Why Scientific Literacy is Important An elected official becomes an official by the results of an election. If candidates are not required to show scientific literacy then it’s a possibility of a candidate being elected with no scientific literacy knowledge at all which could result in disaster. Let’s use the position of president of the United States for example‚ could you imagine someone with such responsibility having no scientific literacy knowledge at all? To keep that from happening elected
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Which was more important reason for the outbreak of ww1 in 1914? -the arms race -the assassination in Sarajevo The Arms Race was a race to build the biggest Army and Navy for the war that could occur at any time. All the countries except Britain and Germany were trying to build the biggest army but Britain and Germany were trying to build up their navy as Germany wanted the biggest navy so that they could overpower and beat the size of Britain’s. In Germany they had the biggest army‚ and it
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Which of the following is more important: inner beauty or physical beauty? Beauty. What is the first impression of people when they hear the word ‘beauty’? There are a lot of answers but the most common imagination that the majority of people would think of is a sexy lady or a hot gentleman. Few‚ actually‚ would think of their behaviour and character. Those are the two common types of beauty. Inner beauty and physical beauty. Physical beauty could refer to someone’s outer attributes such as elegance
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Which is more important – individual freedom‚ or health and safety for everyone? This question looms in society today. Freedom is defined as "the condition of being free from restraints" Safety is defined as "the condition of being safe; we have to be free to choose our own destiny. Free to make our own choices. We should be free sovereign autonomous individuals. Free to have the power and right of self-determination over our own minds‚ bodies‚ lives and souls. To me freedom trumps all.
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Copernicus‚ Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. These scientist changed some beliefs of which many had been believed for all of time. For almost all of time‚ the geocentric theory was believed to be true. This theory suggested that all planets revolved around the Earth. In 1543‚ Polish scholar Nicolaus Copernicus published On the Revolutions of the Heavily Spheres. In this book‚ a new theory was proposed that all planets‚ including Earth‚ revolved around the sun. This was called the heliocentric theory
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Education Is More Important Everyone of us is a bundle of unique gifts and talents. Our relative success in life depends on how much we believe in ourselves‚ trust our own private genius‚ nurture it and let it grow freely. What education does is that it provides us with the opportunity to unravel and realize our inborn talents‚ while providing us with the skills of thinking and solving problems on our own. Both education and success are relative concepts in the sense that there is a wide difference
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of the American Revolution The American Revolution embarked the beginning of the United States of America. A war that lasted eight years‚ 1775-1783‚ was able to grant the thirteen colonies the independence they deserved by breaking free of British rule. The war was an effect of the previous French and Indian War‚ which forced England to tax the American colonist‚ compelling them to rebel against parliament. From the 1760’s to 1775‚ many factors lead up to the American Revolution such as the various
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1. Discuss whether the Scientific Revolution and the Reformation were “revolutionary”. What does it mean to be revolutionary? To be revolutionary is to be‚ as defined by dictionary.com as “markedly new or introducing radical change”. It is my educated opinion to believe that the scientific revolution and the reformation were both revolutionary without a doubt. A revolution involves change‚ mass amounts of change which affects nearly everything. It’s not a change of wardrobe‚ or a new car‚ it is
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Why was beheading so influential for us today? The French wanted a more instant and innocent way to execute people‚ which is why they adopted the infamous guillotine to their arsenal of punishments. Making executions easier‚ faster‚ and less painful‚ less shameful and more plentiful than ever before. The French Revolution began in 1789‚ after years of French people being subjected to monarchical tyranny. Being inspired by the American Revolution against Britain‚ the French found similar reasons
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In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ Macbeth judges that power is more important than fear which is shown through his actions and words‚ and that reveals greed for more power will cause one to resort to an irrational nature. Macbeth’s judgment being power is more important than fear is shown through his actions towards Duncan and Banquo‚ which displays that greed for more power will cause one to resort to an irrational nature. Macbeth murdering King Duncan reveals his judgment. If someone found out
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