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- 521: Mother Teresa
- By: Jacqi E-mail: JACQIPAPA@aol.com Mother Teresa was a wonderful woman and a great influence on the world today. She was born in 1910 in Macedonia with the name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She was born into a family of deeply religious Catholics. Agnes felt she got the calling to work for God at ... of fourteen. She joined the Loreto order and went to Bengal, India, to start her studies. In 1937, Agnes took her final vows to become a nun and has done much great work in the world since. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born on August 27, 1910 to Nikola and Drana Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia. Drana and Nikola were Albanian and both were very deeply religious Roman Catholics. Nikola was a popular ... ruled Macedonia around the time Agnes was born. Agnes grew up around much fighting. When she was born, there were Albanian protests against the Turkish government. When she was two, she witnessed the First Balkan War. In that war, the Ottomans were defeated, but Macedonia was divided among the conquerors: Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegero, and Serbia. The city of Skopje was distributed to Serbia. Albania received its independence in 1912, but ...
- 522: Gylfaginning: Creation and Odin
- ... skies and everything in them." "But his greatest work is that he made man
" (from "Gylfaginning" in Snorra Edda) While this quote exemplifies how people came to be, it is only a simplification of the worlds creation. The start of life on Earth came about in a most complex, and in some respects a peculiar, fashion. The world started out as two regions: Muspell, the bright and hot region in the south and Niflheim, the icy cold northern region. The two regions met at a cosmic void called Ginnungagap. From the spring in ... Ymir, and from Ymirs blood, death came to all but one of the giants. They took Ymirs body to Ginnungagap, and from Ymirs blood and body parts, the physical parts of the world came about: seas, lakes, mountains, trees, and the sky. Time is created and the gods enjoy a golden age. After this, people were created from wood that floated along the sea shore. From an ...
- 523: A Separte Peace Essay
- ... often play an important role in a person s life. Many times people can drastically have a change of opinion over night. In A Separate Peace, the whole atmosphere at the Devon School changed as World War II progressed. The boys either eagerly awaited draft, preferred to enlist in the area of war they wanted, or did not want to go at all. The students at the school were forced to create activities for enjoyment since old ones could not be played because of lack of materials. ...
- 524: All Quiet On the Western Front: Themes
- All Quiet On the Western Front: Themes All Quiet on the Western Front is a graphic depiction of the horrors of war. In the short note before Chapter One, Remarque lets the reader know exactly what themes he intends. War is a savage and gratuitous evil, war is unnatural, and war is responsible for the destruction of an entire generation. Remarque is very clear on the strength of his themes, and uses graphic imagery to convey to the reader the physical ...
- 525: The Weapons of War
- The Weapons of War "There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed..." (Machiavelli) Indeed, this is true, as war has been a part of human culture since the beginning of time. Battles will be fought and wars will wage on; there is nothing that can be done. No matter how many pacts are ...
- 526: Marijuana And Hemp, The Untold
- ... the real reason marijuana was banned was to prevent hemp from ever becoming a major natural resource. What follows are many astonishing facts about marijuana and hemp-facts that will shock most people. HEMP: THE WORLD'S MOST BENEFICIAL NATURAL RESOURCE? AMAZING FACTS ABOUT AN AMAZING PLANT · On an annual basis, 1 acre of hemp will produce as much fiber as 2 to 3 acres of cotton. Hemp fiber is stronger ... climates and requires more water than hemp; but hemp is frost tolerant, requires only moderate amounts of water, and grows in all 50 states. Cotton requires large quantities of pesticides and herbicides-50% of the world's pesticides/herbicides are used on cotton. But hemp requires no pesticides, no herbicides, and only moderate amounts of fertilizer. · On an annual basis, 1 acre of hemp will produce as much paper as 2 ... for paper will double within 25 years. Unless tree-free sources of paper are developed, there is no way to meet future paper demand without causing massive deforestation and environmental damage. Cannabis Hemp is the world's most promising source of tree-free paper. · The quality of hemp paper is superior to tree-based paper. Hemp paper will last hundreds of years without degrading, can be recycled many more times ...
- 527: Sir Wilfrid Laurier
- ... years later he became prime minister. He was knighted in 1897. "Build up Canada" were the watchwords of Laurier's government. Laurier was loyal to Great Britain, sent Canadian volunteers to help in the Boer War, established a tariff favorable to British goods, and worked to strengthen the ties between the two countries. But he saw the British Empire as a worldwide alliance of free and equal nations, and he opposed ... issue of reciprocal trade with the United States. Laurier believed, however, that his political defeat was caused primarily by opponents in Ontario who considered him too partial to Roman Catholic interests in Quebec. Prior to World War I, Laurier tried forcefully to support the formation of a Canadian navy. His own Liberal party defeated this measure, however, and Canada entered the war without a fleet of its own. During the early ...
- 528: 1984: Dystopian Visions
- ... and indulge in the fruits of life. Is this the type of future that Orwell intends to happen? Orwell's view on the future may have been influenced by the activities going on in the world around him. The allies had just defeated the Nazis in the Second World War and people were starting to know all the details of what the Germans had done during the war. There are many similarities between the book and the war. For instance, the Germans tried to ...
- 529: Great Depression 8
- ... Another helpful aide in the depression was the chief International creditor who was described as "unexperienced and less careful about it's lendings because it was less dependent on this business than the chief pre-war tender, Great Britain." He granted huge short term loans to politically unstable nations. Lionel Robbins was a professor at the London School of Economics. He offered what was probably "the most influential contemporary explanation of the length of the downturn in the Great Depression(1934). The World War (World War I) had destroyed much property and stimulated nationalistic sentiments that resulted in restrictions on international trade; Robbins wrote" Robbins believed that the depression was dragging on because of structural weaknesses. An example ...
- 530: Agencies of the United States
- Agencies of the United States When World War II in Europe finally came to an end on May 7, 1945, a new war was just beginning. The Cold War: denoting the open yet restricted rivalry that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, a war fought on political, economic, and propaganda ...
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