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Every century the ghost of Elizabeth Oaks comes and haunts the location of what now Rockbridge Academy stands upon. Before Rockbridge Academy, Cedar Academy was located at 911 Generals Highway. That school used Elizabeth in the same way Rockbridge does, as a homework thief. The teachers, both then and now, pay Elizabeth Oaks to take the homework of students they do not like to ruin their grades. However, when a good student forgets to do their homework the teachers communicate through a…

The Rosetta Stone is important to the Ancient Egyptians because, it is the anwser to Hierogliphic writing. If you closely compare other languages spoken at Egypt to the Hieroglphics you would understand what it says. Also acording to Ancient Egypt.com, it states that in 1822, after inspecting the Rosetta Stone for a long time, a man named Jean Francois Champollion finally understood how to read and write in Hierogliphics. Champollion was able to read Coptic and Greek.( Coptic is the present…

Carpentry would not exist without Math. Carpentry is one of the oldest skilled trades that is still used to this day, but also the base and necessity in all aspects for carpentry to be precise. There are references taking the word back to the French origins, “charpentier”, (pronounced char-pen-ti-er) which means a carriage maker. But history shows carpentry goes back to the beginning of time, existing in every culture and civilization. Today, I will show you examples of how carpentry was…

In addition, gout is indicated by excessively high levels of uric acid, which is referred to as hyperuricemia in an individual. The primary cause of hyperuricemia is underexcretion of the kidneys (Buttaro, Trybulski, Bailey, & Sandberg-Cook, 2013). Although not the sole indicator, hyperuricemia is a good indication of gout disease. However, not all individuals who have hyperuricemia will develop gout. In order to diagnose gout disease, the urate levels in the serum must be 7 mg/dL for men and 6…

Johnny Gioeli is the lead vocalist of the band Crush 40. He was born on the 5th of October 1967 in Brooklyn, New York. Johnny's musical career began after forming a band known as Phaze with his older brother. At the age of 17, he started drumming with the band Killerhit in 1983. By 1987, Johnny and his brother were able to purchase their own lighting rig, truck and tour bus, which was purchased from Jimmy Buffet. After re-locating to Hollywood, Bret Michaels gave Killerhit his former publicist…

rich; children play with it in the streets. The meek and uneducated esteem it highly, but the privileged and learned often throw it away. When rejected, it lies dormant in the bowels of the earth. It is the only thing from which the Philosopher's Stone can be prepared, and without it, no noble metal can ever be created.” This is an on going riddle that an alchemist left behind and a ginormous debate all over the internet, personally I believe that this riddle is trying to say that love is the…

Being an omnivore comes along with a couple of benefits like being a high-quality source of protein, collecting important minerals, and vitamins that are needed throughout our bodies; however, being an omnivore can also lead to health problems, a large amount of wasted resources, and can create pollution. Each person can identify themselves by the certain types of diets that are dispersed all around us; there are a variety of diets that even seem unorthodox, yet the ones that we hear about the…

The Rosetta Stone is one of the most valuable pieces of art that is dated back to 196 BC. The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 by Napoleon’s French troops in present day Rashid, Egypt. The troops quickly realized its high value and it was taken to France, where it was examined by Thomas Young and Jean-Francois Champollion. Young and Champollion were two of the first people to decipher the ancient Egypt hieroglyphs by using the, “texts carved upon it… written in three languages: ancient…

hard it could be to achieve success. They sometimes think successful person is success because of their luck. And sometimes when the young people meet failure in their way to success, they become desperate; they did not consider that as a stepping stone to get success. For me failure is a procedure to get success. You can learn something new from failure and make a reflection from it for your plan so you can do better next time. It also can make you to…

The songs I choose are Drupad Indian music; Georgian chanting; troubadour music; Handel: Messiah, Hallejuah Chorus; Bob Dylan, Like The Rolling Stone; Glass: koyaanisqatsi section and John Luther Adams: The Light that fills the world The Dhrupad music is chanting Vedic hymns and mantras. In the background there is string instrument playing in lower sound than the chanting completing it. It can be used as prayer, meditation and yoga. The Georgian Chant is liturgical music chanted in the church…