WHO WAS GIROLAMO CARDANO? Girolamo Cardano was an Italian Physician and Mathematician during the sixteenth-century or Renaissance Era. He is known as well as Jerome Cardan in English and the “Father of the Probability”. He was born on September 24‚ 1501 in Pavia‚ Italy and died on September 21‚ 1576 in Rome‚ Italy. He was the son of Facio Cardano and Chiara Micheria. His father was a lawyer in Milan‚ who had a taste for mathematics‚ and a close friend of Leonardo da Vinci. His childhood was depressing
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the nature of warfare would dramatically change on both upon the battlefield but more importantly how it affected society. Continental Europe was engulfed in war from 1792 following the establishment of the French Republic and continued with the rise of Napoleon until his eventual defeat in 1815. Between 1792 and 1809 the French army seemed to grow from strength to strength turning from a “métier of the aristocrat” small‚ professional army to the first mass
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apology‚ but I will also give information on what Socrates beliefs were for better understanding. First there is dogmatism. Dogmatic comes from the Greek word “dogma”‚ meaning what one thinks
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one and was even close to instigating a nuclear war. Due to Khrushchev’s unpredictable nature‚ he was responsible for escalating the Cold War. In 1956‚ Khrushchev delivered a report to the Twentieth Party of Congress in which he stated‚ "The Leninist principle of peaceful coexistence of states with different social systems has always been and remains the general line of our country’s foreign policy."1 Khrushchev appeared
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Wood’s book‚ “ What Was Asked of Us” as it tells the accounts and stories of American men and women who fought in the Iraq war. Enlisting in a nation’s military brings a strong sense of camaraderie to the soldiers as they go through training together and eventually fighting on the front
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Racism and divorce rates. 1961 was a difficult time due to high divorce rates and segregation of whites and blacks. Stan Lee‚ the author who created the Fantastic Four had seen the issues and put this group of heroes together to battle the rival Justice League in the battle of Popularity. (Linder‚ Vital statistics of the United states‚ 1961)‚ (St. James Encyclopedia of popular culture). The company that created the Fantastic Four was Marvel and the main creator was Stan Lee. The Fantastic four were
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The Cause of the Boxer Rebellion The Shang and the Qing Dynasty caused the Boxer Rebellion. The Shang Dynasty established a doctrine encouraging the idea of the Chinese culture being superior. This teaching lead to future violence and discrimination. The Qing Dynasty were weak‚ and they refused to acknowledge their faults. The officials of the Qing Dynasty used a facade to conceal their failure. Because of these two dynasties‚ groups‚ such as the Yihequan‚ formed. Originally‚ they were against the
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Target Market A target market is a specific‚ well-defined segment of consumers that a company plans to target with its products‚ services and marketing activities. Target marketing orients all of the various components of the marketing function toward a single group‚ maximizing the appeal of brands to specific markets. The term "target audience" is a bit narrower; it refers specifically to the group of consumers targeted by advertisements. Outside of the context of business‚ target audience can
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Collectivisation caused a lot of suffering in the countryside and had devastating effects for people who worked on collective farms‚ with the amount of resources that the state was demanding during the famine it becomes clear that they did not care for agronomists living conditions. A.Nove‚ Source 4‚ clearly shows that the peak amount of cattle was 70.5 million in 1968 and that sharply fell to 38.4 by 1933 before recovering‚ giving weight to the argument because clearly people where struggling to
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The persecution of John T. Scopes was a very peculiar case‚ but it was also one of the most famous and important cases to ever appear in the Western world. The Scopes trial is often referred to‚ as Mencken says‚ “completely switching the direction the country seemed to obviously be going in at the time” (Mencken’s Trial Account). The Scopes trial is often misperceived in it’s message for the country‚ it is seen as a random trial against a science teacher that eventually led to an argument over evolution
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