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Bartholomew Dais, the explorer for Portugal, planned to head an expedition in search of a sea route to India. Though, at the end of his voyage he only became the first sail to the tip of Africa. This, landing has only created a new name for the Cabot ads Galahs and the cape Cabot ads…

ASL 14 October 2000Deaf President Now Protest #2First of all?I had no clue of how large of an issue The Deaf President Now Protest was. It surprised me that it had not been talked about in my past history classes. The Deaf President Now Protest was so symbolic to that of the Woman’s Rights Movement…

Word Count: 287Sherman was on ofthe greatest Union commanders in the Civil War. He was agraduate from West Point in 1840. Sherman’s first action inthe Civil War happened when he led a brigade at the FirstBull Run in July of 1861. After that he was given commandof the Union forces assigned to hold Kentucky in…

Similes: figures of speech that compares two unlike things, using the words Like or as. “His feet were as big as boats. ” Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. ” Metaphor: a figure of speech that compares two unlike things directly, without…

Jay Gatsby was a very decent person despite most of his acquaintances and his occupation. Gatsby was relatively kind to everyone despite how anyone treated him. He was also a very altruistic person in what he did for people. Gatsby also was very determined to accomplish his dream. All Jay wanted was for the people…

Bioethics encompasses every ethical question relating and pertaining to medicine and the health of living things. Everything from pediatrics to nursing, from euthanasia to birth-pain killer, from the debate of abortion to the law of malpractice is covered by the term bioethics. Bioethics is a very broad, very extensive category of ethics. The concept of…

In a violent outbreak Nicholas got Squeers. Nicholas sprang upon him, wrested the weapon from his hand, and pinning him by the throat, beat the ruffian till he roared for mercy. Only Smikes beating that makes him react over comes him and turn on Squeers. In these three chapters, Dickens creates both a complex and…

From Phantom of the Opera to Having Our Say, theater is becoming more and more important. It has often been used as a past time and to experience culture but now it has been used to aid in expression and build communication skill. In recent findings Theater Arts programs in schools to some are becoming…

A monologue from the play by Aeschylus NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Dramas of Aeschylus. Trans. Anna Swanwick. London: George Bell and Sons, 1907. ATOSSA: Ever have nightly visions manifoldBeset me, since, intent on ravagingIonia’s soil, my son led forth his power.But never saw I dream so manifestAs that of yesternight;–I’ll tell it…

SPINOZASpinoza was born into a Jewish family in 1632 during the Spanish Inquisition. His parents fled Spain after heavy persecution by the Catholics to convert. When Spinoza was just 12 years old he began to question his teachings of Judaism being the “best” religion. A few years later he was ex-communicated by his synagogue for…