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- 511: Queen Victoria
- ... When the cautious Prince Albert persuaded her that Liberal policy jeopardized the coming of the Crown, the queen began to lose her eagerness for the party. After 1841, when the Melbourne government fell and Sir Robert Peel became prime minister, Victoria was an enthusiastic supporter of the Conservative Party. Also under Albert's influence, she began to interrogation the tradition that restricted the British ruling to an advisory part. In 1850 ... such as abolishing the purchase of military commissions and legalizing trade unions, and his powerful intellectualized procedure of argument. She was also solidly opposed to his policy of home law for Ireland. The Conservative pilot Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, who served as prime minister three times between 1885 and 1902, more often found favor with the queen. Like Disraeli, he advocated protecting British interests and increasing ...
- 512: Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was the son of Robert Waring Darwin and his wife Susannah, and the grandson of the scientist Erasmus Darwin. His mother died when he was eight years old, and he was brought up by his sister. He was taught the ... encouraged by his botany professor, John Stevens Henslow, who was instrumental, despite heavy paternal opposition, in securing a place for Darwin as a naturalist on the surveying expedition of HMS Beagle to Patagonia. Under Captain Robert Fitzroy, Darwin visited Tenerife, the Cape Verde Island, Brazil, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Chile, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Tasmania. In the Cape Verde Island Darwin devised his theory of coral reefs. Another significant ...
- 513: SAR
- ... home, practising his favourite occupations such as writing, fishing and boozing. It actually is quite unbelievable how much that man drinks on a single day.. Someday he happens to meet an old friend of his, Robert Cohn, who had known for years and with who he had lost contact. Together they figure out going away for some time, Jake because he wants to go to Pamplona for the traditional fiesta and Robert because he needed to get away from his fiancee. Several months after this plan has been worked out, they go on their trip, with some friends joining them. The journey and the breaks in the ...
- 514: The Four Political Parties of Canada
- ... Macquarrie, pg.107, 1965) This was a recognition of an establishment which was long overdue. Before the Statute of Westminster was implemented in 1931, it was under the rule of another conservative Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, in which Canada took its largest steps towards having "full independence and complete national sovereignty. Vigorously and successfully he (Borden) asserted the equality of nations comprising the Commonwealth." (Macquarrie, pg.3, 1965) In December ... or the government is the fact that many Canadians have the stereotype that Reform MPs and supporters are red-necked hillbillies from out west. A little while back, a Reform MP by the name of Robert Wringma made comments of a racial nature towards black and aboriginal people. Wringma suggested that if he were a shopkeeper, and if his patrons were offended by blacks or aboriginals working up in the front ...
- 515: Real Meaning Of LIfe
- ... people even have a bizarre "faith" in evolution as if life can always be counted on to devise a way somehow (even miraculously) to survive, i.e., "life will find a way". The SF writer, Robert A. Heinlein, a Social Darwinist, once wrote, "there will always be survivors"; he meant only "survival of the fittest", of course, with the implication that the "non-fit" don't "deserve" to live. Nazism (blatant ... it. (Not that I think that religious belief is necessarily in decline: consider a recent survey that most Americans still believe in angels.) A recent essay by Ronald Bailey discusses how some conservative intellectuals like Robert Bork are now attacking evolutionary theory possibly not because they dispute its scientific truth (in private); but because they believe that strong religious belief is necessary for society's well-being; i.e., "no society ...
- 516: The Godfather: Gangster Genre
- ... Cody is in the front seat of the car, close-lipped, impatient, and covered on either side by his thugs in the back seat. After his two henchmen "Big Ed" Somers (Steve Cochran) and Ryley (Robert Osterloh) aboard the train kill two of the train's conductors for not stopping the train, they pull the emergency cord to stop the train as it emerges from a tunnel. Cody dramatically (but unnecessarily ... office, where the Don regally and ruthlessly carries on business during his daughter's wedding reception, held in the bright, sunshiny outdoor veranda of his Long Island compound. According to Corleone's overseer Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall): "It's part of the wedding. No Sicilian can refuse any request on his daughter's wedding day." It is the custom of the father of the bride to grant favors to all petitioners ...
- 517: Human Cloning Is Beneficial
- ... most of the people. However, recent official report of ACT’s (Advanced Cell Technology) medical researchers illustrate the effectiveness of cloning to provide life giving cells for people carrying diseases (Fischer 62). The cloning troika Robert Lanza, Michael West, and Jose Cibelli has tested some of that “promise” in animals. By taking body cells and cloning them to produce an embryo, the stem cells from the new generated embryos grow new ... person probably thinks scientists are going to clone an entire human being and surgically remove his or her organs and transplant them into another person. However, this point of view is totally wrong. For example, Robert Lanza, ACT’s medical research director says in a recent interview: “If you ask the average person, they will tell you it’s a tiny little person with buggy eyes, but in fact, these are ...
- 518: Killer Angels 3
- ... account of the battle that made America’s future. The historical account of the Battle of Gettysburg in Killer Angels, uses the facts of the battle as seen through the eyes of Generals Joshua Chamberlain, Robert E. Lee, John Buford, and James Longstreet. The Men were fighting against their own family and friends. These men were fighting for their morals and ideals, they were dying to win an unseen reward. Men ... cause. Even men who were not willing to participate were taken from their women and children, for the sake of fighting someone else's battle. War and the killing of others did not interest General Robert E. Lee and he felt sympathy for the Union. Lee had inconsistent feelings towards war and says, “He was not only to serve in it but he was to lead it, to make the plans ...
- 519: Natural Born Killers 2
- ... meeting they both met and resolved the conflict to the two scripts. In there finial edit they wrote the characters to fit certain movie stars. Natural Born Killers stars Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, with Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, and Rodney Dangerfield. Woody Harrelson stars as Mickey Knox, a self-proclaimed Natural Born Killer. His girlfriend is Mallory, played by Juliette Lewis. Over the period of the ... part of the movie collides with the first segment as soon as the media shows up. The media is represented in one main figure, and some other smaller parts. The main representation is Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.), a talk show host who is obsessed with serial killers, especially Mickey and Mallory. This talk show host along with other forms of the media has made Mickey and Mallory stars. It shows ...
- 520: Real And Unreal
- ... Troy’s background, his reality instinctively tells him that Corey’s reality can be nothing less than ideal therefore not a reality at all. In that same perspective there is the love yet unattained in Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays”. Sometimes, love is shown in manners less direct. This love, though not as obvious at first look, is just as strong as any other. The narrator’s father shows his ... No two lovers, or family members are the same. No couple share feelings with other couples. Therefore love it self, whether real or ideal is dependant upon the situations and persons surrounding it. Bibliography Hayden, Robert. “Those Winter Sundays” Reading and Writing from Literature. John E. Schwiebert. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1997. 308 Kemp, Claire. “Keeping Company” Reading and Writing from Literature. John E. Schwiebert. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1997. 201 ...
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