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    missed out on a lot of things because he got deadly sick. His later life was much better than his childhood, he became an inventor and a businessman. He was one of the greatest businessman of America. Thomas Edison was born on February 11th, 1847 in Milan Ohio. child of Nancy Matthews Elliott, and Samuel Ogden Edison. He had 6 siblings, 3 brothers and 3 sisters. Edison was one of the youngest out of the bunch. He wasn't the smartest out of the bunch either, he lost his hearing due to the…

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    assignment is a panting called “The School of Athens.” This painting, “The School of Athens” is a piece of art that was done by Raphael. It is a 4-1/4” x 26’4-5/8” sized painting. You can currently find this piece of art in Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy. “The School of Athens” is one of Raphael’s 7 cartoons. He did this art work on wet plaster so it is quite different than normal art work. The subject of this art is the school which refers to the Platonic Academy founded by Plato in Athens…

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    On February 11, 1847, one of the world’s greatest inventors was born. His name was Thomas Alva Edison. He was born in Milan, Ohio, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. Yes, he was very successful, yet he had almost no schooling. He only spent a few months in school before his schoolteacher mother taught him some at home. Although most of the time he would buy books, visit the library, and teach himself. He also, was in an accident that caused him to go deaf, or mostly deaf, about the time of his…

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    The Tempest, by William Shakespeare is obsessed with the concepts of imprisonment and betrayal. The play starts off with a stormy day and the reader is introduced to some characters on a boat, which is unquestionably a bad place to be during a storm. The reader then learns that the King of Naples and several of his followers are on this boat, and it seems that things are going so severely that there's not much to do but pray. The boat then splits in half and the people float off into the sea.…

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    Since previous rulers had stuck to traditional Roman beliefs since the foundation of the Empire in 27 B.C., Constantine’s adherence to Christianity was unheard of, but also extremely important in establishing the Church into Rome’s culture. By abolishing Paganism, initiating several reforms in the city and openly encouraging conversion, Constantine acted as a catalyst for the growing faith. His influence established a wholly unified Roman Empire dedicated to Jesus Christ and his teachings,…

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    Classical Rome was dominated by their ideas and institutions of law. The beliefs in God’s law or church law started out as an idea and ended up as an institution. The Judean section of the Roman Empire formulated God’s law. They accepted a “covenant, or pact between Yahweh, their God, and his people to obey the law, called the ten commandments.” These commandments were written in the Torah, the 5 Books of Moses. Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew that followed the Judaic message, but focused on…

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    Prompt #1: For receiving feedback on my Ch. 2 analysis, there was no feedback on my paper, but I would agree with the score that I. The reason that I would agree is that for one of the prompts, I could have gone more into details, but know I know what to change for Ch. 3 analysis. What I would do differently is that I would go into the details more. Prompt #2: They point in this chapter that is that the camera came an important for the deaf community because, know we can document people…

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    As an example of one of the artists that Cosimo de Medici supported, Da Vinci, he didn’t just paint the Mona Lisa, he also painted the painting, “The Lady With The Ermine.” The woman in this painting is Cecilia Gallerani, mistress of the Duke of Milan, and in the painting she is holding…

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    Agent Melina May, one of the antagonists on ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. once said, “You can 't undo what 's been done. That will be with you forever. But trying to hold onto this life, clinging to the person you thought you could be - that 's hell” (“Repairs”). Agent May explained that it’s impossible to change the past, and that one must alter his or her lifestyle in order to avoid their future being consumed by it. Conversely, if one sulks in the past and refrains from a change, the past will…

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    Following Napoleon’s Berlin Decree and Milan Decree along with the subsequent Orders in Council from the British, Britain was theoretically cut off from trading with any allies of France, the Berlin Decree and Milan Decree were both acts by Napoleon to stop trade between French allies and neutral parties of Europe with England, and The Orders in Council was a subsequent order…

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