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- 15671: The Existance Of God
- ... means that this being wants the consequence of every action to be Premise three states that evil in fact does exist. This statement is obviously true because evil events take place every day in this world. For example, babies die of cancer, hundreds of people die in earthquakes, people are tortured and raped by others, and hunger and poverty are rampant. This pain and suffering that people endure on a daily ... still could not account for the excessive pain and suffering that human beings have endured throughout time. For instance, how did humans benefit from the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Nazi Concentration Camps during World War II? How did the vast number of lives taken by the bubonic plague strengthen peoples character? what have we learned from the brutal sacrifices satanic cults perform on babies and other living creatures? I ...
- 15672: The Diary Of Anne Frank - Book
- ... students, all have had their own perspective and view on this everlasting and most memorable book. This truly shows how the Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most widely read books in the world. Anne Franks diary was probably the first work that people actually got too see what the Holocaust was all about. Certainly it must be the best book for the subject. The diary brings together ... Frank, was criticized worldwide by many different individuals. One would expect this book to be widely criticized for the fact that it dealt with the most gruesome and horrible era in the history of the world, the Holocaust, and for the fact that it helps us journey through this painful experience through the eyes of a young adolescent Jewish girl. Many love this book for its great purpose, but at ...
- 15673: The History of Greek Music
- ... the two parts become more independent, often two distinct melodies proceeded at the same time. When the third and fourth parts were added, the music became truly polyphonic. Sometime after the mid-twelfth century, a new Notre Dame Cathedral was being built in Paris, and with it grew a school of composers. Two names have been preserved from that school- Leonin and Perotin. They stretched the organum to unheard-of lengths and embellished it with flourishes of long melismas, or many notes sung to one syllable. New rhythmic patterns developed, as did repetitions of motifs, sequential patterns, and imitation. Out of this developed the motet, originally in Latin on a sacred text. Unlike the organum, the text was sung in the upper ...
- 15674: Scarlet Letter 2
- ... of her sin of adultery. This object; however, has the opposite affect as a punishment and as people of the community begin to forget the original significance of the letter it comes to bear a new meaning, able. In the thirteenth chapter of this book, Hawthorne comes out and in the third person states "the scarlet letter had not done its office." Hester has gone beyond the letter of the law ... after a meteorite appears above Boston, a sexton so wonders if it represented "Angel" coming from above. Ironically so, it was a fallen one coming down so. And so the letter "A" takes on a new meaning once again. In Chapter 13, Hester wonders whether it wouldn't be better if both she and Pearl were both dead. The mere fact that Hester can contemplate suicide indicates that "the scarlet letter ...
- 15675: The Good Earth: Chapters 1-13 Summaries
- ... Lung sells his harvest and makes a big profit. He puts the extra money in a hole in the wall in his room. Chapter 5: Wang decorates red stamps everywhere for good luck in the new year. O-lan returns to the House of Hwang. She finds that the people there are becoming poorer due to great expenses. Wang then decides to buy good land from the great house and is ... and is determined to get enough money to buy all the land around the great house. O-lan has another baby boy which Wang is not so happy about. Wang is becoming rich off the new land and is rising in power through the community. Chapter 7: Wang Lung's uncle started becoming trouble because he didn't want to work and didn't care. Wang and his uncle got in ...
- 15676: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- ... at Salzburg. In 1769-70, Leopold and Wolfgang undertook a tour through Italy, where, in Rome, Wolfgang wrote down Allegri's Miserere from memory after one hearing. This first Italian trip culminated in Wolfgang's new opera, Mitridate, re di Ponto, composed for Milan. In two further Italian journeys Wolfgang wrote two more operas for Milan, Ascanio in Alba (1771) and the impressive Lucio Silla (1772). In 1772, Archbishop von Schrattenbach ... Paris. When he returned to Salzburg he was given the position of court organist (1779) and produced a splendid series of church works, including the famous "Coronation" Mass. He received a commission to compose a new opera for Munich, Idomeneo (1781), which proved that he was a consummate master of opera Seria. Wolfgang was summoned by Von Colloredo to Vienna in 1781 and after a series of violent arguments was dismissed ...
- 15677: Gun Control
- ... the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. In 1988 there were 9000 handgun related murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington,D.C. there was an estimated 400 homicides including guns. In addition gun ... knit gangs. Predominantly guns of crime are used by gang members. Many police officers are killed every year due to drug and gang related incidents involving guns. For example in 1988 on February 26 rookie New York City police officer Edward Byre was sitting alone in his police car guarding the house of a drug trial witness in South Jamaica, Queens where he was shot four times in the head and ...
- 15678: The Scarlet Letter: Mr. Dimmsdale
- ... sin off his chest, but not the letter though, even though he didn't tell anyone. At the end of the book, Hester, Pearl, and Dimmsdale decide to move to another country and start a new life. This is Dimmsdale's way of avoiding and getting away from his sin. On the last day of his life, the day before they are to leave, Dimmsdale is to walk in a parade and then give an election sermon. He knows that his health is fading, so he writes the best sermon of his life. While walking in the parade, Mr. Dimmsdale looks like he is a new man and that it is the best day in his life. After saying the shocking sermon, the thin thread that held him up for so long finally broke. While everyone was amazed at his sermon ...
- 15679: Crime and Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, and Different Punishments
- ... get there shackles off or paying for a private room or for a room with your friend it was usually a pretty bad room but it was still better than the others. Due to the new law of no more public hangings there was a great amount of over population. This over population meant trouble for the prisoners because the prisoners who really didn't commit bad crimes were killed in ... jail by the guards. So now the prisoners who went to jail were there to be executed or if they weren't there for that it would mean they were shipped to factories, Australia or new prisons set up the Queen or King of England. It's a shame these men women and children were so mistreated over such little crimes but it made the crime rate go down. ( Mitchell pg ...
- 15680: Catcher In The Rye Book Review
- ... 201) His deep concern with impeccability caused him to create stereotypes of a hooligan that would try to corrupt the children of an elementary school. Holden believed that children were innocent because they viewed the world and society without any bias. When Phoebe asked him to name something that he would like to be when he grew up, the only thing he would have liked to be was a "catcher in ... on the subway. He also failed out of two schools for lack of effort and absences from classes. Holden also had a daydream about two children who never grew up, whore main in a perfect world forever. This daydream is a result of his younger brother Allie's death. Allie represents the unchangeable youth of which Holden must let go if he ever expects to maintain sanity. Holden has a fixation ...
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