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- 6661: Why Art Is Important To Religion
- ... challenge us to take us beyond the immediate, if they are to bring about true insight and transformation in our lives. When the religious art leaks out of the religious community and into the broader world of culture, it is one of the ways the meaning of the art can evolve. This is also an opportunity for the art to draw the world to religion. Moreover, artistic reinterpretation of sacred imagery can help keep religion honest. The church has always been enriched by the tension that comes with diversity in art. Art is communication and effective art communicates ... Christian art is popping up all over the country among the common people. More people are realizing it can lift the heart and mind to God. Art creates a holy space. Many look to the world around them for ideas and images; some look to myths, stories or events of the past; still others look within themselves to their inner thoughts and feelings, their imagination and their dreams. While the ...
- 6662: Macro Signals Declining Effici
- ... may be useful to put the discussion of performance constraints of the Thai economy briefly in perspective. Over the past 2 decades, the Thai economy has been one of the best performing economies in the world, characterized by sustained high growth rates, averaging 10.3% 1985-90, and 8% in the years prior to the crisis (1990-96). This growth was accompanied by a dramatic decline in the incidence of absolute ... degradation, resource depletion, and an increasingly unequal distribution of income and wealth. However, on balance a remarkable record of development. During this period of rapid growth and economic transformation, Thailand became increasingly integrated into the world economy through trade and investment flows, and production linkages. As the economy expanded rapidly and became more complex in structure, it posed more and new types of strains and challenges to economic management or governance ... slowdown, then could this be primarily a cyclical downturn, e.g. the result of short-term, mainly external, adverse factors? There is some support for this being a factor. There was a global slowdown in world trade in 1996, with the growth rate of world manufactured exports dropping from 8.6% p.a. during 1990-95, to 2.1% in 1996 6 . All countries in Asia were hit, with Korea ...
- 6663: Rabbit, Run Happy Endings
- ... the acts of living. It is from this that we open our eyes to see what is fresh, for one's state of happiness or unhappiness colors everything else. People who are happy perceive the world as safer, make decisions more easily, rate job applicants more favorably, and report greater satisfaction with their whole lives. When your mood is gloomy, life as a whole seems depressing. Let your mood brighten, and ... the commercials which financed the new medium. Each night on TV, screen stars projected conceptions of masculinity and femininity, parenthood, and childhood and adolescence to millions of viewers." Though this still happens in today's world, TV was more of an influence during the 50's, only because TV was brand new to most families. It gave the idea that marriage and family was the most important part of a person ... and happy life. It's the parents' job to be that proper role model for their children. That way their children can grow up feeling loved and secure and be ready to take on the world. The children who don't have supportive parents, sometimes grow up confused and lost in the real world. Janice and her mother didn't have a great relationship. Her mother was always trying to ...
- 6664: Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet
- ... regarded by many historians as the greatest president ever to stand at America's helm. This reputation is extremely well deserved, as Lincoln was able to preserve the Union and gain victory in the Civil War, despite his fighting an uphill battle against his own presidential cabinet. Had he not been struggling against this divided government, President Lincoln could have achieved victory with extreme efficiency and a minimum of wanton bloodshed ... back for quite a scorcher." He grew so furious with the President's capable rule that he finally resigned his position (Williams 202). Another weak link in Lincoln's cabinet was his first secretary of war, Simon Cameron. He was considered an honest politician, being that he "would stay bought when he was bought." His reputation as a swindler caused dissent among the cabinet, and he permitted so much inefficiency and ... an excuse to relieve him of his post (Angle, 660). Cameron's successor, Edwin M. Stanton was a man who shared Seward's initial opinion of the President, but who made an excellent secretary of war. Prior to his appointment, Stanton had strongly criticized Lincoln, and mistrusted his motives. In fact, he was later accused of masterminding the plot to assassinate Lincoln. Although no proof was found to substantiate the ...
- 6665: Flowers For Algernon
- ... Charlie and Ms Kinnian, over the course of the radio play. To Charlie, Ms Kinnian is like a mentor. She supports and cares for Charlie throughout his development, and helps him realise things about the world and himself that he never knew before. Ms Kinnian cares deeply for Charlie, in this radio play, she believes Charlie is a " very fine person," but Charlie feels more than respect for Ms Kinnian. As ... of a conflict of interest. It is suggested in the radio play that Dr. Nemur's main reason for performing and publishing the results of the experiment, was to achieve fame and acclaim at the World Psychological Association'. Dr. Nemur often seems to refer to Charlie as an object, and experiment rather than a human. As Charlie says, " Nemur seems to think he hasn't so much helped me, as created ... tampering with nature and the consequences involved. Not everyone in society was meant to be smart, so why try to make everyone into geniuses. By tampering with nature we will change the whole way the world works. Obviously, if people were meant to have two hundred plus intelligence, they would be born that way. Many adverse consequences could arise such as complex weapons and computer programs being invented to destroy ...
- 6666: The Theme of Death in Poems
- ... of Death in Poems Death is a common theme in many poems. It is viewed so differently to everyone. In the poems, "Because I could not stop for Death," "First Death in Nova Scotia," and "War is kind" death is presented by each narrator as something different. To one it is a kind gentle stranger while to another it is a cold cruel being. A kind gentleman stranger personifies death in ... from one place, to a better one. Again in this poem death was not personified as evil, but as a gentle removal of the life and youth of an innocent young boy. In the poem "War is Kind" the narrator uses sarcasm to display death. He begins in the first stanza, telling a young woman whose lover has been killed in war, how noble his death was. He tell her not to weep because he died in glory. Yet in the second stanza hedescibes the horror of the war, and how uncivilized it really is. He ...
- 6667: Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
- Landmark Supreme Court Decisions About 32 years ago, in December of 1965, a group of adults and students from Des Moines, Iowa gathered to show their dislike towards American involvement in the Vietnam War. They decided to wear black armbands and fast on December 16 and 31 to express there point. When the principals of the Des Moines School System found out their plans, they decided to suspend anyone ... the students in school. Why shouldn't students have the same rights as other people? If the students wore obscene clothing, ran out of classrooms, or set the school on fire in protest of the war, then yes, I could see disciplinary action being taken against them. However, the Tinkers simply wore black armbands. Because this was not disruptive or obscene, I feel the school should not have punished them. Another ... that their rights were being violated by the decisions and actions made by the school districts. In contrast, the time periods in which these cases took place were very different. In the 1960's, the war in Vietnam was going on, and there were a lot of controversial issues and viewpoints facing students at schools. In the 1980's, the war was over and there weren't as many controversial ...
- 6668: The Causes of the French Revolution
- ... two main ways. The French had suffered big defeats and therefore had lost men and supplies. They also had failed to gain any territory; in fact they often lost a lot of it. The worst war was the Seven Years War as this war drained the most out of France and this was when France lost most of her colonies toBritain. The peasants had many grievances. One of the main grievances was the seigniorial system. This system allowed ...
- 6669: Tinker v. Des Moines, Kuhlmieir v. Hazelwood
- ... v. Des Moines, Kuhlmieir v. Hazelwood About 32 years ago, in December of 1965, a group of adults and students from Des Moines, Iowa gathered to show their dislike towards American involvement in the Vietnam War. They decided to wear black armbands and fast on December 16 and 31 to express there point. When the principals of the Des Moines School System found out their plans, they decided to suspend anyone ... the students in school. Why shouldn't students have the same rights as other people? If the students wore obscene clothing, ran out of classrooms, or set the school on fire in protest of the war, then yes, I could see disciplinary action being taken against them. However, the Tinkers simply wore black armbands. Because this was not disruptive or obscene, I feel the school should not have punished them. Another ... that their rights were being violated by the decisions and actions made by the school districts. In contrast, the time periods in which these cases took place were very different. In the 1960's, the war in Vietnam was going on, and there were a lot of controversial issues and viewpoints facing students at schools. In the 1980's, the war was over and there weren't as many controversial ...
- 6670: Jules Verne
- ... written in the 1800's - years before the first sub was invented. The man who thought this story up was Jules Verne. Jules Verne was an amazing writer who predicted the science future of the world. Some of the inventions he imagined were created later in his lifetime, but some are still to be invented. He was popular with all kinds of readers: rich, poor, young, old, scientists, artists and rulers ... novels. Some of his more famous novels are Five Weeks in a Balloon, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, Mysterious Island, and Master of the World. A few of his novels have been turned into movies, like Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Because of the popularity of these and other novels, Jules Verne became a very rich ...
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