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- 391: The Atomic Bomb And Its Effects On Post-World War II
- ... on their courage (Stone, 7). The following passage from the first chapter shows this:A hundred thousand people were killed by the bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of the counts many small items of chance or volition a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the next that spared him. And each that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time, none of them knew anything (4). Hersey was attempting to chronicle what had happened at Hiroshima, and to ... forerunner of the more widespread counterculture of the late Sixties and early Seventies. And Ginsberg evolved into this. He became a devoted leader in the counterculture, who set many precedents for the Hippie generation. He lived in various communes, delved deeply into eastern religions and experimented with numerous hallucinogenic drugs. In the earlier part of his life Ginsberg had been a rebel against society. He was still a rebel but ...
- 392: Thoreau As A Prophet
- Jerry Petercuskie Thoreau was a simple man that believed in having only the basic necessities in life. Thoreau lived a life of simplicity at Walden Pond. In Walden, Thoreau gives a background of his life and some life experiences that he has encountered. Thoreau also explains that the four necessities in life are food, shelter, clothing, and fuel. Thoreau was a prophet of the twentieth-century regarding the issue of materialism. In Thoreau's days there were people who lived in luxury and people that lived with just the essentials of life as he did. Men of those days worked hard for everything they had and did not find it necessary to indulge in such luxuries as men do today. ...
- 393: History Of Turkish Occupation Of Northern Kurdistan.
- ... to the Turkish metropolis (Kendal)." Much of the region is relatively unchanged since the last seventy years of Turkish rule or has suffered even worse economically. The thirty million Kurds of the Middle East have lived in Kurdistan before record of modern history was kept. The very first mention of the Kurds in history was about 3,000 BC, under the name Gutium., as they fought the Summerians(Spieser). Later around ... Kurds speak from as Aryan language (Morris). The Kurds are mentioned by Xenaphon, a Greek mercenary, as he retreated from Persia with ten thousand men in 401 BC, he says of the Kurds, "These people, lived in the mountains and were very war-like and not subject to the Persian king. Indeed once a royal army of 120,000 thousand had once invaded their country, and not a man of them ... it is often taught in the schools of Turkey, all the great Babylonian, Summerian, Egyptian, and Hittite civilizations had been created by the Turks(Kendal). In order to hide the fact that the Kurds had lived in Anatolia four thousand years before one Turk stepped in. The Turkish intelligentsia determined the Kurds came from Central Asia five thousands years ago. The situation deteriorated to the point where to state " I ...
- 394: Anne Bradstreet And Sarah Kemble Knight: Writing Styles
- Women in colonial America lived much different lives than those of today’s women. Although gender-specific roles existed and were enforced by society’s watchful eye, many women stepped beyond these rigid guidelines and became writers. Sarah Kemble Knight ... she married a scholar who eventually became the governor of Massachusetts. She came to America with her husband and parents, and she moved with her husband to a small town outside of Boston, where she lived as a devoted Puritan wife and mother of eight. Her husband, children, and religion frequently appeared as topics of her work. Knight lived a completely different life. She became both a businesswoman and a schoolteacher, both rather unusual professions for women of the day. Although she never married, she was remarkably successful on her own. What is ...
- 395: Life In A Medieval Village Summary
- Life In A Medieval Village is about archaeological discoveries from the Middle Ages. The author, Frances Gies, uses details and descriptions to help her auidence visualize how people worked and lived seven hundred years ago. The village is a very small town, or as we would say, a metropolitan suburb. The population consisted of farmers rather than merchants or craftsmen. Still, socially, economically, and politically, it was a community. Together the people formed an integrated whole for agricultural production. There they lived, labored, socialized, loved, married, sinned, went to church, paid fines, and had children. The medieval village represented a new stage of the world's oldest civilized society, the peasant econonmy. Houses didn't necessarily face ... and Joseph Gies are great authors, because of the way they told the story about the medieval village. If anything I think they wanted whomever read this book to get an insight into how people lived seven hundred years ago and to be able and compare it with today's society. To just get a feeling on what has changed so that your more aware of your history and able ...
- 396: The Life And Work Of Robert Browning
- ... no real formal education so he was largely self educated. His father was a smart man with an extensive library. His mother was kindly, religious minded woman, who loved music and her brilliant son. He lived at his parents house almost until the time of his marriage. He attended a boarding school near Camberwell and spent a little bit of his time traveling to places like Russia and Italy. But he ... six years older than Robert and jealously guarded by her "tyrannical" father. Because of her poor health which was made worse by the English climate, they moved to Florence, Italy, and were married there. They lived in a palace that would later be made famous by Elizabeth's poem, Casa Guidi Windows. As Elizabeth's health slowly returned to her, she was able to enjoy a fuller life. Robert seemed to ... Venice, Italy. Robert Browning was buried in Westminster Abbey. Robert Browning's poetry is admired by two groups. To one group, his work is, "a moral tonic." Such readers appreciate him as a man who lived bravely and as a writer who thought of life as one joyful battle. He believed that the imperfections of the world would someday be remedied by an all-loving God. Typical of this group ...
- 397: Religious Fanaticism
- An Analysis of Moliere s Satirization of Social Issues A man, or rather a demon in flesh and inhabited as a man, the most notably impious creature and libertine who ever lived throughout the centuries, has had the impiety and abomination to bring forth from his devilish mind a play [Tartuffe] He deserves for this sacrilegious and impious act to be burned at the stake as a foretaste of the fires of hell. Pierre Roulle (1664) Moliere lived a life surrounded by controversy. After renouncing his position of Valet de Chambre Tapissier to pursue his acting career, Moliere formed a theater performance troupe called The Illustrious Theater with his mistress s family, the ... day he died, when he was refused burial in the local cemetery because his remains would offend the sacred ground. Moliere thereby left the world in as agitated a manner as in which he had lived (Hobdell 102-105.) Comedies, of which Tartuffe is an example, aggressively satirize issues and relationships communities care the most about. The purpose of this essay is to identify these situations, as found in Tartuffe, ...
- 398: Jay Gatsby And Dick Diver
- ... great lists, and ‘everything she liked that she couldn’t possibly use she bought as a present for a friend’. Instead, Dick felt ‘a discrepancy between the growing luxury in which the Divers lived, and the need for display which apparently went along with it. Dick feels trapped by Nicole’s money, and constantly tires to assert his independence from it, such as when he and Nicole started out ... are both seen by their peers as luck men living an ideal life as socialites, entertaining people endlessly, blessed with great fortunes (‘lucky Dick, you big stiff’). What more could they wish for? They lived in big house, socialise and provide for others, and appear to enjoy their lives, but do they? Their idealised lives seem, to them, vacant and directionless, a never-ending stream of parties and faces. For ... would be unfair to say that in these two novels Fitzgerald was simply writing cautionary tales concerning the risks of excessive alcohol and socialising. Although Fitzgerald was passing judgement on the times in which he lived, he was writing about more than alcohol and the ridiculous critics often associated with it. Diver’s and Gatsby’s demise has more to do with a loss of control and broken dreams than ...
- 399: Anne Hutchinson
- ... as the fate of the Indians who had no knowledge of Jesus Christ or salvation. Her childhood was a definite factor in the development of the strong, self-assured woman she grew up to be. lived in Alford, England as a housewife and mother after she was married at the age of twenty-one to a man named Will Hutchinson. Anne was drawn to a certain minister named John Cotton who ... twelve years before 1642, 21,000 Puritans moved to New England (B. Bailyn, The Peopling of British North America, pps. 25-26.) for the purpose of establishing a haven for them to practice Puritanism together. lived in this violent and changing time when the established religion was often questioned, and groups of people came to their own conclusions on points of doctrine. For the first time, people like Anne learned to ... her." (D.F. Hawke, Everyday Life in Early America, pps. 62-63.) In light of this mindset, it is hardly surprising that Anne's ideas and intelligence were met with hostility and rejection. Anne actually lived a relatively submissive life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She never publicly gave her own opinions on religious issues, but only in the privacy of a home among other women. She started another women' ...
- 400: Spanish Influence
- ... did not work too well since orders from the king took months and even years before reaching the viceroys, after which a message may be outdated and irrelevant. New social institutions changed the way people lived. The Church was the first and most important social institution because Spanish life in the colonies revolved around Catholicism. The Church's goal was to convert everyone presently living in the New World to Christianity ... us to the Missions. Missions were large estates on which were set up schools and other facilities to teach the Indians to become proper Christians. encomiendas and repartimientos were also large estates, but on these lived many people and slaves. The Spanish crown entrusted encomiendas and slaves to noble warriors who had done well in battle, and in return, these nobles paid taxes to the crown. Many other people lived on the same encomienda, however, since the noble owning the whole plot of land would divide it up into smaller parts, which other people managed. The rest of the people living on the encomiendas ...
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