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- 1281: Greenspan - The Case For The D
- ... which impressed this reviewer the most. It was quite clear that after the fourth page, I came upon the conclusion that this casebook would create a most influential reaction to anyone who had displayed any interest towards our Law system in general. Part One of the novel, No Little Clients, presents the reader with the author's proposed thesis. His ambition is to defend innocent people accused of crimes. Whether they ... into convicting an innocent man of a murder he did not commit. Although the outcome of some cases is the not always agreeable with the reader, it is usually found to be in the best interest of our Justice system. A Large Blue Suitcase is a particularily intriguing chapter that focuses on how police constables try to reinforce a lie in order to obtain the truth. As quoted by Greenspan himself ...
- 1282: Extra-sensory Perception
- ... we can seize messages from other minds is very ancient. "When two people communicate without using the normal senses, the phenomenon is known as telepathy."(Psychology-447) This abnormal way of communication has sparked much interest into this subject, due to that fact that it is not a common sense people have. Recently a well know man, Uri Geller, had experiments performed on him to help prove to the world that ... and he accomplished these small feats systematically. There are many psychics in the world, and there are also many fakes, which gives reason for many people in not believing that extra sensory perception exists. The interest into the subjects of telepathy and other paranormal activity has increased dramatically over many years. Television is also attributing to the voice of psychics showing us concepts and actual events that is hard to deny ...
- 1283: The Life of Julius Caesar
- ... enacted a law that one- third of all workers on large estates were freemen. He reduced the number of recipients of public grain (welfare). He did not cancel debts but relieved debts by reducing the interest on it, which relieved about 25% percent. He denied lavish lifestyles by law, setting guards to punish the offenders. The freedom of assembly came to an end when all associations except religious and a few ... civil wars, just to mention a few. Caesar appointed himself as the Proconsul of Gaul and later succeeded in bringing it under Roman control by 55 BC. It is believed that Gaul was of great interest to Caesar because of its vast abundance of wealth. The results of the conquest did not benefit Rome in the sense that half of the wealth was added to his personal account while the other ...
- 1284: Nova Scotia
- ... prolonged political struggle, Britain granted Nova Scotia (which included Cape Breton after 1820) local autonomy, or responsible government, in 1848. Economic uncertainty and political unease at the time of the American Civil War stimulated some interest in associating with the other British North American provinces, but many tradition-minded Nova Scotians distrusted the Canadians of Ontario and Qúebec. In 1867, without consulting the electorate, the Nova Scotia government took its reluctant ... a former Acadian village; York Redoubt National Historic Site includes a defense battery (begun 1790s) guarding Halifax Harbour; and Halifax Citadel National Historic Site, in Halifax, contains a massive 19th-century stone fortress. Also of interest is Sherbrooke Village Restoration, in the Sherbrooke area, a restoration of a lumbering and mining community of the 1860s. Provincial Government Government and Politics Nova Scotia has a parliamentary form of government. Executive The nominal ...
- 1285: The Population Growth Rate in India
- ... sons it may also have to bring into the world some "unwanted" daughters, thereby furthering the trend towards large families. Under conditions of severe impoverishment, attended as it has traditionally been by high childhood mortality rates, "it has estimated for India that in order to have a 95 per cent probability of raising a son to adulthood, the couple had to have at least six children." In general, direct efforts on ... infant death rate among females and in the resulting higher ratios of males over females in general population," adding that "in most other parts of the world, females of a general population have lower death rates than males." Indeed, except for the Arab all countries of the Persian Gulf, which offer employment to large numbers of unmarried men from other areas of the Middle East, the only other countries which display ...
- 1286: Lord Of The Flies - Role Of Ge
- ... It is the rare parent that heeds their four-year-old son’s aspiration to be a ballet dancer by purchasing the child a pair of tights and a leotard. When a boy shows more interest in dolls than in trucks, his family may be distressed, and provoke him to reveal his "masculine" side. After striving for egalitarianism between the sexes for so many years, families still deter young girls from pursuits of hockey stardom, hoping to interest them in Pointe shoes. Displays of emotion by boys are often criticized for being "unmasculine", whereas emotional behavior in girls tends to be expected and accepted. As a result, boys tend to not only hide ...
- 1287: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... Donato a Scopeto, Florence. Other works ascribed to his youth are the Benois Madonna (1478), the portrait Ginevra de’ Benci (1474), and the unfinished Saint Jerome (1481). Leonardo expanded his skills to other branches of interest and in 1481 Leonardo wrote an astonishing letter to the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza. In this letter he stated that he knew how to build portable bridges; that he knew the techniques of constructing ... machines, and the rope ladder. There are perfectly executed drawings of the human body, from the proportions of the full figure to dissections in the most minute detail. It was observed, however, that Leonardo’s interest in the human body and his ability to invent mechanical things were actually not as paramount to him as was his fascination and awe of the natural world (Clark 133). Leonardo lived to be 67 ...
- 1288: Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock
- ... He again mentions the coffeespoons, which symbolize the amount of information and appreciation for the real world that these people have: only such a small amount, no more, no less. They seems to have little interest in discussing further the true essence of any subject, and they only want what will superficially please them, as with Michelangelo. They have no desire to pursue the grander meaning of it all, and he implies that their vie of life is sharply distorted because of their superficial interest. He does not mean to be a hypocrite, he has no illusions of himself nor does he claim to have them. In fact he often expresses discontent with himself in the poem for his indecision ...
- 1289: Ovid The Poet
- ... Medicamina Faciei Femineae, a fragment of writing on cosmetics; and Remedia Amoris, a kind of recantation of the Ars Amatoria. Ovid's Medea, a tragedy highly praised by ancient critics, has not been preserved. His interest in mythology is reflected in his Heroides, or Epistulae Heroidum, 21 fictional love letters, mostly from mythological heroines to their lovers" (Redmond). "The commentator of his day, he presented most of his findings in the ... counted as a major figure in the making of modern literature. His ability to tell a story, as shown in the vast number of tales in the fifteen books of The Metamorphoses, and his keen interest in psychology…helped to bring about the shift from medieval to modern literature" (Godolphin xxvii). Ovid was truly a writer of his time. He showed the mentality of the times of ancient Rome intermixed with ...
- 1290: Philosophy - Davide Hume
- ... the Treatise was unfavorably reviewed in the History of the Works of the Learned with a succession of sarcastic comments. Although scholars today recognize it as a philosophical masterpiece, Hume was disappointed with the minimal interest his book spawned. In 1741 and 1742 Hume published his two-volume Essays, Moral and Political. The essays were written in a popular style and met with better success than the Treatise. In 1744-1745 ... sought a philosophy chair at the University of Glasgow, and was again unsuccessful. In 1752 Hume's employment as librarian of the Advocate's Library in Edinburgh provided him with the resources to pursue his interest in history. There he wrote much of his highly successful six-volume History of England (published from 1754 to 1762). The first volume was unfavorably received, partially for its defense of Charles I, and partially ...
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