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- 9991: Ivan the Terrible
- ... he was too young to reign, his mother Elena was made regent on his behalf. This was surprising because she was a woman, a commoner, and a foreigner by birth. Anxious to avoid a civil war, it was the older prelates of the church who supported Elena's regency. Elena herself had no illusions about her position, and she feared for the safety of her sons since she knew that Vasili ... always run to church because he felt bad about killing. Then, the next day, he would kill and return to church again. This happened over and over again. General Kurbsky was the hero of the war in Kazan and was the right-hand man of Ivan. Because of the number of confiscations, tortures, and deaths, Kurbsky fled Russia and became the commander of the Polish army. This is Scar Number Five ...
- 9992: Social and Personal Ethics: The Subject of Abortion
- ... the life cycle has been started. He rejects the arguments from other philosophers that the fetus is not a human being until it has had certain experiences, until it has been exposed to the real world through birth, or until a feeling of loss would be suffered by the parents if the child were to die. He also believes that at the point of conception a new being that has been ... after the vital organs are in tact is if the woman is raped or she has precipitated in incest. If abortion is allowed after the point at which I have defined a human being the world might be missing out on great minds like a philosopher or even our next President of the United States.
- 9993: The Life of Henry Ford
- ... Arrow" into the air, riding on two wheels and then down with a thud, teetering for balance. The crowd screamed and cheered. (Backlund, 185) Henry made it to the finish line. He had broken the world's speed record, travelling at ninety-two miles an hour. Henry and his car carried headlines all over the country. In the spring, orders piled up faster than they could be filled. Henry had to ... in pranks on other employees. He got into trouble once because a newspaper he sponsored wrote articles against Jews. He is mostly remembered because his Model T was the first extremely popular car in the world, and is probably the first car many older people can remember. He is also famous for developing the assembly line and, of course, starting the Ford Motor Company. Works Cited Herndon, Booton. Ford, An Unconventional ...
- 9994: Great Expectations 5
- ... blinded her from his true nature.At Compeysons desertion her anger and sorrow became extreme and she threw herself into perpetual mourning.The Satis House was a monument to her broken heart.It shutting the world out and herself from the world. Her only concession was now in her adoption of Estella. In adopting Estella, Miss Haversham has some hidden motives to turn the child into a haughty,heartless instrument of revenge against men.Estella is encouraged ...
- 9995: Autism
- ... programs are beginning to demonstrate that with appropriate support, they can be trained to do meaningful work and participate in the life of the community. Autism is found in every country and region of the world, and in families of all racial, ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds. Autism affects about 1 or 2 people in every thousand and is three to four times more common in boys than girls. Girls with ... the establishment of appropriate neurological function so that the autistic person no longer is isolated by perceptual aberrations. Recognizing and treating autism as a neurological dysfunction can help autistic people to become incorporated into the world and society November 10, 1996. The process of neurological development is one of building connections between the countless number of neurons or brain cells in the central nervous sys-tem. Some of the connections are ...
- 9996: Arcadia As A Postmodern Text
- ... romantic and classical and female intuition with male dogmatism. The play, takes on a number of different meanings when looked at from different perspectives; some would claim that it is satire on academia and the world of researchers such as Bernard, others would say that was more about history and the fallacies of studying primary evidence. The play utilizes many theories concerning science and philosophies on life, and so many might ... physical universe that suggest our existence has order (can be determined), human nature in its perversity defies neat definition. That while we may be able to make order out of the chaos of our world, our own lives remain unpredictable, but interesting. In the same way, he does not make any neat conclusions about any of the theories presented and leaves it to the reader to make sense of what ...
- 9997: Acid Rain 7
- Acid Rain INTRODUCTION: Acid rain is a great problem in our world. It causes fish and plants to die in our waters. As well it causes harm to our own race as well, because we eat these fish, drink this water and eat these plants. It is ... of the lake. Scientists now see acid, aluminum and shortages of calcium as the three determining factors in the extinction of fish. As well there is the problem of chlorine. In many parts of the world it is commonly found in the soil. If it enters the fish's environment it can be deadly. It affects many of the fish's organisms and causes it to die. As well it interferes ...
- 9998: Spoken Words Versus Written Words
- ... is telling the listener about the events that happen during the present time, censorship, and trust from the credibility of the speaker. Through todays technology more and more information is being presented in this world. Thus gives the speaker the upper hand to tell the facts as we speak during the present times. If present time information would be written down today, tomorrow the information may be absolete. Censorship is ... falls into the wrong hands. For example if a Top Secret plan on building the latest weapon on mass destruction were to land in the hand of an unintended person perhaps a terrorist the whole world can be in grave danger. Through the beliefs of Socrates about the spoken and written words there are benefits to both sides and one can only prefer his or her preferences.
- 9999: Loving in Truth: Creating a Society of Living in Harmony in the 21st Century
- ... to provide us with the appropriate means in order to realize that goal. So as we prepare for the next century, we must recognize that there are many problems that we must alleviate before this world can become a better place. It may well be that the nation cannot survive--as a decent place to live, as a world-class power or even as a democracy--with such high rates of children growing into adulthood unprepared to parent, unprepared to be productively employed and unprepared to share in the mainstream aspirations. Various programs are ...
- 10000: Freud Civilization And Its Dis
- ... their actions might or might not conflict with the standards and norms that society has placed on the individual. The ego is that agency which acts as an intermediary between the id and the external world. It is charged with gaining control over the demands of the instincts and choosing not only which ones to satisfy, but when to satisfy them as well. The ego is formed from the id through ... desire of trying to obtain as much pleasure in life as possible with the least amount of discomfort. Once the ego is formed, a person gains a sense of understanding that there is an outside world and that they must conform their actions to fit those boundaries, which are set by society. In addition, they begin to understand that when they can't always get the object that gives them pleasure ...
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