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- 1511: All An Adventurer Must Know Ab
- ... After sunset, Buddhist monks lead the laity in a lovely triple candlelit circumambulation of Buddhist chapels throughout the kingdom. Each person silently carries flowers, glowing incense and lighted candles in homage to the Buddha, his teaching and his disciples. Flower Festival Usually early February. At Chiang Mai, 700 kilometres north of Bangkok. This annual event features displays, floral floats, and beauty contests when the province's temperate and tropical flowers are ...
- 1512: A Utopia In Brobdingnag
- ... is from England, he is able to think in this corrupted manner and is proud of this invention; so proud that it is one of the first things that he explains to the King in teaching him about England. As a moral Brobdingnagian the King is disgusted with the thought of this dangerous powder, and threatens Gulliver to execution if he ever mentions it again. One can see that, being practical ...
- 1513: A Dolls House-victorian Morals
- ... calls nihilism. The Victorian time was a time of ideological and scientific agnosticism . The Oxford Movement, a High-Church, anti-liberal movement within the Church of England, in support of tractarianism ; Utilitarianism, which is the teaching that the worth or value of anything is determined solely by its utility; Karl Marx s (1818-1883) ideology, nicknamed Marxism, of dialectical materialism , communism and socialism; Darwinism, Charles Darwin s (1809-1882) entire theory ...
- 1514: Attributes That Have Influence
- ... that followed how to build boats and sail. The Egyptians also developed a system of navigation based on their knowledge of astronomy. This is so essential to western civilization because with out shipbuilding and the teaching of sailing, Western Civilization may never been found. Without navigation and map making, even if the Americas were found than how would they have ever been able to get back there time and again. Also ...
- 1515: Automation
- ... a successful future. The River Rouge plant employed over 50,000 employees. Pols, Lithuanians, Germans, almost every western Europe country could be represented at the Ford Plant. Like a father Henry Ford began educational programs, teaching his illiterate employees how to read English. Company picnics, and dinners were all part of Ford s policies that were so unusual, yet so brilliant at that time. Of the most controversial actions of Ford ...
- 1516: African American Sentiments
- ... about being too harsh on the soldiers and stuff. I think he was racist against the soldiers because if the solders were white, he probably wouldnft treat them the same way. When he was teaching the soldiers how to march, some of them couldnft tell the difference between left and right. He acted as if all African Americans were uneducated and they were hopeless to teach. Shoes were an ...
- 1517: Calamitatum Of The Individual
- ... naturally becomes a spectacle when showing his skills. This early conflict caused Abelard to leave and start his own school. Unfortunately, he could not maintain it and had to return home. Years later he was teaching in Paris again, he tells us how pupils flocked to him from every country in Europe, a statement which is more than corroborated by the authority of his contemporaries. He was, In fact, the idol ...
- 1518: People Always Tend To Seek The
- ... take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what computers tell them without having any choice of creativity. Computer ould start to control humans' lives and make humans become too dependent on the computers. Another point that is criticized by Asimov is ...
- 1519: Diary Of Anne Frank
- ... there were other people such as the Van Daans. Mr. Frank let them stay because they needed a place to hide and since they had helped him out so much in the past by actually teaching Mr. Frank German, he felt it was the least he could do. The Van Daans had a son which Anne later became interested in. Peter was the only person who Anne could understand and knew ...
- 1520: Nightjohn And Number The Stars
- ... details and incidents that contribute to the historical accuracy of the book. I have outlined some of the more specific examples as follows: There was a man who risked his life for the sake of teaching the other children in the surrounding plantations how to read and write. The owner of the plantation whipped his slaves for moving too slow and did go out with dogs and two field hands after ...
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