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- 1531: Candide
- ... at school, he was sent to study law in Paris under his fathers orders. Early the following year, 1715, Frances most famous absolutist monarch died and five year old great-grandson inherited the throne. Phillippe dOrleans was named the regent to the underaged king. DOrleans, considered philosophically liberal by some, caused many problems for Voltaire, including his imprisonments in the Bastille. The first was from May 16, 1717 to April 11, 1718, the second was in 1726. After his ... be going to war. The man in blue, later takes Candide and fits him with a Bulgar army uniform. His companions find him to be a prodigy because the lashes he recieves decrease rapidly each day. Once Candide is facing battle he says, Nothing could have been more splendid, brilliant, smart or orderly then the two armies. The trumpets, fifes, oboes, drums and cannons produced a harmony whose equal was ...
- 1532: Jewish History
- The Jews are a people with a multitude of dilemmas. From the Israelite tribes to the prosperous modern day Israel , bigotry towards the Jews has been greatly evident. The Jewish race has acted as Escape Goat for many crisis throughout history including the black plaque which swept across Europe in the 14th century. The ... great incident was something the Jewish people were striving to obtain for generations. This, however, led to four major conflicts between Israel and the Arab countries. One of the most meaningful wars was the Six-Day War. Events such as the holocaust have also had a dramatic effect on world history and whose mysteries are still being unravelled. For twelve years following 1933 the Jews were persecuted by the Nazi's ... War II was seen. Organized Jewry in the European continent was damaged beyond repair. The Jews concentrated on the preservation of Israel and on the bringing of Nazi war criminals to trial. There is a day of commemoration, Holocaust Day, observed in Israel and elsewhere on Nisan (April) 19 and 20. The date is considered the anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The emergence of Israel as ...
- 1533: Their Eyes Were Watching God 5
- ... wants to live like the other townsfolk, who talk and laugh on their porches and are involved in social events. Although Janie puts up with Joe's mistreatment, life is not pleasant for her. One day after almost twenty years of marriage, Joe humiliates her once again in front of people in the store and she stands up for herself for the first time. Janie tells him a thing or two about his aging self. As a result, Joe shuts her out of his life. Joe soon becomes ill, but still refuses to speak to Janie. One day, when she feels she can take it no longer, Janie burst s into his sick room and tells him what has been wrong with their marriage. Joe looks away from her and dies. Although the ... her own thoughts. Although she is a wealthy widow, she still tends the store. She also has plenty of suitors, but none she likes; she thinks they are boring and eager for her money. One day, while the whole town is away at a ball game, a stranger comes by the store and ends up joking and talking to Janie. The young man, whose name is Tea Cake, teaches her ...
- 1534: Pornography
- ... society saw it as perverted and sinful, it was still considered relatively harmless. Today there is one case study, standing out from the rest, which tends to shatter this illusion. The study done my Monica D. Weisz and Christopher M. Earls used "eighty-seven males . . . that were randomly shown one of four films", by researchers William Tooke and Martin Lalumiere: "Deliverance, Straw Dogs, Die Hard II, and Days of Thunder", for ... point by her boss, who threatened her with death (Itzin 22). Ms. Marchiano did escape and when her story was told, it was repeated by a number of women in the pornography business. According to D'Arcy Jenish many children are lured into the pornography industry by choosing first to model. These young teen's egos are boosted when they are told "[they have good bodies]", and are asked, "if they ... real life (125). Of all the studies and examples from real life situations connecting pornography with violent behavior and sexual aggressiveness, none are more concrete than the activities the Serbian military are part of every day now in the Bosnian war. Part of the "ethnic cleansing" process the Serbs are practicing in Bosnia involves the gang raping of all Muslim and Croatian women. Andrea Dworkin states that it is mandatory ...
- 1535: Limonene And Its Uses
- Limonene And Its Uses United States Prevention, Pesticides EPA-738-F-94-030 Environmental Protection And Toxic Substances September 1994 Agency (7508W) R.E.D. FACTS Limonene Pesticide Reregistration All pesticides sold or distributed in the United States must be registered by EPA, based on scientific studies showing that they can be used without posing unreasonable risks to people or ... to characterize its risks to humans and animals. Toxicity Limonene is of relatively low acute toxicity taken orally. It is a dermal irritant when applied at high concentrations and may cause dermal sensitization. A 90-day dermal toxicity study using the formulated product is required as confirmatory data to support reregistration of the insect repellent that is to be applied directly to human skin. A subchronic study by the National Toxicology ... invertebrates or other aquatic species. Minimal risks to aquatic species, including endangered aquatic species, are expected from runoff into pond water from applications of the granular product. Additional Data Required EPA is requiring a 90-day dermal toxicity study for the recently registered limonene personal insect repellent product, to confirm its regulatory assessments and conclusions. The Agency also is requiring product-specific data including product chemistry and acute toxicity studies, ...
- 1536: Egypt 3
- ... of manpower. Egyptian architectural inventions included the column, arch, barrel vault, pyramid, and the obelisk. The Egyptians were the first to shape granite stone blocks. They used these blocks to build their pyramids. Many present day historians and architects believe that Egyptians built stonehenge, because of the shaped stone technique and tenor and mortise (hole and pin) method. The Egyptians were the first to preserve their dead by means of embalming ... picture writing and the first form of written communication in the western world. This language was written by either painting them or deeply engraving the pictures into stone. From 3000 B.C. to 400 A.D., the Egyptians wrote their history and their culture in this strange picture language. After 300 A.D., every living Egyptian priest who was able to decode the language had died. Then, from 300 A.D. until 1799, no western man was able to read Egyptian picture language. In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte ...
- 1537: Henry Ford: A Life in Brief
- ... reset a tool handle, or make some hinges for furniture but he was not pleased however, when his son repaired things for neighbours, as he often did, without charging them a cent. It was one day when Henry saw a steam engine powering a farming machine that he dreamed that one day he would build a smaller engine that would power a vehicle and do the job that horse's once did. Shortly after Henry turned thirteen, his mother died. Henry became very discontent with living on ... for another three years. When he was sixteen he finished his studies at the district school. Against his father's will, Henry moved to Detroit, ten miles away. In Detroit, Henry worked eleven hours a day at James Flower & Brothers' Machine Shop for only $2.50 a week. As this was not enough to pay for board and room, Henry got an evening job at Magill's Jewelry Shop for $ ...
- 1538: My Lost Love
- ... was going to calm me. I couldn't stand it. I finally quit punching the wall and fell to the floor. All I could do was sit there and cry as I remembered every single day of our relationship. It's wasn't fair. It should have been me. I should have died, not her. Suicide did cross my mind that night in the hospital. It has been a month since that day, and everytime I look at her picture it hurts me so much I could die. Everyday I think about that night, and what I could have done to prevent her death. One thing is for sure, love has never hurt me this much before. That next day I went to her grave. "Umm..... I wrote you this poem. It's about you and what I thought you were thinking when I was at the hospital. " I said as the tears ran ...
- 1539: Challenging Reality
- ... training in the math or sciences. Yet artists around the still world regard his work as great. Escher was able to manipulate geometry to create illusions that were often used to tell a story. In Day and Night and Ascending and Descending, Escher illustrated daily events and their meaning by using his artistic and mathematical techniques. In Day and Night, one of Escher's most acclaimed pieces, the idea of transformation from basic geometric shapes was used to depict a linking together of two separate events. In the center of the woodcut he began his design with a simple square which transformed into the farmland and geese. From these geese a city, in both the day and the night, emerged. The city in the day was a mirror image of the city at night that suggested the two events were inseparable. Day and Night was particularly special because Escher eliminated ...
- 1540: T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"
- ... Violent souls" mentioned in lines 15-16. Eliot next continues with "A penny for the Old Guy". This is a reference to the cry of English children soliciting money for fireworks to commemorate Guy Fawkes day, November 5; which commemorates the "gunpowder plot" of 1605 in which Guy Fawkes and other conspirators planned to blow up both houses of Parliament. On this day, which commemorates the failure of the explosion, the likes of Fawkes are burned in effigy and mock explosions using fireworks are produced. The relation of this custom to the poem suggests another inference: as the ... rhyme again takes up its repetitive round, and terminates with the line that characterizes the evasive excuse. They are the whimpers of fear with which the hollow men end, neither the bang of Guy Fawkes day nor the "lost violent soul." In part Five the frustration of reality is described by the abstractions introduced in Part I; life is frustrated at every level, and this accounts for the nature of ...
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