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- 4451: Islamic Religion
- ... fasting, charity, and pilgrimage are meant to help them meet this goal. Islam is a monotheistic religion with about one billion followers. "Along with Judaism and Christianity, the three are the largest monotheistic religions in world." Muslims believe that God is One, indivisible, and they also believe in all the prophets of the Christians and Jews including Adam, Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Job, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, Elias, Jonah ... and God, and are not allowed to direct prayers toward any of the prophets. So they are to direct their prayers directly to the Creator, Allah. Saudi Arabia is a special place in the Islamic world because it is the birthplace and heartland of Islam. It is so cherished because the sacred Ka’abah, a black cube-shaped stone is in the square of the Holy Mosque in Makkah. Muslims must ... held by a chosen scholar know for his knowledge of he Quran. The Islamic calendar is based on a lunar year rather than the solar year. A lunar month is the time between two consecutive new moons. Even though the lunar year has twelve months, it is shorter than the solar year by eleven days. Because Islam’s use the lunar year, the holy days and the months shift a ...
- 4452: George Orwell
- ... Anthologies 398). During this time Orwell wrote a weekly column for the left-wing Tribune. Orwell's novels of the thirties are somewhat depressing but "bring the reader face to face with aspects of the world that are often forgotten" ("George Orwell," The Oxford Illustrated 443). He saw the poor, as he saw the population in colonies, as "explited" ("George Orwell," The Oxford Anthology 2141). In 1945, when Orwell's wife ... point of view. Orwell was proclaimed and will be remembered as one of the best political writers of the twentieth century. Works Cited "George Orwell,"The Oxford Anthology of English Literature. Ed. Frank Kermode. 2ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. "George Orwell." The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Ed. Pat Rogers. New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1987. "Orwell." The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature. Ed. Jenny Stringer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. "George Orwell," St. Martin's Anthologies of English Literature. Ed. Neil McEwan. ...
- 4453: Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... believed in Christianity, because “with maturity he lost his heavenly father”(Bentley, p.86). In 1868 Nietzsche was a student in Leipzig. This is when he met Cosima and Richard Wagner. The latter was a world-renowned musical artist. Both of these individuals were crucial to Nietzsche's development as a philosopher. Theognis was a poet of the sixth century B.C. This man supplied Nietzsche with the idea that an ... personal efforts to be bad and mean, Nietzsche remained innocent and caring. The first major school of thought that Nietzche adhered to was because of the writings of Schopenhauer. After purchasing Artur Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea, a book on metaphysics, Nietzsche wrote, “I saw a mirror in which I espied the whole world, life and my own mind depicted in frightful grandeur. In this volume the full celestial eye of art gazed at me; here I saw illness and recovery, banishment and refuge, Hell and Heaven.”(Bentley, ...
- 4454: Status Quo And Change In The Late 1800’s To Early 1900’s
- ... the “American dream”, which included justice, and freedom. This became a dream of people to expand the country, and create wealth and opportunity. America changed from an isolationist country wary of “foreign entanglements” to a world power willing to take on and defeat Spain in the Spanish-American war. From a nation of small towns and cities and small farms, America became an industrial colossus, with ship-building, rails, steel mills and factories, with a rate of growth that began to attract laborers from around the world. This industrial miracle created huge fortunes, and the relatively equal wealth of the early 1800’s gave way to the fabulous wealth of the Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Vanderbilts. It fueled massive immigration, and changed the ... they attempted to halt the immigration of “foreigners”, and gave favor in the immigration laws to the northern Europeans, their “own kind”. Among the poor and the farmers the Populist movement emphasized this xenophobia. The new freedom the blacks was resented and suppressed, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and other anti-black movements was a major part of the social history, both in the South and in ...
- 4455: Emily Dickinson
- By: Ericka E-mail: ericka77@hotmail.com Emily Dickinson was raised in a traditional New England home in the mid 1800's. Her father along with the rest of the family had become Christians and she alone decided to rebel against hat and reject the Church. She like many of her contemporaries had rejected the traditional views in life and adopted the new transcendental outlook. Massachusetts, the state where Emily was born and raised in, before the transcendental period was the epicenter of religious practice. Founded by the puritans, the feeling of the avenging had never left the people. After all of the "Great Awakenings" and religious revivals the people of New England began to question the old ways. What used to be the focal point of all lives was now under speculation and often doubted. People began to search for new meanings in life. People ...
- 4456: Our Solar System at a Glance
- Our Solar System at a Glance INTRODUCTION From our small world we have gazed upon the cosmic ocean for untold thousands of years. Ancient astronomers observed points of light that appeared to move among the stars. They called these objects planets, meaning wanderers, and named them ... from the sky. Science flourished during the European Renaissance. Fundamental physical laws governing planetary motion were discovered, and the orbits of the planets around the Sun were calculated. In the 17th century, astronomers pointed a new device called the telescope at the heavens and made startling discoveries. But the years since 1959 have amounted to a golden age of solar system exploration. Advancements in rocketry after World War II enabled our machines to break the grip of Earth's gravity and travel to the Moon and to other planets. The United States has sent automated spacecraft, then human-crewed expeditions, to ...
- 4457: A Camera's Eye
- ... then her mouth. A close up of her lips would be a good shot. Forming each word, detailed curves and slopes. I've captured the shot. I've been told before that I see the world through the eye of a viewfinder. I actually like that view. As a filmmaker I am constantly alert and searching for the perfect lighting, the perfect angles, and shots. I think that makes me a ... Like a painter with his brush or a sculptor with a chisel the camera is my instrument in creating works of art. I do not use the lens as an escape from reality or the world around me, but as framework for all the beauty and art around me. Sometimes I wonder if all the effort put into capturing the moment somehow negates the actual experience, but I don't think ... has gotten too rough or confusing that I have turned to the camera as an escape. This vision I have can be used as a crutch, to witness life instead of liveing it. Sometimes the world is not a very pretty place, but almost anything can be made beautiful an artistic through the eye of the camera. It's difficult for me to explain to some people how my role ...
- 4458: U.S. Budget Deficit - Good or Bad?
- ... 150 years were in times of war or other catastrophic events. The Government, for instance, generated deficits during the War of 1812, the recession of 1837, the Civil War, the depression of the 1890s, and World War I. However, as soon as the war ended the deficit would be eliminated and the economy which was much larger than the amounted debt would quickly absorb it. The last time the budget ran ... 625,819.53 * Rounded to Millions Federal spending has grown over the years, especially starting in the 1930s in actual dollars and in proportion to the economy (Gross Domestic Product, or GDP). Beginning with the "New Deal" in the 1930s, the Federal Government came to play a much larger role in American life. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to use the full powers of his office to end the Great Depression ... Congress greatly expanded Federal programs. Federal spending, which totaled less than $4 billion in 1931, went up to nearly $7 billion in 1934 and to over $8 billion in 1936. Then, U.S. entry into World War II sent annual Federal spending soaring to over $91 billion by 1944. Thus began the ever increasing debt of the United States. What if the debt is not increasing as fast as we ...
- 4459: Biography: Helen Keller (1880-1968)
- ... her both blind and deaf. Her deafness made it difficult to learn to speak. She invented 60 of her own signs in order to communicate with her family. Using touch and smell, she explored the world. Her isolation often enraged her, making her kick and scream in frustration. Life with Anne Sullivan At the age of six, Helen's parents took her to see Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who recommended Anne ... In 1888, Helen and her teacher went to the Perkins School for the Blind, where Miss Sullivan continued to teach her. In 1894 they went on to the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York, and later to a prep school, the Cambridge School for Young Ladies. College In the fall of 1900, Helen Keller entered Radcliffe College, graduating in 1904 with a bachelor of arts degree cum laude ... 50 languages. Career Much of her life was spent delivering inspirational lectures in some 25 countries. She was concerned with women's rights, pacifism and helping the deaf and blind. Her pacifism during the First World War led to a decline in her income from lectures. During the Second World War, she visited soldiers who had lost their sight or hearing. She devoted much of her time to fund- raising ...
- 4460: Harry S. Truman
- ... domestic affairs as his predecessor, Franklin Roosevelt, had been in the 1930's. Truman's record in foreign affairs, while also flawed, was more significant. He effectively developed a larger role for the nation in world affairs than it had played before World War II. Truman’s policy helped the recovery and reconstruction of western Europe, but more importantly they help contain the rapid spread of Communism, such policies were the hallmark of the cold war. Seeking to ... August 14, 1945. Some persons have argued that Truman used the bomb to influence the Russians rather than the Japanese, but they have demonstrated only that he and some of his aides hoped that this new evidence of American power would restrain the Russians at the same time that it accomplished American objectives in Japan. By August 1945, Truman had become more critical of the Russians than Roosevelt had been. ...
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