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- 2721: The Time Machine
- ... species known as the murlocks, had excavated homes into the ground and only returned to the surface of the Earth to catch Eloi's as a source of food. The Time Traveler" spends his first day in exploration, but then has to fight for his life to get back to the time he calls home. And for most of the time he spends in the year 802,701, "The Time Traveler" is respectively alone. Until one day he saves the life of a doomed Eloi, named Weena, and learns that the minds of the Eloi maybe small, but that say's nothing for their hearts. "The Time Traveler" escapes near death with his final encounter with apelike murlocks and returns home, to the 20th century, to retell his fantastic story of the year 802,701. With less than a day of his own life, "The Time Traveler" had encountered many dreary realism's. And one can wonder has the Time Machine done more good to his life than wrong? . H. G. Well's sensitivity ...
- 2722: The Arab's Responsibility For The Arab-Israel Conflict
- ... partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948, there have been four major Arab-Israeli wars (1947-49 The First Palestine War, 1956 Suez War, 1967 Six Day War, and 1973 Yom Kippur) and finally 1993 a peace treaty between Egypt and Israeli and finally in 1994 the fifty year old war ended. However there's the question of "which side has the ... year. The war ended six days later with a decisive Israeli victory. Israel's French-equipped air force wiped out the air power of its opposition in the destruction of the Arab armies. The Six-Day War left Israel in possession of Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula, which it took from Egypt. East Jerusalem and the West Bank, which it took from Jordan and the Golan Heights, taken from Syria. The ... the operations. Egypt and Syria attacked on Oct. 6, 1973, pushing Israeli forces several miles behind the 1967 cease-fire lines. Israel was thrown off guard, partly because the attack came on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), the most sacred Jewish religious day (coinciding with the Muslim fast of Ramada). Although Israel recovered from the initial setback, it failed to regain all the territory lost in the first days ...
- 2723: The Change
- ... just climbed over the first huge hill and its brilliant rays shone upon us as we set off on our journey. Nearby, a river flowed with ice chunks, its banks heavily swollen with snow. The day seemed to have cleared up for us. God had swept away the clouds and light snow showers and delivered an unexpectedly mild climate. We began our journey to the top of the first revine of ... of your place among the hunters and consumers of the world. Despite my conflicting feelings, I owed my full energies to the group if we were going to reach our destination before dusk of another day. Moments after we had broken camp, we came upon that same stream and the camera we had treasured was dropped-swallowed by nature in an attempt to keep the memories we attempted to steal from ... Huron soon appeared to our left, slowly meandering through the trees below. I quietly thought how many thousands or millions of people had navigated that Lake, all forgotten now, like we would be too one day. We quickly noticed our shortage of food and water for the day ahead of us and also realized we had not progressed as far as we had intended yesterday. One of the most physically ...
- 2724: The French Revolution
- ... to Congress, stating the matter in question and praying for a hearing, notice thereof shall be given by order of Congress to the legislative or executive authority of the other State in controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute a court for hearing and determining the matter in ... hear and finally determine the controversy, so always as a major part of the judges who shall hear the cause shall agree in the determination: and if either party shall neglect to attend at the day appointed, without showing reasons, which Congress shall judge sufficient, or being present shall refuse to strike, the Congress shall proceed to nominate three persons out of each State, and the Secretary of Congress shall strike ... sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander-in-chief of the army or navy, unless nine States assent to the same: nor shall a question on any other point, except for adjourning from day to day be determined, unless by the votes of a majority of the United States in Congress assembled. The Congress of the United States shall have power to adjourn to any time within the ...
- 2725: The Conquest of the Aztec Empire
- ... arrived, a series of omens had foretold that something bad was going to happen (Leon-Portilla 3-12). These signs weighed heavily on the mind of the of the Aztec leader Motecuhzoma on that fateful day in November of 1519, when he received reports of "`towers or small mountains'" floating off of the Mexican coast (13). Was it Quetzalcoatl, the legendary figure who had one day promised to return from across the ocean (xxx)? In his distress, the superstitious Motecuhzoma sent messengers bearing gifts to the Spanish ships, in order to appease these "gods". However, the Aztec leader was not alone ... campaign. The bad omens, the signs in the heavens, and other strange events seemed to foretell the Aztecs' destruction. In addition to these was the belief that Quetzalcoatl would return from across the sea one day. Cortes, being so foreign to the Aztecs and so powerful, just seemed to be in an opportunistic place at an opportunistic time. Seeing that omens and myths were at the root of the Aztec ...
- 2726: Hamlet: Was He Mad?
- ... in his next line he says I loved you not.2 This quick change in moods suggests that he was mad. Hamlet: Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty- 1 - Act 3, Scene 1 2 - Act 3, Scene 1 Queen: O, speak to me no more; These words like daggers enter in my ears ... father's death and his mother's hasty remarriage to his uncle. Hamlet:O, that this too too-solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His cannon gainst self-slaughter! God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable profitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!... *Act 1 Scene 2 All of the incidents outlined above are ... Hamlet when he is talking to Ophelia, Claudius admits that Hamlet's words, although strange do not stem from madness: Love! his affections do not that way tend; Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little, was not like madness. Another instance where Hamlet admits his sanity is when he is speaking with his mother in Act 3 Scene 4. After Hamlet sees the ghost, the queen ...
- 2727: The Mongol Invasion of China
- ... China The Mongol invasion of China was perhaps one of the greatest political, social, and economic upheavals in Chinese history. Fierce and obscure people who lived in the outer reaches of the Gobi Desert, present day Outer Mongolia, accomplished it. The outcome of this invasion was the destruction of the Sung Dynasty, and the creation of the Yόan Dynasty, one of the shortest lived of the major Dynasties in Chinese history ... until 1315, when they were given a built-in bias against Chinese candidates. This excluded the scholarly Chinese elite from the roles of advisors to the Emperor as well as occluding their service in the day to day running of the government. Chinese scholars, for the most part, looked down on the barbarians and their foreign sycophants and retreated into their own isolated elite groups that, though powerless, believed in their inherent ...
- 2728: The Invasion of Spain
- ... publicly in St. Peter's that he was innocent of the charges brought against him. Leo requested that his accusers, now themselves condemned to death, should be punished only with banishment. Two days later (Christmas Day, 800) took place the principal event in the life of Charles. During the pontifical Mass celebrated by the pope, as the king knelt in prayer before the high altar beneath which lay the bodies of ... divino nutu coronatus, a Deo coronatus, in "Capitularia", ed. Baluze, I, 247, 341, 345); also that after the ceremony he made very rich gifts to the Basilica of St. Peter, and that on the same day the pope anointed (as King of the Franks) the younger Charles, son of the emperor and at that time probably destined to succeed in the imperial dignity. The Roman Empire (Imperium Romanum), since 476 practically ... and the Exarchate; hence, apart from its effect on his shadowy claim to the sovereignty of all Italy, the Byzantine ruler had nothing to lose by the elevation of Charles. However, the event of Christmas Day, 800, was long resented at Constantinople, where eventually the successor of Charles was occasionally called "Emperor", or "Emperor of the Franks", but never "Roman Emperor". Suffice it to add here that while the imperial ...
- 2729: The Character of Macbeth
- ... darkness and evil. The language gives an insight into the character of Macbeth - we see his ruthlessness and cruelty, but also fear, doubt and some scruples. Macbeth's first words, So foul and fair a day I have not seen' (Act 1:3 L36) immediately associate him with the witches because they say in the first scene fair is foul and foul is fair' (1:1 L12), so evil is brought ... The language suggests that Macbeth is feeling more and more drawn to evil. Macbeth shows that he is reliant on evil in his next speech - Come, seeling night, scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day and with the bloody and invisible hand cancel and tear to pieces that great bond which keeps me pale.'(3:2 L46-49). This also shows his insecurity after Duncan's murder - he needs evil ... s death sets him brooding on life's futility. His speech: She should hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle, life's but a walking shadow, a poor player ...
- 2730: An Increasing Problem On High
- ... christians, they were accused of being racist, and they were accuse of being biased towards athletes. The christian churches were some of the strongest accusers compared to all the organizations contibuting their opinions. Within a day of the assault, Colorado Gov. Bill Owens was declaring that the murderers didn't, "have the same moral background as the rest of us." Bill Davenport, a Baptist pastor in San Clemente, confidently asserted that ... back in time to another era. Europe had similar problems towads the end of the middle ages. The mass hysteria surrounding witchcraft caused many people to be accused as witches. Just like in the present day, a barrage of people, mostly from the Catholic Church, claimed to know exactly what a witch was and how to locate and destroy one. They wrote the Malleus Malificarum as a guide to seeking out ... advanced in many other areas of life, the psychological trend of blaming other factors of truths for tragedies remains. Back to 1999, everyone has an opinion on why the two boys walked into school that day and opened fire on their classmates. "By the time our children leave school at the start of the summer," announced Handgun Control, Inc. Chair Sarah Brady, "they should know that the lawmakers of this ...
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