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- 4091: Romance And Gender Positions I
- ... money to benefit society or letting her live and watching the money waste away in a monastery when she dies of natural causes. Apparently, Raskolnikov has formulated an equation in which the old woman s death has a greater positive differential between the pleasure and pain than not murdering her. He states that the pleasure the old woman's money would bring to the poor would outweigh the pain inflicted upon ... reflect to some extent, and non-utilitarian arguments, is that non-utilitarian moral theories do not cancel out an individual's pain as easily. Even if Raskolnikov could prove to the old woman that her death is the morally right decision according to utilitarianism, I doubt that she would go along with the plan. She would not be so hasty to overlook her personal pain, although it is outweighed by the ...
- 4092: Dizzy Gelespie
- ... his father, a weekend bandleader. Gillespie's father was not as talented as John was to become, he relied on a more stable income as mason around their home ~own. Four years after his fathers death, when Birks was 14, he began learning the trombone and trumpet without any formal instruction. Recognized by the staff at Laurinberg Institute, in North Carolina, as a prodigy, he was given a scholarship to be ... unique person and complicated genre of music I recommend reading about the subject. Listening to some of Gilllespie=s work and creativity may also give a better understanding of his importance and technical grace. His death ended a musical progression through time in which jazz grew more and more. Gillespie planting and sowing the first seeds, raised his new crop called Bebop into a blossoming gift for all. BIBLIOGRAPHY Chilton, John ...
- 4093: Communism An Overview
- ... all available human and material resources. The system was labeled totalitarianism. Other people called it Stalinism, named after Joseph Stalin, the leader who controlled the government of the USSR for many years after Lenin's death. Joseph Stalin's rule in no way resembled the utopia that Marx and Engels envisioned. Even 30 years after Stalin's death the USSR was still ruled by command, not consent. This led to the collapse of the Soviet Communism Party and the termination of the USSR. The latter is a very good example of the rise ...
- 4094: Gregory Efimovich Rasputin
- ... With many entreaties from Tsars Nicholas’s family to send the monk away, Nicholas was so in love with Alexandra , that he could not send the monk away for fear of his son bleeding to death and his family falling to pieces. Rasputin had great influence over the imperial family, and his actions causing outrage , gave a scandalous image to the imperial family. Without delay , from rumors about the monk, and ... few days, and if anyone else besides her family killed him, she would be safe; but if it was her family who killed him, within two years her whole family would be dead. After the death of Rasputin Nicholas lost his throne, and some of the Romanov cousins were killed by a Bolshevik firing squad. The Tsar’s family , and their staff were imprisoned in a house in Ekatinburg. On July ...
- 4095: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... Tobin, Wright divorced her in 1922; the following year, he would enter into a brief, disastrous marriage with Miriam Noel. Meanwhile, he found himself with little work and few clients. In 1923, he suffered the death of his mother, and in 1924, the death of his former employer and mentor, Louis Sullivan died, and Miriam left him. In the years between the separation and the final divorce, her behavior became increasingly erratic and disturbed; her accusations cause a lot ...
- 4096: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... component of church services in Leipzig and continuing to write music of various kinds with a level of craft and emotional profundity that was his alone. Bach remained at his post in Leipzig until his death in 1750. He was creatively active until the very end, even after cataract problems virtually blinded him in 1740. His last musical composition, a chorale prelude entitled "Before They Throne, My God, I Stand", was dictated to his son-in-law only days before his death.
- 4097: Mark Twain
- ... as Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Twain was born in Florida Missouri, on November 30, 1835, he died April 21, 1910, he achieved worldwide fame during his lifetime as an author, lecturer, satirist, and humorist. Since his death his literary stature has further increased, with such writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner declaring his works, particularly HUCKLEBERRY FINN, a major influence on 20th-century American fiction. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi River. His writing career began shortly after the death of his father in 1847. Apprenticed first to a printer, he soon joined his brother Orion's Hannibal Journal, supplying copy and becoming familiar with much of the frontier humor of the time, such as ...
- 4098: Jim Thorpe
- ... records from the books." In 1913 Jim married Iva Miller, a white girl. In 1914 he had a son Jim Jr. In 1918 later Jim Jr. would succumb to infantile paralysis and die. After his death Jim was never quite the same. After his son's death Jim began to drink heavily. But he never complained he never said a curse in his life, but there seemed to be a hurt inside him that just kept growing. But there was football. In ...
- 4099: Marco Polo
- ... years old, had been only six or younger when his father left home:thus; Marco was reared primarily by his mother and the extended Polo family-and the streets of Venice. After his mother’s death, Marco had probably begun to think of himself as something of a orphan(Rugoff 6). Then his father and uncle suddenly reappeared, as if from the dead, after nine years of traveling in far-off ... friends. According to Macro, because the khan held them in such high regard, he would not let them return home, but as the khan aged the Polos began to fear what would happen after his death(Hull 18). Finally an opportunity to leave presented itself when trusted emissaries were needed to accompany a Mongol princess on a wedding voyage by sea to Persia, where she was promised to the local khan ...
- 4100: Alexander The Great
- ... commerce. He encouraged Greek customs, ideas, and laws into Asia. When he heard that some of his stewards ruled harshly he replaced them. He had his provinces worship him as a god for recognition. His Death Alexander had immense plans, including more reorganization and an expedition to Arabia. But he was struck by an unfortunate case of malaria at Babylon. The simple medicines of those days did not help him. Every ... t have much of a family life as his father was dead and his mother was left behind. But he did marry a Sogdian princess named Roxanne. Roxanne had a baby shortly after Alexander’s death. Interesting or Unusual Experiences Alexander had many interesting experiences. His career as a military general and king is interesting in itself because in the time when he was a general, he was between the age ...
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