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- 441: Becket
- ... Clarendon and various other open council meetings, but to no avail these meetings could not provide any conclusions to the matter. Then a priest rapes and kills a girl. A knight by the name of Lord Gilbert is outraged by this event and murders the priest. Becket feels that justice should be served and wants Henry II to charge Lord Gilbert with murder. Henry II excommunicates Lord Gilbert instead, but Becket and Henry are still disappointed at one another. Becket then gives up his Lord Chancellor ring, showing he is not a friend anymore. Henry then commands his men to kill ...
- 442: Heart Of Darkness 14
- ... at the very beginning and end of the book. At the very start of the story some type of large buzzing insects are stabbing the dying agent in the accountant s otherwise immaculate office. These flies portray the undergoing of operations by the ivory company s representatives. The size of the flies represent Marlow s reaction to the Congo conditions. He is beginning to realize how immensely dangerous the mission he has accepted is going to be. Towards the final words of the novel, we read of a swarm of small flies streaming upon everything as Kurtz utters his last words. This greatly contrasts the previous insects. One swarm enters in the story s beginning and the other at the end. Perhaps the flies indicate the ...
- 443: Medieval Chivalry
- ... This concept of the class system was based on the land ownership and duties that were owed to other people. The knights were the military supporters of the feudal lords. The knight fought for his lord and if necessary died for him. However, the feudal inheritance was provided only for the eldest son. Younger sons therefore tended to the church or joined groups of knight lacking land. They worked and did ... being instructed in manners, humility and various skills. Servants were taught exactly what it meant to be a knight. They were tight the responsibilities of knighthood and what their duties exactly were in defending their lord. Aside from the military training of a knight there was a certain set of manners and customs that developed which is known as 'chivalry'. Part of this was the cultivation of manners that should be ... of the knights. Whatever surplus was produced by the laboring classes went to the knights. Serfs Hanuka, 5 said the knights in rents and services. All that was produced by the serfs went to the lord and his household. Any spare time the serfs had after production went to Labor for the lords. Such labor included creating an extravagant house as well as an extravagant wardrobe for the lords. Knights ...
- 444: American Dream
- ... no changing it, so you might as well not try. First, government existed through the manorial system. It was a rural setting where farming was the way of life. At each manor there was a lord, and many serfs. Everything was communal. The property, which the serfs lived on, was communally shared using an open field farming system. Each person had their crops in rows, intermingled with rows of their neighbors ... together in another place. Each farmer had the right to cut hay from the community field to feed his stock for the winter. The tools that the people used, such as plows, belonged to the lord. In exchange for use of the lord's land and tools the serfs paid a tax, and maintained all of the lord's grounds. The amount of land you had determined your social class, which was based on birthright. The king, ...
- 445: American Revolution - Causes
- ... 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 ...
- 446: The Book Of Matthew
- ... The Gospel of Matthew is the perfect link between the Old and New Testaments. Matthew wrote especially to the Jews to prove that Christ is their promised Messiah and the eternal King of kings and Lord of lords. Therefore, Matthew is careful not to alienate his Jewish readers. Matthew also shows how Jesus fulfilled prophecy and how He is the Person who will bring in God's kingdom. Because the "Kingdom ... discover that He is the answer to all of our physical needs. We need only to look to Him. This is followed by a section on miracles. These are illustrations of the benefits that our Lord can bestow on the level of the physical life if we accept him. Matthew assembled several of Jesus' miracles and recorded them as proof that Jesus is the promised Messiah. There are five main points ... to Christ, so when He returns it will also be a time of commendation. Finally we arrive at the last section. It is here that we are told of the betrayal, the trial of the Lord Jesus, the agony, the crucifixion, and the miraculous resurrection. We are told of how God offered opportunity to all those suffering adversity. When, for example, Peter was given the opportunity to repent, he wept. ...
- 447: Hawaii Fruit Industry
- Hawaii Fruit Industry Problem: Inability to expand produce market outside of the state. Limited market with in the state. Cause: The four different species of fruit flies that inhibit the fruit, The US mainland regulates tropical fruit exportation, requiring Quarantine for pest treatment. Solution Alternatives: 1. Irradiator, (colbolt 60). 2. Heat vapor 3. Biology project to fully exterminate all varieties of Fruit flies. 4. E beam, which uses electricity rather than colbolt 60. Diversified Agriculture is extremely important to Hawaii. The land in, which is available for agriculture, is vast, young, and rich in nutrients. Currently Diversified Agriculture ... built a fly laboratory on the side of the irradiator, similar to a newly built irradiator in Gainesville, Florida, we can start the war on eliminating the fruit fly. We would need to irradiate fruit flies and then release them into the air, when they go to breed, they will, however the eggs of the female will hatch empty. This is an expensive but effective strategy, in the intermediate run ...
- 448: Round Characters In Romeo And
- ... Rosaline, she does not respond. As a result he forces himself to live in an artificial night. He also keeps to himself by avoiding every person who tries to talk to him. When Bevolio and Lord Montague learn of this, they try and figure out why Romeo is in the state that he is. Lord Montague says, ...And private in his chamber pens himself,/ Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,/ And makes himself an artificial night (Act One, scene two, lines 137 to 139). Romeo gets over Rosaline when he sees Juliet at the ball at Lord Capulet s house. Obviously, Romeo s inability to find true love forces him to become lovesick. Another personality trait that Romeo demonstrates in the play is being impulsive. One of the parts where this ...
- 449: What Does Shakespeare Have To
- ... once more and Juliet decides that she cannot betray him. Although idea of marrying Paris is horrifying to Juliet her parents believe this is an ideal match as they can only gain from it. However, Lord Capulet does warn Paris of marrying girls that are too young telling him that 'soon marred are those so early made' in response to being told by Paris that 'younger than she are happy mothers made'. This statement is probably in reference to his own marriage to Lady Capulet which would have been decided upon because it was a chance to make a political alliance. Lord Capulet seems to have a certain amount of affection for Juliet, calling her the 'hopeful lady of my earth' although this could have a double meaning, implying that through Juliet marrying he has a chance ... the two families are 'alike in dignity' and are obviously equals who are trying to better each other. Their reputation obviously means a lot to them and we can see an example of this when Lord Capulet refuses to let Tybalt fight Romeo at his 'old accustomed feast' saying that for the 'wealth of all this town' he will not let Tybalt 'in my house do him disparagement'. Throughout the ...
- 450: Go Tell It On A Mountain - Sum
- ... young lady, and due to his assumption of alcohol, he had sex with her. Later that night, Gabriel sits to contemplate his wrongdoing. After mixed emotions went through his mind, he ended up asking the lord for forgiveness. I believe this was the turning point of his life as he saw the way of the lord. But now the story jumps to when he is 21 years of age and is currently a preacher. On a sad note, his mother had died, but that is off set by meeting a woman ... her hard times. Then as Elizabeth goes through her past miseries, she hears a cry. It is John, on the threshing floor. She looks up and sees John lay astonished beneath the power of the lord. Part Three- The Threshing Floor 1. Summary- This would definitely be the most confusing chapter of the book. From what I read, it seems that John is on the threshing floor with all these ...
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