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    Sherlock Holmes is a detective hero of all times, a fictional character who is more famous than his creator Arthur Conan Doyle. The Scottish author Doyle wrote one of his well-known novel “The Sing of Four starring” the unique and detailed character Sherlock Holmes. Although Doyle has never been a colonist nor his character Holmes, the novel presents the idea of the British empire and its power along with the danger of colonized India and its people through Victorian perspective. I shall start…

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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a man of many contradictions and mystery. Though scientifically educated, he was a believer of fairies and stances. He believed in life beyond death and often rose above the logic of common man. A humanist who identified with oppressed people, and clearly expressed his anguish in his book The Crime of the Congo, a long pamphlet in which he denounced the horrors of that colony ad many such creations. His humanist nature was also seen in his book…

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    Fear In Gothic Literature

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    Many people have at least read several novels that are classified as “horror”, such as “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. Yet, these texts would not have been possible if not for the authors during the Gothic era that laid the foundation for such works to be created by today’s novelists. The novels Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole and “Sir Bertrand” by Anna and John Aikin, give excellent examples on this subject. It was these works where the architectural environment helped give the text a sense…

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    Engineering Timeline

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    was created . This allowed information to be given in a matter of seconds rather than through other time consuming methods such as the telegram. (1) 1b) What happened on this date? On this date, the first telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. 2a) Name an influential person in the history of engineering. An influential inventor that has affected our lives is George Stephenson as he is mentioned for being the creator of inner city railways and transport. With this idea in mind, he made…

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    we use our thoughts in the right way. For example, what if Benjamin Franklin hadn’t acted upon his thought of attaching a key to a silk ribbon in a thunderstorm? That great thought led to the invention of electricity. Or, what if Alexander Graham Bell didn’t act on the thought of experimenting with primitive sound transmitters and receivers that led to the creation of the telephone? We would all still be in the dark sending smoke signals. These two great men did not let fear or doubt…

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    few decades, with abundance of inventions created by brilliant minds have filled the current world. One such brilliant inventor that made his name known in the inventing world back in the 1870s was Scottish-born American inventor Alexander Graham Bell, the founding father of the device that could transmit speech electrically; the telephone (Gray, 2011). The telephone was notably fashioned from his attempts to improve an invention that was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse; the…

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    Eugenics is quite the term to the common ear, and for those who have heard someone speak of it probably aren’t familiar with the ethical intricacies lie behind it. A British scholar named Sir Francis Galton pioneered eugenics in the 1930’s, and defined it as the desire for offspring to be “well-born” (Introduction to Eugenics). Eugenics involves manipulation of human reproduction, in an effort to improve bloodlines and the overall physical and mental makeup of a man or a woman (Introduction to…

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    Steam Locomotive History

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    Technology and science has definitely evolved throughout the years. We have become a fully connected country where information is at our fingertips. This was unimaginable 200 years ago. It is amazing to see how far humans have come since then. A lot of it is credited to a few key people and inventions from the early 1800s. The first of these inventions is the steam locomotive. This may have been the most defining and important invention during this era. It started to connect the otherwise…

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    Herbert Spencer was thought to be the father of social Darwinism. He initially came up with the term survival of the fittest. Eugenics and social Darwinism were both similar since eugenics originated from social Darwinism of the late nineteenth century. "Eugenics" was thought of in 1883 by the English researcher Francis Galton, who was the cousin of Charles Darwin. Galton characterized the expression "eugenics” as the theory of hereditary improvement of the human race by selective breeding. The…

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    The years after the American Civil War have been characterized by Mark Twain and others as “The Gilded Age”. By this statement he means, this period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. Historians have come to the conclusion that there was a decline of human value and low morals from 1870-1910. This was a period of greed, corruption, with Robber Barons, shady business tactics, and horrible political power. However, this era was the making of the modern world. We now have…

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