LIBERTY UNIVERSITY A SUMMARY OF “PURE HISTORY SPECIALS: BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER” SUBMITTED TO DR. MICHAEL A. DAVIS IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMPLETION OF HIST 222 BY CAROLINA PHILLIPS LYNCHBURG‚ VIRGINIA APRIL 3‚ 2014 A SUMMARY OF “PURE HISTORY SPECIALS: BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER” Pure History Specials: Breaking the Sound Barrier” is a history documentary found on hulu.com relating to American pilots during
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"Where ignorance is bliss‚ ’tis folly to be wise”. Extracted from Thomas Gray’s poem‚ ‘Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College’‚ this adage is an existential conundrum ("the definition of ignorance is bliss"‚ 2016) . While some reflect in ‘hear no evil‚ speak no evil’‚ my outlook on this is that it is exceptionally vital to live in knowledge rather than in ignorance. I believe that ignorance isn’t bliss‚ its oblivion. Mankind has been in the pursuit of knowledge since its evolution. Human beings
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Breaking through the Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” takes place in a large mansion on the outskirts of a small rural town sometime during the late 1800’s. The main character and narrator of the story is a young woman who remains unnamed. The narrator explains that she was brought to the mansion by her husband John who is a physician. John believes that the narrator has nervous depression and feels that she will be best treated using a method called the rest treatment
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What was the most important short-term consequence of breaking the enigma code? One one of the primary causes of the end of World War two was the breaking of the German Enigma codes. Other short-term consequences lead to First‚ the decimation of the Italian fleet at the Cape of Matapan in 1941‚ due to intercepted Italian signals by Bletchley Park‚ the sinking of Scharnhorst in 1943‚ as well due to findings be Bletchley Park‚ and the greatest contribution— the defeat of German U boats in the Atlantic
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Breaking a Social Norm For my breaking a social norm‚ my friends and I wanted to do something creative that no one in my class would do. So in a couple of minutes of thinking we figure something creative. Our plan was to go to McDonalds and use the drive thru to order our order‚ but the catch is that I was supposed to walk to the drive thru with no car just me standing there ordering my order and when they said to pull up to the next widow I would just walk to the window and pay and walk to the
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In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee puts an emphasis on the ignorance of the characters. There are two main types of ignorance in the book. There is the ignorance of the kids‚ which shows how they are naive and unexposed to the world and there is the ignorance of the townspeople‚ which shows how they are close minded and quick to judge. The first kind of ignorance portrayed in the book is the ignorance of children. When To Kill a Mockingbird starts out‚ the main character‚ Scout‚ is just five years
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commonsense knowledge that people use to understand the situations in which they find themselves.” For this requirement‚ I had to “break the rules” during a specific activity and observe the results. I chose a rather safe approach to this requirement‚ breaking the rules of how I should behave when speaking to someone. I tried this out on two people‚ my boyfriend‚ and an acquaintance. Usually‚ it is not expected and probably considered rude to suddenly grab the face of someone you are talking to and then
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In the series Breaking Bad‚ Walter White‚ a high school chemistry teacher finds out he has cancer and teams up with an old student to cook meth. His motivation to cook meth comes from the need to provide for his family after his death. Walt’s desperateness for money causes greed and a constant craving of power. In the beginning of Breaking Bad‚ Walter White’s desperateness immediately appears when he learns that he has lung cancer and only has a few months to live. After hearing the bad news‚ Walter
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living out our business agreements‚ and paying our just debts. Taking money for yourself that belongs to others is stealing‚ no matter how it is done. Cheating others out of their money is violating the commandment. Accepting bribes is also a way of breaking the commandment because taking that money is unjust and really does not belong to you. However‚ with our nature‚ it is impossible for us to never sin. We are born with a sinful
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Bradbury sensed this tension and the themes of his novel reflect his opinions on the issues that arose in this time period. Guy Montag lives in a society in which books are banned‚ which forces people to live in ignorance. This brings out a prominent theme of knowledge versus ignorance. Montag refuses to continue living like the rest of his society; he doesn’t want to spend his life watching television on screens as big as walls and spending time with a make-believe family. He rejects the social
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