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- 751: Oedipus' Destiny
- ... Greek mythology, oracles or gods are rarely wrong in their predictions of the future. Yet Oedipus still tries to fight the predictions. Is Oedipus downfall due to an error in judgement or his lack of control over his destiny? I believe that Oedipus never really has any control over his destiny. Oedipus is a shrewd man furnished with wit and intellect. But none of these traits could help him change his predetermined destiny. His tragic destiny had already been determined before he was ... father King Laius in a quarrel. But Oedipus does not realize that he has killed his real father King Laius. Oedipus:
And as I traveled, to
I killed them all. (P.19). Oedipus has no control over his fate that leads him to the road where he kills his father. Oedipus led by fate, reaches Thebes. The city of Thebes was then tormented by the mythological monster the Sphinx. Only ...
- 752: Fidal Castro
- ... Agrarian Reform (INRA) with broad and ill defined powers. Through the INRA Castro methodically seized all American holdings in Cuba. He promised compensation but frequently never gave it. He conducted investigations into company affairs, holding control over them in the meantime, and then never divulging the results or giving back the control. These seizures were protested. On January 11 Ambassador Bonsal delivered a note to Havana protesting the Cuban government seizure of U.S. citizens property. The note was rejected the same night as a U.S. attempt to keep economic control over Cuba. As this continued Castro was engineering a brilliant propaganda campaign aimed at accusing the U.S. of "conspiring with the counter revolutionaries against the Castro regime". Castro's ability to whip the ...
- 753: Movie Review: Into the West
- ... of something deeply valued), harm done by prejudice (pre-judgement of a person or people, usually unfair and harsh yet baseless), and knowing the boundary and limits of fantasy and reality (being aware and in control of how and why we create fantasy in our lives). The most dominant theme is that of personal loss, and then prejudice & fantasy v. reality, respectively. Personal loss is something we all will deal with ... into next to nothing as a human-being. The boundary between fantasy and reality, and how we let fantasy play into our lives, is not a concern for most of us. Most people are in control of how much of their lives they live in fantasy, and are aware of the times they are being in fantasies. For some, however, fantasy can be too involved in life, for whatever the reasons ... the boys believing they will be capable of surviving as run-away cowboys, with no one to look after them, especially if the disparity of times becomes unusually harsh. Once one realizes they have lost control, if they realize this, it will be harder for them to gain back control, for whatever the reason, such as when Ossie says he wants to go home, and the horse, of all things, ...
- 754: Eli Whitney
- ... into making such a big commitment. Coming from anyone else except Eli Whitney, the proposal would've sounded crazy. Up until this time, every rifle was handmade from stock to barrel. The parts of one gun were not interchangeable with any other gun, and weren't expected to be. Whitney's plan was to make all the parts of his rifles almost identical so that they could be interchangeable from one gun to another. He accomplished this by taking one gun, and making a template from each individual part of the gun. Whitney's next task was to invent the machine to cut the metal according ...
- 755: How to Listen to Music, Not Just Hear it
- ... little advice from a male. We males are supposed to know our remote controls, according to woman. So, if you're a woman who is reading this, you need to get to know your remote control(s). You need to memorize where the mute button is, and where the CD skip, advance, and play are located. The two most important buttons on a remote control are volume. The remote control has to be an extension of your hand. You need to love the remote control, and the remote control needs to love you. Play with it until you can move your thumb and index ...
- 756: How to Listen to Music, Not Just Hear it
- ... little advice from a male. We males are supposed to know our remote controls, according to woman. So, if you're a woman who is reading this, you need to get to know your remote control(s). You need to memorize where the mute button is, and where the CD skip, advance, and play are located. The two most important buttons on a remote control are volume. The remote control has to be an extension of your hand. You need to love the remote control, and the remote control needs to love you. Play with it until you can move your thumb and index ...
- 757: How to Listen to Music, Not Just Hear it
- ... little advice from a male. We males are supposed to know our remote controls, according to woman. So, if you're a woman who is reading this, you need to get to know your remote control(s). You need to memorize where the mute button is, and where the CD skip, advance, and play are located. The two most important buttons on a remote control are volume. The remote control has to be an extension of your hand. You need to love the remote control, and the remote control needs to love you. Play with it until you can move your thumb and index ...
- 758: Religion: Jerusalem
- ... the Jewish rebellion against Rome to regain their holy city, Jerusalem. After a lengthy and heroic defence, the rebellion failed, fifty fortresses and a thousand villages were destroyed. The Jews fought hard to get back control of this city which must be of great importance to them or they would not put up such a fight. It was during the period of Davids kingship that the city of Jerusalem became ... is quite clear, in addition to Christianity, Islam again sees Jerusalem as a holy city for their religion. The city of Jerusalem is the third holiest for the religion of Islam. Jerusalem was under Roman control until 638 C.E., when the Muslim Arabs took it over. The Arabs in 668-91 C.E. built the Dome of the Rock mosque on the site of the Temple in Jerusalem. (Elon, 1989, p.79) With the building of the mosque in Jerusalem, Muslims would see Jerusalem as a holy city for their religion and would try to take control of it. In the eleventh century, Muslim toleration of both Jews and Christians gave way to persecution under the Seljuks, who took control of Jerusalem in 1071. This led way to the launch of ...
- 759: The Roots of Judaism and Christianity
- ... under the leadership of an extraordinary man named Moses, probably about 1200 BC. After a period of desert wandering, the tribes invaded Canaan at different points, and over a lengthy period of time they gained control over parts of the country. For a century or more the tribes, loosely united and sometimes feuding among themselves, were hard pressed by Canaanite forces based in fortified strongholds and by marauders from outside. At ... was destroyed and a large number of its inhabitants were deported (722 BC). Judah managed to outlive the Assyrian Empire (destroyed c.610), but the Chaldean (Neo-Babylonian) Empire that replaced it also insisted on control of Judah. When a new revolt broke out under Egyptian influence, the Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem and burned the Temple (587 or 586 BC); the royalty, nobility, and skilled craftsmen were deported to ... usually represented the people in dealings with the foreign powers that successively ruled the land. Alexander the Great conquered Palestine in 322; his successors, the Macedonian rulers of Egypt (the Ptolemies) and Syria; vied for control of this strategically important area; eventually the Syrians won. Hellenistic influences penetrated Jewish life deeply, but when the Seleucid king Antichus IV tried to impose the worship of Greek gods upon the Jews, a ...
- 760: Violence In Religions Such As Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism
- ... in both Mecca and Medina (Ahmad, et. al., 572). People from all around the region would come to those cities to trade, and were attracted by the religion. As Islam developed and spread rapidly, its control quickly began to encroach on Byzantine territory where it found diverse groups of people, who resented the foreign control of the flailing western power. The people viewed the Middle Eastern Islamic conquerors as liberators from the oppressive Byzantine Empire, and welcomed both Islamic soldiers and religion. In addition to other non-violent means of ... in the name of Allah, as Christians often did. The Muslims were tolerant of both foreign religions, peoples, and traders. They welcomed Far Eastern merchants into their territory. In India, while they did militarily gain control of the South Asian subcontinent, they never forced conversion, nor did they enter the territory with a religious intent. Indeed, the reason that the Hindu and Muslim clashes arose was based on religious differences, ...
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