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- 4121: Episcopalianism / Anglicanism
- ... became lax in their duties. At the same time, many of the priests were very poor, and when they saw both the King and the bishops taking fees for everything they did, it became a great temptation for these priests, who began selling the sacraments (Wakeman, 157-162). The papacy refused to give any guidance, and left to itself, the church drifted aimlessly. This all left a mistrust of Rome in ... an Episcopalian upbringing (Konolige, 386). This pride of class has been one of the major and probably one of the best factors in American life for more than a century. It was the cause of great opportunity in the United States, the foundation of public service, of a massive tradition of private support of irreplaceable public institutions, the root of much that was best in political thought and practice. To a ... Frederica Konolige. The Power of Their Glory. New York: Wyden Books, 1978. Marshall, Michael E. The Anglican Church Today and Tomorrow. Wilton: Morehouse-Barlow Co., Inc., 1984. Stendahl, Krister, et al. "Mainstreams of Christian Faith." Great Religions of the World. National Geographic Society, 1971. Wakeman, Henry 0. An Introduction o the History of the Church of England. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1972. http://anglicansonline.org/ Anglicans Online http://www. ...
- 4122: The History of Anti-Semitism Starting From the Bible to the Holocaust
- ... Jews to death. These massacres were later called the Pogroms (Glatzer). Many people believe that these early references and cases of anti-Semitism were the root for the Holocaust. From misconceptions of the Bible, the Great Crusades, to the early 20Th century Pogroms, they all helped build up a hate for the Jews . One of the first major anti-Semitic massacres took place during the Crusades. It was a period in ... Western Europe and America. However, there too, Jews were restricted and suffered from the old accusations. Many laws were written to take away the freedoms of the Jews, and not until the start of the Great War (WWI) were they abolished. Although, the main reason they were revoked was so that the Jews could fight for Holy Mother Russia in the War. Grand Duke Sergei, Commander-in- Chief of th e ... of 100,000 of them died from exposure and starvation. Later, 200,000 more were murdered in Ukraine during the October Revolution in Russia and the ensuing civil war (Glatzer). In conclusion, Adolph Hitler's great speeches and catchy propaganda, that the Holocaust is so renowned for, were not the only things that led people to believe the massacre of the Jews was right. People since the New Testament of ...
- 4123: Bats
- ... have adapted and evolved to survive in their surroundings. Some have grown fins, others legs, and still others wings. One of the animals that has grown wings is the bat. The bat is a truly great creature. It has all the characteristics of mammals while also possessing the skill in flight of a bird. There are more than 800 species of bats in the world. They are of many different sizes ... to catch insects. Though other mammals, like the flying squirrel seem to fly but actually glide the bat is the only mammal that can truly fly (Lauber 1). A Bat’s Body Due to the great variety of species of bats some characteristics vary greatly but the Little Brown Bat is a good example of a bat. It has fur on its body, large naked ears, its rear legs have claws ... similar to the mantis. Tiger moths even make their own ultrasonic clicks. It is not known whether these are to startle the bat or to warn it that the moth is distasteful. Despite the insects great efforts to foil the bat’s sonar the bat still catches its prey more than 50% of the time (Fellman 93). Some bats even have different frequencies than insects can hear. The competition between ...
- 4124: Effects Of Automobiles
- ... on their vehicles to run well so that they can maintain their everyday treks of commuting back and forth. These automobiles have been the cause of an abundance of jobs throughout the United States. A great number of our citizens are employed by automobile production plants, car repair industries, and other automobile related positions. To think that cars could have been non-existent makes us wonder where thousands of our citizens ... big part of the United States industrial and trading world relies on the automobile and its components. Another view of our life without automobiles deals with our visual perspective. Car and truck advertisements consume a great deal of air time for television commercials. We see these luxurious machines and little by little we are tempted and pressured into investing into one of them. Numerous amounts of our modern movies also involve ... automobiles have been introduced along the way. This constant change of what appears to have a good outcome also brings along some negative aspects. These downfalls include those discussed above and many others. With every great step towards technological breakthroughs in the automobile world, new problems and hindrances arrive which are sure to lead to more fatal outcomes. Though cars have changed our lifestyle for the better, the extra impact ...
- 4125: Carnivorous Plants
- ... water. Small insects would sometimes fall into these water reservoirs and drown, eventually being decomposed by bacteria in the water. The nutrients from the insects would be absorbed by the leaf. The deeper the leaf depression the more insects that could be drowned. This would have created a distinct survival advantage allowing some plants to better compete in nutrient poor soil. As time passed, these plants would evolve more effective trapping ... even though many plants, such as the Venus fly trap, benefit from periodic burns. Habitat destruction from slash and burn agriculture, however, does not benefit any of the carnivorous plants and is also causing a great deal of the extinctions.
- 4126: Tradgedy 2
- Foolis Hearts Tragedy Essay Oedipus Rex, Macbeth, The Great Gatsby Throughout literary history tragic heroes have managed to deceive everyone but themselves. The tragedy lies in the fact that the they believe they can fool themselves as well as everyone else. Tragic heroes always ... sense of hubris will bring about the downfall of families, communities and even entire empires. Nowhere in literature is this Hubris more apparent than in Sophocles Oedipus Rex, Shakespeare s Macbeth, and Fitzgerald s The Great Gatsby. These are stories written in very different times, with different social climates and societal expectations, and by authors of very different backgrounds. The one major quality these three tragedies share is that they are ... since plaid. He ascended the throne and the evil nature of his aspirations ascended over his good natured charade. Had Macbeth not deceived his way into power, without self-deception, he was poised to do great things, as the Thane of Cawdor. As it was his evil self deception, or lack thereof, proved to be his downfall. Jay Gatsby s downfall comes about for completely different reasons. Gatsby had one ...
- 4127: Comparison Of 1984 And The Cry
- A comparison of life in London, Air Strip One (or Great Britain) in the George Orwell novel ‘1984’ and Waknuk, Canada in the John Wyndham novel ‘The Crysalids.’ Waknuk is a society living after a nuclear attack. The people of Air Strip One (or Britain) in ... are concerned there is no God, the complete opposite of the radical religious views of the people of Waknuk. Most people in Waknuk have been ‘brainwashed’ by Christianity in the same way many people in Great Britain in 1984 have been ‘brainwashed’ by the party and Big Brother. Each use repetitive slogans, in 1984 such slogans as: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” are used and more subtly ... is similar to that of the Proles in 1984, each rejected by the ‘normal population’ and forced to live away from it in designated areas. The Proles are closest to what life is like in Great Britain today. Modern views and ideas are very rare in Waknuk. Both in Waknuk and 1984 an ideal is constantly trying to be met. In Waknuk this ideal is to “fight unceasingly against the ...
- 4128: The Importance of Having Several Different Translations of the Bible
- ... make sense , but, several different versions make the Bible able to be read by almost everyone. If there were not as many translations of this holy book, the spread of Christianity would not be as great as it now is. Many interpretations make the Bible easier to understand by using the everyday language most people use. The Living Bible takes the confusing phrases that would normally take two or three times ... read and sums them up in simple language. Most people don't have enough time as it is. Why waste it trying to understand a few sentences? The spread of Christianity would not be as great as it is now without the different translations of the Bible. How else, without the help of evangelists, would it's teachings be spread? There should be translations in every language. Everyone should be able to read this great book. Different translations for different people sounds very good. The Bible has been translated into different languages and forms. Some of which have been made easier to understand. This necessity enables different people to ...
- 4129: The Bulgarian and Soviet Virus Factories
- ... Eastern block). At that time most Western software was copy protected. Instead of training our skilled people in writing their own programs, we began to train them to break copy protection schemes. And they achieved great success in this field. The Bulgarian hackers are maybe the best in cracking copy protected programs. Besides, they had no real hope in making and selling their own programs, since, due to the total lack ... the idea of the computer virus was very new, only the very good programmers were able to make a virus. It became a common myth that if you can write a virus, you're a great programmer. This myth might have been justified at the beginning, but now it is completely without sense. Nevertheless, young hackers began to write viruses --- just to prove to their friends and to the rest of ... computers are never assigned important tasks in the army. Therefore, even if a virus infects them, and even if it destroys all the data on all such computers, the caused damage will not be of great importance. Computers that are used for the really important things, such as rocket leading or cannon aiming, are always specialized ones. Their programs are usually hard--coded and only data can be entered in ...
- 4130: Orangutans
- ... orang means "person" and utan is defined as "forest'. Thus Orangutan literally means "Person of the Forest". Orangutans are found in the tropical forests of Sumatra and Borneo. They are the most arboreal of the great apes and move amongst the safety of the trees from one feeding site to the next. They are so well adapted to arboreal life that they cannot place their feet on the ground, instead they ... Sumatran male has small pads and laryngeal sac, a ginger coloured moustache, a pronounced beard, and a diamond shaped face. Individuals can also be distinguished chromosomally, biochemically, and by their cranial characteristics. There is a great deal of individual variety in the orangutan. "Each orang-utan had a distinct personality and in dealing with such highly intelligent animals in captivity, the keeper's knowledge of the individual was probably more important ... to taste like sweet garlic. After they have finished eating and bedtime comes around the orangutans build themselves a new nest forty to fifty feet up in a tree made of boughs. Like the other great apes (chimpanzees and gorillas), orangutans are highly intelligent. Tests have indicated that their intelligence is relatively similar. Wild orangutans use their intelligence to solve problems usually related to arboreal living and food gathering. In ...
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