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- 8181: Galileo And The Telescope
- Galileo was not the person who invented the telescope, but he was the first one to use the telescope to study the heavens. He made many observations using the telescope that shocked the religious world. In this short essay, I will only focus on three observations and how an Aristotlean reacts to it. These observations played a very important role on the development of astronomy. The first object he observed ... irregular and imperfect. He saw that the moon s surface had mountains and valleys. It also consists of many other irregular shapes. This was a very big contradiction to Aristotle s theory. To Aristotleans the world was the center of the universe and that it was perfect. This showed us the holes in the celestial realm. It is not perfect like people believed it to be. If the moon had all ... moon. It showed the Earth to be a little less celestial. The Earth can shine on another object like any regular object. It is not as special as initially thought to be. Aristotleans around the world did not want to accept these observations. They had an excuse to every single point. To disregard these new beliefs, they blamed it on the preciseness of the telescope. They used to say that ...
- 8182: The Power And The Glory
- As countless people in a third world country fall to the ravages of poverty and disease, a single woman fights to make a difference. Living a spartan life, through conditions far from humane, she helps those who are poor, suffering and sick ... that the whiskey priest is unable to perform all of his priestly duties for fear of his life. To survive, he must lie, cheat and steal to avoid the law. These tactics however, are not new to him. Even before the purge, he is a priest that is hardly good and honest. By requiring a fee for services such as baptism, at a price of two pesos a head, he is ... not to himself but to God and his neighbours. When the whisky priest prays, it is only for his daughter and no one else. The love that he should feel for every soul in the world is selfishly concentrated on the one child. The service of a priest is not only to the people but to all living things. As the whisky priest returns to the plantation of Captain Fellows, ...
- 8183: The Idea of Humanism and the Renaissance
- ... from the old Feudal System of the Middle Ages into a more flexible and liberal class system. This was most noticeable in Italy (particularly in Florence), where the divisions consisted of the old rich, the new rich nobles, the middle class, and the lower middle class(The poor didn't count). This created great conflict between these social divisions. The new rich consisted of successful merchants, capitalists, and bankers innovators of new systems of making money. The Humanism philosophy was also a very popular with the people and many political leaders rose to high positions with support of these ideals. Three humanists even became chancellors of ...
- 8184: A Portrayal of Honor
- ... first mustered into the Union Army were a De Kalb regiment of German American clerks, he Garibakdi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a "Polish Legion," and hundreds of Irish American youths form Boston and New York. But in Ohio and Washington, D.C., African American volunteers were turned away from recruiting stations and told, "This is a white man's war." Some citizens questioned the loyalty of immigrants who lived in crowded city tenements until an Italian American from Brooklyn turned that around. In the New York Senate, Democrat Francis Spinola had been a vigorous foe of Republican policies and Lincoln. But now he swore his loyalty with stirring words, "This is my flag, which I will follow and defend." This ... the Medal of Honor and was appointed a general. He charged unarmed at the foe, read is citation, "rallied his men ...until desperately wounded and taken prisoner in action." In 1879 Cesnola became director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum then became, wrote a critic, "a monument to his energy, enterprise, and rare executive skill." Italian American privates also won the Medal of Honor. Joseph Sova ...
- 8185: The Development of Desire
- ... them headlong death in battle or at sea had long ago returned, while he[ Odysseus] alone still hungered for home and wife (Homer 1). Odysseus has many opportunities to end his journeys and start a new life. For instance, if he desired, Odysseus was able to stay with Kalypso who wanted him forever, Her ladyship Kalypso clung to him in her sea-hollowed caves- a nymph, immortal and most beautiful, who ... I wish you well( Homer 87). To which Odysseus replies, ...Yet, it is true, each day I long for home, long for the sight of home... (Homer 87). Another chance for Odysseus to start a new life is offered by the king of the Phaecians to marry his daughter and live there; ...seeing the man that you are, seeing your thoughts are my own thoughts-my daughter should be yours and ... to our hero, but he fights to return home instead of taking the simple way out, and eventually becomes triumphant in his desire. Beowulf becomes a different type of male warrior which surfaces at a new time in civilization from The Odyssey. Written after the ancient civilizations of Greek and Rome, dawning in the hour of the dark ages. Our warrior surfaces during a time when different tribes throughout Europe ...
- 8186: The Tenth Man By Graham Greene
- The book The Tenth Man by Graham Greene takes place in France in the 1940s during the German occupation of France during the second world war. It starts of in a German prison with the narrator talking about the prisoners singling out two specific characters, the Mayor of Bourge and Pierre an engine driver. Through a situation concerning these two ... who believe in something, when faced with problem or difficulty take the values of the people imposing the problem on them. I think the author included this issue in the book because In today's world people sell out what ever they believe in just so they can get a little ahead in life. In the book they talk of collaborates who sold out o the Germans and agreed to follow ... were now forced to live under these rules would have to go through because they were scared and wouldn't stand up for what they believed in. In today's society, especially in the business world people disregard what they value because they want that better job or that raise or just to get on the bosses good side. This is not excluded to the business world though, many people ...
- 8187: Greek Gods
- ... to-day life such as sex and disputes between mortals were supposedly influenced by godly workings. Unlike modern religions such as Catholicism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, where an omnipotent force supposedly controls the workings of the world, a hierarchy of Gods characterized religion in ancient Greece. Working as one big family, which they actually were, each one of the Greek gods governed a certain aspect of the world in a way that usually reflected their own humanlike personalities. These unique personalities also contained many human flaws such as envy and greed, and were where the Greek God s importance lay. Greek religion was more concentrated on the way an individual dealt with situations that popped up in the world around him than on understanding the world itself. In other words the Greeks were more interested in the workings of the mind than in the workings of the environment around them. This was so ...
- 8188: Labor Relations
- ... the turn of the century the working conditions of the American worker were appalling compared to today's standards. Child Labor was accepted as evidenced in the Coal Mines and sweat shops of Pennsylvania and New York. There were no guidelines or regulations defining acceptable work hours or duration. Safety in the work place was governed at the whim of the employer. Federal laws were implemented in an attempt to eliminate ... of these " peripheral workers " as a company ploy to exploit American workers. Trade unionism in America is committed to continuing its role as a bargaining agent for "core" workers while it seeks to organize this new temp worker. Management's long term goals must be to guide American industry into the Global Market place while being as competitive as possible. We must do that while maintaining an ethical treatment of our ... can to cleanse themselves of corruptness. Else they will drive themselves out of existence. This will be to the detriment of the American Society as a whole. Bibliography Works Cited Borenstein, Jerry. Unions in Transition. New York Simon ans Schuster. 1981 Reynolds, Morgan. Poer and Privilege. New York. Universe Books. 1984. Freeman, Richard. Medoff, James. What Do Unions Do. New York. Basic Books. 1984. Quinn, Daniel. Labor Management Relations. New ...
- 8189: Constructing Indentity In The
- ... to affect our future, which will lead to an easier, less complicated lifestyle, with more job opportunities and their benefits. Computers help people in many different ways and also connect people on all over the world together through out the Internet. The internet is one of the most useful things in the world today. For instance, we can stay in home and shop through Internet, and even send things like birthday cards by the web of Hallmark. Moreover, we can talk, chat, or send instant messages to the other people so we can learn more about the culture of different races, religions, and nationalities on the world. By Internet we can get as much information as we want. However, not all of the information that we get from the web page or other people is real or credential because people can ...
- 8190: Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... her Europes first modern woman doctor. Elizabeth Blackwell was born in 1821 in Bristol, England. She was one of nine children and her father was a very prosperous sugar refiner. Her family immigrated to New York City in 1832. Her family was very active in the abolitionist movement in New York. Her fathers refinery did not prosper and forced the family to move to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1838. Her father died shortly after this move and meant that the boys now needed to find ... medical school would admit her because of her gender. Because of this, she studied privately with doctors in Philadelphia and in the South. In 1847, Elizabeth was admitted to the Geneva Medical School of Western New York. This decision brought about much criticism but Elizabeth persevered and pursued her dream. In 1849, she graduated from Geneva Medical School at the top of her class. After this, she went to Paris ( ...
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