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Peace And Good Private Conduct War
1,184 words
Address before the Men's Club of the Prospect
Street Congregational Church, Cambridge, Mass. ,
June 7, 1898. There are moments in every man's
life, in the life of every nation, when, under the
excitement of passion, the simple truths which in
common times are the foundation upon which the
right order and conduct of life depend are apt to
be forgotten and disregarded. I shall venture
tonight to recall to you some of these commonplace
truths, which in these days of war need more than
ever to be ke...
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Nazi Regime Youth Movement
1,310 words
Adolf Hitler was not the first man to drastically
implement a strong nationalistic country. However,
he was the first to implement a distinct form of
nationalism, which imbedded highly raciest
overtones for the everlasting purification of an
Aryan Germany. Hitlers raciest ideals originated
from the German Youth Movement during the
inter-war period. In short, the Bundische youth
carried nationalistic ideals, which were
anti-liberal, anti-Semitic and Volkish, these were
the three main characterist...
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Person To Person Virtual Communities
802 words
In William Mitchells essay, he makes the
distinction between virtual communities and
site-specific communities. He describes what these
cities are about and how they will benefit people.
To me what makes these communities different is,
virtual communities are communities in the web in
which people that dont share the same interests
can come together and talk. As of Site-specific
communities, these are also communities in which
people that share the same interests but more
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Life On Earth School Of Athens
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Comparison of the Medieval and Renaissance Eras It
is amazing how significantly various aspects of
society can and will change over a prolonged
period of time. Between the time periods of the
Medieval era and the Renaissance, one can note
numerous significant changes, mainly those
pertaining to art and religion. In general, ideals
and subjects during the Renaissance became more
secular. In Medieval times, people seemed to focus
mainly on the church, God, and the afterlife;
whereas during the Ren...
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Abuse Of Power Fraternities And Sororities
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When most people hear the term hazing it conjures
up images of fraternities. In reality however,
hazing occurs in many arenas including
fraternities, sororities, the military, athletic
teams, and student organizations at both high
school and college levels. In fact, hazing
incidents are dramatically different from the
humorous images many people associate with the
term. Hazing, by definition is any action or
situation which does not contribute to the
positive development of a person by causing m...
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Doctor Faustus Duality In The Values
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In Christopher Marlowe's the epic Christian
tragedy, Doctor Faustus, the protagonist, Dr.
Faustus, struggles between following God or
Lucifer. Faustus, who is an enigma in himself, is
capable of tremendous eloquence and willful
blindness. His refusal to see what is fact and
what is fiction is a result of his pompous
persona. In his quest to become omnipotent,
Faustus fails to see that there is life after
death and that his material possessions are of no
consequence. Faustus is a combatant in his...
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Successful Companies Four Months
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... f dynamic systems, making the relationships
between customer satisfaction, critical success
factors, and key process indicators immediately
apparent. o Scientific creativity methods ensure
innovation can be effectively applied when and
where it is needed, and knowledge supply chain
technology ensures that every new lesson learned
is immediately available to anyone in the
enterprise with a need to know. Six Sigma methods
define the tactics. PPM methods incorporate the
new technology to make S...
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War In Vietnam Impact On Society
1,505 words
For the first time in American history, a large
population of people of all ages, classes, and
races came together to challenge the traditional
institutions, traditional values in society, and
the establishment in general. Youth, women, ethnic
minorities, environmentalists, migrant workers and
others caused the emergence of the counter
culture. This cultural movement from 1960 to 1973
was caused by many factors. This era was one that
was filled with many important events that shaped
the way that...
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Eyes Were Watching God Position In Society
1,703 words
In most of the worlds greatest literature, there
have been introduced countless courageous
characters and triumphant victories. These
characters have the power to father strength from
distress and grow brave by reflection. Such
characters as Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching
God, Gatsby from The Great Gatsby, June from The
Joy Luck Club, and Edna from The Awakening.
Throughout each of these magnificent stories comes
an example of bravery and courage. Although in
some cases, the characters may ...
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Death Of A Salesman Minor Characters
573 words
In the play Death of a Salesman, the plot is
affected by three minor characters: Ben, Charley
and Howard. The minor characters help the storys
protagonist, Willy, develop extensively throughout
the course of the play; therefore, they are key
elements in the advancing story line. This story
line blends and contrasts Willys closest
companions, Ben and Charley. They represent two
aspects of Willys ideals. Howard, Willys boss,
functions in order to heighten the destruction of
Willys dream. The chara...
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Father Son Relationship Son Biff
1,389 words
In Death of a Salesman, Miller presents the
Loman's a family hindered by their dysfunctional
nature. Even though Miller portrays Willy Loan as
the main character of the story, Willys lack of
praiseworthy traits make him unworthy to be the
protagonist. Biff is heroic in that as an
adolescent, his father impresses faulty ideals on
him, which he later discards in a search for his
true identity. Ultimately, Willys son Biff is the
character who does not succeed in regards to his
fathers dreams, but d...
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Wizard Of Oz Herbert Hoover
2,308 words
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of
a New American Culture William Leach Random House;
1993 428 Pages The transformations that America
went through in order to become a capitalist
country were very significant and are sometimes
looked past. However, in the book Land of Desire,
the author, William Leach extensively goes into
many of those things. There were many things that
went into this ranging from specific poeple and
incidents to outside places and things. Leach
shows each indiv...
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Avenge His Fathers Death Death Of His Father
1,536 words
Hamlet the Great William Shakespeare's Hamlet,
through the heroism and nobility of its hero, his
superior power of insight into, and reflection
upon, his situation, and his capacity to suffer
the moral anguish which moral responsibility
brings, is considered one of the greatest pieces
of literature ever written. Throughout the play,
Hamlet, through both soliloquies and actions,
displays these characteristics, which make Hamlet
such an important and intriguing individual.
Hamlets heroism and nobi...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau
870 words
Transcendentalism was a literary movement in the
first half of the 19 th century. The philosophical
theory contained such aspects as self-examination,
the celebration of individualism, and the belief
that the fundamental truths existed outside of
human experience. Fulfillment of this search for
knowledge came when one gained an acute awareness
of beauty and truth, and communicated with nature
to find union with the Over-Soul. When this
occurred, one was cleansed of materialistic aims,
and was le...
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Quality Of Life Political And Social
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As the twentieth century comes to a close, the
world can now look back on a century filled with
war, technology, revolution, and growth. When
looking back upon the most powerful leaders that
shaped past century, it can? t be assumed that all
of them had good intentions in mind. In fact, it
is these leaders, the ones who set forth goals of
destruction and massacre, that have affected the
past hundred years the most drastically. The two
men who fully represented this figure of
dictatorship and ext...
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Women Men World
559 words
Feminism is the advocating for social, political,
and all other rights of women equal to those of
men (Random House College Dictionary). This story
depicts just that. It is about a society made
entirely of women with no need for men. We see the
perspective of men through the eyes of our
narrator. He gives us the point of view from three
different men about women. Herland takes the
traditional stereotypes about women and reverses
them entirely. Everything that was once regarded
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Shih Huang Ti Great Leap Forward
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The Life of Mao Zedong Dressed in the drab
military uniform that symbolized the revolutionary
government of Communist China, Mao Zedong's body
still looked powerful, like an giant rock in a
gushing river. An enormous red flag draped his
coffin, like a red sail unfurled on a Chinese
junk, illustrating the dualism of traditional
China and the present Communist China that
typified Mao. 1 A river of people flowed past
while he lay in state during the second week of
September 1976. Workers, peasants,...
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Nazi Ideology Third Reich
2,363 words
Nazi Germany regulated and controlled the art
produced between 1933 and 1945 to ensure they
embodied the values they wished to indoctrinate
into the German people. The notion of? volk?
(people) and? blut und boden? (soil and blood) was
championed in paintings to glorify an idealized
rural Germany and instill a sense of? superiority?
in the Nordic physicality. Highly veristic and
asthetisized works romanticized everyday subjects
and reiterated redundant stereotyped Nazi ideals
of the human body a...
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Men Are Created Equal Alien And Sedition Acts
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The Compromising of Principles We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights; that
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness. Perhaps the most powerful words ever
written by who scholars refer to as the greatest
enlightened mind in early American politics,
Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was a
philosopher of sorts, a man of great ideals and
values, yet at the same time, a contra...
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Knights Of The Round Table Nineteenth Century
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Satire And Social Commentary In A
ConnecticuttSatire And Social Commentary In A
Connecticut t Yankee In Kin The art of literature
has long been used as a vehicle for entertaining
the masses. However, many stories have another
purpose, such as expressing the writers feelings
on social customs from years gone bye or at the
time of writing. One vehicle which is often used
to attain this goal is satire. Mark Twain's novel,
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, is an
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