In 1871 Germany finally became a unified statehood. This was a long time coming for Germany because for so long they were just a cluster of twenty-five German speaking states‚ city-states‚ and duchies between France‚ Russia‚ and the north sea coast. When fighting for the right to finally be unified this brought fighting which was fueled by the rise in German nationalism in the early half of the 1800’s. Germany’s unification began with the uproar of 1848‚ when a series of revolutions came through
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The Scientific Revolution was a period of time when many scientific discoveries were made. The Scientific Revolution began in the 1500s and ended in the late 1700s. Many of the discoveries made during the Scientific Revolution were centered on the idea that there are certain mathematical laws that rule over and apply to the entire universe. Because of these discoveries‚ many scientists believed that we could better understand the physical characteristics of the world we live in and use them to
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so much about it. On February 15‚ 1564‚ in the city of Pisa‚ Italy a boy was born that would forever change the way humans look up at the stars every night. Galileo Galilei has been and will forever be known for his discoveries and inventions‚ and how they contributed to our planet. Many known scientific theories have spawn from the ingenious mind of Galileo. Like all discoverers‚ you either make a theory or support a theory. Many people before Galileo’s time thought that the earth was the center
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Helen Keller’s story is one of inspiration. Helen became deaf and blind after an illness at 19 months old‚ but with hard work and determination‚ she learned to communicate through sign language beginning at age 6. 10‚ Helen began to learn to speak verbally‚ and would go on to be the first blind and deaf person to graduate from college. Helen wanted to share her experiences with the world in hopes of bringing attention to people with disabilities. Her goal was to improve the lives of those who lived
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Anti-Semitism is a common name for anti-Jewish sentiments that has persisted in many forms over several years. Jews are people the Hebrew Bible and believe there is only one God. Christianity emerged from Judaism as the first Christians prayed in Hebrew and followed the Jewish customs. Christians believed that Jesus was the Christ‚ the Messiah; however‚ Jews believed that the Messiah was yet to come. Jesus was put to death by the Romans but the gospel accounts blamed all Jews for the crucifixion
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religion‚ ethnicity‚ etc. They are Stereotypes. A stereotype as defined in the dictionary is “A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.” They affect the way people view others. Stereotypes affect society by making people judge others based on stereotypes. Most people see stereotypes as a way to group certain people together. There are good things and bad things about stereotypes. “A pro is it lets us respond to situations quickly because it is similar
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Calpurnia: why do you talk nigger-talk to the to your folks when you its not right? White-folks talk‚ to some extent‚ does symbolise intelligence as only white people attended school at that time. This makes you wonder where Scout learnt this from because Atticus would not have told her this. She must have learnt it from school or neighbours which shows how racist Maycomb society is. There is a lot of tension and hatred between black and white people. Calpurnia explains to Jem and Scout: Suppose
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Isaac Newton was a big name around the period of time of the Enlightenment. He had many inventions that contributed to the Enlightenment such as the Naturalis Principia Mathematica Philosophiae and his ideas about gravity and the invention of the telescope. Isaac Newton was born on January 4‚ 1643 and his first contribution to the enlightenment was making the telescope. In 1668 he created the telescope for optics and this invention proved the idea of color and light. He proved that light was
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“There is no one else who has spent this much money” (qtd. in J. Mayer 5) Charles and David Koch‚ referred to as the Koch brothers‚ have been operating the American government since the 1970s‚ funding lobbyists and investing in a “private political bank” supporting a carefully constructed group of wealthy conservatives in order to boost their ideologies into the American political system (Mayer 5). They amassed immense control over government officials and whole branches‚ bending them to their immediate
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Nelson Mandela’s courage through even the toughest obstacles makes him an historical dinner partner. Nelson Mandela was born on July 18‚ 1918 into a royal family of the Xhosa-speaking Themhu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo. Mandela was the first in his family to get an education‚ he completed his primary studies at the Missonary School. In 1939‚ Mandela entered the elite University of Fort Hare‚ this was the only Western-style school for South African Blacks at that time. He also studied
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