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paleoanthropologists whose research in the Olduvai Gorge in East Africa advanced the study of human evolution. All of English descent, they lived and conducted their research in Kenya and spent much of their lives hunting fossils throughout East Africa.…

president and as the author of the Declaration of Independence. He also won lasting fame as a diplomat, a political thinker, and a founder of the Democratic Party. Jefferson's interests and talents covered an amazing range.(http://www.multied.com/bio/rev…

satirist, essayist, short-story writer, and novelist, an enigmatic figure, and some say he was simply a cold-hearted bitter person. His death is still a mystery, but in 1913 Bierce set off for Mexico and stated, “If you ever hear of my being stood up…

virtues lead to success and happiness has much validity but has diminished greatly since Franklin’s time. Many of the virtues that were discussed by Franklin in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, have great meaning today, but do not necessarily…

that was trying to discover a vaccine for pneumonia. The reason for his experiment was to see if injections of heat killed virulent bacteria would kill the mice. He found that the mixture of live non-virulent bacteria and heat-killed bacteria…

of social integration and social/moral regulation and will explain how Durkheim connects them to suicide. It will then utilize those concepts to analyze the social effects of the Buffalo Creek flood, as described in the book “Everything In Its Path”…

facets that have been debated since the invention of the concept of adolescence back in the early twentieth century. Two of the main contributors to the study of adolescent psychology are Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget. These two men come from strangely…

Howard Taft's presidency was James Schoolcraft Sherman. Being a member of the House of Representatives for almost two decades, he stood firmly for the Republican Party as an influential role during the Progressive Era. He was nicknamed "Sunny…

most of his life there and often it is the setting of his novels. He was one of America’s great writers because of his unique contributions to literature. He gave literature a different view of America through the eyes of the working and lower classes.…

in many ways. Just imagine this is your first year of college. You don’t know what to expect. All you know is that you are going to be living with five knew people. Even though you guys have talked on the phone, there is no way you know what…