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- 2781: Cow Lore
- ... the type who enjoyed loud music and a mug of ale, with a serving wench on their lap... even the women. Their leader, known as "Mike The Big Tough Guy" was a large man of great poundage. He had unkept hair that flew wildly in the wind, and a cute, wellgroomed moustashe. The Beefers worked hard and played hard... and smelled. The tavern was alive with music, the thumps of dancing ... will flow through o'er the plains like a river... and will dye the moon white!" He held up his large tankard of ale to the ceiling. "We will show our true selves to The Great One In The Sky... we will show our Lord, the mighty Black Angus, that we are worthy of him! To YOU, my Lord!" Mike lowered his arm and swilled the remainder of the ale. With ... in them. He saw a lot of ale, and a lot of women. He barely remembered standing up on the table, and all those cheers he received from his people... how he'd made a great speech about the upcoming battle. His happy expression turned to one of concern. The battle. His thoughts of a wonderful, drunken, wenchfilled night were disrupted by the impeding thoughts of the battle. He had ...
- 2782: Jean-Claude Van Damme - Double Impact
- ... Impact. The main character Jean-Claude Van Damme plays more roles than just casting. He is also the fight choreographer and one of the producers. His talent of kickboxing has come through in his first great achievement where he played as Frank Dux in Bloodsport. Another great kickboxer in Double Impact is Bolo Yeung, who also played in Bloodsport, both times as the villain against Jean-Claude Van Damme. Although Jean-Claude Van Damme is mainly known for his kickboxing, Double Impact ... part, the movie producers include a fight with Jean-Claude Van Damme against himself! How they pieced the fighting scenes like this one and the special effects of the two brothers working together is a great achievement. There has been so much time and precision taken into account when the movie was produced and it shows through its many scenes of action with the two brothers fighting. In previous movies ...
- 2783: A Grain Of Wheat And Jomo Keny
- ... neither is the people necessarily evil, but rather is as a result of complex situations that comforts them. Though, we do not want to believe, its with the quilt admission by Mugo, that makes him great, and which inevitably starts a healing painful process that must be addressed. Jomo Kenyatta is played a very important role in the backdrop of the novel A Grain of Wheat Through his role in the ... of Kenya, his role in the novel as some what compared to Moses and his influentially book Facing Mount Kenya. Jomo Kenyatta played a vital role in the demanding Kenyan self-government and independence from Great Britain. Together with other prominent African nationalist figures, such as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Kenyatta helped organize the fifth Pan-African Congress in Great Britain in 1945. The congress, modeled after the four congresses organized by black American intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois between 1919 and 1927 and attended by black leaders and intellectuals from around the ...
- 2784: Carl Gauss
- Carl Gauss was a man who is known for making a great deal breakthroughs in the wide variety of his work in both mathematics and physics. He is responsible for immeasurable contributions to the fields of number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy, and optics, as ... primitive telegraph device. However, this was just an enjoyable hobby of Gauss's. He was more interested in the task of setting up a world wide net of magnetic observation points. This vocation produced a great deal of concrete results. The Magnetischer Verein and its journal were conceived, and the atlas of geomagnetism was published. From 1850 onwards Gauss's work was that of nearly all practical nature. He disputed over ... by other mathematicians. Although he was not awarded the credit for these particular discoveries, he found his reward with the pursuit of such research, and finding the truth for its own sake. He is a great man and his achievements will not be forgotten.
- 2785: RAP CENORSHIP
- ... the traditional regulative censorship (law). These new forces can be as equally effective as the forces of remote history. We notice the effect of post-enlightenment civilization as early as the nineteenth-century in the great Russian humanist Aleksandr Herzin. Herzin left his native country in protest of Czarist censorship only to feel "profound disillusionment with the extremely narrow limits of permission imposed on freedom of expression by market censorship in ... goal, the end to all our means. As Americans, we proclaim the "pursuit of happiness" is an inalienable right included in our Declaration of Independence. Music can improve the quality of our life and inspire great feelings within ourselves. Thoreau said, "When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest" (Rodnitzky 1972). The Importance ... in everyone, and not everyone who feels this passion has the talent neccessary to succeed as an artist. So then, the artist is a minority among professions, a small voice with a delicate product. This great desire or need to create and share with those in everyday life is important enough for a person to pursue the profession of an artist, a career of spiritual as well as economic need. ...
- 2786: Euthanasia
- ... spouse, if he or she is suffering terrible pain caused by a terminal illness. About half the public think a ""oral right" to suicide exists if a person has an incurable disease or is suffering great pain with no hope of recovering (Colasnto 63). And about half of those with living parents think their mothers and fathers would want medical treatment stopped if they were suffering a great deal of pain in a terminal disease. Or if they became totally dependent on a family member, then forty percent of their parents would want medical treatment stopped if daily activities became a burden (Colasnto ... somebody. If a doctor's duty is to ease the pain of his patients, then why should this exclude the possibility of letting them die? If a patient has a termianl illness and is in great pain and the patient thinks they would rather die now than continue living with the pain, the doctor should be allowed to help. What about a person who is in a vegetative state for ...
- 2787: Rainforests
- ... hamburgers" (Costa Rica Rainforest Outward Bound School, 1996) could have easily been prevented by boycotting the hamburgers. It is believed by many ecologists that some tropical rainforests can be harvested without causing damage to the great variety of plants and animals that live there. "The key is careful planning, sensitive harvesting, and appropriate silvicultural regimes to ensure healthy new forests are regenerated." (Forest Alliance of British Columbia, 1996) One could help ... rainforests, a description of the destruction of the rainforest, and an informative section about how an average person can help to save the rainforest. In this report the reader will learn many things, from the great diversity of the rainforest, to why simply not buying fast food hamburgers can help to save it. Also, the reader will hopefully have a better understanding of how more slowly developing countries’ economies work and ... of life, all intricately interdependent on one another. And yet here we are, in the mere geological blink of an eye, eroding the very foundation of our own existence with mass species extinctions. This 6th great mass extinction period on Earth that we are insanely causing by the suicidal annihilation of the Web of Life, will very soon bring about our own extinction. In 1992 some 1,700 of the ...
- 2788: Spot Diagnosis
- ... emergency room and waited an hour to see a crisis counselor, this person asked to speak to her alone for about 20 minutes. After this period I was told my mother was suffering from minor depression. I asked that she be retained in the hospital against her will if needed be, because of her suicidal threats and strange behavior. He then told me that she could not held involuntarily, but if ... may also be a need for a checks and balances system so as to ensure that these doctors are not "spot diagnosing" their patients. Over the last hundred years the science of Psychology has made great bounds of progress and knowledge, but what good does it make if we are not spending a reasonable amount of time using that knowledge on mental health patients?
- 2789: Hieroglyphic Writing
- ... French Army was supervising work on the fortifications of Fort St. Julian, situated a little more than four kilometers outside the town of Rosetta when hi workmen discovered a stone which was destined to achieve great fame in archaeological history. It was in fact the “Rosetta Stone” which led to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs. As a result of the fortunes of war this precious stone fell into the hands of ... in honor of Ptolemy Epiphanes which finishes with a formal instruction that “this decree, engraved on a tablet of hard stone, in three scripts, hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek, shall be engraved in each of the great temples of Egypt”. The honor of deciphering the hieroglyphs fell to two scholars, the Englishman Thomas Young and the Frenchman Francois Champollion who started work on it almost the same time and who were to ... retained a sacred character and more or less magical powers. Anybody who now to write the approximately seven hundred signs which constituted Egyptian writing, each sign representing a sound or an object, was held in great esteem. The names of the kings and queens were surrounded by an outline which archeologists call a “cartouches”. The ancient Egyptians either engraved the hieroglyphs in the stonework of their temples or painted them ...
- 2790: Beowulf Vs. Parzival
- ... Parzival wished he had not done it." (Parzival, 91) At this time in his life though, because of his ignorant nature and preconcieved notions of knighthood, he does not see how this is wrong. A great example of Parzival's ignorance is his tendency at a young age to take everything literally. When entering the Gral castle, which is where his greatest dishonor occurs, he is greeted by squires who try ... always be honest, fair, and just. Beowulf fights both Grendel and Grendel's mother, and comes up victorious in both struggles. There is honor in his fighting these monsters, but it also seems that a great motivation for him is glory. He returns home and the kingdom falls upon his shoulders. With this responsability he proves that he is capable of being a great king and a virtuous leader. Parzival's journey to greatness takes him on a much more difficult path to virtuosity. The reader sees Parzival grow through being educated and encountering many life altering experiences. ...
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