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- 2691: Judith Guest's "Ordinary People": Summary
- ... We see Conrad's anger and aggression is displaced, i.e. vented on another, as when he physically attacked a schoolmate. Yet, he also turns his anger on himself and expresses in extreme and dangerous depression and guilt. "Guilt is a normal emotion felt by most people, but among survivors it takes on special meaning. Most feel guilty about the death of loved ones whom they feel they could have, or ... So this is a good sign; turning his anger outward at last." Because his family, and especially his mother, frowns upon public displays of emotion, Conrad keeps his feelings bottled up, which further contributes to depression. Encyclopedia Britannica, in explicating the dynamics of depression states, "Upon close study, the attacks on the self are revealed to be unconscious expressions of disappointment and anger toward another person, or even a circumstance..., deflected from their real direction onto the self. ...
- 2692: Taoism
- Taoism is one of the two great philosophical and religious traditions that originated in China. The other religion native to China is Confucianism. Both Taoism and Confucianism began at about the same time, around the sixth century B.C.E. China's third great religion, Buddhism, came to China from India around the second century of the common era. Together, these three faiths have shaped Chinese life and thought for nearly twenty-five hundred years (Hartz 3). One dominate ... process, the Taoist version of reincarnation, is repeated until tao is achieved. The following translation from The Tao Te King best summarizes the the theory behind tao and how a Taoist can achieve Tao. The Great Way is very smooth, but the people love the by-paths. . . The wearing of gay embroidered robes, the carrying of sharp swords, fastidiousness in food and drink, superabundance of property and wealth: - this I ...
- 2693: Ceasar
- ... representatives. When he was dictator the most important of these representatives was his “master of the horse”. This representative was Mark Antony. Much resentment was felt by prominent senators like Cicero on account of the great power and influence of such against of Caesar. Caesar’s military dominance was established beyond the possibility of successful challenge, the senate gave him a profusion of personal honors which were out of keeping with ... his actual position that was shown in the sixty member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , two days before he was due to leave Rome on his great eastern expedition, he was stabbed to death at a meeting of the senate in Pompey’s new theater. He fell dead at the foot of Pompey’s statue. Pompey was avenged, as well as Bibulus ... the Senate would be restored, but both it and the Public Assemblies acted like sheep in the times to come. Caesar's life was one of the most important in Roman history. He had a great impact on the world and the Roman empire. He was a great leader. He was perhaps the greatest ruler ever. I think my favorite. One of my favorite lines he used was “Iactca est ...
- 2694: Adilf Hitler
- ... Hitler threatened his rein of power and authority, so he felt getting rid of everyone else would help keep him the Führer. He knew that people of the Nazi party worshipped him for he had great ideas that he put in well written speeches, for he was self centered. Jews feel that someone could restart what Hitler had began. There are German's today that still have a growing hatred for ... retreated to the bunker in the Berlin chancellory. There he was joind by his mistress Eva Braun, whom he had married before they commited suicide, April 30th , 1945. This ended the Holocaust and Germany's great rien over all other countries for their Führer was gone. In conlusion, Hitler's ego, greed, and self centeredness caused him to abuse his great deal of power. He took advantage of what he had, which was a great many people who worshipped and followed Hitler's every move. Bibliography Work Cited 1. Sale, Roger. "Adolf Hitler." The Grolier ...
- 2695: Grendel
- ... Grendel feels he has no friend in the outside word and no one to except him besides his own mother. He doesn't want to except his role in society which is to be the Great Destroyer. Man creates a huge problem in Grendel's life and has had a major effect on the way he lives with man. Grendel is unhappy in many ways. He wants to be accepted by ... world starts to look darker in his eyes. Animals of all sorts are enemies of his because they don't understand him. Grendel is more superior Grendel's role in society is to be the great destroyer. The Dragon tells Grendel this " You improve them, my boy! … You stimulate them!" but Grendel dose not want to except it. HE want to be part of the humanistic world. He want a different ... first he dose not like this because he thinks that the fun of destroying men would be to easy at this point. He starts to grow into this though and plays his role as the great destroyer. This book shows how Grendel put up with man and learned to adapt to the humanistic ways of life. It took him a while to adapt but he did find it fun to ...
- 2696: Muammad Ali Jinnah
- ... did in his long and crowded public life spanning some 42 years. Yet, by any standard, his was an eventful life, his personality multidimensional and his achievements in other fields were many, if not equally great. Indeed, several were the roles he had played with distinction: at one time or another, he was one of the greatest legal dignitary India had produced during the first half of the century, an `ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity, a great constitutionalist, a distinguished parliamentarian, a top-notch politician, an tireless freedom-fighter, a dynamic Muslim leader, a political strategist and, above all one of the great nation-builders of modern times. What, however, makes him so remarkable is the fact that while similar other leaders assumed the leadership of traditionally well-defined nations and advocated their cause, or led them ...
- 2697: Raoul Wallenberg
- ... plans to open a world bank and that he would like his help. Farfar told Raoul exiting stories of the Wallenergs in the past. Jacob Wallenberg helped open trade routes to China and Japan. His great grand father, Andre Oscar, went to sea at the age of fifteen and became a steam boat captain not long after. Raoul dreamed of being one of the "Big Men" like the men in his ... brightest and best students I think I had in my thirty year experience as a professor of drawing and painting.'" One of his classmates remembered him as: A very talented yet modest person who showed great insight if finding simple solutions to complex problems. Neither his conduct not his manner of dress gave anyone who know him the slightest clew to his high station in life as a member of one ... better for the job. He was a good organizer, unconventional, very inventive, cool-headed, and some thing of a go-getter. He was very good with languages and knowledgeable in Hungarian affairs. He was a great thinker and an all around good person. He knew exactly what it would take to save as many Jews as possible (anger 49,50). There was a rumor going around about his almost super ...
- 2698: Queen Victoria
- Queen Victoria was born in 1819 and she died in 1901. She was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1876-1901). Queen Victoria was born Alexandrina Victoria on May 24, 1819, in Kensington Palace, London. Victoria's mother was Victoria Mary Louisa, daughter of the duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Her father was Edward Augustus, duke of Kent and Strathern, the fourth son of George III and youngest brother of George IV and William IV, they were kings of Great Britain. Because William IV had no legal children, his niece Victoria became inheritor apparent to the British crown upon his accession in 1830. On June 20, 1837, with the expiration of William IV. Victoria became ... and Victoria was devoted to her family responsibilities. The first of their nine children was Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, later queen of Germany. Their first son, Albert Edward, prince of Wales and later monarch of Great Britain as Edward VII, was born in 1841. When the cautious Prince Albert persuaded her that Liberal policy jeopardized the coming of the Crown, the queen began to lose her eagerness for the party. ...
- 2699: Renaisance
- The Renaissance, which began in Italy in the fourteenth century, was a period of great change in art, culture, and science. The word "Renaissance" means "Rebirth", this is a perfect word to describe the period. Many of the greatest artists in history, such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, lived during this time period. Renaissance scientists made many great discoveries and played a large part in a fair portion of our current knowledge about the natural world. As well, Renaissance thinkers changed the way people saw themselves and the world around them. Renaissance society ... period people became tired of the world view in the Middle Ages. To them, the feudal period had been a period of inactivity and sluggish growth. Instead, Renaissance people admired the classical age and the great artists and thinkers of ancient Greece and Rome. Much ancient art, especially sculpture, had been made to celebrate the beauty of human form. Ancient Greek and Roman artists had tried to communicate a sense ...
- 2700: Idealism Or EthnocideA Clash O
- ... were made the Cree were a self-sustaining nation with their own forms of government as well as cultural and social realms. Afterward, the Treaties and the reservation system that they spawned would create a great divide in future relations between First Nations peoples and Canadian society. The Canadian government did not see treaties as a means for Natives to become civilized and assimilated into white society through the implementation of ... of the Indians depended on the abundant supply of food on the prairies , and it was the buffalo that provided most of peoples needs . The skins were used for clothing , teepees, food ( it was a great source of protein ) , fuel , harness , rope , thread , bedding , cooking utensils , and sleds were made from the bones . Very little of the animal was wasted . Native life revolved around the shaggy buffalo . It was the same ... of natural food supply . All aspects of their way of life relied on mobility . Basic necessities such as good soil, water , game , and fuel rarely came together in many plains areas , this along side the great variability and uncertainty of the climate to make mobility central to the survival of the plains culture . European observers saw the plains Cree as living in the mercy of natural forces and failed to ...
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