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- 7271: King Solomon
- ... One other note of wisdom comes from the Biblical story of two women struggling for the rights to a child. They both lived in the same house and both bore a child on the same day. When one mother lost her child, she claimed that the other child was hers. They went to Solomon to resolve the situation, and he told them to cut the baby in half. Being the wise ... house of the Lord." But that term has been found complete in only one inscription other than the Bible: a faded shard of sixth-century BC pottery from Arad, an ancient town now in modern-day Israel, according to Shanks. (7) Bibliography 1) Davy, Adam. Early English Text Society. N. Turner & Co., 1878. 2) Elkin, Benjamin. The Wisest Man in the World. New York: Parents Magazine Press,1968. 3) Elkins, William ...
- 7272: Dead Man Walking
- ... so he can repeal his Death sentence. Sister Helen gets him a lawyer, but they fail after several good attempts to get him off death row. Sister Helen begins to come to him almost every day after Poncelet asks her to be his spiritual advisor on the day of his death. During this phase of the film Sister Helen tries to get Poncelet to tell her about his own life. Poncelet tells her about his life and why he was put on death ...
- 7273: Dazed And Confused
- ... kids "just said no" should take a look just for the sake of historical accuracy. It is directed by Richard Linklater and stars a cast of complete unknowns. This 1993 sleeper leads us through a day in the life of a loosely-aligned group of seniors and freshmen at a high school in suburban Texas. What happens? It's 1976, school's out for the summer, and kids in pickup trucks ... nosed fist-fight between a jock and a nerd over a girl? Would the skinny, beer-addled freshman plunge to his death as he climbed the last rung of the observation tower at the last-day-of-school party? No to all of the above. Dazed and Confused is a real slice of real life, to the extent that it actually seems to raid your own memory banks for its inspiration ...
- 7274: McCarthy's Communist Witch-Hunt
- ... back him up now." Starting with nothing, Senator McCarthy and his supporters plunged headlong forward, desperately seeking to develop some information which, colored with distortion and fanned by a blaze of bias, would forestall a day of reckoning (Matusow 54). As a result of McCarthy's Communist witch-hunts, the character of private citizens and of Government employees was virtually destroyed by public condemnation on the basis of deliberate untruths. For ... serve a year in prison and who were then blacklisted, were shattered. Not to mention Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the only people ever executed for espionage in the peacetime. Their guilt remains questionable to this day. Reading about politicians like McCarthy and cases like these, one comes to appreciate even more our Bill of Rights, a free press, and the heritage of freedom that has made the United States what it ...
- 7275: Teddy Roosevelt's Contribution to Natural Resources
- ... in American history to set forth a new attitude of importance toward conserving AmericaΉs natural resources. Soon RooseveltΉs interests in our natural resources were adopted by other key leaders in the government. The day that Roosevelt read his first message to Congress, a committee of Western Senators and Congressmen organized to invent a Reclamation Bill. Senator Francis G. Newlands of Nevada took an interest in the reclamations and took ... Congress three years to act upon it. The Act of February 1, 1905 transferred the National Forests from the care of the Department of Interior to the Department of Agriculture, and resulted in the present day United States Forest Service. With control of this new land, the first goal of the trained foresters was to open all the resources of the National Forests to regulated use. Another priority was to put ...
- 7276: Gilgamesh 3
- ... that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too ...
- 7277: Getting To Know The Caged Bird
- ... to understand Billy s character. As in Billy Budd, Angelou uses dialect in her writings to enhance the tone of the book. That s right. You know, the children was readin me something th other day, Say folks dream about whatever was on their mind when they went to sleep. (Pg. 158) Angelou quoted her momma [paternal grandmother], and allows the reader to feel a sense as if momma was really ... from the store turn caterpillar green , then gradually frosty white. I knew exactly how long it would be before the big wagons would pull into the front yard and load on the cotton pickers at day break to carry them to the remains of slavery s plantations. (pg. 5) The use of color to depict the field as time passed from a caterpillar green to a frosty white adds to the ...
- 7278: School Ties
- ... totally touching experience. Some of us couldn't even bare to look at those gruesome scenes. The movie starts out in a Jewish family's home. The Jews are reciting in prayer for the Sabbath day around a table full of lit candles. When the Jews are gone from the house the candles slowly burn out. The German forces defeat the Polish in weeks. Soon afterward, the Jews are forced out ... hide from the soldiers, but are soon found. Many of the residents of the ghetto are killed. Only a few live and some of them are taken to Plaszow forced labor camp. After the horrible day of killing, Oskar reports to the camp. He has lunch with some of the leading German men. Oskar is very upset; he has no workers anymore because they were all captured and taken off to ...
- 7279: Genesis 2
- ... poem 'Genesis'. The poem compares the beginning of school to Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden, hence the title 'Genesis'. Dawe has put the context of the poem into a modern day theme. Using the comparison of Adam and Eve's loss of innocence, he describes how the innocence of children is lost at school. This correspondence to the story of God expelling Adam and Eve from ... s lack of freedom when the poet describes them "Watching corner-eyed, the sun, No longer at their beck and calling" (1.10-11). The school bell has replaced their freedom of control over the day. Using sarcasm, Dawe describes the different classrooms as prison cells. This implication is made by the words "Like old 'lags' to whom all's one!" (1.7). 'Lag' was the name given to a convict ...
- 7280: Gender Issues In Lysistrata, A
- Human beings are amazing creatures. Our history has shown spectacular and shameful events from day one. Throughout the course of history we have seen both war and peace. More war than peace, but the point still remains. That we, as a human race, have accomplished many wonderful intellectual break-throughs ... of this paper is to analyze the gender issues and differences that existed in all three plays. I would like to relate and compare these issues to our past as humans and to our modern day present. We see a wide array of controversial gender issues arise in Lysistrata. This play starts off by showing the main character as a strong independent woman. The beginning of the play focuses on Lysistrata ...
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