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- 11101: Ivan the Terrible
- ... So to reward the creator of the church, Ivan removed the architect's eyes, blinding him. After victory in Kazan, Ivan came home to meet the first son of the royal family, Dimitri. But the new father did not spend much time with his newborn son because Ivan fell ill with the plague in 1553. Apparently dying at age 23, Ivan tortured himself with the thought that his wife and son ... so violent that he would kill anyone who annoyed him. It was at this time that he earned his title of Ivan the Terrible. Within a year after Anastasia's death, Ivan had remarried. His new wife was the beautiful Circassian princess, Maria. She was illiterate, wild, spiteful, cruel, and uncouth. Most historians believe that Ivan killed her. Ivan the Terrible would always be seen carrying a long, wooden staff. Ivan ... wholly responsible for developing Russia's consciousness of herself as a nation and for setting up political and cultural targets for the Czars who follow him. Works Cited Payne, Robert; Romanoff, Nikita. Ivan the Terrible. New York: Crowell, 1975. Troyat, Henry. Ivan the Terrible. New York: Dutton, 1982. Zwighter, Finch E. The Czarist Empire. San Francisco: Seanet, 1995. Online. Infoseek. Internet. 6 June 1995.
- 11102: George C. Marshall
- George C. Marshall was born on December 31, 1880, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in 1901 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. During World War I he was stationed in France and won acclaim for his direction of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Before the offensive, Marshall was responsible for; the withdrawal of 200,000 men, and replacing them with ... were hospitals to treat the sick and wounded, moving more than 3,000 cannons and 40,000 tons of ammunition, all the while hiding these movements from the Germans by moving only at night. After World War I he was a high-level aide to General John J. Pershing. Prior to the outbreak of World War II he progressed steadily from assistant chief-of-staff of the U.S. Army (July, 1938) to deputy chief of staff (October, 1938), to chief of staff the following year. In 1944, Marshall ...
- 11103: Siddhartha
- ... that was 30 miles away from where I lived. This was a school that none of my current friends were going to attend. I chose to leave all my friends and thrust myself into a new experience for my own good. My friends didn’t want me to leave, just like Siddhartha’s. The second crisis experience happened four years later when I chose to leave my town and attend college ... the anxiety of leaving friends and starting anew is present in both of my experiences. The anxiety associated with switching to high school was compounded with the even worse anxiety of having to meet all new people and make new friends. My second experience, going away to college, also contains the anxiety of leaving old friends and starting out somewhat on my own. These two decisions were crises because I was fearful and felt ...
- 11104: Lord Of The Flies
- ... If a group of well-conditioned school boys can ultimately wind up committing various extreme travesties, one can imagine what adults, leaders of society, are capable of doing under the pressures of trying to maintain world relations. Lord of the Flies's apprehension of evil is such that it touches the nerve of contemporary horror as no English novel of its time has done; it takes us, through symbolism, into a world of active, proliferating evil which is seen, one feels, as the natural condition of man and which is bound to remind the reader of the vilest manifestations of Nazi regression (Riley 1: 120). In the ... in all of Golding's works. It suggests the isolation of man in a frightening and mysterious cosmos, and the futility of his attempt to create an ordered preserve for himself in an otherwise patternless world" (Baker 26). The island in the novel is the actual island; it is not simply an island, though. It is a microcosm of life itself, the adult world, and the human struggle with his ...
- 11105: Software Piracy
- ... these kind of goods either accept them, or are unaware that they are not legitimate. No matter how this crime is being conducted, it has been estimated that this sort of crime is costing the world approximately 13 billion dollars annually. Beginnings Software piracy became popular through the use of Bulletin Boards, which allowed people to dial into other an “underground” archive of pirated software. Around this time, 31/2 Inch ... of their product, which again, encourages the use of cheap pirated software. This can be described as a piracy cycle. What Are We Doing About It? Considering the cost of software piracy to the entire world, the action taken against it has been minimal. It has been estimated that the complete elimination of software piracy would boost worldwide revenue, by more that 30 billion dollars. However, even this incentive has not ... This means controlling the sale of CD-writers and blank CD’s. Conclusion To conclude all of the above statements, it can be said that software piracy is a growing problem that is costing the world exorbitant amounts of money. The amount of action taken to stem the spread of piracy around the world needs to be extended, in order to bring about an end to this expensive problem. This ...
- 11106: Franks Connelly
- ... I read of Maryanne Connelly was on September 24 when the Home News Tribune ran an article about women congressional candidates. Connelly and Theresa de Leon were the only two women running for congress in New Jersey this year. The focus of this article was mostly about Connelly and her background as a retired AT&T employee and Fanwood mayor, but never touched upon any issues. There were a few articles ... They contained basic background material and brief synopsis of the individual candidates' positions on issues. I learned from a newspaper article that two public debates were being held. One was being televised on News 12 New Jersey. At that time that station was not available in my area. Fortunately News 12 would let me purchase a copy for the price of only a tape. The format of the televised debate was ... Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He co-chairs the Northeast Midwest Congressional Coalition, the Congressional Task Force on Manufacturing, and the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus. Prior to his congressional career he served in the New Jersey General Assembly and was Chairman of the Assembly Policy and Rules Committee. Franks also served as Republican State Chairman in 1988 and 1989 then again from 1990 to 1992. He lives in Berkeley ...
- 11107: F.D.R. And The Work Reform Programs
- ... ideas ran for presidency, the people voted for him. This man set up so many programs to help the people that they were back on their feet in no time. These programs were called “The New Deal.” One part of “The New Deal” was to help the unemployed and their rights as workers. When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, he immediately began to start new programs to help the people. The programs that were set up were to help the unemployed. The reaction of the people to this “New Deal” was very positive. In 1933, a program was set ...
- 11108: Wells Social Imagination
- ... of pleasure and ease. It is to expose this division in society, which forms the satirical purpose of his novel, 'The Time Machine'. He extrapolates this situation of social injustice into the far future, the world of 802, 701 AD. The machine itself is the vaguest of mechanical assumptions, a thing of ivory, quartz, nickel and brass that quite illogically carries its rider into an existing past or future. We accept ... striven so long to build his time machine? Instead of wonderful advances in human knowledge and intellect, he finds instead decay and degeneration. These feelings are reinforced towards the end of the novel. Leaving the world of the Eloi behind him, with Weena dead, he finds himself standing on the shore of a dead sea, even further in the future...The scene is one of complete desolation and hopelessness... "I cannot convey the sense of absolute desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that ...
- 11109: Hamlet 6
- ... development of the story line. In the play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are inserted for nothing more than comic relief. But on the contrary, in the movie they are hopeless wanderers looking for meaning in the world. The pair is so lost in their mental endeavors that they do not even notice the crumbling of a royal family and ultimately their own deaths. Through Rosencrantz and Guildenstern we learn many lessons of ... the objects the iron ball plummets to the floor while the feather floats to the ground proving a common fact. There are significant differences between the movie and the book. In the book the real world is that of Elsinore to which Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are brought into. The movie puts Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in a make-believe world on a journey through the play of hamlet. In the movie the real world is represented by featureless rock and desolate forests, through which the pair journeys to find meaning. The only thing they ...
- 11110: Capitalism & Free Trade
- By: Cara Mezzetti E-mail: rlprncss@aol.com A global assembly line is a capitalist’s dream come true. It allows companies to do business in free trade zones to manufacture goods throughout the world at the lowest possible cost to the company. This assembly line enables companies like Nike, with corporate headquarters in the U.S. w to shut down their factories here, and move over seas where there ... the responsibility and liability of insuring that it assembly line sites are safe, healthy and fair labor places of work, by subcontracting to foreign owned and governed factories. South Korea, the " sneaker capital of the world" is one of these places. According to the article "The Globe Trotting Sneaker" the workers in these assembly factories are predominantly women. The article also highlights the fact that South Korea has a military government ... rights for them. So they remain without a voice. A global assembly line is a capitalist’s dream come true. It allows companies to do business in free trade zones to manufacture goods throughout the world at the lowest possible cost to the company. This assembly line enables companies like Nike, with corporate headquarters in the U.S. w to shut down their factories here, and move over seas where ...
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