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- 3941: Male, Female, And Religion
- ... which the woman has clearly defined legal rights in negotiating. She can dictate the terms and can receive the dowry herself. This dowry (mahr) she is permitted to keep and maintain as a source of personal pride and comfort." It is considered one of the great innovations of the Quran over earlier practices that women are permitted to inherit and own property. Non-Muslims have generally found great difficulty with the ... them. The shrine is a place in which women can be together, or alone can be in communication with a personage considered in some senses to be able to help them with the kinds of personal problems in which the high God may seem too remote to be interested. The reasoning behind this is that some of the buried fall under a special category of person, a saint. "These saints are ...
- 3942: The Picture Of Dorain Gray
- ... to pleasure becomes his way of life. The novel underscores its disapproval of aestheticism which negatively impacts the main characters. Each of the three primary characters is an aesthete and meets some form of terrible personal doom. Basil Hallward's aestheticism is manifested in his dedication to his artistic creations. He searches in the outside world for the perfect manifestation of his own soul, when he finds this object, he can ... to pleasure becomes his way of life. The novel underscores its disapproval of aestheticism which negatively impacts the main characters. Each of the three primary characters is an aesthete and meets some form of terrible personal doom. Basil Hallward's aestheticism is manifested in his dedication to his artistic creations. He searches in the outside world for the perfect manifestation of his own soul, when he finds this object, he can ...
- 3943: Carol Causs
- ... used his least squares approximation method. This successful prediction started off Gauss's long involvement with the field of astronomy.On October ninth, 1805 Gauss was married to Johana Ostoff. Although Gauss lived a happy personal life for the first time, he was shattered by the death of his benefactor, The Duke of Brunswick, who was killed fighting for the Prussian army. In 1807 Gauss left Brunswick to take up the ... which predictions are made of exact points or area sizes of the earth's surface) survey of the state of Hanover, to link with the existing Danish grid. Gauss eagerly accepted the job, and took personal charge of the survey. He made his measurements by day, and reduced them by night, using his incredible mental ability for calculations. To aid him in his survey, Gauss invented the heliotrope, which worked by ...
- 3944: Confucianism And Raise The Red
- ... the third sister. I will agree that under in influence of alcohol, unintentionally, bad things will happen. Raise the Red Lantern shows how the wives were pampered. One way they were pampered they were given personal servants. One could look at this as a positive aspect. Rather than cook and clean themselves they had maids who did things for them. I noticed in the movie the maids were constantly wiping down ... Confucian rituals had an abusive effect on women. Sons were raised differently than daughters. As it turns out though, some positive effect could be seen as the family thought as a group rather than on personal terms. Some of these Chinese family traditions definitely led to family instability.
- 3945: Commonwealth
- ... as an art and music critic but had his big break with "The Devil´s Disciple in New York". William Butler Yeats studied Art and became friendly with a group of mystics. He had been writing poems and plays since ha was seventeen and decided to become a full time writer. One of his first works "The Wanderings of Oisin" was based on Celtic mythology. James Joyce a poet and noelist ... and are the complete withdrawal of the British Army and the establishment of a thirty-two country republic. The IRA has always believed in the use of violence. Their political beliefes are based on the writing of Wolfe Tone. Many Protestants today see the IRA as terrorists or extremist Catholic nationalists. In 1918 Sinn Fein won a landslide election victory. The IRA seeing that its political wing could go no further ...
- 3946: Minutes Of Glory
- ... Scotland. As a king, Duncan is well received which perhaps allows him to consider himself untouchable. He assumes that no one would have any reason to hurt or disobey him and so he allows his personal safety standards to fall to dangerous levels. This lack of concern also accounts for the manner in which he is unprotected while sleeping at Mabeth's castle. Duncan is governed by his ego to such ... local celebrity, they would not dare have plans of their own to deceive him. Macbeth was selfish enough to only realize his own needs and the witches were able to exploit this characteristic for their personal gains. Macbeth's blind faith in the witches also accounts for his reaction toward the statements made by the three apparitions. When Macbeth says, "Who can impress the forest, bid the tree unfix his earth ...
- 3947: Bless Me, Ultima - Character A
- ... of the letters and numbers” (64) and works hard, “eager to learn the secret of the magic.” (76) At school, while others “cry…and wet [their] pants” (58), Antonio spends his time in the corner “writing [his] name over and over.” (58) Even Ultima praises Tony’s willingness to study, saying, “[he] learns as much in one day as most do in a year.” (81) However, Tony’s drive for knowledge ... of children walking into schools shooting their peers gradually become a mainstream occurrence, it is becoming more and more difficult to believe that there are any Tonys at all. Maybe Rudolfo Anaya’s incentive for writing Bless Me, Ultima is to reopen the eyes of the people in today’s evil studded world and let them rediscover goodness and beauty of human nature.
- 3948: Barbara Walters' Interview with Christopher Reeves
- ... the question still remains, was everything that Barbara Walters did ethical. No. There were times in my mind when she should have laid off. In my view she had no right intruding in the Reeves' personal life, even venturing into their sex-life. I am sorry, however I do not wish to know certain things about Mr. and Mrs. Reeve's personal business (namely that that occurs behind closed doors). However, if the Reeves offered this information openly there is a great difference. So long as the information was gained without coercion, deceit, or by breach of ...
- 3949: The Causes Of American Revolut
- ... for a great among power of concentrate power. Different historians had different opinions on the revolution; for example, J. Franklin Jameson said the nature of the revolution could be divided in four categories: a. Establish personal rights and liberties. Through the war of independence, American society started to pay attention to their rights. The improvement of the slave s condition was a very good example. b. Focus on land and availability ... enlightenment. I agree on Jameson s idea more because his point of view agrees with my knowledge toward American Revolution. There are great effects in the American history such as the shifts of liberties and personal rights, and they are the most important results came out from American Revolution.
- 3950: Cicero
- ... of his life, Cicero as a roman and a person abolished. One trait at practice was the stoics aversion to violence stoics as Cicero also shared this disgust. In addition stoics also avoided and scorned personal glory. However Cicero had a very different demeanor towards this type of behavior. The quest for glory on a national and personal level was a widely held feature of roman disposition. It was intensely present within Cicero's temperament, the posterity of his and his family name was an abnormally great desire. Cicero's family name was ...
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