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- 1211: Willa Cather's "O Pioneers"
- ... The plains Indians created the worst threat to the white man that began to advance into the frontier. These tribesmen were difficult to control since they were nomadic and took their homes with them and lived off the land. 8 The Indians followed the buffalo, as it was their main source of food and clothing. When the white man drove the buffalo off the land, the Indians were forced to stay ... the tribes would not be recognized, keeping the whites out. However, intrusions could not be stopped. The white man did not want free, fertile land to go to waste on the Indians when, Christian men lived in want." 10 The federal government found it impossible to enforce the obedience to its own laws much less agreements with Indians. An example of this land intrusion in the book O Pioneers is stated ...
- 1212: God’s Expectations
- ... in pain, and man will dominate women. The man would have to work for a living and be no longer immortal. There were also people who did live up to ; they were usually rewarded and lived happily. Noah, Abraham, and Daniel are three examples of them. Noah was the only good person in the world, so God did not kill him, his wife, and two of every animal, male and female ... world by drowning everything. Abraham became the father of the Jewish nation and his son, Ishmael, was the father of the Islam religion. Daniel was very smart and could understand God; the spirit of God lived within him. When he was thrown into the den of lions, God saved him by sealing the lions’ jaws. God sometimes cannot understand what it is like to be human and cannot feel what pain ...
- 1213: The Pearl Book Report
- ... They both had four children. The doctor: he never came to the cluster of brush houses. Why should he, when he had more than he could do to take care of the rich people who lived in the stone and plaster houses of the town. He was stout, his voice was hoarse with the fat that pressed on his throat. His eyes rested in puffy little hammocks of flesh and his ... silver chocolate pot, etc. The furnitures in his room were heavy and dark and gloomy. He had religious pictures hanging in his house, and a photograph of his dead wife. Plot synopsis: The fisherman Kino lived with his wife Juana and his little baby-son Coyotito in a brush hut near the Pacific coast. One morning the baby was stung by a scorpion and it became very ill. The doctor refused ...
- 1214: Historical Background To "Animal Farm"
- Karl Marx was a German scholar who lived in the nineteenth century. He sp most of his life studying, thinking and writing about history and economics. A many years of study, much of it spent in England, he believed that he understo more deeply than anyone who had ever lived before him why there is injustice i world. He said that all injustice and inequality is a result of one underlying conflict in society. He called it a 'class struggle', that is, a conflict bet ...
- 1215: Taoism
- ... of the most ancient religious concepts of the Chinese culture. This concept has influenced many religions, such as Buddhism, and Confucianism, two major religions in the world (Hume 150). The religion preaches that if people lived naturally, did things naturally, and lived life by the Tao, they would be free of evil (Wolcott 77). This belief soon influenced many people to follow the life of wu wei, the Ying and the Yang (Smith 207). ’s philosophical ...
- 1216: Buddhism
- ... son's destiny for greatness, either as an emperor or as a religious leader. Therefore Gautama's father decided to isolate his son from the outside world, where he might "see how the other half lived" and maybe even be tempted to belong to a different religion. ¹pg 141 "What man Believes" Evans, Allan E., Moynes, Riley E., Martinello, Larry Since the complete seclusion as Gautama's father had wished ... of life and the ultimate fate of man. As time passed these thoughts became great burdens upon Gautama and he increasingly became dissatisfied with the shallow dissolute life of the royal court in which he lived. Therefore at the age of 21, although married with a beautiful young son and also the heir to a very rich throne he forsook it all and became a travelling holy man. After a while ...
- 1217: Lord Of The Flies: Idea Of God
- ... even gods of the first primitive civilizations were animals. As mankind mastered the animals, however, his idea of god changed to become people, as is showed in the Greek and Roman myths. These gods, however, lived on earth and were accustomed to the same pleasures and desires and led the same lifestyle as the Greeks and Romans. First proposed by the Hebrew prophet Isaiah, god became a higher being, as mankind ... need for a higher god. This first god was still immoral and like the humans, except that he could live forever and did not dwell on the same surface as the humans, but god still lived in heaven, which was thought of as a tangible place in the sky, and still was thought to be in the shape of a man. This idea was challenged by another Hebrew prophet, Jeremiah. He ...
- 1218: Lord Of The Flies: About The Author
- William Golding the author of Lord of the Flies was born in Great Britain in 1911 and throughout almost his entire lifetime, he has lived and witnessed the true evil within all men. During his childhood the first World War beginning in 1914, and was followed many years later by the savagery of World War II. He has seen powerful dictators rise and fall; he has witnessed entire nations crumble, the massive slaughter of the Holocaust come and go, weapons of death destroy entire cities, and he has lived through a time when the world was divided in half and only a single spark was needed to set off what was needed for world destruction. It was during this time that Golding wrote the ...
- 1219: Creation As Seen Through Greco
- ... for agriculture, and by extensive trading (8, xv). Another element that could contribute to the development of a myth in society is the geographical region in which that society dwells. The Greeks and Romans both lived in the Mediterranean. The Greeks on islands, and to the west the Romans on a peninsula. These were heavily traveled trade routes not only by these people, but the Mesopotamians and to a lesser extent the Egyptians as well as some Germanic tribes. Their geographical placement was a key element to exposing these people to outside influences. By comparison, The land and climate in which the Norsemen lived was much harsher than that of the Greeks. Life was difficult compared to the gentler climate of Greece and its more abundant sources of food. With a milder climate, agriculture was not as tenuous, from ...
- 1220: Spelling Of Emigre Russians
- ... reason to write in Russian, she had forgotten some of the most basic spelling rules. Further, she claimed that spelling in Russian was different than spelling in English. This last comment puzzled me until I lived in Russia last year and approached this topic with Russians. A good friend of mine took a diktant at Moscow University and made 45 spelling mistakes (the acceptable number was 6). A native of Moscow ... of the Russians were heritage speakers, and two had emigrated to America at 14, having studied English in school for 4 years. The Americans had been studying Russian for just over three years and had lived in Russia for at least 5 months. All of the Russian subjects, save one young man, claimed that their English was better than their Russian, due to their higher education in America (all of them ...
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