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- 3711: It Is Human Nature to Strive for Success and Personal Achievement
- ... said and apply that thought to a large unified country or nation, your going to end up with a huge imperialistic power. Meaning that if you add these two thoughts together, it will form the world's strongest powers. A perfect example of this statement are the five VETO powers. Every single one of the five VETO powers are imperialistic. How did they get where they are. The gov't created ... meaning "our Sea." It extended as far as the British Isles in the Northwest, Egypt in the Southeast, Armenia in the Northeast, and Mauritania (presently Morocco) in the Southwest. It was the greatest Empire the World had ever seen. By the end of the 6th century BC, Rome became the largest and richest city in Italy. By the time of Augusts, shortly before Christ, most of the known world was unified and at peace under the rule of the Roman Empire. Roman history is hard to follow because almost no facts are known for certain. Roman History is made up of what facts ...
- 3712: Emile Durkheim & Anomie Or Strain Theory
- ... theory of variation in suicide rates. In order to test reliability the authors looked at cross national data on suicide over three different time periods. The article is clearly not totally reliable because the post World War II results supported the hypothesis that Protestants have higher suicide rates than Catholics. The problem with validity of the suicide rates also comes into question, when one looks at the researchers that collect the data ... the unification of the European Community. He used aggregate level data to examine cross national suicide rates of persons 65 to 74, and 75 and older, and obtained age-gender specific suicide rates from the World Health Organization. Fernquist says that the only significant negative association between political integration and suicide is for females age 65 to 74, while all other independent variables are significantly correlated with suicide for each ...
- 3713: The American Revolution
- The 13 American colonies revolted against their British rulers in 1775. The war began on April 19, when British soldiers fired on the Minutemen of Lexington, Mass. The fighting ended with the surrender of the British at Yorktown on Oct. 19, 1781. In 1783 Great Britain signed a ... the individual man. They revolted because England interfered with their trade and industry, demanded unjust taxes, and sent British troops to compel obedience. At first they fought only for their rights. After a year of war they fought for a radical change in American life. Ever since the beginnings of settlement, England and America had been growing apart. In 1774, England was still an aristocracy, ruled by men born and bred ... There were no lords or hereditary offices. The Americans did not like to look up to superiors, nor were their leaders set apart by privileges of birth and inherited wealth. The opportunities of the New World made men enterprising, energetic, and aggressive. Restraints were few, custom counted for little, and rank for less. Between these two societies there could not be much in common. With such opposing viewpoints and extreme ...
- 3714: The PRogression Of Violence In MUsic
- A Condensed Progression of Violence in Music In the late 1950s, Elvis Presley revolutionized the music industry and took the world by surprise. His rock-and-roll rhythms and gyrating style dance fascinated many teenagers yet disturbed many parents. When the singer appeared on Ed Sullivan's variety show, Presley's hips were kept out of ... room carpet, his hands fastened behind his with a leather tong and his face covered with a bloody pillowcase. The killers had left a craving fork, protruding form his abdomen and had scratched the word "war" in his skin. He had been stabbed 27 times. Scribbled in blood on a living room wall were the words "Death to the pigs" and on the refrigerator door "Helter Skelter." Helter Skelter, a song ... After listening obsessively to the album, Manson concluded that the Beatles were instructing him to begin the apocalypse. After Manson's listening to the song, he had taken the term, Helter Skelter, to represent the war between blacks and whites, which he believed would shortly engulf the nation. He had no idea that the song's lyrics, illustrated in Appendix A, were a reference to a fairground ride. Charlie had ...
- 3715: Les Miserables
- ... out eyes off of the stage, and even if you can, the music will take your breath away! I have seen the play 3 times and I don't think I enjoy anything in this world more than watching that play! Les Miserables starts off on a chain gang in France. The sheriff comes out and gives one of the convicts his release papers. This convict is the lead role who ... stay with Valjean. 20 years later in Paris we find that Cosset is grown up and Valjean has grown old and withered. This is now the time of the French Revolution and you can smell war in the air. But an old face shows up, Shaver. Who is the sheriff that kept incarcerated for so many years. He has come back to take Valjean again. He has been hunting him for ... is crushed that he kept this information from her for so long. But she gets over it by finding her love. A young gentleman and her fall in love but are kept apart by the war. Him and Valjean go to war together and Valjean ends up saving his life. In the next scene there is an interesting twist! Everyone is on the battle field and Shaver is also fighting ...
- 3716: Democracy
- ... direct democracies, and representative democracies. In a direct democracy all the people meet to discuss problems and creat laws. A direct decision consults all the people for the decisions.. Since that is unpractical in todays world, a new form of democracy, the representative democracy has arisen. This form of democracy has elected representatives making most of the day to day decisions, while the main groups of citizens consulted for only the ... Right, this petition told King Charles I to stop collecting taxes without the consent of Parliament. This petition let Parliament meet at regular intervals. When King Charles refused to agree to this petition a civil war broke out fought between the Puritans, led by Oliver Cromwell, and the followers of the king. When the followers of the king were defeated, King Charles I was beheaded. The Revolution of 1688 established the ... groundwork for the United States of America, which is considered the benchmark of democracy. All these people, and many others, made very important contributions to the evolution of democracy. Bibliography Alexander J. Groth Democracy The World Book Encyclopedia. Volume 5, 126-130p. Chicago: World Book, Inc, 1990 Jeffrey M. Ikler, Nancy Rogers, and others. The Pageant of World History. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; Prentince Hall, 1994
- 3717: A Critique of C. S. Lewis
- A Critique of C. S. Lewis "A Relativist said, 'The world does not exist, England does not exist, Oxford does not exist and I am confident that I do not Exist!' When Lewis was asked to reply, he stood up and said, 'How am I to ... at various schools in England. In 1914, Lewis began studying Latin, Greek, French, German and Italian under the private tuition of W. T. Kirkpatrick. He then moved to Oxford where his studies were interrupted by World War I (1917). Two years later he was back in Oxford resuming his studies. In 1924, Lewis was "elected" to teach Literature and Language at Magdalen College, Oxford and remained there till 1954. During this ...
- 3718: Snow Falling on Cedars: Ishmael and Hatsue
- ... it on her own. Deep down, she just wanted to be really good friends, even if she did not realize it at the time. The turning point in their lives was not caused by the war, but this eventuality was brought about sooner because of it. When Ishmael told Hatsue that he would be going off to war, he was really asking her if she would wait for him. That day when they held each other it was not the same. They both realized that they were victims of circumstances out of their control. However, Ishmael believed they could overcome them. In fact, it was not the war that was the obstacle. It was the fact that Hatsue was not sure of her feelings. At that point Hatsue finally realized she did not love Ishmael, while Ishmael was as sure as ever ...
- 3719: Fahrenheit 451 Symbolism
- Ray Bradbury s satire, Fahrenheit 451, is a novel full of symbols criticizing the modern world. Among those symbols appears The Hound. The Hound s actions and even its shape are reflections of the society Bradbury has predicted to come. Montag s world continues on without thought; without any real reason. There is no learning, no growth, and no purpose. The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently ... to not think, wonder or ask why. They didn t do anything that they weren t supposed to do. Today, everything is happening just as The Hound is controlled. Programming is happening in our very world. Take schools for example. Consider Pavlov s experiment with ringing bells to provoke an automatic response in dogs. He rang a bell; the dogs salivated expecting food. The school board rings a bell, and ...
- 3720: Socrates
- ... talked and studied with many other accomplished scientists and philosophers, whose names are not known. Later, from when he was eighteen to twenty-four he was in the military in the beginning of the Peloponnesian War. Along with, the rest of the army, he walked fourteen miles in one day to make it to Athens on time. In the tents, he always won the philosophical arguments between his friends, for he ... Athens daily. On one occasion, he met Alcibiades, a higher-class boy somewhat arrogant and spoiled. Consequently, they met regularly at the Acropolis and spent many hours together meditating on ideas. When they went to war together they fought and rested together. Alcibiades saw beauty inside Socrates he had never seen anywhere else before. He did not choose to go to Socrates "city", a place were the wise, the good, and ... that in politics one must lie and be self-governing. Socrates was blamed when Alcibiades mimicked sacred rituals of Athens and was put on trial. He fled from Athens to Sparta, helping them win a war against Athens, but afterwards came back to Athens pardoned, but committing another crime against the state fled to Persia, where he was killed. Socrates married Xanthippe, a very educated woman in his neighborhood, because ...
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