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- 7271: Siddhartha The Buddha
- Why do we exist? What is the aim of the human kind? What is the meaning of life? Those are the questions every person thinks of at some point in it s life. World religions try to give answers to these questions. Art and science give us some interpretations of the meaning of life as well. Ever since humanity exists, individuals tried to capture their thoughts and ideas about life. Hesse s book Siddharta is one of the most successful trials of explaining the concept of life, love and the divine. Since the nature of words is in fact very limited, we can t find definite answers to the above questions as we can find the answer to a mathematical equation. Still, the story of Siddhartha gives to me personally a very close insight in the nature of ...
- 7272: Oda Nobunaga
- ... unification of Japan after the Warring States period (Sengoku jidai). He was actually the first of the three great "unifiers" of Japan. The other two were Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu who followed in Nobunaga's footsteps. At the time of his advent to power, Japan was in a state of disarray. The Sengoku period began in 1467 with the Ashikaga family in power. With the rise in disputes between powerful ... governor (shugodai) house in Owari Province since about 1400. Though his father Nobuhide was a vassal of the Kiyosu branch of the Oda, he was actually a sengoku daimyo. The Oda were shugodai of Owari's lower four districts. As the lord of Nagoya Castle, he had the power to compete with daimyo of neighboring provinces. He made peace with Saito Dosan (neighboring daimyo) by marrying Nobunaga to Dosan's daughter. Nobuhide's abrupt death from a disease in 1551 left Nobunaga to fill his shoes at the age of seventeen. At his father's funeral, he grabbed a handful of incense and threw ...
- 7273: The Trials of Alcohol
- The Trials of Alcohol I don’t think that alcohol has ever been associated with anything really good in anyone’s life. When I think of alcohol, I think of an old man dressed in a scrubby pair of slacks, ripped flannel shirt and a long overcoat full of dirt and holes. He is sitting on a discarded five-gallon pail next to an oil-drum fire deep in the heart of suburban America. In his right hand he clutches a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey and he sings a sour tune while pouring it down his throat. More than likely he had to nearly beg for the money to buy it. This old man has probably been an ...
- 7274: Jude the Obscure: Summary
- Jude the Obscure: Summary Jude the Obscure is a book in which alienation plays a key factor in Jude’s life. Examples of such alienation are Arabella’s leaving Jude, the Schoolmaster’s leaving Jude, and Sue’s relationship with Jude. Jude married Arabella because she is supposed, or pretended to be pregnant but their marriage was not a success. Arabella then left Jude to go to ...
- 7275: Machiavellianism
- ... security” cameras, metal detectors and guards were merely used to gain power over the people by oppressing them and forcing their submission; not to protect us. We are all blind to this. We think it’s for our own good, but it’s all part of a Machiavellianist Plot. Niccolo Machiavelli lived in Italy in the early 1500’s. He thought that if one person, namely Lorenzo de’ Medici, could be the absolute ruler of all Italy, then order could be restored. In an effort to gain favor with the powerful Medice family, ...
- 7276: Othello: Summary
- ... as union of opposite. In act it also show that Iago and Barbantio dislike othello. Othello wants to be a succesful in his military accomplishement and his life. Barbantio was so mad because he couldn't believe his daughter got married to Othello. He thinks Othello gives poisoned to Desdemona that's why she got married to him. Othello who is a black man and genral of army go married to Desdemona. Iago was a person who dislikes Othello. He put many kind of posion into one ... now,now very now, and old black ram, Is tupping your white eve".Iago was looking Othello similar to black animal. When brabantio heard that he also seems Othello a black animal, but the couldn't believe that desdemona gets married to O:thello because they are opposite of union. Then he starts thinking if that should be true it wouldn't be my daughyer's fault. Other controls he ...
- 7277: Cardinal Richelieu
- Cardinal Richelieu Cardinal Richelieu was born Armand Jean du Plessis in Paris in September of 1585. The name Richelieu came from the name of his family's estate. The du Plessis' were considered minor nobility and Armand's grandfather, Louis, secured their place in court through marriage to Francoise de Rochechouart, an important family at the time. Louis died young and left five sons, the second oldest of whom, Francois, was Richelieu's father. Francois also died young, leaving his family in dire financial straits due to some poor investments. As a child, Richelieu was sickly and unfortunately would suffer from various maladies for the rest of ...
- 7278: Hitler, Nazis, and The National Socialist German Workers' Party
- ... ideas. But many among the middle class admired the Nazis' muscular opposition to the Social Democrats. And the Nazis themes of patriotism and militarism drew highly emotional responses from people who could not forget Germany's prewar imperial grandeur. In the national elections of September 1930, the Nazis garnered nearly 6.5 million votes and became second only to the Social Democrats as the most popular party in Germany. In Northeim ... ambition. After dropping out of high school, he moved to Vienna to study art, but he was denied the chance to join Vienna academy of fine arts. When WWI broke out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer's army as a Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature of a Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war and its consequences. He had emerged from Austria with many prejudices, including a powerful prejudice against Jews. Again, he was a product of his times... for many Austrians and Germans were prejudiced against the Jews. In Hitler's case the prejudice had become maniacal it was a dominant force in his private and political personalities. Anti-Semitism was not a policy for Adolf Hitler--it was religion. And in the Germany of ...
- 7279: Native Son (Summary)
- ... of the characters very effectively. The characters actions represent their personality and their approach and view of life. This concept is best demonstrated throught the character traits of the main character Bigger Thomas. Therefore Bigger's actions are justified by the emotions that stem from his view upon life and society. Brought up in a poor black community, Bigger has been exposed to such ideas of white supremacy because blacks were ... survants. This surfaces in the novel when Giffer and his friend Gus watch a sky writing plane. "I could fly a plane if I had the chance," Bigger said with Gus replying, "If you wasn't black and if you had some money and if they'd let you go to that aviation school, you could fly a plane." During this conversation the two boys imply the impossibility of achievement in ... in that he knows the boundaries set between the race of whites and blacks. Fear represents an even larger factor in the definition of his personality in the instance of the murder of the Dalton's Daughter Mary. Early on when he meets Mary he expresses he hate for her as a result of Mary and her friend Jan treating him like an equal. Mary and Jan are trying to ...
- 7280: The Dubliners: Summary
- ... trapped in the visual world of print. The first story, The Sisters, is about a boy who is constantly being trained by a priest, Father Flynn, to memorize and practice the mysteries of the Church¹s rituals. When the boy realizes that the priest has passed away he shows no kind of mournful emotions, instead he shows a feeling of freedom. " I wished to go in and look at him but ... that he wishes he was young again and that they should not waste their time. Instead they should take advantage of every opportunity that comes their way. " He said that the happiest time of one¹s life was undoubtedly one¹s schoolboy days and that he would give anything to be young again. The boy narrator much like the narrator of the first story only takes the old man¹s wise words for granted. He ...
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