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- 131: History of Computers
- History of Computers Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live ... the way people work and play. It has made everyone's life easier by doing difficult work for people. The computer truly is one of the most incredible inventions in history. Works Cited Chposky, James. Blue Magic. New York: Facts on File Publishing. 1988. Cringley, Robert X. Accidental Empires. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing, 1992. Dolotta, T.A. Data Processing: 1940 ... York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishing, 1984. Rose, Frank. West of Eden. New York: Viking Publishing, 1989. Shallis, Michael. The Silicon Idol. New York: Shocken Books, 1984. Soma, John T. The History of the Computer. Toronto: Lexington Books, 1976. Zachary, William. “The Future of computing”, Byte. Boston: Byte Publishing, August 1994.
- 132: The History of Medicine
- The History of Medicine The history of medicine is like a huge puzzle, and it has taken many tortuous and gruesome routes to try to fit the pieces together. It has gone from ancient myths that ... came about such as anthropology, the science simply studying the human being itself. Since then, medicine has taken great leaps and bounds forward day by day. Medical advances occurred throughout history and will continue to occur in the future. One by one, we put together the pieces of the great medical puzzle.
- 133: The History of Medicine
- The History of Medicine The history of medicine is like a huge puzzle, and it has taken many tortuous and gruesome routes to try to fit the pieces together. It has gone from ancient myths that ... came about such as anthropology, the science simply studying the human being itself. Since then, medicine has taken great leaps and bounds forward day by day. Medical advances occurred throughout history and will continue to occur in the future. One by one, we put together the pieces of the great medical puzzle.
- 134: History of Athens, Greece
- History of Athens, Greece Athens has been around for 2,500 years. Athens is the capitol of Greece and largest city of Greece. Athens is on a small plain that lies ... politics, tyrant, monarch and more. For example of entertainment words, drama, tragedy, orchestra, harmony and more. They have also created school subjects such as philosophy, biology, , mathematics, geometry, zoology, and history. A cool word I like that they made up is Rhinoceros (in Greek it is rhinokeros). Many scientist have figured out a lot of stuff. There was Archimedes discovered the ... This is on Mets Hill. There is Lycabettus Hill were St. George's chapel is. This has a great view to Athens city. Athens is a very important to our history because of all that it has done for us. For example if they never cam around the first democracy would of came around. In other words what would happen ...
- 135: The History Of Affirmative Action
- The History Of Affirmative Action The history of affirmative action has its roots in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and stems from the United States Supreme Court Case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka ... giving and receiving of jobs. The best person for the job, no matter what race, should be given the job. Now that I have given a brief overview of the history of affirmative action, I will discuss the positive aspects. As you already know affirmative action was implemented with the idea and hope that America would finally become truly equal. ...
- 136: The History of Greek Music
- The History of Greek Music A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become." - W.H. Auden. This quote best explains the ... or spiritual rituals but no other use is known. This knowledge is borne out of the fact that music still forms a vital part of most religious ceremonies today. The history of Greek music is problematic. Although there are frequent references to musical performance in Greek manuscripts, there are less than twelve fragments of actual Greek music, including both vocal and ... the ability to influence human actions in a precise way. The Phrygian mode expressed passionate and intimate emotions, where as the Dorian mode produced forceful, rigid feelings. In later Greek history the doctrine of ethos was widely argued by the most philosophical of men. Plato and Aristotle both had broadly different views on the power and importance of music. The ...
- 137: Origin and History of Rice
- Origin and History of Rice “Rice is intimately in the culture as well as the food ways and economy of many societies.”(www.riceweb.org p.1). For example, folklore tells us that ... Pratt, Parley M. Rice: “Domestic Consumption in the United States.” Chapters 1 and 2, Bureau of Business Research. Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, 1960, pp. 1-33. “A Brief History of Rice” Rice: Then and Now by R.E. Huke and E.H. Huke, International Rice Research Institute, 1990. http://www.riceweb.org/history.htm. “Traditional Rice Farming Implements” http://www.cgiar.org/irri/Riceworld/fixed/tradrice.winotool.html.
- 138: Kazin's "Summer: The Way to Highland Park"
- ... his soul. There is a “larger than life” aura which the city of New York emanates and Kazin sees this aura. Included in this aura are the roots of American history. Kazin with his flawless descriptions of his environment and emotions made it seem like you were inside his a head and thinking his thoughts. According to Mr. Kazin, New York is the Mecca of American history and Kazin is humbled as well as awed by the vastness of New York City. More importantly, Kazin brings to life how books can fill a void in the mind ... sets out on an aloof walk from his dinner table to a park across town and on his stroll he encounters many things that remind him of his love for history. As the sunlight was dimming Kazin passes a police station in the east side of New York. The police station signified the end of Brownsville, the town where Kazin ...
- 139: Confucius in the Chinese History
- Confucius in the Chinese History By Bolin Lin More than any other scholar in China, Confucius laid down his ethic and educational thinking followed by more people for more generations than one can even conceive ... special divine status. He was born in 551 B.C. in the county of Lu (in today's Shandong province in China). As the first private teacher in the Chinese history, he once taught thousands of students. Europeans derived the Latin form Confucius from Master Kong, or Kong Fuzi in Chinese, in 16th century. Few people have read any of his ... years. Many scholars all around the world, such as the United States, Australia, England, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, come here to memory the great scholar in the Chinese history.
- 140: A Social History Of Truth
- Review of The Social History Of Truth by Steven Shapin Chapter 1 When someone says that something is true,they are usually stating that it corresponds to the facts of how things really are. Academic ... credible person was just known.Gentlemen were considered society s most reliable truth-tellers.Chapter 6 Travelers, navigators, merchant-traders, adventurers and soldiers contributed the knowledge of early modern natural history or natural philosophy.These various peoples told the Royal Society of things in the world that were beyond their own experience. As John Locke suggested, some weighing and balancing of ... J- shaped tube that yielded the law of pressures and volumes, nor did he build the machine Boyleana. They were constructed by his assistants.Work Cited Shapin, Steven.A Social History Of Truth.Chicago:The University of Chicago Press.1994.
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