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- 7931: Richard Iii
- ... and supplant the House of York of their control of the throne. Thus enters Richard. Richard was named protector of the prince and the country in Edwards will because Edward was in his minority. The new king would then take control of the country when he came of majority. This was commonplace in English history, even to the extreme of having infants play the part. Why was the Duke of Gloucester ... such atrocities. In order to continue the House of York's dynast at the throne, Buckingham and Gloucester seize Rivers, Grey and other advisors as they are marching to England to coronate Edward as the new king. They had news that the Woodvilles were conspiring against Gloucester in order to take control of England immediately. While parliament anxiously awaited Gloucester's explanation for his actions, Richard did not meet with much ... the English equivalent. This was done to gain the support of the middle class and gain their support, as well as improve England's economy. Richard was determined to bring England to the forefront of world power, but he also realized that England needed time to heal from the situation they we in. The country was divided due to wars and his usurpation of the throne. In meeting with representatives ...
- 7932: Virginia Woolf
- ... Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael, or by any other name you please (720)," she was trying to make the story relate any woman in the audience no matter who they were. Woolf has created a world where people can be comfortable and open minded about her sensitive subject. She could not get on stage and rage about how woman have been held back by men. Woolf would have scared all her ... for women to read them, for she will inevitably look for something that she will not find(736)." Woolf is tired of reading books written by men for other men, she wants some more fresh new books by women writers. Woolf starts to give almost a pregame pep-talk, because she wants to fire the women up so they will stop accepting the rules. Woolf wants to show them that the ... a comfortable place for her listeners to open up their minds, and by breaking many conventions she shows anything can be done in writing even by a women. Once she has them in this imaginary world, she could then preach about the problem without scaring anybody off. By the end, she could go as far as calling them "disgracefully ignorant," just to pump them up. Woolf took a very sensitive ...
- 7933: Heaven's Gate Cult
- ... horrible job. Morris also stated that the researchers did not go deep enough in the information of Heaven’s Gate. Adding to these ideas, Morris also agreed that Heaven’s Gate derived itself from the world as it stands today (Morris 10-12). On the other hand, Martin E. Marty from The Christian Century, whom wrote "Playing with fire," disputed that the faith of the world comes from the same origin as any other faith. Marty also argued that a person must not joke around with religion because it can be harmful. Also, Marty added that just like everyone else, the ... every religion is the same, no matter the name of the religion (Marty 379-380). "Heaven can wait" by Katha Pollit in The Nation addressed the fact that Applewhite, influenced by the sorrow of the world, covered his theory with unreal science. Also, Pollit argued that the members of Heaven’s Gate went too far with their rules. Adding to the horrific rules, Pollit contrived that Heaven’s Gate made ...
- 7934: Blindness In Oedipus The King
- ... of sight, he discards his outward gift of sight. Sight, therefore, seems to be like good and evil, a person may only choose one. Teiresias, prophet of Phoebus, was stricken with blindness to the physical world, but, as a result, gained the gift of sight into the spiritual world. This great gift allowed him to become a superior prophet, praised by the people as god like and as a person in whom the truth lives. Therefore, it was no surprise that Oedipus asked the ... to blame for the judgement being poured out upon the country. The sin so hidden from Oedipus and the peoples eyes was quite visible to Teiresias. What Teiresias lacked in his ability to see the world, he made up for in being able to see a person s heart - a skill that nearly cost him his life after a lengthy argument with Oedipus. Yet what distinguishes Teiresias from the others ...
- 7935: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... The rest of Vincent s family turned against him after that, also. Theo was the only one who still cared for him. Once again, Vincent fell in love. This time he was not rejected. His new love was a prostitute with a child and pregnant with another. Christina, also known as Sein, was ill and smoked cigars. Van Gogh, thirty-years-old at the time, proposed to marry her. At first ... Vincent. Once again, he was shut out and he felt he had nothing to offer. Because of this, Theo allowed Van Gogh to join him in Paris where he was living. There he discovered the world of art and a whole new type of art. He learned all about colors from the different painters, including Paul Gauguin, who became a close friend of Vincent s. After staying in Paris about a year, Vincent decided it would ...
- 7936: Comprehensive Arguements for the Existence of God
- ... our church and our society. This paper examines the many rational arguments for and against the existence of God. It is based on the views of some of the great philosophers and scientists of our world. I will show that there is no sufficient proof or comprehensive arguments for the existence of God. ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS God generally refers to one supreme, holy, personal being,. The divine unity of ultimate good-ness ... Plato, and Aquinas. He said that if one found a watch in a field, one would automatically conclude that it was made by a watchmaker because of its obvious design. The complex design of the world also points to a grand designer. This is interesting but he left out that people will automatically think of a watchmaker when stumbling upon a watch because we know that watches are made by watchmakers ... called the posterior approach. He had five ways of proving God’s existence which were; argument from motion, efficient cause, possibility and necessity, the gradation to be found in things and the governance of the world. Of all these, his first I found most stimulating. This argument states that nothing can move without being moved by another or an original mover. He continues by stating, motion is nothing else than ...
- 7937: The Existence of God
- ... our church and our society. This paper examines the many rational arguments for and against the existence of God. It is based on the views of some of the great philosophers and scientists of our world. I will show that there is no sufficient proof or comprehensive arguments for the existence of God. God generally refers to one supreme, holy, personal being, The divine unity of ultimate good-ness and of ... Plato, and Aquinas. He said that if one found a watch in a field, one would automatically conclude that it was made by a watchmaker because of its obvious design. The complex design of the world also points to a grand designer. This is interesting but he left out that people would automatically think of a watchmaker when stumbling upon a watch because we know that watches are made by watchmakers ... called the posterior approach. He had five ways of proving God’s existence which were; argument from motion, efficient cause, possibility and necessity, the gradation to be found in things and the governance of the world. Of all these, his first I found most stimulating. This argument states that nothing can move without being moved by another or an original mover. He continues by stating motion is nothing else than ...
- 7938: Book Report On The Forbidden C
- ... Going down the street to check on the action in Tienamin Square. Alex was injured. However, a group of Chinese University students rescued him. They fixed his wound and tended to his needs. Imagine seeing new found friends, innocent people, even bystanders, slaughtered in the blink of an eye. Incredible horrors are brought to your attention and you question how a country could do this to its own people. The author ... and that we take things like freedom and civil rights for granted. It showed a transformation of a boy to a man after all the things that Alex went through. He saw a total different world when he went to China. He experienced things he only thought were possible in a history book or a horror story. He left China with an awareness that not everywhere in the world people have it as good as in the US and that even now there are people in the world fighting for such things as freedom of speech, civil rights, and democracy that we consider ...
- 7939: Air Pollution
- ... over large distances and produce adverse effects in areas far from the site of the original emission. Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from the central and eastern U.S. are causing acid rain in New York State, New England, and eastern Canada. The pH level, or relative acidity, of many freshwater lakes in that region has been altered so dramatically by this rain that entire fish populations have been destroyed. Similar effects have ... effect before it reached the stage of polar melting. Nevertheless, research reports released in the U.S. in the 1980s indicate that the greenhouse effect is definitely under way and that the nations of the world should be taking immediate steps to deal with it. History In the U.S. the Clean Air Act of 1967 as amended in 1970, 1977, and 1990 is the legal basis for air-pollution ...
- 7940: Ray Bradbury
- ... and 1952). He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award in 1954, the Aviation-Space Writer's Association Award for best space article in an American Magazine in 1967, the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. His animated film about the history of flight, "Icarus Montgolfier Wright", was nominated for an academy award in ... Dandelion Crater on the Moon after Bradbury's novel, Dandelion Wine. Outside of his literary achievements, Ray Bradbury was the idea consultant and wrote the basic scenario for the United States Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. He conceived the metaphors for Spaceship Earth, EPCOT, Disney World, and he contributed to the conception of the Orbitron space ride at Euro-Disney, France. "Go to the edge of a cliff ...
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