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    What Makes Someone a Hero

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    WHAT MAKES SOMEONE A HERO? Heroes of today lie in ones beliefs. It doesn’t take super powers to be a Hero. The common recognition of heroes in our day to day lives can be anyone starting from the firefighters‚ police‚ military‚ ambulance crews‚ teachers‚ doctors‚ parents and more. A person cannot be considered a Hero based on their profession. Many people think that all the soldiers or firefighters are Heroes. But it is not always true. Heroism lies within a person and rises to the occasion. If

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    rights‚ therefor they were powerless and a peaceful revolution was impossible. Around 200‚000 slaves were freed from there captors as a result of the war. During the French revolution‚ the people had no choice but to revolt violently. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were living a life of luxury and parties while their people were starving slowly to their deaths. Of course‚ the commoners tried to overthrow them peacefully‚ but that simply didn’t work. They had to decide: have their rights violated and

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    1. Ethical judgments limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences. Discuss. 1. a) Define knowledge‚ judgment‚ methods‚ ethics b) How do morals limit the advancement of arts and natural sciences 2. Incorporate ways of knowing 4. a) Arts and natural sciences b) Ways of knowing: emotion‚ log/reasoning 5. Key examples a) Arts: self-mutilation; Damien Hirst – cuts animals in half and displays them b) Natural sciences: embryonic stem cell

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    support my idea. First of all‚ success is what we have after a process we worked hard or we made an effort to achieve it. We can see that in many famous people. Behind their success‚ they spent all their time‚ strength and conscientiousness. Let take Marie Curie – the first person who won two Nobel prizes for the discover of the radioactive elements polonium and radium as an example. She spent her whole life for studying and science. To isolate a fraction of a gram of radium‚ she and her husband processed

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    Marie Curie How were the elements of the periodic table discovered? Who discovered them? These are questions that some people may ask. Marie Curie and her husband‚ Pierre Curie‚ were two scientists that discovered two elements of the periodic table‚ polonium and radium. She and her husband worked all of their lives to understand radium and radioactivity. When something is radioactive‚ it produces radiation‚ which is moving subatomic particles.The interesting thing is‚ that radium‚ what Marie Curie

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    Marie and Meursault: Meant to Be or Want to Be? “It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over‚ that Mamam was buried now‚ that I was going back to work and that really‚ nothing had changed.”(1.1.15) These are some of the words that ran through Meursault’s mind after his mother’s death. He was very isolated from her so he felt as if nothing had changed. He was not the most outgoing person but the same cannot be said about his love interest‚ Marie. Throughout the novel‚ The Stranger‚ Meursault

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    Book 2. Heinemann: Oxford. -Mr A J Field (2007). French Revolution-Year 8-Schoolhistory.co.uk. Retrieved 3 Oct 2007 from http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year8links/frenchrevolution.shtml. -Tiffany (2007). Marie Antoinette Versailles. Retrieved 4 Oct 2007 from http://www.franceattraction.com/marie-antoinette.html. -Invicta M. (2001). French Revolution. Retrieved 4 Oct 2007 from http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/revolution.htm.

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    Elisabeth Vigee Le burn achieved early success as a young artist‚ her ability to put her subjects in flattering elegant styles made her one of the most popular portraitists in France. Some of her more famous clients included aristocracy‚ royalty and Marie Antoinette‚ whose portrait she painted over thirty times

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    Breaking the Glass “Feminist: someone who advocates the social‚ political‚ legal‚ and economic rights for women equal to those of men.”1 This is the 21st Century. A time when women and men compete for commercial‚ economic‚ social and political power. But the fight is not fair. The modern woman remains subjected to an intolerable level of inequality. No matter how hard we try to conceal this‚ it remains apparent in today’s society. The number of women working in industries such as engineering was

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    uneducated people. The people knew he was not prepared to be king and uneducated‚ but with every decision and move he made‚ his people liked him less and less. It started with his marriage. King Louis married Marie Antoinette‚ the duchess of Austria. Austria was much disliked in France. Not only was Marie from Austria‚ but she was blamed for not being able to produce and heir‚ though it was truly Louis’s fault. To celebrate the wedding of the two newlyweds‚ they held a party with a great deal of food‚ for

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