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- 4341: Essay On Book, An Angel At My
- ... yet, she held it in her secret poetic life (page 30). This was a common case in the society in those days, but some people, like herself, could not cope with it. Surrounded by the war, reality and her own "reality", she could possibly feel nothing but sadness and helplessness (page 31), so she turned herself into the writing. Living far away from comfortable life as we know today (she remembers ... children were taught to be responsible and untroubled or if they were "trouble" it was kept as a secret (page 53). At the age of twenty-one she is still confused by "the pity of war" (page 55) and yet have noticed that noone in society recognized that the atom bomb had been born (page 60). It may seem that not much have changed in today's society. Or it may ...
- 4342: Abraham
- ... children. This time, God promised Abram that his offspring would be of so many that no one would be able to count them, just like the dust of the earth. By this time a great war had started up in the Jordan Plain. As a result of the war, Lot was made a imprisoned by King Chedorlaomer of Elam. When Abram got word that his cousin Lot was being held prisoner, he and a group of his servants went to battle the captors. The ...
- 4343: Greek Gods
- ... He was god of the sea, of earthquakes, streams, and horses. Hesta was the sister of Zeus. She was the goddess of the household. Ares was one of Zeus' sons. He was the god of war. He loved Aphrodite. Apollo was also a son of Zeus. Apollo drove the chariot of the sun across the skies. He was the music maker of the gods and was the god of light, music ... Hades. He was also a son of Zeus. Athena was Zeus' favorite daughter because she had sprung fully armed from his head when Zeus swallowed her mother, Metis. She was the goddess of wisdom and war. Frequently she was called Pallas. Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo. She was the moon goddess and also the goddess of vegetables, birth, and the hunt. She was the favorite among people. Artimes was ...
- 4344: Mayan Beliefs
- ... some Mayan gods that have similar functions with the Greek gods. Hunab Ku is the god of gods, as Zeus is the god of gods. He also is a creator. Nacon is the god of war, as Aries is the god of war. Ah Kinchil is the sun god, as Apollo is the sun god. Kinich Kakmo is also a sun god whom the Macaw symbolizes. Ahmakiq is the god of agriculture, as Demeter is the goddess of ...
- 4345: Peter The Great
- ... or attempted takeovers. All these things helped Russia to be considered a very low, barbaric country and shaped it up for the coming of Peter the Great. When Peter was young and wanted to play war, which was his favorite game, the czar had the sons of men assigned to him, and he had his own armies. His father supplied him and the others with weapons, horses, uniforms, and when Peter ... s ambitions he needed a large army. Every family had to send their sons to enter the military for a twenty-five year term. Peter needed a seacoast for his navy so he sparked a war with Sweden. After defeating the Swedes, Peter finally conquered a portion of the Gulf of Finland. This became the site of St. Petersburg, the city Peter built to be the new capital of Russia. The ...
- 4346: Peter The Great
- ... lively and energetic boy compared to his other siblings who were sick and weak. From his early years he was interested in military games, fire, bombs and fireworks. He organized his own "play regiments" and war games by enlisting gentlemen's sons. He also had contact with foreigners and was fascinated with their way of life. His education started around the age of seven. One of his tutors was Nikita Zotov ... Numerous scholars as Miliukov, Kliuchevsky, Anderson agrees on the fact that the actual reform that Russia experienced during Peter the Great reign was one of militarization and mechanization. According to Miliukov, Kliuchevsky, Anderson and others "war and its effects central not merely to Peter's foreign policies but also to his domestic achievements and failures. Without a grasp of this fact no real understanding of his reign is possible." The demands ...
- 4347: Kubla Khan
- ... causes the sacred river to be flung up. The same sacred river that sustained the life of the “pleasure dome” rushes uncontrollably through the land. Accompanying the noises of this chaos are “Ancestral voices prophesying war.” These voices of war are a reminder that the paradise created by Khan is earthly and mortal. As the stanza concludes, all that is left of the vision of Khan’s paradise is “the shadow of dome of pleasure ...
- 4348: The Second Coming: Analysis
- ... society has lost sight of God and has lost the values and morals once held in place by the strong obedience to God. In another interpretation, Yeats may be saying that the falcon represents a war and the falconer represents the military power that has unleashed it to the point where all control is lost and faith in God has been abandoned. The next line of the poem explains this process; “things fall apart” indicates that the runaway war has sparked disorder in the public. “The centre cannot hold,” signifies that the obedience to God has lost its value. Even though there may be more than one interpretation, the metaphor points up one socio ...
- 4349: Diary Of Anne Frank
- ... the Holocaust. Anne Frank kept a diary, which made her a very well known teenagers. She has inspired people from all over the world. Her writings explain the true feeling of being in the World War II. She kept her dairy from June 12,1942 and ended when it was discovered in August 1944. On her 13th birthday on June 12, 1942 Anne received a diary from her parents, Otto and ... typhus and died. Anne died on April 1945, to the disease. She died a few weeks before the camp was free by the British. At that time Anne was only 15 years old. After the war, when it was positive that Anne had not survived, the diary was given to Otto Frank, and he decided to publish it.
- 4350: John Donne and the Psychology of Death
- ... he is slave to men rather than the other way around, because there are many people sent deathward before their time. “Thou’rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, and dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell” (Donne, 89) As Elizabeth Garza points out, “Death has no power [because] fate controls him. By ‘chance’ [Donne] is referring to accidents; kings can order death; and desperate men can commit suicide ... things in order to succeed (i.e. fate, chance, kings and desperate men). He also mentions that there are many other things that can cause death and would actually be more "pleasant" (i.e. poison, war, sickness and poppy) as compared to the sword of Death” (Garza, Online Source) Garza goes on to point out that death played much more of a role in the lives of Donne and his contemporaries ...
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