It could be argued that the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928 might very well be one of the greatest scientific discoveries of his time. Penicillin opened up the doors to the start of antibiotics. Antibiotics are used to fight infections‚ often bacterial‚ that invade the human body. There has been countless of people saved and made healthy again by the use of antibiotics‚ namely penicillin. Fleming’s scientific breakthrough saved numerous lives during and following D-Day. Without
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Jeremy Steffen 11/30/13 Arts of Africa DAkpem Butcher Boys Butcher Boys is a work of art created by Jane Alexander in 1985-86. Jane Alexander is a caucasian female who was born in Johannesburg South Africa in 1959‚ and grew up in South Africa during the tumultuous political and cultural atmosphere of apartheid and the fight for civil rights. This location‚ or more specifically the cultural‚ social and political aspects of this location‚ affected Alexander’s work‚ Butcher Boys. The artist states‚
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sentences to be tapped out over a telegraph line. In 1873‚ Alexander Graham Bell‚ along with Thomas Watson‚ an electrician helping Bell‚ began experimenting with a “harmonic telegraph” which he hoped would allow multiple communications to be transmitted simultaneously over the same pair of telegraph wires. By 1874 he was also working on a method to transmit human speech by wire. On June 2‚ 1875‚ while Bell was experimenting with his harmonic telegraph‚ he discovered that he could hear sound of
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Taylor LaFrancis APUSH period 2 Chapter 6 IDs 23 August 2013 Term/Name | Identify | Significance (if underlined) | Alexander Hamilton’s political beliefs | Hamilton called for a national convention to overhaul the entire Articles of Confederation. | *Hamilton suggested Congress consider ways to “render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the experiences of the union” | Founding Fathers to the Constitution Convention | Fifty five men representing all states‚ except
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In Alexander Hamilton’s writing‚ “The Federalists Papers No. 68‚” Hamilton argues that the president should be democratically chosen through representatives of each state. Each state should have the same amount of votes as they have senators and representatives. The delegates should be able to decide between candidates and know their qualifications for the job. The delegates should meet in their state and tell the national government what their decision is. In order for the candidate to be elected
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Alexander H. Stephens was an American politician from Georgia. He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America and a democrat. The “Cornerstone Speech” was very famous because Stephen mainly focuses in the struggle between the north and south which was‚ slavery. In the document written by Alexander H. Stephens‚ the “Cornerstone Speech” of March 21‚ 1861 was significant because he announced that the new government believed on the idea that blacks were inferior to whites. This fundamental
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Alexander Hamilton and The National Bank Alexander Hamilton believed that since The United States was growing as a new nation‚ they could take advantage of it and use it as a source of energy and cohesion. Furthermore‚ his main goal was just to spark up the economy and revive it to the point where it was normally flowing. So‚ his first idea was to completely eradicate all national and stately debt. He wanted to look at the accumulated debt of the Revolutionary War at face value and completely do
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every piece of composition has a hidden significance behind it as well as a certain impact on the listeners. Alexander Nevsky’s fourth movement Arise‚ Ye Russian People‚ composed by the famous Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev‚ was a cantata (vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment) designed to fit the film directed by Sergei Eisenstein on the thirteenth-century Russian hero Alexander Nevsky. Although this movement is relatively short‚ but the music as a whole was extremely powerful‚ and
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domestic financial intermediation designed to finance domestic economies; and more popularly‚ centers which provide some or all of the following services: low or zero taxation; moderate or light financial regulation; banking secrecy and anonymity. Policy Support: From the view of the Chinese government‚ it is quite clear that PRC want to turn Hong Kong to become the RMB offshore center. In the outline of the Chinese National 12th 5-years plan‚ it reflects the integrity of the national strategic
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to John L. Mitchell‚ a wealthy Wisconsin senator and his wife‚ Harriet. Mitchell. William Lendrum "Billy" Mitchell grew up on an estate near Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin. Alexander Mitchell‚ his grandfather‚ was one of the wealthiest people in Wisconsin for his generation and established what became the Milwaukee Road along with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mitchell Park and the street Mitchell Boulevard were named in honor of Alexander. Billy Mitchell was the eldest of ten‚ and coming from
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