Thanks to Sir Sandford Fleming, we can travel across states and provinces without straining ourselves on strict schedules. One may ask why we should appreciate him. One of his significant work was establishing the Standard Time, which is very efficient when it comes to travelling across different regions. Other than proposing the Standard Time, he is also recognized for surveying and constructing railroads; and designing Canada's first postage stamp. With the assistance of Fleming, Canada has become more favourable country.
Before Fleming created the Standard Time, people in the 19th century determined the time using the sun. Instead of looking at the clock and knowing the time zone like today, they had to set their clocks to 12 p.m. when the sun reached the highest point. Therefore, if someone travelled to another province by a train, they had to readjust their pocket watch to the appropriate time of a certain province. The unorganized time zone caused great inconvenience for many travellers. Because of the confusion of time changes, "Fleming proposed a standard world time with twenty-four one-hour zones, each covering fifteen degrees of latitude, using one prime meridian to coordinate clocks over the entire globe." When an abundance of people recognized his proposition and supported his idea, the International Meridian Conference was held in Washington, DC in 1884 and initiated to use Fleming's concept of Standard Time. Without Fleming's idea of Standard Time, many tourists who travel across Canada would have missed their trains or planes, making them very distraught. Not only this benefitted Canadians, it also helped other people around the world who lived in a large country, such as United States.
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Sir John Hawkwood (1320-1394), also known as Giovanni Acuto, was an English mercenary fighting in Italy during the 1300s. He is considered the first military leader of the modern times. He was a member of the White Company of Englishmen, which was famous for its white armor, and loud harsh war cries. These men were infamous for their night raids. Hawkwood and his men never remained loyal to one side but were always changing sides of the war depending on who paid the most money. Money is what Hawkwood desired.
The sudden loss of all these men led to the British Parliament passing the Longitude Act of 1714. The parliament offered a prize of 20,000 pounds to anyone who could have brought them a “practical and useful” way of determining longitude. A panel of judges known as the Board of Longitude was given the task of finding the best fix to the problem and awarding the winner the money. There was a widespread belief that longitude would be able to be determined by the use of celestial objects. As a result of this King Charles built the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. John Flamsteed was put in charge of the observatory and given the title as Royal Astronomer. People also looked at timekeeping as a way to determine longitude, but it was not reliable at the time because the clocks on ships were not precise because of the changing conditions that occurred. Scientist throughout the world worked on many unconventional ways to try to determine longitude for example, putting a special powder on a dog so it would bark at certain
Sir John A. Macdonald was one of Canada's founding fathers. He is most remembered as being Canada's first Prime Minister, running the government from July 1, 1867 until November 5, 1873. Macdonald would become Prime Minister once again on October 17, 1878 and would stay in this position until June 6,1891. While he was leader of the country he faced his own share of political obstacles, including Confederation, the Metis rebellion and threats of an American he is among the greatest leaders Canada has ever seen and played a significant part in the forming of Canada as a country.
Humans are addicted to judging others on their first impression. Humans will never read into the book, they just look at the cover. Many people, both fictional and nonfictional can not be judged until you study them. Someone who first appears to be only comic relief, could end up to be a very important character. Sir John Falstaff is but one of these people. Falstaff's righteousness hides under his vocalization. John Falstaff's character is hard to understand without analyzing his words. He loves to play games with his speech. Falstaff tricks his audience with complex words and phrases. Often John would win over his opponent by tricking them into saying things that they did not mean or getting them to think that he is not that bad. Falstaff said this in Part I act II scene IV. "... A question not to be asked. Shall the son of England prove a thief and take purses? A question to be asked. There is a thing, Harry, which thou hast often heard of, and it is known to many in our land by the name of pitch. This pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile; so doth the company thou keepest. For, Harry, now I do not speak to thee in drink, but in tears; not in pleasure, but in passion; not in words only, but in woes also; and yet there is a virtuous man whom I have often noted in thy company, but I know not his name." In this passage, the Prince and Fastaff trade places in speech and try to make the other look dumb. Fastaff later goes on to say that this wonderful person that the King is talking about. The way Falstaff does this proves him to be very keen. He proves that even though he may look dumb, he will still put up a good fight. Falstaff is very bold about his thoughts and opinions. He stands out because he is not afraid to think his own way. While most people agree, because of the other people around them, Falstaff chooses to make his own decisions and think for himself. This is proven when Falstaff and the prince switch places in a verbal fight. Every one else in the book thinks of the Prince as a perfect young man because he is the prince, however Falstaff is too smart for this, he points out that the prince is a thief.
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Sir John A. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on January 10, 1815. His fathers name was Hugh Macdonald and his mothers name was Helen Shaw. His father had migrated to Glasgow from the town of Dornach. His father was a very pleasant and easy going guy and he alwasys wanted to make everyhting better but he usually made things worst. He was a man that had lots of friends, he would talk a lot and drink too. His mother came from Spey Vally. His mother was a very smart girl, she was like the opposite of his father. His mother and father got married on 1811, and after 8 years they had 5 children, the eldest child died and after John was the eldest. In Glasgow his fathers business wansn't doing that good and he thought that if they would move to upper Canada they would have a better life there. So finally in 1820 they sailed to upper Canada. They arrived at Kingston in mid July, and John was only five years old. When he arrived his thought about Scotland just disapeard. The Macdonald family decided to stay in Kingston. Sir John A. only went to school untill 1829, when he was only 15. His parents couldn't afford to send him to University. He says that if had went to University he wouldn't have went into politics. When he turned 15 Sir John A. articled to a Kingston lawyer, George Mackenzie, so he was learining Law. In 1832 Mackenzie opened a branch office where he put Macdonald in charge of it. Later on he had taken over another law practice i...
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