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- 421: David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- ... or swimming in the sky. We have never seen a human glide along the ground in any way, enough to equate it with flying. And, what about reading? When we read of being in ancient Egypt or Rome, we can picture what it was like, how things went on from things we'd study, but how could we do that without original thought? Our representations of these ancient lands are more ...
- 422: Feminism in Jane Eyre
- ... see that in fact she felt terribly. She was thinking that "[her] hopes were all dead - struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the firstborn in the land of Egypt. [She] looked on [her] cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; They lay stark, chill, livid, corpses, they could never revive. [She] looked at [her] love: that feeling which was my master's - which he ...
- 423: The Canterbury Tales: A Character Sketch of Chaucer's Knight
- ... even paused before beginning it to change his clothes. The knight has had a very busy life as his fighting career has taken him to a great many places. He has seen military service in Egypt, Lithuania, Prussia, Russia, Spain, North Africa, and Asia Minor where he "was of [great] value in all eyes (l. 63). Even though he has had a very successful and busy career, he is extremely humble ...
- 424: The Canterbury Tales: A Character Sketch of Chaucer's Knight
- ... even paused before beginning it to change his clothes. The knight has had a very busy life as his fighting career has taken him to a great many places. He has seen military service in Egypt, Lithuania, Prussia, Russia, Spain, North Africa, and Asia Minor where he "was of [great] value in all eyes (l. 63). Even though he has had a very successful and busy career, he is extremely humble ...
- 425: Conquests Napoleon Made Domestically As Well As Militarily
- ... neglected primary schooling, Napoleon founded the first University, naming it such because of its universal potential. Also, he advanced the field of science in France by taking along scientists and geographers on his trip to Egypt. They discovered the Rosetta Stone, which was the first key to translating the Egyptian Hieroglyphics. This gave France a huge advance in the study of Egyptology, which Napoleon helped to found. While Napoleon is most ...
- 426: Malcolm X
- ... Afro-American Unity". He continued his verbal attacks on white America and the ill treatment of blacks, but his fanatical hatred of all whites changed after a long visit to Africa in 1964. In Algeria, Egypt, Ghana and many other places he met Muslims, white and black, who welcomed him as a brother and after a triumphal tour of other African states he returned to the U.S.A. to make ...
- 427: Louis Armstrong’s Influential Career
- ... of 1934 Armstrong began touring Europe. He visited various countries including France, Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands where he was welcomed with open arms. The tour was scheduled to carry on to North Africa and Egypt, but the state of Armstrong’s’ lips forced him to cancel his remaining shows and not play for over eight months (Brown 154). In 1935 Armstrong formed a commercial style big band with fifteen other ...
- 428: Comparison: Caesar and Fidel Castro
- ... a revolt against Falgecio Batista, who when lost the support of the U.S. backed away and let Fidel in. Caesar had problems to, he had to defeat the famous Pompey. Caesar chased him into Egypt and then had to fight Pompey and Cleopatra. Both Fidel and Caesar where geniuses. Not only where they great military leaders, they were great politicians. Both used propaganda to help become dictators. They used something ...
- 429: Should Eisenhower Be Praised for His Foreign Policies?
- ... and Dulles simply tried to use Truman’s policy of containment, which proved to be unsuccessful. They tried to use the “Good Neighbor Policy” which also proved fruitless. And when the British and French invaded Egypt in an attempt to capture the Suez Canal, it was proved that Eisenhower did not even have control over his alliances. While Eisenhower had good intentions and, in theory, his ideas were commendable, his character ...
- 430: Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
- ... of the Soviet advisers, he pushed the Cuban economy so fast into total Communism, and into crop and production diversification, that he temporarily ruined it. In 1959 he married Aledia March and together they visited Egypt, India, Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan and Yugoslavia. Back in Cuba, as Minister for Industry he signed (February 1960) a trade pact with the USSR which freed the Cuban sugar industry from dependence on the teeth of ...
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