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- 3501: Charlemagne 2
- ... family and family relationships and values and personal qualities, which were esteemed. Through the biography of Charlemagne, thought by many to be the greatest ruler of the Frankish Empire, we are able to learn a great deal about these aspects of Frankish society. Since Einhard, Charlemagne s biographer was a member of Charlemagne s court, much of what is learned about Frankish society is in reference to Charlemagne s relations with ... which a person gained. It was very rare that a person who was not of noble class achieved greatness, although Charlemagne did support meritocracy in his court. In the case of Charlemagne, family was of great importance, since it was his father, Pepin who as King was able to pave the way for Charlemagne to come to power. Charlemagne and his brother, Carloman became kings because of Divine right. Though family ... its benefits. Many family relationships did create friction as well. For example, Carloman and Charlemagne jointly ruled the Frankish Empire. Einhard writes, " each received half of the kingdom This harmony continued between them, but with great difficulty, for many of the partisans of Carloman did their best to break up the alliance, to the point that certain of them even plotted to engage the two in warfare" (57). Before the ...
- 3502: Aristotles The Poetics
- ... arousing pity and fear (137)." As Agamemnon, one of the works of Aeschylus, begins, pity is immediately brought into play. Although the audience does not see it, Agamemnon makes a difficult decision. He is a great leader and must make a sacrifice to please the Gods in order for them to produce the wind he needs to continue his voyage. Agamemnon's dilemma is that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigeneia ... of sacrificing his daughter and then watch, his people die at a war fought over a woman. The tragedy of the war is briefly described in the beginning of the play. The audience feels a great deal of pity for the young men that died and the families that suffered the loss of a loved one. The reason for the war was meaningless. It was fought to win back a woman ... that would be hubris. He would be acting as if he was on the same level as the gods and they would punish him (the red carpet is like a net that will bring this great tragic hero's downfall). Clytaemestra on the other hand is beginning to display signs of hubris. She tells Agamemnon that it is his right to walk on the carpet in line 943. "Oh yield! ...
- 3503: Isaac Newton's Life
- ... Newton himself blamed lack of sleep but this was almost certainly a symptom of the illness rather than the cause of it. There seems little reason to suppose that the illness was anything other than depression, a mental illness he must have suffered from throughout most of his life, perhaps made worse by some of the events we have just listed. Newton decided to leave Cambridge to take up a government ... at Cambridge, but Isaac Barrow, who held the Lucasian chair of mathematics, gave him much encouragement. Newton took his degree without distinction (in 1665), and would have prepared for his MA, but in 1664 the Great Plague broke out in London, and the university was closed down the following year.
- 3504: Pablo Picasso
- Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881 and he died in France in 1973. Picasso's father was an art teacher in a local school. He wanted Picasso to become a great artist some day. Picasso's painting style changed more over the period of his life than any other great artist. He was always trying new and different things. When his best friend died, Picasso felt alone and sad and all of his paintings during this period contained lots of blue. This was called the ... s father even thought that his paintings were too strange. During 1915m, Picasso began to return to realism in a series of portrait drawings, although he began to work simultaneously on Cubism. He was a great painter, but he was good at other things too. He made sculptures, prints, drawings, dishes and bowls, and even costumes and scenery for plays. When Picasso died in 1973, more of his paintings were ...
- 3505: Jack London 2
- ... ex-slave, Virginia Prentiss (Memmie Jennie). London dropped out of school at the age of fourteen, and worked at a series of low-paying sweatshops until he was sixteen. In 1894, during America's worst depression of his time, London traveled across the United States and Canada on railroads. He was arrested in 1894 in Niagara Falls and jailed for vagrancy. As an adolescent, he worked at various hard labor jobs ... Later a piece called, "The War of the Classes" was published, which included his lectures on socialism. In 1907 London and his wife boarded a ship called the Snark, and sailed around the world. The great voyage was to last seven years and take Jack and Charmian around the world. The "Snark" was to cost an amount of $7000. The final bill came in at about $30.000 (For comparison: a ...
- 3506: Chisholm Trail
- Chisholm Trail When the railroads moved west to the Great Plains, the "Cattle Boom" began. Southern Texas became a major ranching area with the raising of longhorn cattle from Mexico. Cattle was branded by the rawhides who guarded them on horseback on the ranges. Before ... increase icattle by the end of the Civil War. Over 1,000,000 cattle roamed the open range. At this time, people in the north had money to buy beef and cattle which was in great demand. A cow that cost 4 to5 dollars a head in Texas was going for 40 to 50 dollars a head in the east. Ranchers hired cowboys for the cattle drives north, realizing the great opportunity for a large profit if they could reach the railroads in Abilene, Kansas. Joseph McCoy, a stock dealer from Springfield, Illinois, decided a new trail was necessary west of the farms. In 1867, ...
- 3507: Early African Societies - Hist
- ... scientists date the beginning of existence as far as twenty billion years ago, but there are others who believe that the world is really not that old. Human existence has taken its toll upon many great researchers who have searched to understand human ancestry. It is only right to include the Book of Genesis when one speaks of human existence, seeing that God created man and woman (Adam and Eve). The ... work, biological evolution. Many scientists have challenged his theory, but some have learned to accept it. From the Homo habilis to the rise of the Homo sapiens, and even the Australopithecus, scientists have learned a great deal about human existence. But yet, there is still a gap, a “missing link”, which bridges that gap between ape and man that so many researchers have yet to find. The trellis theory argues that ... advanced as it is today, so farmers had to work a considerable enough amount of time for their food. The Mesopotamian civilization was the first civilization to utilize the benefits of the river. Although this great civilization was conquered, it flourished throughout the “Fertile Crescent” with the inventions, art, and writings that were bestowed upon them. The Nile and Indus valleys were soon formed upon the downfall of Mesopotamia. The ...
- 3508: Spain
- ... mineral fuels, transportation equipment, food products, metals and metal products, and textiles. Exports include motor vehicles, machinery, basic metals, vegetable products, chemicals, mineral products, and textiles. Spain's chief trading partners are France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Portugal, the United States, the Netherlands, Japan, and Belgium and Luxembourg. Tourism The climate, beaches, and historic cities of Spain are an attraction for tourists, which make a significant contribution to the country's ... Spanish civilization during the Moorish supremacy was far in advance of that of the rest of the continent. Numerous schools were built, many of them free and for the education of the poor. At the great Muslim universities medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and literature were cultivated; the work of Greek philosopher Aristotle was studied there long before it was well known to Christian Europe. An extensive literature developed, the caliphs themselves being ... constructed effective irrigation systems throughout the southern region. Spain in the Early Modern Era In 1469 the marriage of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand V of Aragón initiated the developments that made Spain a great power. They became joint rulers of Castile in 1474 and of Aragón in 1479, although no actual union of the two kingdoms occurred and each monarch exercised sovereign power only in his or her ...
- 3509: Jimi Hendrix
- ... his woman won t love him any more, he says I know her sister will. With Red House, Jimi extended his identity in relation to pop culture to include not only rock star status, but great musician -- both blues and otherwise -- as well. In a 1967 Rolling Stone article titled Hendrix and Clapton, Jon Landau states: He [Jimi Hendrix] is... a great guitarist and a brilliant arranger. On Red House, the only straight blues he recorded,... he establishes himself as an absolute master of that musical form (18). Another Hendrix tune from Are You Experienced? was Purple ... his bandmates in and surrounded by Indian imagery, to which Jimi responded: The three of us had nothing to do with that Axis cover. When I first saw the that design I thought, It s great, they have an Indian painting about us, but maybe we should have an American Indian (Fairchild, Axis: Bold As Love 5). Axis: Bold As Love marks a more obvious return to Hendrix Native American ...
- 3510: Joan Of Arc 3
- JOAN OF ARC Joan of Arc is a French National Heroine who became a Saint of the Roman Catholic Church because of her great achievements. Joan was a simple peasant girl who rescued France from defeat in one of the darkest periods of the "Hundred years' war" with England. She led the French army to victory against the English ... home and didn't even consider leaving the village until she was thirteen and had begun hearing voices. She identified the voice as that of God, telling her that she would have to perform a great task. By age sixteen, she had visions and heard the voices of Saint Margaret, Saint Michael and Saint Catherine sending her on a sacred mission. She must go to the aid of the Dauphin and ... were convinced she was a witch and used sorcery to defeat them. Nonetheless, Joan continued to repulse the English attempt to conquer France. Her confidence in God and reckless courage are what made her a great leader for the French army. Inspired by her, France was saved from defeat. Paris was the key to victory, but while Joan wanted to attack, the King had chosen to go against Joan's ...
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