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- 7371: Definition For Satanism
- ... people feel that non-Christian religions and all Christian denominations other than their own are forms of Satanism. This would imply that all Buddhists, Hindus, Moslems, and Jews. In fact at least 75% of the world's population would be Satanists. Others feel that all religions other than Judaism or Christianity are inspired by Satan and thus are forms of Satanism. This would still leave the vast majority of people in the world being Satanists. Large numbers of people feel that a wide variety of unrelated, benign religions (such as Santeria and other Caribbean religions, Druidism, New Age, Wicca, ect.) are forms of Satanism. Such definitions create great ... later kicked out of the Golden Dawn and later joined the Ordo Templi Orients (OTO) , which blended ceremonial magick, sex magick, and Freemasonry. Crowley reveled in notoriety, billing himself as the Wickedest Man in the World and the Great Beast 666 of Revelation. He is alleged in to have committed at least one animal sacrifice, experimented with many illegal drugs and engaged in countless sexual orgies. It is not known ...
- 7372: The Age of Exploration: Europe
- ... October 12 when land was sighted at the Americas. Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian that represented the Medici Bank in Spain, chartered the coastline of Central America and described this as the "Mundus Novus", meaning "New World". In 1507, a German cartographer labeled the continent America named after Amerigo Vespucci. He also explored the coastline of Central America. Juan Ponce de Le˘n set out to find the Fountain of Youth. He ... later named the "Strait of Magellan". He was later killed by Philippine Natives and four of his ships were destroyed. Only one ship made it back to Spain, making it the first voyage around the World in 1522. Eventually, Columbus claimed Cuba and Hispanola, which is now more commonly known as Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The Spanish Government never harmed the natives. In fact, they supported them on the newly ... 95% of the Americas. Technology aided European exploration, such as more precise travel with the refinement of the compass and new sale designs and development. The growth of a middle class sparked curiosity about the World. Sources: World History: Patterns of Civilization by Prentice Hall The Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia Prodigy Membership Services Inc.
- 7373: Religion in Public Schools
- ... was recited at the start of the November 30, 1994 session: We pray, O God, for the bread for the sustenance of our bodies and spiritual food for the nourishment of our souls. In a world where much seems to be discouraging and where problems appear at every corner, we pray that the human spirit will not be taught by cynicism or despair, but rejoice in the possibilities of every new ... strongly favored prayer in the public schools and wished to restore it. Meet the people I call the "Pro's". "Pros" feel that prayer in public schools will restore positive values in kids. In a world where Senator Jesse Helms states ŇYou can almost stand on the Capitol steps and throw a throw a rock into a neighborhood where you cannot walk at night,Ó there is the need to improve ... children in our public schools will have a right to voluntary prayer. Let'Ős see if he succeeds. David R. Glasgow Core 7-2 Mrs. Roland May 2, 1994 Bibliography Armstrong, James . "Freedom of Religion." World Book Encyclopedia,1991, Volume 4, p. 505. Ferguson, M.L. The American Principle of the Separation of Church and State. Waco,Texas, Baylor University Press, p.45. "Prayer In School-Still A Troubling Problem". ...
- 7374: Animal Farm: Utopia
- ... the drawing-room, even though Napoleon was against all of this in the beginning he became a big part of these activities. From this scene some animals are starting to notice their "Equal and Perfect" world is becoming not so equal any more. As the years pass by there are more incidents that prove, Napoleon wants to have more power. Also the "Utopia" idea is going away. Napoleon uses Snowball to ... animals are more equal than others. After all of this confusing the animals are very confused. They just go along with the scenario but some do not approve. The animals start to see there "perfect" world disappear. Orwell shows Old Major ideas of a Utopia vanish by having Napoleon emerge as a tyrant leader and shows that he is power hungry from the start. Throughout the story Napoleon starts to change ... only one who can read, so know one can remember the original Commandments. Napoleon like any tyrant blames his problems on everyone else and in the end ruins the animal's ideas of a perfect world completely. This story teaches people there is no perfect world and somebody always wants more.
- 7375: The Kent State University Tragedy
- The Kent State University Tragedy Kent State University was placed in an international spotlight after a tragic end to a student demonstration against the Vietnam War and the National Guard on May 4, 1970. Shortly after noon on that Monday, 13 seconds of rifle fire by a contingent of 28 Ohio National Guardsmen left four students dead, one permanently paralyzed, and ... an observer. Some students were walking to and from class. The closest student wounded was 30 yards away from the Guard, while the farthest was nearly 250 yards away. The divisive effect of the Vietnam War on American society was especially evident on campuses throughout the country. At Kent, the day after the announcement to send U.S. troops into Cambodia marked the start of a weekend of anti-war protests that began on campus and spilled into the city of Kent's downtown. Broken windows and other damage to a number of downtown businesses prompted fear, rumors, and eventually a call by the ...
- 7376: Bacon’s Rebellion
- ... rather easy to see how much power Berkeley and his cronies had in the colony however most of this power w3as dependent on one factor the Indians. So Berkeley would never want to go to war with these Indians for a plethora of reasons, how dangerous these Indians were, the amount of money he would lose to pay the expenses of war like weapons, food, etc., the lose of the beaver trade monopoly meaning the lose of his money and finally the danger of Indians invading and sabotaging the tidewater territory of Berkeley’s elite friends. In order to prevent this from happening as a result of war, Berkeley create a policy of a peace treaty that gives the Indians “their” land inland and prevents frontiersmen from entering this land in this way their will be no dispute over land because the ...
- 7377: The Cathedral
- ... his misunderstanding of the people and the relationships presented to him in this story which show most clearly his tragic flaw: while Robert is physically blind, it is the narrator that cannot clearly see the world around him. In the eyes of the narrator, Robert s blindness is his defining characteristic. The opening line of Cathedral reads, This blind man, an old friend of my wife s, he was on his ... narrator s naivete leaves him amazed by Robert, who does things which the narrator would view as atypical of the blind. This reinforces the idea that the narrator is blind to the reality of the world. The narrator s blindness is certainly not limited to Robert he no better understands the relationship between his wife and the blind man: They d become good friends, my wife and the blind man On ... sweet lips: And then my dear husband came into my life something like that. But I heard nothing of the sort. This only reaffirms that once again, the narrator completely misreads the situations in the world around him. Notwithstanding, the narrator s emotional blindness can be seen most clearly in his inability to comprehend Robert and Beulah s relationship. The narrator muses, They d married, lived and worked together, slept ...
- 7378: “Homeless Veterans: Perspectives on Social Services Use”
- ... believe that Veterans are a part of there own culture. The men who went to Vietnam seem to have somewhat of a connection; because of what they all have seen and went through in that war. I know people who went to Vietnam and people who have fought in other wars; the Vietnam veterans are not as willing to talk about experiences as are the others. I’m not saying that Vietnam is any worse than any other war, because any war is an ugly thing. As I have read in this article and from my own life experiences Vietnam veterans have had many more psychological side effects from participating in Vietnam. Many Vietnam veterans suffer ...
- 7379: The Monastery And The Clock
- ... The Monestary and the Clock", page 326.) represents the thesis of Mumford's "The Monastery and the Clock". Couple of centuries ago it would be hard to find this thesis believable, but in today's world almost everything is driven by the time and ability to measure the time. Without the invention of the clock would be hard, if not impossible, to imagine the world we have today. The earliest clocks were very simple, and as the time passed, men found ways to improve the means of measuring time. First clocks used shadow produced by vertical stick to measure time ... slowly pushed its way into our everyday lives. At first, only the rich could afford to keep the clock, but little by little everyone started using it until it became a necessity. In today's world it is almost impossible to imagine living without the clock and the ability to tell the time. If for some reason, all the clocks and time measuring devices would suddenly disappear from our lives, ...
- 7380: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- ... s appropriate sphere “celebrated the new status of the middle class woman, along with her distinctive vocation, values, and character” (Woloch, p.68). True Women reigned in the domestic realm, whereas men controlled the outside world of politics, business, individuality, intellect, etc. True Women were submissive to men. Their purpose was simply to provide a warm, happy, comfortable home for their husbands and children. According to these ideals, a True Woman ... misleading and must be modified or qualified, if not discarded” (Woloch, p.69). In other words, the validity of true womanhood must be brought into question. As one travels from this busy, booming, middle class world of the early nineteenth-century American North and moves to the humid, swampy, slave-holding South, strong notions of True Womanhood become weak and limp, struggle alongside slaves and masters, and are, for the most part, eventually nullified. The female population transforms from dainty, white, submissive True Women to labored, abused, colored slaves. It was in this world that Harriet Jacobs managed to exist. In her story, she recounts a myriad of examples of the excruciating inhumanity with which slaves were treated. Numerous methods of torture were employed for slaveholders to exercise ...
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