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- 961: A Consise History Of Germany
- ... lost imperial power. His efforts to retrieve crown lands aroused the Saxons, who resented the Salian kings. He crushed a Saxon rebellion in 1075 and proceeded to confiscate land, thus intensifying their enmity. Henry's control of the clergy embroiled him with the militant reform pope Gregory VII, who wanted to free the church from secular bondage. When Gregory forbade lay investiture of churchmen, Henry had him deposed by the Synod ... Finally, betrayed and imprisoned by his son Henry, the emperor was forced to abdicate. Compromise The treacherous, brutal, and greedy Henry V vainly continued his father's struggle for supremacy. Suffering military defeats, he lost control of Poland, Hungary, and Bohemia. Despite the support of churchmen, ministerials, and the towns, he could not suppress the princes, who forced the weary emperor and Pope Callistus II to compromise on investiture. They accepted ... ruled and taxed by uncouth, greedy foreigners. The popes needed imperial support against a Roman rising, but they believed that their spiritual office gave them sovereignty over the emperors. Also, they wanted to maintain independent control of the Papal States. Consequently, some cities revolted against imperial authority and formed the Lombard League in alliance with Pope Alexander III. Frederick reacted by creating an antipope. On his next two trips, Ghibelline ...
- 962: Sheyann Webb
- ... After the three older children married and left, Mrs.Moses was forced to send the three younger children to neighbors' houses. One day while dusting the funiture, Annie decided to take down her father's gun and clean it. A few days later, she saw a squirrel running in the field. Excitedly, she took down the gun and loaded it. She hastily aimed and fired. To her suprise, the squirrel was cleanly shot though the head, even though she was only 8 years old! Annie's mom liked having the meat for dinner, but the family's Quaker religion opposed violence. Annie had to promise never to use the gun on someone. Annie was well known in Cincinnati for her cleanly shot birds. People who ate the birds did not have to worry about chipping a tooth on scattered bird shot. A restaraunt owner ...
- 963: Farewell To Manzanar
- ... But she did know that one very important part of her was gone. Jeanne's father was a very strong, military-like, proud, arrogant, and dignified man. He was the one who was always in control, and made all the decisions for the family. He grew up in Japan, but left at the age of seventeen, headed for work in Hawaii, and never again went back. Leaving his own family behind ... Grandmother unable to make the walk to dinner, this tradition ended. Adults ate seperately from the children, and this in itself begins to break down the structure and unity of the family. The parents lost control over their children. The barracks were too small for any in-home activity and the children were forced, not like they objected, to be outside all the time. The housing units were strictly for coming ... Before being imprisoned, as I said, he had great dignity, but now seemed to have lost that. He had lost it because all his loyalty and honor was repeatedly questioned there. Drinking began to take control of him and he never would leave the barracks. He brewed his own rice wine and brandy, and became a drunken tyrant. Jeanne was never aware that her mother and father used to fight ...
- 964: Power Shifts in Intergovernmental Relations: A Result of Fiscal Federalism
- ... in Intergovernmental Relations: A Result of Fiscal Federalism Fiscal federalism is the result of the states' dependence on the national government for funds. Until 1913, the national government had minimal monetary resources, thus possessing little control over the affairs of the states. Once effected, the Sixteenth Amendment resulted in the amassing of government funds on the national level. This reserve of money enabled the national government to initiate a multitude of ... of the century until the present was marked by legislation limiting the states even further. During the Great Society of the 1960s, Congress passed Johnson's proposals for increased federal aid to education-- augmenting federal control and involvement over education, a power reserved for the states. Moreover, Congress passed Medicare and Medicaid, health insurance plans for the elderly and the poor or disabled, respectively, expanding the federal role in social welfare ... campaign in the devolution of power from Washington to the states. States were recently given greater flexibility in administrating AFDC; they now have wide discretion in determining eligibility. The welfare overhaul bill gives states greater control over awarding benefits; policy will be determined largely by states and localities themselves. There is increasing support towards turning welfare, Medicaid and federal job programs over to the states, which would independently establish criteria ...
- 965: Multiple Personalities: Do They Really Exist?
- ... disorder (MPD)? First I will look at what exactly the disorder is. It is, in simple terms, many complex personalities all inhabiting the same body. At any given time, one of those personalities is in control of the body. Each one has different tastes, style, thought process, and many other things that define a person. However, research has proven even more than that. In clinical studies it has been found that ... are agitated and distracted child personalities. These personalities were created in order to suffer the pain of abuse. When the abuse was over, their call was no longer needed and the primary personality could resume control, dropping with that second personality all memory of the event and continuing as if nothing happened. This type of personality exists in almost all MPD sufferers. Another common personality is the Persecutor personality. This personality ... a machine that measures brain waves. He then subjected each personality of each person to a set of stimuli. Each personality reacted differently, the difference was around the same as between two separate people. The control group of volunteers faking the disorder could produce any difference, indicating to me that something is very different about those states of mind, and they cannot simply make up the changes in response to ...
- 966: Peter The Great
- ... interested in his family, he was very much interested in an atmosphere which was open to progressive influences from the West. In 1689, Sophia's regency ended when once again she tried to take full control of Russia. Peter expelled her from the palace and sent to the Novodevichi nunnery. Many of her close associates were executed or exiled. Peter returned from hiding to Moscow but at that time he was ... the Patriarch of Moscow, was the most influential and powerful individual after the Tsar. When the Patriarch Adrian died in 1700, therefore, no successor to him was appointed, and church property was placed under the control of a new Monasteries Department. This meant that much of the income from it could be used for secular, and above all military purposes. In 1721 a new controlling body for the church, the Most Holy Directing Syndod, was set up. It had no real independence, and it was a symbol of the final subjection of the church to Peter's control. He was not interested in reforms of doctrine or worship, his goal was to deprive the Church of its spiritual independence, and to make it one of the departments of the Absolutist State. Under ...
- 967: The Human Brain
- ... an organ called the brain, which is located in the head. The brain weighs about 2.75 pounds, and has a whitish-pink appearance. The brain is made up of many cells, and is the control centre of the body. The brain flashes messages out to all the other parts of the body. The messages travel in very fine threads called nerves. The nerves and the brain make up a system ... Others have to reach the brain through a sort of power line down the back, called the spinal cord. The brain and spinal cord make up the central nervous system. The brain doesn't just control your organs, but also can think and remember. That part of the brain is called the mind. PROTECTING THE BRAIN Twenty-eight bones make up the skull. Eight of these bones are interlocking plates. These ... the Human brain is the cerebellum. The cerebellum is involved with the more complex functions of the brain and sometimes is even referred to as "the brain within the brain". The cerebellum acts as a control and coordination centre for movement. The cerebellum carries small "programs" that have been previously learned. For example, how to write, move, run and jump are all previously learned activities that the brain recorded and ...
- 968: "The Yellow Wallpaper": The Main Character and Cry for Freedom
- ... in this woman's life and although they may mean no harm, push her over the edge. The main character's husband, John, and her brother are well-known physicians. They use their power to control the main character, perhaps subconsciously, to feel what they think a woman should feel. For example, the woman tells the men she is sick but they believe differently. "John is a physician, and perhaps- (I ... what they say goes and therefore the woman has no choice but to follow. "He knows there is no reason to suffer and that satisfies him."(508) This quote illustrates that the men are in control. If they strongly believe nothing is wrong, then nothing must be wrong. It is a feeling of self satisfaction the men feel when they are superior to the woman. The main character knows John loves ... in public so she writes them down or else she will suffocate in her incapability to express her mind. John strongly disapproves his wife's writing because he knows he will not be able to control this factor of her life. "He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making, a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that ...
- 969: Artificial Contraception
- ... them because they have serious side effects like, hemorrhaging. Contraceptive Pills that are taken daily imitate the womans daily body cycle. It has been among the most effective forms of artificial means of birth control. It may have some harmful side effects like; blood clots, sterility, and strokes. The Birth Control Pill is 99% effective. Man made hormones, estrogen and progesterone mimic the ones your body naturally produces, which makes progesterone cause the uterus lining to change and estrogen prevents the egg from maturing and being ... teaching states that artificial means if birth regulation are barriers to procreation, to life. They are artificial invasions of their bodies which are inconvenient, disruptive, awkward, uncomfortable, and unhealthy. Bibliography Bibliography Bovo, M.J. Birth Control. Online at Birth Control. Com. 1997 McCarty, Michele. Loving: A Catholic Perspective on Vocational Lifestyle Choices. Brown-Roa; Dubuque, Iowa. 1993. Word Count: 947
- 970: Computer Crime
- ... utility providers, credit reporting agencies, and systems owned by state and federal governmental agencies including the Nation Crime Information Center (NCIC) computer. The definitive mission of the Phone Masters organization was to one day take control of all telecommunications infrastructures in the nation.( Department of Justice ) In the Phone Masters example, an on line social environment, psychological and mental capacity, and economic gain were underlying factors in the causation of the ... motivation. However, economic gain is not always a reason for computer crime. Sometimes people, particularly younger people between the ages of 12 to 35, partake in computer crime due to a lack of power or control in their real lives. These people then turn to the electronic realm as an alternative to the real world so they can over come feelings of personal inferiority by challenging machines. These people develop self ... the his personal computer at home. These virus like commands made a necessary telephone company computer shut down and in turn killed telephone communications to the Worcester airport. This caused vital services to the FAA control tower to be disabled for a total of twelve hours. He deployed the first series of commands at 9:00 am. Emergency teams scrambled franticly for six hours until they we able to temporarily ...
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