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- 1221: Life of William Shakespeare
- Life of William Shakespeare Around 1568, a group of actors visited Stratford and put on a play before the entire town, with permission from John Shakespeare, the mayor of the town. The people loved the play, especially the small children. All of them looked up to the actors, as they returned each year to perform different plays. They had dreams ... Other actors in Shakespeare's company included Will Kempe, the most popular comic of his time, and Richard Burbage, son of James Burbage, the designer of The Theatre. Other important members of the company were John Heminges, who was their permanent business manager, and Henry Condell, another actor in the company. These two men later published the first complete edition of Shakespeare's play, after Shakespeare's death. Shakespeare wrote many plays which were adaptations of earlier plots. Some of these include King John, The Taming of The Shrew, and Romeo and Juliet. Some said he could turn a flat, one-sided plot into a masterpiece. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare mixes the humor of Mercutio and Juliet' ...
- 1222: Biography of Charles Dickens
- ... about Charles Dickens' imaginative power that defies explanation in purely biographical terms. Nevertheless, his biography shows the source of that power and is the best place to begin to define it. The second child of John and Elizabeth Dickens, Charles was born on February 7, 1812, near Portsmouth on England's south coast. At that time John Dickens was stationed in Portsmouth as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. The family was of lower-middle-class origins, John having come from servants and Elizabeth from minor bureaucrats. Dickens' father was vivacious and generous but had an unfortunate tendency to live beyond his means. his mother was affectionate and rather inept in practical ...
- 1223: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... the purpose of carrying out the Protestant reformation, and to base the Church of England on the foundation of the scriptures. Aside from a literal belief in the Bible, Puritans wholly accepted the doctrines of John Calvin and his stern legalistic theology. The Puritans held that religion should permeate every phase of living. The purpose of life was to do God's will; everything else was subordinate to this basic doctrine ... priorities of the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In contrast to the Pilgrims, they were well-off and well-educated men, many of whom were professionals and university men as was their first governor John Winthrop(Blair 9-10). The Puritans held that man was wholly vile, corrupt and prone to evil and could do no good without God's assistance. However, Puritans did not believe in celibacy but were ... Bradstreet was well educated. At age 16 she married Simon Bradstreet, a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and steward of the Countess of Warwick. Two years later, the Bradstreets and Dudleys came to Massachusetts with John Winthrop and other prominent settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Anne's husband became a magistrate, and later a Governor as did her father. Soon after arriving in Massachusetts, Anne wrote: "I changed my ...
- 1224: Descartes
- ... be claimed for qualities such as heat, colour, taste and smell, of which our ideas are so confused and vague that we must always reserve judgement. (This conclusion is actually quite similar to the one John Locke drew fifty years later in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding.) I think we can grant this reasoning, with the caveat regarding dreaming that I noted above, and of course the other unproved reasonings that ... of great and lasting interest, and provided us with a method we can both understand and utilise fruitfully, speaks for itself. Bibliography 1. Descartes, Ren_ A Discourse on Method, Meditations and Principles of Philosophy trans. John Veitch. The Everyman's Library, 1995. Descartes, Ren_ The Philosophical Writings of Descartes volume I and II ed. and trans. John Cottingham, R. Stoothoff and D. Murdoch. Cambridge, 1985. Frankfurt, Harry Demons, Dreamers and Madmen. Bobbs-Merrill, 1970. Curley, Edwin Descartes Against the Skeptics. Oxford, 1978. Vesey, Godfrey Descartes: Father of Modern Philosophy. Open University ...
- 1225: An Analysis Based on the Responsibility of the Rich to the Poor
- ... the impossible question - Is it the duty of the rich to advocate the poor - or is it not? Works Cited Hardin, Garrett. "Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Aid that Harms." Writing Arguments. 4th. ed. Ed. John D. Ramage and John C. Bean. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. 481-9. Singer, Peter. "Rich and Poor." Writing Arguments. 4th. ed. Ed. John D. Ramage and John C. Bean. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. 489-96.
- 1226: Prostitution
- ... McNamara, former police chief of Kansas and San Jose, and vice squad officers as they discussed the physical harm that anti-prostitution laws inflict JOE MCNAMARA: What we're doing now is worse than prostitution. JOHN STOSSEL: The law makes it worse? JOE MCNAMARA: The law makes it a lot worse. It drives up the profits. It drives up the potential for corruption. It invites violence. JOHN STOSSEL: It is true that when the vice cops talk about the terrible things they see... 2ND VICE SQUAD OFFICER: You see homicides. You see the narcotics. You see the assaults. JOHN STOSSEL: They're talking about things caused not by prostitution itself, but by the law. Because the law drives prostitution underground into the criminal world, where everyone's hiding from the police. 2ND VICE ...
- 1227: Evolution
- ... reading, in fact falls back to Darwinism. DARWINIAN THEORY OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION Modern conception of species and the idea of organic evolution had been part of Western consciousness since the mid-17th century (a la John Ray)3, but wide-range acceptance of this idea, beyond the bounds of the scientific community, did not arise until Darwin published his findings in 19584. Darwin first developed his theory of biological evolution in ... J. McLeod Ltd., 1981. 2 Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. New York: Paladin, 1978. 3 Farrington, Benjamin. What Darwin Really Said. New York: Shoken Books, 1966. 4 Gailbraith, Don. Biology: Principals, Patterns and Processes. Toronto: John Wiley and Sons Canada Ltd. 1989, Un. 6: Evolution. 5 Glass, Bently. Forerunners of Darwin 1745-1859. New York: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968. 6 Gould, S.J. Ever Since Darwin. New York: Burnett Books, 1978 ... On Evolution, London, Eng.: London/Doubleday, 1972, 48. 4. Peter Brent, Charles Darwin, A Man of Enlarged Curiosity, Toronto: George J. McLeod Ltd., 1981, p. 313. 5. Don Gailbraith, Biology, Principals, Patterns and Processes, Toronto: John Wiley and Sons Canada Ltd. 1989, Un. 6: Evolution, p. 403. 6. opsit., p. 92. 7. opsit., p. 96. 8. J.B.S. Heldane, The Causes of Evolution, London: Green and Co., 1982, p. ...
- 1228: The Roman Catholic Church
- ... different social activities that will help the recent convert through the transition. Some of these activities that the church offers are bible study, retreats, and prayer. The parish I visited for my observation is St. John Chrysostom. This parish is located in Inglewood. The Reverend at St. John Chrysostom Parish is Paul M. Montoya. The group of attendants at this parish is very diverse. Mainly Hispanics, Blacks, and Caucasians visit this parish. The service I attended consisted mainly of Hispanic people. The Hispanic ... ages, from newborn babies to elderly people. The people that visit this church seem to be from a low to middle income social class. The majority of the Hispanic families that attend mass at St. John Chrysostom are immigrants. Most of the older people from the parish community are immigrants themselves, while some of the younger people that attend services are second generation immigrants. The majority of the people attending ...
- 1229: The Roots of Christianity
- ... ministry of Jesus Christ. He proclaimed himself to be the Messiah. Messiah is an Aramaic word which means "anointed king or deliverer." The name Christ is the Greek equivalent of Messiah. Jesus called Peter, James, John, and other disciples to assist him with his ministry. He taught his disciples that he was sent by God to do the work of the Father. The disciples testified that Jesus was the Christ. On one occasion, Peter replied to Jesus, "And we believe and are sure that thou art Christ, the Son of the living God." (John 6:69) Jesus performed many miracles among the people of Jerusalem and the surrounding communities. He healed the sick, restored the sight of the blind, and raised the dead. Pharisees, priests, and other Jewish leaders ... Greece and Rome establishing Christian churches. Eventually, most of the early disciples were imprisoned and executed. Paul suffered martyrdom in Rome, probably in AD. 65. Peter was likewise executed in Rome at about this time. John was banished to the island of Patios. When Christianity started out, they did believe that they were Jewish. It is one of the early controversies spelled out in the New Testament. Nonetheless, when something ( ...
- 1230: "Woe be to thee, O Constantinople, seated on seven hills, thou shall not continue a thousand years"
- ... Empire could not survive. Politicians, philosophers and intellectuals realized the importance and imperativeness of a church union with a Christian adversary instead of conquest by a much worse infidel enemy. Both Michael VIII and afterwards John V saw the political advantages of the union, but soon understood that the tradition is too much imbedded in the minds of the people and the schism between the Roman and the Orthodox church is ... bread at the Sacrament leaved or unleaved and fundamentally contradicting themselves about the ecclesiastic system. Even when a symbolic union with Rome was reached in Florence in 1439, due to the decisiveness and persistence of John VIII, it was impossible to implement it. It only precipitated internal dissension in Constantinople. Further attempts were abandoned because John feared that this would only increase the division amongst people. The union also meant a submission of the Eastern tradition to the rules and authority of Rome which was quite unacceptable to the majority ...
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