...Arthur Holmes was born on January 14 1890 in England. He first became interested about Earth science when he started going to his high school, Gateshead High School. He then after started to go to college a few years later at Imperial College in London in 1907. Then when he was in college he then started to read about physics. He then after he was in Imperial college changed his colleges and started to go to Royal College of science and got his first degree ever , it was in geology. One of the main science contributions he made was that he found out how old the earth is. Some he used to find and do his research was a technique called radioactive dating which helped him find out how old certain rocks and minerals were. Arthur Holmes is a geologist...
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...trends and innovations shaped American culture during the 1920s? There was many trends and innovations that changed the American culture during the 1920s including new technology, communication, and the knowledge of science. New technology created the automobiles and airplanes which improved transportation. Communication and entertainment increased due to radio’s and movies. And media and popularity helped promote sports. These are only a couple of innovations that shaped America. Technology changed American life forever with the automobiles and airplanes. The automobiles allowed families to move further away from the cities, lowered unemployment rates, increased industries and mass production, and brought excitement and adventure to...
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...Transformations of the 1920s By: Emma Hudson The 1920s catapulted us into modern society. It brought great changes in music, art, science, and literature. There was a dark side to this time period such as bootlegging, racism and violence in the workplace, but fashion, jazz, and Women’s Suffrage brought progress to the nation. A lot of today’s growth is due to the 1920s and we don’t even know it. The 1920s brought a new mentality into the world, especially for women. On August 18, 1920 women won the right to vote and in this same time period the number of working women increased by 25%. Women became teachers, nurses, social workers and librarians. “The women of this generation grew up when the advertising industry was rapidly...
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...The 1920s was a period in which people really reflected on the liabilities of their conduct and society, and sought ways to prevent the same mistakes from happening again. During this time many cultural problems came to the surface which confronted religion and human lifestyle. Mostly, these behaviors were outcomes of WWI and varied from individual to individual in the way they dealt with the circumstances. As a result, people changed the way they approached religion and many tried to blame social misfortunes on alcohol consumption which lead to prohibition. Because of WWI, people were horrified as they observed the results and tried to understand how they let it happen. As a result, many turned to religión to find answers, while others gave...
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...Mount Mercy University The New Era Justine Nurre HI 115 Edy Parsons March 13, 2015 In the 1920’s America economy grew greatly. The output from the nation’s manufacturing rose by greater than 60%, inflation was minor and the per capita income grew by a third. These happened because several things like technology. Technology was the most important development in which it helped develop the assembly line. This in turn led to automobiles becoming the most important industries in the nation. Automobiles made it possible for suburban housing and that led to a boom in the construction industry. Another technological gadget that contributed to the economic growth was the radio. The first radios could only send little broadcasts through pulses, but because of the discovery of the theory of modulation the radio was able to transmit music and speech. Many people started to build their own radios to save cost and it allowed owners to stay in contact with one another. Even though the economy was doing so well in 1929, more than two-thirds of Americans lived in conditions that were described as “minimum comfort level.” Half of those Americans were either at or below what was described as “subsistence and poverty.” During the 1920’s, Americans were able to experience successes and failures. Some workers started to see their standard of living begin to increase and others saw techniques that were known as “welfare capitalism.” Welfare capitalism workers still saw...
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...to technological limitations. Films showing many people (for example, leaving a factory) were often made for commercial reasons: the people being filmed were eager to see, for payment, the film showing them. One notable film clocked in at over an hour and a half, The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight. Using pioneering film-looping technology, Enoch J. Rector presented the entirety of a famous 1897 prize-fight on cinema screens across the country. The French surgeon Eugène-Louis Doyen started a series of surgical films sometime before July 1898. Until 1906, the year of his last film, Doyen recorded more than 60 operations. As Doyen said that his first films taught him how to correct professional errors he had been unaware of. For scientific purposes, after 1906 Doyen combined 15 of his films into three compilations, two of which survive, the six-film series Extirpation des tumeurs encapsulées (1906), and the four-film Les Opérations sur la cavité crânienne (1911). These and five other of Doyen's films survive.[8] Frame from one of Marinescu's science films (1899). Between July 1898 and 1901 the Romanian professor Gheorghe Marinescu made several science films in his neurology clinic in Bucharest:[9] The walking troubles of organic hemiplegy (1898), The walking troubles of organic paraplegies (1899), A case of hysteric hemiplegy healed through hypnosis (1899), The walking troubles of progressive locomotion ataxy (1900) and Illnesses of the muscles (1901). All these...
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...Airplanes In the 1920's, airplanes affected things such as transportation, war technology, and entertainment. For transportation, mail was transported much quicker and people were able to be transported (at a high cost). During World War I, airplanes were used for bombing, reconnaissance, airship raids, and for strategizing. Airplanes were used mainly to gain an advantage in stalemates like trench warfare. For entertainment purposes, they were used in aerobatic maneuvers, stunts, races, shows, and demonstrations. Charles Lindbergh was a great aviator who helped immensely in banishing doubts about the potential of aircrafts by doing the transatlantic solo flight. Traditionally, airplanes were a war weapon that intrigued many people but were not the safest modes of transportation. However, the more modern cultural values were that airplanes exhibited better uses in travel, had many uses in other industries such as business or airmail, and provided great entertainment for the American people. Assembly Line In the 1920's, the assembly line helped to...
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...and not have someone else’s beliefs shoved down their throats or the throats of their children. This need for religious freedom and the age old controversy of religious battles sparked a huge trial in the mid 1920’s famously known as the “Monkey Trial”. By 1921, Protestantism split up into two distinct groups. One of these groups was known as the modernists and the other was known as the fundamentalists. Both groups were caught up in a fight with each other for the countries attention. Like any fight over something important, both groups thought they were right. The Modernists were made up primarily of urban, middle-class people. Modernists were attempting to change religion around to fit their society that was based around science mainly. They believed that there was a chance that Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory had some merit. Above all else the rejected the idea that everything in the bible was 100% accurate. They left the door open for alternate interpretations of the bible, something that the fundamentalists despised. The fundamentalists (also known as the “defenders”) on the other hand consisted mostly of rural farmers. They fought hard for the traditional beliefs in religion and reject anything else. As the country grew, and as science and technology became stronger, they became fearful that traditional religion was losing its footing in this country. Their biggest opponent was Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory. They insisted that humans were created...
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...American History Timeline Part III Tricia Bilbrey Grand Canyon University HIS 221 June 10, 2012 American History Timeline Part III Timeline Part III Instructions: Complete the matrix by providing the Time Period/Date(s) in column B, and the Description and Significance of the People/Event(s) to American History in column C. See complete instructions in the Syllabus for the Module 5 assignment entitled, “Timeline Part III.” NOTE: The timeline project does not need to be submitted to turnitin. NOTE: Please write your answers in a clear and concise manner. Limit your submission of the Timeline Part III to a maximum of 13 pages (not including a reference page). Be sure to cite all sources. Major Event/Epoch in American History Time Period/Date(s) Description and Significance of the People/Event(s) to American History 1) The evolution of the causes of World War I. 1914-1918 Serbians protested the Austrians in Bosnia thus causing the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. This event set off the war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. Mutual defense alliances caused an explosion in several countries supporting the others. Russian as an ally of Serbia mobilized causing Germany to react through Belgium, pulling Britain into the war. The governments of Germany and Austria-Hungary were very militaristic and aggressive when...
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...The Life and Death of Aldous Huxley Through examining Brave New World, one can infer that Aldous Huxley’s fears of the demise of today’s consumer society, rise in use of technology, and reliance on religion entitled him to express his concerns. From his experiences in Italy under an authoritarian government headed by Mussolini to his late life in California, Mr. Huxley always, “played the role of a critical observer of accepted tradition, customs, social norms, and ideals.”(www.egs.com) Aldous Huxley was born July 26, 1894 in Godalming in southern England into a very successful and scientific family. His father was a school teacher/writer, two of his three brothers were scientist, and his grandfather had been nicknamed “Darwin’s Bulldog”...
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...GROUP- I SERVICES SYLLABUS GENERAL STUDIES AND MENTAL ABILITY (SCREENING TEST – OBJECTIVE TYPE) 1. General Science – Contemporary developments in Science and Technology and their implications including matters of every day observation and experience, as may be expected of a well-educated person who has not made a special study of any scientific discipline. 2. Current events of national and international importance. 3. History of India – emphasis will be on broad general understanding of the subject in its social, economic, cultural and political aspects with a focus on AP Indian National Movement. 4. World Geography and Geography of India with a focus on AP. 5. Indian polity and Economy – including the country’s political system- rural development – Planning and economic reforms in India. 6. Mental ability – reasoning and inferences. 7. DISASTER MANAGEMENT (Source : CBSE Publications) 1. Concepts in disaster management and vulnerability profile of India / State of A.P. 2. Earth quakes / Cyclones / Tsunami / Floods / Drought – causes and effects. 3. Man made disasters - Prevention strategies. 4. Mitigation strategies / Mitigation measures MAIN EXAMINATION (CONVENTIONAL TYPE) GENERAL ENGLISH (X CLASS STANDARD, QUALIFYING FOR INTERVIEW) 1. Comprehension 2. Precis-writing 3. Re-arrangement of sentences 4. Correction of sentences 5. Synonyms 6. Antonyms 7. Filling in the blanks 8. Correction of spellings 9. Vocabulary and usage 10. Idioms and phrases ...
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...or how long did it take from the actors, directors, and the film crew time and energy to produce a movie with its various components? Or how much money it is spent to get movie essentials such as cameras, microphone, and computers, to only produce one movie? Producing even one film takes a great deal of thinking, energy, time, and money. Despite these costs, the film industry has been profitable since the 1920’s. This period was an era of dramatic social, historical, and political change. The stock market crashed and prohibition altered U.S history, but film theaters and studios were not initially affected by the crash market....
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...The political era was from 1840-1920. The name for this era is due to “the close association between police and political leaders. With this era the “political corruption flourished”. Coming from the fact I live in Illinois, which I believe is the most corrupt state there is, this has definitely played in a negative way in today’s system. During the political era Boston had the “first formal police department”. It was 1844, when “New York established the first police force offering 24 hour protection”. During the era is also when the Chicago police department was established, they also had the great Chicago fire and they hired women for their police force. Finally for the political era and how it has affected the system today. I still see corruption being a big issue at least in my state, were at least once or twice a year we are hearing about another political person doing something wrong. The most recent being our former Governor Blagojevich, who was trying to sell President Obama’s senate seat for a profit. So in my eyes the political era played and is still playing a negative role in today’s society. The reform era took place after the political era and it lasted from 1920-1970. During this era “reformers attempted to redefine the role and function of the police. While this era was happening the police seemed to be trying to turn things around and gain some professionalism. It was the twentieth century when the reform era started to gain some momentum and...
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...During Aldous Huxley’s young adult life, he was apart of what many historians like to call the “Roaring Twenties”. This era and time period during the 1920’s led into the stock market crash of 1929, causing the Great Depression. Huxley had a general discomfort for the economic upheavals and rejection of traditional values by the youth of the generation (Napierkowski and Stanley). Deciding to write out against these feelings, Huxley wrote one of his best works, Brave New World, in 1931. Brave New World is a dystopian novel that takes place in a futuristic setting where extensive improvements to science and technology has created a world that is foreign to all readers. Throughout Huxley’s adult life, his interpretations of Henry Ford and the...
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...Biometrics and finger/palm printing Tara Tatum Team C Introduction In many of the FBI’s high profile cases, one form of technology that has become highly effective is biometrics. The definition of biometrics is the science of measuring and statistically analyzing biological data. This scientific measuring tool is mostly used in identifying individuals whether anatomical or physiological. While fingerprinting is probably one of the oldest and most common forms of biometrics, other forms can include but are not limited to iris scans, voice recognition, palm prints, and facial recognition. As of late, the FBI, being a leader in the latest biometric technology, has created with the help of the science and technology branch, the Biometric Center of Excellence or BCOE. Not only has the BCOE strengthened the FBI’s abilities by proving the guilt, as well as the innocence of those convicted of crimes, but it has also been effective in thwarting terrorism that plagues many countries today. Finger/palm printing techniques Since the early 1920’s, fingerprinting techniques have been in existence, assisting in identifying and authenticating a person’s identity. This older form of biometric technology has both advantages and disadvantages. Some of the advantages can be the authentication of one’s identity, as no two person’s have the same prints, the cost effectiveness, the ease of use, the accuracy and the standardization. Some disadvantages are the intrusiveness, as some...
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