Taylor Shockley Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel A. YORK Period 4 Research: Write a short biography of the author‚ include information about his areas of research‚ books written‚ and prizes awarded. Jared Diamond is a professor at the University of California He wanted wrote Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚ which won the Britain’s 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize and Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote Collapse: How Societies choose to Fail or Succeed. Jared has been on 22 expeditions to New Guienea and islands
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the iron rivets used for the construction of the Titanic were cheaply made and resulted in the damage from the iceberg to be more extensive than normal. The problem of the iron rivets were the way they were created. The usual composition for iron rivets would use about two percent of a substance called slag (Spignesi 265). “Slag is glass residue that is left over from smelting metallic ores” (Spignesi 265) It is used in iron rivets to make them structurally stronger
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they do. In the film Iron Jawed Angles and “The intimately oppressed” by Howard Zinn‚ they emphasize how strong women are and stand up for what they believe in. In the movie Iron Jawed Angles‚ Alice Paul is the main character in the movie‚ she is the founder of the National’s Woman Party (NWP). Lucy Burns is her best friend‚ co-founder of NWP and others are pushing for allow women to vote in all 50 states. In the movie you can see that men do not want women to vote. Also in Iron Jawed Angles‚ there
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increase of urban living. Society was soon divided into two classes: employers and laborers. The employers rapidly accumulated wealth and lived luxurious lifestyles while the laborers lived in complete filth and poverty. In Harding Davis’ Life in the Iron-Mills‚ the reader can clearly see the dehumanizing effects that the industrialization had on working individuals‚ and Marx’s idea of alienated labor coincides with Davis’ depiction of the daily
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Mae Litschauer Reading Book Report Quarter 2 Men of Iron In Men of Iron by Howard Pyle‚ the author recounts the adventures of a young knight in fifteenth century England. Not every young man has the opportunity to be a knight‚ so when seventeen-year old Myles Falworth is presented with the chance to do so‚ he eagerly accepts the challenge. Competitions follow‚ one after another‚ and finally‚ Sir Myles undertakes his greatest battle. In this fight to save his father’s life and honor‚ Myles
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The modern steel plant receives low current‚ high voltage power from the generators of the electrical utility company. The purpose of the steel plant primary transformer is to step-down this voltage. The transformer thus provides high current‚ low voltage power for the EAF furnace. Large furnaces with transformers rated at 100MVA or higher is not uncommon. There are usually two stages to this process. The transformer first steps-down the voltage from high to medium levels. There are different
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Rhetorical Analysis on Kennedy Steel Speech In John F. Kennedy’s speech calling for stable steel prices‚ many methods are used to persuade. Kennedy uses logos‚ diction‚ and rhetorical modes as means to provoke action in his audience. Throughout JFK’s speech logos is poured into it. There is an obvious logical connection that strengthens the argument. In the third paragraph Kennedy gives a chain reaction from the high costs. He does this in a very logical way not making leaps and assumptions
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Short Essay 3 Propaganda is a useful tool for any politician or government‚ especially in unstable times such as during or after a war. Not surprisingly‚ aspects of propaganda can be found in both Churchill’s "Iron Curtain Speech" and Stalin’s "Response to Churchill". The speeches both contain elements of truth and distortions of that truth‚ and any dissection of them will reflect the author’s cultural and national background. Keeping this in mind will serve to rationalize any conclusions reached
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for the Eastern European countries. Rather‚ destruction‚ economic instability‚ and a social atmosphere of mistrust and fear tormented Czechoslovakia‚ East Germany‚ and Poland. Amidst all of this‚ in 1945‚ the year Anne Applebaum‚ the author of the Iron Curtain‚ dubbed zero hour‚ the Soviet Union sought to establish anti-fascist democratic governments in these countries. As the years progressed‚ this process evolved into full-fledged Sovietization‚ the transformation of a society based on the Soviet
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The Iron Coast is a travel writing written by Jane Gardam. Jane Gardam is a British author. She was born in Coatham‚ North Yorkshire. The writing describes the North Yorkshire coast and its landmarks including Roseberry Topping and Cleveland hills. Roseberry Topping is the name of a distinctive hill which was mentioned in the writing. The travel writing is descriptive as it creates effects and atmospheres for the reader. To achieve these effects the author uses a variety of literary techniques such
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