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    Kundera Other Works

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    Other Works by Milan Kundera Poetry * Man: A Broad Garden‚ 1953 * The Last May‚ 1954-1955-1961 * a homage to Julius Fučík‚ the hero of communist resistance against the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia during the Second World War. The work conforms to the tenets of socialist realism and the strictly official communist version of history. * Monologues‚ 1957-1964-1965 * a collection of poems in which Kundera highlights betwen lovers. Here he rejects political propaganda

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    Solar System

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    The stages of transportation systems research are suggested below. Stage 1.Identification of objectives and functioning of the subject of research‚ defining the criterion of system’s efficiency. Stage 2.Defining the borders of the system. Stage 3.Identification of the structure of environment. Stage 4.Research of the structure of transportation system; identification of its elements. Stage 5.Investigation of the characteristic interrelations between the elements of the system; design of the mathematic

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    | Ancient India saw the relationship between knowledge of science and technology‚ with religion and social relations. The archaeological remains of the Indus Valley reveal knowledge of applied sciences. Scientific techniques were used in irrigation‚ Metallurgy‚ making of fired bricks and pottery‚ and simple reckoning and measurement of areas and volumes. Aryan achievements in the field of astronomy‚ mathematics and medicine are well known. Chinese records indicate knowledge of a dozen books of Indian

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    Charles Babbage

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    with honours. He received a degree later without even being examined in 1814. After graduation Babbage was hired by the Royal Institution in order to lecture on calculus. There‚ in 1816 he was elected as a member of the Royal Society and found the Astronomical Society. In the meantime (1817) he received MA from Cambridge. Since 1828 and some years after‚ until 1839 he was named the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. Charles Babbage also has the nickname "Father of Computing" due to his

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    “Since we cannot change reality‚ let us change the eyes which see reality” -Nikos Kazantzakis. Nicolaus Copernicus battled with the powerful church to change the minds that believed Earth is the center of the universe therefore he changed today’s reality. The heliocentric theory proposed in 1543 revolutionized the scientific world throughout Europe socially by sparking a scientific revolution and religiously by causing a major conflict between theologians and astronomers. The Idea of heliocentrism

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    Frank Gehry

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    titanium and steal on the outside walls nowadays you can tell that’s a Ghery’s building just by knowing the style of him. Some of his remarkable works of architecture are the Stata Center in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts‚ The Dancing House in Prague

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    Extraordinary Rendition

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    Cited: 1.) Albert‚ Gwendolyn. "With Impunity." The Prague Post. April 12‚ 2006. Lexis Nexis. 15 Nov. 2007. <http://www.lexisnexis.com.proxy.library.vcu.edu/us/lnacademic/delivery/DownloadDoc.do?dnldFilePath=%2Fl-n%2Fshared%2Fprod%2Fdiscus%2Fqds%2Frepository%2Fdocs%2F2%2F34%2F1841%3A61057342%2Fformatted_

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    Scientific Revolution: The scientific revolution refers to the period of historical changes in thought & belief‚ as well as proposed universal laws. This period brought ideas not only on the motion of the spheres‚ but on the influence of God on daily life and nature theorized by philosophers such as Nicholas Copernicus and Isaac Newton. The Author‚ Its Work: Nicolaus Copernicus‚ On the Revolutions; the Heliocentric Model. Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the idea that the sun was stationary object centered

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    Rainer Maria Rilke

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    on December 29‚ 1926. The rose was a symbol of love‚ beauty‚ and devotion in many of Rilke’s writings.With quotes such as this Rilke became known as one of the best poets of the 20th century. &#9;Rainer Maria Rilke was born on December 4‚ 1875 in Prague‚ which is now the capital of Czechoslovakia. He was the only child of a very unhappy marriage‚ which eventually ended in a divorce. When his parent’s separated he was torn between them. His mother dressed him as a girl and his dad sent him to military

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    With the number of immigrants seeking shelter constantly increasing‚ especially of those fleeing from the Syrian civil war‚ Europe is confronted with two opposing sides. While one side supports the idea of opening the borders and welcoming asylum seekers‚ the other argues otherwise. Some groups and parties are campaigning against accepting more immigrants. Germany‚ with its refugee-friendly policies‚ currently provides shelter for more than a million refugees. Since the number is so huge‚ there have

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