On the fourth of October in 1957‚ at approximately 2:29 pm‚ the Soviet Union did something unheard of. They launched the first artificial Earth satellite into a low-Earth orbit. This satellite was Sputnik‚ the Russian word for traveler. Although the Soviet Union launched this satellite‚ its impact on the United States was tremendous. For instance‚ the launch of the Russian Satellite‚ Sputnik‚ lead to the creation of NASA. Contributing factors like the U.S.’s continuous strive to come out on top‚
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likely to perform better increasing multiple ideas and efficiency towards a shared objective. For example‚ when Mahatma Gandhi returned to India after living in South Africa for eight years; he wanted to attend a meeting to a political party to report how bad the Indians were discriminated in South Africa‚ therefore he looked for help with his mentor Gopal Krishna Gokhale a senior social and political leader of the Indian National Congress a political party in the country that was a venue where Indians
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The first secretary of the treasury is not often talked about when discussing the history of America. He was born in Nevis on January 11‚ 1757 to Rachel Levian and James Hamilton. By the time he was eleven‚ he had his first job in order to help support his family after his father left. Only two years later‚ his mother died. When a hurricane destroyed his town‚ Hamilton wrote a passionate letter about the destruction left behind. His letter impressed many people and funds were pooled together to send
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The first way the she did that was by knighting a explorer from Devonshire England after he had been sent away to explore South America by Queen Elizabeth‚ he had also helped her defeat Spanish Armada. Another explorer that Queen Elizabeth had influenced was a man named Martin
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allowed equal rights for the blind‚ deaf and women‚ which lead to women being able to vote. Helen Keller contributed her life to educating other that had her condition making life easier for them through teaching sign language‚ giving speeches‚ and she did not discriminate. For instance‚ in Helen Keller early years‚ around 1887; Helen had already developed her own language for the blind and deaf that people could use with their hands to spell out words. For example‚ Helen writes about the first time she
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of the single wire telegraph and the co invention of mores code. With the help of other inventers‚ Mores was able to make models of the wire telegraphs‚ get a Patton on it‚ have wires installed up and down the Atlantic‚ changed the way the world and how ships communicate‚ and became a wealthy man. The telegraph is not used today because of the other ways we communicate but mores code is still used. Mores was born on April 27th 1791 in Massachusetts and died on April 2nd 1872. He lived in New York‚
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getting the gold. She even started to get hate from the press. Simone was the 2013 Artistic Gymnastics World Champion. Many people said since she is a power gymnast‚ she can’t be artistic and graceful. She wanted to prove them wrong‚ in which‚ she did. When Simone saw that she made the 2016 Rio Olympic team‚ she couldn’t believe it for one minute. Before‚ her Olympic dream was to simply just make the team and go to Rio with all the amazing experiences like meeting other American Athletes and having
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affected the modern day understanding of our universe and changed the way many looked at science as a whole. This time period involved many brilliant philosophers who devoted their lives to understanding the universe and developing a more accurate idea of how things work on Earth. Without the development of these ideas‚ society would not have a clear‚ intelligent idea of what goes on with our environment and our surroundings. Important advancements were made in physical and life science during this period
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Desk of: Imran Omer Case Study: WorldCom From its beginnings as a long distance call player to handler of Internet data traffic‚ WorldCom was a spectacular firework in the sky before it crashed out as one of the biggest bankruptcies America has witnessed in its corporate history. WorldCom carried more international voice traffic than any other company. It carried a large amount of the world‟s Internet traffic. WorldCom owned and operated a global IP (Internet Protocol) backbone that provided
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for optics and this invention proved the idea of color and light. He proved that light was the composite of all other colors and that light is made up of particles. A little bit later a scientists named Robert Hooke came into play. Him and Newton did not like each other very much because they talked about the same stuff‚ but both of
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