... of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. That theory, and many others, are still used today. Another man, Euclid, was very important in today's mathematics. He compiled the Elements of Geometry, which remained in use in many classrooms until very recently (including Montgomery). Sadly, Pythagoras, and other mathematicians, hit a roadblock which stopped mathematics almost completely until modern times. Irrational numbers scared them, and they decided that something irrational had no place in the rational world. Of course, today we have overcome those fears, and there are several irrational numbers which are indespensible ...

... departure from the mentality of the press the day Kennedy was assassinated and his alleged assassin incredibly unprotected and gunned down two days later. The country had changed significantly by the early seventies. The passive public was not quite so willing to be blindly led anymore. The press was now activist in nature. Archilbald Cox stated “the Watergate experience is the convincing evidence… of the ability of the American people to come together in times when abuses of political power appear and threaten our political system.” The people were not willing to accept without question the proclamations of presidential press secretaries. In the process, the pe ...

... 1991 for all Iraq forces to be out of Kuwait, but Saddam and his army ignored the deadline. That triggered Desert Shield, or the build up of troops in the region and eventually led to , an all-out attack to free Kuwait.It can be clearly said that due to the extreme power and sophistication of the United States and its allies that Saddam Hussein and his small nation of 18 million people stood no chance what so ever against the mighty military of the United States and its allies.On the final night of the war, within hours of the cease fire towards United States, Air force bombers dropped specially designed, 5000 pound bombs on a command bunker fifteen miles northwes ...

... had was the idea of "Manifest Destiny." Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United States had the right to expand westward to the Pacific ocean. On the other hand, Mexico was a new country wanting to protect itself from outside powers. Evidence of U.S. expansion is seen with the independence of Texas from Mexico. The strongest evidence of U.S. expansion goals is with the Mexican-American War. From the beginning, the war was conceived as an opportunity for land expansion. Mexico feared the United States expansion goals. During the 16th century, the Spanish began to settle the region. The Spanish had all ready conquered and settled Central Mexico. Now they want ...

... nineteenth-century American life. is rooted in the American past. It owes its pervasive morality and the "doctrine of divine light" to such aspects of Puritanism and its concept of nature as a living mystery and not a clockwork universe which is fixed and permanent to the Romanticism age (Reuben 2). The American landscape inspired the Transcendentalists' reverence for nature, which provided them with much of the sustaining language and metaphor of their philosophy. Among the chief proponents of , Ralph Waldo Emerson is widely regarded as its central figure and catalyzing force. Critics often cite his essay Nature and An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class ...

... Above all, the Korean War left its scars on an entire generation of survivors, a legacy of fear and insecurity that continues even now to affect the two Koreas both in their internal development and in their relations with each other. Fighting began on June 25, 1950, when the North Korean army, substantially equipped by the Soviet Union, invaded South Korea. South Korean positions along the 38th parallel, which marked the frontier between the two republics, were swiftly overrun, and the Communist forces drove southward. North Korea was aided during the war by personnel and equipment from both China and the Soviet Union. The UN Security Council, with the Sovie ...

... henotheist, believing that the Roman sun god, Sol, was the visible manifestation of an invisible "Highest God" who was the principle behind the universe. This god was thought to be the companion of the Roman emperor. Constantine's faith in this god is evident from his claim of having had a vision of the sun god in 310 while in a grove of Apollo in Gaul. In 312, on the eve of a battle against Maxentius, his rival in Italy, Constantine is reported to have dreamed that Christ appeared to him and told him to inscribe the first two letters of his name XP in Greek on the shields of his troops. The next day he is said to have seen a cross superimposed on the sun and the ...

... knowledge” of the society. Society, and philosophers too, had problems believing the teachings or discoveries of other philosophers during this rebirth. The revolution in science, also called the mathematical revolution, took the world by surprise. Science was diffused by public demonstrations, but not always with much success. Galileo on many occasions, assembled notable philosophers and tried to convince them of his discovery of the moons around Jupiter. These eminent practitioners were allowed to view the heavens through Galileo’s telescope. The telescope, being invented by Galileo, proved to be a wonderful tool to view land based objects and no one disagree ...

... shocked the scientific world when they announced that they had split uranium atoms by man-made means for the first time. Upon hearing this news, a nuclear physicist, Leo Szilard, was convinced that a chain reaction of this process could be used as a weapon to release an awesome burst of power. Szilard knew that this knowledge was now in the wrong hands of the enemy Germans. On a July day in 1939 Szilard and his associate, Edward Teller, drove to the Long Island home of Albert Einstein to alert him of their findings. Einstein used his political influence by immediately writing a letter to President Roosevelt explaining the consequences of the Germans creating a ...

... secretary of the Montgomery branch of the National Advancement of Colored People, unsuccessfully attempted to vote many times to prove her point of discrimination, and had numerous encounters with bus drivers who discriminated against blacks. She was weary of the discrimination she faced due to the Jim Crow laws, which were laws were intended to prohibit "black[Americans] from mixing with white [Americans]" ("Jim Crow Laws"1). Also, due to the Jim Crow laws, blacks were required to give their seats to white passengers if there were no more empty seats. This is exactly what happened on December 1, 1955. On her way home from work, refused to give her seat to a w ...