vengeance weapon in order to strike back at London‚ as Allied bomber fleets pounded German cities to rubble‚ the V-3 cannon was capable to delivering a 140kg (1310lb) shell to a range of more than 161 km (100 miles). The secret to this enormous range was a number of side channels attached to the 460ft (140m) barrel. These channels each contained an electrically fired propellant charge which helped to accelerate the finned shell to a muzzle velocity of 1500m/s (4920 feet per second). Hitler was most impressed
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Lady Macbeth is one of the most frightening female characters. As the wife of Macbeth‚ her role is very significant in his rise and fall from royalty. Lady Macbeth is such a great influence in Macbeth’s life. Her role is so large‚ that she uses her position to gain power and stay in control. Everything about Lady Macbeth is creates the perfect criminal‚ because of her ability to manipulate everyone around her. The moment Lady Macbeth learns about the prophecies‚ she decides to take matters into
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Changing the ‘thought-ware’ of Indian Legal Education You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity‚ he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. * Clay P. Bedford INTRODUCTION: ’Law is the cement of society and an essential medium of change’.The significance of legal education in democratic country like India cannot be ignored.Before 1990s the main purpose of law universities were to impart the knowledge of law‚black
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Education and Social Change Education in Technical Sense. Is the process by which society; through schools‚ colleges‚ universities‚ and other institutions‚ deliberately transmits its cultural heritage – its accumulated knowledge‚ values‚ and skills – from one generation to another. Social Change * a response to many type of change that take place on the social and non-social environment * Generally affected by the agents of socialization John Dewey * A prominent American philosopher
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Hunter writes To Change the World to Christians who want to change the world‚ but have tried to do so in many well intentioned‚ but misguided ways. Hunter divides the book into three essays‚ beginning with a discussion on why the Christian view of culture is mistaken. Christians tend to have an idealized view of changing the world‚ but do not have a full understanding of culture. They long to change the world‚ but believe in “grass roots movements” and adopt the misconception if they are more faithful
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The Most Important Problems in Today’s World There are many problems facing the world in today such as a nuclear weapon‚ a conflict of Middle East area‚ starvation in Africa and so on. Of course‚ above problems are also serious but I think that the most serious problem facing the world is an environmental problem and to be specific‚ I’d say a global warming. Albert Gore states “Global warming will be the greatest environmental challenge in the 21st century.” So what is The global warming
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Education is the most important thing we can offer to our children and the generations to come‚ yet it is one of the topics that we struggle with the most. With the choices between local‚ state and federal authorities‚ who should have control over education? It is my belief that the control should lie with the federal authorities because they are able to maintain a complete situational picture over all the states. Many of our founding fathers of the United States feared that leaving education
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How to Change the World Whitman’s “To a Pupil” advises students to become individuals‚ to reform‚ so that others may in turn follow them. Throughout this poem‚ Whitman demonstrates that “reform” is needed in his harsh world and any “dear” student can fix the lack of it. To accomplish this‚ a student must have “self esteem” and “definiteness”. Through Whitman’s distinct style of using apostrophe and imperative verbs‚ the reader feels as if Whitman was addressing his poem to the reader and suggesting
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I found two articles today that highlight how women can – and do – change the world. In Africa‚ there was a recent meeting of women who work in development to help spur gender equality throughout the continent and embed equality into development practices. Uganda has passed legislation stipulating that a third of the seats in parliament and local authorities should be occupied by women. Now‚ 29.8 percent of legislative seats are in female hands‚ according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
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turned them all down because she was saving herself for Jesus. One of the men she turned down had a very powerful father and this man was upset with her for refusing him. Saint Agnes was then thrown into a brothel‚ she was unscathed. The son was the only person who attempted to violate her and he was immediately struck down blind. Saint Agnes then prayed for him to be healed. The powerful father then sent someone to kill Saint Agnes by using a fire. She came out unscathed. He then killed her
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