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- 10411: The Song Dynasty
- The Song Dynasty The Song dynasty lasted over 300 years, from 960 to 1279. Their history is divided into two periods of Northern and Southern Song. The Song period was one of China's most peaceful and prosperous era. However the Song government was corrupt and weak. The Song Dynasty, or Sung Dynasty was a period in which the Chinese government was very weak. In the beginning General Chao K'uang-yin, also known as Sung T'ai Tsu, was forced to become emperor in order to unify China. Sung T'ai Tsu created a national army under his direct control. He, and only he had control of the military. Once he had passed away his less competent successors were unable to keep the military ...
- 10412: Siddhartha
- Siddhartha is a young man on a long quest in search of the ultimate answer to the enigma of a man’s role on this earth. Through his travels, he finds love, friendship, pain, and identity. He finds the true meaning behind them the hard way, but that is the best way to learn them. He starts out by finding friendship with his buddy, Govinda. They have been friends ever since their childhood. There are really close, like each other’s shadow. They have traveled and lived most of their life together. Govinda was a very loyal friend. "Govinda, his friend, the Brahmin’s son, loved him more than anybody else. He loved Siddhartha’s eyes and clear voice. He loved the way he walked, his complete grace of movement; he loved everything that Siddhartha did and said, ...
- 10413: The Count Of Monte Cristo 3
- ... man that is simply ill natured, helped in the destruction of Dantes None of these men could fathom how costly the price of these injustices would be. The actions and painful consequences exemplify the novel s theme. Injustice toward the innocent for ignoble motives such as envy and jealousy will eventually be avenged severely. Live a life of virtue, not of vice, sot that one will not prosper in vain as ... Monte Cristo. Basic Plot:The Pharon, a three masted ship is docked by a young, skillful, promising young sailor by the name of Edmond Dantes. When the ships owner, Monsieur Morrel, learns that the ship s admired captain passed away, he promoted Edmond to the position of captain. This young man, in love with his fiancée, Mercedes, and with a promising career as captain, has everything going for him. His good ... of the love Mercedes and Dantes have for each other. Caderousse is simply a avaricious, ill-natured man. Finally, we have the public prosecutor, Villefort. He ;learns that Dantes is carrying a letter to Villefort s father who is a Bonapartist. In fear that this letter might hurt his position, he throws Dantes into the weary depths of the Chateau d If. Justification for this action comes by the means ...
- 10414: Desirees Baby By Kate Chopin
- "Desiree's Baby," by Kate Chopin, takes place in Louisiana during the time of slavery. The story involves Desiree, a woman of an unknown past, and her husband Armand, a man from a powerful and wealthy family ... and Armand believes it to be of mixed race. Immediately he blames his wife Desiree, and being that she was adopted at a young age and having no recollection of her natural parents, she can't deny this. In a fit of rage, Armand sends her away, in disgrace and in hope of saving the family name. She was sent back to her mother with her baby, to be away from Armand. Desiree doesn t go though, she takes her and her baby down into the bayou, and ends their life. Weeks later, as Armand is destroying the last remnants of Desiree's life with him, he stumbles upon ...
- 10415: The Causes of World War 1, and the Battles
- ... this war that is been ongoing for over a year, began with the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand. However, many other reasons led to this war, some occurring as far back the late 1800's. Nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and the system of alliances were four main factors that pressed the great powers towards this explosive war." According to the article above, the author stresses that the nationalism was one of ... included the Central Powers of Austria- Hungary, Germany, and eventually the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Austria-Hungary must take a large proportion of any blame for the outbreak of war in 1914. The reason for Germany's part in the causes involves Germany's "blank Check" policy. Before sending its ultimatum to Serbia, Austria needed to be sure of the support of its ally, Germany. Such support was forthcoming in the form of a telegram to the Emperor ...
- 10416: Creative Writing: Unexpected Horizons
- ... long journey. I set the navigation system to a favorite fishing spot of ours which was about twenty-five miles out called the Pelican Flats. We headed out on the gently, quiet, rolling blue monster's back as our twenty-two foot vessel handled the one to two foot ocean swells with sheer ease. Finally, after an hour long haul, and fifteen fishing minutes later, we ran into our first sign ... short, but safe distance, we realized that it was moving a lot faster than we were. From that point on our confidence level started diminishing and our fears of the ocean started escalating, we weren't going to get by this storm. My dad punched the 200 horsepower motor and our hearts and adrenaline were pumping incredibly. Soon the storm had yet engulfed us in it's fury and rage. The light turned to utter blackness, the sunshine turned to pelting rain and a light show courtesy of the lightning bolts flashing at least every five seconds, the one to two ...
- 10417: Influences Of Socratic
- ... it took so long for someone to test these theories is because there are very rarely any complications with infant circumcisions, so the medical community looked at the problem with the attitude of “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it”. Luckily though for our future children someone finally did take the chance to try to prove the medical community wrong and disprove the objections for anesthesia. One of the reasons that many doctors don’t use anesthesia is because they believe that the application of anesthesia would be medically harmful for the baby because of the types of drugs that would be necessary to use. Although a valid concern, ...
- 10418: Martin Luther King Jr. 7
- ... a pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. His mother was a schoolteacher. Martin Luther King confronted racism at a young age. When he was six years old, he had two white friends and his friend's parents broke them up from being racism. At the age of eleven, a woman called him Niger. He knew that he wasn't the only black person getting treated like that because he saw the something happen to different people. So he wanted to make a difference in the country that everybody will be equal! In December 1958 ... that association. The blacks started to complain and some even fought. Blacks and whites were treated and had certain privileges very differently. Whites had a drinking fountain and blacks had a drinking fountain. They weren t allowed to drink from a white fountain if they were black, but the whites could drink anywhere they wish. If a black drank out of a white fountain, they would probably get yelled at ...
- 10419: The U.S. Penal System
- The U.S. Penal System Prison inmates, are some of the most "maladjusted" people in society. Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. They ... labeling (Bennett 26). The differential-association theory emphasizes that a person is more likely to become a criminal if the people who have the greatest influence upon them are criminals (Doob 169). Most of today's correctional institutions lack the ability and programs to rehabilitate the criminals of America. One can predict that a prisoner held for two, four, eight or ten years, then released, still with no educationling, there is ... it would cause if all cons across the country decided never to commit another crime." Richard Cepulonis, an inmate in Massachusetts said just the title "Department of Corrections" is a "misnomer" he said "they don't correct anything." In conclusion, things need to be done to improve rehabilitation in America. Improvements in job training, counseling, and halfway houses for rehabilitation must be brought to the forefront by citizens. If we ...
- 10420: Ethan Frome
- ... the daughter of Hester Prynne. Pearl, throughout the story, develops into a dynamic symbol – one that is always changing. Although Pearl changes, she always symbolizes evil. Pearl symbolizes evil in the story by representing God’s punishment of Hester’s sin, symbolizing the guilt and the scarlet letter that controls her behavior, and defying Puritan laws by being cheerful and associating with nature. Pearl represents God’s punishment by her mocking and nagging of Hester. Throughout the novel she sometimes seemed to her mother as almost a witch baby (Matthiessen 104). She is a baffling mixture of strong emotions with a ...
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