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- 6011: Peter The Great
- ... 24 the one and only Czar of Russia. He had one strong mission to accomplish in his rule: to break the bonds of inflexible customs of Muscovy and to lead his country into a new day which shall be better than this(4:90). He was determined to Westernize his country to close the gaps and heal the scars of the Mongol invasions. So, the very next year after the death ... While being questioned in prison, Alexis unhappily died a young, weak, and used man (4:106). As Peter grew older, he was often ill. He refused medical advice, and continued with his everyday life. One day while leaving Sankt Piterburkh, Peter plunged into icy cold waters to save a boatload of soldiers. And upon his return to Sankt Piterburkh, he fell gravely ill, and never recovered. Peter died at age 52 ...
- 6012: Personal Writing: Statues on Campus
- ... was dark out, I saw few changes that caught my eye. First was the way the lights around the library reflex off the statue. It makes the statue seem that in was just made the day before. It enhances the fine detail even more than when you look at it during the day. Another thing that is different is the shadow that the lights make for the statue it makes seem almost bigger. The way the shadow looks it almost makes it seem real that the statue is ...
- 6013: Mozarts Turkish Side
- ... time. Mozart incorporates Turkish music into the opera, and he also includes many of the prevailing stereotypes about Turks and all Moslems. While some of the caricatures may seem crude and/or offensive to current-day sensibilities, Mozart was a product of his time, and there can be no argument as to the beauty of the music. To fully understand this work, one must analyze the situation in European politics at ... Blonda and will not let her go, despite her strenuous objections. He is more impetuous, bordering on the reckless, as when he gets drunk with Pedrillo. This scene demonstrates perhaps the prevailing attitude of the day: the smarter European is able to dupe the hot-headed but dim Turk. Mozart's use of Turkish music and characters comes off extraordinarily well in Die Entfuhrung. The music is a fantastic combination of ...
- 6014: Personal Writing: My Tutoring Job
- ... found it exhausting teaching my brother, I still learned something from this job including being more patient, working with people, enjoying what I do, and the value of preparation. I almost quit on the first day of tutoring. I got mad at my brother because he did not seem to understand what I was talking about for the entire hour. I felt that I had wasted an hour on teaching him ... read the textbook before teaching him so that I was well prepared to tutor him. He started to ask questions, and I answered and explained how to do those problems with him. On the last day of tutoring, my brother handed me a delicate gift, a wonderful angel doll, and thanked me for spending my summer vacation teaching him. From this tutoring job, I learned to be more patient, the value ...
- 6015: Call Of The Wild Book Report
- ... and farther, Buck knew he was dying. While Buck was being beaten, a man named John Thornton came fort and took Buck from his attacker. The man nursed Buck back to health, and from that day forward, Buck lived for that man. Buck loved him with all his being. After being with this man for quite some time, Buck started to hear a call from far away. He started paying more ... This call was the call of the wild. He had a will to go off and be with other dogs. He felt the urge to be free from man and catch his own food. One day, Buck finally left for good. He was excepted by a pack of wolves who treated him like a wolf himself. And so the transformation was complete. Buck had changed from a dog, to a beast ...
- 6016: Calculated Captivity
- ... itself is fiction, the subject of the content is real. Laws are to be respected. It is for the good of the people, that governments create just and non-violent communities. Past and present day societies strive to obtain this status to ensure the security of its citizens. When criminals abolish this state of mind the remaining people become not only scared, but are also transformed into victims. Consequently, Burgess ... course, he could for preference sake look even iller and more zombyish than he does. Anything for the cause. (127). This behavior generates anger in the reader, and also causes reflection with regards to present day politics and values. Alexs torment continues until he reaches a point of madness. His state of oppression nearly becomes the death of him as he tries to end his life by jumping out of ...
- 6017: Affirmative Action
- ... of patterns are evident, affirmative action and quotas may be valid tools to respond with. Cannon 3 The use of affirmative action and quotas was demonstrated in 1983 in hearings held by Representative Don Edwards (D-Cal.) and Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.). Alabama has seen dramatic changes in black employment in public agencies over the past decade. Judge Frank Johnson of Montgomery, Alabama contributed to these changes. Johnson established a quota on temporary hires. The quota ...
- 6018: Edith Whartons The House Of Mi
- ... petty cares should leave a trace on the beauty which was her only defence against them (page 28) Ironically when Mr Van Alstyne, discusses Lily posing for a portrait, he talks of how, ..the picture d appreciate a hundred per cent in ten years . An item such as a portraiture of beauty, would only ever gain value with time unlike her physical beauty. The name, Lily would have been seen by ... asks him to reconsider his proposal of marriage, but as she has lost her social standing, if he married Lily now he would also lose his own social standing If I married you now I d queer myself for good and all, and everything I ve worked for these years would be wasted (page 256). Rosedale, the self made man, has had a taste for the high life and is to ...
- 6019: Personal Writing: About Me
- ... honouring various saints. When my family visited Portugal, my breath was taken away by the beautiful sights and simple life on the farm. Nobody had a rushing schedule and everything felt as peace. They lived day to day on the food they grew and the milk from their cows. In my eyes, this kind of life is very fulfilling. There was always something fun to do and I was always spotted playing with ...
- 6020: American Violence
- ... modern society there are significant minorities of people who hold moral or religious views about what types of behavior are right or wrong. Some Christian groups, for example, believe that Sunday should exclusively be a day for worship and a time for rest away from labor. Therefore, some Christians conclude that businesses should not be operational on that day. If this view gains sufficient support in society, sometimes laws are passed forbidding commerce and industry to operate on Sundays. What was initially a religious wrong becomes a legal wrong, or crime, as well. Prohibition ...
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