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    The Creation of the Universe In my short life on this planet I have come to question things that many take upon blind faith. We all know that we must some day die; yet we continuously deny the forces at work inside ourselves‚ which want to search out the answers of what may or may not come after. It is far easier for humanity to accept that they will go to a safe haven and be rewarded for their lives with pleasures and fantasies of an unfathomable scale than to question the existence

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    A final way that the Nazis created their perfect race was through the Hitler Youth Program. The Hitler Youth Program was a program in which the children of Germany learned how to be the perfect Nazi citizen. Originally‚ the program was created in the 1920’s‚ but membership increased rapidly when Hitler came to power because he banned all other youth programs (Hitler Youth Movement). Hitler’s authoritative demand shows that this certain program was important to him because it taught the beliefs of

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    Nicolaus Copernicus By: Jenny For over 1‚000 years‚ everyone thought everything revolved around the earth‚ but Nicolaus Copernicus had a different idea that we base off of still today. He was a doctor and a church amidisteror‚ but still‚ impressively‚ put in time for his favorite thing‚ astrology. Copernicus was born on February 19‚ 1473 in Torun‚ Poland. He was born into a very wealthy merchant family of six. His dad passed away when he was 10. His uncle then took him under his wing promising

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    The Origin of the universe… The Origin of the Universe by Bilal Qureshi Since the dawn of intelligent man‚ humanity has speculated about the origins of the universe. There is evidence‚ which indicates that the universe started around 15 billion years ago. This is probably the

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    Descartes and Newton The old saying "great minds think alike" is not just an old saying. It was at least partially true concerning the minds of Rene Descartes and Isaac Newton. The significant scientific contributions of each man share some common concepts and methodologies‚ but they generally explored different topics of research. Each scientist based his beliefs on different mind sets. The similarities between Newton and Descartes are found deep in the foundations of their beliefs and

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    April 2016 Galileo Galilei in the Scientific Revolution What would Physics and Astronomy be like today if Galileo Galilei never existed? Although it is taken for granted that the scientific revolution occurred and changed a lot of things in the sixteenth and seventeenth century‚ it pioneered all of the scientific improvements that stand in place today. However‚ even to present day‚ some scientist such as Steven Shapin argue that there was no such thing as the scientific revolution and that it was just

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    because he is the only person that had an influence on the Scientific Revolution that was most interesting to me. He came up with the law of the pendulum. He is very different from any other person who had influence on the scientific revolution. Galileo’s theory instantly made him famous. Throughout my report I will inform about the significance and influence Galileo had on the Scientific Revolution. Galileo was the inventor of the scientific method. As well as studying the phases of Venus and discovering

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    Scientific Racism Scientific racism is termed as the use of a set of certain beliefs‚ theories‚ or ways of thinking in order to justify or classify ‚ individuals who show different characteristics or traits into separate races. From the beginning of European expansion and colonization‚ some questions had started to be raised about whether the indigenous people that were being discovered in the New World

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    Math Sir Isaac Newton On Christmas day in 1642 a premature baby by the name of Isaac Newton was born. Isaac was born in Woolsthorpe‚ Lincolnshire‚ England and attended day school there while living with his grandmother. When Isaac was about thirteen‚ he went away to Grammar School in Grantham where he noticed his interest in chemicals. In 1661‚ he went to Cambridge University and stayed there until 1696 (with some gaps due to the plague). Within his Cambridge years‚ Isaac

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    Persian Bead drapes and so it was easy for a young boy like me to slip in and out. Here I spent many happy hours. Parting the curtain one was confronted by an immense‚ solid dark wood‚ custom wardrobe. It was adorned with many animal carvings cut from the very wood of its three doors. They were mythical creatures‚ such as gargoyles‚ griffins‚ sphinxes‚ chimeras‚ and many more. This wardrobe was most impressive and almost smothered the room. There were two more pieces of furniture. A heavy‚ dark

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