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- 9951: Abraham
- ... children. This time, God promised Abram that his offspring would be of so many that no one would be able to count them, just like the dust of the earth. By this time a great war had started up in the Jordan Plain. As a result of the war, Lot was made a imprisoned by King Chedorlaomer of Elam. When Abram got word that his cousin Lot was being held prisoner, he and a group of his servants went to battle the captors. The ...
- 9952: Emily Dickinson
- ... her deep sorrow in three successive poems in the following years. They were never romantically involved but their relationship was apparently so profound that Emily's feelings for him she sealed herself from the outside world. Her life became filled with gloom and despair until she met Judge Otis P. Lord late in her life. Realizing that they were well into their lives they never were married. When Lord passed away ... hour, How much, how little, Is within our power! However non-religious she may appear and however insignificant she believes life to be she does however show some signs in accepting life after death. This world is not conclusion; A sequel stands beyond, Invisible, as music, But positive as sound. To Emily the most important things in her life were religion, individuality, nature and death. She may not have believed in ...
- 9953: Arianism
- ... hesitate to call himself. Synods in Palestine and Bithynia were opposed to synods in Egypt. During several years the argument raged; but when, by his defeat of Licinius (324), Constantine became master of the Roman world, he determined on restoring ecclesiastical order in the East, as already in the West he had undertaken to put down the Donatists at the Council of Arles. Arius, in a letter to the Nicomedian prelate ... Athanasius redoubled in violence. By a series of intrigues the Western bishops were persuaded to cast him off at Arles, Milan, Ariminum. It was concerning this last council (359) that St. Jerome wrote, "the whole world groaned and marvelled to find itself Arian". For the Latin bishops were driven by threats and chicanery to sign concessions which at no time represented their genuine views. Councils were so frequent that their dates ...
- 9954: Why Steven Landsburg Is Delusional, On Drugs, Or Should Be Taking Them
- ... and humans were directly responsible for destroying it, I would be quite remorseful unless destroying the monkey was necessitated by the utter survival of humanity. It is not mans divine mission to dominate the world as his adversary, but as his partner and every species as his equal. We all arrived into this existence in the same manner. After Landsburg hypothetically justifies not missing the monkey, he calls upon the ... other way of life besides a technologically progressing society. Yet no one, environmentalist or not, can deny that there is a problem at hand. But then again Steven Landsburg thinks that he is an omnipotent world conqueror with the ability to exploit and manipulate the environment eternally without he himself perishing. His kind of economic progress is quickly taking away the harmony in nature that an eternity took to find. The ...
- 9955: The Conversation, Directed By Francis Coppola
- Murder, scandals, and the frightening world of surveillance all intertwine to form Francis Ford Coppola's thriller, The Conversation. The viewer, engulfed in a restricted narration, explores the mystery Harry Caul, the protagonist, has caught himself in. A narration that begins ... name and wants Harry to give the approval on their product. It seems that Harry is scared of being out done and having his life surveyed. This fear keeps him on top of the surveillance world. As we follow the plot line and try to learn more about why the conversation is important we also are on the search to understand Harry Caul. This is a sub meaning that runs right ...
- 9956: Family: Good or Evil?
- ... abuse: physical, sexual, or mental. This abuse can start at any age anywhere from birth up through adulthood. Children who are abused at a young age according to the textbook are likely to view the world as hostile, have suspicion or even fear of the outside world. A girl at the age of 15 gives a really good insight into why sexual abuse made her turn to the streets. "Things were not going very well at home. After dad died, mom just ...
- 9957: Eva Peron
- ... the very wealthy families who controlled Argentina. Eva would recall her childhood in her book "La Razon de MI Vida": *"I remember I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people and the strange thing was that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there mere people who were rich". This was maybe one of the first times that Eva felt the injustice of the world, that she felt that there had something to be done for those who did not have enough to eat. In 1930 Juana Ibarguen decide to leave Los Toldos and left to Junin with all her ...
- 9958: The Narrator and Sam Cavanaugh: Dolls to Control?
- ... keep America pure with whites and not just white paint. Next, the invisible man must walk down a long, pure white hallway. At this time he is a black man symbolically immersed in a white world, a recurring idea of the novel. After receiving his job, the narrator goes to meet Mr. Kimbro. In this scene, Kimbro teaches the narrator how to make the ordinary white paint into "Optic White": Ten ... only to be insulted by Mr. Kimbro. Mr. Kimbro, in no way what so ever, wants any of his workers to think. He just wants them to obey. The white paint may represent the white world, perhaps even America, as alluded to in the company's advertisement. The black formula is what makes the white paint into "Optic White", a much better, whiter, white. The formula, perhaps, represents the behind the ...
- 9959: The Lesson: Expression of Anger At An Early Age
- ... her duty to teach the kids certain lessons that will aid them later in life, is the leader of this journey. Miss Moore feels that it is her responsibility to teach the children about the world around them because she has had a college education. Not many people in Sylvias neighborhood has been to college or plans on going. Miss Moore refuses to let her education go to waste and ... Moore. Miss Moore is not the problem, Sylvia is rude to her because she is the one who forces Sylvia to understand the system. She hates Miss Moore because she forces her to see the world as it really is.
- 9960: The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kr
- ... the end Richler does not attempt to redeem the character of Duddy Kravitz. He ends the book as it started with Duddy having lost all of his friends, but having achieved success in the financial world happy as ever. As we can see from this excerpt from the novel : "Can't you ever smile?" asked Max Duddy's father to Duddy. -"I'm not driving back with you, " Duddy responded gruffly ... marvel. "You see." Even at the end of the book Duddy stands alone having been deserted by all of his friends, and yet he is still happier than ever about having made it in the world of business. The novel The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler describes how one young man can become a huge success, by managing to use and manipulate everyone who dares be near to him ...
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