Euclid of Alexandria To describe him as one of the most influential and most widely read mathematicians of all times would accurately portray Euclid of Alexandria. His fame comes from his writings‚ in particular his masterpiece‚ The Elements‚ the long studied thirteen volume work on geometry and number theory. Except for the Bible‚ no other book has been so widely translated and circulated. It is undoubtedly the best mathematic text ever written and made him known to all as "the father of geometry
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The name of this well known light house is La Jument. It is located in Brittany‚ France. The lighthouse is built on a rock about 300 meters from the coast of the island of Ushant in the middle of the ocean. Construction of this lighthouse began in 1904 but wasn’t finished until 1911 due to the rough seas and weather conditions. The west coast of Northern France has always been known for its rough seas. This heavily trafficked sea line experiences severe weather during much of the year. This area
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Stream of Consciousness in ?To the Lighthouse? ?Stream of consciousness? is a modernist narrative technique that attempts to create the illusion that the reader is experiencing the unstructured flow of observations‚ ideas‚ memories‚ and associations that occur in the mind of the fictional character. The stream is often illogical and puzzling in its apparent disorganization‚ but some patterns of association‚ habits of thought or recurrent images begin to emerge‚ providing indications of the overriding
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The city of Alexandria has stimulated the imagination of all the people who have visited it‚ from the instant it was founded by Alexander the Great to the present day. Under the Ptolemaic Kings‚ Alexandria blossomed as one of the great centres of learning in both science and literature. All Ptolemaic Kings; from Ptolemaic I Soter to Ptolemaic VI Philometer have contributed to the development of Alexandria. The first three Ptolemaic rulers had hope of their new home as together the capital of
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I conclude that Calpurnia is a better mother figure than Aunt Alexandria for many reasons. First‚ Calpurnia is a good mother figure. Both Scout and Jem look up to her like you would to your own mother. When Jem and Scout are exploring in the woods and sight old Tim Johnson the towns pet acting strange. They immediately run to Calpurnia for help thinking she can fix everything. Calpurnia doesn’t hesitate and calls Atticus for help‚ and he shows up with the town sheriff Mr. Tate. They conclude that
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Services of Lighthouse Cooperative 1-1 As the researchers observed‚ the current system of Computer Sales and Services for Lighthouse Cooperative encounter some problems generalized and specified as follows: 1.1.1 General Problem How to develop and design a comprehensive Computerized Inventory System of Computer Sales and Services of Lighthouse Cooperative? 1.1.2 Problem Statement This aims is to develop a Computerized Inventory System of Computer Sales and Service of Lighthouse Cooperative
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The Lighthouse Keeper When I first read this story in elementary school‚ I never saw the true meaning behind the words written by Henryk Sienkiewicz. This novel didn’t really mean too much to me then‚ mostly because I never understand the deep importance of the point hidden behind this story. Now‚ after many years I finally realized what Sienkiewicz was trying to tell us in his novel. And I was so surprised how such a short story‚ which could be read in several minutes‚ can be so powerful. There
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functions of those that represent constituents of a sentence. Then the functions of the major word classes will be described and a distinction will be drawn between content and structure words. The text being analysed is an extract from the novel To the Lighthouse‚ by Virginia Woolf. The text is therefore narrative. The literary technique used in this text is very rare‚ it is known as the stream-ofconsciousness. This suggests that most of it is written as an unbroken flow of perceptions‚ thoughts and feelings
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In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse the immense complexities that define one’s identity and self worth are presented. In world of rigid social structure‚ the conventional expectations of society construe and distort independent identity. Mr. Ramsey‚ Mrs. Ramsey‚ and Lily Briscoe each experience these external pressures that shape their values in different ways. Mr. Ramsey focuses on the acceptance of his philosophical work by others while Mrs. Ramsey embraces the gender role society has given her
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Hypatia of Alexandria was Born in Alexandria Egypt around 370 ad‚daughter of theon who had been a professor at University of Alexandria‚she was born into the educated life. Hypatia had been a mathematician and also a greek philosopher of her time.Furthermore she had been later described as a beautifully and well-proportioned Woman later after her death. Historical events of Hypatia in her life was that she was first women to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics
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