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    Colosseum Research Paper

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    was used for entertainment purpose. At present, the Colosseum is the top tourist attraction in Rome and thousands of tourists are flocking to this place. The entrance to this building is free for European Union citizens. 11. Topic: Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy…

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    Introduction More than 60 years ago, World War 2 has ravaged most parts of the world. The war brought an absolute change in the economic and political landscape. New ideas and ideals, like capitalism and communism, are made out with consequences of war. But among this a new problem arose, asking the questions on what to teach the next generation, and on how to educate the new generation after the war. After the war, nations and governments all over the world had to choose on what to teach to…

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    him in Pisa, Italy. He was born on February 15, 1564 (The Famous People 1). He grew up in Pisa as well as in Florence (Westwall 4). All of this has made his young life lovely. There no websites that say where he went to school for elementary school. Galileo did attend college back in Pisa, Italy. He moved back there because he wanted to go into University of Pisa. He went into the University because he wanted to study medicine (School of Mathematics and Statistics 1). The University of Pisa was…

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    The city of Southfield, MI has requested that a new charter high school is created that would represent the diversity within the city. Southfield currently has eleven private schools, five universities, and seventeen public schools (Market Research Services Oakland County Planning and Economic Development, n.d.) (City of Southfield, n.d.). Demographics According to CityData.com, a website that details the demographics of cities, the current breakdown of races is as follows: African American 70…

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    respectively there can 't be proper communication between them. So a failure of one subsystem can be a failure of many other subsystems. By preventing a failure of one subsystem blocks the possibilities of failure of another subsystem. So the purpose of PISA which is an effective mechanism is design the system so that the subsystems are not independent, but…

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    Galileo Galilei, known by his first name Galileo, was a mathematician and astronomer, born in Pisa, Italy, in 1564. He credited with the development of the nautical spyglass into the telescope which enabled him to observe the universe as no one had before. This advancement allowed him gather evidence for, arguably, the most controversial idea of his time, heliocentrism, or the astronomical model in which the sun is the center of our solar system. Consequently, He was accused of heresy by the…

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    If you Google the name Amanda Knox roughly 7.1 million results will be returned. Her name became one of the most recognized names in the world in 2007, but not in a way you would want to be remembered. “She devil with an angel face” and “heartless manipulator” became synonymous with the name Amanda Knox, not for any established or proven wrong doing by criminal proceedings, but for her perceived wrong doing embellished by the media. Background On November 2nd 2007, British exchange student…

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    Jupiter’s four moons, and being the guy who experimented with falling objects at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Born on February 15th of 1564 in Pisa, Italy, Galileo was the first child of Vicenzo Galilei and Guilia Ammannati. Galileo started going to school at the Camaldolese Monastery at Vallombrosa when he and his family moved to Florence in 1574. For college, Galileo went to the University of Pisa to study medicine, but he had to leave before he got his degree due to financial difficulties.…

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    On May 3, 1469, Niccolo Machiavelli, arguably one of the greatest Italian Politicians of all time, was born. The young historian was born into a wealthy family of five, with whom he shared his love for reading. Known predominantly for his work The Prince, Machiavelli was one of the utmost writers of the Renaissance. He gained this title through hard work and determination that never seemed to be absent in his many different careers. Little is known about the great Italian writer, Niccolo…

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    Finland's Education

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    2012 on the Program for International student assessment test (PISA) out of a scale of 1000, with 500 being the average, many conclude that the European nation is on the trend of overall decline in Finland’s schooling system (“Finn-ished; School Leagues Tables” 62). With even the Commissioner of the National Center of Education Statistics, Tom Loveless, quoted saying “Finland’s exaggerated reputation is based on its performance on PISA, and assessment that matches well with its way of teaching…

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