civilizations depended upon sheer labor to extract these materials. This was shown to be very labor and time intensive. Especially early on when stone tools were the only thing available. The solution to this problem came in the late 1800s with the invention of dynamite. Gunpowder is considered the first explosive to be discovered. It was first discovered many years ago in China and India. Early uses of gunpowder were primarily for military use but didn’t see wide spread until the 16th century. Due
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Inventions are what help our world and people be better. Inventions change civilizations‚ and the physical world we reside in. Inventors think of bigger and better things on a daily basis. This is no different during WW 2. It is amazing the inventions that were made‚ how they were used during that time‚ and how we use those ideas in modern times. There were many great inventions that are remembered today‚ some of which were penicillin‚ the first computer‚ and radio navigation.("Top 10 Inventions
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different parts of the world to obtain confessions from suspects‚ morally speaking‚ torture is not an acceptable procedure under any circumstances. In this essay‚ I shall shed light on two arguments to answer a very critical question‚ is torture ever acceptable? I will weigh two points of view regarding this argument‚ the consequentialists and the deontologists. Then decide if I still stand on my position or are there truly exceptions to torture. Suppose that some authorities know for sure that
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Inventions and Discoveries from the Muslim World By Adnaan Idrees Have you ever noticed that all the books on science and technology somehow only seem to be filled with discoveries and inventions from the likes of Aristotle‚ Archimedes‚ Da Vinci and Thomas Edison... but what about the Muslims? Where are all our discoveries? A period of a thousand years exists between these thinkers and when great Muslim men and women expressed their religiosity through contributions made to society and the sciences
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In her paper‚ War: An Invention- Not a Biological Necessity‚ Margaret Mead says that " warfare‚ by which I mean organized conflict between two groups as groups‚ in which each group puts an army (even if the army is only fifteen Pygmies) in the field to fight and kill‚ if possible‚ some of the members of the army of the other group- that warfare of this sort is an invention like any other of the inventions in the terms of which we order our lives‚ such as writing‚ marriage‚ cooking our food instead
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Ever Changing Times In April of 2008 six teenage girls attacked one of their peers while a teenage boy stood on hand to tape the “event.” The word event comes to mind because these teens planned and extricated the whole “event” to put on the website‚ YouTube‚ perhaps in some hopesthat the world would see it and notice them. What kind of world has society made that today’s youth are planning things like this just to get noticed; that this is the way they perceive respect is earned‚ my how times have
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just read a book. Or instead of heating food up in a microwave‚ a man just heated it up on a stove. Or even life without a computer. It sure would be hard to imagine living like that‚ wouldn’t it? Well that’s what life would be like today without inventions from the 1940’s. Color TV‚ LEGOs‚ Microwaves and many other things that mankind uses today were invented in the 1940’s. Some of these things had great effects on mankind‚ some of them not. There were a lot of things that were invented in the 1940’s
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Laziness is the Mother of all Inventions I think it was Isaac Newton who said. “Necessity is the mother of all inventions”. I beg to differ. In my opinion‚ Laziness is the mother of all inventions. Consider the original lazy caveman. All the hardworking cavemen were busy sneaking through the bushes in the hot sun‚ risking lives trying to catch animals without any tools. But then there was this lazy caveman who thought‚ “Hunting is too much hard work. I think I should come up with something to make
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after my records have fallen‚ long after my rings have tarnished. Whatever you got to do to make sure you chase your legacy. Every second of your life. How will you be remembered? How will you be remembered? Why wouldn’t you fight for the greatest achievement ever? Leave your mark to endure forever." "To be the best and stay there sweat is necessary. I’m older. Of course I’m older. That’s the beauty of it. Sixteen years plus different level of wisdom. Different level of understanding. Different
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Inventions created during the ancient eras often leave an impact on the civilizations around at the time‚ but over time‚ fade due to steadily improving technology. Though with the innovations from Ancient China such as paper‚ print and the gun‚ the inventions not only effected Ancient China‚ but the entire globe‚ and still to this day are heavily relied-upon tools in the modern world. As China became one of the most developed nations during the early common era‚ many other nations began to express
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