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- 3461: New Atlantis By Francis Bacon
- ... and philosophy. For Bacon, nothing exists in the universe except individual bodies. Although he did not offer a complete theory of the nature of the universe, he pointed the way that science, as a new civil religion, might take in developing such a theory. Bacon divided theology into the natural and the revealed. Natural theology is the knowledge of God which we can get from the study of nature and the ... motion of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the affecting of all things possible" (bacon, 447). This is the turning point from religion to science and science becoming the new civil religion. From this comes the ability of human rule over Nature. It was stated before that they were interested in "God's first creature which was light" (Bacon, 437). This contradicts an earlier statement that ... manner of patterns and samples of rare and excellent inventions. In the other gallery are placed statues of inventors. It is interesting to note here that while the island and its natives act in "so civil a fashion" (Bacon, 423) in professing to be Christian and religious that they place science so high on their list. Science is placed so high that instead of having statues of God and his ...
- 3462: Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes
- ... realism unprecedented in religious art. Goya served as director of painting at the Royal Academy from 1795 to 1797 and was appointed first Spanish court painter in 1799. During the Napoleonic invasion and the Spanish war of independence from 1808 to 1814, Goya served as court painter to the French. He expressed his horror of armed conflict in The Disasters of War, a series of starkly realistic etchings on the atrocities of war. They were not published until 1863, long after Goya's death. Upon the restoration of the Spanish monarchy, Goya was pardoned for serving the French, but his work was not favored by the new ...
- 3463: An Occurence At Owl Creek Brid
- ... to be hung off the bridge. It was a punishment way too brutal for the little wrong he had done, and we get to know how unfair things were back at the time of the Civil War. When the man was captured by the guards on the bridge and was ordered to be hung the cycle started. Farqhuar, the man to be hung, started to reminisce about everything he had accomplished this ...
- 3464: The Atomic Bomb
- The Atomic Bomb The year was 1945. The war in the Pacific had reached it's climax with the attack on Pearl Harbor, or so the world thought! In 1943 a new era was just being discovered when Albert Einstein had uncovered a new ... because it is a large industrial port. In this blast over 50,000 lives were taken with over 120,000 casualties in the aftermath. Two days later the Japanese troops retreated back to Japan. The war in the Pacific was now over! But not after 1,000,000 casualties during the war. For fifty years the atomic bomb was the most feared nuclear weapon in the world, but now many countries now are disarming their nuclear warheads.
- 3465: Fahrenheit51 4
- ... roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about."(37). Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a futuristic city while a war is taking place. Oddly enough the city has its own problems. The protagonist , Guy Montag, goes against society and steals books to read at home, meets a friend to help him in his brave stand ... reason, reading books. This group hopes to preserve knowledge for future generations by memorizing passages from books. They do this so they cannot be caught and it also improves their thinking. All the while a war is going on and all of a sudden planes came swooping down and bombed the city. "The city rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of death came after" (160). Montag and his group ... we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up."(164) In conclusion Montag, rebels against society with the help of Faber, gets discovered and kills Captain Beatty, and then escapes the mechanical hound to join a group of ...
- 3466: Mark Twain
- ... and a half years at his new trade. The river swarmed with traffic, and the pilot was the most important man aboard the boat. He wrote of these years in 'Life on the Mississippi'. The Civil War ended his career as a pilot. Clemens went west to Nevada and soon became a reporter on the Virginia City newspaper. Here he began using the pen name Mark Twain. It is an old river ...
- 3467: Mrs Dalloway - Analysis Of The
- ... she always went back to the past. Every time she stopped to think about something it was of the past, for example; the flashback of the night of boating, and Septimus delusional thoughts of World War I. I think her one true love was Peter. I think she married Mr. Dalloway because she was scared to admit that she loved Peter in more than a "brotherly way." When she was older ... have been more interesting if Clarissa would have been more free spirited like Peter or Sally. Septimus did not have a well defined role in the film. He was constantly reliving his days in the war, and appearing to everyone that insanity has become him. His purpose was unclear, the story just jumped from Clarissa to Septimus. Whether he parallels or is an opposite of Clarissa, I dont know. If ... constantly thought of the past, and never the future. Making the two most similar, yet they seem different in that Clarissa recollects on happier thoughts, while Septimus dwells on depressing thoughts of the first world war. Clarissa was obligated to the Victorian lifestyle, seen in her flashbacks to the past. At Bourton she was too set in her ways to be free spirited. Unlike Sally or Peter, Clarissa was unable ...
- 3468: Napoleon 4
- ... by the events of the French Revolution. Called upon by various revolutionary governments to perform, Bonaparte was able to advance his career with each successive coup. When he became a successful commander in the French war against the counter-revolutionary armies in Italy, he put himself into a position to take over the French government. He was invited to join a coup to overthrow the Directory in 1798 and became emperor ... without religion is like a ship without a compass...." Public opinion: "...A man is only a man. His power is nothing if circumstances are not favourable. Opinion is all-important." Napoleon also continued the European war begun during the French Revolution. Both the Revolution and Napoleon's empire were helped by these four major factors: 1) the idea that the expansion of states was legitimate, changing the original assumptions about the ... have believed the earth would burst to pieces. When everyone was almost on top of the earthwork, the Prussians were slaughtered with great vigor, and the rest took flight into the gate...."1 The Napoleonic War was costly in lives, finances, and property damage. In the Russian campaign alone, the Grand Army of Napoleon that started out with 600,000 men, limped back across the Russian frontier with only 25, ...
- 3469: Jack London(biography)
- ... was ill, Jack was raised through infancy by an ex-slave, Virginia Prentiss, who would remain a major maternal figure while the boy grew up. Late in 1876, Flora married John London, a partially disabled Civil War veteran. The family moved around the Bay area before settling in Oakland, where Jack completed grade school. Though the family was working class, it was not so impoverished as London's later accounts claimed. As ...
- 3470: Lysistrata
- Women and Men in Lysistrata and the Role of Sex and Reason Aristophanes Lysistrata is an excellent example of satirical drama in a relatively fantastical comedy. He proceeds to show the absurdity of the Peloponnesian War by staging a battle of the sexes in front of the Acropolis, worshipping place of Athena. Tied into all of this is the role of sex and reason and is evident in the development of ... And bear it off; just help yourselves" (1570-72). Aristophanes is constantly developing the theme towards its climax. With a presentation of the nude and beautiful Peace, the men find it impossible to continue the war. The Chorus of Women indicates their willingness to let the men have intercourse, after the treaty is made effective. In the end, a Athenian arrives and chases the Chorus off so that the Spartan envoys ... are eventually returned to their normal position in the human nature. Without the sexual content and the absence of reason in men and women, the play would fall solely on the historical context of the war and would never have become the most successful comic drama written by Aristophanes.
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