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- 1001: Business And The Economy
- ... bitter smell of smoke pervades everything. The lack of sunlight - one wakes to a morning mist that never clears-oppresses the spirit. Soot cakes the furniture indoors, covers clothes in grime and flavours the food. Drinking water has an unpleasant aftertaste. One can wash, but the dirt soon returns. People stay indoors, windows and doors are shut tight. The streets are deserted. As one householder explained, at the beginning of the ...
- 1002: Bias In Printmedia
- ... article “ To your health”, by printing about how alcohol can “help repair liver damage”, but what it does not print are the negative effects alcohol can have on people. The readers read the good in drinking, but they do not see the other side effects of doing so. The Toronto Star, on November 1, 1999, in the article, “Chronic sleep debt may raise risk of diabetes”, also uses bias through omission ...
- 1003: Confucius And Plato
- ... he wanted under his ideal regime. Plato feels that personal desires of democratic man is one of passion and self interest of money and personal gain, going from one personal desire to another, such as drinking, money making, and neglecting education. Plato felt that men would change their minds on politics as often as they choose and that there was neither order nor necessity in life, but calling life sweet and ...
- 1004: Plato And Confucious
- ... he wanted under his ideal regime. Plato feels that personal desires of democratic man is one of passion and self interest of money and personal gain, going from one personal desire to another, such as drinking, money making, and neglecting education. Plato felt that men would change their minds on politics as often as they choose and that there was neither order nor necessity in life, but calling life sweet and ...
- 1005: Plato And Confucius
- ... he wanted under his ideal regime. Plato feels that personal desires of democratic man is one of passion and self interest of money and personal gain, going from one personal desire to another, such as drinking, money making, and neglecting education. Plato felt that men would change their minds on politics as often as they choose and that there was neither order nor necessity in life, but calling life sweet and ...
- 1006: William DeKooning
- ... s art was of mutually exclusive contradictions without the resolution of synthesis, of harmony and balance. By the end of 1970s, he had reached a point of near total spiritual exhaustion- partly due to heavy drinking and partly for a tendency to forgetfulness and a gradual detachment from the world around him. Much was said of Kooning about his last drawings, " as a doodling of a helpless old man," but the ...
- 1007: William Butler Yeats
- ... sounds like it’s a poem about a recovering alcoholic, but it seems that the person that Yeats is talking about is drunk. It also appears that he is such an alcoholic that he is drinking to feel normal. The line "Sobriety is a jewel" leads me to believe that sobriety is a goal. The use of the word jewel leads me to believe that it is a goal that is ...
- 1008: Socrates
- ... early to talk to him. They talk about the deportation of the soul from the body and immortality until sunset. When Socrates asked for his poison, they gave it to him hesitantly. When he started drinking it all his friends were weeping, but Apollodovus yelled out uncontrollably by accident. To this Socrates said, " What is this strange outcry? I sent away the women mainly in order that they might not offend ...
- 1009: Socrates
- ... death penalty once again. Socrates did not seem to mind at all. He was sent to prison and lived their surrounded by his friends and disciples for his last few days. His life ended by drinking hemlock as his friends cried at his bedside. Only after this scandalous death, did all of Greece realize what they had done; that they had killed one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Socrates ...
- 1010: Rasputin
- ... is often portrayed in legend as a drunken thug; yet his daughter Maria, who shared his flat in St. Petersburg during the years of his greatest power, recalled with honesty that her father only began drinking heavily after the 1914 assassination attempt, and only then in an effort to ease the pain from his wounds. He certainly retained a peasant's love of alcohol, but he could apparently drink vast quantities ...
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