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What would America be like if women could not vote, women had ¼ the pay of men, women and black people had fewer rights, and temperance (alcohol limits) was not fought for? Well, it would be much worse. Luckily, Susan B. Anthony fought for these rights. She is a hero! It was a cold night on February 15, 1820 that Susan was born. Her parents were Daniel and Lucy Anthony. Her family was a Quaker family, which believed women are equal to men and learning is necessary. She could read and write at…

Giants’ Churches in Finland Introduction: Somewhere in the Ostrobothnia region, located in Western Finland, are Neolithic stone structures known as “Giants’ Churches.” These structures can be dated as far back as 2500 B.C. to a time known as the Neolithic period, or the “technological development among prehistoric humans” (Britannica, 2001). It was during this time that farms…

Sophia Nguyen Period 5 Chapter 1 Document 1. I feel that Nisa’s account of her life helps with understanding the much earlier Paleolithic people is very helpful because it gives a first person perspective on the life of a person living in a hunting-gathering society, like the Paleolithic people. Because Nisa doesn’t get much exposure to people outside her society, communicating with others was especially more important to her. 2. To Nisa, sex was very important to her because she didn’t want to…

Evidence of Tool Use by Early Hominins Tool use has been around for ages we all know this because we are surrounded by it every day, but how long has tool use in human history been at play? There is evidence of early hominids making and using stone tools that date back millions of years ago. These tools are the earliest known signs of modifying natural materials for use as a tool. In this article we will travel back to the early stages of human evolution to date when we began to use objects to…

Pink Floyd Pink Floyd was formed in London, England in 1965. According to Rolling Stones, the original band members (except Barrett) was studying at the same school in 1964. However, Barrett was an art student. Barrett actually came up with the name for them from a blues album by Pink Anderson and Floyd Anderson. Pink Floyd began in the underground London scene, where they developed their psychedelic sound. Their music was a mix between hard rock, country, folk, blues and electronic, which…

Different materials from the past can give historians and archaeologists a look into what the past was like in the places they were found. Although any pieces of evidence are valuable, some are more helpful than others to develop a better idea of the past than others. Physical evidence has been found in the Neolithic Era through Globeke Tepe, in Phoenicia through the shipwreck of Uluburun, and in Egypt through temples and mummies. Globeke Tepe is a structure that was built in the Neolithic Era…

Period 3 October 11, 2016 Roll Number: #43 Osborne Killer Stones in the Kidney What is a kidney stone you might ask? Well, a kidney stone is a hard object made up of many crystals that forms in the kidneys. Kidney stones may block the urinary tract and cause severe pain. My dad has had kidney stones twice in his life before and suffered a lot through it. One in ten people will most likely have kidney stones in their lifetime. Clearly, kidney stones are very painful for the people that have it…

Tropicalia and Heavy Metal The Tropicalia movement ignited Brazil leading to the fusion of traditional Brazilian culture with outside influences and to new and exciting ideas in poetry, music and art. Tropicalia came as an anti-establishment movement in Brazil that began the era of cultural opposition through the influence these artistic and musical influences. Heavy metal music was a primary influence of this cultural change that came from the influence of Western culture. The movement has made…

Some of their best released albums were Black Sabbath(1920), Paranoid(1870) and Master of Reality(1971). They were also labeled the “Greatest Metal Band” by MTV and were also placed second in VH1's “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock”. Rolling Stone magazine even ranked them 85 in their “100 Greatest Artist of All Time” By the end of their career they had sold over 70 million records worldwide. They were also inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in…

Gout has been identified as early as 2640 BC by the ancient Egyptians, with famous suffers such as composer Ludwig van Beethoven, diplomate Benjamin Franklin, astronomer Galileo Galilei, and physicist Isaac Newton and known as the disease of kings due to prevalence of an indulgent lifestyle, such as consumption of alcohol, fructose-sweetened drinks, meat and other rich foods lead to risk factors of gout. Gout is caused by an excesses amount of uric acid being deposited in needle-like structures…