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    The Mother’s Rebirth The story “Daughter of Invention” by Julia Alvarez is about self-renovation/rebirth which Alvarez examines through conflict. “When we no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves.” –Vito Frankl. Frankl’s point was often you must change yourself or an aspect befitting your predicament. What I’ve observed is each character goes through a change/renovation. Each developing differently based on their experiences and circumstances. In this essay,…

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    born July 4,1883 in San Francisco.He was a man with a big imagination and enjoyed to entertain children.Rube was very creative with his cartoons.He worked hard to achieve his most important achievements.Mr.Goldberg believed that he would help keep inventions alive throughout his legacy.He attended U. Cal Berkeley and received a degree in engineering.His first job was at San Francisco Chronicle and it led to a lot of success.One award he earned was the Pulitzer prize with his editorial cartoon…

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    to this invention other important forms of communications were brought out such as Morse code and the telephone. The telephone was used from late 1800’s to present day. This machine was derived from another invention known as a phonautograph and unlike the telegraph used direct voice to voice communications which made it faster and more efficient to communicate and became massively produced.…

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    Spread 4,5 Pg4 Getting from Here to There Bipedalism is the earliest form of transportation. The first humans were mostly nomadic, traveling in search of food and good weather. Foot coverings, snowshoes, and skis made it easier to travel longer distances. As growing populations needed more and more food to survive, people ventured even farther. One day, someone must have wondered if a river might provide a faster way to travel long distances. That’s how the first boat was created. There was…

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    During 5th Century BC, African people started using Art for visual social for forms and practices. African artwork has influenced a variety of artworks towards the outside of Africa. They used a variety of media articles. African created new inventions, style, and entertainment. Africans use mainly wood to create sculptures and masks. In African Artwork, it all began when Africans started painting in the caves. As they began to try a new style of painting, they started painting unique…

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    With the power to stopping your car the force applied to your tires would transfer almost all to your front tire and your back wheels will have little to do after that . The effectiveness of this invention have saved many people due to the fact of what it is meant to do. (During the period 2000 to 2011, on average, 220 pedestrians and 36 cyclists were killed each year in Australia as a result of collisions with vehicles…

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    the necessity to devise tools that would facilitate their daily activities. In a time where the world was craving for new devices, the inventors appeared. However, the rise of inventions is not limited to today’s world, and to understand that we should first define what an invention is. From my understanding, an invention is nothing more than a complex process of creating a new device; to rephrase it, when someone invents a tool, he or she is bringing innovations or enhancing specificities that…

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    Blaise Pascal Inventions

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    just come out of nowhere; there needs an action to trigger those specific thoughts. The same goes for inventions, events need to lead up to the need/idea for an invention. For example, sliced bread would have never been invented had not the recipe for bread itself been created. Another example takes place in the life of Blaise Pascal. The upbringing of Blaise Pascal led to one of his greatest inventions, the Pascaline calculator. Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France on June 19,…

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    Just 300 years ago, life was completely different. Nothing changed for long periods of time and there was complete dependence on those in positions of power. Society was dominated by agriculture and no one had private property. Families worked together in a specific craft and separate from the rest of the community. Eventually, small innovations turned into bigger and bigger changes until the world became set in a state of constant transformation. Today, there seems to be a new discovery or an…

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    Eadweard Muybridge was the first photographer to capture motion with still images, create a new medium, and invention. His first work of art capturing motion was his piece called “Cantering, Saddled” on December of 1878. Printed on collotype, a method of printing high-quality prints by using hardened gelatin without the use of a screen, on 19x24 ⅛ inch sheet, can now be viewed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Collotype uses heat and cold water treated dichromate-sensitized gelatin which is…

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