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- 7011: Annotations From The Narrative
- ... as they followed their master’s wishes and didn’t raise any questions, they were being “manageable slaves”. Not letting the slaves have their own identities and background made it easier for their masters to control them. It is also interesting how Douglass compares a slave to a horse. It may be upsetting to the reader to see a human treated the same way as a horse. This dehumanizes the slaves ...
- 7012: Origin Of Heiroglyphics
- ... irrigation canals to distribute the water throughout the fields (Warburton, 70). Those projects required a very organized effort among every one of the farmers, and a strong central government and bureaucracy developed to manage and control this effort. Eventually, this bureaucracy, including the king, the upper-class, and the ever powerful priests in charge, became a huge, rigid network that managed everyone’s life. By 3100 b.c., when the Sumerians ...
- 7013: Early History Of Judaism
- ... have their precious Jerusalem back (through the help of other nations and their politics) there is great conflict and emotion surrounding it. Other nations and people in the area feel that they should be in control of the renowned city, and the Jews deny fervently any attempt to wrestle it from their occupation. It is true that there is no temple in Jeruslaem today, nor are all the Jews in the ...
- 7014: Effects Of The Atomic Bomb
- ... chain reaction that causes the atomic bomb to have its destructive power (World Book, 1990). This chain reaction can be attained in two different ways. The first type of atomic bomb ever used was a gun-type. In this type two subcritical pieces of U-235 are placed in a device similar to the barrel of an artillery shell. One piece is placed at one end of the barrel and will ...
- 7015: Eastern Philosophy
- ... education and the establishment of an orderly hierarchical society, Taoism sought to preserve human life by following the Way of Nature (Tao) and by reverting to primitive agrarian communities and a government that did not control or interfere with life. Taoism attempted to bring the individual into perfect harmony with nature through a mystical union with the Tao. This mysticism was carried still further by Chuang-tzu, a Taoist philosopher of ...
- 7016: Excellence Redefined
- ... was driven by money. First of all, I am only eighteen years old and I have plenty of time to worry about my future. Second of all, money is something you can’t let take control of your life because it will soon consume any good quality that exist, as the movie has portrayed. Money is only something that we have been given and are allowed to use, and it is ...
- 7017: Elizabeth
- ... massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day and after 1576 formed the Catholic League. Immensely ambitious and popular [called "the people's king"], he instigated the revolt of Paris against King Henri III (1588) and took control of the city. After an ostensible conciliation, the king had him murdered. His brother, Louis de Lorraine, Cardinal de Guise 1555-58, was killed at the same time. Leadership of the League devolved upon their ...
- 7018: Ellis Island
- ... they chose Ellis Island as the new immigration center. After erecting new wooden buildings, it opened in 1892 but those buildings burned in 1897. New buildings were erected in 1900 and it reopened. Eventually the control of immigration was turned over to the Federal government. Ellis Island was the principal federal immigration station the “Gateway to America” in the United States from 1892 to 1954. More than 12 million immigrants were ...
- 7019: Black Rain
- ... was lost but also for the people that died, or are dyeing, in the community. Also the crying was also from fear of what was going to happen to them now that another country had control of them. The men mostly feared that they were going to be castrated but they knew that the country would never be the same but they would be able to eat. The eels that were ...
- 7020: Egyptian Cosmogony
- ... these means by human labour. A Jazz artist may own the tools of his trade but is still alienated from what he himself has created by the fact that he must depend on those who control the means of distribution; nightclubs, festivals, radio stations, booking agencies and recording companies in order to bring his music before the public to earn a livelihood from it. The ideas of the ruling class are ...
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