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- 1121: Braveheart
- ... life with the many foolish and unnecessary rules that the king put on his people, which soon led to the death of his wife. William Wallace's life started just like any other boy that lived in Scotland. But it would soon change. The people of Scotland were under the rule of the king of England who happened to be King Edward. The king had told the people that he would ... went to battle. One in which was William's father. They gained nothing from the fight, and now William no longer had a father.William now went to live with his uncle Argile. There he lived for a long term of his life. He was educated and learned to speak Latin with his uncle who he also took him on a pilgrimage to Rome. He returned home to Scotland while in ...
- 1122: Bladerunner
- ... only be approached through His Son, Jesus Christ. Sebastian is the only true human. He is the composite of both man and replicant as Jesus is a composite of God and man. Just as Jesus lived among men, Sebastian lived among the replicants. The Bible syas the score between Lucifer and Christ is yet to be settled, Ridley Scott decides to to take advantage of the liberties afforded him by Postmodernism by deciding to rewrite ...
- 1123: Creative Writing: The Drive
- ... stupid. Let's see, nuts and stupid, um, O.K. I guess everyone has their own opinion. Its not really what I wanted to hear, but I could see their point. Yuma, Arizona, my hometown, lived there for 10 years, graduated from high school, had lots of friends, had a great job, but one crucial element was missing, I just wasn't happy there. Everyone, including my family, (who by the ... stupid. Let's see, nuts and stupid, um, O.K. I guess everyone has their own opinion. Its not really what I wanted to hear, but I could see their point. Yuma, Arizona, my hometown, lived there for 10 years, graduated from high school, had lots of friends, had a great job, but one crucial element was missing, I just wasn't happy there. Everyone, including my family, (who by the ...
- 1124: Moll Flanders
- ... the final outcome. Although Moll reached her goals in the end, she would have had a more fulfilling and gratifying life had she suppressed her vanity and price and accepted her role in society and lived accordingly. Moll began life in the low class. Not much nobility or status was expected of the orphan born in Newgate Prison, and in English society, there was little chance for Moll to escape this ... for herself. Opting for financial security, Moll married a man whom she did not love. After Robin's death, Moll once again sought to marry a well to do man. She did just that and lived extravagantly for a few years until her husband was imprisoned for his debts. Once again, Moll was placed in a position of faring for herself or marrying for money and once again the marriage did ...
- 1125: Social Darwinsim History
- ... theory called Social Darwinism, which on one hand was regarded as a primary defense of business activities, and on the other, was nothing more than a myth. Social Darwinism, the experts say, "was a short-lived theory of social evolution, vigorously discussed in America, which rationalized and justified the harsh facts of social stratification in an attempt to reconcile them with the prevalent ideology of equalitarianism. The emergence of Social Darwinism ... and intelligent enough to use the theory of Social Darwinism to justify their ruthless and unfair business practices. Unfortunately, there were only very few men like that. Social Darwinism, was in fact only a "short-lived theory"; nothing more than a greatly overemphasized myth, given much more credit than it actually deserved. WORKS CITED: "Andrew Carnegie: The Principles of Industrial and Social Progress Illustrated by His Career." The Monthly Bulletin Of ...
- 1126: Alber Einstein
- ... he was very interested in science. When he wanted to relax he would play the violin which he started playing at the age of six. The kocks, his mother's family, and the Einstein had lived in Southern Germany for more than a century, selling cloth, farming, and clerking in banks. During their free hours they enjoyed boating on the Danube and walking in the woods. Both families were Jewish . In ... did not achieve success. Eduard later accused his father of ruining his life a nervous breakdown. Although Einstein rushed to Switzerland when Eduard became ill, neither he nor the psychiatrists were able to help. Eduard lived with his mother until her death, when he was placed in a mental institution. Einstein also proved that matter and energy are really different forms of the same thing, which is the Special Theory of ...
- 1127: The Transformation Of Nora2
- ... I will advise and direct you. I should not be a man if this womanly helplessness did not just give you a double attractiveness in my eyes” (64). When she leaves, Nora understands that she lived her life as a doll in a dollhouse. Never being able to choose or express a hope, desire, thought, or wishes, without consideration of the dominant authority in her life. Nora also breaks society\\'s ... all expectations put on a woman and wife by society. The story A Doll’s House is believable. It stands for every marriage where equality never took place. Many women knew their social status and lived as they were meant to, but for the few that realized there is more to the world then the sheltered life they were living, broke free. Nora is one of the women who knew her ...
- 1128: The Transformation Of Nora
- ... view of her as a stereotypical wife. She chooses instead to see herself as someone in process, in a state of becoming rather than of having defined being. When she leaves, Nora understands that she lived her life as only an unquestioning follower, or as a doll in a dollhouse. Never being able to choose or express a hope, desire, thought, or wishes, without consideration of the dominant authority in her ... all expectations put on a woman and wife by society. The story A Doll’s House is believable. It stands for every marriage where equality never took place. Many women knew their social status and lived as they were meant to, but for the few that realized there was more to the world then the sheltered life they were living, broke free. Nora was one of the women who knew her ...
- 1129: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... was born an illegitimate child to Catherina, a peasant girl. His father was Ser Piero da Vinci, a public notary for the city of Florence, Italy. For the first four years of his life he lived with his mother in the small village of Vinci, directly outside of the great center of the Renaissance, Florence. Catherina was a poor woman, with possible artistic talent, the genetic basis of Leonardo's talents ... that Leonardo's interest in the human body and his ability to invent mechanical things were actually not as paramount to him as was his fascination and awe of the natural world (Clark 133). Leonardo lived to be 67 years old. He is not known to have ever married or had children. In fact, it was said of him that he only saw women as "reproductive mechanisms" (Clark 134). If there ...
- 1130: American Hawaii
- ... well by the natives. They were eager to learn from the missionaries. Without the strict supervision of their former gods and superstitions, Hawaiians were celebrating new freedom. They drank, they partied, they carried firearms and lived like animals. The missionaries saw this anarchy and decided that things must be put under control. Without their religion, the Hawaiians were barbarians. The missionaries built houses and settled in at Hawaii. Then they worked ... of the Bible in Hawaiian language. From 1837 to 1843, 27,000 Hawaiians were converted to Christianity. Before the missionaries had come, they had no guilt wearing no clothes or having sex in public! Hawaiians lived in worry free. But Hawaii s culture was fading away. America liked Hawaii for its location along the trade route to china and for its rich soil. Many American trading ships stopped at Hawaii on ...
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