1 Sarah Seng History 130 Chapter 15 Summary April 23‚ 2018 This chapter beings with a tale about the Marquis of Canillac who did not have a good reputation in the land. Because of his reign‚ he was able to collect taxes on special occasions‚ but abused this privilege by collecting taxes annually. This ruler was influenced by Louis XIV and his extremely long reign. To make a long story short‚ Louis XIV tried to have power over everything and everyone possible‚ including the
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There have been a couple supercontinents in the past. Three of them confirmed. The first of three is Rodinia. The second is Pannotia‚ and the third and most recent is Pangaea. These obviously aren’t here anymore and there won’t be another for a long time. From 50 million years to 200 million years. Could this actually happen again? The answer is yes. What even are supercontinents? One wouldn’t know if it could happen again if they don’t know what it is. Well‚ a supercontinent is several land
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For over four hundred years‚ William Shakespeare?s ?Romeo and Juliet? has remained one of the most popular stories and plays of all time. Writers‚ literary critics and the general public all agree that ?Romeo and Juliet? is a story of the ages. ?Romeo and Juliet? is popular because it deals with a variety of issues that most people can relate to. The play deals with themes such as love‚ hate‚ death‚ fighting‚ sexual issues and friendship. Contemporary audiences find ?Romeo and Juliet? enduring
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I am deeply ambivalent about Raymond Carver. My beef with this particular dead guy has less to do with his fine stories than with his 1980s-era apotheosis into an academic demigod‚ his canonization as St. Ray of the MFA programs‚ the way his works and style became paradigms to be slavishly imitated by a generation (maybe two generations now) of American writing students‚ a process of sowing that came to barren fruition in the bland‚ flat‚ snowy fields of zero-degree Minimalist prose. All this has
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Springer October. 12‚ 2012 George Washington Carver was born in January 1864 into slavery in Diamond‚ Missouri. His master Moses Carver was a German American immigrant who brought George’s parents Mary and Giles. George had 10 brothers and sisters who all died prematurely. When George was only a week old‚ he was kidnapped along with his mother and sister‚ George’s older brother James got to safety though. The raiders sold the stolen slaves in Kentucky. Moses Carver hired a man named John Bentley to find
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George Washington Carver George Washington Carver was born in 1860 in Diamond Grove‚ Missouri and is one of the most celebrated and respected scientists in United States history as his important discoveries and methods enabled farmers through the South and Midwest to become wealthy and prosperous individuals‚ all due to peanuts. George‚ being the sickly child of two slaves was very frail‚ allowed him not to be able to work in the fields but he did possess a great interest in plants and was very
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returning home rich and happy‚ and did not expect to have to farm or cultivate land. The London Company sent the settlers with sealed orders to settle on an island‚ so as to offer protection from England’s enemies‚ the Dutch‚ French‚ and the Spanish. (Chapter Two‚ Section Two) Following the terms‚ the colonists decided to build on a small island located up what would be called the James River. This was a terrible mistake on the colonists’ part‚ because not only was the surrounding water located
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until 380 when Theodosius is emperor. With Constantine’s Edict of Milan‚ the three century long persecution of Christians came to an end. At the Council of Nicea‚ Constantine helped settle the debate between Arians and Athanasius. Arians believed in homiousios‚ or the idea that the Son of God had a beginning and was a created being‚ that he was of a similar but not the same essence of God. Athanasius’s believed in homoousios‚ or that the Son of God and God were of the same essence‚ or that they were
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Dalton Cuthbert Per. 1 John Paul Stevens John Paul Stevens born April 20‚ 1920 in Chicago. He was the Youngest of four boys‚ his grandfather ran the Illinois life insurance company which made a lot of money. and his dad built the opulent Stevens hotel. In his teens he saw his family’s good luck turn around when his dad was convicted of embezzling money to keep the hotel. Later on Stevens told the news that his dad was wrongly convicted. “Stevens ended up graduating
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I choose this poem mainly because of the title. I was and still am a bit of a Bob Marley fan‚ his music always managed to make me happy no matter how bad my day was. Something about his music felt like you’re flipping a switch‚ and all your worries go away for a while. His music promoted peace and made people happy‚ which I think was his goal all along since his music was made in a time where some people thought only certain types of lives mattered. Bob Marley stood for what he believed in‚ he stood
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