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- 10721: Animal Farm
- ... served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. He contradicted himself in many ways. He was a socialist while hating communism and was a literary critic while distrusting intellectuals. He hated how the world was cruel and how lies were way of life. When he died in 1950 from a neglected lung ailment he left his work and ideas to us and we grow trying to fulfill his demands ... community of their own and different animals represented members of today's society. The pigs were the smartest and most innovative and so they played the part that government take's care of in our world, and along with government comes leaders, followers, crooks, and even the odd good honest politician. As unfortunate as it is these "honest politicians" don't last long and usually don't make it to the ... make it better. There is no freedom where there is power. 3. theme and author's vision Blair wanted something that may never happen. Equality and free government, a government run by the local people, world freedom and other such dreams. He expresses his immense emotion in his literature. He wanted probably what every one wants but he is one of the few who speak up about it. If we ...
- 10722: WoodStock Music Festival
- WoodStock Music Festival WoodStock music festival, took place near Woodstock New York, on August 15, 16, and 17, 1969, and became a symbol of the 1960s American counterculture and a milestone in the were often referred to as hippies and who characteristically rejected hartred and ... and behavior of the young people who attended. Yet the festival was peaceful. The event, thought by some to mark a high point in the American counterculture History WoodStock music festival, took place near Woodstock New York, on August 15, 16, and 17, 1969, and became a symbol of the 1960s American counterculture and a milestone in the were often referred to as hippies and who characteristically rejected hartred and ... and behavior of the young people who attended. Yet the festival was peaceful. The event, thought by some to mark a high point in the American counterculture History WoodStock music festival, took place near Woodstock New York, on August 15, 16, and 17, 1969, and became a symbol of the 1960s American counterculture and a milestone in the were often referred to as hippies and who characteristically rejected hartred ...
- 10723: Animal Farm: Utopia
- ... the drawing-room, even though Napoleon was against all of this in the beginning he became a big part of these activities. From this scene some animals are starting to notice their "Equal and Perfect" world is becoming not so equal any more. As the years pass by there are more incidents that prove, Napoleon wants to have more power. Also the "Utopia" idea is going away. Napoleon uses Snowball to ... animals are more equal than others. After all of this confusing the animals are very confused. They just go along with the scenario but some do not approve. The animals start to see there "perfect" world disappear. Orwell shows Old Major ideas of a Utopia vanish by having Napoleon emerge as a tyrant leader and shows that he is power hungry from the start. Throughout the story Napoleon starts to change ... only one who can read, so know one can remember the original Commandments. Napoleon like any tyrant blames his problems on everyone else and in the end ruins the animal's ideas of a perfect world completely. This story teaches people there is no perfect world and somebody always wants more.
- 10724: Anne Frank Remembered: Review
- ... who helped the Frank family survive during their two years in hiding. Her book is a primary source or first hand account of the persecution of Jewish people in Nazi occupied Holland during the second world war. It is also the first hand account of the hiding of Jews such as the Frank family, the Van Daan family, and Dr. Albert Dussel during this time. In regard to the book's ... families put a risk on her own life; even providing them with her companionship was illegal. However, Miep and her husband became one of the only links the families in hiding had to the outside world. On the morning of August 4, 1944, the efforts of Miep and the families failed when their hiding place was raided by Nazi officials. The families were arrested and sent to prison camps. The only ... her and her husband. After receiving a letter confirming the death of Anne and her sister Margot, Miep gave Anne's diary to Mr. Frank. The diary was published and became popular all over the world. It was Anne's legacy to everyone who had suffered under Nazi rule. This story is the author's main evidence in her argument that under Nazi rule, "a slow strangulation was taking place, ...
- 10725: Luther And The Reformation
- ... is only moderately important, for his greatness lies in the freedom and elasticity with which he established the Lutheran service and in the great importance he attributed to music. The Reformation brought into existence a new Church, a new liturgical service, and many new musical practices. Luther modified the Mass and changed it from a liturgy sung by the choir and priests exclusively to a vehicle of congregational worship that included all believers. Martin Luther viewed music as ...
- 10726: The Encroaching Darkness
- ... s right to know. You destroyed these crusaders. it was a dark age. These truth revolutionaries embarked upon guests, through means both immaculate and shady, to liberate the truth from the evils of the corporate world. The governments and their corporate buddies led a grand inquisition against the insurgents, labeling them "hackers." The corporations' bedfellows, the media, made these "hackers" appear evil to the public; they joined in the persecution of the rebels. Shed a bit of their indifferance to the world to hunt down and destroy the "malicious intruders" who endangered the secrecy of secrets too dirty to be shown to the public. "These people could probably see how much time you spend last year on ... violation and burned at the technological stake. The pople helped in being keeping themselves, ignorant; they destroyed their would-be saviors, the men and women who were willing to play neo-monks and deliver the world from a modern dark age. After the hackers, the simple fell upon the educated, the same pople who stood by and watched the selfrighteous inquisitors consume their contemporaries in a swell of uneducated humanity. ...
- 10727: The Struggle Between Good and Evil in The Hobbit
- The Struggle Between Good and Evil in The Hobbit In The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien describes the struggle of good against evil by creating a fantasy world complete with settings, creatures and magic. The forces of evil such as goblins and dragons provide the conflict, which sets the story in motion. Bilbo, a hobbit, represents good as displayed by his heroic qualities ... whether each is on the side of good or evil. Some of the creatures in the book are dragons, dwarves, elves, goblins, hobbits, trolls, and many more creatures that prove The Hobbit is a fantasy world. True it is an impossible world in which dragons talk, wizards perform Magic, evil creatures lose their flesh - blood forms, and magic rings of Power rule and corrupt (Evans145). Magic comprises part of the fantasy aspects of the book. For ...
- 10728: Minimum Wage
- ... for performing the box production work (Miller, online). Wages based on a wage determination issued under SCA do not have to be increased unless the wage determination calls for a wage rate less then the new, increased statutory minimum wage. Commensurate wages rates must be based on a prevailing rate at least equal to the statutory minimum wage. There are many benefits for minimum wage increases. One of the most important ... of an impact on employment than was thought to be a decade ago. You always have these folks crying poverty, but its a little hard to understand how you can have hotel operators in New Orleans, getting record high occupancy and big profit margins, saying they cant afford a small increase in the minimum wage. We dont think you can make a decent standard of living getting $5 ... about increasing costs that make it so much more difficult for businesses to survive (Alpert, online). These are some high lights from the list the White House sent to reporters about minimum wage. 267,900 new jobs, or a growth of about 44,000 per year; the poverty rate has fallen about 10 percentfrom 26.4 percent in 1993 to 16.3 percent in 1997. About 142,000 Louisiana ...
- 10729: The Eternal Struggle
- ... strong, it is highly unlikely that we, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, would have diverged from our ape-like ancestry and created civilization. Through our technology we have nearly eradicated all threat to ourselves from the natural world, the exceptions being disease and the unstoppable aging process. The most prominent factor in causing premature death in humans is the actions of other humans. Greed, lust, envy, anger, and mindless hatred have all, at ... continue to plague our civilization. Another factor contributing to the necessity of violence is the fact that it helps the progress of technological advancement, which in turn aides society in many ways. If the two World Wars never occurred it is probable to assume that aircraft would not be commonplace in our everyday lives. Computers, the Internet, and the Global Positioning System(GPS) were all originally created for military use during ... voting process. If a military dictator wished to make a law he/she would only have to say it was so and that would be the end of it. North America contains 50% of the world's lawyers due to a justice system with so many loopholes that obvious killers have the possibility of being absolved. If O.J. was Cuban I don't think he'd be making millions ...
- 10730: The Singing School: An American Tradition
- ... of agitation by ministers for a reformation in congregational singing, arguments were advanced promoting regular singing and the eventual establishment of singing schools. The singing school grew out of the employment by the churches in New England of regular singing. Records indicate that the first singing school was probably established in Boston, the most advanced town in New England, around 1720. The singing school gradually spread throughout New England during the next twenty-five years. Throughout the eighteenth century, the scope and span of the singing schools continued to grow. The advent of the 19th century saw singing schools established from Maine ...
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