the country‚ extend northward into Venezuela in two branches divided by the Lake Maracaibo Lowlands. Pico Bolivar is the highest point of the Venezuelan Andes at 16‚427 feet and it is located in the eastern branch‚ the Cordillera de Merida The Sierra de Perija‚ the western branch‚ extends along the border with Colombia. The lowlands of Lake Maracaibo are overlooked by the
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the patient has to be willing to communicate with the child and help them either work on or establish language and speech skills (Cochlear Implants for Kids.) After the evaluation is carried on and passed then the surgery will occur. There are two parts to a cochlear implant: the internal and the external. The external consists of the outer hardware (also referred to as the speech processor) which is equipped with a microphone that is on the inside of an implant and the magnet‚ which is attached
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Richard 22 October‚ 2013 A Critic’s Opinion on “Story of an Hour” Julie Moore‚ author of an article on Kate Chopin’s‚ “Story of an Hour‚” believes that Chopin was not a feminist‚ even though her story gives the reader the impression that women long for freedom‚ and that they are oppressed. I agree with Moore that Chopin was not a feminist‚ because Louis Mallard all throughout the‚ “Story of an Hour‚” resists the urge to celebrate her husband’s death even though it has given her the freedom to
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History * The Taino - indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola prior to the arrival of the Europeans - divided the island into five chiefdoms and territories. * Christopher COLUMBUS explored and claimed the island on his first voyage in 1492; it became a springboard for Spanish conquest of the Caribbean and the American mainland. * In 1697‚ Spain recognized French dominion over the western third of the island‚ which in 1804 became Haiti. * The remainder of the island‚ by then known as
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Ogboni (also known as Osugbo in Ijèbú) is a fraternal institution indigenous to the Yoruba language-speaking polities of Nigeria‚ Republic of Bénin and Togo. The society performs a range of political and religious functions‚ including exercising a profound influence on regents and serving as high courts of jurisprudence in capital offenses. Influence [edit] Though versions or lodges of this fraternal group are found among the various types of Yoruba polities——from highly-centralized kingdoms
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Cryptography is the science of converting data into a secret code to hide the meaning of the message during transmission. Cryptographic systems provide the following security services: • Confidentiality‚ by ensuring that only authorized parties can access data. • Integrity‚ by verifying that data has not been altered in transit. • Authentication‚ by proving the identity of the sender or receiver. • Non-repudiation‚ by validating that communications have come from a particular sender at a particular
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What kids haven’t played with lasers? We have all loved the laser fights in movies like Star Wars. Who wouldn’t want wield a laser around while fighting an enemy. Did you know that the term laser came from an acronym meaning “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.”? It should actually be all capitalized but for simplicity it isn’t. The first working laser was actually demonstrated by Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Research Laboratories back in 1960. The strength of early lasers
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Haille Selassie “Haile Selassie was an emperor of Ethiopia whose influence as an African leader far surpassed the boundaries of his country. Although his popularity declined near the end of his sixty-year reign‚ Selassie remains a key figure in turning Ethiopia into a modern civilization.” In 1931 Selassie began to develop a written constitution (a system of basic laws of a country) to symbolize his interest in modernization and intention to increase the power of the African government‚ Haile
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