Cole Miller Mrs. Bosse Honors English 11 25 January 2015 Computer Science According to Pablo Picasso, “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” There is much more than the computer involved with the process of giving you the answers. This is where computer science comes in, from making the computers to the programs. Computer scientist not only have to know how the computer works but, they must also know all the programming languages that come along with them from HTML to C++. Computer
All art is quite useless If people were labeled with just one word to represent them, to sum up their many chapters of life, one word to define them completely, then the label you'd least come across would be that of artist. Seldom does one come to this earth with the natural ability, the gift to see the world as a painting, freshly finished on his canvas. The power to be forever praised on the walls of aging art museums. And the shear courage to go through life as an anomaly, a rare breed that
The conquistadors ventured to the America’s in approximately the 1500s. During the process of settlement the conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortez encountered numerous natives who originally inhabited the land. When two unfamiliar civilizations encounter each other the end result can be unpredictable. Each human being has an unique thought process. Therefore numerous spaniards viewed the native americans as a peaceful, and kind civilization, while on the other side of the bridge, several spaniards
air feels drier than usual. The Diag seems unfriendly today, as she sits down she’s nervous of her surroundings. She plants herself on a somewhat clean patch of grass and pulls out her shiny laptop. She is reading “Werner Herzog’s Conquest of the Useless” for her freshman English class. As she dives her way into the reading she starts to think about where she is, what is going on around her, and the journey that she is on. A bushy red squirrel approaches her, she’s confused why it’s coming so close
I have been involved with labor unions on three occasions throughout my lifetime. The first occasion occurred, when I was a high school teenager and began working as a box-boy at a grocery store. A condition of employment was that I was required to join the stores labor union, which was a state law in California. According to Bernard D. Meltzer, a leading scholar of Labor Law at University of Chicago Law School, “Union security provisions in labor contracts have required membership in, or financial
Spanish Conquistadors Spanish conquistadors and by extension the Spanish Crown transformed indigenous peoples in Mesoamerican and the Andes into Spanish subjects as understood by the sixteenth century this work in writing will support this idea with evidence located in the literature. Introduction Williamson writes that more than 2 decades after Columbus first crossed the Atlantic that there was not much of consequence discovered by the Spaniards except that of Hispaniola and Cuba. However, in
Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who is famous for conquering the Inca civilization. He was known as being very ambitious and having exceptional leadership abilities as well as navigational skills (Yost). All these skills were very useful and beneficial in terms of helping him achieve his goal of crossing the ocean with a small army in order to obtain the riches and wealth of the Incas. In my opinion Francisco Pizarro was one of the great people who determined and altered
people are asked, “who were the Conquistadors and what did they do?” One may respond, “Conquistadors came from Spain and settled the Americas.” An answer such as that may suffice and is factual. However, the Conquistadors were more than settlers, their name, translated from the Spanish, literally means conqueror. They were on a mission from Spain to settle Mesoamerica and spread Christianity, but most Conquistadors desired fortune and fame. First, Conquistadors were much more than Spanish settlers;
The events that occurred between the Aztecs and Spanish Conquistadors have many sides and opportunities for debate. One of the most debated topics being; Who was more savage and who was more Civil? Both the Aztecs and Spanish had powerful and thriving empires. These empires displayed their dominance through their advanced technology and flourishing military. Though it may seem that the Spanish were more advanced than the Aztecs, the Aztecs and Spanish were actually quite close to being equal
1492 was the year that Christopher Columbus, the Spanish conquistador, came to the “New World” and explored it which to be later colonized by Spain, France, and mostly England to establish the soon to be, colonial America. In time, when colonists arrived in the New England region ruled by Britain their lives were being controlled by many factors consisting of religion, wealth, social status, race, conflicts with other colonists/Indians and gender. In the book, Everyday Life in Early America, written