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When he cited the achievements of America’s Muslim citizens in a speech earlier this month in Cairo, Egypt, President Barack Obama singled out one of the 20th century’s pre-eminent structural engineers, whose legacy lives on at Lehigh 27 years after his passing. In his address, Obama listed Fazlur Rahman Khan, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and other scientists, politicians…

Effective Dramatic IronyIn Oedipus The King, Sophocles creates rising action by asking dramatic questions throughout the play. These questions generate suspense in the audience when they become dramatic irony and amplify the climax. During the falling action, Oedipus is engulfed in misery when he experiences a reversal of fortune. Finally, Oedipus goes through a discovery…

Autumn was written in the 19th Century by John Clark. It is a lyric poem with a rhyming scheme of a quatrain and a couplet and is a tribute to the month of Autumn intended to make us feel Autumn is the best month. It is in written in first person narrative which gives the…

A new day on Wall Street. The Internet is changing the way the brokerage industry does business. Today more and more investors are electing to trade via the Internet and avoid contact with a broker all together. Are the days of the large full service broker over or will there be a compromise between full…

History of Money Let us consider a problem. You catch fish for your food supply, but you’re tired of eating it every day. Instead you want to eat some bread. Fortunately, a baker lives next door. Trading the baker some fish for bread is an example of barter, the direct exchange of one good for…

The winds carried the thousands of rumors floating in the town’s outskirts to its kernel and centers, until every little cottage up or down the street, whether beside or beyond, whispered its echoes to all heeding ears. Not that there had been any inattentive ears to be found guilty of not resounding the call for…

“I am daughter of the sun. . . I am the olive tree, the blessed one. ” K. Palamas. The olive tree is inevitably linked with Greek history, culture andlife, as is olive oil, the product of its fruit. Greeks have alwaysconsidered the olive tree and its fruit as a gift from the gods. Homerreferred…

Life is full of unexpected experiences. No one knows what will happen in the very next moment. In fact, these unexpected experiences happen when you meet a person who has the capability to change your life completely. I have met someone who is more than a man; he was and will always be my hero….

Brave New WorldThis essay was found at www. screw-essays. com and should not be plagiarizedBrave New World Sometimes very advanced societies overlook the necessities of the individual. In the book BraveNew World, Aldous Huxley creates two distinct societies: the Savages and the Fordians. The Fordians aretechnologically sophisticated, unlike the Savages. However, it is obvious that,…

GAMBLING FOR EDUCATION” You cannot ignore the fact that there will be divorce problems, domestic abuse problems, homelessness and addiction problems if you pass this bill “(Williams). Senator J. T. “Jabo” Waggoner, of Alabama, made this statement opposing the lottery bill. At first glance, this would put fear in the predominantly protestant state of Alabama,…