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By Aesop as retold by Rebecca Lunsford There once lived two roosters who each thought they should be the one to rule over the flock of chickens.  The two roosters would talk behind each other’s back, saying that they were the best rooster who had ever lived. One day the two roosters ran into eachContinue reading “The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle”

By Aesop as retold by Rebecca Lunsford One lovely spring morning in a dense, swampy marsh where the trees grew lowly over the water, in a particular pond many frogs had gathered.  They were saddened that they had no leader so they sent a couple of ambassadors to Jupiter to ask for a king.   NowContinue reading “The Frogs Asking for a King”

By Aesop as retold by Rebecca Lunsford One early morning a hunter loaded up his donkey and mule with a bunch of furs and pelts that he was taking into town to sell.  Once he had finished securing the furs to the animals’ backs, they started their trek into town.  Their trip started off easilyContinue reading “The Donkey and the Mule”

By Aesop as retold by Rebecca Lunsford One beautiful spring day, in a pasture filled with lush grass and colorful wildflowers tucked away in the Alps was a shepherd and his flock which leisurely grazed in the fields.  Now a wolf, scrawny in size, with devious yellow eyes, and a thick coat of gray fur,Continue reading “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”

One day a frail, old lion wearily crawled back into his cave. He had just spent the past several hours trying to catch his dinner, but the lion had found that he was no longer fast enough to catch the animals of the forest. As the lion laid on the floor of his den an idea cameContinue reading “The Sick Lion by Aesop as retold by Rebecca Lunsford”

By Aesop as retold by Rebecca Lunsford One day two old dogs were laying down on their master’s porch reminiscing about days when they were younger. “I remember one time I had just gotten myself a nice, juicy, piece of steak,” one began.  “I was in a hurry to get back to my house soContinue reading “The Dog and the Shadow”

Even though this is a Government course I will be posting it on the History section.       How does Murray Rothbard defend the idea of self ownership?  Rothbard defends the idea of self ownership by explaining how there are several different types of self ownership and the only type that makes sense is to have oneContinue reading “Government Class Questions”

This is the last essay from this course so it is a little bit different.  I will explain a few of the most important lessons learned from the history of invention and inventors and why I think it is important. One of the first things I learned is that if one wants to invent somethingContinue reading “The Most Important Lessons I Learned from this Course“

This week I learned about Flash Memory, CD-Rom, the Cell Phone, and the World Wide Web. Flash Memory is a little chip that saves memory on computers, cameras, phones, and more.  It saves it very quickly and one can erase only parts of the memory instead of all of it unlike the old types ofContinue reading “Week 35 Inventions“

This week I learned about the TCP/IP Internet Protocol Suite, the Graphical User Interface, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates.  I will also explain whether or not I think Steve Ballmer’s advertisement for Windows 1.0 was effective, and why or why not. The TCP/IP Internet Protocol Suite is a bunch of communication protocols that allows computersContinue reading “Week 34 Inventions and inventors“