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- 961: Huguenots (french Calvanists)
- ... but they were not allowed to fortify their Protestant areas. This was for Louise XIII minister, Cardinal Richelieu, wanted to prevent the Huguenots from taking the royal power without inducing another civil war. The Huguenots lived under these changes until 1685, when Louis XIV rebuked the whole Edict of Nantes, which lost all the rights for the Protestants to practice their religion. Louis did this for he was a strong Catholic ... saw the Protestants as a problem and a threat for power. The Huguenots were then heavily persecuted forcing many to leave to England, Prussia, Netherlands, and America. For the Huguenots who did not leave, they lived under those extreme conditions until shortly before the French Revolution, when the laws began to slacken off them in 1789. However they never fully gained back their religious and political rights until the Constituent Assembly ...
- 962: Hercules: 12 Labors Of Hercules
- ... to death. He wore the skin of the lion as a cloak and the head of the lion as a helmet, a trophy of his adventure. The second task was to kill the Hydra that lived in a swamp in Lerna. The Hydra had nine heads. One head was immortal and when one of the others was chopped off, two grew back in its place. Cancer, one of the Hydra's ... He turns the streams of two rivers, making them flow through the stables. For the next labor, Hercules has to drive off huge flocks of man-eating birds with bronze beaks, claws, and wings that lived near Lake Stymphalus. He shot them with poisonous arrows and killed them. The seventh labor was to capture the man-eating mares of Diomedes, king of Thrace. To bring back the man-eating mares, Hercules ...
- 963: Louis Leakey
- ... found, and then many other parts of the skeleton were found as well. Once the parietal skull bones of Telanthropus were found, however, they knew that they had evidence that two different types of hominids lived together at the same time. Further, Louis found the skull of his "Chellean Man" nearby, later to be grouped under the name Homo erectus. Meanwhile, Louis was trying to prove that the smaller bones found ... the maker of all the oldest stone tools. Almost as startling as the find of the oldest human was the fact that Homo Habilis (who originally had the "Telanthropus" characteristics and Zinj, an Australopithicus, both lived side by side at the same point in time. In 1961 Leakey also found a new jaw from the genus and species he named Kenyapithecus wickeri. By 1967 he had found more evidence of this ...
- 964: Ancient Greek Olympics
- ... entered into the Games, the candidates went into a gymnasium at Elis, and were tested for the Games. The ten-month training was the most valuable preparation the athletes could undergo. For ten months they lived in the gymnasium, they practiced all day, and all night. They were constantly watched over by the professional trainers. The officials of Elis would decide who was fit enough to compete in the Olympic Games ... Often when the winner would return home, he would be escorted through a hole through the wall surrounding his city. The hole was made by the citizens to show the world that an Olympic champion lived there. Among many Olympic heroes in history, Milo of Croton was one of the most famous. He won six wrestling matches in a row during 600 BC. Milo supposedly developed his brute strength by carrying ...
- 965: Amazing Grace A Book Report
- ... told about the horrible yet completely realistic conditions of the most poor, rundown neighborhoods and districts in New York City. Kozol wrote the book for the purpose of telling the stories of the children who lived in these parts of the city. He dedicated his work to those children and it was his goal to inform readers that slums were in fact in existence and the children who resided there did ... taught him to live morally in such a place where it was so much easier to live the other way, and then opened her life to Kozol and told him everything about the ghetto. She lived with extreme determination, and often sacrificed her well being for the sake of others. She was a real role model for all those living in the ghetto. There was not a clear cut solution presented ...
- 966: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
- ... a wash line. They did, but the tree didn t die. A new one grew up from the stump, where there were no wash lines, and started to reach for the sky again. This tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it . This symbolizes Francie s troubles as she grew up, her dad dying, no food, her mom working so hard even with a new fetus, Francie skipping high school to make ...
- 967: George Orwell
- Eric Arthur Blair, most prominently known as lived between the years of 1903-1950. His writings were influenced by both world events as well as his own personal experiences. Orwell displayed these influences in his last novel, Nineteen Eighty-four. was born in ... in the world, Oceania, east Asia and Eurasia. Majority of the novel takes place in Oceania which is dirty, polluted and filled with rats and other vermin. Oceania is also the place where Winston Smith lived.(Orwell 1+) Winston Smith is at the age of thirty-nine and a member of the outer party. He is a representation of the normal citizen. As a member of the outer party, he rebels ...
- 968: Socrates And Maintaining A Harmony What Is Right And Expression Of Opinions
- ... many valid points on why he disagrees with Socrates decision to bare this misfortune. Crito offers to do on not fleeingbeing majorints expressing to Socrates, that a man as courageous as Socrates and who has lived his life through virtue . AYou seem to me to choose the easiest path, whereas one should choose the path a good and courageous man would choose, particularly when one claims throughout one's life to ... persons own opinions he has made possible the ultimate truth, the belief in what has worked and staying within the boundaries of decent and god fearing society. The laws of the society in which Socrates lived condemned him to die for his own conviction and the reasons for Socrates to remain and accept the punishments of that society have proved to be wise and justified.
- 969: No Greater Hero Comparison On
- ... to add up to something." He only sees one way left..Suicide. "Funny..After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive." He lived everday trying to think that his cruel world didn't exist, but no one can live in dreams forever. Oedipus was commited to his nation. When the plague struck he stood by, seeking a way ... thought Biff would use to go on and be a big success. At his funeral he thought people would come from all over just for the death of Willy Loman. In the same way, Oedipus lived in a world in which he saw through his own eyes. He saw himself a great man. In the time of the great plague he thought he would be the savior when actually his sins ...
- 970: Scarlet Letter 8
- ... black secret buried deep within his soul, Dimmesdale definitely suffered more than Hester and Pearl suffered. Dimmesdale hid his sin from the congregation, watched Hester and Pearl receive all the punishment for their sin, and lived in torment and solitude in order to maintain his image. The Puritans judged Hester as an awful, unrighteous person, when they too were unrighteous. They were trying to play God. In the Puritan society, Dimmesdale ... black secret buried deep within his soul, Dimmesdale definitely suffered more than Hester and Pearl suffered. Dimmesdale hid his sin from the congregation, watched Hester and Pearl receive all the punishment for their sin, and lived in torment and solitude in order to maintain his image. The Puritans judged Hester as an awful, unrighteous person, when they too were unrighteous. They were trying to play God. In the Puritan society, Dimmesdale ...
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