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- 2471: Personal Writing: My Dreams
- ... bizarre, I think that portrays a outgoing and curious personality. I also noticed that my dreams always involve a problem of some sort, this may show that I like to help people with problems. Water, war (death), and girls (one particularly) are a few of the things I often see over again in different dreams. I don't know why I have dreams that include water, maybe my body is telling me I am thirsty or that I need to drink more water. My war dreams are the ones that I would be most interested in learning the latent meaning to. After waking from one of the war dreams I feel great, like a hero, like I accomplished something. I was recently thinking about joining a military service so I could be related to those thoughts. Often, the war dreams occur when ...
- 2472: Florence Nightingale
- ... for reforms in health care. Nightingale was an innovative and persuasive leader who single-handedly invented modern nursing, which broadened women s roles in society. She is most remembered for her work during the Crimean War. Sir Sidney Herbert, one of her friends from the War Office, asked her to assist in a hospital in the Crimean. The Crimean War occurred during 1853-1856. When Nightingale arrived at the Barrack hospital in Scutari she found the most disgusting sight that she had ever seen. The hospital walls and floors looked like they had never ...
- 2473: Heart Of Darkness And Apocalyp
- ... cultures new to them. This overwhelming cultural interaction caused some Puritans to go mad and try to purge themselves of a perceived evil. This came to be known as the Salem witch trials. During World War II, Germany made an attempt to overrun Europe. What happened when the Nazis came into power and persecuted the Jews in Germany, Austria and Poland is well known as the Holocaust. Here, human’s evil ... Nazi counterparts conducted raids of the ghettos to locate and often exterminate any Jews they found. Although Jews are the most widely known victims of the Holocaust, they were not the only targets. When the war ended, 6 million Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, and others targeted by the Nazis, had died in the Holocaust. Most of these deaths occurred in gas chambers and mass shootings. This gruesome ... every human is this horrible, evil side. Francis Coppola’s movie, Apocalypse Now, is based loosely upon Conrad’s book. Captain Willard is a Marlow who is on a mission into Cambodia during the Vietnam war to find and kill an insane Colonel Kurtz. Coppola's Kurtz, as he experienced his epiphany of horror, was an officer and a sane, successful, brilliant leader. Like Conrad’s Kurtz, Coppola shows us ...
- 2474: How Should The Indian Mutiny B
- HOW SHOULD THE INDIAN MUTINY BE CHARACTERISED? SHOULD IT BE SEEN AS A POST PACIFICATION REVOLT, A NATIONALIST UPRISING, OR AS A WAR OF INDEPENDENCE? Any discussion on the reasons behind the Indian mutiny needs to be preceded by what the mutiny actually was. While mutinies and revolts were not uncommon in India at this time, they were ... be possible to describe the events of the mutiny in much more detail, but here we need to look at the deeper reasons behind it. The mutiny has been described as the country’s first war of independence, because it was the first major demonstration of national feeling and action against the British presence. Early twentieth century commentators, especially Indian have taken this view. For example, Marx portrays the mutiny as ... as Indian nationalists describe the mutiny as part of the national evolution and of course can be seen to be inclined to emphasise the patriotic resistance of their ancestors.. However, to view it as a war of Independence seems only possible with hindsight, or in looking at it in terms of what it achieved in years to come, as it could be that its memory helped and guided India to ...
- 2475: Real Meaning Of LIfe
- ... narcolepsy, Nazism, necrophilia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, painting, paranoia, pets, pornography, profanity, purdah, racism, rape, religion, road rage, roller-coasters, sadism, serial killers, singing, sleep, smiling, snoring, sperm banks, stuttering, suicide, TV, Tourette's Syndrome, xenophobia, war, wife swapping, writing, yawning, whatever. And one doesn't have to wonder why natural disasters that kill thousands of innocents happen and "why bad things happen to good people". If you ask why, well, WHY ... to do so- people must choose to do so. I mean, if some schizoid nihilist out there wants to kill everyone else; or some neo-Nazi/Christian Identity racists want to start a "racial holy war" and exterminate all non-whites; well, what absolute rationale against that can anyone really offer? Who says that the objective "truth" must be believed or that people have to act "rationally"? Certainly, not natural selection ... class in the US. I've never known real hunger or suffering or violence or crime. Intellectually, I'm aware that most of human history is about suffering whether it be WWI, WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War; or the 1918 influenza epidemic in just this century alone. Intellectually, I know the world doesn't make sense; but I don't feel that way. I expect- almost feel it' ...
- 2476: The Regulators Of North Caroli
- ... an official for much less than its true value (1). People among the Granville District were anxious to revolt and needed only a leader to provide the spark that led to the fire of the War of Regulation. A man named Hermon Husband became actively involved and was referred to as a leader several times, despite the fact that he was often nothing more than an agitator. Husband reprinted patriotic flyers ... who named themselves after a group of country reformists in South Carolina (3)" shortly after Tryon's announcement to build the palace, had no sympathy with the governor's desire for a fancy residence. The War of Regulation was not limited to Orange County. Outbreaks of violence during the collection of taxes in Anson County and several riots throughout the Granville District were sure signs of what was to come. A ... from the area from which my sources came. I noticed that the efforts of the Regulators is very similar to that of the colonists efforts to gain independence, only on a much smaller scale. The War of Regulation should be regarded as one of the primary thrusts of North Carolina's role in the Revolutionary War. Because of the research I have done I am encouraged to find out more ...
- 2477: Diplomacy at Work
- Diplomacy at Work In today's world political society, the use of diplomacy is a tool that allows countries to work out their differences in an attempt to avoid war. Diplomacy is often one of the last steps taken by two nations before a war begins or even during a war to stop a conflict. A terrific example of diplomacy and when it is used, is the controversy between the Israelis and the Palestinians in the Mideast. These two countries have been at arms for ...
- 2478: Jamaica
- ... around the coasts because it was the major source of food although they could be found allot farther inland. A few centuries later the lives of these peaceful inhabitants was abruptly disturbed by the savage, war-like carib indians. They began to brutally conquer all of the natives of the other islands as well. But, one day it got even worse for the poor Arawaks. Christopher Columbus, under the Spanish flag ... Soon the wealth of this city had increased so much that it had earned the title of the richest and wickedest city in the world. In the late 1690's the French engaged in a war with Jamaica. A large force under the command of Admiral Jean du Casse landed on the eastern part of the Island. It was successfully defended against the attack but many of the settlers were killed and many goods were stolen. The war ended in 1697 with the Treaty of Ryswick. Pirates began to attack Jamaica in growing numbers. Nicholas Brown was one of the pirates and he once burned down a house in St. Ann with ...
- 2479: Imagination And How It Relates
- ... animal needs imagination to survive in its society. Humans require imagination to function in society. Little children playing games will not get along with other children without having some imagination. They require it to play war games, playing house, etc. Adults require imagination to survive in a high paced business world, where new thoughts and imaginings can bring success and lack of imagination can bring failure. Inventors throughout time have imagined ... scope of art is so incredibly huge. The phrase "What's one man's trash is another man's treasure" is certainly true in this case. To some societies of the world, ancient and recent, war is a burden. War being a thing to be avoided and shunned. To the early Chinese people, war was a necessity. The tactics and functions of a smart general turned into a complete art, still used today. Shakespeare ...
- 2480: "Out Of Empire: Edward Gough Whitlam"
- ... of control over day to day running of the Government. At the onset of his career, Whitlam was quite proud of his Queen - he had, after all, fought in the Airforce during the Second World War to defend Britain as well as Australia - but he always thought the Conservative parties held far too much attachment for time-honoured traditions which there was no longer a place for in Australia. Australia needed ... support. By the time he had been elected Leader of the Labor Party, he was ready to start broadening his outlook. (Emy et al, 1993) Much was happening on the International arena. The Second World War had by no means been the war to end all wars, and at that time, Australia herself was embroiled in the bloody battle being waged in Viet Nam. This was due to the ANZUS Treaty, a pact that required that Australia ...
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