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- 19791: The Hobbit
- ... theme of this book expressed the age old moral of greediness, and how it gets you nothing in the end. Though this theme is encountered in many books, this story talk about it in a new way. The value of the theme is also rated high, with a B. The ending of this book was fairly predictable, with the exception that one of the main characters, Thorin, King of the Dwarves ...
- 19792: The Rule of Halie Selassie
- ... Ethiopia out of its dark ages and bring them into modern times and that is what he accomplished. Bibliography Gorham, Charles. The Lion of Judah: A life of Haile Selassie: Emperor of Ethiopia. Ariel Books, New York.1966. Marcus, Harold G. Halie Sellassie I: The Formative Years 1892-1936. Red Sea Press.1987.
- 19793: AZTECS
- ... were held at the temple(Aztecs). One celebration that happened every 52 years was the Binding up of the Years. People would let there hearth fire go out and then re-light them with the new fire of the celebration and feast(Aztec Empire History). Religion was extremely important to the Aztec life. They had hundreds of gods. There were religious ceremonies daily in which acts of sacrifice to the gods ...
- 19794: Kelly Flinn Biography
- ... did to her. I think what happened to her was wrong and has made people afraid to talk to anyone who is not the same rank and sex. She is a survivor in a harsh world and hopefully she will be able to regain her life and fly again in the future.
- 19795: Seperate And Unequal, Frederic
- ... and not like barn animals. Before 1861, many white males valued their farm animals higher than their slaves. Although white women were not treated with the equality to white men that we see in the world today, they should not even be classified with blacks of the pre civil war era. Blacks and white women were treated in a common manor, because neither group was really free. Both had to listen ...
- 19796: Hamlet - Act 2 Summary
- ... the players and a little improvising on my part with the script they will read, to check on Claudius' conscience. They shall perform a play in which the king is slain and shall watch my new king very closely, for if he so much as flinches I can be sure that the ghost has spake the truth. With that confirmation, I shall begin constructing my play to kill him.
- 19797: The John Scopes Trial
- ... examination by Darrow..." (Webster's Guide to American History p423.) " Nobody gives a damn about that yap schoolteacher. The thing to do is to make a fool out of Bryan." (Settle, Scopes Trial p75.) "The world shook with laughter at the spectacle Bryan had made of himself." (The Fabulous Century 1920-1930 p534.) "...he [Bryan] showed an ignorance of the biblical criticism he had so long been damming. ... The Darrow grilling ...
- 19798: Karl Marx
- ... keenly aware of this and Engles perhaps even more so. Living in political exile his life changed. His ideas were no longer followed like they once were. His isolation from the general public provided a new light in his life. Then, in 1855, his only son died. His son showed much potential, and was the life of the family. When he died, Jenny became very sick with anxiety, and Marx himself ...
- 19799: Walter Whitman
- ... a carpenter. Young Whitman tried many jobs. He was an office boy, printer, schoolteacher, reporter, and for a time the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle and other newspapers. At 30 he took a trip to New Orleans. He saw the vastness of his country for the first time, and he began to set down in poetry his impressions of the nation and its people. No publisher or author's name was ...
- 19800: Sir Thomas More
- ... showed true faith in his beliefs that were just and honest, but unfortunately had to pay with his life because of a volatile, evil and immoral King and council. Beliefs are extremely powerful in the world and on the choice made. Even if they are good beliefs they can still cause trouble. Sir Thomas More chose not to sign the oath to the Act of Succession or to be "for" the ...
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