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- 391: Heart Of Darkness - Colonization
- ... his door. The development of his hatred while in Africa is clear when he tells Marlow that "one comes to hate those savages - hate them to death" (NA 2218). His evilness is accentuated by the flies that "buzzed fiendishly" (NA 2217) around him, conjuring up images of Beelzebub, "Lord of the Flies." Though his character is a minor one, the accountant gives the readers their first taste of the Congos detrimental effects on the colonizers. Kurtz and Marlow are sort of mirror images of one ...
- 392: Dinosaur History
- ... Earth is four to six billion years old. They say that fifty million years ago there was horses no bigger than dogs, and birds as tall as man, three hundred million years ago giant dragon flies buzzed around in the large forests, six million years ago small animals, called trilobites, lived in the sea and were rulers of the world. Evolutionists think that the world started off with just plants on ... survive. Their survival indicates that, in most areas, the surface of the earth did not freeze. Whatever happened, Evolutionists agree that it must have been a world-wide scale disaster. "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." - Exodus 20:11, John 1:3. Those are the words from the Bible. What that says there is that God created everything on Earth and that ...
- 393: Tradgedy 2
- ... was as capable as Oedipus. Macbeth was the greatest military hero in King Duncan s court. He had replaced a traitor and taken the robes of a high level Thane. He was a well respected lord of Scotland. His greatest flaw was that he thought he could fool his way into greater power. Macbeth was a good leader but not one fit for the throne. Macbeth was built up by those ... the builders fall. The tragedy is the loss of the creativity, the strength, charisma, the positive power the builders possess. The builders though, always want more. As Jack Kerouac eloquently put it in his poem Flies ... And wasn t there ever a time when flies didn t seek the sun through forbidden windowpanes. (Kerouac)
- 394: Ressurection A Tale Of Two Cit
- ... dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt" (Daniel 12:2). This is basically the definition or example of what resurrection is. This was shown when the Lord told this quote to Daniel. Although in A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, resurrection isn't literally used as being awoken from the dead, but certain areas of this resurrection are certainly related ... example of spiritual resurrection and it related to the Christian Sacrifice and love. When Carton makes his decision to die for Lucie, the New Testament verse "I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die" (p.342), nearly became Carton's theme song. The words were repeated ... harsh and horrible experince to go through. Several deaths took place, which seemed, in those days, the center of attention. Every time there was a death sentence case, it seemed that, " a cloud of blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become" (p.97). Dickens uses the theme resurrection to give the reader a break in the tragic story of violence. Since ...
- 395: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... involved but their relationship was apparently so profound that Emily's feelings for him she sealed herself from the outside world. Her life became filled with gloom and despair until she met Judge Otis P. Lord late in her life. Realizing that they were well into their lives they never were married. When Lord passed away Emily's health condition which has been hindered since childhood worsened. In Emily's life the most important things to her were love, religion, individuality and nature. When discussing these themes she followed ... it in such a way that would make people not want to fall in love. She writes of parting, separation and loss. This is supported by the experiences she felt with Wadsworth and Otis P. Lord. Not with a club the heart is broken, nor with a stone; A whip so small you could not see it, I've known This seems to be an actual account of the emotions ...
- 396: Bodily Resurrection and 1 Corinthians 15: 42-54
- ... life-giving spirit" (15:45). Demonstrating his command of the scriptures (at that time the bible only consisted of the Old Testament) takes this from the verse in Geneis 2:7 which says, "then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man [Adam] became a human being."(Genesis 2:7). The last Adam refers to Jesus ... letters written by Paul. In Romans 5:21 Paul writes, "...so that, just as sin exercised dominion in death, so grace might also exercise dominion through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."(Romans 5:21). Because he believed the Lord's return was very near, Paul thought that not everyone living at the time of his writing would die. More specifically, Barrett argues that Paul thought that not only was the coming of the ...
- 397: English Shakespeare
- The Winter's Tale In a court of Sicily, Lord Archidamus of Bohemia invites Lord Camillo of Sicilia to visit Bohemia when he can. They also speak how King Leontes' son Mamillius will someday be king. Next, the king of Bohemia, Polixenes, says goodbye to the king and queen of ... the Clown convinces his dad to tell the king that the daughter is adopted, hoping to at least clear themselves from his fury. Autolycus, now in the prince's clothes and pretending to be a lord stops them and delays them, claiming the king is raging mad and plans to kill them both (obviously lying). Autolycus convinces them to let him help them deliver their goods to the king, in ...
- 398: British Rule of The American Colonies
- ... laced with corruption. Officers of the government sent to the colonies were often bribe-taking politicians that were not smart enough to hold government positions in England. After Grenville and Townshend the most incompetent was Lord North, who became Prime Minister in 1770 after the death of Charles Townshend. North was the kind of politician George had been looking for ----a plodding, dogged, industrious man, neither a fool nor a genius ... to worsen with the great victory over the French and Indians in the Seven Years War. Unwelcome British troops had remained in the colonies. Debts from this war caused the Prime Minister at the time, Lord Grenville, to enforce Mercantilism in an effort to get the colonists to pay their share of the national debt that had doubled since 1754(Blum 95). England passed many Acts that were ill conceived and ... had long term effects on the relationship between England and the colonies. The most controversial of these were direct taxes. The last time Parliament had tried a direct tax was as recent as 1765, when Lord Grenville enacted the Stamp Act which forced the colonists to pay for stamps on printed documents, the Stamp Act(Higginbotham 34). The Americans had felt the taxes of Lord Grenville were a deliberate aim ...
- 399: Analyse The Influence Of Nevil
- Neville Chamberlain was born in 1869 and was the son of the politician Joseph Chamberlain. In 1915 Neville was elected Lord Mayor of Birmingham and by 1918 he had been elected as Conservative MP for Ladywood. His promotion was rapid, and in 1923 the then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin appointed him as Postmaster-General (1923-1924 ... the earlier stages of appeasement there seemed much to commend it, and the appeasers, who included Macdonald, Baldwin, Sir John Simon (Foreign Secretary 1931-1935) Sir Samuel Hoare (Foreign Secretary June-December 1935) and later Lord Halifax (Foreign Secretary 1938 - 1940) were convinced of the righteousness of their policy. They believed it was essential to avoid war, which they believed, would be likely to be more destructive than ever before, to ... eight points"- were accepted in September by President Benes largely because it had become clear that Chamberlain would not guarantee Czechoslovakia against German intervention. Alarmed at this situation the British Cabinet met in emergency session. Lord Halifax, now the Foreign Secretary, believed that Britain should try to "keep Herr Hitler guessing" on what Britain's policy would be over the crisis. At the very last Chamberlain was astute enough to ...
- 400: The Rms Titanic
- ... of these companies were striving to become the world leader in sea vessel manufacturing. One summer night in 1907, the managing director of the White Star Line, J. Bruce Ismay, met at the home of Lord James Pirrie, a partner in the firm of Harland and Wolff, the giant Belfast shipbuilder that built all the White Star vessels. They met to discuss the plans for two very large ships, the Olympic ... boats, had been launched and the Titanic's entire bow was well submerged in sea water. In the confusion, many of the lifeboats had left half-full, wasting space that could have saved several lives (Lord 115). It became quite clear to those remaining that they were going to die if help did not arrive soon. A normal size ship at that time was 10,000 tons, while the massive Titanic ... the competitor of the White Star Lines. Senator William Alden Smith, a Republican from Michigan, took it upon himself and requested a formal investigation by the United States government about the activities of the Titanic (Lord 193). When challenged to present what authority America had over survivors, Smith pointed out that such tragedy called for any nation to intercede (Hoffman 115). The British hearings on the contrary seemed to be ...
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