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    Howard Carter Discovery

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    The Life and Discovery made by Howard Carter The most famous discovery of an Egyptian pharaoh in history is the finding of Tutankhamun’s tomb. He was also known as King Tut. There were many who tried for over more than 3,000 years but failed to find the tomb. It was the discovery by Howard Carter in 1922 that made history. Howard Carter was born in May 9, 1874 in Kensington, London. His father was a successful artist named Samuel Carter. He didn’t grow up living with his parents because he was a sickly child. He lived with his two aunts who provided a private home education. He showed an artistic interest at an early age but didn’t want to follow in the family business. He wanted to take a different path and one was opened for him when he was introduced to Perry Newberry, who was working on a site in Egypt. Newberry needed a trainee tracer. This path would take him out of Britain for the first time at the age of 17. He was on location there for a year then appointed to…

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    King Tut's Curse

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    bandits and grave robbers because he was buried in a tomb that was never meant to be for a pharaoh. It wasn’t until Egyptologist Howard Carter unsealed the boy kings tomb in nineteen twenty four, that we saw how amazing his tomb was. Undisturbed for centuries, it still contained all of the king’s possessions which allowed Carter to present the world with the first intact burial tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh. It was a novelist by the name of Marie Corelli, who first claimed to discover the curse in…

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    They park their car on the side of the dirt road in Egypt. Howard Carter opens up his door and gets out. As he gets out he trips on a rock, and yells “It’s dang 1933 and i’m still tripping, im just looking for a tomb!” He gets up and proceeds to find the sacred cheeseburger. He has worked 31 years in Egypt just to find a bun with squared meat and cheese on it. He wants to discover it first. The destination is 3.2 \miles away. He will have to drive to it, but the road ahead is dangerous. Flying…

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    Tut's Tomb Case Study

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    21 You are missing some of the necessary information for your identification section. You don't have the artist's name of Tut's tomb. We traditionally list an artist as unknown if there is not an identification. In addition, ancient is not a style identification. You would need to say something like New Kingdom Egypt for Tut's tomb style. You are also missing the size of the tomb. You will also need to give the current location of Julius II Tomb's tomb. 15 Justification is good, but…

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    Zinn's Fight For Equality

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    Howard Zinn discusses Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr in his book as well. All five of these presidents gave false pretenses, they all put money into the military budget, they cut benefits for the poor, and they lowered taxes for the rich. The primary consensus among these presidents was the military. All of them put large amounts of money into the military when there were other programs and people who could have used that money. An example of this would be when President Carter…

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    1980 Candidate Research

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    This made him settle for his opponent George Bush after they had patched their political and personal differences. However, the phenomenon that can be considered as to have greatly impacted and propelled the rise of Reagan and to have shaped his presidency goes back to 1978. During this year, Howard Jarvis, who was the conservative activist, launched what is deemed as the first major campaign, successful tax revolt on citizens through coming up with an elaborate campaign. This included…

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    Iranian Hostage Crisis

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    began. It became infamous throughout the United States because it began with the day number of the hostage crisis and then another update given. Even on days that nothing happened in Tehran, Nightline would still talk about the reasoning behind the crisis, how the hostages were being treated, Islamic radicalism, etc. They often reported on the effect that the hostage crisis had on the Carter Administration and how it could potentially harm his bid for…

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    Green Belt Movement Our climate is changing. People all around the world lack shelter, clothing and are even dying of hunger. Wangari Mathai had a vision. She was focused on restoring our environment and was willing to lend a hand to clean up the damages climate change had caused in her community. With the help of her vison and the Green belt Movement she founded, Kenya began to prosper. Crowds were cheering. Kenyans were…

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    Although the issues did not originate completely with Carter, the issues Carter faced helped show the shift in rhetoric in America. An important issue that helped change the rhetoric was the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC for short, embargo in the years 1973-1974. This issue arose during the Presidency of Gerald Ford and was an issue that outraged the nation. The nation had become reliant on transport with motorized vehicles and they were not able to because the…

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    Martin Luther King Rhetorical Analysis

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    complied with his integral values, which in turn made our country rightfully desegregated today. The issues presented by Stephen L. Carter, “that we as a nation too often lack integrity, which might be described, in a loose and colloquial way, as the courage of one’s convictions” (180), would be resolved by using a similar mindset to that of King’s. The activist’s adversaries frowned upon any change in the system, making it hard to reach equality. The negotiation attempts left empty promises…

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