My Modest Proposal It has come to my attention that the marking period is coming to an end. I am sure we all know what that means; it is time to finalize and lock those grade in for report cards. However, many kids tremble during this short period of time because they have grades that are not up to par. The biggest reason being is simple: zeros. Yes, you heard me, zeros. Plenty of students that are struggling with their grades are intelligent and hard working. They get high grades
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The Shallows Response I found this article very interesting and true on some aspects About our language. I also learned a few things one thing being that the Greeks were the first to invent the phonetic alphabet. I never put too much thought into who created it or where the alphabet came from but reading this article made my mind drift off into wonderland and I was in awe, thinking “geez if it wasn’t for them then I wouldn’t be able to read today!” I thought the comparison to the phonetic and
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to a couple of fraternities, that doesn’t mean that it’s happening everywhere. I don’t believe that fraternities should be associated with that kind of stigmatism, it’s not fair to them, and it’s a stereotype. You are judging a whole community of Greek Life, by the mistakes of a few organizations and it’s not fair to judge everyone by something that one person does. So I realize that it’s one of the things that people think about fraternities, but that’s more or less the organization not being able
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Alexander the Great was a great warrior and lived 300 years before Christ. He was well aware that he lived in an age of innovation in Greek warfare as he fully implored the latest technology to conquer civilizations that had transformed the lands from Egypt to India into a new Greek world (McKay, 137). His influence had also built an empire that would spread the Greek culture into the known world, but there are no kingdoms without a king and with Alexander’s swift and stunning demise, his empire would
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Persian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire. Each left their mark and changed the culture that was there and added something new each time. It rich with the core of religion and tradition, this culture has had a wide influence over other cultures because Greek culture has formed a basis for others to branch off of. Much of what has been learned is from watching and copying, making it
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The young navarch Callicratidas had 140 triremes with Conan only having 70 triremes but Athens were building reinforcements to better their strength. Although Conan had used his time wisely between clashes to get his fleet into top condition, having “prepared them for battle as no previous general had done”, he was still badly outnumbered. Callicratidas came after Conan, with 170 ships, Conan fled towards Mytilene but the Peloponnesians caught him at the harbour and took 30 Athenian triremes. Callicratidas
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Carter Gillon, an undergraduate brother of the Gamma Alpha Chapter, says that he's incredibly thankful Sigma Nu has provided him with a strong community to rely on for support during his college years. "For most college freshmen, their first year is a very turbulent time, as getting accustomed to new people, locations, rules, and cultures can be extremely overwhelming," he said. He added that he knows many people at Georgia Tech who aren't part of a fraternity, and their first year was much different
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The Axial Age has become a popular term among scholars, where there were a lot of influential ideas occurring at this particular time for the 500 years roughly up to the Christian era. The areas where the sages and schools unfolded were stretched axislike across Eurasia and ideas spread not only in the originated area but also all over the world. Since the disciples wrote down their teaching, there is a lot of physical evidence of the body of texts that survived that is now used as a guide and reference
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the Dallas Museum of Art on Saturday, December 2. For this project, I decided to focus on ancient Greek art. The pottery from this era intrigued me the most because I had previously learned about it last year in Humanities I. It interesting to see the stories passed down through plays and writings represented in the art exhibited. The Greek society was more advanced than one would think. The Greeks created art styles that came to dominate later European culture. They were a small group of people
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With the final push of the Persian Empire out of Greece, the end of the war represents the end of a era where Greece and its ideals were threatened by a great and powerful enemy. The epic victories against the Persians could also be considered miracles since the odds were stacked against them from the beginning. At the end of the wars, democracy took flight and religion flourished. The rebuilding of Athens, construction of many great temples including the Parthenon conveyed that religion may have
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