For my cultural event I choose to go to the African-American Poetry Night hosted by MCCC writing center. I found the event insightful as it highlighted well know African-American poets such as Mayo Angelou and Langston Hughes‚ and some poets that are not as well known‚ such as Marvin X. The event was open to the public‚ and the attendees was welcome to bring a poem or a story to share. The night started out with the president of the college‚ Dr. Kojo Quartey reciting a poem written by Marvin X‚
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REACTION PAPER OF THE BOOK SOPHIE’S WORLD ( Chapter I-XI ) Submitted By: Submitted To: The Garden of Eden The first chapter of the book was entitled “The Garden of Eden” the story was well written‚ I was able to imagine the environment and I was able to see how Sophie would react on those given situations. The first questions that Sophie receives make her think about who she is and where the world came from. These questions are easy to ask and almost impossible to answer‚ but what is
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Greek and Roman Influence in Psychology Virtually every branch of knowledge‚ as we know it today‚ came from particularly two powerful empires of the ancient past‚ which are the Greek and Roman Empire. Although there were other civilizations‚ such as the Arabs and the Mayans‚ that made progress in knowledge‚ especially mathematics‚ the Greeks and Romans have been more recognized for the development of other branches of knowledge. The Greeks and Romans have been known to be the promoters of the natural
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Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James‚ Ph.D. University of Arkansas‚ Pine Bluff This work was originally published in New York by Philosophical Library in 1954. The content herein has been slightly edited to mark word corrections and in its organization to assist readability. The author‚ George Granville Monah James was born in Georgetown‚ Guyana‚ South America. His parents were Reverend Linch B. and Margaret E. James. George studied at Durham
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Scientific Literacy Paper: Global Warming By Jeff VanGilder Hanger B5 9/2/12 Scientific Literacy: According to the United States National Center for Education Statistics‚ "scientific literacy is the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision making‚ participation in civic and cultural affairs‚ and economic productivity". A scientifically literate person is defined as one who has the capacity to: understand experiment
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the smallest things there but are made up of still smaller stuff. Also‚ atoms can be broken apart into smaller constituents. An early Greek who postulated the existence of atoms Democritus (460-357 BCE)‚ who said the matter is made of different kinds of invisible atoms existing in otherwise empty space. Democritus made no attempt to think of a way to determine whether atoms exist or not. Evidently‚ the idea of atoms just appealed to him philosophically. The idea that matter could be infinitely
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significant figures 4. Uncertainty 5. Density problems 6. Density Graphs interpretation 7. Dimensional Analysis 8. States of Matter 9. Classification of matter 10. Separation techniques 11. Structure of the atom a. historical development: Democritus; Aristotle; Dalton (postulates‚ law of definite proportions‚ law of multiple proportions‚ atomic model); J.J. Thompson (atomic model and electron discovery); Rutherford (atomic model and gold foil experiment); Bohr’s atomic model and origin of discontinuous
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----------------------- 1869‚ Dmitri Mendeleev • Used cards to arrange the elements and created the first periodic table. Late 1890s‚ Joseph John Thompson • Discovered electrons using cathode ray test tube experiments • “Plum pudding” model of atoms (1900)– negative electrons in a positive framework 1800‚ John Dalton‚ English chemist: • Proposed the atomic patterns‚ which account for the law of conservation of mass and the law of constant composition
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Mathematics before Christ Math started before Christ was born. Most of the time people use it‚ but they didn’t notice it. If you count how many sheep you have‚ that’s math. So when people use math‚ they didn’t know they were using it. The Romans used Roman Numerals and noticed math. So they know how to use it. That is where numbers got their name. In Babylon and Egypt‚ the people first started using theoretical tools and numbering systems. The Egyptians used a decadic numbering system‚ which is
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Ghost‚ are they real? What is real? A child trembling in the dark may be fearful because he believes that reality is more than the hard material objects around him. Reality for him also includes an unseen spiritual realm. You may defend yourself against these fears by insisting that such a realm cannot be a part of reality. Reality consists only of the hard‚ enduring objects around you that can be seen‚ heard‚ touched‚ and smelled. But what grounds do you have for this belief? In fact‚ many intelligent
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