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- 5011: Blaise Pascal
- ... with the Jansenists, and left the monastery. Pascal died on August 19, 1662 from cancer, at age 39. In his life, his most famous work was perhaps Pensees (thoughts). This was a set of deeply personal meditations in a somewhat fragmented form on human suffering and faith in God. Another famous work of his was called "Pascal's Wager." This expressed the conviction that belief in God is rational: If God ...
- 5012: The Life Story of Nikita Khrushchev
- ... from leadership; in doing so, he solidified his power, becoming both Premier and Party Secretary in 1958. It should be noted now that Khrushchev, although acting as supreme ruler of the Soviet Union, possessed certain personal characteristics that made him lesser in the eyes of the world. He was a stout, "bullet-headed" man who liked to joke and talk, and, though his important positions had trained him to carry himself ...
- 5013: Racism In Heart Of Darkness
- ... writer, I would be denying myself the right to find my own opinion regarding racism in Heart of Darkness. So, I stand now and say that depending on one's interpretation of Joseph Conrad's writing, there will be plenty of racism found (if looked for). What I do believe is that during the time that this novella was written, Conrad lived in a society where African people were not considered ...
- 5014: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... that it was immoral and could not satisfy one's conscience. Despite this, he used his schooling to help plead for Indian settlers in South Africa that were being oppressed by the white population. His personal experiences, including being ejected from a train in Maritzburg, of not being allowed the same rights as others lead him to begin a movement to help his people. While in South Africa, Gandhi made himself ...
- 5015: Desiderius Erasmus
- ... He also wrote a short satirical skit in which Pope Julius II had trouble getting into heaven. In the skit, Pope Julius II is made out to be more of a Muslim than a Catholic. Writing this had to take considerable courage, for, though the Church was in decline, it still had considerable power. He also published the Greek version of the New Testament in Latin, so Europeans could read it ...
- 5016: Queen Elizabeth I
- ... Bacon wrote, a few years after Elizabeth's death, "She imagined, that the people, who are much influenced by externals, would be diverted by the glitter of her jewels, from noticing the decay of her personal attractions." Bacon's cynicism reflects the darkening tone of the last decade of Queen Elizabeth's reign, where her control of her country's political, religious, and economic forces and over her representation of herself ...
- 5017: Balzac's Pessimistic View of Nineteenth Century Society
- ... is a cold, unfeeling woman, there is one sign of emotion left caused by a momentary vision of her past life, "Deux grosses larmes roulrent toutes chaudes sur les mains de sa femme..." The personal feelings of weak and strong characters brings a different perspective and thus distinguishes them from one another. Balzac often uses visionary poetic images such as the infant, animal, light and dark, to illustrate the contrast ...
- 5018: Fidel Castro: How One Man With A Cigar Dominated American Foreign Policy
- ... opinion of this affair and how it might have been more productively handled. American intervention should have been held to a minimum. In an atmosphere of concentration on purely Cuban issues, opposition to Castro's personal dictatorship could be expected to grow. Admittedly, even justified American retaliation would have led to Cuban counterretaliation and so on with the prospect that step by step the same end result would have been attained ...
- 5019: Ragged Dick
- ... goals, it results in more happiness and comfort in their lifestyle. However, in today s world, Americans have become so incredibly competitive and successful , that the standards have been significantly raised to the point where personal happiness is no longer good enough. I guess when you sit back and look at the whole picture, you can end up changing your perspective continuously, but I think that after reading a novel like ...
- 5020: Ragtime
- ... workers and women to break free of the shackles society has placed upon them. Eventually she was deported, but Doctorow writes about her with a certain admiration, exemplified through Tateh s great respect for her personal courage and integrity (44). Mother is clearly the great example that Doctorow creates. Mother goes from being in a position of complete subservience to her husband and the rest of her male-dominated household, to ...
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