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- 2261: The Romanovs
- ... Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov, met his future wife, Alexandra Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice, Princess of Hesse. On April 20,1894, they were married. During that same year Nicholas took the throne because of his father's death and became the emperor of Russia. He was only 26. Alexandra and Nicholas lived happily together. They had something that not every royal couple had, love. I am impassioned by the way the books describe ... Rasputin was her lover. However, I found another hypothesis, which, I thought, was much more interesting. On one of the Romanov's Internet pages it says, that Rasputin said that 2-4 years after his death, the Romanovs would come to an end. That is why Alexandra was so upset after Rasputin was murdered. I don't know if Rasputin really said that, but the happy Romanov family did come to ... is because they knew that Romanovs were killed, but nobody knew how until 1991. People like to believe that any situation, no matter how difficult it is has a way out, but I guess, Romanovs' death was a different case. Seventy-three years later, in 1998, Romanovs were given a proper burial at St. Petersburg. When Lenin still lying at the Red Square, unburied, like a mummy, ever sense his ...
- 2262: Hot Zone
- ... disintegration of the eyeball lining and bleeding from every opening on the body. You see the blood spattered room and pools of black vomit, expelled during the epileptic convulsions that accompany the last stages of death. Their hearts have bled into themselves, heart muscles softened and hemorrhaging , the brain clogged with dead blood cells (sludging of the brain), the liver bulging and yellow with deep cracks and the spleen a single hard blood clot. Babies with bloody noses born with red eyes lay dead from spontaneous abortions of affected mothers. It is the human slate-wiper, the invisible ultimate death, the filovirus named Ebola. The theme of Richard Preston's Hot Zone seems deal with man's one predator, the invisible one, the one thing that man cannot seek out and conquer, the one that ... who been shipped here from the Philippines. An "unknown virus" was sweeping through a monkey house in West Virginia, first noticed by some runny noses and loss of appetite, ending a few days later with death; bloody noses, swollen livers, and enlarged spleens. First perceived to be Marburg, one of the filovirus sisters, it was later revealed to actually be the more lethal Ebola. An operation was organized to nuke ...
- 2263: Langston Hughes
- ... first time parallels her discovery and immersion in the true nature of her soul: ^As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself . . . A quick vision of death smote her soul, and for a second of time appalled and enfeebled her sense.^ (p.28) She is frightened by her own self-discovery ^ yet is enraptured by it. It is this contradiction and this ... this poem, nature is harsh, unfair, and cruel. Instead of providing man with a means to express the freedom of his soul, nature confines the soul. Nature serves as a symbol for the captivity and death of the soul. The black man that is lynched in the poem could not be free in this society, and the girl he leaves behind mourns at the sight of the tree. For her, the ... girl. Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree Nature bears witness to the evils of man, the sufferings of love, the loss of a loved one to a brutal and inhumane death. Nature serves not as a symbol of the burden of the freedom of the soul, but as a symbol for the captivity and death of the soul. Here nature is the picture of desolation, ...
- 2264: Life And Times Of Louis Xiv
- The life and times of Louis XIV Louis XIV ruled France from 1651 until his death in 1715 (Bernier, Foreward). Louis XIV was on one the most well-known monarchs in France and in Europe. "When twentieth-century men speak of a king, the image that usually comes to mind is ... they will send me back to Spain in disgrace, and the whole world will sneer." (Aspler 15). She was left to mold Louis into the royal king he was to become. Before Louis XIII's death he had another son. Two years after Louis's birth, his brother Philip came into the world. (Wolf 3). Philip was brought up to defer to his brother all things; he was dressed as a ... mistress but officially sinned with another. "Although there can be no doubt that the marquise had been the King's mistress for a while, the relationship changed dramatically as a result of the Queen's death on July 30, 1683: although a simple adultery was better than a double, still the King was unquestionably sinning with Mme de Maintenon." Louis s third mistress was one of the most treachous of ...
- 2265: The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
- ... sheer artistry of its composition. It develops far beyond the strict demands of its sermon-frame, as can be seen from the entire opening section, in which the riotours are confronted by the personification of Death and set out with drunken bravado, like knights on a fantastic adventure, to kill Death. This serves to bring them face to face with the Old Man at the stile who longs to die (because his life is over and his conscience is at peace), who chides them for their violent language and insulting attitude, then prays that God will bring them to repentance as he directs them toward the grove where, he says, Death awaits them. None of this is strictly necessary, all that is required is: "One day three friends discovered a pile of treasure hidden in a forest." The accumulation of detail, particularly the much- discussed ...
- 2266: Civil Rights
- ... prohibited segregation in public accommodations and discrimination in education and employment. This also gave the executive branch of government the power to enforce the act's provisions. The Battle for Equal Voting Rights and the Death of Jim Crow The culmination of SNCC's commitment to civil rights activism at the community level was in 1964. Starting in 1961 SNCC and CORE organized voter registration campaigns in heavily black, rural counties ... In 1968 King was supporting striking garbage workers in Memphis, Tennessee when he was assassinated. The march on Washington for the Poor People's Campaign took place in the spring of 1968 after King's death, but it failed to achieve greater congressional commitment for addressing black poverty. It became clear that race problems in the Northern cities were serious and perhaps harder to address than segregation in the South because ... reached. There will always be racism, but for the most part, there are no more black civil rights to fight for. A few racial problems did still exist in the United States after King’s death. Urban poverty represented a worsening problem and remained very high among blacks. A major controversy in the 1970s was desegregation of public education, where achieving a racial balance often required busing students outside of ...
- 2267: Flying Towards Fate
- ... means to be human is also characteristic of tragedy. A Greek hero transcends individuality and evolves into a dramatic hero of humanity. Tragedy is also a revolt against whoever is responsible for the suffering or death, which could be nature, God, fate, circumstance, or hubris. It reveals the downfall of an individual as inescapable. The individual possesses some flaw that forces him to deviate from morality or from the full extent ... over by her anaconda love, no self left, no fears, no wants” (Morrison 137). Hagar thought that violently stalking Milkman was simply her only method of physical contact and mental attention from him. Hagar’s death was the result of a never-ending love. Death was the only resolution to her burdens because her love for Milkman would never cease and she would have simply continued the cycle of stalking, murder, depression, and weak hope had she not died. ...
- 2268: Bless Me, Ultima - Character A
- ... life. He is naturally a mature and wise man-child yearning for knowledge. Antonio shows a startling maturity. Psychologically, a typical six-year old will suffer serious mental agonies if he or she witnesses the death of four other people. Tony, however, “[runs] the words of the Act of Contrition” (23) through his mind, praying to God promising that “[he] will sin no more.” (170) Furthermore, the typical six year old ... to “go get the lifeguard” (239) during the drowning of Florence. At the same time, Tony notices a “red spot on [Florence’s] forehead where he must have hit the edge of the culvert.” (240) Death, to a six year old, is a mystery while religion is accepted just like the letters of the alphabet. However, Tony’s questions of religion and reactions to death reflect a mindset of someone far beyond his age group. For someone of his age, Antonio has a strong yearning for knowledge. He is “driven by the desire to make [his] the magic of ...
- 2269: Chaucers The Pardoner
- ... to his advantage by singing loud and merrily in order to get more money from the people. The Pardoner tells the tale of three young men drinking at an inn. After learning that someone named Death has killed a friend, the three men decide to find Death and get revenge for their friend. While looking, they come across an old man. They ask the old man if he knows where Death is, and the old man directs them to a tree at the end of the street. The three men run to the end of the street, where they find gold underneath the tree where ...
- 2270: Identity Crisis Of Enkidu And
- In this paper, I seek to explore the identities and relationships between Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the epic poem of Gilgamesh, up through Enkidu’s death. I will explore the gender identity of each independently and then in relation to each other, and how their gender identity influences that relationship. I will also explore other aspects of their identity and how ... to be a less than equal. Later, in order to resurrect Enkidu, Gilgamesh searches for a legendary plant. When he finally locates it, a serpent steals it, and he is forced to deal with the death of Enkidu, and for the first time he is forced to deal with the fact that it seems death simply can not be escaped. This helps to change Gilgamesh a great deal, and in fact it is after this that Gilgamesh begins to change his way and is truly a “shepherd of the ...
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