"necessity is the mother of invention". Thomas Edison statement was based on the dependence of society using technology. This statement means that items that are invented based off of what people need. This is because no one will be able to appreciate an item that has no use. An example in today’s day an age is the iPhone which was invented so people didn’t have to carry both a phone and an iPod. That is making an invention due to the necessity of the people. Marshall McLuhan flipped this statement
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January 7‚ 2013 Thomas Sophonow Background Thomas sophonow has two siblings a brother and a sister. The brother Philip is the oldest and his sister Catherine the second oldest and Thomas being the youngest. His parents had divorced which made the mother responsible for taking care of the children. They became a poor family and he and his brother would steal fruits and vegetables for his family. Thomas was placed in foster homes and in juvenile detention facilities. At one point in his life
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With the use of our make-shift blubber‚ any animal could survive in the extreme cold. However real blubber found on an animal is an example of Stimulus and response‚ but also homeostasis. The stimulus is the experiment was the ice water‚ but in real life‚ it would be the extreme winds and temperatures. The response most likely took time and over multiple generations of that species to properly evolve to fit their
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become a dentist like I planned when I graduate. When I first started high school I did not want to join jrotc and I hated it because I always told myself I never wanted to wear that lame unifom. There was nothing interesting to me in this program. The more I became involved in the program‚ I learned that I could do just about anything I wanted to from going to summer camp‚ meeting new people‚ winning multiple awards and even being successful in graduating and going into the navy like I planned.
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death. However‚ while Hamlet is ready to rid the kingdom of its weeds‚ he still isn’t completely convinced of his uncle’s guilt and must devise a plan to know the truth within the web of lies he now sees in the kingdom‚ claiming that “the play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king” (Act 2 Scene 2). Because of his skepticism of the ghost’s claims‚ Hamlet is barred from taking any quick action‚ which is ultimately his biggest downfall. He doesn’t trust the ghost‚ criticizing that “the
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Is a Hero Really Nothing but a Sandwich? In the article titled “Is a Hero Really Nothing but a Sandwich?” by Ted Tollefson‚ he states what makes a person a hero. One interesting idea he mentions is a hero has ability to boost change of community‚ and another important factor he raises is all heroes around the world are instructive and inspirational. While these are not the only factors that make up a hero‚ I believe they are the two most essential evidences to support the topic. The first point
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individual or group with an interest in the success of a business. In a business there can be internal and external stakeholders. An internal stakeholder is a stakeholder who is internally linked to the business for reasons that would benefit them like Employees would be an internal stakeholder because they would be seeking high wages whereas an owner would be an internal stakeholder and their interest would be to seek for their shares to increase in value. External shareholder can be customers
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The first poem by Rumi that I read was entitled "An Empty Garlic". The title threw me off at first‚ since it goes into this whole thing about an old woman‚ who the narrator is trying to discourage his friend from going after. "Tasteless fig‚ fold over fold‚ empty as dry-rotten garlic." This line finally made the title ring through the piece‚ which tied up a loose end for me. I kind of agree with Rumi‚ though how could a person desire a woman that is described by this quote? Think about how rancid
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The general argument made by D.M. Murdock in her work‚ “Are UFO’s and Aliens Real?” is that there are a number of different types now complied under the heading of legendary “sky people‚” humans‚ gods‚ and possibly aliens. More specifically‚ she argues that they are not always called aliens‚ but planetary bodies‚ such as the sun‚ moon‚ earth‚ planets‚ stars‚ etc. Murdock writes‚ “the Greek Sun God‚ Apollo‚ is most assuredly just that: A sun god‚ not an alien flying through the sky in his chariot
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the table along with the peanut butter sandwiches and bags of carrot sticks. I didn’t feel like I matched any of these groups. At my old school‚ I was friends with everyone‚ and we didn’t have to share a hobby in order to have plenty in common. It seemed as though all of these groups shared one specific thing with each other‚ which I didn’t share with any of them. One day‚ I noticed someone else sitting like me: quiet and alone in the shade of one of the courtyard’s big pine trees. She was small and
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