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- 22541: Marquise de Pompadour
- ... ball. Attractive, intelligent, witty, and a marvelous dancer, she was certainly able to amuse the bored monarch. Louis fell in love with her. She left her husband and went to live in Versailles as Louis's mistress. Madame de Pompadour managed to entertain a bored Louis XV by organizing suppers, festivities, and shows, and by stimulating his interest in buildings and gardens, notably the Petit Trianon. The king raised Jeanne-Antoinette ... his "official" mistress. She remained there until her death in 1764, although she had long since ceased performing sexual favors for the king. Marquise de Pompadour played an important part in the politics of Louis's reign. She kept her influence long after the king's love for her had cooled. Pompadour served the king with devotion and generally sound advice, especially on cultural matters, and gave Louis political advice and served as his private secretary. Her influence on state ...
- 22542: Hercules: 12 Labors of Hercules
- ... lived in a swamp in Lerna. The Hydra had nine heads. One head was immortal and when one of the others was chopped off, two grew back in its place. Cancer, one of the Hydra's guards, bit Hercules on the foot when he came near, and was crushed by Hercules, but she was rescued by Hera. Hercules scorched each mortal neck with a burning torch to prevent it from growing two heads and he buried the immortal head under a rock. He then dipped his arrows in the Hydra's blood to make them poisonous. Hercules' next labor is to capture alive a stag with golden horns and bronze hoofs that was sacred to Artemis, goddess of the hunt. The fourth labor was to capture a great boar in Mount Erymanthus. Hercules used the poison arrows with the Hydra's blood to shoot at the Erymanthian boar. One of the poison arrows wounded Hercules' friend Cheiron, an immortal centaur, half-horse and half-man. Cheiron feared the poison arrow would hurt him for eternity, ...
- 22543: Sinners In The Hand Of An Angr
- ... audience through a deep sense of threat or harm. Within this deep threatening and captivating speech, the speaker uses God as the higher power in order to obtain the audiences attention, to grasp each person s emotions and fill them with fear. The speaker uses fear to complete the assurance of the people to do his intentions. Although the Edwards excerpt sentence involved fear, emotional deception and mental deception to obtain the audiences full attention, the opening sentence of Jefferson s Declaration gives the audience a much different approach to procure the audiences focus. Jefferson s opening sentence has a mild tone of diction, for the beginning of an informative speech. The eloquent words highly imposed among the speech, when dictated, create a powerful sentence that attracts the attention of ...
- 22544: Similarities Between Neil Armstrong and Leif Ericson
- ... the Eskimo village of Kagsiarsuk). Leif began to take voyages around the age of nineteen. Around 999AD, Leif took a trip over to Norway, where he spent a few months in the court of Norway's king, Olav I Tryggvason. There he was educated and learned many new concepts, including Christianity. When he returned home, he converted his mother to convert to Christianity. She built the first Christian church in Greenland ... also had a nickname. He earned his nickname on his trip home to Greenland. After he rescued a shipwrecked party of 15 people began calling him Leif the Lucky. Others also made voyages to Leif's new colony. His brother Thorvald made several trips to Vinland. Thorfinn Karlsefni, an Icelander, established a colony in Vinland. His colony consisted of 160 men and five women. They spent three years at Leif's wintering place and then decided to return home. Karlsefni's son Snorri was the first child of European descent born in North America. The colony was abandoned because of the hostility of the Eskimo. ...
- 22545: Frankenstein : Morality
- ... by people, honored by people and revered since the beginning of time. Yet even today not one person can say what is morally right. It is a matter of opinion. It was Dr.Victor Frankenstein's opinion that it was alright to create a "monster". Frankenstein's creation needed a companion. Knowing that his first creation was evil should the doctor make a second? With the knowledge at hand, to Dr.Frankenstein, it is not at all morally correct to bring another ... bestow I will quit the neighbourhood of man,"(pg 142) promises the morally corrupt monster to the doctor upon the completion of his partner. When the doctor, if and when he, finished his first creation's mate there is a chance that the monsters will not keep their promise and stay in Europe envoking fear into townfolk. The good doctor, trying to act morally, destroys the monster for the good ...
- 22546: Enuresis
- ... not wake up, the bladder releases the urine and the child wets the bed. There are many successful treatments for bed-wetting. Some doctors recommend bladder control exercises to help stretch and condition your child's bladder and help him or her to become more aware of bladder control as a part of learning to stay dry. These exercises include learning to resist the immediate urge to urinate, in order to increase the bladder size, and stopping urine flow midstream to strengthen bladder muscles. Changing the child's eating and drinking habits throughout the day and at bedtime may also be recommended. "Night-lifting" is a procedure that involves waking the child periodically 23 throughout the night, walking the child to the bathroom ... consuming, and less dangerous than most approaches, because it has virtually no side effects. Because hypnosis can give the child the power to treat themselves, this form of therapy can also help build the child's self-confidence and self-esteem as well as help with the bed- wetting. Some medications have also been used for this disorder. Antidepressants, for example, have been used to suppress the urge, but not ...
- 22547: Social and Personal Effects of Alcohol Consumption
- ... and cirrhosis of the liver. Disorders of the nervous system include blackouts, hallucinations, and extreme tremors. Alcoholism Alcoholism refers to the drinking of alcoholic beverages to such a degree that major aspects of an individual’s life, such as work, school, family relationships, or personal safety and health are seriously and repeatedly interfered with. Alcoholism is considered a disease, meaning that it follows a characteristic course with known physical, psychological, and ... Other problems that could arise are divorce, job loss, and social stigma. These problems may affect the child in many ways as he/she gets older. While having an alcoholic parent may increase the child’s risk of developing emotional or drinking problems later in life, it does not make becoming on alcoholic inevitable for the child. Alcoholism is an enormous public health problem. However survey’s of drinking pattern’s show that some interesting change’s have occurred over time. The percentages of students drinking has fallen from 79.9% in 1977 to 66.2% in 1989 and are still ...
- 22548: Causes Of The Civil War 2
- ... and enlightened government could be achieved by balancing the concepts of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy became a common belief among many individuals. In Europe, individual monarch power was growing. This outraged many of each country s citizens. Also, poverty was increasing fast, due to people s belief that nobility, money, and control of land signifies power. Many early settlers chose to explore the New World, in order to escape from politics and religion in their mother country. In the colonies, the ... their tea in America. The colonists greeted the cheap tea as a bribe offered to the people for their consent to a British tax. In response, New York and Philadelphia did not allow the company s ships to land at the ports. Meanwhile in Boston, a group of citizens disguised as Indians tossed 15,000 pounds worth of tea into the harbor. This event, known as the Boston Tea Party, ...
- 22549: Organ Cloning: The Future Of Our Lives…
- ... not try to interfere with nature. If we try to clone organs for transplant patients that are in their final hour then we are actually improving their life. If you feel that saving a person’s life is a bad thing, then I’m sorry. People often question whether or not we have the right to clone. We are all guaranteed rights by the fact that we are human beings. Those ... He was the man that was accused in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After he died, new evidence was brought forth in finding that he might not have been responsible for King’s death. Imagine if the technology was available to clone his liver in order to prolong his life so that the truth could be shown. That would solve an important mystery and save the life of ... right, but just imagine the possibilities. No more waiting lists, and no more organ rejection. This type of technology could save thousands of lives. Using just the embryonic cloning, we could drastically improve many people’s chance to live. Just put yourself in one of these situations. If you or a loved one was dying, could you look them in the face and say “I’m sorry, but it’s ...
- 22550: Cloning: Background
- ... Homosexuals would like to have the opportunity to have a child of their own, and some single parents too. A few months ago, two researchers suggested in a letter to the journal Science that Wilmut's claim about Dolly could be false (Recer). Dr. Norton Zinder of Rockefeller University and Dr. Vittorio Sgaramella of the University of Calabria in Italy questioned the credibility of Wilmut's claim because at least three labs have failed in attempts to duplicate the work. They also questioned why the Scottish lab has not repeated the experiment. Scientific experiments usually must be repeated before they are ... different family, clones twins would less alike in personality than natural identical twins.(Cole 74) "There is more to cloning than mere science--and more to human character than scientists can discover in a person's genes." (Cole 76). From an ethical point of view, it is difficult to see exactly what is "wrong" with cloning human beings, at least within limits. The people who are afraid of cloning tend ...
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