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- 2991: A Consise History Of Germany
- ... called simony-although he still invested churchmen, who remained his vassals. During his reign he deposed three rival popes and created four new ones, notably the reform-minded Leo IX. Henry IV While still a child, Henry IV succeeded his father, Henry III, in 1056. During his mother's regency, long-restive princes annexed much royal land; cities, popes, and Normans controlled Italy; and the Lateran synod of 1059 declared that ... in 1197 while planning a crusade to the Holy Land. The empire immediately fell apart. Henry's infant son, Frederick II, inherited Sicily, but northern Italy reasserted its independence. The Germans refused to accept a child or make the crown hereditary in the Hohenstaufen line. Once more civil war raged as two elected kings-the Hohenstaufen Philip of Swabia and the Welf Otto of Brunswick, son of Henry the Lion-struggled ...
- 2992: Mark Twain: Racist or Realist?
- ... without problems; it is delivered as a first-hand involvement in the novels Twain writes (Simpson 3). Mark Twain also brings out the truths about class, hypocracy, racism, and slavery by showing it through the childs perspective. Mark Twain depicts the human soul in conflict with institutions in the book A Conecticut Yankee in King Authurs Court through the chuch against the state (Simpson 18). In The Adventures of ... taking another adventure (Unger 200). The actions of both Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn prove the notion that no adult actions to solving the problems had ever succeded (Unger 200). This shows that the innocent, child-like view, which sees through class and color, succeeds in the end. Huckleberry Finn had surpassed Tom Sawyer and had interpreted human nature and had shown life the way it truly was (The Hartford Courant ...
- 2993: Falstaff And King Lear
- ... introduced to guide Lear back to the sane world and to help find the lear that was ounce lost behind a hundred Knights but now is out in the open and scared like a little child. (Bradley) The fact that Lear has now been pushed out from behind his Knights is dramatically represented by him actually being out on the lawns of his castle. The terrified little child that is now unsheltered is dramatically portrayed by Lear's sudden insanity and his rage and anger is seen through the thunderous weather that is being experienced. All of this contributes to the suffering of ...
- 2994: Illegal Drugs
- ... should be mandatory minimum prison sentences for drug dealers and users. Especially since offenders only serve one third of their sentenced prison terms. What lesson are they learning with less prison time and no substance abuse counseling? Programs - The individuals in the community must also work together though in order for all of this to work. For instance; people should support school locker searches, random drug tests, and neighborhood watch programs ... this country and that it can't be tolerated any longer. They also think that if the nation curtails the supply of drugs, that people won't be albe to sell them, use them, or abuse them.
- 2995: Great Teachers, Bad Students
- ... a crappy teacher." This a common attitude among students who fair poorly on a test. It is not bad teaching that causes a student to fail a class, it is bad learning. Laziness, foreign substance abuse, and truancy are a few characteristics of a bad learner. The word "lazy" is frequently used to describe high school students who do not turn in their homework, study for tests and are constantly ill ... are the result and no blame can be placed on the teacher. Students should be responsible by coming to class prepared. There are many reasons why students consistently do poorly in school. Laziness, illegal substance abuse and truancy are only a few characteristics of bad learner. Students should take the responsibility that goes along with receiving a decent education. Instead of finding a scapegoat for their problems by blaming teachers, students ...
- 2996: Helen of Troy: The Face that Launched One Thousand Ships
- ... visited Leda in the form of a swan, Helen was often presented as being born from an egg. She was reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world. When Helen was still a child, she was abducted by Theseus. Since she was not yet old enough to be married, he sent her to Aphidnae and left her in the care of his mother, Aethra. The Dioscuri rescued her and ... most powerful of all Greek gods) and Leda, wife of Spartan King Tyndareus. Legend has it that Helen hatched from the egg of a swan. Castor and Pollux were her two brothers. As a small child, Helen was kidnapped from her home in Greece by Theseus, a well-known hero in mythology who was believed to have wanted to make Helen his wife once she was grown. She grew to become ...
- 2997: Education: Past, Present, and Future
- ... s human nature to succeed, but with the pressure put on us by the teachers, parents, peers, and colleges, it's a heavy load to handle. Now, scientists recently did an expiriment. They placed a child in a room with some brand new toys. They left him there for a couple of hours and he did not play with them. The scientists puzzeled took the boy aside and asked him why he did not play with the toys. The boy replied that he did not want to break them. So, scientists then took another child and placed him in a room filled with horse manure. The boy was having fun swimming around in it, having a blast with the horse manure. When the scientists asked the boy why he played ...
- 2998: Americans Take Their Education For Granted
- ... the lack of responsibility taken by some of America's youth. Children often do not understand the value of the education they are receiving. Parents need to drill the importance of an education into their child's head. If children are not made aware of how meaningful school is, chances are they will fail when they are adults. Parents have to instill in their child the discipline and motivation it takes to do well in school. Parents have to teach their children that school always come first. Students need to put school on top of their priority list too. Parents ...
- 2999: Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On
- ... the baby son of a station agent at Mount Clemens, Michigan. Edison was standing on the station platform when all of a sudden, he saw that a freight car was about to run over a child who was playing on the tracks. He dashed to the rescue. The child's father offered to teach young Edison how to be a telegraph and this is where it began (Feldman and Frod 206). He had gathered his things and was off to New York. He took ...
- 3000: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... and write, which lead to six out of her seven children earning a college degree (Lyons 2-3). Unfortunately, Lucy Hurston died when Zora was nine years of age (Otfinoski 46). Zora was the seventh child out of a family of eight (Otfinoski 45). During her childhood she felt unloved by her father and thus was seen as the odd on out (Lyons 2). Zora's education was comprised of six ... together, just like her previous marriage, was short lived and ended in February 1940. The low point of Zora's life may have been when she was accused of molesting a young ten-year old child. Zora was proven innocent, though the incident followed her to her deathbed (Hurston 206). On January 28, 1960 she died St. Lucy County Welfare Home of "hypertensive heart disease" (Hurston 207). She was buried in ...
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