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- 23221: History of England
- ... their iron plows, iron weapons, and horse-drawn chariots, they were able to take over the inhabitants of the islands. Their priests dominated their society. King Alfred became king of Wessex in one of England's darkest hours. The Danes, viking forces that had raided the English coasts in the 8th century, planned to take over England. All that stood in their way were Wessex and Alfred. After Alfred's victory at Edington in 878 AD he made the Danish king Guthrum accept baptism and a division of England took place. The two parts were Wessex and Danelaw. By creating a navy, reorganizing the militia ... warriors to switch between farming and fighting, and building forts, Alfred was able to take over London and begin to take over tthe Danish. The battle to take over the Danish was completed by Alfred's son, Edward the Elder, and by his grandson Athelstan. Athelstan won a battle at Brunanburth in 937 AD and most of the rest of the century was peaceful. Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury was ...
- 23222: Poem~dream Deferred
- ... The first, “rotten meat,” which is odorous and reeks of death, very strongly suggests that the dream deferred has lost its beauty. This image also implies that the dream is a thing of past that’s now worthless. The second image, a “running sore,” hints that the dream is synonymous to a diseased, infected wound. The dream has now become grotesque, ugly, and painful. Also, since a sore can be irritating ... keeps nagging at the person. This prevents the person from ignoring or forgetting about their dream. The following image, which compares the dream to a sagging, “heavy load,” shows how burdensome it can be. It’s as though the memory of the dream is in the bag, and the disappointment of the dream’s impossibility weighs the dreamer down. The dream deferred (bag) is very heavy and onerous. However, if the dreamer carries the bag long enough, they get to enjoy the reward (their dream) waiting inside. The ...
- 23223: A Rose For Emily
- ... no taxes in Jefferson. The fact that the tax collectors could not see Colonel Sartoris is because Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years. Even the furniture that she had was not updated. Emily s parlor was furnished with heavy, leather-covered furniture that was cracked from not being used. She had been trapped in the ways Old South , and did not care to change as time went by. Another ... man while her father was around. The day that her father died she did not show a sign of death in soul until a couple of days later. This is where the mindset of Emily s good life started to set. She did not show signs of a death in the family because in her mind she thought that he was still alive and could not accept the fact that her father was gone. Why she could not accept the fact is because, Emily, who always went by her father s ruling, did not know what to do with her life. As time went she managed to get by and pull herself together. She then met a man by the name of Homer Barron who ...
- 23224: Is Antigone A Tragic Play As D
- ... the Gods or the State. While this debate has slowly twisted into Church versus State, which is a very different argument, the highest questions still remain the same: Which one is held higher in men’s (and women’s) hearts? Antigone answers this question with shocking clarity in her admission of guilt to Creon, “ I should have praise and honor for what I have done. All these men here would praise me, were their ... This is your crime; And the furies and the dark gods of Hell are swift and terrible punishment for you.” Sophocles not only poses this theological argument, he also answers it. Once again from Antigone’s admission to Creon, “ C: Had you heard my proclamation touching this matter? A: It was public. Could I help hearing it? C: And yet you dared defy the law. A: I dared. It was ...
- 23225: Martin Luther King- I Have A D
- ... what the country could be at its best, in the face of what often was its worst. For example, in December, 1955, days after Montgomery civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to obey the city's rules mandating segregation on buses, a bus boycott was launched and King was elected as president of the newly formed Montgomery Improvement Association. As the boycott continued through 1956, King gained national prominence as a result of his exceptional oratorical skills and personal courage. Despite attempts to suppress the movement, Montgomery buses were desegregated in December 1956, after the United States Supreme Court declared Alabama's segregation laws unconstitutional. King's leadership took place during the most tumultuous period in America's recent past. Under his guidance, the unfathomable goal of abolishing federal and state-sanctioned segregation and discrimination was accomplished in only a few ...
- 23226: Jean Jacque Piaget
- ... was best known for his work in developmental psychology of children and genetic epistemology. Piaget began his work studying natural sciences at the University of Neuchatel where he later obtained a Ph.D. Throughout Piaget’s life he discovered and accomplished many things and undoubtedly made the most of his life. Piaget decided to leave Neuchatel and go to France, where he began his studies on the development of cognitive abilities ... Valentine Chatenay. The couple had three children, Jacqueline, Lucienne and Laurent. As assumed he studied their intellectual development from infancy to language. Piaget is most popular for his theory of four stages of a child’s mental growth. The first is the Sensorimotor Stage, which is from birth until age two. According to Piaget, this stage is the most interesting because it includes the most rapid changes. It is at this ... knowledge is a progressive construction of logically embedded structures replacing one another by a process dealing with the inclusion of lower less powerful logical means into higher more powerful one up to adulthood. Therefore, children’s logic and modes of thinking are extremely different from those of adults. Piaget accomplished and studied several things throughout his life. As he began his works in psychology, sociology and history to scientific thinking, ...
- 23227: Critical Analysis of "The Indifferent" by John Donne
- ... comparison to his other, more complicated works. In this poem, "he presents a lover who regards constancy as a 'vice' and promiscuity as the path of virtue and good sense" (Hunt 3). Because of Donne's Christian background, this poem was obviously meant to be a comical look at values that were opposite the ones held by Christians. According to Clay Hunt, "['The Indifferent'] is probably quite an early poem because ... young man about town in Elizabethan London" (1-2). The poem "mocks the Petrarchan doctrine of eternal faithfulness, putting in its place the anti-morality which argues that constancy is a 'heresy' and that 'Love's sweetest part' is 'variety'" (Cruttwell 153). The first two stanzas of the poem seem to be the speaker talking to an audience of people, w hile the last one looks back and refers to the ... says, "Venus heard me sigh this song." He then goes on to say that the best thing about love is the variety of women that you get to experience when he says "And by Love's sweetest part, Variety, she swore." In this line he also refers to the concepts of "Love" and "Variety" as people. In the following lines, the speaker refers to people who value faithfulness as "heretics:" ...
- 23228: Albert Einstein
- ... was not smart in school. He suffered under the learning methods that they used in the schools of Germany at that time so he was never able to finish his studies. In 1894 his father's business had failed and the family moved to Milan, Italy. Einstein who had grown interested in science, went to Zurich, Switzerland, to enter a famous technical school. There his ability in mathematics and physics began ... research institution opened in Berlin, the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute. In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a paper that extended his theories. He put forth new views on the nature of gravitation. Newton's theories he said were not accurate enough. Einstein's theories seemed to explain the slow rotation of the entire orbit of the planet Mercury, which Newton's theories did not explain. Einstein's theories also predicted that light rays passing near the sun ...
- 23229: Public School Issues
- ... living rooms and our classrooms, we become challenged. New ideas, new information and new reforms in our educational systems must coincide with our new horizons. This is one of the relevant concepts of the 1990’s and it will continue beyond the millennium. The issue is labeled “multiculturalism.” The term is defined as “a set of believes based on the importance of seeing the world from different cultural frames of reference ... sites on the Internet, I found many sources to support my ideas. One such source was Education Reforms and Students at Risk: A Review of the Current Sate of the Art. The report cited Pittsburgh’s Prospect Middle School’s Multicultural Center. The school defined the elements of multicultural education as: "1) personal development and interpersonal relations of students; 2) fair and effective approaches to individual differences in learning styles that are believed to ...
- 23230: Hospitable Framwork
- Time Is Money Ohio's Flexicore Building Systems make short work of hotel construction When an amusement park operator decided to construct a new hotel to meet increased business, it faced challenges ranging from winter month delivery to a site ... The solution came from Dayton, Ohio-based Flexicore Systems, Inc., a company specializing in precast hollow core products. "The most challenging aspect of constructing the Breakers Tower entailed location and time constraints," says Cedar Point's Monty Jasper, vice president of maintenance and new construction. "The site is difficult to access and we stipulated that construction would be during the offseason-October through May." Located on Lake Erie in Sandusky, Ohio, the Cedar Point amusement park/resort boasts 13 roller coasters reportedly more than any other park in the world - and is ranked one of the largest seasonal facilities of its kind in the U.S. For 128 years, this park has attracted visitors from across the country and throughout the world. Each year, Cedar Point hosts 3 million+ guests. As attendance increases so does the demand for additional hotel ...
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