created in 1881 and is part of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and is one of more than 145 national societies that make up the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The ICRC paved the way for the American Red Cross when Henry Dunant, a Swiss businessman, authored A Memory of Solferino in 1862, in which he described what he had seen on an Italian battlefield in 1859 – over 40,000 troops either killed or wounded, left unattended. In 1863, his memoir encouraged others to create
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Name: -------------------------------- Group:---- Level:------- Major:------------- |المملكة العربية السعودية |[pic] |KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA | |وزارة التعليم العالي | |Ministry of Higher Education | |جامعة الإمام محمد بن سعود الإسلامية | |Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University |
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Henry Ford was born July 30, 1863 to parents William and Mary Ford. He was the first of the six children that the Ford family had. He was born in what is now Dearborn, MI and lived with his family on their farm. They weren’t rich but they weren’t a poor family. They were considered to be a prosperous family. Henry grew up enjoying his childhood where they went to get his education in a one-room school and did his daily chores on the farm. He wasn’t a big fan of doing farm work; he was more of
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APUSH Study Guide 8 A weak Confederacy and the Constitution, 1776-1790 Themes/Constructs: The federal Constitution represented a moderately conservative reaction against the democratilizing effects of the Revolution and the Articles of Confederation. The American Revolution was not a radical transformation like the French or Russian revolutions, but it produced political innovations and some social change in the direction of greater equality and democracy. The American Revolution did
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a fictional Nobody who can fabricate stories and characters that are irreproducible and creations of sheer genius. Once the subject of a narrative is unrestrained from a real life identity, it eventually becomes a Nobody. This paper shall examine Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, who becomes a new citizen of England, with his status of a Foundling. According to Gallagher, ‘fiction can and does exist independent of the novel’, which was also a response to rise of individualism and middle class that made
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In his striking novel The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck integrates many different themes through the use of important characters like Tom, Jim Casy, and Rose of Sharon. These themes fall into two characters being primary and secondary, the primary being Humanity and the therefore lack of, and the secondary being strength in unity and unselfishness. John Steinbeck while writing the novel The Grapes of Wrath integrated primary themes that the reader should understand after reading. The first
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Experimental music in the English –language literature refers to a compositional tradition which started in the mid 20th century, particularly used in North America to music composed in such a way that the outcome is unforeseeable. Famously known for the exposure of this genre was John Cage (1912-1992), an American composer, philosopher, poet and music theorist. According to Cage’s definition “an experimental action is one the outcome of which is not foreseen”. He had a great interest in completing
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I INTRODUCTION Ford, Henry (1863-1947), American industrialist, best known for his pioneering achievements in the automobile industry. Ford was born on a farm near Dearborn, Michigan, on July 30, 1863, and educated in district schools. He became a machinist's apprentice in Detroit at the age of 16. From 1888 to 1899 he was a mechanical engineer, and later chief engineer, with the Edison Illuminating Company. In 1896, after experimenting for years in his leisure hours, he completed the construction
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Assignment 3: Book Review What led you to choose this particular book from the list? The two books I have chosen from the list provided are Boundaries written by Dr Henry Cloud and Dr John Townsend and the book titled Shame and Grace written by Lewis B Smedes. I had previously read the Boundaries book in 1997 when I was 27 years old. The book was recommended to me by a valued friend. I found the book to be both challenging and helpful to my personal growth and realized that it was a great tool
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Daimyo… Bushido The Closing of Japan Nobunaga vs. Hideyoshi Matthew Perry Chapter 11: London on September 2, 1666-the great fire destroyed it. Francis Bacon-leading advocate of the empirical method Inductive reasoning Empirical method Rene Descartes Deductive reasoning Deism Johannes Kepler-had made detailed records of the movements of the planets, substantiating Copernicus’s theory that the cosmos was heliocentric (sun-centered), not geocentric (earth-centered) Galileo Galilei-improved
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