Book of Esther Review 1. (Source Sheet 1‚ #5) For the first time‚ there are two major Jewish communities: one in Persia and one in Eretz Yisrael. There is a tension between the two communities. The community in Persia is assimilated and they were high up in status. The two communities do not mention one another; there is no mention of Shushan in any of the books of the people who lived in EY. In Persia‚ the Jews were very assimilated - the Jews intermarried and were economically very well off
Premium
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives‚ Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (1953) by American economist and philosopher Robert L. Heilbroner adumbrates the lives of major economists‚ including Adam Smith and Karl Marx. Heilbroner began the work as a student at The New School for Social Research in New York. Heilbroner’s first book‚ it has since sold more than four million copies and been translated into dozens of languages. By worldly‚ Heilbroner refers to economists who were most interested
Premium Economics Karl Marx Adam Smith
E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime was a very interesting historical fiction reading that showed the great wealth inequality that occurred between the rich and poor in New York City during the early 20th century. One interesting passage that I found shocking was how Jacob Riis made maps in the latter end of Chapter 3. I previously knew that Jacob Riis took pictures showing the horrific nature of tenements; a fact that is shown in the novel as well with Doctorow writing‚ “The tenements glowed like furnaces
Premium Great Depression Nazi Germany World War II
What defines honesty and integrity? Is there a connection between these two words‚ and what does that imply? Stephen L. Carter‚ a law professor and writer‚ questions the common definitions of these words and the their moral interpretations in his essay‚ “The Insufficiency of Honesty”. In the essay‚ he makes several about the key differences between what “honesty” and “integrity” actually mean‚ and I agree with Carter that too often integrity is mistaken for honesty. He mentions that‚ “…acting in
Premium Morality Ethics Human
that took place back in 1963 at a predominantly black church in Birmingham Alabama inspired several African American poets to interpret their own views and sides of the on the event that took place. Well-known poets such as Langston Hughes and Raymond L. Patterson use different elements of poetry to reveal their own side of the horrific event that took place. Hughes uses imagery in his poem and describes a highly graphic crime on the incident that took place in Birmingham. Patterson’s diction uses a
Premium African American Race Southern United States
The essay “The Untouchables” written by Tomas L. Friedman is an excerpt from his book The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Friedman is a New York Times investigative reporter and columnist who has won three Pulitzer Prizes during his career. Other works he has written include Hot‚ Flat‚ and Crowded and The Lexus and the Olive Tree. In this book Friedman argues that the world as we know it is becoming figuratively smaller as people are forced to collaborate and compete with
Premium The World Is Flat Writing English-language films
Introduction ESTERS are compounds derived from the reaction of a organic acid with an alcohol. Acid + Phenol/alcohol --> ester + water R--C=O + R’--OH ----> R--C=O + H2O | | C-OH C-O-R’ Esters are the compounds that give fruits their characteristic flavours and odours. ie. methyl salycilate is "Oil of Wintergreen". http://www.petrik.com/PUBLIC/library/misc/glossary_of_org_chem.htm#ESTERS Aim To synthesise the ester 3-methylbutyl ethanoate( isopentyl acetate) and to identify the product
Premium Acetic acid Ammonia Ester
INTRODUCING ESTERS This page explains what esters are and looks at their simple physical properties such as solubility and boiling points. It includes an introduction to more complicated naturally-occurring esters like animal and vegetable fats and oils. What are esters? Esters are derived from carboxylic acids. A carboxylic acid contains the -COOH group‚ and in an ester the hydrogen in this group is replaced by a hydrocarbon group of some kind. This could be an alkyl group like methyl or ethyl
Premium Fatty acid Oxygen Water
work” (Briggs). Technology in this world has grown over the past decades and we have become more and more reliant on our technology. Agribots and drones is the newest and latest thing in this world that could really boots our crop productivity. Thomas L. Friedman‚ author of The World is Flat‚ argues that‚ “As an individual‚ in a flat world is figuring out how to make yourself as an ‘untouchable’” (280). He then describes ‘untouchables’ as‚ “People whose jobs cannot be outsourced‚ digitized or automated”
Premium Agriculture
2011 “Just Be Nice” is an article written by Stephen L. Carter. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at the Yale Law School. This article was written in May 1998‚ and was a response to former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s remarks that the citizenry should give up their rude ways. Carter first touched on the fact that‚ in the Nineteen Sixties and seventies‚ some of his classroom time was spent in the study of manners and politeness‚ and no one objected to it. He believes
Premium Sociology English-language films Writing