The new proposition of government and society based upon the Enlightenment ideals of democracy‚ citizenship‚ and human rights set ahead by the philosophers such as John Locke‚ Montesquieu‚ Rousseau‚ and Voltaire spread throughout France. It changed how people viewed the government and its policies. As a result the French Revolution came to play from 1789-1799. It started when the working classes known as
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started in 1976 with Apple’s first desktop computer (Gale‚ Enter Apple‚ 2015). In 1976 they released their first product( Gale‚ Enter Apple‚ 2015). Since then they have sold 47.8 million Iphones and 22.9 million Ipads(Apple reports). They had no idea how successful their company would become. People will remember Jobs for all the helpful and innovative inventions he made. He was the brains behind Apple one of the most successful companies. He went on to be a very successful man. At a very young age
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Today when I was dining with my family in a formal restaurant‚ I broke two of the similar cultural norms. One being that‚ I drank my soup using a fork‚ where the norm is to drink soup with spoon. The second being that I use my knife to eat my cake‚ where it should’ve been eaten using a fork. It might seem that these two actions that violate the cultural norms is small‚ but the reaction that I got from other people is extensive. As I was committing the act‚ I noticed that the surrounding people
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Groups can be defined by either informal groups‚ or formal groups. Formal groups A formal group is set by an official authority or leader designed to complete a specific task or purpose and is strictly regulated by the organisations rules and practices. In a formal group responsibility of an outcome of a task is set usually to the leader‚ discipline and reward is mainly handed down to the leader via the organisation. A formal group is coordinated by activities shared between a number of people
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Aristophanes was born in 450 BC. He was considered to be the greatest representative of the ancient Greek comedy. His works had been preserved in greatest quantity. Most of the known facts about Aristophanes’ life were derived from references from his plays. In 427 BC‚ he began his dramatic career with a play called The Daitaleis (The Banqueters). It was from the surviving fragments to had been a satire on his contemporaries’ educational and moral theories. He was thought to have written forty plays
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Through the works of the Athenian historian‚ Thucydides‚ a myriad of information is shared pertaining to not only to his own life‚ but to the society and culture of Ancient Greece as well. He was born around 460-455 BC and through his life he wrote one of the most in depth recordings of the Peloponnesian War entitled‚ History of the Peloponnesian War. Not only did Thucydides live within the wartime period‚ he also fought in this war as well as a military general. The efforts that Thucydides contributed
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Harriet Tubman served her life toward slavery and as a honorable women in history. She was born in Dorchester‚ Maryland in 1820. Harriet’s mother was Harriet Green and her father was Ben Ross. Harriet took many chances throughout history to help slaves escape as a symbol of bravery. Harriet Tubman was known as a conductor of the Underground Railroad. She helped many slave in the North and she never lost a passenger. Throughout time she made a total of nineteen trips. She traveled at night and rest
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Marie Louise Fuller‚ better known as Loie Fuller‚ was an American dancer born January 15‚ 1862 in Fullersburg‚ Illinois and died January 1‚ 1928 in Paris‚ France. Loie is known for her invention of “Serpentine dance” which became popular in the late eighteen hundreds and became something that was commonly seen in stage shows and early films. In her early years‚ Loie’s family struggled and was in search in work in business‚ so they moved north to Chicago. After her family successfully found business
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The scientific revolution of the Renaissance had its start with Copernican heliocentrism and its culmination‚ a century later‚ with Newtonian mechanics. His most eminent representative‚ however‚ was the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei. In the field of physics‚ Galileo made the first laws of motion; in the astronomy department‚ he confirmed the Copernican theory with his telescopic observations. But none of these valuable contributions have had such significant consequences as the introduction of
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Elizabeth Blackwell: Major Discoveries or Contributions to Science Elizabeth Blackwell made many amazing contributions to science. The one she is most well known for is becoming the first woman to earn a medical degree from an American medical school. Elizabeth Blackwell had many accomplishments‚ but with those accomplishments she was also faced with many challenges. Getting admitted to a medical school was one of her first and probably one of her greatest challenges. The education she had from
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