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- 311: Fray Junipero Serra
- ... tiles. The mission included a prominent church, rooms for priests, storehouses, housing for unmarried women, solider barracks, dining facilities, and indoor workshops. They would include cultivated land for farming and cattle grazing areas. Married Indians lived in a village within close proximity to the mission. At no time did the Franciscans see mission land as their land, but as the land rightfully belonging to the Natives to be handed over when ... the missionaries to evangelize more effectively. The only conclusive historical evidence that can be proven is that Blessed Junipero Serra was a zealous missionary devoted to the spread of the Gospel Message. He taught and lived out the Gospel message, converted thousands of Native Americans to Christianity, and was a strong and courageous leader of the natives who constantly fought for their rights and provided them with the means for adapting ... that Serra "is an exemplary model of a selfless evangelizer, a shining example of Christian virtue and the missionary spirit He not only brought the gospel message to the Native Americans, but as one who lived the Gospel he also became their defender and champion." Most character information on Junipero Serra is derived almost exclusively from a biography by his disciple Palou. Palou was a native of Serra's homeland ...
- 312: Stephen King
- ... met Tabitha in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University of Maine at Orono, where they both worked as students. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines. Stephen made his first short story ... s Day of that year, Stephen learned from his new editor at Doubleday, Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale would provide him with the means to leave teaching and write full-time. After having lived in and around Bangor since their marriage, the Kings moved their growing family to southern Maine because of Stephen's mother's failing health at the end of the summer of 1973. Renting a summer ... the garage. During this period, Stephen's mother died of cancer, at the age of 59. Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. That same fall, the Kings left Maine for Boulder, Colorado. They lived there for a little less than a year, during which Stephen wrote The Shining, set in Colorado. Returning to Maine in the summer of 1975, the Kings purchased a home in the Lakes Region ...
- 313: Events Leading To The French R
- ... caring for thepoor, they collected a tithe, or a tax on income. About one-third of theentire clergy in France served as parish priests. Also included in thisestate were the nobles. Some of the nobles lived in luxury in major citiesin France, such as Versailles or Paris. Parish priests usually lived ahardworking life. This Estate was the minority of the people in France, having approximately 1 to 2 per cent of the population. The Second Estate in French life was the nobility. They enjoyedextensive rights and ... others similar to thosetypes of professions. Peasants made up the largest group within the ThirdEstate. They were forced to pay hefty taxes, tithes to the church, andrents to their landlords for the land that they lived on. The last groupwithin the Third Estate were the city workers. They were servants,apprentices, and household maids. The major cause of the Revolution were the differences these threegroups had. However, there was another ...
- 314: The Time Machine - Analysis
- ... skills was necessary for them to survive. When he arrived in the future, The Time Traveller, after seeing and hearing the Eloi, concluded that they had an extremely low intelligence compared to the people that lived in his time. They were often described as and compared to little children. “Then one of them asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our five year old children.”(39) He was very shocked about this weakness that the Eloi possessed. The fact that the Time Traveller lived 800,00 years in the past led him to believe that over time, the generations got less and less intelligent and more involved with having fun compared to the world where he lived. The Time Traveller also realized that the Eloi were very dependent on other people for many of there resources. He mentioned that the Eloi had houses and clothing but he didn’t see any ...
- 315: African-American Literature, M
- ... awareness. These two women attempted to mold Janie and Meridian in their own images; the only images they knew. Meridian’s mother was a product of the southern culture around the time Janie would have lived. She lived as a schoolteacher in her young adult years. She simply fell into the cultural trap of love and marriage. Walker describes the ‘love’ Meridian’s mother felt as “toleration for his (Meridian’s ... on by the men and young women on the front porch of the store without Joe pushing her away to “go on and see whut Mrs. Bogle want” (66). The culture in which she lived, the community she would call her home for the next 20 years, would not allow her to make even that simple connection. Gradually she became a woman of silence. Her inner-self was beaten ...
- 316: A Look At The First Works Of The World
- ... his test of faith. Both Gilgamesh and Abraham looked to their gods for help and guidance. However, as Abraham regarded his god with awe, Gilgamesh almost expected his gods to give him guidance. While Abraham lived his life in accordance to his god's commands, Gilgamesh lived his life in accordance to what he could and could not tame. Overall, there are some differences between the two tales that might be overlooked. In the epic, the common people are content serving their ... neither succeed. The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Book of Genesis are two of the earliest accounts of human civilization. In their own way, they set an example of how the population of the past lived. They also set guidelines for the way that we could live our lives. By reading of the commitment that Abraham made and the mistakes that Gilgamesh and Adam made, we can shape our own ...
- 317: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... number 6- a book reviewed by a newspaper (my own doing). A unique cooperation between the New- York Times, the most influential newspaper in the world, Mark Twain, one of the most popular novelists ever lived: Mark Twain’s is a novel about a young boy’s coming of age in the Missouri of the mid-1800s. It is the story of Huck’s struggle to win freedom for himself and ... a plea for humanity, for the end of caste, and of its cruelties (Allen 260). Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835. During his childhood he lived in Hannibal, Missouri, a Mississippi river port that was to become a large influence on his future writing. It was Twain’s nature to write about where he lived, and his nature to criticize it if he felt it necessary. As far his structure, Kaplan said, In plotting a book his structural sense was weak: intoxicated by a hunch, he seldom saw far ...
- 318: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... Roosevelt served as an influential member of the New York state assembly. After the death of his first wife in 1884, Teddy temporarily left politics and ran two cattle ranches in the Dakota Territory and lived the exhausting life of a wild west rancher. Roosevelt left ranching and remarried in 1886. At the same time he began campaigning for Benjamin Harrison’s bid for the presidency. After Harrison won he gave ... Africa. It stated “Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far.” Roosevelt applied this theology to America’s relations with other nations, and it is still widely used today. Roosevelt lived in a time when most people though that American was a land of limitless natural resources that would never run out. Many industries abused the land and did not replace what they took. Teddy however ... ll be careful, calculating and cautious, and so I’ll beat myself. See?” This quote sums up the man almost entirely. He was an exciting person who grabbed onto life with both hands and lived it to its fullest, and in the process of doing so he secured his place in the history of America. Many people could be considered for the title of most important American in the ...
- 319: The Life Of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... it would have bean quite possible for Poe to get a job. Before the year was over Poe had developed gambling debts exceeding 2,500 dollars (Moldavia). When Poe went back to Richmond where John lived for the summer he expected John to pay of his debts. John would not pay of the debts and made John work as a clerk at his firm to pay them off. In 1827 Poe ... In "The Raven" Poe talks a lot of loneliness. Poe suffered from loneliness and depression, both clinical and chemical. It is also said that Poe had a bust of Pallas over his door when he lived in New York city (The Raven). Poe also writes of imagining that there is someone at his door when he said, "Here I opened wide the door, darkness there and nothing more". This can be ... years. Despite so much time, people are still fascinated by his life and work. Many scholars actively explore and discuss his writings and the things that are known and unknown about his life. Although he lived only forty years, Poe’s work is still important to us today. Bibliography Moran, Dr. John. A Defense of Poe--Life, Character, and Dying Declarations of the Poet. New York: William F. Bogher,1885. ...
- 320: Amazing Quran
- ... Muslim and asked, "This Muhammed, was he a sailor?" He was impressed at how accurately the Qur'an describes a storm on a sea. When he was told, "No as a matter of fact, Muhammed lived in the desert," that was enough for him. He embraced Islam on the spot. He was so impressed with the Qur'an's description because he had been in a storm on the sea, and ... not "include" such helpful information in the Qur'an. Some Muslims attempt to explain this absence with the following argument: "Although the Prophet's advice was sound and applicable to the time in which he lived, Allah, in His infinite wisdom, knew that there would come later medical and scientific advances which would make the Prophet's advice appear outdated. When later discoveries occurred, people might say that such information contradicted ... ancient writings and scriptures that people have, do give a lot of information, but they always state where the information came from. For example, when the Bible discusses ancient history, it states that this king lived here, this one fought in a certain battle, another one had so may sons, etc. Yet it always stipulates that if you want more information, then you should read the book of so and ...
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