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- 3981: Council Of Nicea
- ... the Church and the end of the last and most dreadful of all the persecutions, that of Emperor Diocletian. Nine years later in the year 313 CE that prophecy was fulfilled when Constantine became the great emperor of the West. Constantine got with Licinius who was the Emperor of the East. They signed one of the most famous of all historical documents. It was called the Edict of Milan, which acknowledged ... be convicted by two or three witnesses, let him cease from the clerical office. And who so shall transgress these [enactments] will imperil his own clerical position, as a person who presumes to disobey the great Synod. Canon 20. As some kneel on the Lord's day and on the days of Pentecost, the holy Synod has decided that, for the observance of a general rule, all shall offer their prayers ... they still remain a standard. Even the Nicean Creed, which was invented at the Council of Nicea, was modified at the Church Council of Constantinople in 381 CE. But the Council of Nicea was a great achievement despite these downfalls. For example never before or since has the Church been so completely represented at one spot. I believe the most important aspect of the Council of Nicea is the fact ...
- 3982: Comparison Of Honor
- ... to uphold his honor. This is when he takes and keeps the sash that he gets from Bertalak's wife and doesn't give it to Bertalak. This shows that even though Gawain is a great knight he is subject to fear for his life and is in need of some hope. Gawain is punished for this, the small nick that Gawain receives on his neck, but the Green Knight, Bertalak ... fail, he still completed a quest that probably no one alive could do. Bertalak lets Gawain keep the sash as a symbol of he journey and what he accomplished. To Bertalak the sash represents everything great that Gawain has done and he believes that Gawain should look upon the sash with pride. Bertalak along with everyone else in the poem believe this major feat that Gawain accomplished was an amazing show of his pride, honor, faith, and skill as a great knight. On the other side of the coin, Gawain sees the sash as a symbol of his failure. Gawain believes that he should be a perfect knight and that he must be able to ...
- 3983: A Reflection Of Egypt In The 2
- ... 203. · Cole, Gregory. "Conversation with Mahfouz." Africa Report 35, no.2, May/June 1990, 65-66. · Dickey, C."A Baedeker to Egypt's Soul." Newsweek 115 (June 26, 1990): 64. · El-Enany, Rasheed. "Mahfouz: A great novel and a wanting translation." Third World Quarterly 13 (1992): 187. · Enani, M.M.,ed. Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel 1988, Egyptian Perspectives: a collection of critical essays. Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 1989. · Gershoni, Israel. "Between ... particularly influenced by Salama Musa, Al-Aqqad, Taha Husayn and his longtime friend Tawfiq al-Hakim. Mahfouz never studied abroad. His knowledge of the West and Western literary forms came primarily from his readings. A great admirer of the Russian masters Tolstoy, Turgnev, Dostoevsky, and especially Chekov, he equally well read in the French classics. Thomas Mann, Hemingway and Faulkner are also some of the major writers he generally esteems. A ... God. Kamal's unusual interest in studying literature and philosophy may also be representative of Egyptian society as a whole as it reacted to the West. Europe was seen as the center of all the great art, literature and philosophy, and Arab society, like Kamal, seems to have consumed it when it has become available. We can see Kamal's initial idealism slowly eroded by the expansion of his knowledge ...
- 3984: Massacre Of Wounded Knee
- ... careful roll was taken among the Sioux - 120 men and 230 women and children. The next morning, over 300 lay dead. Gone was the Indian dream, pride, and spirit. This so-called battle marked the great last effort of the Indians' struggle to maintain their own culture and identity. The end of Indian America is marked by what can only be called a massacre. In 1880, the Great Sioux Reservation corralled the Sioux tribes and gave white American agencies control over their activities. The establishment of separate reservations blurred long-standing tribal distinctions. The older, subtribals gradually became obsolete and Indians began to ... never punished. About twenty medals of honor were also granted for the massacre. From 1891 to 1895, these medals were awarded to soldiers of the Seventh cavalry for their valiant efforts in defense of the great American way. During the course of several weeks in January of 1891, the leaders of the Ghost Dancers surrendered their arms. After the final surrender, twenty-seven of the Ghost Dancers were imprisoned at ...
- 3985: Chinese Communist Influences
- ... and military force that expanding West brought to bear on it. The general sense of national weakness and humiliation was rendered still keener by a unique phenomenon, the modernization of Japan and its rise to great power status. Japan's success threw China's failure into sharp remission. The Japanese performance contributed to the discrediting and collapse of China's imperial system, but it did little to make things easier for ... Sixth World Congress of the Comintern in 1928 to the Seventh in 1935 insisted, largely because the disaster he had suffered in China that Communist Parties everywhere must promote world revolution in a time of depression. The CPC was ridden with factionalism; the successful effort to replace this situation with one of relative "bolshevization" or in layman's term this means imposed unity, which was ultimately made by Mao Tse-tung ...
- 3986: Is Chivalry Alive Today
- Chivalry is the type of thing that would be great to have in our society but I dont believe that it exists too much anymore in the world today. Let me break down here some of the chivalry rules compared with the actions of ... King Arthur this was carried out greatly but if you look at the lack of respect given to women today you see that this rule of chivalry no longer exists. Womens right have made great strides in the past few decades but women are just not given the respect that they deserve. Women were put in high regards back in King Arthurs day. Now they are not as respected ... soon we all see that we need chivalry to keep society working but that is not likely to happen and the world will be even more unrecognisealbe than it was in the days of the great King Arthur.
- 3987: Margaret Thatcher
- Margaret Hilda Thatcher is the first woman to have held the office of prime minister in Great Britain. She was born Margaret Hilda Roberts in Grantham, Lincolnshire and educated at the University of Oxford, where she earned degrees in chemistry. After graduation she worked as a research chemist from 1947 to 1951 ... Conservative party to victory in 1979. Thatcher is the only British prime minister in the twentieth century to serve three consecutive terms. In 1990, controversy over Thatcher's tax policy and her reluctance to commit Great Britain to full economic integration with Europe inspired a strong challenge to her leadership. Ms. Thatcher was ousted from leadership, and resigned in November 1990 and was succeeded as party leader and prime minister by ... married Margaret began law courses at a special tutorial college. Mrs. Thatcher's ambition was to become a barrister, which is the "gowned and wigged advocates who present all cases in court. The barristers in Great Britain are the more exclusive and the most highly regarded in the British legal system." (Mayer, 1979) Margaret continued her legal studies through 1952. It was at that time she wrote a newspaper article ...
- 3988: Chicago Politics
- ... that it had been previously fabricated. Now dubbed the Kelly-Nash Machine, the influence of the mayors office grew that much more. And even though the country was going through the depths of the Great Depression, good-hearted men like Cermak and Kelly kept Chicago together. Such good things were not meant to last. 1943 saw the death of Pat Nash, and soon after came an abrupt decline to the system ...
- 3989: A Social History Of Truth
- ... motion of the truth occurred. Then an inforced agreement should be reached. Popper pointed that most of what we know about the world is based on the observations and communications of others. Trust is a great force in science. It is an unending means for the extension and modification of knowledge. Communication of the world around us through reports is very important in our understanding. Reports may vary because individuals are ... gentry through his birth opened many doors for Boyle, who believed that it was good to be richer than one s condition. The Christian gentleman who attained moral control of himself was believed to have great integrity, courage, faithfulness and magnanimity. Boyle believed that God had superintendence over his welfare. The devil was the father of lies. Boyle believed that if one was true to theirself, then they could not be ... write Boyles law, for which he is most known. Boyles law is: P1V1=P2V2 (where temperature is constant). It is most likely that it was composed by Boyles said assistant Papin and Hooke had a great responsibility for the way it was represented in text. Robert Boyle knew that the exactness of our knowledge of physical bodies could be limited by divine power. Boyle believed that if miracles in the ...
- 3990: The Devil and Tom Walker: Human Intent and the Aftermath of It
- ... shows Tom a tree for a greedy townsperson, he fails to see that he is very much like that tree when he "looked in the direction that the stranger pointed and beheld one of the great trees, fair and flourishing without, but rotten at the core" (130). As time passes after Tom has made his deal with the devil, and he is working as a usurer in Boston, squeezing every last ... Tom now begins a routine of attending a Church service and praying loudly for everyone to hear, and he outfits himself with two Bibles which he thinks will protect him to the end. In a great irony Irving tells of how Tom will put down his Bible for a few minutes while he forecloses a mortgage of some poor borrower, and the resumes his reading when he is finished. Stevens recognized ... narrative, Jabez is frustrated with the illness of his wife, the condition of his animals, and his unproductive crops. Jabez inadvertently summons the devil and makes a deal with him, stipulating that Jabez would have great success in all his undertakings, and that in seven years time, he would relinquish his soul to the devil, known in this story as "Scratch" or "Mr. Scratch". However when the time comes for ...
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