the mysterious dark energy that’s causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate? Is it some form of Einstein’s famous cosmological constant‚ or is it an exotic repulsive force‚ dubbed "quintessence‚" that could make up as much as three-quarters of the cosmos? Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Dartmouth College believe there is a way to find out. | | | | The SuperNova/Acceleration Probe‚ SNAP‚ is a satellite designed to study dark energy through
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Samurai and Knights‚ Alike or Different? Samurai and Knights‚ although they had many similarities their differences were greater. Thousands of years ago people from‚ Europe‚ and Japan‚ both regions found their land in pieces. These regions developed a system called feudalism‚ feudalism was when a lord granted lesser lords large pieces of land in return the lesser lords promised loyalty‚ and military service the lesser lords shared this land with knights and serfs. Samurai and Knights alike or different
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places warriors defended the land of wealthy landowners. In Europe the warriors were called Knights‚ and in Japan they were known as Samurais. Does this make Knights and Samurais the same? After reading the DBQ is clear that Samurai and Knights have more differences than similarities. For example‚ some major differences were their military codes and their armour. Some may say that the Samurai and Knights were more similar than different because they were both warriors. That may be true true but all
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ways‚ one example is their names. The samurai from Japan and the knights from Europe. These warriors were more different because of their armour design‚ views on death‚ and hereditary loyalty to their lords. One reason why samurai and knights were different was how their armour was made. The armour knights and samurais used were used for the same purpose‚ which was to protect themselves during combat‚ but because samurais and knights fought in different types of wars‚ their armour was designed differently
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Do you ever wonder what would happen if knights and samurais lived together? Even though they lived in completely different places around the world they developed a similar culture. So were the similarities between knights and samurais greater than the the differences they had back then? My thesis is that even though both knights and samurais never met they were more similar than they were different. One reason why samurais and knights were more similar than different is because of the way they were
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(AGG)knights were an important part of the social system during the middle ages in Europe.(BS-1)Their training and education started at a young age continuing into adulthood. (BS-2)They were then considered to be weapons for their lords. (BS-3)It was expected that all knights live by a strong code of conduct.(TS)Knights helped give rise to the economic and political system known as feudalism through their contributions and involvement in the economy‚military‚culture and law. (MIP-1)Medieval knights
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In the last few years‚ a new order of knights fighting in the Holy Land has formed; the Teutonic Knights. Since the First Crusades‚ there has been a German hospital in the Holy Land‚ which was built for traveling pilgrims‚ who left Germany to visit the Holy Land. The founding of the hospital was funded by rich German brothers and knights‚ which was led by Duke Frederick Hohenstaufen‚ son of Frederick Barbarossa‚ Emperor of Germany. After the Jerusalem conquest of Saladin‚ this establishment
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nature of justice is the movie The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight is an effective example of the complicated nature of justice because it uses powerful symbolic scenes to demonstrate the difficulty in finding justice‚ it uses characters as strong symbols for the various natures of justice and injustice‚ and it shows that the obviously just and unjust characters have striking similarities. The Dark Knight’s scenes provide many examples
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In medieval Europe a knight stood in shining armour across his lord’s house‚ side by side with his fellow soldiers‚ all looking the same. A wave of fully covered metal humans swept across the plains‚ with long swords and horses‚ both looking like robots while they defended their lord’s land. Thousands of miles away in Japan‚ some samurai stood in intricately designed armour with crossbows and swords ran or rode on horses and fought so they would have defended their master’s land. The bright and
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created his moral philosophy over two thousand years ago‚ his ideas continue to permeate numerous fields today‚ such as cinema and theater. When it comes to cinema‚ no film screams Aristotle like a certain 2008 comic book classic: The Dark Knight. In The Dark Knight‚ the moral philosophy of Aristotle is present. The Joker and Batman exemplify two character types defined by Aristotle: the continent and vicious characters. To clarify‚ a continent person manages to undertake a virtuous act‚ though the
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