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    Maxwell and Faraday- A Brief History of Electromagnetism The field of electromagnetism was established in 1819, twelve years before Maxwell was born. Hans Christian Oersted from Denmark was the first scientist who thought of the possibility that magnetism and electricity were related. He considered such a possibility because of the observations he made during an experiment. He Placed a wire above a compass and passed a current through the wire. He noticed that the needle of compass moved when…

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    After spending a couple of years in Europe travelling around, he decided to come back to America. While coming back to America from England on a boat in 1832, he met an inventor called Charles Thomas Jackson. They started discussing electromagnetism and how an electronic impulse could be carried along a wire for long distances. This gave Samuel Morse the idea of a telegraph. He started drawing sketches of a mechanical device that could improve…

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    A Game Of Thrones is probably one of the most intriguing and exciting books I have ever read. This book goes into great depth concerning politics and each character’s own story. This book is currently telling the tale of House Stark, an honorable family led by their father and house lord, Ned Stark. Ned has been called to King’s Landing, a southern city dominated by the house of Lannister and Baratheon to serve in a political position for his King and former ally in the Great Targaryen War,…

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    INTRODUCTION Lord Cornwallis became the governor general of Indiafrom 1786 – 1793.Lord Corwallis In Indiawas a pioneer of british rule of law . He considered the europeans superior and therefore created a europeanised framework under Indian Traditions . He contrinuted greatly to Administrateive and Judicial Reforms India. During his Term He introduced Reforms thrice in 1787,1790 and 1793. CORNWALLIS REFORMS OF 1787 The 1787 reforms of Cornwallis focused more on The administrative reforms. In…

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    Victor Hugo says in Les Miserables, "Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a demon, nor a cowardly and miserable writer; he is nothing but the fact…" making it clear that contrary to the dominant belief he sees Machiavelli to just be the narrator of thing around him. Machiavelli’s, book the prince has been the centre of debate since the time it was written owing to its insight in the matters involving virtu, morality, fortuna, freewill, authority to exercise power and power itself. It is…

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    Imagine, a perfect world where everyone is equal. In this world no one is better than anyone else. This world is ideal, right? Not so much through Kurt Vonnegut’s eyes with his short story “Harrison Bergeron”. Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian style is portrayed through his diction, details, language and many other literature tools. Vonnegut creates a perfect world with a twisted version of equality with his use of short syntax, depressing details, and cold harsh imagery. Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”…

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    How does inequality form from a society created to treat men equally? In Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Rousseau describes society as a gathering of people who leave the state of nature, to achieve their common goal through the rule of the higher power. The state of nature allows men to live equally with one another, where there is no authority leader. However, when men decided to form a society they gave up their rights of freedom and handed it over to a person of authority.…

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    The Gift By R. W. Thompson 1. "Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Danny. One day he found a magic lamp that would give him anything he wanted. 2 As Steven Jacobs begins his story, the swings in the park come quickly to a stop. The merry-go-rounds stop twirling and the see-saws creak to a halt. The play area of the park becomes very quiet, for the children have come to sit under the giant maple tree and as the shadows grow, hear their daily stories from the blind storyteller of…

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    No Easy Walk Analysis

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    “No Easy Walk” is the third of fourteen episodes in the PBS documentary series Eyes on the Prize. The executive producer and creator of the series is Henry Hampton. The purpose of this series of episodes is to document what happened during the Civil Rights era 1954 through the mid 1980s. Episode three focuses specifically on the years 1961-1963: it focuses on the civil rights movements in Albany, Georgia — Birmingham, Alabama — and the Walk on Washington in Washington D.C.. This episode goes…

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    Macbeth Greed Quotes

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    Greed is something you want or need to have, like power, food, wealth, but soon or later your greed will lead you to your death. Greed has been around inside humans for many years even till these days. Greed is powerful enough to make a person do horrible things and things that they’re obsessed with, that it will make you kill a king to become king. Macbeth could have been a good and loyal soldier but his greed took over and he was so obsessed of wanted to become king he killed King Duncan so he…

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