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- 1341: Karl Marx
- ... the favorite child to his father, Heinrich. His mother, a Dutch Jewess named Henrietta Pressburg, had no interest in Karl's intellectual side during his life. His father was a Jewish lawyer, and before his death in 1838, converted his family to Christianity to preserve his job with the Prussian state. When Heinrich's mother died, he no longer felt he had an obligation to his religion, thus helping him in ... the other universities. While at Berlin, Marx became part of the group known as the Yong Hegelians. The group was organized in part due to the philosophy teacher Hegel that taught from 1818 to his death. The teachings of Hegel shaped the way the school thought towards most things. Those who studied Hegel and his ideals were known as the Young Hegelians. Hegel spoke of the development and evolution of the ... and made him withdraw from his work; much like the ending of the Communist League had done. This time, it was for good. The last ten years of his life is known as "a slow death". This is because the last eight years many medical problems affected his life. In the autumn of 1873 he was inflected by apoplexy which effected his brain which made him incapable of work and ...
- 1342: Albert Camus' "The Plague"
- ... the dead rats began to pile into large masses and burned. Soon after there were some people that got very sick, which made Mr. Rieux very curious. These reports of these ill people and the death of the rats were the beginning of the parallelism for this story. Since Bernard was a doctor he was the first to actually attempt to help one of these sick people. Michael was his first ... the vomiting that he seemed paralyzed. Mr. Rieux tried to help the man the best that he could, but he ended up dying. Michael was the first person to die of this illness. After his death, many cases of this illness were reported widespread. Again more details of sickness and death, this is the parallelism for this novel. As the reports of sickness and death came to inform Dr. Rieux, he tried to comfort and cure the plagued patients. About ninety percent of the people ...
- 1343: Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust
- ... States. This declaration brought American troops and its Allies into war in Europe and gave millions of Jews hope for survival. Although some historians and Holocaust survivors believe FDR betrayed the Jews by not bombing death camps such as, Auschwitz and Buchenwald; FDR did more than anyone else to save the Jews. During his presidency, FDR had publicly condemned anti-Semitism more than any other public official in the nation. He ... like Brechenridge Long of the State Department, and Assistant Secretary of the War Department, John McCloy, were both anti-Jewish. Both of them did little to help the Jews; they often withheld important rescue and death camp news from FDR. Why should FDR be accountable for information he did not receive ? FDR also saved two hundred thousand Jews during the war by establishing the War Refugee Board under Executive Order 9417 ... U.S. to perform rescue missions. The State Department actively shutdown news coming into the United States and FDR's office. This action prevented or limited FDR and his generals from bombing many of the death camps, especially Auschwitz. Many American Jews criticized FDR for not bombing the death camps earlier in the war - they say he might have saved millions of Jews by doing so. In defense of FDR, ...
- 1344: Blood In Macbeth
- The Symbolism of Blood in Macbeth The Symbol of Blood in Macbeth Blood is known to represent most often injury and death, but also life. Blood is an essential part of life, and without blood, we could not live. This is common knowledge, and because of this, when Shakespeare uses the symbol of blood to represent treason, murder, and death, it is easily understood and fits in perfectly with the ideas we have of blood. Blood is mentioned often in the play and most times in reference to murder or treason. The first evil reference ... says: "there's daggers in men's smiles: the nearer in blood, the nearer bloody." Meaning that their closest relatives are likely to kill them. Again, blood is being used to describe treason, murder, and death. In Act 5, Scene 1 - the sleepwalking scene, while Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking, there are constant references to the evil deeds that Macbeth and herself have committed, most of which include references to blood. ...
- 1345: Romeo And Juliet Why They Died
- ... Tybalt after they meet and fight over Romeo. Romeo tried to stop them but he couldn t and the sword of Tybalt went under his arm and sliced Mercutios breast. Tybalt ran away after the death of Mercutio. Romeo is sadden and realizes his love for Juliet has blinded him. Furious over his friend s death he slays Tybalt when he returns. The Prince arrives after Benvolio told Romeo to run. Benvolio tells the Prince what happened and the Prince orders Romeo s banishment: Romeo killed him but Tybalt killed Mercutio. Who to pa the price of Mercutio s death. All are grieve stricken for now they relize how deadly there conflict has become. Act V is the end heart broken from her sons banishment Lady Montague dies. Capulet is forcing her to marry ...
- 1346: Shakespeare - His View On Kingship
- ... goes to England to ask for the help of the noble king Edward, who is highly respected for help to overthrow the leadership of Macbeth, and so the Anglo-Scottish revolt sees Macbeth to his death and Malcolm the son of Duncan is proclaimed king of Scotland. Macbeth is the main character in the play and starts the play as a very hard fighting, loyal soldier whose bravery had just led ... integrity act1 sc5 L58-68. He is not easily won over by evil, his love and respect for Duncan is evident throughout the play. Because Banquo knew the prophecy of the witches, he ordered his death in case he thought that he might have killed Duncan, act3 sc1 Line start – 10 Banquo says he has all three as the witches predicted. Under his reign of tyranny, he kills and slaughters. A ... is very different from the start of the play where words like ‘worthy thane’ were used to greet Macbeth. Also totally different to what is said about Duncan, ‘my liege’, ‘great king’ and after his death he is called an ‘angel’. Duncan is Shakespeare’s idea of a perfect, impartial king. Shakespeare shows Duncan to be an example to all other kings and people, he shows love for his country ...
- 1347: Cardiovascular Disease
- ... 2,500 Americans dying from it each day. Of those with heart disease, 52.2 percent are male and 47.8 percent are female. Of thirty-five countries surveyed in 1991, the United States cardiovascular death rate ranked 17th for both males and females. The highest death rates were in the Soviet Union, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. The lowest were in Japan, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Canada. (Goldstein, 1995) Biological theories abound state that women tend to have better chances ... They prevent low-density lipoprotein oxidation in vitro and thus may play a role in the prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD.) Total flavonoid intake was associated with a decreased risk of coronary heart disease death after adjusting for age and energy intake. This association was attenuated after multivariate adjustment. However, decreased risk was seen in each category of intake compared with the lowest. There was no association between total ...
- 1348: Hiroshima 5
- ... to Archibald MacLeish, a U.S. poet, "What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough . . . had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined." The entire globe was now to live with the fear of total ... the war and, ultimately, to drop the atomic bomb. We should expect political leaders to be guided by moral principles but this does not mean they must subject millions of people to needless injury or death out of a misplaced concern for the safety of enemy soldiers or civilians. President Truman's decision to deploy atomic power in Japan revealed a man who understood the moral issues at stake and who ... weapon that we refer to as "quick" was just the opposite. On one hand, it meant a quick end to the war for the United States, and on the other hand, a slow and painful death to many innocent Japanese. According to a book called Hiroshima Plus 20 the effects of radiation poisoning are horrific, ranging from purple spots on the skin, hair loss, nausea, vomiting, bleeding from the mouth, ...
- 1349: The World They Made Together
- ... came about. To begin with, the two cultures already had some religious aspects in common. The most outstanding being a similarity between one fairly widely received African myth about the creation of man and how death was brought to mankind, and the biblical story of Adam and Eve. In the African myth, "it is told ‘that God forbade the first people to eat either a certain fruit, or eggs, or animals.’ When they ate this forbidden fruit, ‘death came to them’" (Sobel 171). Despite the shared religious and work related values of the Afro-Americans and Virginians, there were many differences which underwent substantial changes during the period of the Great Awakening. Between the two groups were large discrepancies in the understanding of death and the afterlife. For example, for Africans, the funeral was considered an important element in "the rite of entry into the world of the dead" (Sobel 174). Africans believed that after death "the good… ...
- 1350: Antigones Right Problems
- ... Antigone s problem with King Creon is that he rejects burying Polyneices because he kills his brother and his brother, Eteocles, kills him. The civil was between two groups within Thebes lead up to the death of the two brothers. Polyneices is considered to be in the rebel group by King Creon. Therefore, Polyneices is not buried because King Creon believes that an enemy should not have a burial and his ... by attainment. Antigone insists that she is going to take the punishment by herself. Antigone wants Ismene to stay out of what she has caused to herself. Antigone is able to keep Ismene out of death, but others went with her. Antigone pulled her betrothed to death with his mother tagging along. In conclusion, Antigone was summed up into a feminist that wanted to change what men had done to the land of Thebes. Although Antigone dies, she should not be ...
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