Kiersten Baxley Professor Shirokova English 1102 12 September 2012 Anne Carson’s Lessons Anne Carson is a very intelligent and well rounded writer. When I first read Anne Carson’s “Short Talks”‚ I was seriously confused. At first‚ I thought she was an abstract writer that wrote just to write. But then I took a second look at her work and realized there was much more to it than just crazy jumbled ideas. “Short Talks” is a mixture of many elements. It has argumentation‚ facts‚ personal opinions
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Hafiz Muhammd Asad Prof. Dr Asim Kareem 10 February 2013 Is Clytemnestra Blameworthy or Innocent? When a person is accused of a crime they are either found innocent or guilty. This is the basic idea of justice and it is what many feel needs to happen if someone has done something controversial. In the play Oresteia by Aeschylus‚ the story of Clytemnestra’s guilt or innocence is questioned. She does many things that people are not too happy with and those controversial
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of heroes as symbols of territorial rights can be seen as a reason for inter-polis rivalry (Athens‚ Sparta‚ etc.). The transfer of bones from different city-states can be seen as evidence of this assumption. For example‚ the transfer of bones of Orestes from Tegea to Sparta can be seen as Sparta’s efforts to dominate Tegea‚ suggesting that the hero-cult possessed power even after the establishment of the Greek polis (McCauley). The transfer of bones of Theseus from Scyros to Athens can also be looked
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individual schools (Doc. 9.1). Lastly‚ the belief that “we have not made use of [our intelligence]‚” as worded by Feng‚ reasoned why the Chinese were hitherto considered inferior‚ although they were superior. The three points of the Restoration reformers are connected to each other. To achieve the common goal of self-strengthening‚ the Chinese first had to shed their complacency; if the Chinese were indeed superior in intelligence they had to prove it. The plan was to learn from the Westerners and
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Defending Jan HussJan Huss‚ a fifteenth-century religious reformer‚ was one of the most important forerunners of the 16th-century Reformation. Huss was more than a philosopher and theologian. He was the leader of a revolt against certain aspects of feudal culture; Jan Huss was also influenced by Wycliffe’s theological writings to translate the bible. Huss was born in Husinec‚ Kingdom of Bohemia in 1372‚ to peasant parents. John Huss trained himself for priesthood‚ to escape poverty. In 1396‚ he earned
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the Central Prison‚ especially the women’s wing‚ and kindle self-esteem. She attended meetings of the managing committee of the mental asylum. Savitribai Jyotirao Phule Savitribai Jyotirao Phule (January 3‚ 1831 – March 10‚ 1897) was a social reformer‚ who‚ along with her husband‚ Mahatma Jyotirao Phule‚ played an important role in improving women’s rights in India during the British Rule. Savitribai was the first female teacher of the first women’s school in India and also considered as the
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Florence Nightingale‚ OM‚ RRC (play /ˈflɒrəns ˈnaɪtɨŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician‚ and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War‚ where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. Early 21st century commentators have asserted Nightingale’s achievements in the Crimean War had been exaggerated by the media
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Reformers‚ besides composing communities outside state sanction‚ often employed more extreme doctrinal change‚ such as the repudiation of tenets of the councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon. The presence of a printing press in a city by 1500 made Protestant adoption by 1600 far more likely. In Switzerland‚ the schooling of the reformers and especially those of Zwingli and Calvin had a huge effect‚ despite the constant fights between the different divisions of the Reformation. Contrary to happenings in
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amaze his crowd on the serious topics while reframing the context generating new ideas‚ simplifying their issues while supporting them at every level. Their struggles with social and economic poverty gained popularity and attracted middle-class reformers to the area. The author does a good job of capturing the art of Joe` leadership as an intangible form and points to the fact that there is no formula-driven approach towards the idea of the collaboration of any society. Collaboration happens when
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motivation pushes a student to complete them and attain aesthetic satisfaction‚ as well as internal power. Hidden Imam - One of the heirs or descendants of Muhammad Ali. The 12th descendant disappeared as a child‚ becoming known as the Hidden Imam. Reformers vs. Conservatives - Conservatives uphold the regime set up in 1979 with strict Sharia law. They support right and responsibilities of the cleric and believed that politics and religious beliefs
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