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- 14001: The Worth of Huckleberry Finn
- ... book is valuable is that it shows the feelings of not only the people, but also of Mark Twain toward slavery and slaves at the time the book was written. An example of Mark Twain's feelings toward humanity during the era can be found in the section of the book when Huck finds himself in the middle of a feud between the Grangerfords and the Wilkses. In this passage of ... book, Mark Twain puts Huck in a situation where there is no thought or reason. This fact is pointed out when Huck asks what started the feud, and nobody can tell him because they don't know, yet they continue to kill each other. The point which Twain drives toward in this point of the book is that people are basically sheep, a point reiterated later when a large group of ... Mark Twain demonstrated the way a child might think when Tom Sawyer started a band of outlaws in which everyone had to sign an oath in blood in the beginning of the book. In Tom's band of thieves we see a stubbornness in Tom whenever anyone tries to disagree with him, and a view of the world that had a rather loose grasp of reality. An example of this ...
- 14002: Contradictions In The Puritan Religion
- Contradictions In The Puritan Religion Life is full of many contradictions, and the basis of the Puritan religion is no exception. The Puritans believed that they were God's chosen people, as mentioned in the Bible. They saw themselves on a level above the average man, but in reality, their religion was full of inconsistencies. The Puritans believed in something known as the ‘Doctrine ... and one of the major ideals they focused on was the doctrine of predestination. Calvin believed that the grace of God was the ticket into Heaven and that his grace could not be earned. God's grace was bestowed upon a select few regardless of what they did to earn it. This ‘ doctrine' stated that God determines a mans' destiny, whether it be redemption or condemnation, regardless of any worth or merit on the person's part. It could be compared to the failures of Communism in that no matter how hard a person worked, how devout a person was, how often a person went to church, there was no ...
- 14003: Religion In Our Lives
- ... of religious community, and is arguably its reason for being." Thus, the author emphasizes the manner in which ritual activity and communal "togetherness" form the basis of community. I'd like to agree with Weckman's view, but I feel that it can go beyond its present position. Weckman gives the reader the impression that communities form only as a result of their union through religion. However, it is quite possible ... Jew becomes more inclined to accept the beliefs of those around him. Although this may be an extreme generalization, I believe that the aspect of community may be more important and influential in many people's lives than the author suggests in the article. Finally, according to the author, a religious community often has defined status or social distinction, and these distinctions often manifest themselves in the way the people live their religious lives. Weckman makes the point very clear by stating: "Ones role in the family or ones lineage may also determine religious status, and one's political office or status as a leader in the society at large tends to take on religious significance." (Weckman, 567) I'd have to agree with Weckman's view here. A prime example of ...
- 14004: Henry VII
- ... years old presently, nine weeks and four days off my eighteenth birthday. Today my father has died, it is the 22nd April 1509. Occupation Of Parents: My mother was Lady Elizabeth of York, Henry VII’s wife. My father was Henry VII, King of England until his death in 1509. What I Look Like: They say I was a precious child, alert and observant. At 17 I inherited the throne that ... and virginals, setting of songs, making ballads, hunting and hawking. I also like to live life to the full, enjoying gambling, eating and drinking with little restraint. .Diary DATE: June 11th, 1509 King Henry VII’s death bed wish was for me to marry Catherine of Aragon – the princess who had been brought from Spain as the bride of my elder brother, Arthur, who had died earlier. Catherine had been betrothed to me after my brother’s death, on my twelfth birthday. It is six weeks now since my father’s death and Catherine and I married today very quickly in the Chapel of the Franciscan Observants at Greenwich. This will ...
- 14005: Why Y2K?
- ... 1991, assigning 400 full time programmers. By Mid 1996, the repaired and reveiwed six million lines of code...Which is only 20% of the total! Now realize this: Many companies are just Starting! Some HAVEN'T! And what about Embedded Chips? There are billions of embedded Chips in the world, with their codes burned into them. These ones cannot be repaired. They have to be either replaced, or in most cases ... and froze. It would not move, it went black, and nothing worked! She had to have it sent back to the company, to have it replaced. MANY of our everyday items, like blenders, microwaves, TV's, VCR's and even parts of our newer cars may fail in the year 2000. What I want to know is...if these Knee-jerk compu-nerds knew this was going to happen...why didnt they ...
- 14006: Impermanence, Selflessness, and Dissatisfaction
- ... ritual. Buddhism outlines the three characteristics of existence, which aids one in achieving enlightenment. Impermanence, selflessness, and dissatisfaction are concepts that are easily understood on an intellectual level, but to apply these concepts in one's life is challenging. Impermanence is concerned with the thought that nothing remains static, and change is to be expected. Selflessness holds that there is no immortal soul or external Self that exists in each individual ... once anything becomes a problem there is bound to be suffering, unsatisfactoriness, or conflict- conflict between our desires and the state of reality. Dissatisfaction is the most difficult characteristic of existence to apply to one's life, as it involves not only the acceptance of this state, but also outlines one on how to treat and cure this state. The notion that the world is an ever-changing environment on all ... in two forms; psychological and physical- which falls into three categories. Ordinary suffering includes; birth, death, sickness, old age, unpleasant conditions, grief, etc. It is typical to experience these sufferings throughout the duration of one's life. The second type of suffering is suffering produced by change, followed by suffering as conditioned states. Suffering as conditioned states occurs when an individual is attached to; matter, sensations, perceptions, mental formations, and ...
- 14007: Hitler 3
- ... became more and more enthusiastic about everything that was in any was connected with war or, for that matter, with soldering." - Hitler There was a history teacher at school, Dr. Leopold Pötsch who touched Hitler's imagination with exciting tales of the glory of German figures such as Bismarck and Frederick The Great. For young Hitler, German Nationalism quickly became an obsession. By now Hitler also had strong pride in the ... Christian Social Party which included anti-Semitism in its political platform. Hitler admired Lueger, a powerful politician, for his speech making skills and effective use of propaganda in gaining popular appeal. He also admired Lueger's skill in manipulating established institutions such as the Catholic Church. He studied Lueger carefully and modeled some of his later behavior on what he learned. When reading more about anti-Semitism he began to have a hatred for Jews "...the more I saw, the more sharply they became distinguished in my eyes from the rest of humanity..."-Hitler. But at this point Hitler's anti-Semitism was not apparent in his personal relationships with Jews. He still did business with Jewish shop owners in selling his paintings. However, the seeds of hate were planted and would be nurtured ...
- 14008: Confucianism and Christianity
- ... the Christian faith and at its source of its traditions in Scripture is the belief in a covenant (Carmen 17).² It is the promise between God and the individual that ensures (through faith) that one's kindly actions on Earth will be divinely awarded. The five relationships of Jen are also honored in Christianity with references to ³Honor thy father and mother, for this is the first commandment with promise (Ephesians ... an individuals merit may be the deciding factor on which is more ideal for them. BIBLIOGRAPHY Ahern, Emily M. The Cult of the Dead in a Chinese Village. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California; 1973. Alitto, S. Guy. The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity. University of California Press, Berkeley; 1979. Alexander, G. G. Confucius, the Great Teacher. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., London; 1980. Beversluis, Joel. A Source Book for Earth's Community of Religion. New York; 1995. Carmen, John B. and Donald G. Dawe. Christianity Faith In a Religiously Plural World. Orbis Books, New York; 1978. Chan, W. T. Religious Trends in Modern China. Columbia ...
- 14009: Fahrenheit 451
- ... code of Chivalry was in their times when Robert De Bruce betrayed him you could tell that he was devastated. I think that we also learned that if you truly believed in something you wouldn't change what you think no matter what they would do. I think that Wallace's beliefs were worth fighting and dying for because why should you have to be oppressed be a king that would take your things and rule you cruelly. Without their own king Scotland would just be a meaningless province that is guarded by soldiers at all times. Why should you live in constant fear when you can have freedom and live in relative peace and you don't have to worry about what you say or do about the English because they have no rule there? The consequences for all of Wallace's actions led to the deaths of many people, but ...
- 14010: "A Small Elegy"
- ... smaller, more vulnerable, someone to be protected. "Matku," he says tenderly in Czech, "Mon maminku," my little mommy, which the translator has rendered as "my diminutive mom." He imagines that after all these years she's still sitting back there, quietly uncomplaining, thinking about his father who died so long ago. It is the next moment in the poem, when the tense radically changes, that I find especially compelling. "And then she is skinning fruit for me," he says, "I am in the room. Sitting right next to her." He doesn't say "And then she was skinning fruit for me," but instead finds himself catapulted into the past as a living present. He has been wrenched out of one time into another. The amplitude of his feeling is nearly unbearable and he starts shaking his fist at God, using a child's language, calling him a ''bully" because now he is aware that God has taken away so much, because so much is lost. And he then proceeds with the ruthlessness of a logical proposition to ...
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