The Watts Riot It is August 17 1965 and‚ we just went through the worst week of our lives things are finally starting to calm down. As we are going into town to see what is left‚ and to access the damages‚ we try to understand how this got so out of control. In the course of seven days‚ 34 lives were lost and‚ more than 1‚032 were injured‚ the police had arrested 3‚438 people and‚ there are over $40 million in property damages (Watts Riots 2013). This all started from what should have been a routine
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Mustafa Kemal’s impact on the modern Turkish state is irrefutable‚ so much so that he was given the name Atatürk by the national assembly‚ meaning “father of the Turks”‚ banning anyone else from using this name. Turkey‚ one of the few culturally Islamic nations without a Sharia legal system ‚ is often referred to as one of the most modernized states with a Muslim majority . Atatürk is often attributed with the modernization of Turkey‚ through‚ amongst other things‚ social‚ political and economic
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hard and persistent an engineer should be to achieve something. James Watt is the person who impressed me most. Before I listened to our classmate’s speech about Watt and saw the video‚ I thought he just found how the hot steam from a kettle worked and nothing more. In my opinion‚ he was just a curious and lucky person good at observing things. However‚ after the class‚ I find out he is really somebody. Common stories about Watt do not tell how hard he was and how difficult
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Mustafa Kemal: Muslim Modernity Mustafa Kemal (March 12‚ 1881 - November 10‚ 1938)‚ was a Turkish nationalist and political leader who was instrumental in the fall of the Ottoman sultanate and in the creation of modern Turkey‚ was also the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. Kemal devoted his life to freeing Turkey from foreign domination. Under his benevolent dictatorship as president of the republic‚ he instituted lasting reforms that earned him the
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“The Bass‚ the River‚ and Sheila Mant” There was a summer in my life when the only creature that seemed lovelier to me than a largemouth bass was Sheila Mant. I was fourteen. The Mants had rented the cottage next to ours on the river; with their parties‚ their frantic games of softball‚ their constant comings and goings‚ they appeared to me denizens of a brilliant existence. “Too noisy by half‚” my mother quickly decided‚ but I would have given anything to be
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An Inspector Calls How does Priestly develop the Character of Sheila Birling? In an Inspector Calls‚ Sheila Birling’s character is seen as a child that has been raised into an upper-class family and has become familiar with the luxuries and social standing lower classes wouldn’t dream of obtaining‚ her spoilt upbringing and deceiving parents have grounded her in a semi-childhood where she is blinded from the injustice of the class system and the treatment of the lower ‘classed’ majority of the public
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something wrong. “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” is a short and fictional story by W.D Wetherell in which the narrator chose Sheila Mant‚ a girl he was crazy about‚ over what he loves more which is fishing for bass. Later on he regrets the decision he has made. In “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant”‚ the narrator was not being truthful to himself because of the fact that he cut the line to the bass he has been trying to catch for a while‚ just to keep Sheila Mant. After this decision was made‚
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yourself faced with a challenge or a hampering situation. However‚ a decision has to be made and each obstacle must be overcome. In the short story The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant by W. D. Wetherell‚ the obstacle was the main characters’ situation in being able to talk to his crush‚ Sheila Mant. He is initially drawn to Sheila because of the large parties her family threw at the lake cottage next to his‚ during this fateful summer‚ and his curious nature. His curiosity grew stronger with his development
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There are two types of volcanoes‚ strato-volcanoes and shield volcanoes. Both are characterized differently‚ for example‚ strato volcanoes have sleep slopes‚ shaped like a tall narrow cone‚ but shield volcanoes have gentle slopes‚ shaped like a low‚ wide cone. The eruptions can be devastating‚ an example would be mount vesuvius‚which erupted in AD 79‚ killing over 10‚000 to 25‚000. Strato volcanoes are the larger and more impressive volcanoes with a snow capped peak which can easily exceed
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Sheila Birling is a character that goes through an intense and rapid character development throughout ‘An Inspector Calls’‚ transitioning from a naïve and privileged upper-class self-centred young lady to a woman who is able to stand up to her parents and present her own opinions representing Priestley’s ideologies of socialism. In Act 1‚ Sheila appears very naïve and obsessed with her engagement. She also goes to lengths to impress Gerald by flirting with him and joking to show him that she is entertaining
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