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- 6121: Adolf Hitler 2
- ... the war in 1918 Hitler returned to Munich and was employed by the army as a propaganda speaker to keep the military spirit alive in the disheartened and defeated German nation. In the course of new found job he came into contact with a small group calling itself the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which pursued a somewhat confused mixture of nationalists and socialists ideas. In April of 1920 he went ... the SA or Storm troopers. In November 1923, a time of economic chaos, he lead an uprising, also known as a putsch, in Munich against the post war Weimar Republic, proclaiming himself chancellor of a new authoritarian regime. But do to the lack of military support the putsch collapsed. As the leader of the scheme, Hitler was sentenced to five years in jail, but he only served nine months. During his ... rumors started to circulate that the former chancellor was back stabbing the President. President Hindenburg immediately appointed Hitler chancellor. On his first day in office, Hitler manipulated Hindenburg into dissolving the Reichstag and calling for new elections on March 5th , 1933. Hitler and other high ranking Nazis hatched a plan to seize absolute power. They helped a Communist arsonist set the Reichstag on fire and then claimed it was a ...
- 6122: A Separate Peace, Detailed Ana
- ... ever since the beginning of time. In A Separate Peace by John Knowels, the value of dealing with your feelings and dealing with your enemies is shown by Gene Forester, a student in Devon during World War 2 dealing with few human enemies, but his emotions create a nemesis far greater than any human enemy. "I never killed anybody," Gene had commented later in his adulthood, "And I never developed an ... tree, he was still sore at Finny and when he was about to jump, Gene shook the limb, Finny Lost balance, fell and shattered his leg. Never to play sports again. Now Gene had a new enemy: Guilt. Gene knows that he has broken Finny's leg, it is all his fault, his best friend can never play sports again because of him. All his fault. This is really eating at ... so he doesn't let him say anything else about the tree incident. Now well into the winter session, Brinker, a friend of Genes, comes into his room and Gene gets nervous thinking that Brinker new that he had caused Finny's accident, because of that Gene suggested they go to the butt room, a drab room where smoking was allowed only to be confronted by a bunch of "the ...
- 6123: Alcatraz
- ... its guns in battle), its role as a prison would continue for more than 100 years. In 1909, the Army tore down the Citadel, leaving its basement level to serve as the foundation for a new military prison. From 1909 through 1911, the military prisoners on Alcatraz built the new prison, which was designated the Pacific Branch, U.S. Disciplinary Barracks for the U.S. Army. It was this prison building that later became famous as "The Rock." "The Rock" The U.S. Army used ... had no source of fresh water, so nearly one million gallons of water had to be barged to the island each week. The Federal Government found that it was more cost-effective to build a new institution than to keep Alcatraz open. After the Prison After the prison closed, Alcatraz was basically abandoned. Many ideas were proposed for the island, including a monument to the United Nations, a West Coast ...
- 6124: Qualities Of A Pastoral Carer
- ... knowledge of the heart of God, humility, and love. Deep knowledge of the heart of God, is the most important quality for someone in a pastoral role. Do you know the incarnate God? In our world of loneliness and despair, there is an enormous need for men and women who know the heart of god, a heart that forgives, that cares, that reaches out and wants to heal The knowledge of Jesus heart is a knowledge of the heart. And when we live in the world with that knowledge, we cannot do other than bring healing, reconciliation, new life, and hope wherever we go. Spiritual maturity is essential as the above quote of Henri Nouwen explains and is further defined by St Gregory the Great where he wrote, That man, therefore, ought ...
- 6125: The Beginning Of Time
- The Beginning Of Time There was a period in history when the beginning of the world in which we live in was a expressed through legends and myths, now, through the use of increasingly advanced scientific equipment we can see that the universe is more vast and complex than ever imaginable ... place. (Silk, 1994) By means of commonly accepted theories in the field of astrophysics, the origin of the universe from the Big Bang to the formation of a planet, has been successfully detailed. Thanks to new technology introduced in the past fifty years and thank to intellectual minds capable of supporting that technology, more has been learned about our would than ever imagined possible. Although all the advances assumed feasible have ... being dead wrong. We cannot assume that all of our current theories are correct because although we may know more, we will never know all. BIBLIOGRAPHY Hawking, S. W. (1988). A Brief History Of Time. New York: Bantam. Kitchen, C. R. (1990). Journeys To The End Of The Universe. Bristol: Adam Hilger. Silk, Joseph. (1994). A Short History Of The Universe. New York: Scientific Americal Library. Wienberg, Steven. (1977). The ...
- 6126: Comparsion Between Hearst And
- ... know as Xanadu. Xanadu is referred to in myths and poems as place of heaven on earth like, Avalon, Shangri-La, and Atlantis. Samuel Purchas wrote this in "Purchas his Pilgrimage or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered, from Creation unto this Present:" In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately Palace, encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with a wall wherein are ... Spanish and Italian antiques. The way both men got into the newspaper business is rather similar. In the movie, Kane's father figure, Thatcher is worried that Kane will not understand his place in the world. Thatcher worries are confirmed when Kane sends a telegram saying that he has no interest in gold mines or banks, but would rather like to take over a small newspaper which is in his possession. Kane states that he would to take over The Morning Inquirer, because, "I think it would be fun to write a newspaper."(Citizen Kane) Hearst entered the newspaper world were very similar. In 1880 Hearst's father, gains ownership of a small newspaper in San Francisco called The Examiner. Hearst father was losing massive amounts of money on the paper when Hearst asked ...
- 6127: Fahrenheit 451: Books - A Part of Our Past
- ... watch a show on it. No one reads books anymore just for the fun of it, or so they can read the paranormal, science fiction, horror, classics, fiction or non-fiction novel that surround our world. If we want to see stuff like that we will watch The X-Files or rent a Stephan King movie. Actually when you read books there is much more satisfaction about it. They help you ... that kind of satisfaction out of watching a movie, it just goes in one ear and out the next. Reading also keeps people from going illiterate and it encourages other to read. What would the world be like if everyone were illiterate? It would be terrible, those who could read would be named freaks, just like the people who read book in Fahrenheit 451. They would be outcast from the rest of the world. It would be like as if everyone were racist against those people, and we all know the racism is one of the worst things to plague man kind. Where would those in the world ...
- 6128: Suicide In The Awakening
- ... the precipice of suicide. His attentiveness attracts her, but in the end she realizes that he means little to her. Eventually she sees Robert again. Having left her husband, she hopes to start a fresh new life with Robert. Edna reminds him, that it was he who awoke her last summer out of a life-long ,stupid dream; however, Robert only leaves her a note that reads, "I love you. Good ... her sister Maragret's" (Chopin, 698), and then she was gone. Works Cited Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." Literature: Thinking, Reading, & Writing Critically. 2nd ed. Ed. Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, William Burto, and William E. Cain. New York: Longman, 1997. 607-98. "Suicide." Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 21. 1973 ed. Webster, Noah. "Sucide." Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language: Unabridged. Ed. The World Publishling Company. New York: Rockville House Publishers, Inc., 1965.
- 6129: A Refusal To Mourn The Death
- ... of the ill feelings of tragedy and mourning so often associated with it. Through his poetry, Thomas attempts to reverse the common opinions of society on death by using diction and comparisons that offer a new and contented perspective of death and reverences it as an integral, inescapable part of the natural cycle. Dylan Thomas begins "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" by setting ... of the poem. He uses terms that refer to creation as he describes a darkness as "mankind-making," "bird-" "beast-" and "flower-fathering," and "all-humbling." This darkness is represents the nothingness from which the world evolved, and we also know it is a great power by the descriptor "all-humbling." According to this first stanza the same darkness will also mark the end of the world when the end of the world when the "last light" breaks and the seas are silenced. This stanza establishes a cycle of darkness before creation and a darkness after destruction that lays a symbolic ...
- 6130: A Separate Peace
- A Separate Peace: by John Knowles During World War II in the struggle for peace among nations comes a smaller, but still significant struggle, in a prep school boy becoming a man and waking up to reality. In the book A Separate Peace ... life. In the summer of 1942, Gene and his friends stayed at their prep school for the summer session. His best friend in those days was a boy named Phineas, or Finny. During that time World War II was going on and the sixteen-year old boys were trying to preserve the peace in their lives, before they would be old enough to be drafted into the war-just one year ... Months pass and suddenly the accident is brought up again by a boy named Brinker who believes that there is more to the story than what is being said. (No one else in the school new for a fact that Gene shook the branch on purpose to make Finny fall, they just had empty accusations.) So Brinker set up a sort-of mock court one night and took Gene and ...
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