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- 1401: The Samurais, The Ultimate Stoics
- ... was used by a foot soldier on a horseman. The foot soldier would cut. the tendons of the horse and disembowel them. The samurai went from military retainers, to military aristocrats, to military rulers(Japan, Richard Storry18) The medieval samurai were often illiterate, rural, landowners who farmed in-between battles. They were assassins of the night and at the same time keepers of peace. The samurai would spend his life perfecting ...
- 1402: Pyramids
- ... mankind since the earlier times of the first mysterious pyramids! Works Cited Casson, Lionel. Ancient Egypt. New York: Time Life. 1965. Edwards, I.E.S. The Pyramids of Egypt. New York: Viking Penguin. 1985. Hallibunton, Richard. Complete Book of Marvels. New York: Bobbs Merrill. 1960. Malek, Jaromin. In the Shadow of the Pyramid. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma. 1986. Reeves, Nicholas. Into the Mummy's Tomb. New York: Scholastic. 1992.
- 1403: Sigumand Freud and Nietzsche: Personalities and The Mind
- ... momentary harmony with the Primordial Mystery. This work, like his later ones, shows the strong influence of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, as well as Nietzsche's affinity for the music of his close friend Richard Wagner. What Nietzsche presented in this work was a pagan mythology for those who could accept neither the traditional values of Christianity nor those of Social Darwinism (Salter, 41-42). It can be visibly ascertained ...
- 1404: John Locke: Property Rights
- ... hope that with such an ideology behind a people and their government that they might attain and retain Locke's version of the good life, that is life, liberty, and most importantly estate. Bibliography: Aaron, Richard, John Locke, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1963. Bowie, James, Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy, MacMillan Publishing, New York, 1964. Locke, John, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Oxford University Press, London, 1975. Magill, Frank, Masterpieces ...
- 1405: Existentialism
- ... and war atrocities coming out of Germany after the war. The main idea of The Theatre of the Absurd was to point out man's helplessness and pointless existance in a world without purpose. As Richard Coe described it "It is the freedom of the slave to crawl east along the deck of a boat going west". Two of the most popular playwrights of this time include Samuel Beckett, who's ...
- 1406: Anselm's Ontological Argument and the Philosophers
- ... Soren. Philisophical Fragments. Translated by D. F. Swenson. Princeton University Press, 1962. Knowles, David. The Evolution of Medieval Thought. Random House, New York, 1962. Lotze, Rudolf. Microcosmus. Translated by Hamilton and Jones. Edinburgh, 1887. . Southern, Richard. Saint Anselm. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990. Van Inwagen, Peter. Metaphysics. Westview Press, Boulder, 1993.
- 1407: The Enlightenment and the Role of the Philosophes
- ... ventures and sought in witty, amusing, and even titillating ways to educate and awaken their contemporaries. The stories of Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle or Benjamin Franklin, the widely imitated essays of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, and many dictionaries, handbooks, and encyclopedias produced by the enlightened were written to popularize, simplify, and promote a more reasonable view of life among the people of their time. The Enlightenment came to an ...
- 1408: Preserving Flowers
- ... 28. NAL Call No.: SB403.F5 Russell, A. Brooke. 1987. "How-to hints for July gardeners: dried florals capture summer's glory." AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST. 66(7): 8, 10-11. NAL Call No.: 80.N216 Sheffield, Richard R. 1980. "Plant everlastings for year-round enjoyment." ORGANIC GARDENING. 27(1): 186-188. NAL Call No.: 57.8.OR32 Swan, Joyce. 1988. "Everlastings: flowers that keep on giving." FLOWER AND GARDEN. 32(3): 38 ...
- 1409: Standardization of the English Language
- ... scene, beginning with a book in Latin by Sir Thomas Smith, entitled: De recta et emendata Linguae Anglicanae Scriptione (1568). Soon followed on the same subject by John Hart An Orthographie (1569), William Bullokar and Richard Mulcaster's book The right writing of our English tung (1582), Simon Daines Orthoepia Anglicana (1640). However, none of these achived anything like the stabilizing effect on orthography which ultimately proceeded from Samuel Johnson's ...
- 1410: The Hong Kong Chinese Community
- ... were 16 anti-W5 committees. The protest eventually forced W5 to offer an unqualified apology. Those 16 groups went on to form the Chinese Canadian National Council. "We learned the Canadian way of handling injustice." Richard Ling, a lawyer, disagrees with Wong's assertion that the community lacks the confidence to flex its political muscles. "I don't think the problem comes from lack of confidence or lack of sophistication because ...
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