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- 3241: Shakespeare - His View On Kingship
- ... be chosen by divine right and shows the attributes of what a good king should be. The play ‘Macbeth’ is set in medieval Scotland at the fictional time of King Duncan. Scotland is currently at war with the Norwegians when news of their victory comes through, with thanks to the two leaders of the army Macbeth and Banquo. On their travel home Macbeth and Banquo stumble upon some old hags, and ... Shakespeare’s idea of a perfect, impartial king. Shakespeare shows Duncan to be an example to all other kings and people, he shows love for his country when he asks the captain news from the war. He speaks to people with respect and dignity when the bleeding captain brings news of the war act1 sc2 L24 ‘o valiant cousin, worthy gentleman!’ People talk to him with the utmost respect, they know that he is a truly great king ‘my liege’, ‘great king’ and cries of ‘god save ...
- 3242: Sir William Wallace
- ... Latin and French and how to be a swordsmen.When William's father returned from the revolt at Turnberry Band William was 17 years old. Fighting between rival families and rival towns were heating up. Civil War was about to Break out in Scotland. Brawling and riots inside towns turned into full scale battles, Where in the Battle of Loudoun Hill William's father was involved and killed. William Stayed with his ...
- 3243: Voltaire And Rousseau - Opioni
- ... thinking. Therefore, Voltaire felt it was unreasonable to ask for a social conscience, (general will), from a mass which lacked a personal conscience. Voltaire outlined important issues in the governing of the masses. Referring to civil laws, he felt that punishments should be useful to society. Taxes should be made proportional to the ability of a man to pay it. Laws, he noticed, often changed to suit the needs of society ... born lacking everything, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgement." Yet he also thought that man is basically good. But a problem for the individual man was the lack of power. Since civil society makes men corrupt, Rousseau advocated using logic rather than emotions to make moral decisions in public affairs. Virtue came from the freedom of men to make decisions for the good of the community. The general will meant giving up individual rights for the betterment of the collective group. Therefore civil liberties were an oxymoron, since civilized society needed laws and rules to function, while liberty was the freedom to act as one pleased. It is therefore impossible to reconcile the natural man with the ...
- 3244: Walter Whitman
- ... view of the world. To Whitman, the game was life, and in it he maintained his pose. It was important to Whitman to not be simply a poet. He volunteered in military hospitals after the Civil War and later worked in several government departments until he suffered a stroke in 1873. Although he still published several more editions of "Leaves of Grass" before his death in 1892, his last years were spent ...
- 3245: Profiles In Courage
- ... to pass the purchase. The Embargo Bill was created to stop the British from taking Americans sailor without proof of citizenship (and even some with proof). Adams constituents thought the Embargo Bill would instigate another war. Support of such subject caused his party-mates and constituents to re-think their view of the Massachusetts Senator. Daniel Webster, House of Representatives member, was a Federalist and was most famous for is "Seventh ... his constituents were poverty stricken, they supported free silver. George Norris was a member of the House. He was previously a diplomat to Germany. During the time that the US was about to enter World War I, Norris was opposed. He also filibustered against the Armed Ship Bill because he hated war. George failed in these efforts. Robert Taft was a Republican from Ohio. He tried and failed many times to become president. Taft's iron mind never let him give up though. As far as ...
- 3246: Capital Punishment
- ... death penalty is a matter of state law. Although it was never used as much as England in the 18th century, between 150 and 200 persons were executed each year in the decade before World War II. After the war, the number of executions declined to 50 per year. Doubts about whether the death penalty was constitutional during the 1960s led to a series of Supreme Court decisions. In 1976 it was decided that laws ... touch for several minutes, and the smell of cooked flesh will permeate the execution chamber. Gas Chamber The first execution by lethal gas in the United States took place in Nevada in 1924. During World War 2, the Nazis of Germany used huge gas chambers to kill Jews and other minorities in concentration camps. Today the gas chamber is a legal means of execution in some states of the United ...
- 3247: Explain How And Why The Jews W
- ... There was little conflict between the two religions and 13 million Jews lived in Europe. In Germany, Jews formed 1% of the population. They had a sense of belonging to the German race. After World War I, Germany was forced to sign, the Treaty of Versailles, which meant that she, was plunged into a desperate situation. In 1929, the Wall Street Crash occured, and America wanted all the money she had ... Depression changed the situation dramatically. Because Hitler had despised the Jews all his life, he made a scapegoat of them. He blamed the Jews for all of the things that had gone wrong with World War I, and because this man who was to get them out of this “Depression” said so, the German public hated them also. Hitler believed in a hierarchy, in which Aryans, people with blue eyes and ... property was destroyed ,and people were marched off to concentration camps where they either died, there or moved onto a death camp where they did. In January the following year Hitler announced that if another war were started he would blame the Jews, thus would mean the destruction of Jews throughout Europe. In 1941, ghettos were made for Jews to live in. These were very crowded and food was very ...
- 3248: Epics
- ... the production of The Old Testament, the Greeks employed the works of Homer. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are the most famous of the Greek epics. These epic poems tell the story of the Trojan War and the events and famous people surrounding the war. Throughout the Iliad, the universality of the poem is evident as concepts of war and man vs. man conflicts are expressed through the lives of Achilles, Hector, and Patroclus. Another epic quality in the Iliad is the invocation of the muse in the beginning of the story. This ...
- 3249: Liberalism
- ... pertains to a person’s right to think, talk, and worship in any way that they feel they need to without depriving other people of their rights. Also within the moral core exists a persons civil liberties. These are a persons right to think for themselves and learn from their own experiences without anybody obstructing their ability to do so. Civil liberties also include a person’s right to express oneself, to speak ones mind, and to write and publish freely. There is also a persons social liberties that fall under the moral core of liberalism ... one particular section of the government form having absolute power. Instead each branch regulates the other with no individual one with more power than another. The government in this way is able to protect the civil and moral liberties of the individual. Liberalism is about the individual, and the rights that they have. Liberalism uses three main cores to express how to protect these rights; they are the moral core, ...
- 3250: Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, Or None Of The Above
- ... Orion managed (Mark Twain 1). In 1853, when Samuel was eighteen, he left Hannibal for St. Louis (Unger 194). There he became a steam boat pilot on the Mississippi River. Clemens piloted steamboats until the Civil War in 1861. Then he served briefly with the Confederate army (Mark Twain 1). In 1862 Clemens became a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada. In 1863 he began signing his articles with ...
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