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    “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is ... no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions (Locke 107).” This was thought by a great thinker named John Locke. John locke highly believed in social contract and how everybody is entitled to life, property, and liberty. John Locke’s ideas can be applied to and used for several revolutions. For example, the Syrian Revolution began in 2011 with a series of small…

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    result of air pollution. When a fuel is burnt, lots of different chemicals are produced. The smoke that rises from a fire or the fumes that…

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    once again” are the work of a famous lyricist and poet from India by name “Javed Akhtar”. In his work, he talks about the process of finding your fire within. He is a connoisseur of Urdu poetry. He has addressed the students of Harvard University as a keynote speaker on “Secular elements in Urdu Poetry”. Also he has been a speaker at University of London on “Modern Urdu Poetry”. Apart from being a lyricist, he is also a social activist with an avid interest in Indian politics, communal harmony…

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    Byzantium was a great ancient Greek city state founded around 600 BC named after its king Byzas, the leader of the Megarean colonists and founder of the city. He settled in Constantinople because of the spin strip of water that connected Asian to Europe and the black sea to the Mediterranean. Byzantium now means old or devious but during its 1100 years it was the savior to the western world’s profound heritage of long literature but it has also put Christianity on fast track and along the way…

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    How To Avoid Drones

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    Funding for drones has increased dramatically since the year before 9/11 where it stood around 284 million. Currently, $4.6 billion dollars is spent in drone related technology, a reduction from FY16’s budget by $1.2 billion. This reduction in spending for aerial type drones is due to the need for other unmanned drone technology, such as the Navy’s new line of unmanned undersea vehicles that are used to detect sea mines, or the land drones used in the army to disarm bombs or perform…

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    Puritans

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    At the death of Elizabeth, England departed politically from the continent, starting thereafter a different direction. Much earlier, political observers such as Commynes and Fortescue had emphasized the distinctive character and superiority of insular institutions; But these were not strong enough to withstand Mary Tudor, so the work had to be started again. It was restarted, in the old style, appealing to tradition and precedents. And when it seemed that such criteria were not entirely…

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    The coffee percolator is known as one of the earliest "modern" coffee-brewing tools, that was originally intended for small scale homes that could be heated on a stove or any other hear source (Meister, Erin). This type of coffee pot was very popular before the invention of the automatic drip coffee makers which was around the 1970s (Coffee Percolator Explained). It has been said, according to Erin Meister, that the percolator was and is the beginning for more brewing techniques that have been…

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    where he is called the “father of modern computation.” There is even the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota with the sole purpose of promoting the study of information processing. Many honors must correspond, undoubtedly to a great man that had caused a significant impact on the development of the modern computer. This statement, though true, is somewhat controversial because although Babbage laid the principles on which computers are based, their dream of building…

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    According to Jan Burres, who McCandless met on the road, that "…London was his[McCandless 's] favorite. He 'd try to convince every snowbird who walked by that they should read Call of the Wild" (Krakauer 44). McCandless, overly addicted to this novel, would be called a fictional realist, who believed in the nonexistence…

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    The Real American Revolution The British American colonists believed that as full British citizens they were equally entitled to the rights and privileges of the British Constitution,but in Great Britain they disagreed,they thought of the colonists as subordinate not equal and that the colonists were intended to serve the mother country.The colonists were frustrated that they were not being recognized as true Britons and felt they were being deprived of their “English Liberties”,quarrels over…

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