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    The invention of the airplane effected ordinary people in both positive and negative ways. The first public plane service only took one passenger at a time. It cost $5 for a one way trip across Tampa Bay which was called St. Petersburg. They provided the public with two trips per day and for four months. Compared with the two hour boat road the twenty three minute plane ride was much preferred by travelers. This being an exception commercial aviation was not very common before world war one as most

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    BOOK OR SOURCE & FULL PUBLISH REFERENCE: TITLE: The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime AUTHOR: Judith Flanders PUBLISHER: Thomas Dunne Books-St. Martin’s Press PUBLISHING CITY: New York EDITION: First Edition DATE: July 23‚ 2013 ISBN-10: 1250024870 Q I. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS HISTORICAL AREA AND THIS BOOK? At the library‚ I was recommended Judith Flander ’s The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and

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    An invention that has caused more harm than good There have been many inventions that have come along throughout the years. One that comes to mind is the computer. Computers have been around for quite sometime now and throughout the years they have become more advanced such as new programs and the internet. The internet is one invention that has caused more harm than good. Reasons for this would be people getting addicted to certain websites‚ having stalkers and people hacking your information

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    mutually influenced by their life experiences but their stories present an extreme different trend by which people adjust to a new culture. Alvarez‚ who is a Dominican reflects part of her life experience growing up as a girl in her story "Daughters of Invention"‚ which is about a family seeking a new life after they immigrated to America due to government corruption in the Dominican Republic. Life over there was not safe

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    WAR FROM THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY TO INVENTION OF GUNPOWDER The invention of the powerful artillery guns would change man ’s role in warring engagements. The artillery guns at first were very limited by their own design. The guns were very heavy and had to be transported by water‚ which meant that only towns and fortresses that were close to a body of water could be attacked with artillery also known as the cannon. There were also some fortresses that were impervious to the early cannon attacks

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    Introduction The Internet Is The Greatest Invention of Mankind There are two sides to every story‚ and in this case‚ two sides to every argument. The above statement poses such questions as: if the Internet is not the best invention of mankind‚ what is? And‚ what would life be like without computers and the Internet? I hope to answer these questions and form a fact-based opinion on whether I think that the Internet truly is the greatest invention of mankind. One of the obvious benefits of the Internet

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    state and therefore doesn’t have to be one in modern day. However‚ critiques would argue that this is a fantasy and so is impossible. Paragraph 1 Anarchists believe strongly in natural order‚ which is the idea that people can organise themselves. Godwin stated that we are rational creatures who can make their own decisions. This idea supports the fact that a stateless society isn’t a fantasy because anarchists believe that if the state were to be abolished‚ we can use reason to make decisions

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    statements. Are they accurate? Should we be relying on the information they supply? Are people who are high fantasy prone better at tricking the results to look like they are telling the truth? The expectation was that high fantasy prone people would have an ability to tell detailed stories and be rich in the characteristics of CBCA and low for LIWC. The studies could show that high fantasy people are better or worse at lying in their statements‚ which could make these methods of trying to figure

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    5. PRINTING YESTERDAY AND TODAY How has printing changed since Gutenberg’s invention? In the workshop Gutenberg‚ the printing is very different from the process used. Gutenberg printing process may seem slow and boring by modern standards. Skilled preparation can install 2‚000 characters or letters in an hour. Within two seconds‚ the computer can manage the same number of characters. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries‚ there are different types of words that are printed each time and every

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    The telegraph was one of the most important inventions of the 19th century; however‚ it has several drawbacks compared to 21st-century devices. For example‚ telegraphs required a knowledge of Morse Code – their primary means of communication. Telegraphs sent a series of electrical signals via a telegraph wire. The signals could be heard by the operator on the opposite end of the wire as a sequence of long and short clicks. Morse Code represented letters of the alphabet with click patterns‚ which

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