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- 201: Mediation
- ... when mediation has been utilized in conflict so as to avoid monetary as well as emotional burdens on everyone involved. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter played the role of mediator between two parties, Israel and Egypt. These accords became known as the Camp David Middle East Negotiations (Schllenberg 185-192). Despite enormous differences, Israel and Egypt were able to work out an agreement on some of the main issues dividing them, largely due to the persistence and skill of President Carter. The National Mediation Board was established in 1934, replacing its ...
- 202: Biography of Carolyn Chute
- ... works for magazines. After her success with magazines she decided to write for herself. To date she has three published novels; Merry Men, Letourneaus Used Auto Parts, and her critically acclaimed The Beans of Egypt, Maine. She was quoted as saying, This book was involuntarily researched, when interviewed by a reporter. Carolyns pain and humiliation, which she had suffered earlier in life, only fueled a fire to produce a novel of higher quality. She connected to thousands of people through her book, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, because she portrayed the harsh reality of poverty. Carolyn Chute did not believe that fictional works were enough to demonstrate her ideas about the government and big business. She soon founded the Second Maine ...
- 203: Greek Literature
- ... Mediterranean world. Alexander's conquests were in the East, and Greek culture shifted first in that direction. Athens lost its preeminent status as the leader of Greek culture, and it was replaced temporarily by Alexandria, Egypt. After the rise of Rome, all the Mediterranean area was brought within one far-flung empire. Greek civilization then spread westward as well. Educated Romans learned to speak and write Greek, and they looked to ... drama. So dependent did Roman writers become, in fact, that they produced very little that was not based upon Greek works, especially in drama and philosophy. Library of Alexandria The city of Alexandria in northern Egypt became, from the 3rd century BC, the outstanding center of Greek culture. It also soon attracted a large Jewish population, making it the largest center for Jewish scholarship in the ancient world. In addition, it ...
- 204: A Midsummer Nights Dream
- ... lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold: That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them ... must with his judgment look."(57). Theseus has a firm belief that the eyes of lovers are not to be trusted. That the eye of the lover "...Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt..."(11) is, to him, proof of this. It precisely by enchanting the eyes of the lovers that the faeries manage to create so much mayhem: "Flower of this purple dye, hit with cupid's archery ...
- 205: Paul Ehrlich
- ... In 1887, he became a teacher at the University of Berlin but because of anti-Semitic feelings, he was not paid. Ehrlich contracted tuberculosis because of his laboratory work. He and his wife went to Egypt so he could recover and they returned three years later in 1890. With the discovery of Koch's new tuberculin treatment Ehrlich never had a recurrence. In the same year, Robert Koch appointed Ehrlich as ... 1915 in Homburg, Germany Paul Ehrlich died from another stroke. During Paul Ehrlich's lifetime, he was awarded many honors. He was a member of 81 academies and other learned associations in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Turkey, the USA and Venezuela. He also held honorary doctorates in several universities. In 1887, he received the Tiedman ...
- 206: King Solomon
- ... BC (8). He is the son of David and Bathsheba. Solomon succeeded his father as king and his territory extended from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. With his wealth he built the great Temple of Jerusalem. In 950 BCE Solomon's household included 700 wives and 300 other mistresses (1). To insure the future peace and security of his kingdom, Solomon ... poem, while others see it basically as love lyrics. Solomon carefully cultivated ties of friendship, which had existed between Israel and the kingdom of Tyre. This had great economic advantages. The biggest bond was with Egypt, which was cemented by his marriage to the daughter of the reigning Pharaoh. Solomon showed outstanding power, since he was able to claim and partially enforce authority over Palestine. The important and strategic Canaanite City ...
- 207: Exile 2
- ... the efforts of General Nebuzaradan and his detailed destruction and pillaging of Jerusalem and the Temple, the capturing and execution of Judah s chief officers and priests, Judah s revolt against Gedaliah and fleeing to Egypt, and the benevolence King Evil-merodach of Babylon demonstrated towards Jehoiachin. The articles, however, mentioned nothing of to do with any of these circumstances. They concentrated, instead, on the life in Judah during the Exile ... farmed for themselves, or for Babylon cannot be reasonably determined from this one verse. Later on, we see that some underground guerrilla forces were also left in Judah as they assassinated Gedaliah and fled to Egypt. Other than this, we know nothing from 2 Kings 25 about life in Judah during the Exile. The articles, however, give us much more light into life in Judah during these times. Graham illustrates that ...
- 208: The Production Histry And Cons
- ... people along the Nile, Fellahs, still make beer the same way today. Beer was such a way of life that the Egyptian scribes created a hieroglyph for a brewer. After the Romans and Greeks succeeded Egypt, beer still was brewed. The popularity of beer was recorded in the Mediterranean area before the growing of grapes for wine took hold. Wine became the drink of the gods. Beer was brewed in the ... alone to ferment. Beer relies on large amounts of starchy grains, and the production of this substance would have to wait until the advent of agriculture. (Vallee 81) The fertile river deltas of Mesopotamia and Egypt produced massive crops of wheat and barley; the diets of peasants, laborers and soldiers of these ancient civilizations were cereal-based. It might be viewed as a historical inevitability that fermented grain would be discovered ...
- 209: Helen of Troy: The Face that Launched One Thousand Ships
- ... well-decked ships Nor did you reach the citadel of Troy.... The alternative story was that Paris took a phantom off to Troy while the real Helen spent the whole period of the war in Egypt. This story is told in Euripides' Helen. Helen (often called "Helen of Troy") was the daughter of Leda and Zeus, and was the sister of the Dioscuri and Clytemnestra. Since Zeus visited Leda in the ... she was a beautiful and wanton woman who brought disaster upon those around her. In still other accounts, she never went to Troy at all: Hermes, acting on Zeus's orders, spirited her away to Egypt and fashioned a phantom out of clouds to accompany Paris; the real Helen was reunited with Menelaus after the Trojan War Perhaps one of the most well known tales of ancient Greek mythology is that ...
- 210: Gallipoli- The Anzac Legend
- ... which is the true Anzac Legend. This was how the Australian Imperial Force was formed. The Australians worked hard and were enthusiastic and had all their equipment ready for battle and the troops headed to Egypt for training. The larrikiness of the Australians was shown by their lack of discipline and disregard for the people of Egypt. We saw this in the movie when Frank Dunn and his mates caused trouble by harassing owners of shops and playing pranks on others and paying for prostitutes. During this time more steps were taken ...
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