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- 2511: Aztec Mythology: Quetzalcoatl
- ... blood it is a more precious offering that killing another person. He is seen as a divinity that is concerned for the lives of his people. Most of the accounts that survive to the modern day agree on the first part of the story. However the ending occurs in many forms. One story tells how once Quetzalcoatl had become a famous priest, renowned for his holiness, skills in craftwork, and his ... serpent. The Aztecs are trying to integrate as many of the other forms of the god into this one story as possible. The story ends with Topiltzin floating away to the east and promising one day to return. The promise to one day return and reclaim his rule is a foundation that many historians have used to justify their claims that Cortez was viewed by the Aztecs as the returning god and aided in his conquering of ...
- 2512: Sorrow
- ... If they get a traffic ticket, they think the world is coming to the end. People who deal with sorrow like this are not being rational. Do these people believe these minor flaws in their day-to-day living are going to have a life long affect on them? They do not have to be downhearted, but they choose to be. The first year that I had my licenses I got my first ... between the eyes, or you can out of the way and let it pass you by. Of course different levels of sorrow do exist and some are harder to deal with than others, but most day to day bad luck don't have to be the cause of sadness and depression. Sorrow is divided into four groups sorrow, grief, anguish, and woe. Different people can tolerate different levels of sorrow. ...
- 2513: Thanksgiving
- ... The First Thanksgiving". This feast was never repeated, though, so it can't be called the beginning of a tradition, nor was it termed by the colonists or "Pilgrims" a Thanksgiving Feast. In fact, a day of thanksgiving was a day of prayer and fasting, and would have been held any time that they felt an extra day of thanks was called for. Nevertheless, the 1621 feast has become a model that we think of for our own Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims were not the first people to have a celebration of this ...
- 2514: A Look at Public Key Encryption
- ... information. Typically when governments used encryption they used a very complex method of encrypting messages. Encryption does not have to be complex; the Captain Video Decoder Rings that we had as children used encryption. You'd encode your secret message, such as "Meet me by the swings," by replacing the letters of the alphabet with substitute letters from a certain number of places away. For example, let's say we decide to use the key "+4." That would mean we'd switch each letter in our message with the letter that comes four places later in the alphabet. D would become H; R would become V, and so on. You, or anyone else who knows the key can easily switch the H back to a D, the V back to an R, and ...
- 2515: 1920s And 1930s With Reference
- ... poverty for many workers. A large percentage of legislation that was created in the 1930s, focused on the treatment of workers and the problems they experienced. Unions actually benefited with the help of Franklin D. Roosevelt who promised Americans a "New Deal". The Wagner Act was passed which guaranteed workers the right to join unions and bargain collectively. The National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) was formed. (Cronon 235) The board ... It was such promises of financial that convinced many Americans to buy stocks. When the market crashed America was plummeted into a great depression which effected all the world economics. During this period President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected. President Roosevelt said, "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts ... Eyewitness History. Harper: New York, 1996 Cronon, E. David. A History: Politics, Depression, and War 1925-1945. U. of Wisconsin: Wisconsin, 1994 Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Simon&Schuster Inc.:New York, 1925 Heath, D. Heath Anthology of American Literature. Heath D.C.: Lexington MA, 1990 Hemingway, Ernest M. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Shcribners Sons: New York, 1926 Stein, Richard Conrad. The Roaring Twenties. West House: New ...
- 2516: Adventures On The Rapids
- Adventures on the Rapids "This could be your last meal," my mother jokingly said before we left that day. The day was bright, and the sun gleaming. The group packed into the muggy van, it was stifling hot, and downright uncomfortable. On a hot summer Missouri day, in the middle of July, your shirt clung to your damp skin. The mission: White Water Rafting. The drive to the river, where we would begin our incredible journey, seemed to last endless miles. ...
- 2517: Adventures On The Rapids
- Adventures on the Rapids "This could be your last meal," my mother jokingly said before we left that day. The day was bright, and the sun gleaming. The group packed into the muggy van, it was stifling hot, and downright uncomfortable. On a hot summer Missouri day, in the middle of July, your shirt clung to your damp skin. The mission: White Water Rafting. The drive to the river, where we would begin our incredible journey, seemed to last endless miles. ...
- 2518: What Is Zen
- ... smell of your surroundings. Zen is entering into things as they are, beyond concept and cosmology, beyond separation and duality, beyond personality, and into the intimacy and richness of this whole moment. Zen is the day to day and moment to moment method of focusing on the moment. It has spanned two thousand, six hundred years from India to China to Japan to right here. Zen is a philosophy designed to accomplish the ... of fixed definitions or classifications. Reality is the world as it is, apart from any thoughts an individual has about it. One of the original teachers of Zen, Shakyamuni Buddha said to his students one day in a talk that has been recorded as the Satipatthana sutta, the Discourse on Mindfulness, that, There is but one way to liberation and that is mindfulness. Mindfulness is paying attention with the entire ...
- 2519: The Gift of The Magi: A Continuation (Creative Writing)
- ... to be rude, I mean, well I think I'll just get started on this wig right away, okay, bye." So Jim left, thinking that the wigmaker was a little out of his mind that day. The next day, which was the day before Della's birthday, the wigmaker called Jim. "Hello, Umm, did you want this wig dyed, or left red? And also, I can't make a wig that fits unless Della's head is ...
- 2520: Architecture Set In Motion
- ... Iron Bridge is the first use of ferrous metal to provide a crossing between two land masses, and it makes use of a pure elegant curve that by wrapping with a surface material as modern day artist like the Clauds turn into an art form, it would make a rectilinear box that has been bowed by two opposing forces. Darby who owned a metal factory collaborated with Pritchard an architect to ... English landscape, and Le Corbusier took this theory and applied it to the urban design of, A Contemporary City of Three Million Inhabitants, that laid a tremendously influential bases for the future of the modern day city along with its very rectilinear box skyscrapers that sprang up in the American city during the later part of the twentieth century, and the modern skyscraper is considered the greatest form given of the ... city that surrounded him which was noisy and chaotic, therefore his plan is laid out on an organized grid, with towers hovering over green parks and functional transportation systems, that are developments executed in modern day cites as New York that houses the Seagrum Building(1954-58) which include all elements that are seen in the tower plan of Le Corbusier. However as downtown Richmond proves, the use of a ...
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