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- 1341: Ark 2
- The Story of Noah's Ark In Judeo-Christian mythology, one of the best recognized stories from the Old Testament is the story of Noah and the Ark, and how they survived God s great flood. This story is a common one throughout many mid-east cultures, both past and present. The most notable of these is in the ancient Mesopotamian mythology, with the story of Utnapishtim and his story ... for the plant of everlasting life. Here we have a first hand account of the flood, by one of the sole survivors of the flood, the tale itself is found in an epic of a great king, which wasn t exactly revered as a sacred book in the Mesopotamian culture, but was still treated with a great deal of respect. This is quite from the ancient Hebrew account of the flood. In the Old Testament, it is presumably Moses who is telling the story of Noah in the book of Genesis. ...
- 1342: The Chinese Culture
- ... there were tremendous floods. The man jumped into the ship he built, in his panic he had forgotten about the children. They had ran into the egg which had become soft. The floods were so great that the man in his ship reached all the way to the door of the heavens. He banged the doors and yelled let me in! The gods didn't want mortals in the heavens, so ... stayed in exile with his brother until he was older. Over the years his hatred of his uncle had made Zoa a very stern man. He had wowed to get his revenge. He became a great fighter and started a group of followers who also were against the king. Then finally the day he had been waiting for had arrived. With his small army he overpowered the kings army. Growing up on the streets had made Zoa a great strategy leader, so he was able to defeat the huge overconfident king's army. He killed the king and took over the throne. Years went by and he himself became overconfident and selfish. He ...
- 1343: Ancient Egypt: Old, Middle, and New Kingdom
- ... of Imhotep, the royal architect of the pharaoh Zoser, this magnificent structure was erected (David 14). It is of little wonder why the Greeks, when they listed the seven wonders of the world, placed the great Step Pyramid at the top. By the fourth dynasty, the pharaohs were buried in true pyramids, that is, all sides were flat planes meeting at some certain point, and the angle of each corner was ... the first intermediate period, but were never anywhere near the size and splendor of those built in the Old Kingdom. There were new pyramids at Lisht, Dahshur, El-Lahun, and Hawara. There were also a great number of temples erected, most of which were later dismantled and incorporated in the structure of other temples (David 20). The once-absolute sun god, Re, was replaced by the god Osiris. The appeal of Osiris was that he promised a more democratic afterlife; the common man could look forward to his own life after death. Osiris began as an obscure local god and rose to great power due to the wide public appeal. The myth of Osiris has its root in mortality. Supposedly, King Osiris was a human king who established order and brought the elements of civilization to his ...
- 1344: Isaac Newton
- It was a time of great change in seventeenth century England, but a baby was being born on December 25, 1642 that would create more change in the way man perceived his world than anyone before him; he would be named ... thinkers. Though the list is long, Newton is best remembered for his three laws of motion and the universal gravitational law. His wonderful ability to absorb and solve sophisticated problems led him to be a great influence on the way society thought about the world in the seventeenth century and was also the beginning of science as we know it today. It was Newton that was primarily responsible for the creation ... of all these factors provided for the perfect time for a scientific revolution like the one Newton created (Anthony, 82). Nevertheless, it was not easy for him to gain the knowledge and background necessary for great discoveries. He was sent to school at Grantham at age 12, where his mechanical proficiency excited some attention. He used this ability to build sundials, windmills, and clocks that were surprisingly accurate. However, he ...
- 1345: Henry Charles Carey
- ... correspondence covering economic and political topics. Here is a list of Carey=s most creditable works: Essay on the Rate of Wages (1835), The Principles of Political Economy (1837-1840), The Credit System of France, Great Britian and the United States (1838), An Answer to the Questions: What Constitutes Currency? What are the Causes of its Unsteadiness? And what is the Remedy? (1840), The Past, Present, and the Future (1848), The ... 1851), The Principles of Social Science (1857-1860), and The Unity of Laws as Exhibited in the Relations of Physical, Social, Mental, and Moral Science (1872). Carey after retiring from the printing press acquired a great deal of fortune, in which he invested in a wide range of enterprises, including coal mines, paper mills, gas companies, and real estate. From this one can see that Carey not only wrote but also ... the burdens of the costs of transportation from the producers to the consumers. Unfortunately, Carey did not see the day when countries would adopt this policy, but no longer then three decades after his death Great Britian and other leading countries of the world would have implemented it. So looking back Carey had two main points on protectionism. The first was the benefit of association and the second was the ...
- 1346: Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway s tough, Terse prose and short, declarative sentences did more to change the style of written English that any other writing in the twentieth century. II. Ernest Hemingway has had many great accomplishments in his historical life but just one event has hardly sticks out from the rest. The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway s most enduring works. Told in Language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of ... would remain Hemingway's only true residence in the United States-- Key West, Florida. It was there that a whole new world broke itself open to the sportsman in Ernest. Fishing the deep sea for great fish like the tarpon and the barracuda was his newest love. But even in Key West, a heavenly earth, tragedy struck Ernest. His father, struggling with diabetes and angina pectoris, had put a bullet ...
- 1347: Macbeth 3
- ... 4:ln.55) When Lady Macbeth heard of her husband's success and read the letter, we almost immediately feel that a new source of power had appared in the drama. Her words reflected a great knowledge of her husband and her practical approach to problems as seen in the following two verses. Glacis thou art, and Cowdor, and shalt be What thou are promised. Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What though wouldst highly, That wouldst though holily;wouldst not play false And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'ldst have, great Glacis That which cries"Thus though must do,"if though have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my ...
- 1348: Adolf Hitler
- ... job was boring, but it provided him with security, food, shelter, and something to do. When the job ended, Hitler went back to Munich, where he was offered a more challenging job due to his great dislike for the Communists who were provoking revolution in cities throughout Germany. In this assignment, Hitler was given the task of keeping a close watch on individual groups, which could have been a threat to ... war becaus! e they never fought. In the following spring of 1940, after a cold and long winter, Hitler went on to conquer the Nations of Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, and France. With a great speed and power, the Germans rolled through these nations as in a very short time, easily crushing the resistance. England on the other hand was not backing down Hitler. The new P.M. Winston Churchill ... Germans. During the Battle of Britain, Which began in 1940, the British and German's battled it out in the skies. Huge losses were suffered on both sides, civilian and military. In Spite of these great losses, the British refused to give out. The bombing of British civilian only increased British support around the World. Especially from the United States, who from this point increased their economic and military aid ...
- 1349: To Kill A Mockingbird 4
- ... is very poor, with farming being the major way of making a living. (Cotton-farming) 3. What do we know for certain about Boo Radley? The Radley place and its mysterious inhabitant are described ub great detail. Scout was telling the story about Boo Radley, she said Radley was locked up as a teenager for once getting in trouble with police. Radley has been in the house ever since, although some ... children if they did something wrong, but Atticus will try to impact the important message to the children. 2. Burris Ewell, Walter Cunningham, and Chuck little are all from extremely poor families. However, there are great differences both in appearance and in attitudes, particularly between the Cunninghams and the Ewells. What are those differences and why do you suppose they exist? Between Burris Ewell, Walter Cunningham - They are both from a ... the phrase "nigger-lover", since he said he try to love everyone around him, including "nigger" - black people. 4. On p. 116, Atticus explains to the children why he considered Mrs. Dubose to be a "great lady" and a brave person. How does this "fit in" with his explanation of why he is defending Tom Robinson? Mrs. Dubose courage to get off the addiction before she die, it is a ...
- 1350: Jackie Robinson: Breaking the Color Barrier
- ... fans had come to judge a player by its ability not the color the color of there skin. (Shorto, Russell p. 22-24) Jackie was still fighting on and he continued to still be a great player but now he was able to voice his opinion and act just like every other baseball player should without having such sever consequitions as was year before. In 1949 Jackie won the National League ... way he could. (Flanker, David p. 183-190) In 1956 Jackie knew his time was coming to a end he decided he would retire at the end of the year. His legs werent has great has they used to be and the weight of the bat felt so heavy in Jackies hands. That year Walter O Malley surprised Jackie saying he was traded to the New York Giants but Jackie ... in secrecy and politics-just like his signing in 1945. After that year the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to L.A. and for many people when Jackie retired they said that it was and of a great era of baseball that will never be forgotten. (David Flanker p. 249, Shorto, Russell p. 24-25) Jackie Robinson was a great man who rose above the segragation barrier and all the problems he ...
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