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- 6711: The Devils Of Loudun, By Aldou
- ... Jesuit College in Bordeaux, and was ordained a secular priest after the necessary post-graduate studies. While his teachers purpose was to create well-rounded Catholics, in practice some of the Jesuits best pupils left school to become free-thinkers or even, like Jean Labadie, Protestants. Deprived of any other information regarding Grandier s youth, Huxley shrewdly turned instead to the autobiography of Jean-Jacques Bouchard, which provided him with an ... on the author s unspeakable depravitity. This was an ostensibly pious (if divided) age for France, but in reality everyone from the Dauphin at Versailles to the peasant in the field were regularly indulged: At school, under the good Fathers, there are no strenuous games, and the boys superfluous energy can find no vent except in excessive masturbation, and the practice, on half-holidays, of homosexuality. At age twenty-seven, Grandier ...
- 6712: Ramses
- ... corridor with several halls ending in a burial chamber. Ramses II also had several monuments built, one was called "The Abu-Simbel" ,which is one hundred and eighty five feet in length and ninety feet high, portrays eight of his children and one of his wives the other represented his thirtieth year at the throne of Egypt. The Abu-Simbel was his best piece of work. Several statues honoring Ramses II were built to look just like him ,they were each seventy feet high. The "Hall of Columns" of Kanark is the largest room in the world Ramses II was a good king that people worshipped. Most of the Ramses II children died before him. All of Ramses accomplishments ...
- 6713: The Idea Of Utopia In 1984 And
- ... conditioned. For example, if you belonged to a lower cast (e.g. Epsilon minus), you would be conditioned to enjoy or like the job you did, which was usually labour work. Also, both novels contained high ranked people, who were portrayed as gods. The novel 1984 had Big Brother to scare the people by using means of control. Similarly, Brave New World depicted ten men to rule the world. However, both ... have to do, there is still a chance of error. There is possibility that something can go wrong. There were a couple of incidences where things went wrong. For example, Bernard Marx, an Alpha of high intelligence, is regarded as deformed. It is speculated that too much alcohol was put into his bottle while he was still an embryo. At first, Bernard seems to take pleasure in his distinctness, to like ...
- 6714: Even from it's humble beginnings, the Internet has always been a battlefield between phreaks and administrators
- ... it isn't easy for an individual to get a direct connection to the Net, many private institutions are getting connections. This is mainly due to the fact that in order to support the very high speed of the Net, a fast computer is needed and a fast connection. A fast computer can cost in the tens of thousands of dollars, at least, and a fast connection can cost twenty thousand ... year. Individuals can still get on the Net through these private institutions. The private institution spoon-feeds the Net to the slower computers over their slower connection lines (Spencer, "Stranglehold" 8). The Internet began very high-class, due to the fact that only superintelligent college students and professors could access it. The discussions tended to stay intellectual, with very little, if any, disturbance ("Internet History"). However, relatively recent changes in the ...
- 6715: Gambling: Losing the Gamble
- ... be profitable. This type of thinking is what gets a lot of people in trouble. Gambling is like a drug addiction to the problem gambler, and there are not many drugs that give you the high that winning money does. Take a stroll through a casino and you can pretty much tell who is winning. The players that are winning are happy and appear to be feeling smart and cocky. It ... unaware of what is going on around them. Players gain satisfaction by accumulating six-packs of soda or beer; meanwhile, they lose their paychecks in the process. Gambling is a drug that gives a great high, but when you come down, it causes severe depression for days or weeks to come. One of the biggest problems associated with gambling is drinking. Casinos encourage it for obvious reasons. Cocktail waitresses in revealing ...
- 6716: Paul Ehrlich
- ... owned a small distillery. Ehrlich had an Orthodox Jewish upbringing in a time when being a Jew was controversial. B. Childhood When Ehrlich was six years old he started his schooling at the local primary school. At age ten, he boarded with a professors family in Breslau and went to St. Maria Magdalena Humanistic Gymnasium. Ehrlich was often at the top of his class and his best subjects were math ... of Biology Most of Ehrlichs discoveries had something to do with the immune system. The immune system is a body system that is responsible for destroying disease-causing cells. When Ehrlich was still in school, he was staining white blood cells to see their different characteristics with his work on antibodies, he is knows as the "founder" of modern chemotherapy. If Ehrlich had not learned about the immune system, then ...
- 6717: Anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice
- ... can explain the plays meaning in it's fullest so that the students do not miss any important points from it. Another point that may have been missed when the presentation was made to the school board to ban the material from being taught inside the school system was that everyone is bad in the play. The Christians portrayal was just as bad as the Jewish man, Shylock's portrayal. In fact I think that the play gave a worse portrayal of ...
- 6718: A Separate Peace
- ... Peace A Separate Peace is a novel about two boy's lives and how they evolve during the course of WWII. The story was written by John Knowles, who also left home to attend a school at the age of 15. The story involves many instances in which the barriers between friendship and rivalry are cited. One of the main characters of the story, Phineas, often demonstrates that it is important ... course of his stay at Devon, Phineas wins several awards in all the sports he plays in. One day while the others are away, Phineas and Gene go to the gym and Phineas breaks the school time trial record for swimming. If Gene was not injured by his fall out of the tree then he would be able to compete in the Olympics. Phineas is a friendly and outgoing kind of ...
- 6719: Pablo Friere
- ... or give our opinions to given facts/information. This is what makes the educator the oppressor and us the oppressed. Paulo Freire's "Pedogogy of the Oppressed" deals with the concept of oppression in the school system and suggests an alternative method of education. There is an absolute need for students to "Tear down the wall" (Pink Floyd) of conformity in education and express their individuality. Education in itself can be ... other words, based on the "banking concept", students are told what to learn and expected to learn it. Being told what to learn creates a necessity to rely on an authoritative figure not only in school but also in life, and reject responsibility. This is what the "oppressors" want, the "oppressed" who rely on authority and reject responsibility because that puts everyone under some form of power, and the "oppressed" are ...
- 6720: Lord Of The Flies Reflection
- ... the novel to the movie was the time setting between the two. In the novel the estimated time was the 1940's, and the boys reflected this by starting off on the island as good school children that had respect for their elders, etc. In the movie the time frame was anywhere from the late 80's to the early 90's, it was somewhat hard to define an exact date. The time setting showed in the technology that was present at the time such as helicopters. Also in the movie the boys started off on the island as boys who are going to military school and were partially desensitized to violence, possibly from the television and media of the 80's and 90's which is a great leap from the 40's. This quite possibly might have made a ...
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