A fragment of Pliny’s Natural History from book XXI Sections XXI. XV. 28 –XVII 31. To Book XXI. XIX . 40—XX.43 In the recent discover I made‚ I found few pages of the Natural History by Pliny the Elder，the very first thing that Pliny the Elder described in the section we found is a plant called baccar or what we called nard. And the scent from baccar is similar to the smell of cinnamon‚ which the scent only comes from the root of baccar. The root has been used to produce a kind of urguent
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Chapter 22 of “History Created Equal” explores the hardships and hopes of the great depression. This chapter investigates the situation leading before the Great Depression‚ and explains the attempts and measures that were taken in order to relive many Americans and end the Great Depression. These relive efforts take shape in the form of the first new deal and in the second new deal. Before the onset of the Great Depression‚ Herbert Hoover was elected president of the United States in 1928. Hoover
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History 106 Comparative Book Essay The development and progression of slavery in colonial America is a large part of America’s past addressed in every history text book nation-wide but‚ as with anything‚ the story presents itself differently in each one. Authors Howard Zinn‚ George Tindall‚ David Shi‚ and Paul Johnson are no different. With their varying positions‚ radical‚ liberal‚ and conservative‚ each not only presents the topic differently but chooses to include and not include different
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Seminar: THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is a book that demonstrates how our actions represent our ideas. For example‚ if we aren’t happy we will make sure others aren’t neither‚ we sometimes forget our values or the reason we do things. Stephen Convey teaches us the 7 habits we should learn and use on our daily life. He builds each habit by chapter and how one habit supports the other. Throughout
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Howard Zinn Vs. Paul Johnson While Paul Johnson focuses on the accomplishments of the colonists‚ Howard Zinn’s work is more focused on the atrocities the colonists committed. Howard Zinn starts out his novel with the innocent Arawaks greeting Columbus with a bountiful amount of gifts to which Columbus responds selfishly by demanding they show him where the gold is located. After that‚ things rapidly decline. Zinn proceeds to highlight the enslavement and harsh treatment of the natives by Columbus
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Summary of Howard Zinn’s “Violence and Human Nature” In Howard Zinn’s article “Violence and Human Nature” Zinn investigates the belief that violence is an innate trait of human beings. In the end he comes to a conclusion that not all humans are born with a drive to be violent‚ but instead mainly influenced by that person’s natural surroundings and environments. In section one of Zinn’s article‚ he explains three events in which he has experienced which have ultimately shaped his perception of
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The chapters are dedicated to each of the habits‚ which are represented by the following imperatives: 1. Be Proactive. Here‚ Covey emphasizes the original sense of the term "proactive" as coined by Victor Frankl. You can either be proactive or reactive when it comes to how you respond to certain things. When you are reactive‚ you blame other people and circumstances for obstacles or problems. Being proactive means taking responsibility for every aspect of your life. Initiative and taking action
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assisting students‚ staff and visitors who come into the school office‚ filling teacher supply orders‚ student transportation and other duties as assigned by the administrators. In “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”‚ Stephen Covey explains that you don’t have to be a genius to apply these principles of 7 habits‚ but you will have to possess balanced dimensions of nature: physical‚ spiritual‚ mental and social/emotional. The first three habits focus on moving from dependence to independence
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Chapter 7 of “We All Fall Down”. I really enjoyed chapter 7 because of how well it was written. I particularly liked reading the very start of the chapter‚ it drew you immediately into the situation out of the storyline. At the start of the chapter‚ Will is in shock‚ as he saw people jumping out of the building and deliberately killing themselves. They believed they were about to die. With each sentence I read‚ I felt as if I was there experiencing this incredibly tragic moment‚ and it made me
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Chapter 5 Notes 1. Similarities Differences Roman Empire All three empires fell because of foreign invaders attacking the civilizations- the Huns destroyed the Roman Empire and Gupta Empire Population declines led to fewer people that could be a part of the army weakening the country’s defense against outside invasions. Gupta Empire The Indian government lost some support as the Islamic religion began to take hold in south western India Han Dynasty Like Rome political problems caused
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