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- 7341: Puritans And Witches - Natural
- ... neighbor's behavior and to guide him when guidance was deemed necessary. Corruption in the community could easily spread into the church, and the good Puritan was ever-vigilant against scandal in either place. A personal scandal was a community matter, and a church concern as well. Sin was a heavy burden to the Puritans. No method existed in their faith for ridding oneself of sin. And because they believed that ...
- 7342: Monasticism And Intellectual L
- ... all male institutions, however, Benedict’s sister, Scholastica founded monasteries for women. Many of the texts we have today are with us because of monks. Beginning in the ninth century, the monks used scriptoria, or writing rooms, to copy different manuscripts. Between the sixth and tenth centuries, the monasteries experienced what one might call a moral decline. The purity and poverty which was the ideal for monks was being abandoned. Simony ...
- 7343: A Brief History Of Clocks: Fro
- ... the history of western science. The division of time into regular, predictable units is fundamental to the operation of society. Even in ancient times, humanity recognized the necessity of an orderly system of chronology. Hesiod, writing in the 8th century BC., used celestial bodies to indicate agricultural cycles: "When the Pleiads, Atlas' daughters, start to rise begin your harvest; plough when they go down" ( Hesiod 71). Later Greek scientists, such as ...
- 7344: Michel Foucault And The Cultiv
- ... It also allows the possibility for one to reactualize for himself his own advice by giving his advice to others and thereby constitutes a “beneficial exercise for the giver”. An entire activity of communicating and writing developed around the care of the self because the work of oneself on oneself and disclosing with others were indelibly linked. Foucault takes a medical perspective on this practice of the self. He implies that ...
- 7345: Abraham Lincoln
- ... in 1860, many justification were made because of the movement her husband was making, which was making allies with the African Americans and threats were made and many nasty rumors were made with were very personal. I guess she had just about enough and wanted to have and gain her respect back. Her son was death in 1862 drove her even more insane. Then her other son pasted away in 1871 ...
- 7346: Assassination Of Caesar
- ... that the senate favored him. The senate gave him three provinces for the span of five years, instead of one province for one year. With this ruling, he had “a chance to build a stronger personal army”(34). The strategies and tactics used by Caesar made his death even more tragic because of his excellent leadership and planning. Caesar planned wars by legionary battles. He would not just send his entire ...
- 7347: A Time Of Prosperous Change
- ... well developed to have such a personified personality. Magill rarely states how Ruth’s personality had come about in The Life and Loves of a She Devil. Love was not an issue to Weldon when writing this novel this may be due to the lack of love in her very own life. Love was never thought of importance in the Critical Survey of Long Fiction. On the other hand in Love ...
- 7348: Market Research
- ... of conducting surveys. A postal survey, where questionaires are sent through the post, or a newspaper survey, where readers are invited to fill in and return a questionnaire in a newspaper, are cheap. Telephone surveys, personal interviews and consumer’s panels are more expensive because an interviewer has to be employed to interview customers. Surveys can only be useful for market research purposes if the questions asked are appropriate. A survey ...
- 7349: American Prohibition
- ... The only ponderance though, is why it took so long before Americans realized that they’d made a mistake. Canada instated a prohibition law in 1917 and dropped it two years later. It is my personal hope that one day, America will see that we still deal with a prohibition of sorts: the prohibition of certain drugs. Perhaps, the past will show congress that the old adage about forbidden fruits is ...
- 7350: Alcoholics Anonymous
- ... and Cartagena, Colombia. These meetings and their locations have gone to show the global impact A.A. has achieved. The Akron A.A. team of Dr. Bob, Bill, and Anne has never been equaled in personal, spiritual recovery outreach. It was truly the heart of A.A.’s spiritual beginnings (Pitman 124).
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