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- 2751: Austria
- ... January 1st. Christmas is celebrated differently too. They share a meal and sing carols on Christmas Eve and if there are children they receive their gifts that night. They leave the room and the Christ Child leaves gifts. As to where in the United States Santa comes Christmas Eve and we open our gifts Christmas morning. They use Christmas day as a social day. Many well known people have come out ... memory of Mozart. It is said that Mozart had an unsuccessful career and died young but he ranks as one of the great geniuses of Western civilization. His large output shows that even as a child he possessed a through command of the technical resources of musical composition as well as an original imagination. His instrumental works include symphonies, divertimentos, sonatas, chamber music for a number of instrumental combinations, and concertos ...
- 2752: Brave New World Summary
- ... heard warnings about this, warnings that the world, or the United States, or a developing country like Kenya, has more people than it can feed. China is trying to reward families that have only one child and penalize those that have more, but no country has yet tried to do what Huxley's brave new world does. The Director talks less about stemming overpopulation than he does about increasing population in ... playwright and political thinker, as did many of his followers. Huxley makes a little joke at the expense of people who claim to recognize genius but really know no more about it than a sleeping child who can't speak the language it's expressed in. The Director goes on to explain that hypnopaedia doesn't work for teaching facts or analysis. It works only for "moral education," which here means ...
- 2753: Sparta
- ... sent off to the barracks, which was like an extremely tough military school. They had little clothing and food and were taught to provide, or find things for themselves. (this usually meant stealing.) If a child was caught stealing, or providing for himself, he would be severely punished or beaten. Honor and pride were very respected in Sparta. It was better for a child to die covering up that he had stolen, then to tarnish his honor by being caught stealing something. This lesson of honor was also taught in war when it was more honorable to die fighting ...
- 2754: Treasure Of The Sierra Madre -
- ... of the question, death is the only option. Just then bandits attack and end up killing Cody. When looking through his belongings before burying him and find out that he has a wife and a child. They decide that it is time to pack up and leave with the $35,000 that they each have. They say goodbye to the mountain and start their way down. Curtain suggests that they give ... of help. They mistake Howard as a medicine man and insist he follow them. A boy had fallen into the river and nearly drowned. He was still unconscious and partly in shock. Howard saves the child and goes back to camp. The Indians follow and demand he come back with them so their debts can be repaid. He makes Dobbs and Curtain continue down the mountain. He will catch up in ...
- 2755: Albert Einstein 2
- ... Jewish. His father was an electrician whom also was interested in electrical inventions. However he was very unsuccessful in his business, and as soon as Albert was born, the family moved to Munich. As a child Einstein was very lonely and shy. He preferred to play with himself in the parks and the woods. He first realized the wonders of science at the age of four, when his dad introduced him ... Jewish. His father was an electrician whom also was interested in electrical inventions. However he was very unsuccessful in his business, and as soon as Albert was born, the family moved to Munich. As a child Einstein was very lonely and shy. He preferred to play with himself in the parks and the woods. He first realized the wonders of science at the age of four, when his dad introduced him ...
- 2756: Biography of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
- ... reduced to poverty when Alfonso was still young. At the age of twenty-six he married Mary Suarez, a woman of his own station, and at thirty-one found himself a widower with one surviving child, the other two having died previously. From that time he began a life of prayer and mortification, although separated from the world around him. On the death of his third child his thoughts turned to a life in some religious order. Previous associations had brought him into contact with the first Jesuits who had come to Spain, Bl. Peter Faber among others, but it was apparently ...
- 2757: Leon The Movie Review Essay
- ... La Femme Nikita," which in its cold sadness told the story of a tough street girl who became a professional killer and then a civilized woman. Now he has made "The Professional," about a tough child who wants to become a professional killer, and civilizes the man she chooses as her teacher. Besson seems fascinated by the "Pygmalion" story, by the notion of a feral street person who is transformed by ... troubled thought that there was something wrong about placing a 12-year-old character in the middle of this action. In a more serious movie, or even in a human comedy like Cassavetes' "Gloria," the child might not have been out of place. But in what is essentially an exercise - a slick urban thriller - it seems to exploit the youth of the girl without really dealing with it. THE PROFESSIONAL (STAR ...
- 2758: Biography of Karl Marx
- ... more open to suggestion and are quicker to create ideas on political issues. Karl Heinrich Marx was born May 5th, 1818 in Trier. Although he had three other siblings, all sisters, he was the favorite child to his father, Heinrich. His mother, a Dutch Jewess named Henrietta Pressburg, had no interest in Karl's intellectual side during his life. His father was a Jewish lawyer, and before his death in 1838 ... Karl in the right direction." His ‘ splendid natural gifts' awakened in his father the hope that they would one day be used in the service of humanity, whilst his mother declared him to be a child of fortune in whose hands everything would go well. (The story of his life, Mehring, page 2) In High school Karl stood out among the crowd. When asked to write a report on "How to ...
- 2759: A Dolls House - Norma As A Dol
- ... is implying that one of Nora's duties as his wife is to physically pleasure him at his command. Torvald also does not trust Nora with money, which exemplifies Torvald's treating Nora as a child. On the rare occasion when Torvald gives Nora some money, he is concerned that she will waste it on candy and pastry. Nora's duties, in general, are restricted to caring for the children, doing ... out. This revelation is what prompts Nora to walk out on Torvald. When Torvald tries to reconcile with Nora, she explains to him, in their first real conversation, how she had been treated like a child all her life; her father had treated her much the same way Torvald does. Both male superiority figures not only denied her the right to think and act the way she wished, but limited her ...
- 2760: The Chinese Culture
- ... egg bounced back to the ground safely. When they came out, they saw everything was destroyed. They were the only ones left. They lived happily for a while and after some time they had a child. Because they were brother and sister the child was deformed and died a short time later. The two kids chopped up the baby into tiny pieces and put him in a bag, and they started climbing up the heavenly ladder. The bag ripped ...
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