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- 281: JFK
- ... than one term in office. Kennedy attended private elementary schools, including a year at Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, and four years at Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. He spent the summer of 1935 studying at the London School of Economics. He entered Princeton University but was forced to leave during his freshman year because of an attack of jaundice. In the fall of 1936 he enrolled at Harvard University ...
- 282: Decameron
- ... characteristics of fourteenth century lifestyle. By using ironical story telling, the author takes on a non-judgmental view in revealing the shockingly immoral characteristics in order to allow the reader occasion for ethical meditation. When studying different cultures, we find that each have different moral codes. What is seen as acceptable in one part of the world may not be tolerable in another. Even different times call for different views on ...
- 283: Middle Ages Vs. The Renaissanc
- ... interpret the Bible for himself. The church no longer had absolute authority as it did during the Middle Ages. Education was approached differently as well. During the Middle Ages, the focus of education was on studying the Bible and debating spiritual questions. Since the common people were not allowed to read the Bible, they were told what to think. The purpose of education in the Middle Ages was to pass the ...
- 284: Bar Kochba Revolt
- ... not making a calendar may not seam like such a harsh punishment but it is. Without a Jewish Calendar you cannot fixate the Jewish Holidays which meant you couldn’t keep them. He also prohibited studying and teaching. So in short, Hadrian prohibited Judaism. The Jews had to fight, the Jews had to revolt against the Romans. Even though the revolt yielded disastrous results, the Jews had no other alternative. Bar ...
- 285: Charles Et Secondat, Baron De
- ... Guyenne from his deceased uncle. Even though he did not like his job he believed parliaments were necessary to control the monarchs. In 1721 Montesquieu published the Persian Letters, which he began working on while studying in Bordeaux. The book was a success. In the Persian Letters Montesquieu showed how relative all of the French values were. Even though the technique used in this witty book was previously used by other ...
- 286: Canada- Facts And Figures
- ... learning French in schools throughout Canada: enrolment in French immersion programs jumped from 40 000 in 1978 to some 313 000 in 1996. In 1995, 2.7 million young people (54 percent of students) were studying French or English as a second language, an increase of 10 percent in 25 years. According to the 1991 Statistics Canada census, the level of bilingualism among young Canadians aged 15 to 25 has risen ...
- 287: Sigmund Freud
- ... her oldest son--and those hopes would eventually be realized.1 Freuds literary gifts and insights into human motives and emotions were first apparent in some letters he wrote during adolescence. Later on he considered studying law but decided instead on a career in medical research. Guided by contemporaries such as Ernst Von Brucke and Theodor Meynert, Freud began on a promising research career. His later monographs on aphasia and on ...
- 288: Rhetorical Criticism Of Cross
- ... features of the primary subject by applying to it statements isomorphic with the members of the secondary subject's implicative complex" [p. 28]. John Searle, in his well-known essay Metaphor, criticizes scholars whom, when studying metaphors, take for granted the nature and the functioning of the literal meaning. In Searle's opinion, there is no semantic difference between metaphoric expressions and literal, because "sentence and words have only the meanings ...
- 289: Renaisance
- ... towns in southern Europe had grown greatly in size. The wealthy people who lived in Renaissance society had more spare time and money than in the Middle Ages. This meant they could spend more time studying new ideas and had more money to truly patronise the arts. The medieval view of the world was a look at the bad side of things: People thought of life as short and full of ...
- 290: Reform Judaism In The 19th Cen
- ... studied at a yeshiva and received a Talmudic education. He began to study German and secular subjects after his marriage to a woman with a modern education. After their divorce several years later, he began studying at the University of Prague and Berlin and received a doctorate from the University of Leipzig. Following service in Frankfurt -Am-Oder he became a Landesrabbiner or chief Rabbi of Mecklenberg-Schewerin. In the year ...
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