thirties. But isn’t it too late? The main problem of being married late is the stress of having a child. Not only because it’s a great responsibility‚ but medicine says the possibility of having a healthy baby decreases with age. Maybe not just after 30‚ but a dream of taking care of a host of own children may not come true. Moreover‚ couples who have decided to create a full family‚ may not have enough money to educate their offspring‚ due to the fact of faster retirement comparing to other relationships
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Why I am Returning to School after 30 Years John Hulka ENG 121 Melissa Holmberg February 9‚ 2011 Sitting here‚ as a new student in an on online college course‚ reflecting back the past 30 years is really something. It is funny how fate (and bad decisions) will put you in a situation that you never thought you would be in‚ until it slaps you in the face. I never thought too much about school. I certainly did not think I would find myself in college‚ much less so late in
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30 Years’ War Background of the War Religion ( Militant Catholicism vs. Calvinism) Took place in Germanic lands of Holy Roman Empire Peace of Augsburg still left some division Catholics vs. Lutherans [still wanted control] Many German states adopted Calvinism Phases of the War Bohemian Phase 1618-25; Habsburgs own territories Protestants = unhappy with Ferdianand rebel (may 1618) throw 2 government officials and secretary out the window Catholics = Saved by Mary; Protestants
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appointed by the Habsburgs) and their secretary out the window. This incident became known as the Defenestration of Prague and was the official beginning of the Thirty Years’ War. Even though none of them died‚ having landed in a pile of manure‚ this incident started a chain reaction of events that railed almost the whole of Europe for 30 years. In 1617 Ferdinand II is crowned King of Bohemia‚ but in 1619 the Protestants crown Fredrick V to counteract Ferdinand’s counter-reformations. Ferdinand trades
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The four stages of the Thirty Years’ War‚ which was fought mostly in the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany)‚ involved nearly all of the major powers of Europe‚ and was a war that used religion as a cover-up for politics. The war caused the demise of the Holy Roman Empire‚ and the rise of France as the new power in Europe. During the war new technologies also were used. The Thirty Year’s War was ended by the peace of Westphalia in 1648. Before the war‚ the Holy Roman Empire already began to
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Over the years I have come to the conclusion that my life is not a highway‚ nor is it like a box of chocolates; my life is more like the Thirty Years’ War. This was a European war that was fought from 1618-1648‚ and it can be considered the first real world war since most of Europe became involved. All of the fighting took place‚ however‚ within the Holy Roman Empire (Germany)‚ even though the poor Germans did nothing to deserve it. True‚ they were having their own civil war‚ but then all the other
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To fully understand modern history‚ it is important to comprehend the full effects of the Thirty Years War. The end of the Thirty Years War produced a number of dramatic consequences and altered Western Europe in significant religious‚ political‚ and social ways. Generally speaking‚ the post-war period produced the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire and the subsequent fall of the Hapsburg powers. The later divisions that occurred made Europe more like it is now with the Catholic areas in the south
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Ten Years? Life is very short! It is not important how much long life we have lived‚ but it is most important how we live our life. Generally people want to add days to life whereas‚ I believe to add life to days. Everybody has an idea of the type of person they would like to be and what they will have liked to accomplish within a span of the next ten years. No one can predict the future but I do have some ideas of what I would like to do in the years coming up. In my next ten years‚ I want
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Friendship The short story “After twenty years” is a classical story written by O. Henry. The story is about the two characters that were actually best of friends. They grew up in New York until lost sight of each other. One of them leave the place and tried to live in West to make easy money‚ thus he ended up being a criminal in Chicago while the other man felt that his place in his hometown is better and he ended up as a policeman. The two friends made a promise that after twenty years both of them will
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fAfter 1000 years At the beginning of the last century‚ near the end of his tragically short life‚ James Elroy Flecker addressed these words "to a poet a thousand years hence": I care not if you bridge the seas‚ Or ride secure the cruel sky‚ Or build consummate palaces Of metal or of masonry. Well‚ we may not have bridged the seas‚ but millions now ride secure the cruel sky. And how astonished Flecker would have been to know that‚ a mere half-century after his death‚ men were preparing
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