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- 2471: Dracula
- ... coffin and especially because the dirt in his coffin is consecrated and Dracula, being evil, uses this ground to rest in. Dracula has several of the powers that Christians believe no one but God could control. For instance, Dracula can control the weather, wild or unclean animals and, he can change form and disappear into the air. Christians believe that consuming God's body and blood will give them everlasting life with God in heaven. Draculagetting ...
- 2472: Movie: Delta Force - Suicide in Chinatown
- ... one fact worked to decide quickly the situation... There were many couples in the movie theater and during one of the most violent part of the film, a couple stood up and pulled out two gun machines that were in a suitcase. They were, apparently, a normal couple. The blond man using beard was wearing sport clothes. He was carrying a medium black and white suitcase, from where they pulled the gun. The woman was also young, may be working to 20 or 22 years old. She was wearing shorts and a red shirt. She was the most nervous and she was the one who ordered everybody ...
- 2473: Oliver Cromwell
- ... of either house of Parliament should be allowed to hold commands or offices in the armed forces; his proposal was accepted, and it was also agreed that a new army should be made under the control of Sir Thomas Fairfax. The post of second in command was left open, and, when the Civil War reached its climax in the summer of 1645, Fairfax insisted that Cromwell should be given it. He ... been approved both by "God and the people The four fundamentals were government by a single person and Parliament; the regular summoning of parliaments; the maintenance of "liberty of conscience"; and the division of the control of the armed forces between the protector and Parliament. Oliver said that he would sooner be killed than consent to the "willful throwing away of this Government, . . . so owned by God, so approved by men ...
- 2474: The History and Deline of the Roman Empire
- ... cases, beginning with Hadrian, where, when municipalities got into financial difficulties, and the cities lost their independence. The people did not seem to mind. As often happens today, they were quite willing to resign their control of affairs and to let the government take care of them. The financial problems of the large empire slowly tore it apart. Society as a whole fell to its knees as the empire began to ... twenty high, of which you can still see large sections in the imperial city. But Aurelian was assassinated, and so there was another period of chaos until in 285 A.D. the Illyrian, Diocletian, gained control. Such is a brief sketch of the ordeal through which the Roman world passed in the one hundred and five years from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Diocletian. Mere words can ...
- 2475: Japanese Anime
- ... correctly operate Mazinger Z but after few tries Koji was able to land with the pilder (also known as Jet Piloter in some version of the series) into Mazinger's head and from there take control of Mazinger's body. Few days later, Dr.Hell showed his monsters to the world; they start destroying everything in their path but a new hero was already there to fight them: Koji Kabuto, now perfectly able to control his Mazinger Z destroyed all of Dr.Hell's monsters! The story will be quite the same later, Dr.Hell will build more and more powerful monsters, Mazinger Z will have to desperately fight with ...
- 2476: Interplay Between Fantasy And Reality In The Gothic
- ... aren't real, consequently so is the reader. Jack Torrance is completely overwhelmed, for him everything is real as his world turns inward and the ghosts of the hotel appear to him and begin to control him. Witness the scene in Kubrick's film when Jack is in the empty bar evidently speaking to no-one, but switched to Jacks point of view and the bar is full of people. It ... read the Poe original it makes the ball seem discordant from the rest of the story in a disturbing manner, almost as if there are forces in the hotel that even the author can't control. It also creates yet another fantasy inside a reality. Not only do we have the fantasy of the Overlook inside the realism of our world we have the fantasy of the ball in what the ...
- 2477: Movie Review: Gone With The Wind and Glory
- ... life after she marries Red Butler. The atmosphere of Georgia before the war was very relaxed and secure. The southerners felt that their problems would take care of themselves, and as long as they had control over the congress nothing could hurt their interests. People threw parties, laughed, made jokes about Abe Lincoln, and overall were quite carefree. The world around them seemed to collapse with the onslaught of the Civil ... attitude of the southerners quickly changed and only through time and hard work were their wounds healed. The story of Glory starts out in the 54th Massachusetts regiment, which has just been put under the control of a relatively young colonel, Robert Gould Shaw. The regiment is the first all Negro regiment in the state of Massachusetts. The general attitude towards the war is very patriotic and even though many do ...
- 2478: Greek Mythology And Religion
- ... were indefinite, and the deities of one order were often found in another. The gods were held to be immortal; yet they were also believed to have had a beginning. They were represented as exercising control over the world and the forces of nature. Ananke, the personification of necessity, however, limited this control, to which even the gods bowed. At the head of the divine hierarchy was Zeus, the spiritual father of gods and men. His wife was Hera, queen of heaven and guardian of the sanctity of ...
- 2479: Social Darwinsim History
- ... a few years become one of the most profitable industries. He was correct -- within only a few years, oil was being used for heating, lubrication, fuel for ships and automobiles, etc,. His dream was to control the whole oil industry in America. At age of 30 he founded the Standard Oil Co. of Ohio and bought over 25 refineries. After only a couple of years, Rockefeller was one of the richest ... monopoly which throughout his career brought him over 400 million dollars. Carnegie opposed the formation of pools and trusts; "His preferred solution to the problems of consolidation was vertical integration." He achieved almost a total control of the steel industry in the country. "His road to success was speculation for accumulation" (Cashman 66). Similarly as Rockefeller, Carnegie was also a Social Darwinist. He was known to idealize Herbert Spencer's theories ...
- 2480: Inevitability Of Independence
- ... have been English. The parliament could have granted representation but not only was the parliament unwilling to do this but the colonists felt that it was impossible. The British could have pulled troops out of control positions in the colonies but they would be unable to control a far away population previously angered by non-representa- tion and violations of basic rights. The English could have stopped taxes but they would reman in debt from the French and Indian war. So if ...
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