... making love, to the discontent of the other gods. Gods were concerned that their offspring might be too powerful. Finally they were persuaded to stop, but there was much of Shiva's seed, which had not been used. This was burning hot and no one could hold it. It was passed from god to god until it finally was tossed into the sacred waters of the Ganges. Shiva took the seed and placed it on top of a mountain for ten thousand years in the sight of the rising sun, and Kartikeya was born. The Krittikas (the six stars of the Pleiades) took his care, from which he got his name. In one hand, he carries a spear called Shakti, which symbolises the destruction of demo ...
... famous Blacks as well. Sal refuses, telling the man that it is his pizzeria and he can have whomever he wants on the wall. The man leaves feeling even more frustrated than before and decides to organize a boycott. To his dismay, he is only able to recruit a single person. Another conflict occurs between Mookey and one of of Sal’s sons. Sal’s son is an outspoken racist, or so it seems. He is always urging Sal to try to sell the business and leave the neighborhood to get away from “these” people (black people). Mookey forces Sal’s son to look at himself and examine his own values. He asks him who his favorite sports heroes and musicians are. They are all bl ...
... democracy that welcomed all. What is amazing about the play is that it does not only reach out to all Jews in history that have been exposed to persecution and being forced to leave their homes and lives but to any ethnic group who has ever faced the cruelty of others. The melodrama is based on the book by Joseph Stein and stories by Shalom Aleichem. The music was written by Bock and the lyrics by Harnick. The play was directed by Jerome Robbins and B. Arthur. Masdel played the main character, Tevya the protagonist. Tevya is a Jew who lives strictly by the Jewish traditions. His two main dilemma's in the play are the pogroms that were taking place agains ...
... battles, Issus and Arbela, Alexander defeated the much larger armies of Persian King Darius. He also destroyed the fortified island city of Tyre on the Mediterranean Sea, founded the city of Alexandria in Egypt, conquered hill tribes the Persians had never been able to subdue, and defeated a well-trained Indian army equipped with elephants. After defeating Porus, an Indian ruler, he wanted to continue his conquests into India, but his weary, homesick army refused. Reluctantly, Alexander turned around and led his army back to Babylon, where, just 33 years old, he died of a sickness (or perhaps by poison) after a wild party. Alexander Lived From 356BC Unti ...
... came from Chimps, 1999) Hahn and her team studied frozen tissue from a chimp that died of complications at childbirth. In this frozen tissue their was the chimp version of the AIDS virus, called SIVcpz. The genes in SIVcpz are genetically similar to the AIDS virus. (AIDS came from Chimps, 1999) Chimps who have probably carried this virus for thousands of years do not get sick from it. Researchers are trying to find out why chimps are not effected by this virus, because it may lead to a cure. (Aids in Africa,1994) This product ...
... in 1429 she gained access to the King through the military commander in Vaucoulaurs. Charles was desperate because the English had captured almost half of France including Paris. When Joan told him of her visions of the Saints he was doubtful so he set up two tests for her. In the first he disguised himself as a courtier, but she pointed him out immediately. For the second test he asked her what he prayed to God for the night before she arrived; she told him exactly. Some of the clergy believed her to be Satanic, but Joan was approved. Charles fitted her with armor and gave her command of the military. Soon after she set out to free Orleans f ...
... were particularly interested in the nearby camp called III where there was a factory for the production of synthetic rubber". (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland//02.html) During the years of the war, rubber was scarce and the Germans were ahead of the rest of the world in their plans and ideas to produce artifical rubber. - (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland//02.html) & (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at//HTML/Allgem-Infos.html) had 405,000 prisoners recorded through executions, beatings, starvation, and sickness.The camp was staffed partly by prisoners, some of which were selected to be Kapos and Sonderkommandos. Some of the prisoners survived through the help of some oth ...
... of grass because grass was never planted. The people dwelling in these developments have no sense of pride in their community since its appearance is rundown and nothing is kept up. The cracks in the basketball court's cement have weeds growing out of them; proving the unkempt conditions. The children don't ever see anything more than the long strip of housing developments that run consecutively down one strip of Chicago's south side. These projects are like jail because once you grow up around them it is hard to get away or out of them. Some children in the book have never been anywhere else expect for school and then back to their homes. Attending school was ...
... from, so they could better enjoy the voyage (Titanic, p.2). Some of the suites had fire places that burned coal in the sitting room and gigantic beds in the bedroom. the most expensive suite had five rooms and a private bathroom, this truly was a luxury liner. Most upper class people had dinner at a huge restaurant on deck D (Titanic, p.2). It was 92 ft. wide and 114 ft. long. (Titanic, p.2) . The restaurant sat about 500 people (Titanic, p.2). There were a few other places to have dinner on the boat, even a real French restuarant called, "Cafe Parisien" (Titanic, p.2). During the day many rich people went to the Lounge at the Promenade deck, the walls were similar ...
... stay of war, and lose their right to the seas. Both sides became increasingly angry with the American position of neutrality. England publicly declared, “Anyone who talked of peace was a friend of Germany.” This created only hostility towards the British, but continued diplomacy with Germany. The underlying cause of this friendly nature was not to remain neutral. Wilson thought that if the Americans weren’t going to stand up for their rights to the seas, that this would be the way to reduce the submarine warfare. Wilson promoted peace at every turn, but both sides disliked the idea, in fact the Chancellor of Germany predicted that peace talks would be uns ...
