the Hiram Maxim Machine Gun. I will attempt to analyze and acknowledge this invention from three key points; technological‚ sociological‚ and political. The machine gun was a very big technological advancement in 1881‚ and brought about a huge change in how wars were fought. Taking some of the thought of the Gatling Gun‚ Maxim upgraded and made the machine gun more portable. One of the improvements was the way the gun fired. Taking away the rotating barrels of the Gatling Gun‚ Maxim’s utilized the
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and the author of “the gift of reason”‚ Walter Edmonds are both touched by the animals they wrote about. Gusewelle changed the way he thinks about Rufus. Edmonds changes the way he think of animal’s actions. Despite the two authors change in perspective about animals‚ Edmonds seemed more influenced by his experience. C.W. Gusewelle changes his point of view on Rufus now. Rufus has changed after one hot summer day got to him‚ he is no longer obedient. In the story‚ “Rufus” it says‚ “there is nothing
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Despite the fact that everyone seemed to be going with the flow‚ Michael decided to take a step back and really look at what the world around him was at the time. He came to the conclusion that there needed to be change‚ and he would help invoke that change. Michael Moore would change the structure of his society by doing it through one of his many talents: comedy. Michael first began his criticism by writing in his own weekly newspaper‚ the Flint Voice. He would later be hired to write for the
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one expected them to do anything‚ Florentines went to Germany” to get the Germans to fight the general of the Milan. If this accusation or action was not performed Florence would not have been close to destruction. Yet‚ Bruni talks at length about how a person should “travel through the entire world and select any city they wish and compare it with Florence.” He knows in his heart that there is no city like Florence and if people disagree he wants proof and says “let them give proof of that same
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but I learned to rise‚ and be better than I was before‚ all thanks to one person. I wouldn’t be the person I am today and see a different outlook on life if it wasn’t for the life I had‚ much like Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh fought monsters and gods‚ but so did I‚ maybe not literal ones but figurative ones. These battles I had were with the people I was surrounded with but I also fought them internally. The alcoholic who I call my Dad‚ forced me to teach myself the morals of life and learn to fight battles
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Philosophers made a huge difference in the late 17th and 18th century. In this time there were many discoveries which caused disagreements. People were always questioning the ways of living and thinking. Enlightenment Philosophers had that hope to change or improve society by sharing their point of view. What made them to believe in their statements? They hoped to find natural laws about people. This idea was a key part of their
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Revolution was a historic occasion for the entire world. These ragtag colonists took on the largest and strongest empire at that time‚ and come out on top as the victors. In order to understand how this happened there are three key areas to look at. Before the Revolution‚ the Revolutionary war‚ and finally‚ how America recovered after the war. Before the war‚ it is important to look at the events that led to the war. In 1756‚ France declared war in which battles raged in Europe‚ India
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and clinking glasses‚ of parties and forgetting the past. After the war‚ a new American culture was born. Iconic images resonate with the decade’s cultural and technological changes: flappers and jazz and movies and more. In particular‚ the automobile became a symbol of the technological advancement of the decade with Henry Ford’s novel assembly line allowing the middle class to afford cars. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald employs the automobile as a symbol to represent
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it wants to enter? That’s how the people of Puerto Rico felt with the wind of this atmospheric catastrophe call Hurricane Maria. It was like taken from a horror movie. Hurricane Maria destroyed houses‚ gas stations‚ cars‚ supermarkets‚ many people died‚ including the whole island was without electricity‚ water or even food. Puerto Rico became an island that people couldn’t live on‚ it sometimes became too hard to find something to eat or even to drink. Hurricane Maria did all that to Puerto Rico.
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Two eras that changed the course of mankind were the Renaissance and the Reformation. The Renaissance‚ an era that takes its name from the French word for "rebirth‚" began in late 14th-century Italy. It came to maturity in the 15th century‚ and spread to the rest of Europe after the middle of that century. Following the devastation of the black plague‚ it marked not only the physical recovery of the human population across Europe‚ but also an artistic‚ intellectual‚ scientific‚ and philosophical
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