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“Real power has to do with one’s ability to influence the hearts and minds of others” (Lama). The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is about a boy boy named Bruno who goes on a journey with his friend Shmuel trying to cross the fence in Berlin. The War Between the Classes is about a girl named Amy who tries to make a difference in the world with discrimination. Today kids have the power to influence the world and make a change just like the children of War Between the Classes and The Boy in the…

The Sunflower is a non-fiction book; written by Simon Wiesenthal. In this book, Simon (a Jew) was working for the Nazi’s, while he got pulled aside by a nurse. The nurse asked him to come speak to a dying S.S. Man (Karl). Simon went into the room, and Karl told him the horrendous crimes he has committed. Karl tells Simon this to get forgiveness from a Jew for his crimes; so he can die in peace. Simon is overwhelmed and walks out, and says nothing. For the rest of his life he contemplates-did I…

they believe a human being should never be killed intentionally (“Buddhism and Abortion”). On November 28, 1993, the Dalai Lama said, “If the unborn child will be retarded or if the birth will create serious problems for the parent, these are cases where there can be an exception. I think abortion should be approved or disapproved according to each circumstance” (Dalai Lama…

Researching for life’s improvements is the goal for every engineer, this explains the countless hours engineers spend inside an office or a laboratory. Although people think of engineers as only creators of lifeless technology, many of biomedical engineers specialized in technology for the living. Meeting between medicine and engineering, biomedical engineers find solutions for medicine and, in some cases, people’s disabilities. These disabilities appear from accidents in the workplace to war…

The Mongol Empire By Stefan From 1206 to 1366 the Mongols took over so much land they had the largest contiguous land empire in history. The Mongols were so big and important they impacted not only everyone in Europe and Asia, but they impacted the entire world history. It is believed that they impacted the world in a positive way. For example, the Mongols influenced the creation of new inventions by bringing new ideas and materials into different lands, combining cultures and raw materials. In…

“Little Buddha” is an unusual movie about a Tibetan Buddhist monk who travels the world in search of his teacher’s reincarnation. As one might expect, the movie is full of Buddhist symbolism. The movie artfully portrays Siddhartha Gautama’s transformation into the Buddha and draws comparisons between Buddhist concepts and everyday items or concepts to make it easy for viewers to understand these Buddhist concepts. The movie made me think about a lot of concepts that I had previously never given…

The inscription above this image the mantra “Om Mani Padme Hum” is said to contain all the teachings of Buddha and is believed to invoke the embodiment of compassion through a flower. “Suma” meaning Lotus flower is explained by the Fourteenth Dali Lama of Tibet, “a lotus grows forth from mud but is not sullied by the faults of mud, so wisdom is capable of putting you in a situation of non-contradiction where as there would be contradiction if you did not have wisdom. There is wisdom realizing…

ing Lama Sherpa GEO 206-01 RESEARCH PROJECT EURYPTERIDS ABSTRACT 1.INTRODUCTION 
Eurypterids are a large extinct group of arthropods that ranged from 10 cm to 2 m in length. They belonged to the extinct order Eurypterida of the phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Chelicerata and class Merostomata. According to the fossil record, the first Eurypterids were present in the mid-Ordovician and they thrived in warm shallow water until the late Permian when they went extinct. Thus, they lived for…

Following a rise of the contemporary consumer society in America in 1920s, the accompanying lifestyle choices have become aspired to and as a result have spread across the ocean to the rest of the world. Nevertheless, the origins of consumer society date back to 16th century; and the real development began following the industrial revolution, when higher production required swift and higher consumption and as a result an expanding middle and working class have transformed into consuming class,…

violence somewhere in the world. War is seen as the ugliest thing in the face of mankind and yet “Most of us have been conditioned to regard military combat as exciting and glamorous- an opportunity for men to prove their competence and courage.” (Lama). Many young men see the opportunity of going to war as the moment of their life to prove something, but why go so far as going to war? “I think there’s a lot of cultural reinforcement. You know, you’re not a man until you’ve done something…