The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany’s UFA‚ Fritz Lang’s gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would have yielded upwards of 20 conventional features‚ more than half the studio’s entire annual production budget. And if it didn’t make a profit at the time -- indeed‚ it nearly bankrupted the studio -- the film added an indelible array of images and ideas to cinema‚ and has endured across the many decades since its release. Metropolis had many sources of inspiration‚ including
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Before his nomination‚ Warren G. Harding declared‚ "America’s present need is not heroics‚ but healing; not nostrums‚ but normalcy; not revolution‚ but restoration; not agitation‚ but adjustment; not surgery‚ but serenity; not the dramatic‚ but the dispassionate; not experiment‚ but equipoise; not submergence in internationality‚ but sustainment in triumphant nationality...." A Democratic leader‚ William Gibbs McAdoo‚ called Harding’s speeches "an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape
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Anne Hutchinson versus Massachusetts Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan woman whose acts of not agreeing with the Puritan doctrine had her excommunicated from the church. Anne did not believe that the people were predestined to go to Heaven or Hell but it would be determined based on their works. Accused of Blasphemy Anne was sent to court because of her actions which is now known as the Anne Hutchinson versus Massachusetts case. This case shows the effects of Political‚ Social and Historical. In
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Confusion has arisen in the church over the process of one’s salvation‚ thus splitting the church into two different views: the Armenians and the Calvinists. Arminians believe that salvation follows faith. While they do accept that God is still the one who does the action of saving‚ they believe that man has a role to play in choosing whether or not to believe. The Calvinists on the other hand believe that faith is a result of salvation; meaning a person is saved prior to their action of belief.
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This study arrangement is a concern with mentoring spiritual leaders. “Shepherding those who shepherds the Lord’s flock. The author‚ Edward Smither‚ opens with a question of how could a fifth-century African bishop be relevant to the twentieth-first century?” When it comes to mentoring spiritual leaders‚ Smither uses Aurelius Augustine or Augustine of Hippo‚ as an example of how to mentor others. Smither mentions that “so many pastors are in a struggle with isolation because they have no one to
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Founding fathers of the Reformation‚ Martin Luther and John Calvin are the source of two great currents of Protestantism. Beyond what unites them‚ one and the other are carriers of two very different worldviews. The two men are alike in anything. One is in one piece. It is square‚ it is thundering‚ he does not know (nor want) decline. The other has a long face‚ beard and pointy nose‚ sideways glance. It has also a will of iron‚ but he knows to win by negotiating. The first is a short-tempered‚ which
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Ch. 18 Question 2: What did Luther mean by justification by faith? How did he come to this idea? Martin Luther‚ a Protestant reformer and possibly one of the most influential theologians ever‚ developed the idea of justification by faith through grace. Martin Luther had been searching for salvation‚ but had no luck. He had become a monk in trying to guarantee his salvation. He seemed dedicated living his life as a monk‚ but the holy life of a monk did not bring him the assurance of salvation he
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The Puritans once held a position of power among the religious world. Their beliefs were strict and they did not compromise their morals or standards for any outside individual. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the Puritan religion reflects the attitude and values of the common man during that particular time period. The main belief among the Puritans was that they were God’s chosen people. In their eyes‚ they held supremacy over the average man. They believed in Pelagianism based
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History of State and Federal Prisons Claudia Bailey CJS/230 November 12‚ 2011 Dr. Kay Carter History of State and Federal Prisons Jails date back to very early civilization; prisons came some time later. Some of the earliest jails that are documented are the Walnut Street Jail and the High Street jail. Prisons began being built in 1790; the first prison was at Walnut Street Jail when they added a new cell house to the existing structure dedicated to housing criminal’s long term. The Federal
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Amanda Carrion Review of The Great Depression America 1929-1941 by Robert S. McElvaine September 2‚ 2004 The Great Depression America 1929-1941 by Robert S. McElvaine covers many topics of American history during the "Great Depression" through 1941. The topic that I have selected to compare to the text of American‚ Past and Present‚ written by Robert A. Divine‚ T.H. Breen‚ George M. Frederickson and R. Hal Williams‚ is Herbert Hoover‚ the thirty-first president of the United States and America’s
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