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- 12551: Hammurabi’s Code
- ... had belonged to his accuser." How about that law? If you were a good swimmer, you could do anything you wanted and every time you were accused go jump in the river and gain a new house. It sounds like a good deal to me, how about it Potter? A lot of my information came to the University of Chicago, and it sounds like I am going to go there. Hammurabi was more than just a man. He was a man with a plan. And his plan was to construct a tablet of laws for all the world to know. The people of his empire could learn these laws, and the whole civilization would be a better place. So he did construct this table of 8 foot high black stone (it now can ...
- 12552: Ignatius of Antioch
- ... beliefs of our then second and third generation Church. He wrote that the Church can only preserve its unity if each member of the Church fulfill his or her role as a Christian in the world while recognizing that their bishop and priests represent Christ and his apostles. Of all the Churches, Ignatius emphasized the pre-eminence of Rome' for it was in Rome that Peter was executed. Ignatius wrote that ... unity of opposites. Christ is flesh and spirit, of Mary and of God, a subject of suffering and yet incapable of suffering. Through Christ God's life, the life of grace has come into the world. The prophets and patriarchs of the Old Testament received portions of this grace to prepare for his coming. We ourselves can receive this grace and, like the prophets, become Instruments of God. Our main means ... Ignatius calls the medicine of immortality and defines as the real presence of Christ. By 98 A.D. when Ignatius was arrested in Antioch during the persecution of Trojan, he was known throughout the Christian world. Wherever the ship carrying him to Rome touched port he was greeted by hundreds of Christians. He literally had to beg wealthy Christians not to use their political connections to prevent his martyrdom. Within ...
- 12553: Alexander The Great
- ... was Alexander's leadership and training which made the Macedonians incomparable in war and in administration and enabled them as rulers of the so-called Hellenistic kingdoms to control the greater part of the civilised world for a century or more". He believed in Homonoia and wanted all peoples to be united as one. He was able to gain the respect of the people he had just conquered and as a ... a supranational community. There were many different people together under Alexander's rule fully capable of living in peace and developing partnership. This was a great accomplishment, especially when you compare it to the modern world. Alexander took most of Europe and placed it under an umbrella. The closest thing in modern times would be the United Nations. This is an organisation comprised only of representatives from the nations of the world. The UN's duty is to maintain peace among nations, but that is impossible. There is constantly dispute among the different countries. Alexander was not only able to maintain peace among the various peoples, ...
- 12554: Philophers David Hume and Descartes
- ... that which he knows, was the simple line ‘Cogito ergo sume”; I think, therefor I am. This allowed for his existence. Where this line failed, however, was in the proof or disproof of the external world. Once Descartes established himself as a “thinking thing”, his attention turned to the external world. Descartes reflects upon his dealing with physical objects, and questions the state of corporeal nature, dealing directly with the senses. Re-stating the fact that Descartes believes that these sensations of taste, touch, smell, and ... of objects can present itself in many ways, but that is all it is, a presentation. The “essence” itself resides behind the attributes. This abandonment of the traditional idea of gaining knowledge about the outside world through the senses was crucial to Descartes goal of a body of “undeniable truths”, as he had formed the hypothesis that the senses could be fooled, but not the mind. This line of thinking ...
- 12555: Franklin Delino Roosevelt
- ... ongoing economical recession now known as the great depression. During his first campaign for president most of the public didn’t understand what most of his platform was. It was just simply known as the new deal. What the public did know was that Hoovers system of government was not helping improve the country’s economic situation. What President Roosevelt came to office the country’s unemployment rates were hitting record ... his he created companies and federally funded program that would be useful to the states and improve the condition of the country. He created programs that paid citizens to maintain the old road and build new ones and building dams, bridges and irrigation canals to improve the irrigation system in the Midwest. Them by providing subsidies to farmers that would grow certain kind of crop it quickly drew many farmers back ... paint the last life portrait of President Roosevelt. At eleven O’clock on the day of his death he was sitting for Elizabeth signing documents and handing them to secretary Bill Hassett. He put a new cigarette in his cigarette holder, he was once asked why he used a holder his reply was “Because when I was a boy, the doctor told me to stay as far away from cigarettes ...
- 12556: Margaret Atwood
- ... can take long vacations" ("Graeme Gibson"). Presently, they live together with their daughter, Jess, in Toronto (" Although Atwood both grew up in and resides presently in Canada, she has lived in numerous cities throughout the world. The Canadian residences include Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie, Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Alliston, and Vancouver. In the United States, Atwood has lived in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Alabama. She has also lived in England, France, Italy ... was also a Writer-In-Residence at the University of Toronto and the M.F.A. Honorary Chair at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. She has also held the position of Berg Chair at New York University and was the Writer-In-Residence at both Macquarie University at Australia and Trinity University at San Antonio, Texas. From May, 1981 to May, 1982, Atwood was president of the Writers' Union of ...
- 12557: Benito Mussolini
- ... up everywhere. His expectations for the war, was the collapse of society that would bring him to power. His socialist comrades were enraged by his article committing Socialist support to Italy's entry into the World War. Just years earlier he had been protesting Italy's entry in war. Called up for military service, he was wounded and returned in 1917. In 1919 he founded the facist di combattimento, which in ... Social Republic for Hitler. This showed his defeat, he lost his good-natured reasons for even becoming a socialist. In 1945 he was captured by the Italian Resistance and shot. After Mussolini's dimise, the new Italian republic would repudiate everything he had stood for and redifine Italy's interests drastically. Even his own people had come to hate him. The era of Mussolini has had a profound effect on present ...
- 12558: The Accomplishments of Peter The Great
- ... of Peter the Great Russia's desire for change and a quest for progress was reaching levels comparable to those of Europe. Peter the Great is associated with the movement of Russia from the Medieval world to the Age of Enlightenment. Throughout the centuries historiographical debate has been in progress. There was a debate between historians who consider Peter the Great as a great Tsar of Russia and those who perceive ... in laying the groundwork for regular technical and intellectual exchanges. In his diplomatic efforts he did not succeed. Peter returned to Moscow in August 1698. He brought back not only material things but also a new vision of change for Russia.
- 12559: Who the Book is About: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... was the first of several collections published among 1835 and 1872. The first illustrated Edition was done by Richard Pederson. He wrote other familiar books, such as, "The Ugly Duckling" in 1843, "The Emperor's New Clothes" in 1837, "The Snow Queen" in 1844, "The Red Shoes" in 1845, and "The Little Mermaid" in 1837, were innovative in their Handling of sophisticated feelings and ideas and in their use of the ... traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, and Africa and continued to write novels, plays, and travel books, but it was more than 150 stories for children that established him as one of the great figures of world literature. Hans Christian Andersen died April 4, 1875. We did not only lose a good man, but a great storyteller, author, novelist, playwright, and hero. 1. The subject of the book is worthy of being ...
- 12560: The American Constitution
- ... themselves. They also had to deal with Indian tribes and negotiate with other governments. Leading statesmen, such as George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, began to discuss the creation of a strong national government under a new constitution. The United States is a republic that operates under a federalist system. The national government had specific enumerated powers, and the fifty states retain substantial endowment over their citizens and their residents. Both the ... of a country they have adopted. Each nation sets requirements that aliens must meet to become naturalized. For example, aliens cannot undergo naturalization in Canada or the United States unless they have lived in their new country for a number of years. On the other hand, Israel allows Jewish immigrants to become Israeli citizens the day they arrive under a rule called the Law of Return. Many nations naturalize only people ... language. The United States and certain other countries require aliens to give up citizenship in their homelands to become naturalized. Naturalization usually takes place in a ceremony in which qualified aliens promise loyalty to their new country. In the United States, many naturalization ceremonies take place on Citizenship Day, September 17. Treaties or the passage of special laws may naturalize groups of people without the usual naturalization process. For example, ...
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