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- 3261: Billy Budd 2
- ... takes leave of Bill, the senior lieutenant notices a look of agony on his face (chapter 22) Through another window one can view Vere to be a cold-blooded coward. Vere argued himself into the death penalty for Billy out of cowardice and naked fear. He might easily have pardoned Billy, but he convinces himself that to do so would cause the crew to mutiny, and he uses this lame argument to ...
- 3262: 1968
- ... saving American withdrawal, and convince the South Vietnamese and American people that however long it took, they could not be defeated. By nineteen sixty-five, of course, most Americans had grown accustomed to images of death and destruction emanating from Vietnam. They littered the pages of daily newspapers and weekly news magazines and provided common fare for network news shows. They reminded Americans that the nation was at war and that ... States House of Representatives in 1938. He served for four terms. He became Senate majority leader in 1953. Johnson was elected vice president in 1960 and became president on November 22, 1963 upon Kennedy's death. In 1968 Johnson decided to de-escalate from the Vietnam War after over ninety South Vietnamese cities were attacked by both Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army forces. On March 31, 1968, Johnson went on ... troops shot and killed about 500 defenseless civilians on March 16, 1968. Hugh Thompson tried to stop the slaughter. "Why did they come and kill all the women in my village?" asks Pham, who escaped death by hiding under a pile of dead bodies. Hugh Thompson of coarse could not explain. "I'm sorry for what happened that day," he says. "I wish I could have done more." Hugh Thompson ...
- 3263: Buddhism
- ... right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration 4. Nirvana: In Buddhism a state of supreme state; liberation from suffering, one's bondage to the repeating cycle of death and rebirth, which is brought about by desire. Nirvana is attainable in life through moral discipline and the practice of Yoga, leading to the extinction of all attachment and ignorance. 5. Karma: Karma is a ... more conservative monks continued to honor the Buddha as a perfectly enlightened human teacher, the liberal Mahasanghikas developed a concept of the Buddha as an eternal, omnipresent, transcendental being. 9. For several centuries after the death of the Buddha, the scriptural traditions recited at the councils were transmitted orally. These were finally written down in about the 1st century BC. The Buddhist law is known as the Tipitaka. It consists of ... belief was not written down? 3)Why didn't Siddhartha Gautama make a god like most other religions? 4)What encouraged Siddhartha Gautama to make this beliefs? 5)If all life has suffering, life after death it doesn't have suffering, how come? Bibliography: 1)Microsoft Encarta 97 Deluxe 2)Microsoft Bookshelf 98 3)Encyclopedia.com (searched for "Buddhism")
- 3264: Emerging Trends - Body Wearable Computers
- ... Conference of 1998, Steve Mann closed with the remarks, The most fundamental paradigm shift that wearable computing has to offer is that of personal empowerment. That is in itself enough to scare most people to death. Do we really want to have that much control over our bodies? Some historical examples of tools of empowerment that have been used in the past to present were used as examples at the Keynotes ... criminals might be crucified, or whipped, branded, drawn and quartered, and then burned at the stake, were quite common in these times. The evolution from punishment as a spectacle in which people where tortured to death in the village square, toward incarceration in which people were locked in a cell, and forced to attend church sermons, prison lectures, etc., marked the first step in a paradigm shift toward less severe punishments ... face to face, one with a 22 caliber handgun and the other with a 45 caliber are roughly equal. A large bullet hole or a small one, both provides a tangible and real risk of death or injury. It is perhaps modern cryptography that makes this balance even more pronounced, for it is so many orders of magnitude easier to encrypt a message than it is to decrypt it. Accordingly, ...
- 3265: Richard Joseph Daley
- ... leaders. Daley gained national notoriety in 1968 when Chicago police brutally subdued demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention. Daley was an important figure in the national Democratic Party. As the mayor of Chicago until his death in 1976 and as chairman of Chicago's Cook County Democratic Central Committee from 1953 to 1976, Richard Joseph Daley was one of the most powerful politicians in the United States. He easily won reelection ... of Information Act request, the Chicago Tribune obtained 300 pages of Daley's file compiled by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. The reports span Daley's career from state senator in the 1940s until his death in 1976, the newspaper said in Sunday's editions. The file on Daley, Chicago's mayor from 1955 through 1976, contains a wealth of innuendoes and guilt by association. None apparently rose beyond the level ... as the best mayor Chicago may ever have. A series of court rulings against political patronage diminished Daley's clout in his final term, and his political organization declined further in the decade after his death. Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley dies at age 84 after more than two decades of dominating Illinois politics. He died in Chicago of a heart attack on Dec. 20, 1976.
- 3266: Use Of Fairy Tales In Germany Pale Mother
- ... The girl enters and house and finds it almost entirerly deserted. However, in the basement she finds an old women who repeats the bird’s warning. The crone then prphesizes that the girl will marry death and her bridegroom only seeks to kill her, cut her pieces up, and eat her. As the two prepare to escape, the bridegroom and his band of theives return with maiden [virgin]. The old woman ... fallen soldier. This shot is followed by aerial shots of a decimated Berlin and of Hitler’s burning bunker. The diagetic silence of these shots leaves the viewer with a deeply embedied feeling of the death and destruction the war caused. However, the fairy tale does end with a manifestation of denazifcation. The murderers are caught, and sentenced for their crimes. Ironically, in the fairy tale they are brought to justice by their own people. The fairy tale takes a more direct parallel to Lene, and her life. Lene becomes the bride in the story. She marries death and will live in the house of a murderer. Hans assumes these roles while serving as a soldier in the war. Lene is also tied to the maiden and the crone in the movie. ...
- 3267: Kurt Cobain
- Kurt Cobain The number one cause of death in teens is suicide? Looking back to one of the most commonly known and most devistating suicides, of Kurt Cobain lead singer of the former band Nirvana. In his time of music he had the ... that night. At the '93 awards Nirvana won "Best Alternative Video Award." Nirvana performed twice on Saturday night live in their time. In 1993 they recorded Mtv Unplugged, which wasn't released till after his death. The last weeks of Cobain's life were filled with turmoil and angiush. Courtney gathered friends and doctors to try to scare Kurt into getting help for his drug problem through interventions. After foolishly mixing ... pointing to his chin. On a counter nearby was a suicide letter addressed to his fans, wife and baby, made out in red ink. He had been dead 3 days. In result of his tragic death hundreds of people gathered in seattle where the devastated widow, Courtney, read certain parts of the suicide note over microphones. The media went wild and some obsessed fans commited suicide in tribute. The slight ...
- 3268: Sagan
- ... of ‘Cosmos', an award winning television mini-series that brought the wonders of astronomy into the home. His last and final work was a collection of his essays; Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death on the Brink of the Millennium. . Sagan wrote with a sense of awe, humility and reverence of nature. This book is an expression of Sagan's passions for the things around. The book is so ... to find a unifying factor. Nor does the book reach any sort of conclusion as to the direction of man and things around him. In this we can understand the true sadness of Sagan's death, he was a child who was overwhelmed by the beauty of the universe around him and had not the time needed to express all of it in words. The book is split into three parts ... of the future. In many ways this book is loosely held together. Individual parts hold some unity but the book as a whole does not. This may be because the book was published after Sagans death, lack of matieral or and editors blunder. This should not detract the reader from the importance of this book. In 1994 I spent one month in the country of my ancestors, India. Immediatley I ...
- 3269: King Tut
- ... Tutankhamon, or Tutankhamun. There is an enigma, though, surrounding his name. Researchers have no idea where it came from because his parents are unknown. He became king during the period of readjustment that followed the death of his father-in-law, the pharaoh Akhenaton. The boy king married Akhenaton’s third daughter to strengthen his claim to the throne and took the name Tutankhaton meaning "gracious of life is Aton." After ... stories, but the wealthy pursued those pastimes with an elegant flourish. Royalty such as Tut, was portrayed on the walls of his tomb playing the game senet, which reenacted the quest for eternal fulfillment after death. This game is played on a checkerboard table with thirty squares arranged in three parallel rows. Each of two players has an equal number of counters (ranging from five to seven) in two series of ... the Kings in a tomb that originally had been prepared for his advisor Ay. Tut left no heir to succeed him and an important and powerful official, Ay, became pharaoh. About ten years after his death, thieves broke into his tomb and ransacked the antechamber. But the tomb, resealed and eventually covered over with rubble, was not touched again until modern times-although by 1000BC every other sepulcher in the ...
- 3270: The Renaissance
- ... love of knowledge and research was the keynote of both his artistic and scientific endeavors. His innovations in the field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than a century after his death, and his scientific studies-particularly in the fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics-anticipated many of the developments of modern science. Dürer Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528), the most famous artist of Reformation Germany, widely known ... the impression it creates of nobility and power and for the consummate skill in which anatomical and technical problems are overcome. Verrocchio completed only the clay model for this work, which was cast after his death by the Venetian sculptor Alessandro Leopardi. Rogier van der Weyden, (c. 1399-1464), one of the artists that had a major influence on Dürer. Flemish painter, a leading artist of the mid-15th century, known ... for St Peter's became the model for domes all over the Western world. Leonardo's innovations in the field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than a century after his death, and his scientific studies-particularly in the fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics-anticipated many of the developments of modern science. Dürer's paintings, drawings, prints, and theoretical writings on art, all of which ...
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