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    Fantastic Voyage HS130-39R1AU Unit #4 Assignment Kaplan University February 5th‚ 2014 Fantastic Voyage Good afternoon everyone‚ my name is Ash and I will be reporting to about my journey to check out the bacterium in the lower lobe of the right lung. I will be in my mini submarine Kim08. My assistants are going to shrink me down to a very small size that cannot be seen by the human eye and then inject me into the right femoral vein of Alex a female who is in good health. She seems to be having

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    Gavin Menzies' Voyages

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    Gavin Menzies was a royal navy submarine captain that worked for the British government and now is trying to let the world know his opinion on the discovery of the Americas: did the Chinese discover the Americas before Columbus? Menzies takes on a voyage where he tries to find evidence to support his thesis and comes up with several different theories; his first stop: Calicut. Menzies claims that the Ming dynasty’s famous navigator Zheng He managed to reach the cape of good hope and from there he

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    Caitlin Willer Plato Interpreting Historical Fiction 26 June 2014 The book I chose to read was The Voyage on The Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady By: Ellen Emerson White. The young thirteen year old Margaret Brady is an orphan who lives in a girls home in London. Her only family member is her brother‚ William‚ who is in Boston trying to save up enough money to pay for her passage. Margaret sort of lucks out when a rich American woman named Mrs. Carstairs hires Margaret as a

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    it’s how much you can endure until you break that makes people’s endurance different and unique. Weather you’re mentally enduring talking politics with your opinionated family on Thanksgiving or you’re enduring the physical pain of a gunshot wound‚ you continue to endure the pain and see the day through. Endurance is the ability or strength to continue‚ especially despite fatigue‚ stress‚ or other adverse conditions. In Ernest Hemingway’s book‚ The Old Man and the Sea‚ an old man named Santiago

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    Voyage of Life Analysis

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    Aislinn Noone Noone 1 Mr. Majeski AP Lit P1 Voyage of Life Response 9-6-12 Life’s Beginning and End In Thomas Cole’s series of paintings‚ “Voyage of Life‚” shows the different stages of a person’s life. The message of the series is how a man’s life can be summarized in four stages that are guided by angels from birth to death. The first painting‚ “Voyage of Life: Childhood‚” shows a lavish landscape full of thriving plant life. This represents brand new life. A holy figure

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    Zheng He Voyages

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    traveled all the way from China to Southeast Asia and then on to India in which to trade with all the of the major trading sites on India’s southwest coast. On his fourth voyage‚ Zheng He traveled to the Persian Gulf to set about a trading relationship with the Arabs. With these routes set up and secured he set out for the three last voyages‚ and Zheng He went even further and ended up on the eastern coast of Africa. This should have been impressive

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    Patrick Colven Dr. Racker Mosaic: Humanities Seminar 1 17 September 2014 In The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ a partly recollected epic poem about the journey of Uruk’s King‚ Gilgamesh is forced to fuck confront his fear of death‚ question his choices and morality‚ and re-evaluate his own character. Given that he sleeps with newlywed women (Tablet II‚ Column P‚ 161) and kills Humbaba only to show his prowess and leave a legacy (Tablet V‚ Column V‚ 245)‚ I am very hesitant to even call Gilgamesh a hero at

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    Ernest Rutherford

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    Ernest Rutherford Born on August 30th‚ 1871 in New Zealand‚ Ernest Rutherford accomplished to be one of many successful chemists throughout the world in the 19th and the 20th centuries. With his brilliant experiments he explained the puzzling problem of radioactivity and the sudden breakdown of atoms. In addition‚ he determined the structure of the atom and was first to ever split it. Rutherford’s great mind triggered innovations of new technology such as the smoke detector that saves many

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    Gulliver's Second Voyage

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    asdasdsin Gulliver’s second voyage‚ he was again traveling on a ship. and because they were desperate for water‚ they went to a land. but somehow Gulliver was left behind; leaving him found by a farmer‚ who’s 72 feet tall. he was then brought home by the farmer‚ and Gulliver was being taken care of by a young girl. the farmer‚ finding Gulliver very unique and interesting‚ presents Gulliver in front of a huge crowd for money. soon‚ the words spread and reaches the Queen of Brobdingnag. she wanted

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    Epic of Gilgamesh

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    and Weaknesses of Rulers In the epic of Gilgamesh‚ Gilgamesh and how he is as a ruler changes drastically from the beginning of the epic to the end. In the beginning of the epic Gilgamesh is almost childlike in his views on his kingdom and the people he rules. As the epic progresses Gilgamesh grows with his reputation and support of his friend Enkidu. By the end of the epic Gilgamesh has matured to the point of selflessness. In the beginning of the epic in the prologue it states that the

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