TELEPHONE One of the greatest life changing inventions was the telephone. Electronic communication first began with the telegraph that allowed simple sentences to be tapped out over a telegraph line. In 1873‚ Alexander Graham Bell‚ along with Thomas Watson‚ an electrician helping Bell‚ began experimenting with a “harmonic telegraph” which he hoped would allow multiple communications to be transmitted simultaneously over the same pair of telegraph wires. By 1874 he was also working on a method
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respect that is given to someone who is admired. My definition of honor is respect given to someone who does something honorable for his/her community. A scientist is someone who deserves honor because their discoveries and inventions help the world. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3rd‚ 1847 in Edinburgh‚ Scotland. Bell was named after his grandfather and the middle name‚ Graham‚ was added to his name when he was 10. He was greatly influenced by his family and town. Bell’s hometown of Edinburgh
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One thing that the U.S. Constitution could not run without is Federalism. Alexander Hamilton‚ James Madison‚ and George Washington founded Federalism “divides sovereignty between a centralized state and regional or local states” (Miskelly and Noce‚ page 114). It was the subject of intense debate during the drafting of the Constitution. Alexander Hamilton‚ James Madison‚ and George Washington founded Federalism by carefully dividing the powers between federal and state government. These men were
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Alexander H. Stephens was an American politician from Georgia. He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America and a democrat. The “Cornerstone Speech” was very famous because Stephen mainly focuses in the struggle between the north and south which was‚ slavery. In the document written by Alexander H. Stephens‚ the “Cornerstone Speech” of March 21‚ 1861 was significant because he announced that the new government believed on the idea that blacks were inferior to whites. This fundamental
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Alexander Hamilton and The National Bank Alexander Hamilton believed that since The United States was growing as a new nation‚ they could take advantage of it and use it as a source of energy and cohesion. Furthermore‚ his main goal was just to spark up the economy and revive it to the point where it was normally flowing. So‚ his first idea was to completely eradicate all national and stately debt. He wanted to look at the accumulated debt of the Revolutionary War at face value and completely do
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Kerensky Early life and activism Alexander Kerensky was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) on the Volga River on 2 May 1881. His father‚ Fyodor Kerensky‚ was a teacher. and director of the local gymnasium. His mother‚ Nadezhda née Adler‚ was the daughter of a nobleman‚ Alexander Adler‚ head of the Topographical Bureau of the Kazan Military District. Kerensky’s father was the teacher of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin); members of the Kerensky and Ulyanov families were friends. In 1889‚ when Kerensky
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to be reflecting the weather. The only sounds are of the soft plops of oars in the waters of the Hudson and the occasional sounds of exertion from the rowers. Aaron Burr’s face is set in a frown and his boat full of men is riddled with tension. Alexander Hamilton is going to die today. Once Burr’s boat is docked on the shore of the Heights of Weehawken‚ the set duelling ground‚ they sit and wait. Hamilton’s boat arrives just before seven‚ the rays of the sun following his back as his crew docks
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Alexander Graham Bell‚ was the inventor of the telephone. Bell was born in Edinburgh on 3 March 1847. He was the son of Melville‚ a speech and elocution teacher who developed the first International Phonetic Alphabet and Eliza‚ who was deaf from the age of five. Bell was the only child to survive into adulthood‚ with his younger and elder brothers‚ Ted and Melly‚ dying of tuberculosis. These biographical facts foretell the strong values‚ personality and determination of the man destined to radically
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Jeremy Steffen 11/30/13 Arts of Africa DAkpem Butcher Boys Butcher Boys is a work of art created by Jane Alexander in 1985-86. Jane Alexander is a caucasian female who was born in Johannesburg South Africa in 1959‚ and grew up in South Africa during the tumultuous political and cultural atmosphere of apartheid and the fight for civil rights. This location‚ or more specifically the cultural‚ social and political aspects of this location‚ affected Alexander’s work‚ Butcher Boys. The artist states‚
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Victimisation - Alexander McQueen Victimisation The contemporary designer whose design philosophy best reflects Evan’s analysis of McQueen’s representations on the theme of ‘Victimisation’ is the label Victor & Rolf. Victor & Rolf’s design philosophy is ‘originality and traditions‚ glamour‚ avant-garde‚ conceptual- couture’ (FashionTraveler.com‚ 2011:1). The Victor & Rolf collection I have chosen from is Autumn/Winter 2008/2009 in order to illustrate my views and compare to Alexander McQueen’s work
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