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Maria McGarry Durham College 2000 Simcoe Street North Oshawa, ON L1H 7K4 Maria.McGarry@dcmail.ca Kim Younge North Bay Jail 2550 Trout lake Rd North Bay, ON P1B 7S7 Dear Kim Younge: My name is Maria McGarry and I'm writing to inform you on the various institutions that will help you throughout the length of your sentence. Though each has a different purpose than the others, their main goal is ultimately the well being of yourself, as well as every other prisoner within the system. Should…

The Parthenon or “Elgin Marbles” controversy has had both Britain and Greece scramble over who has the most acceptable appeal regarding the statues ever since Lord Elgin removed the statues from the Parthenon. Yet, from a direct comparison between the two nations based upon the strength of arguments, Britain has the most valid claim to the Parthenon Marbles. Though the flaws and bias involved in the extrapolation of evidence mush be considered such as the lack of an original document provided by…

Current Event #2 Summary The COO of the Britannica, Vineet Whig (47), committed suicide with leaving a note behind. The note indicated that Whig did not have any choice other than killing himself and that he does not leave any of the responsibility or blame to his family. Before committing suicide, Whig’s family did not find any suspicious behavior from him, other than returning late from work. After hearing Whig’s death, his father received a heart attack. Relevant Terms Major depressive…

The scientist I chose to write about is Robert Boyle. I will be telling you all the important facts that happened in his life time. I will tell you when he was born and when he died. I will also tell you where he was born and in where at. Also who his parents were and if he had and siblings. I will try to tell you all about Robert Boyle's life. Like what discoveries he made, tell you how he's important, and how he became known. Robert Boyle was born January 25, 1627 in Lismore, County Waterford,…

The Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Marbles, are cultural artifacts from ancient Greece. A British ambassador named Elgin was concerned about the probable damage that could have occurred to many important pieces of artworks in the temple of Greece during the Turkish occupation. Apparently, permission and the authority was given to Elgin to take many pieces of stone. Thus, the pieces were transported to London, England to preserve them. The British since then have the pieces of artwork…

Robert Boyle was born in 1627, he was the seventh son of his father Richard Boyle. Boyle was named the father of of chemistry after he created a vacuum pump and found Boyle’s law, became a philosopher, chemist, physicist, and an inventor. He gave the first accurate definition of a chemical element, chemical reaction, and a chemical analysis. In 1641, Boyle went to Florence with his tutor who was French, he spent his winter studying with Galileo Galilei. He was also part of the “Invisible…

Each country has the right to preserve its history, that is sensible. From the possible human and logical point of view, the true owners of the great artwork no matter where they are now, are the people who built them. In addition, the natural framework of any work, enhances its majesty, if a piece is Greek it is because speak of Greek culture and the past of the nation, therefore must belong to it, especially thinking that there is a museum on the Acropolis where they will be perfectly…

There is one issue that all ancient Greek art historians and archeologist agree on. That issue is that the reason why the Parthenon frieze cannot be correctly solved is that there is no ancient literature or sources that appropriately archives the context of the frieze. Without contextual evidence, the intertextuality of the subject matter corresponding to the Parthenon frieze becomes ambiguous to the modern viewer. Modern academics can only conceptualize and speculate about what the images of…

Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace Ada Byron, born Augustus Ada Byron in London, England in 1815. Her parents were Anne Isabella Milbanke and the famous Lord Byron. Ada father left Britain leaving her mother and her alone when Ada was just one month old. Ada never saw her father again and she never got to know him. Fearing that Ada would become like her father whose personality was a bit unstable; Anne saw that Ada received the best education using her aristocratic advantages to see that she…

Throughout the first volume of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, I was able to absorb most of the text during the first readthrough. Essentially, I picked up on the main points of the plot and any major events or details that happened. What I didn’t pick up on through the first reading though was many smaller, underlying themes that required some thought/analysis. For the most part, this was lots of Romantic themes and ideas and how they were applied. For example, in Chapter 2, Victor is described…