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- 891: Gladstonian Liberalism
- ... repairs they had made and that new tenants should compensate the old tenants for their share in the property. The most important part of this at was the compensation if the rent was deemed excessive; Lord Salisbury objected to this clause as he said that no court had the right to adjudicate on the fairness of rent. This omission made the bill limited and unremarkable, this caused anger as it did not live up to its expectations and it failed to realise the aim of the land-lord. At first this bill promised to be a very important bill as it finally gave protection to the tenants but in the end it just made the tenants position less secure as land-lords could ...
- 892: Greek Mythology
- ... Another of Zeus’s children, Hermes, was the herald of the gods. And then there was Demeter, the goddess of the harvest, with her beloved daughter Persephone on her lap. Next there was Poseidon, the lord of the sea and Zeus’s brother, and then the four children of Zeus: Athena, goddess of wisdom; the twins Apollo (god of light and music) and Artemis (goddess of the hunt); and Dionysus, the ... wine. Zeus’s eldest sister Hestia also lived with these twelve great gods. She was the goddess of the hearth, and tended the sacred fires of the gods. Finally, of course, there was Hades, the lord of the underworld and the ruler of the dead. He preferred his gloomy palace to the light of the gods’ world, and chose to stay there. Those were the twelve great gods of Mount Olympus ...
- 893: The Eucharist: Summary
- ... gave Himself up for us, and wants us to remember what He did for us. It reenacts the closing events of Jesus' life on earth. This is followed by the Eucharist Prayer "Holy, Holy, Holy Lord..." then ensued by "Lord, I am not worth to receive you, but only say the word, and I shall be healed." This means to clean yourself of sins, and get ready for the body of Christ. To ask God ...
- 894: Assyrian Crisis
- ... not find help in Egypt because they are not reliable. Finally, knowing the path of destruction that Assyria has already created, and their hunger for more, in addition to the messenger s statement that the Lord has commanded Assyria to go and destroy Jerusalem, my feelings of fear and doubt would uncontrollably well up inside me. We are, after all, only human, and fear is a common feeling, despite where we ... and that I should never hesitate to ask God for radical changes, as long as I honor Him with those changes. Hezekiah went on to speak of the significance of passing the joy of the Lord from generation to generation in Isaiah 38:19. As a lesson to me, I would have used this to understand that the heritage of our faith has come to us because of faithful men and ...
- 895: Taming Of The Shrew
- ... the words that Petruchio had trained her to speak, but spoke with vigor and malice. Kate says, "Fie, fie, unknit that threatening unkind brow / and dart not scornful glances from those eyes / to wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor. / It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads, / Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign—one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body to painful labor both by sea and land, (5.2.145-149) To conclude Petruchio ...
- 896: Music and Its Effect On People
- ... for you Tomorrow comes with one desire.. to take me away It ain't easy to say goodbye darling please don't start to cry 'cause girl you know I've got to go and Lord I wish it wasn't so Tomorrow comes to take me away I wish that I, that I could stay but girl you know I've got to go, oh and Lord I wish it wasn't so
- 897: Analysis of the Poem: The Fly
- ... mortal enemy, sweeping it with what the fly sees as the hurricane force of its tail. The author shows how the fly dares to rest on the hand of its most dangerous adversary then swiftly flies from his reach, as if taunting him. He shows how the fly dares also to return to continually harass his opponent. The fourth stanza describes the countermeasures employed by men to destroy the fly. He ... minuscule body, and exposing his vitals. The author shows how his hatred of this filthy creature is physically displayed. The last stanza describes how the author walks as a giant among the bodies of dead flies strewn across his floor. He describes sweeping up the bodies of his victims, the sight of which is vomit inducing. He concludes by describing the image of one convulsively fighting itself, falling, then dying among ...
- 898: Hamlet: Revenge or Scruples?
- Hamlet: Revenge or Scruples? Andrew Brian “'Vengeance is mine,' sayith the Lord”. What does this mean? I believe what the Christians meant it to mean is that we, as humans, have no right to seek revenge, that only “the Lord” has the right to decide when to take revenge. We say this, but do we follow it? No, I think not. We all try to take revenge into our own hands, in one form or ...
- 899: If Marijuana Were To Be Legal
- ... be assured of "clean drugs." Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. If one drug lord is caught, another one will show up somewhere else. We cannot win. "In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on enforcing drug laws. Drugs accounted for about 40 percent of all felony indictments ...
- 900: Common Sense Control, Not Gun Control
- ... of wood flying about the room. The time has come, you raise from the side of your bed, instinctively assuming a marksman's pose and fire just as the intruder is raising his weapon. He flies back against the wall and slumps into a lifeless pile. You then proceed to call 911. Now, that is not an uncommon scenario in the present state of society. Now what I ask you to ...
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