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- 3101: Life In A Medieval Village
- ... hundred years ago and to be able and compare it with today's society. To just get a feeling on what has changed so that your more aware of your history and able to relate to one another on what has surprisingly changed their status. I loved how they described things! The authors show medieval peasants not merely as tenants and ... to get you to enjoy their book but to actually learn something from it. I learned what I think they expressed the most. Medieval life was very important to our history. The Medieval Times were both interesting and enjoyable. They are revelant to us today because they show us our heritage and our accomplishments. They also show us a simpler time ...
- 3102: Analysis of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince
- ... Machiavelli's ideas on war tactics and the superiority of national troops over mercenaries. The Medici family used Machiavelli's services again in 1525; they commissioned him to write The History of Florence. A year later in 1526, Pope Clement VII, a Medici, contracted Machiavelli to survey the defenses at Florence and then sent him to meet with historian Francesco Guicciardini ... War is the great equalizer, it can allow a prince to maintain his princedom, and can raise an average man to a seat of power. A prince should study the history of war, imitate the actions of victors, and examine the reasons for defeat. Chapter XV begins the section of the book dealing with the qualities of a prince. Princes are ...
- 3103: 1984: Lack of Humanity
- ... no identity. If the people knew that they could make a difference, they might have rebelled against the Party. The only problem is that these people live in oblivion. Every history book has been altered to say that the Party existed when the first human beings walked the earth. The citizens do not realize that there have been better circumstances; therefore, they think they live in the best time of history. In essence, people are unaware of their plight, and they know no better. George Orwell’s 1984 shows how a human being can be stripped of its emotions, its freedom ...
- 3104: A Rose for Emily
- ... which is an example of limited omniscient; a narrator inside the work telling the story. Faulkner expressed a lot of the resident's opinions towards Emily and her family's history. They mention old lady Wyatt, her great aunt who had gone completely mad. These opinions seem to come from female members of the town because they have a nosy approach ... be sympathetic towards Miss Emily. Faulkner's style is quite difficult because it isn't written in chronological order. It begins by telling about Emily's past and her family history. This information explains her future behavior and opinions effects of this method create a better ending because it catches the reader unexpectedly. The diction and sentence structure are fairly advanced ...
- 3105: Machiavelli's The Prince: Views of A Leader
- Machiavelli's The Prince: Views of A Leader In The Prince, Machiavelli offers his views on how a leader should rule his country based upon his past analysis of history. This advice was designed to help keep a ruler in power. Machiavelli had a very pessimistic, cruel, deceitful, and hypocritical view of how one should govern the world for he ... long indulged our leaders' lies. We live in a world where we lie about traffic tickets, sell cars and houses without mentioning defects, falsify resumes, and fudge our tax returns. History also shows that many leaders who did not keep their words were quite sucessful. Machiavelli’s advice for President Clinton lying under oath is based upon the way our society ...
- 3106: Saint Augustine: Confessions
- ... in our vast universe, one stands out as the most puzzling. It affects our lives, from birth, until we are placed in our graves a generation later. Within it exists history. Without it, we would be aimless and confused. We would not know when we are supposed to be in Philosophy class during the week. We all know what it is ... passed, along with a countless number of seconds and minutes; each fraction of time telling its own story. Through time, we have created heroism and tragedy in the form of “History.” Time has allowed us to set dates, make appointments and miss this for that matter. Time, although sometimes a pain in the butt, is a necessity for mankind. Without time ...
- 3107: The Grapes of Wrath: Rose of Sharon and The Starving Man
- ... the loss of their land. The family had lived there for many generations and had strong ties to the land. Getting thrown off the land was like losing their family history. The same concern for humanity at large is seen in Ma Joad. At first, she is concerned with keeping the family together. But, as the novel progresses, she begins to ... is brought together. Rose of Sharon gives her milk out of biological necessity to do so; she feeds not her own baby but an old man, a stranger…Biology, sociology, history, and religion become one expression of the community of mankind." Rose of Sharon's act of giving milk from her breast to a strange man is not only a psychological ...
- 3108: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- ... cited Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. Norton, Mary Beth, and Ruth M. Alexander, ed. Major Problems in American Women’s History. 2nd ed. Lexington: D. C. Heath and Company, 1996. Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American Experience: A Concise History. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1996.
- 3109: Computer Ethics: A Review
- ... occurred in June of 1991. Robert J. Corbey had applied for a $2000 loan, a loan that he would have had no problem to get because of his good credit history. However, the lender refused the loan due to unpaid mortgage bill on two houses, which showed up on his credit history. What had happened was that the database used had Corbey confused with another person with the same name. It took Corbey over eight months to clear up the confusion.(3 ...
- 3110: The Color Purple: African-American and Racism
- The Color Purple: African-American and Racism There is one primordial reason why we do not doubt Europeans have taken the lead in history, in all epochs before and after 1492, and it has little to do with evidence. It is a basic belief which we inherit from prior ages of thought and scarcely ... realize that we hold: it is an implicit belief, not an explicit one, and it is so large a theory that it is woven into all of our ideas about history, both within Europe and without. . . (Blaut pg. 6-7). African-American people have had to climb over many obstacles to get to their position today. First, was the selling of ...
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