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- 4241: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... enemies and Leonardo wanted to put in practice all his fantastic designs in benefit of the city. In a letter send to Francisco Sforza, Milan governor, Leonardo offered him his abilities to construct canons, catapults, war ships, digging tunnels under the enemy lines, grave drainages and methods for climbing castle brick walls. As well as for defending Milan Leonardo also wanted to make that city a pretty city such as Florence ... fortresses. He didn't had any opportunity to finish the mayor parts of his ideas, but he was a big precursor in his time period. The tank, for example wasn't use until the First World War, almost 450 years after Leonardo had designed his armored vehicle. When Leonardo died, he left more than 5000 pages of notes and drawings. He writed his notes in a kind of inverted letter or ...
- 4242: John Donne and the Psychology of Death
- ... he is slave to men rather than the other way around, because there are many people sent deathward before their time. “Thou’rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, and dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell” (Donne, 89) As Elizabeth Garza points out, “Death has no power [because] fate controls him. By ‘chance’ [Donne] is referring to accidents; kings can order death; and desperate men can commit suicide ... things in order to succeed (i.e. fate, chance, kings and desperate men). He also mentions that there are many other things that can cause death and would actually be more "pleasant" (i.e. poison, war, sickness and poppy) as compared to the sword of Death” (Garza, Online Source) Garza goes on to point out that death played much more of a role in the lives of Donne and his contemporaries ... He has gone through a great deal in his relatively young life -- he was very poor, and life was not easy -- and Garza mentions that some critics have seen in this poem a sense of world-weariness that welcomes death. Although the despair of so much loss and hardship is evident in this poem, this argument is harder to sustain, because Donne’s scorn of Death’s power comes through ...
- 4243: Saint Francis of Assisi
- ... of Santa Maria degli Angeli. He held mass there for the outcasts that were not allowed in the other churche! s. one day, during mass, Francis heard a voice telling him to go into the world and to possess nothing, but do good everywhere. Doing just that, Francis found himself preaching in Assisi later in the year. He gathered about him twelve disciples who became the brothers of the First Order ... downright sincerity and artless simplicity. ... His dearest desire so long as he lived was ever to seek among wise and simple, perfect and imperfect, the means to walk in the way of truth. The whole world was to him one luminous ladder, mounting upon the rungs of which he approached and beheld God." (Robinson). Francis was a man of pure heart, a man devoted to God, or love. The seventh beatitude ... shall be called sons of God, is an accurate depiction of Francis. Though he did not regularly verbally promote peace, or prevent violence, he endorsed peace. Francis took this attitude after being involved in a war, where he developed his serious illness. He took it as a sign that war was not good. He never resorted to violence, and, as is related to his submissive nature, never confronted anyone except ...
- 4244: Kadohata's The Story Devils: An Overview
- ... The author, now living in Los Angeles, writes this as almost a warning; but the reader gets the feeling that she would do what she did again, in a second. The story takes place after World War II in the town of Chesterville, Arkansas. It was a small town with small town problems, and had a Japanese community living within it. The story was written in 1989 and reflect the uncertainties of the post World War II period. Within the small community there lived a woman that had been through a recent divorce, and was raising three children, Kate, the author, and her brother Sean. Because the mother is ...
- 4245: Anthony Burgesss View That A L
- ... 104). Anthony Burgess expresses his view that no matter how "good" one's actions are, unless one has free moral choice, he is spiritually damned. The novel revolves around one criminally minded teen, Alex, whose world consists of rape, murder, and ruthless violence. Alex is eventually setup by his "droogs" (friends) and is arrested and jailed. After some time in jail, Alex is placed in a new rehabilitating program that uses ... of awe and profound musing for some time after the book is read. This book demands, and commands, one's full attention and thought. Burgess seems to be inspired on a somewhat holy mission. His war is against moral oppression and the governments causing it. His weapon, a powerful one, is his incredible satiric writing ability. The Topic of Free Will versus Predestination Burgess, a happily lapsed Catholic, frequently raised the ... critics began to take notice of his taut, brilliant style and bleakly cynical outlook. Paths of Glory (1957) solidified his reputation as a filmmaker interested in depicting the individual at the mercy of a hostile world. In Spartacus (1960), Kubrick met the challenge of bringing a costume spectacle to the screen. Lolita (1962), based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, received mixed reviews. But Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned ...
- 4246: Aztec Civilization
- ... these fertile islands they grew corn, squash, vegetables, and flowers. Being an agriculturally dependant empire, the Aztec s religion was based highly on the forces of nature and worshipped them as gods. The god of war, Huitzilopochtli, was the most important deity. They had many other important gods, such as Tlaloc, the god of rain, Quetzalcoatl, the god of wind and of learning, and Tenochtitlan, the sun god. The Aztecs believed ... that they needed to perform human sacrifices. The main purpose of the great Aztec pyramids was, in fact, human sacrifices. They also believed that there were lucky and unlucky days for baptism and to declare war on, which were decided by a priest. Most art and architecture in the Aztec civilization was based on their religion. There are many brightly colored murals and paintings on walls and on bark which depict ... and a pouch represented 400 times 20, or 8000. The capitol of the Aztec Empire was Tenochtitlan, which was built where modern-day Mexico City is. It was given the nickname Venice of the New World, because it had many canals. During the acme of the Aztec civilization, the population of this great city numbered more than 200,000. This made it one of the most populated cities in the ...
- 4247: Julius Caesar
- Julius Caesar was a strong leader for the Romans who changed the course of the history of the Greco - Roman world decisively and irreversibly. With his courage and strength he created a strong empire . What happened during his early political career? How did he become such a strong dictator of the Roman Empire? What events led ... as dictator of Rome? What events led up to the assassination of Caesar? What happened after he was killed? Caesar was a major part of the Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome’s transition from republic to empire. When he was young Caesar lived through one of the most horrifying decades in ... his release. He then returned to Rome to engage in a normal political career, starting with the quaetorship which he served in 69-68 BC in the province of Further Spain. In the Roman political world of the sixties the dominance of the optimates was challenged by Pompey and Crassus. The optimates, led by Quintus Lutatius Catulus and Lucius Licinius Lucullus , were chiefly men whose careers had been made by ...
- 4248: Economic Theories of Harsanyi, Nash, Selten, Fogel, and North
- ... of "free competition" required that the ability of each particular participant to influence outcomes be negligible. So instead, game theory found all kinds of immediate applications in the 1950's to problems of the Cold War, everything from airplane dog-fights to doctrines of massive retaliation. "In book '"Prisoner's Dilemma," writer William Poundstone records the heady intellectual excitement around the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and Rand Corp. in ... research in 1968 that showed how organizational changes played a greater role in increasing productivity than did technical change. "The Cambridge native has also written a series of books, including "The Rise of the Western World" in 1971 and "Structure and Change in Economic History," which set out with clarity how the role of institutional change, and property rights, could be expected to play in a rigorous theory of economic development ... Harvard University professor John Meyer. It was Meyer, with a seminal paper on the economics of slavery written with Alf Conrad in 1967, who started the excitement over using the econometric methods that emerged from World War II to the study history. Deeply embedded in North's theories about economic history is the belief that technical innovations alone are not enough to affect economic development; institutions, such as laws, constitutions, ...
- 4249: An Analysis of the Novel Candide by Voltaire
- ... is met by two men who trick him into service in the Bulgarian army. Candide has a terrible time in the army, he tries to escape, and he is punished severely. During the confusion of war Candide manages to escape. Time passes and Candide meets some other interesting individuals and has one bad experience after the next. One day Candide meets a woman who takes care of him and this is none other than Cunegonde. They amuse each other with stories of misfortune and travel around the world. At every place Candide goes something unthinkable seems to happen to him. Candide meets several people along the way who all have their own interesting story of misfortune and the inhumanities of mankind. Candide ends ... extremely influenced by his frame of reference and mindset. He finds room to include almost all of his political views. He takes Candide on a journey through all of the wrongs he beleives in the world in order to prove that it was not the best of all possible worlds. He shows us the inhumanities of man through war and social interaction. He basically paints an exaggerated picture of the ...
- 4250: Capital Punishment
- ... speaking of love and the nature of an ideal spiritual community. Love of this kind abandons the right to kill another in self-defense and will refuse absolutely to kill enemies even in a just war. If made into a social ethic, it requires the poor to sacrifice for the rich, the sick to sacrifice for the healthy, the oppressed to sacrifice for the oppressor. It allows the neighbor to be ... and will repel if possible any denial of ones own right to be fully human in every respect. Against the pacifist, ethical love would justify killing in self-defense and killing enemies in a just war when non-lethal alternatives are unavailable. They are necessary and tragic emergency means here and now to stop present and ongoing violence. Capital punishment is opposed since the crime has already been committed, and isolation ... violent crime. THE CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN WITNESS What, then, is the role of the church? It is two-fold. (1) Ideally and ultimately, followers of Jesus are the salt of the earth, light of the world, leaven in the secular loaf. As such, Christians go into the world with the aim of moving, lifting, and luring society in the direction of ethical love. The vocation of Christians is to hold ...
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