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- 61: The Neandertals
- ... an herbal ointment. The strong smells of smoke, unwashed bodies, and rotting carcasses thicken the air. Until recently, nobody would have assumed that the above passage (Rick Gore, pp.6) was about how the Neandertals lived. However, recent studies have shown that Neandertals are smarter than we first thought. The geography of the Neandertals domain was quite odd. 230,000 years ago Europe was filled with caves, marshes, and grasslands. It ... south as Spain, from Gibralter to Uzbekistan. Neandertal bones have been found in the Neander Valley and Dusseldorf Germany, in Altamura, Italy and Vindija, Croatia. These are major sites for the European caves the Neandertals lived in. Although the Neandertals went to the southern tip of Italy, they never crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Africa. They migrated from central Europe to central Asia to the Middle East and always came back ... the cold air. They also had thick browridges, receding chins, high foreheads, and their skulls sloped back over their brains. They learned to hunt in groups in order to kill the bigger game. The Neandertals lived with modern humans for 10,000 years, but they didn't change, and eventually it is believed the modern humans conquered them with their more advanced technology. Although not much is known about the ...
- 62: Beowulf Beowulf As A Hero
- The Hero Beowulf It is very common that a favorite tale told to a small child before he goes to sleep is actually a great epic story that has lived on for many centuries. The tale of Beowulf is just that. Beowulf was written during the Anglo-Saxon era, when heroic deeds and loyalty to one’s leader were traits of a person that lived on forever, by means of poets and writers. Beowulf tells the story of a hero: one that faces many great battles with many great enemies, conquering one after the next only to finally face his death, in his battle against the dragon. Up until the end of Beowulf’s life he was constantly looking to be the hero. Beowulf, through the years, has lived on as a legendary hero, conquering all obstacles as though he were immortal. However, his mortality is exposed by his death, the same death that makes him a superhero, working and fighting evil for ...
- 63: Blakes The Chimney Sweeper
- ... to many young boys during this time period. Often, boys as young as four and five were sold for the soul purpose of cleaning chimneys because of their small size. These children were exploited and lived a meager existence that was socially acceptable at the time. Blake voices the evils of this acceptance through point of view, symbolism, and his startling irony. Blake expresses his poem in first person, as a ... Soon after the loss of his mother [his] father sold [him] while yet [his] tongue/ Could scarcely cry weep! weep! weep! weep! (554). This sympathy allows the reader to realize not only how these children lived, but also how they felt and how they were deprived of their childhood. Blake also uses symbolism to express the evils of exploiting these small boys. Most of this symbolism appears to be about death ... corner and, instead of repeating the word sweep in an attempt at getting someone to hire him, he would repeat the word weep! (554). Another, more startling irony is that these young children hoped and lived for death because only in the after life could they become children. Blake emphasizes this with the line So if all do their duty they need not fear harm (555). These children lived with ...
- 64: Mother Teresa
- ... the sick and the outcast. The people that no one else wanted to deal with, took privilege in helping. To her "earthly sufferers were nothing less than Christ in disguise." (Das 2) The life that lived was a life devoted to serving the Lord and everything that she did was portrayed by it. was born in Skopje, Yugoslovia, which is now part of Macedonia. She was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She ... think that this really show's 's courage, and faith she had in the Lord. She didn't let what others thought get to her. She knew what her purpose in life was, and she lived her life trying to meet this purpose. During her life, Mother Teresa had many achievments and won many awards. In 1962 she wins her first prize for her humanitarian work. The award she received was ... to make the world better." (Lawler 2) That statement by Mother Teresa pretty much sums up what her whole life was all about. She didn't live to satisfy her wants and her needs, she lived to serve the Lord and to help people that were very in need of it. Even with as strong of a heart that Mother Teresa had, her health started to falter. In 1946 she ...
- 65: Beowulf
- The Hero It is very common that a favorite tale told to a small child before he goes to sleep is actually a great epic story that has lived on for many centuries. The tale of is just that. was written during the Anglo-Saxon era, when heroic deeds and loyalty to one’s leader were traits of a person that lived on forever, by means of poets and writers. tells the story of a hero: one that faces many great battles with many great enemies, conquering one after the next only to finally face his death, in his battle against the dragon. Up until the end of ’s life he was constantly looking to be the hero. , through the years, has lived on as a legendary hero, conquering all obstacles as though he were immortal. However, his mortality is exposed by his death, the same death that makes him a superhero, working and fighting evil for ...
- 66: How Identities, Aspirations, And Achievements Of Two Females Were Affected By The Aspects Of Family, Class, Gender, And Race
- ... parents had her relatively late in life. She was born into a large family of three brothers and one sister, though all were the children of her parents previous marriages, and the only one that lived with her during the entire time that she lived with her parents was her sister, who was ten years older than her, yet the closest in age. Thus it would seem that her father had had considerable time to establish himself as the owner ... I was born into a newly economically established family. I am the youngest of two children, but was raised for the most part as an only child because my brother was eight years older and lived with my father during most of my youth, who left when I was very young. My mother was the sole supporter of me, economically an emotionally, for most of my life, and the role ...
- 67: Plan And Purpose (Creation) Or Time And Chance (Evolution)?
- ... extinct. The Galapagos Islands were probably the scene of Darwin’s most important and best-known research. On these islands, Darwin found a dazzling array of animal life and found that related but different species lived on different islands even though all the islands were very similar in geological, climatic, and other physical conditions. He found, for example, an array of ground finches with beaks ranging from large and powerful to ... of rock include complex forms of life and are more similar to living plants and animals. Thus, the fossil record shows that many species became extinct and that the species alive today have not always lived on earth. The fossil record also documents many examples of continuous evolutionary change and speciation (the branching process). A famous example is the evolution of mammals from reptiles. The fossil record contains no mammals before ... of years. How can that be possible? If that were true, the word “day” would be defined today as a thousand (1,000) years, rather than a 24 hour period of time. Also, Adam lived through days six and seven, and then lived to be 930 years old. Saying a day is comparable to 1,000 years, doesn’t coincide with logic and reason. If days six and seven ...
- 68: Richard Wright
- Throughout history, many talented authors writings have reflected the time period in which they lived in. Often the overall tone, and attitude of the novel is due to factors, that they have been born with, such as the environment they grew up in, who raised them, or moral ethics were instilled into their way of thinking. Richard Wright is an African-American author whose writings greatly reflected the time period in which he lived in. Native Son and Black Boy are two classic examples of Wright's works that are profoundly influenced by the era in which he lived. Wright was born on September 4, 1908, in Natchez, Mississippi on a small farm much in the same manner that his hero, Bigger Thomas, began his life. Deprived, poor, and segregated against, Wright spent ...
- 69: The Anasazi Indians
- From the scattered references made about the ancient Anasazi Indians in Tony Hillerman's A Thief of Time, one can identify several cultural characteristics of this mysterious tribe. One can discover how they lived, where they lived, their religion, simple day to day activities, and mysteries about their culture. Even though many references are made about this tribe, people will never know the truth, for there is an unsolved mystery to why ... one knows what happened to them. The location of over 100,000 Anasazi sites have been found outside of Bluff, Utah along the San Juan river. Anasazi Indians were very picky as to where they lived. They chose to dwell in cliffs faced to catch the winter sun and shaded in summer, with enough floodplain to grow something and a source of water. These two story stone dwellings in cliffs ...
- 70: Monasticism
- St. Anthony is regarded as the founder of the cenobitic way of life. He lived at Alexandria, and the fame of his sanctity, gentleness, and knowledge, drew many disciples to him. Most of his followers later accompanied him when he set off to live in the desert. One of his ... Monks are hermits, who are people who are persistence in living alone in order to follow a strict discipline of meditation and self-mortification. In the early centuries of Christianity, in the Egyptian deserts, there lived a group of people whose desire was to escape all the evils of the world. They were called eremites, a Greek word meaning "dwellers in the desert", thus the name for the monastic group came ... are the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. All of them are enforced, and they are obeyed by all members. Important Monks in Western Monasticism Benedict of Nursila - Benedict of Nursila was a monk who lived from 480-547. He is considered the "father of western monasticism", even though he didn’t find any monasteries. He is famous for his rules for governing monastic life, which became widely adapted in ...
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