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- 5231: Karl Marx Biography And Synops
- ... not even learning to speak the language properly. Shortly before Karl Marx was born, his father converted the family to the Evangelical Established Church, Karl being baptized at the age of six. Marx attended high school in his hometown (1830-1835) where several teachers and pupils were under suspicion of harboring liberal ideals. Marx himself seemed to be a devoted Christian with a "longing for self-sacrifice on behalf of humanity ...
- 5232: Thomas Edison
- ... Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He had many family members. He had a father named Samuel Odgen Edison and a mother named Nancy Elliott Edison. Thomas' mother pulled him from school because Thomas' teacher called him a "retard." Nancy Edison taught her son at home. Thomas has six siblings and he was the youngest child in the Edison family. Thomas was interested in many things as ...
- 5233: Twelve Angry Men
- ... they all affected the outcome. The leadership skills of Courtney Vance, the compassion of Dorian Harwood, and the opinionated Tony Danza affected the actions and decisions in the jury room. Courtney Vance is a high school football coach; his position in the jury room is a foreman. On the football field, Vance acts as a mediator, a leader, and an organizer. As a foreman for this trial, Vance definitely carries all ...
- 5234: Book Report, Reinventing Government
- ... S. Savas.” The second principle, community empowerment, refers to how communities can be better at solving their own problems, once given the power to do so. The authors offered examples in policing, public housing, and school problems that were improved or solved once the community was involved in developing the solutions to the problems. The principle of competition in the delivery of services deals with both internal and external competition to ...
- 5235: Italian Revolutions
- ... an observer at the unveiling claimed the Pope fell to his knees and began to pray. Rapheal was most noted for his definition of perspective and complicated use of color. One of his greatest works, School of Athens, shows a humanistic influence of classical Greek and Roman models, showing a group of Greek philosophers studying about a group of stone pillars. He is also famous for his superbly detailed paintings of ...
- 5236: Ireland 2
- ... the bathroom? Where is the toilet? = Cá bfhuil seomra na mban (f) / bfhear (m)? Education The period of compulsory education is from six to fifteen years of age. Although children are not obliged to start school until the age of six, 51 per cent of four-year-olds and almost all five-year-olds are enrolled in infant classes in primary schools. The Department of Education and Science direct the educational ...
- 5237: Inquisision
- ... Those whose beliefs or practices deviated sufficiently from the orthodoxy of the councils now became the objects of efforts to bring them into the fold. Resistance often led to persecution. Heresies (from L. haeresis, sect, school of belief) were a problem for the Church from the beginning. In the early centuries there were the Arians and Manicheans; in the Middle Ages there were the Cathari and Waldenses; and in the Renaissance ...
- 5238: Incas
- ... left its traces throughout Peruvian culture. Archaeological excavations have uncovered monumental Native American remains. Architecture of the Spanish colonial period, is mix of Spanish and Native American forms, called Creole. In art today, the indigenist school pointedly interprets 20th-century Peru in a Native American mode. The Native American pentatonic musical scale is still used, as are ancient instruments such as conch shells, flutes, ocarina, and panpipes. The descendants of the ...
- 5239: Hsi Lai Temple
- ... main shrine, meditation hall, lecture hall, a Dharma hall, Tripitaka hall, a library, lodging for traveling monks and nuns, an international conference center, twenty classrooms, two gardens, a memorial hall, a cultural exhibition room, a school for Chinese arts and culture, a dining hall, and living quarters for monks and nuns. The first thing to be seen upon entering the temple is the large gateway with Chinese characters inscribed into it ...
- 5240: Hiroshima 6
- ... of both of them by herself. She got a job as an attendant at an orphanage after enrolling her brother and sister there. She received child care training and eventually qualified to be a nursery school teacher. Miss Sasaki's leg was injured after the bombing. After recuperating, she could walk normally again. However, her leg would give her pain for the rest of her life. Miss Sasaki, once engaged, was ...
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