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- 8991: Hercules: 12 Labors of Hercules
- ... but Zeus rewarded him for his service to the gods by changing him to Sagittarius the Archer. The boar got killed by the arrows. In the fifth labor, Hercules had to clean up in one day the 30 years of filth left by thousands of cattle in the stables of king Augeas. He turns the streams of two rivers, making them flow through the stables. For the next labor, Hercules has ...
- 8992: Greek Architecture
- ... the orchestra,which extended in circles. These circles were devided by walkways which extended outward from the orchestra. The shape of the theater allowed the actor's voices to carry without the use of modern day equiptment. The theaters were usually cut out of hillside, meaning that theywere usually one big piece of rock. most theaters could hold about 20000 people! The skene was the backdrop of the stage. It had ...
- 8993: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- ... He returned to the study of philosophy under Philo the Academic. But his chief attention was reserved for oratory, to which he applied himself with the assistance of Molo, the most skilled rhetorician of the day. Diodotus the Stoic also exercised him in the argumentative subtleties for which the disciples of Zeno were known. Cicero was the first Roman who found his way to the highest dignities of the State with ...
- 8994: Mark Twain 2
- ... recuperating from her heart attack, she was stricken with another. Twain never left Olivia s side and was with her until her death. That night Twain stayed by her side caressing her hand. The next day he wrote, I am tired and old; I wish I were with Livy (qtd. in Kaplan 236).Twain went into a state of depression and it seemed nothing was going right. One of his daughters ...
- 8995: The Effects of Aristotelian Teleological Thought on Darwin's Mechanistic Views of Evolution
- ... things like trees and birds were studied by common folk as well as scientists. This popularity was proven when the initial 1,250 copies of Darwin's Origin of the Species sold out in one day (Burrow, 19). Charles Darwin was one of history's most knowledgeable biologists and ranks with some of the greatest intellectual heroes of mankind (Simpson, 268). After several career changes, Darwin became a naturalist. In 1831 ...
- 8996: The Crucible
- ... internal conflict is evident in Reverend Hale who initiates these problems. At first Reverend Hale is sure about his belief that there are witches and feels that he is carrying out the desires of G-D himself. Yet as the play moves on and Hale sees all these honest and good people being sentenced and executed he too sees an inner conflict. He contemplates whether to do what he is sent ...
- 8997: Ancient Greek Olympics
- ... into a gymnasium at Elis, and were tested for the Games. The ten-month training was the most valuable preparation the athletes could undergo. For ten months they lived in the gymnasium, they practiced all day, and all night. They were constantly watched over by the professional trainers. The officials of Elis would decide who was fit enough to compete in the Olympic Games, and receive the prizes. The people of ...
- 8998: Differences and Similarities of Liberalism
- ... new government should operate under. The first point of the contract is that the people agree to form a body politic, in which the majority rule. Second the body politic selects a government of the day. (elects people on a regular basis to the government to legislate the law) Locke laid out who should be allowed the right to vote, who shouldn't be allowed to vote and gives his reason ...
- 8999: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... new perspective of the battlefield was presented in which soldiers of opposite forces are in much of the same state: frightened human beings with family and loved ones at home, attempting to avoid death each day by whatever means possible; many very likely questioning the purpose of war as Paul constantly did. Many conflicts of values were presented constantly throughout the course of World War I. One of the strongest which ...
- 9000: Mark Twain 3
- ... of American reverence for British and European culture and for the more formal language associated with these cultures. His adherence to American themes, settings, and language set him apart from many other novelists of the day and had a powerful effect on such later American writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, both of whom pointed to Twain as an inspiration for their own writing. In Twain's later years he ...
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