Filipino Scientists Contribution in the field of electricity Gregorio Zara Holder of doctorate in physics. Among Filipino Scientists‚ he is perhaps the most notable in the field of electricity. Zara formulated the Law of electrical resistance or what is known as the Zara Effect. This law states that all moving contacts between conductors produce a resistance to the passage electrical current which may be kinetic or permanent electrical resistance.
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Hero or Criminal? Many people consider Robin Hood a hero. He was definitely a hero to the peasants of Nottingham. After all he stole from the rich and gave to the poor. If I were poor he would have been my hero‚ too. But to the rich people of Nottingham he was nothing more than a criminal. I’m sure I wouldn’t think too highly of someone that stole my money. What Robin Hood never took into consideration was that even though the outcome was good the course of action he took wasn’t right. So was he
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bluegrass murder ballad sung by Obray Ramsey. It’s a mix between a narrative and lyrical song as the singer/persona tells a story about his marriage to his wife‚ how she made him feel‚ and how this drove him to murder her. The verses in this song are four lines long and each weak syllable is followed by a strong syllable. That makes this a ballad that uses an iambic meter. More specifically‚ is the first line of each verse has 4 strong syllables‚ then 3‚ 4‚ and 3‚ making this a ballad meter. It’s a
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Jorge Cortez Orsini Gonzalez English_101_ODC 29 September‚ 2014 Summary Why Colleges shower their students with A’s In “Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s” by Brent Staples‚ some of the most interesting things that I noticed in the essay was the topic of how colleges are issuing more and more A’s due to an increasing consumer demand and a stiff competition from competitors. Staples states‚ “Some departments shower students with A’s to fill poorly attended courses that might otherwise
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have a Holiday. Columbus was an explorer and a robber. Columbus was very greedy and he was trying to get the gold. People think Columbus was lying. Columbus said the earth was round and they never believe him. Paragraph II. There was Columbus‚ Cortez and Pizarro. They where from Europe they were looking for the gold and they were getting slaves from Asia and Spain. They found a little bit of gold and they were moving from country to country. They were going to look for gold and they would fight
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On his second voyage‚ he brought Spanish horses to the West Indies. The horses thrived and multiplied. It was the year 1519 by the time the first horses arrived in North America. An exhibition led by Hernan Cortez and he brought these first horses from the West Indies into Mexico. Cortez and his group encountered the Aztec civilization when they arrived. Bernal Diaz del Castillo‚ who recorded the expedition‚ wrote‚ “The natives had not seen horses up to his time and thought that the horse and
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It was a clear‚ dark night‚ everything was calm which was out of the ordinary evaluating the fact that the Cortez family lived in a very poor‚ crime-filled place in Tijuana‚ Mexico. Luis was the youngest in the household‚which then came along his lovely‚ carrying sister Lizzy. Pablo is their very responsible dad‚ and Monica is their very determined mom. The whole family was planning on throwing a huge for Lizzy‚ which was turning fifteen on the month of October‚ it was a little terrifying because
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FRIAR TUCK--is one of the best-known members of Robin Hood’s band‚ but like Maid Marian‚ he is not present in the earliest ballads. And both Tuck and Marian only have one major appearance in any Robin Hood ballad‚ although there is a passing reference in a couple of others. LITTLE JOHN--Little John is Robin Hood’s lieutenant‚ his second-in-command. In the early ballads‚ he is nearly as important as his master. WILL SCARLET--is a welcome member of the Merry Men
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Mexican muralism offers us one of the most politically charged and expressive art forms of the 20th century. David Alfaro Siqueiros and Jose Clemente Orozco are two of the three so called triumvirate of Mexican Muralists‚ the third being Diego Rivera. Both of the artists have a unique style and a strong sense of morals and political ideals. Their styles are similar in the sense of the amount of expression and movement in their pieces They also share a common ideology that shows up often in their
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INTRODUCTON Philippine literature is the literature associated with the Philippines and includes the legends of prehistory‚ and the colonial legacy of the Philippines. Most of the notable literature of the Philippines was written during the Spanish period and the first half of the 20th century in Spanish language. Philippine literature is written in Spanish‚ English‚ Tagalog‚ and/or other native Philippine language. DEFINITION OF LITERATURE The word literature is derived from the Latin term
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