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…fairly in many parts of American society. A most obvious example would be the lower wages that women are receiving for the doing the same job as a man. Women wouldn't know what they could achieve unless they try, as in the Life of Pi, Pi would never believe…

…, be engraved on his grave. Archimedes also gave a method for approximating pi. He was able to estimate the value of pi between 3 10/71 and 3 1/7. Math wasn’t as sophisticated enough to find out the exact pi (3.14). Archimedes was finding square roots and he found…

…of how are must lives one's life. The book uses many different kinds of parables to portray a message. These messages set up the discipline of Taoism. The "Tao Te Ching" begins by introducing several items which intertwine with one another to make a moral…

…the fanaticism of real-life religious or political crusaders he can be laughable, even dangerous. For example, when Don Quixote tries to save Andres the shepherd boy from a beating from his master ( PI,cap 4 ), we later are told that because of the knight’s…

…of the Gupta Empire (320-467), such as the development of a more accurate value for pi, the perfection of the modern numeral and decimal system; surgery, inoculation, the formulation of medical guides and a better calendar; and lunar astronomy, will be discussed…

…and to be honest, I found it quite off-putting. The countryside and rural population is strongly idealised with the notion that life in the country was effortless and trouble-free. In Shakespeare's When daisies pied and violets blue reflects the popular idea…

…and ancestral home, at Avaris in the Nile Delta, into an entirely new capital city (Time-Life 51). Pi-Ramses, as it was later called, included a precinct which encompassed six square miles (half the size of the city), and contained a battle staging area complete…