The Invention of Jay Gatsby Mckenzie Hart 03.03.05 "It was a testimony to the romantic speculation that he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that is was necessary to whisper about in this world." (48) States the narrator‚ illustrating the attractiveness to attention and gossip of a party host. The quote comments on a conversation of two woman gossiping about the mysterious host named Gatsby. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby‚ a young
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Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball. How he became a Civil War hero while baseball was growing in America. But sadly‚ this is not true at all. Doubleday was still involved in the war in West Point‚ and claimed he had nothing to do with the invention of baseball. The story was told around by a former major league player Aj Spalding claiming he got the story from Abner Graves‚ a mining engineer. Later on major league officials talk and rely on the myth and then put it in the Baseball Hall of Fame
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“Necessity is the mother of invention.” This quote is commonly used to explain how another miraculous invention was discovered. Throughout history‚ many inventions have been created. The Industrial Revolution started in the late 1700s‚ and since then humankind has been developing at an exponential rate. Truly amazing and useful devices‚ such as the steam engine and telegraph‚ were invented. In the last 100 years‚ many inventions and innovations have been created that make society’s life better‚ and
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person should consume eight glasses of water a day. For this project‚ we are given the ability to create anything we wanted with the simple request that we highlight the affects it would have. If I could create anything in the world‚ I would pawn the invention of a machine that had the capability to filter and cleanse any scale of water at any given moment immediately. Now many people will say that I should create something beneficial to myself‚ such as a time machine‚ or a teleportation device of some
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Allison Towery ZimmerCrowe American Studies 6 February 2014 The Greatest Generation: What Made Them The Greatest? “This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.” This quote was borrowed from Franklin Delano Roosevelt describing “the Greatest Generation” found in “The Time of Their Lives‚” written by Tom Brokaw (Brokaw‚ 1998). Roosevelt must have foreseen the future before speaking that comment about that generation of America since they won World War Two. However they shall take
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THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY Before the invention of photography‚ images were painted by artists or were duplicated by using printing plates. An image made by a painter was unique of its kind and copies of it could not be produced. Similarly‚ printing was done by hand and it required a lot of time and skill. The need remained for a process to be invented that could produce images of fine quality as well as to duplicate them. This was achieved in the 19th century with the invention of photography
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Latest Invention: Cell Phone that Can Help Managers Watch Employees’ Every Step KDDI Corporation‚ Japanese telecommunications operator‚ has come up with a technology that can track the movement of a person and transmit the collected information back to the main office. The technology works by evaluating the movement of accelerometers‚ which are‚ by the way‚ found in nearly every cell phone. According to the researchers‚ the technology can identify different types of activities‚ including walking
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PRINCIPAL STRUCTURAL UNITS OF THE AIRPLANE Dialogue T. We’ll consider the principal structural units of the airplane. Look at the picture (Fig. 1.1). This is an airplane. [pic] Figure 1.1 T. Do you know the meaning of the word ’airplane’ ? S. Yes‚ I do. It is ’літак’. T. You are right. There are some words in the English language which have the
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INTRODUCTION Hello! Today I am going to talk you about the invention of the refrigerator. I chose this topic because I think we all can’t imagine our lives without food‚ so we also can’t imagine our lives without the refrigerator. I’m going to present you this topic with the help of power point and I really hope that in the end of my presentation you will know something more about refrigerators. The invention of the refrigerator The conveniences we enjoy in our homes are the product
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The song Airplanes is by American Rapper B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams‚ the main vocolist from the band Paramore. The song was recorded in 2009 and later released April 13‚ 2010. This was the third song made for B.o.B.’s album The adventures of Bobbly Ray followed by Nothin on you (featuring Bruno Mars) and Don’t Let Me Fall. Airplanes hit number two on the US Billboard Hot 100‚ and internationally‚ it rose to number one on the UK R&B chart‚ number two in the European Hot 100 chart and became the
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