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The Life of Ashton Stamper Due: November 7 4 odd Definition of honor High respect. My definition people who have honor are respected well and known. Benjamin Thompson was a physicist and inventor who was a founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. While in the military Thompson noted that during the process of boring cannons, the metal turned red hot and even boiled the water used to keep it cool. The explanation was that if the metal broke into pieces the caloric is liberated…

WHO FIRST DISCOVERED MITOSIS? Mitosis was first discovered in the early 1880s by Walter Flemming. Walter Fleeming was a German biologist. He developed most of his study on cells and the chromosomes that are inside of cells. In 1878, the claimed that cell duplicate in the process called mitosis. Flemming died on August 4th, 1905. HOW DID MITOSIS GET IT NAME? "Mito-" which mean "thread" in Greek. The process of cell division are described as threads because during the process of…

Geaogerphy The geography of rome is characterized by the seven hills and tiber river. In war it was easier for them because of the hills and the river. There are many good reasons why the city of Rome grew where they did. The city was built along seven hills which protected it from attack. Second, the Tiber River made a fine highway for travel to the Mediterranean Sea for trade. The making of civilization is affected by geography. Rome did not spring into being as a power on the Italian…

Why Wikipedia Should Be Allowed in Schools By Pedro Torres Wikipedia is used by everyone. It is the 7th most used site in the world, with an average of around 800 million views per month (as of March 2016). The site has what is one of, if not THE largest database of information available to mankind. Yet, in most schools across the country, it’s not allowed to be used for research in an essay or project. Why? Many teachers claim that Wikipedia is “unreliable and factually incorrect”. Since…

We commonly hear the horrific disturbing stories about people who commit hateful acts against others including their own. When I hear about a serial killer the first thought that comes to mind is, what was crossing his mind? Scientist and doctors have been trying to solve the mystery of why a human can commit such hateful acts. We ask ourselves what made them snap? We have seen many cases where the father or mother murders their own family. We cant help but wonder what was going on inside this…

Timoleon of Corinth lived from approximately 411-337 BC. He was a Greek statesman and general most know for championing the Greeks of Sicily against Carthage. At an early age, Timoleon saved Timophanes’ life (his brother). Timophanes shortly after gained control of the acropolis of Corinth and called himself the ruler of the city. Timoleon was not a fan of his brother’s tyranny, thus leading him to become an accomplice in his assassination. Many people of the city of Corinth agreed with…

The Developing Person through the Life Span. New York: Worth, 2004. Print. "G Factor (psychometrics)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 28 Nov. 2016. Https://www.facebook.com/verywell. "What Are the Major Theories of Intelligence?" Verywell. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Nov. 2016. Https://www.facebook.com/verywell. "What Is General Intelligence? Review Your Psychology…

Captain America Steve Rogers was a regular, undersized, want to be soldier. Unfortunately for him, he was never big enough to qualify for military duty. This was until he was offered a chance to become a candidate for an experimental procedure that would allow him to serve his country as he had always wanted. He managed to impress enough to be picked for the procedure. After a series of painful series of injections, Steve became bigger, stronger, and faster. He then adopted the persona of…

edited through user contributions. Founded in 2001 by Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales the company is owed by a not-for –profit group called the Wikimedia Foundation. Originally, Wikipedia was located in Florida and had more than one hundred servers. In 2007, the company moved its headquarters to San Francisco to accommodate the growth of the organization. Two years later, Wikimedia maintained more than three hundred servers worldwide. What started as an experiment ultimately turned into an overnight…

Throughout our lives, we encounter many people, groups and ideas who leave a sort of impression on us, both positive and negative. Similarly, in art history there have been multiple preceding artist movements like the impressionists, who have impacted artists that were a part of other subsequent movements, like the fauvists or expressionists. The similarities between Maurice de Vlaminck's "Chatou Bridge" (1907) and Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night" (1889) reflect some impressionism qualities…