Catapult

There was a time when African Americans could not play in the major league. All African American baseball players played in the their own league called the Negro Leagues. That all changed when Jackie Robinson was giving a chance to change all of that. A man named Branch Rickey gave Jackie that opportunity to change the game and made Jackie the first African American to play in the Major Leagues. Jackie Robinson was born January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. The youngest of five children,…

Archimedes One example of an ancient Greek scientist that has discovered a lot of what we know about physics is Archimedes. Archimedes was a mathematician, physicist, and an inventor. He is known for inventing the Archimedean screw, the lever, the catapult, and crane. The Archimedean screw was used to irrigate water. It was a tube with a screw in it and when you turned the screw water would rise up the tube. Archimedes also is known for inventing the lever. With a lever small things can…

Development of Beethoven’s Compositions though his Piano Sonatas The Flemish Pianist and Composer, Ludwig Van Beethoven (Dec.16, 1770- March.26, 1827) is perhaps regarded as the greatest composers who have ever lived. He is considered the transitional composer from Classical to Romantic period. Beethoven’s innovation’s through his lifetime has impacted the classical music remarkably. His genius can be traced down through all his compositions. Unlike Mozart and Haydn, Beethoven’s keyboard…

Look & Feel Everything we do visually with this film needs to look great, cinematically beautiful, and with a beautiful premium gloss across it, like a sequence out of a high end feature film rather than a commercial, to raise the production value. Saturated colours, rich textures and an articulated visual language of shots and angles that keep us close to the action along with underlining the human side of the characters reactions to make it as colourful as possible; where everything feels,…

Dining California is a great place to enjoy fine dining, quantity or quality food. There several thousand restaurants and fast food businesses in Los Angeles county alone or you can have dinner at home. The best area in Los Angeles county to enjoy fine dining and quality food is on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. Here you are able to see movie stars, athletes, tours, and ordinary families; while receiving a great steak on a sidewalk patio table of a Five Star restaurant. However, as the writer…

The atlatl has been shown multiple times not to catapult the spears, but to throw them as you would without the atlatl; making it more or less just an extension of the spear throwers arm. Archeologists have gone through many ways that the atlatl functions, in Raymond’s paper “Experiments in the Function…

Gender is constructed by the society. Although individuals are born sexed, they are not born gendered. Learning is required for individuals to become masculine or feminine. Children learn to talk, walk and gesture according to their social group’s beliefs of how boys and girls should act (Lorber, 1991). Gender is a human production which relies on everyone continual “doing gender” (West & Zimmerman, 1987). The process of gendering involved naming, dressing, and the use of other gender markers.…

Disciplining Modern Turkey: Historiographical analysis of the Ideology of Mustafa Kemal “Atatürk” The longevity of the Ottoman Empire is undeniable. From its beginnings in 1299 to its end in 1922 the Ottomans were one of the world’s longest functioning empires, with its geography reaching to large parts of Africa, Asia, and Arabia. Though the Ottoman’s lasted seven centuries, the empire was in an increasing state of tortuous decline beginning in the sixteenth century. This decline was inflicted…

Project Success: Facebook The website was born as a focused network in almost immature task of comparing the girls at Harvard University. Due to the success, part of the community became a yearning among students. First at Harvard, then at Stanford, Columbia, Yale and MIT. This was the driving force factor of the first moments of the network, in the United States and Britain. But what really catapulted the network, which has surpassed 500 million users, was the decision to maintain its API…

PROLOGUE: “Sir, the last experiment was successful. The test subjects are in the lab.” “Excellent. Have we given them the Xnosintia vaccine yet?” “No, sir. The second one was just born. I’ll tell the people monitoring them to do so.” “Perfect. Now, are you sure that they are 100% the same? No differences whatsoever?” “No differences sir. When you look at them, it’s like seeing double.” CHAPTER ONE Molly Miller was absolutely, positively NOT looking forward to her last year…