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The Battle of Tours...? Many historians believe that the Battle of Tours was one of the great turning points in history. Often, a battle becomes more myth than fact through the passage of time, but the Battle of Tours is one that many modern historians agree was vital in determining the course of future events in Europe and the Americas. This battle was about much more than the control of a natural resource, a trade route or ownership of historically significant real estate. The Battle of Tours was infused with the urgency of the preservation of Christian Europe’s culture and institutions (Deviosse, 1979). The Battle of Tours occurred in October of 732. The participants were the Frankish...
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Amazing Grace And Amazing Revelations...Amazing Grace And Amazing Revelations Kozol, J. (1996). Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation. (Reprint ed New York: Harper Perennial.
Books, it is said, are a mirror to life. Sometimes it so happens that books not just mirror life but hold a mirror to us as well. They endeavor to show us the harsh realities of the world we live in and drive home the point that the life that we live is not the only version. Other people, living and breathing human beings like us, live other, wholly different versions of life elsewhere. Jonathan Kozol achieves just such a goal with his eye-opener Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a...
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Amazing Grace...Jonathan Kozol’s Amazing Grace Introduction Amazing Grace was written by Jonathan Kozol depicting the hardships and struggles of the children in Bronx New York as they battled with poverty and social prejudice. He covers a spectrum of topics from AIDS, drug addiction, prostitution, crime, poorly run and funded schools, white flight from schools to over-crowded hospitals and the amazing faith in religion and God that many of these people have. (Jackson 1). It is a powerful record of Kozol’s personal evocations of the plight of the poor of the United States, and ultimately condemnations of a society and government that would allow these conditions to exist (Morrow 1).
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Intro to Art: Gallery Tours...Intro to Art: Gallery Tours Richard Estes Richard Estes is an American artist well-known for his photorealistic paintings. He was born in 1932 in Illinois. He admitted to an art school in Chicago at the age of 20 and studied Fine Arts. During his academic period he had chance to expose to the works of highly reputed realists artists such as Edgar Degas and Thomas Eakins. After completing his studies he worked as an artist for publishing and advertising companies and continued to paint in leisure time. From 1966 he fully devoted for painting. He held his first art exhibition in 1968 and was granted the fellowship of National Council for the Arts in 1971.
His Paintings
Most of His early arts were about the citizens...
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Willingness to Listen...Willingness to Listen of the English of the Concerned July 5, Willingness to Listen As suggested by the assignment under consideration, I went to the Willingness to Listen website and completed the “Willingness to Listen Measure”. After calculating as mentioned in the Willingness to Listen website, my willingness to listen score came to be 63, which means I have a moderate willingness to listen to others (Willingness to Listen Measure, 2012).
Well, plainly speaking, a grasp over my willingness to listen score will not have a much serious impact on my interpersonal communications with others. I believe that a willingness to listen to others takes time and energy, both of which are scarce resources. So I resort to varied listening... ...
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Book One Amazing Thing... Possible Ending for One Amazing Thing All the nine characters will be rescued. But their lives will never be the same again. The tragedy that happened to them and, most importantly, the life stories they have shared to one another, have been life changing. The author has perfectly merged the tragedy of the situation, being trapped in a building with no water or food supply, with the hope and excitement emanating from the unique life stories of the different characters. But the story has actually no satisfactory ending; the author leaves this part to the readers’ imagination. Thus this essay provides one possible ending to the story.
As mentioned earlier, all those people who were trapped inside the building will be rescued... . They will be...
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Amazing Paintings...Amazing Paintings School Affiliation Amazing Paintings
The term golden selection was first used by Martin Ohm in the 1835 2nd edition of his textbook Die Reine Elementar-mathematic (Livio 200, p.6). The first known use of this term in English is found in the James Sulley’s 1875article on aesthetics in encyclopedia Britannica 9th edition. The term golden ratio is also referred to us golden ratio, divine proportion, or golden selection, is the number often used when talking about ratios lengths in simple geometrics figures like pentagon and decagon. Golden ratio is denoted by ф (“phi”) which was first used by Mark Barri in the beginning of the 20th century in the remembrance of the Greek Sculptor Phidias,...
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Space, the amazing universe...Space, the amazing universe
Space is defined as a place where only air exists. However, science has a different explanation to the term. Scientist defer in the description of space. Substantivalists say that space is an independent object that exists all by its self as it does not contain any matter. In this case, space is independent. Religionists argue that space cannot exist as a single entity. Scientifically, space is an independent variable that does not require other entities in order to attain its full definition. The galaxy is made of objects that exist in space but do not form space itself.
The universe is a phenomenon made up of various forces that combine to ensure the existence of life. There are four major forces... the...
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Listen actively...Number] Listening Activity Question In an attached file, tell me in 2-3 paragraphs about your experience. Who did you talk to?When? Where? How did you feel? Fun? Frustrating? Useful? Hard? Potentially helpful? Will you try it again? Get your partners reaction as well.
‘Speak by the book’ was a learning and teaching experience. It taught both of us (Me and Olivia) how short is our listening span, how much we like to interrupt plus add, and how much patience is required to listen something you are not really interested in at all. Pretending to listen to becomes also hard, as the speaker has his full attention on you. Listening to Olivia my childhood...
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Believing Ghost...evoke so much fright from people and if asked, many people would prefer to stay away from these acts as much as possible. My tour to Gul-Jil, Hong-chun in Korea really changed my view about ghosts and how they manifest themselves in the society because I learnt that ghosts truly exist.
It was 2009 beginning of summer when I was in army at Gul-jil, Hong-chun in Korea. The place is near the 38th parallel. In Korea, mountains usually have rough and irregular sides, especially Gul-jil that has a very rough stream. Furthermore, beginning of summer was the rainy season so that the stream was moving at breakneck speed. According to rumors, there was a strange accident that drowning accident...
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