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- 3881: Biography of Dr. Maria Montessori
- ... It became the first school where a religious component was added to Dr. MontessoriÕs approach. She held the first international teacher training course in Rome. It was attended by many people from all over the world. During this time around 1973, Dr. MontessoriÕs work with children moved to the United States. In 1915, Dr. Montessori came to the USA. She went to the Pan American Exposition in San Fransisco. There, she ... the early 1930Õs, all of Dr. MontessoriÕs schools were closed because she refused to use her methods of teaching to teach the English Ministers principle laws. She then moved. While Dr. Montessori was in India, World War II broke out and she was not allowed to leave the country. People came from all parts of India to learn of her teachings and to be trained as teachers. While she was there, ...
- 3882: The Chosen, By Chaim Potok
- ... from adolescence to adulthood. They face many conflicts, and through those trials the author makes his readers think more deeply into life’s true meanings. The novel was set in New York during the Second World War. Since the main characters are Jews, this period of time is very significant. Not only were the Jews persecuted during WWII, but New York was also close to a military base, which made it a ... grows a beard, and wears the traditional Hasidic outfit, but he doesn't have the reverence for it that he should. Danny is a genius. His religion forbids him to read literature from the outside world, so he struggles with his thirst for knowledge and the restraints that have been put on him by both his father and his religion. He lives with his father, mother, older sister, and younger ...
- 3883: Julius Caesar: Loyalty
- ... apart. Or perhaps if loyalty to all and everything had been involved a great ruler named Caesar would have reigned for years. If the people of Rome would have remained loyal to Caesar perhaps a war would not have occurred, in fact, it most certainly would not have. After the death, the angry mob should have put the conspirators to death, not let them toy with their minds as they would ... noble and wise, he waited. He gave citizens of Rome something to think about. He turned the mob, who had turned against Caesar, for Caesar, against the conspirators. Noble Antony was willing to go to war to claim vindicate Caesar's death. He was going to get revenge on the murderers of "the noblest man that ever lived in the tide of times." Julius Caesar, the man that deserved to be ... cried, Caesar hath wept." Being caring is indeed a good part of being loyal. Caesar, a man who gave to his country, even after death. Is this a man that should have been killed? The world still today needs a leader like him. The death of Caesar affected many. Brutus' wife, Portia, was suffering because of the plot she knew of. I believe that Brutus made a terrible mistake of ...
- 3884: Religion The State And Soverei
- ... became intermingled with politics and became a strong entity. The policies delivered from the church had more authority than the local rulers and magistrates of the developing feudal system. For example, St. Augustine wrote about war and what justified its enactment against fellow men. This policy was followed and adhered to for hundreds of years after St. Augustine wrote it. Another example, is the use of the Bible as a guideline ... a bloody period which virtually split Europe in half. Examples of the conflict raged between Protestants and Catholics from the great slaughter of Protestants in Paris 1572 A.D. (7000 dead) to the Thirty Years War. With the Church in disarray, freedom was given to the "state" to begin to develop. During this period of Renaissance the political identity was going through a tremendous transformation. This transformation took form in what ... to its longevity and basic existence. State sovereignty must be perpetual and supreme. The authority of this described state would over-shadow the authority of the church. Continuing historically, the development of the thirty years war was significant in its unique result. The treaty of Westphelia was the agreement which not only settled the war, but gave absolute authority to the sovereign of each individual state. This was accomplished by ...
- 3885: Sinclair Lewis
- ... period of time. In 1942, he divorced his second wife, Dorothy Thompson. In 1943, he published Gideons Planish. Then, in 1944, Lewis received the sad news that his son, Lt. Wells Lewis, was killed during World War II by a sniper in Piedmont Valley, France. This crushed him for a while but in 1945, Lewis published his next novel, Cass Timberlane. In 1947 he published Kingsblood Royal, and in 1949 The God ... spent the last years of his life in Europe with a bad health due to a life of heavy drinking. He died in Rome on January 10, 1951 of a heart disease. His last novel, World So Wide, was published after his death. Sinclair Lewis's Novels were never a target to heavy criticism. This was due mainly because the critics never thought much of them and thought they were ...
- 3886: Art Essay
- ... Contemporary works that use the body as a sign or symbol, are found in abundance. Works as simple as a portrait can have a great impact on people. Portraits such as that of Hitler, during World War, I had enormous effects on the people of the Jewish religion. To have these huge portraits of Hitler’s face all over the country insured his control and power over the turn of events and ... deep humanitarian sympathy with silent suffering masses and in Victims he illustrates his powerful trait. The bony bodies of the unidentified people in Victims is a symbol of the problems that were afoot in the world in 1936. Vast numbers of people were starving, suffering and dying. Orozco used the bodies in his artworks as a symbol of this suffering and successfully draws the focus and the emotions of the ...
- 3887: A Rose For Emily
- ... allows the reader to examine this puzzle piece by piece, step by step. By doing so, he enhances the plot and presents two different perspectives of time held by the characters. The first perspective (the world of the present) views time as a "mechanical progression" in which the past is a "diminishing road." The second perspective (the world of tradition and the past) views the past as "a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottleneck of the most recent decade of years." The first ... and rather frightening person. There were too many expectations of women in those days and Faulkner demonstrates the consequences of such a life through Miss Emily. By setting the story in an upscale, post Civil War town, he uses both the details of the setting and time to show what happens women such as Miss Emily, the "tragic monument." Miss Emily's world was always in the past. When she ...
- 3888: Assimilation Or Accommodation
- With the end of the Seven Years War and the fall of New France in 1763, Britain assumed control of almost all of North America. The Seven Years War was for the possession of the Ohio Valley. A valley rich in the fur trade industry and land good for future settlement. Britain s newly conquered country would now have to deal with the opposing ... By giving both cultures a chance to survive and co-exist among one another obviously eliminates the need for competition among nations. If the roles were switched around and Britain had lost the Seven Years War, they would be sincerely grateful for being allowed to continue their own religion and have all the same rights as before. Universally people would tend to agree that peace and prosperity would rise above ...
- 3889: Drunk Driving
- ... and try to take control of this out of control issue. America doesn t want to watch idly as hundreds of people are killed each day. We want to take a stand and let the world know that we may be the land of the free and the brave but there is nothing brave or free about driving drunk. What should be done about this problem is debatable and certainly open ... police should focus on the characteristics of this hardcore group instead of the population in general. People who conduct themselves in this manner can be spotted. ( DWI dilemma, Internet source) The truth is that the war on drunk driving is far from being won, and statistics show this. In 1997, 21 percent of the young drivers involved in fatal crashes had been drinking. Eight young people die a day in alcohol ... 7% said they were arrested. During a typical weekend, an average of one teenager dies each hour in a car crash. And, nearly fifty percent of those crashes involve alcohol. (MADD statistics, Internet source) The war on drunk driving has reached a complacent plateau characterized by many indifferent government leaders, strained law enforcement efforts and a dangerous public perception that the fight against drunk driving has been won. ( Washington Post, ...
- 3890: Pesticides and Their Harmful Affects
- Pesticides and Their Harmful Affects There are many important issues in the world regarding the environment and it's affects on the average person. Though, the one that hits closest to home, worldwide, is the trust that individuals have in the food that they consume. Yet pesticides are still found daily in foods all around the world. Pesticides are toxins that are used by produce growers universally to control pests that can destroy crops. These toxins are being ingested by humans in the forms of fruits and vegetables that have remaining toxins ... done to change the systems of pesticide usage universally, society can never be sure as to the long term effects on our environment and what they are eating or giving to the future of our world, the children. In some foreign countries pesticides are used more frequently with legislative control than in the United States. In Mexico and South America, for example, many of the pesticides that the United States ...
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