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- 1231: Civil Disobedience
- ... and were unaware of events happening in the larger society srrounding them. Voltaire wrote essays on his ideals and concerns, but they were never read by anyone but the intelligencia. In 1728, Voltaire wrote Philosophical Letters, 1734, which was a covert attack on the political ecclesiastical institutions of France. Writings like these lead Voltaire into conflict with the authorities. Those who suffered persecution found in Voltaire, a strong defender. Voltaire had ...
- 1232: Roots
- ... of Captain Davies How dose Conscience works. In movie Roots Captain Davies saved 170 slave from death on his boat because he believed in God and prayed to him every day, he also was writing letters or a journey to his family about what had happen on his voyage from Africa to America. 1.When he first hears that his cargo will be slaves he was scared . In the movie he ...
- 1233: Papyrus
- ... often cheaper) materials, like wood and clay (broken pottery sherds with writing are called ostraca). On these materials were recorded everything from high literature to the myriad of Nine of ten published texts are private letters or documents of every conceivable documents and other communications of daily life. they reflect the quotidian affairs of government, commerce, and personal life in much the same way that modern records do. From the papyri ...
- 1234: Plato
- ... aims at, it is what he wants to do to act rightly. (Grant 172,173) WORKS Plato's writings were in dialogue form. The earliest collection of Plato's work includes 35 dialogues and 13 letters. It is still disputed if some of them are authentic or not. The works of Plato can be split up into 3 groups. The earliest dialogues represent his attempt to communicate the philosophy and style ...
- 1235: Saddam, Iraq, And The Gulf War
- ... endangered. Thousands showed up for rallies to send off the troops. Tens of thousands of individuals and families across the nation sent packages of food, clothes, cassettes, CDs, suntan oil, and even cosmetics. Some wrote letters to unknown soldiers in the front line, and gave them their best wishes. In fact, most public opinion polls showed that about 90 percent of all Americans approved of the Gulf War. 3 This paper ...
- 1236: Sigmund Freud
- ... Darwin. His mother Amalie Freud had high hopes for her oldest son--and those hopes would eventually be realized.1 Freuds literary gifts and insights into human motives and emotions were first apparent in some letters he wrote during adolescence. Later on he considered studying law but decided instead on a career in medical research. Guided by contemporaries such as Ernst Von Brucke and Theodor Meynert, Freud began on a promising ...
- 1237: Ireland An Expansion Through T
- ... the quiet refinements of Buddhism. (49). Although this would not satisfy his intellectual hunger and he would move onto studying the works of Plato and Socrates. In the end though he would come across the letters of a Jew named Paul who would show him the light of the Christian god. Thus, he would purify his soul, absolve his past sins, and submit himself to the death of the flesh through ...
- 1238: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- ... pleaded by their senior officers to at least give the place a chance. But how could they? The security exceeded the limits. The Manhattan project agents attached to the base post office read even the letters written by the crew of 393rd. They would decide whether the letter sent did or did not contravene security. If it did not, the letter was allowed to be mailed. But if otherwise, the letter ...
- 1239: E.E. Cummings
- ... fact, the whole poem is shaped like a '1' (200). The shape of the poem can also be seen as the path of a falling leaf; the poem drifts down, flipping and altering pairs of letters like a falling leaf gliding, back and forth, down to the ground. The beginning 'l(a' changes to 'le', and 'af' flips to 'fa'. 'll' indicates a quick drop of the leaf, which has slowed ...
- 1240: Jack London(biography)
- ... s first marriage was to Bess Maddern, with whom he had two daughters, Joan and Bess. In choosing her, he followed the precept in a book he co-wrote with Anna Strunsky, The Kempton-Wace Letters, that mates should be selected for good breeding, not love. (Bess agreed.) Following an affair with "New Woman" Charmian Kittredge, five years his senior, he divorced Bess. In 1905 he married his "Mate Woman," who ...
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