... world around 2000. The world of Star Trek is the Phoenix myth, out of the ashes of nuclear war comes the elite socialist paradise of the Federation… Captain Kirk and the Star Ship Enterprise, along with all the spinoffs, Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyageur and new film adventures have kept these ideas going. Gene Rodenberry was the official historian to the Los Angeles police department before he wrote Star Trek. The L.A. police of the time and even today are feared for their police state style tactics. Star Trek was always on the verge of being laughable, long underwear style costumes, and fake monsters, and plaster planets. This changed with Star T ...
... elected the Southerners felt that he would be in favor of the North in all his decisions and not treat it equally. This sectional difference really set the pathway for war because the southern states soon would want to secede and seceding was a major cause of the war. Another area that caused differences between the North and South parts of the United States was the taxes being put on the imported goods coming in. When the tariff bill was passed, it hurt the South because it increased the prices on all of the imports coming in from Europe. The North wanted the South to buy things from them and not Europe, this angered the South causing yet another major differe ...
... clergy immediately challenged the procedure for voting proposed by the commoners, or third estate. After a six-week deadlock, the third estate proclaimed itself a National Assembly with sole power to legislate taxation. The assembly then announced its intentions to draft a constitution. Some representatives of the nobility and clergy joined forces with the assembly, which soon renamed itself the National Constituent Assembly. When Louis, reacting to pressure from the queen and others, concentrated loyal regiments in Paris and Versailles, the people of Paris reacted with open insurrection, storming the Bastille prison on July 14. The Parisian middle class, or bourge ...
... attitude. Later in 1827 Edgar enlisted in the Army under the name Edgar A Perry where his quarrels with John Allan continued. Edgar did well in the army but in 1829 he left and decided to apply for a cadetship at West Point. Before he was able to enter West Point Edgar published a book entitled "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and minor poems", this time the book was published, not anonymously, but under the name Edgar A. Poe, where the middle initial acknowledged John Allan's name. Before Edgar left West Point he received financial aid from his fellow cadets to publish a third edition of the book. Edgar called it a second edition though and it was entitled "Poems by ...
... and with their experience of human personality and behavior. These artists made an effort to go beyond straightforward transcription of nature, to instill the work of art with ideal, intangible qualities, endowing it with a beauty and significance greater and more permanent than that actually found in nature. Artists such as Donatello in sculpture, Masaccio in painting and Fillipo Brunelleschi in architecture were part of this period. Masaccio for instance gave figures the “illusion” of live beings when characters and reactions were individualized. He also made use of perspective by exploring linear (a vanishing point), and atmospheric perspective (effects pr ...
... revisions. The tomb was to have three levels; the bottom level was to have sculpted figures representing Victory and bond slaves. The second level was to have statues of Moses and Saint Paul as well as symbolic figures of the active and contemplative life-representative of the human striving for, and reception of, knowledge. The third level, it is assumed, was to have an effigy of the deceased pope. The tomb of Pope Julius II was never finished. What was finished of the tomb represents a twenty-year span of frustrating delays and revised schemes. had hardly begun work on the pope’s tomb when Julius commanded him to fresco the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to com ...
... and looked to England for the protection and leadership. Numerous attempts were made to have English rule over the rest of Ireland, but the major expansion did not take place until the sixteenth century. For the Irish clans who disputed the rest of the Island with each other, England became a threat to their sovereignty and customs. By the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, a military conquest had established English rule over most of the Island, with the principal exemption of the northern province of Ulster. The Ulster clans had succeeded in overcoming Elizabeth's armies. After a long and damaging campaign Ulster was finally under English control. This caused ...
... the protection of basic freedoms has been of the utmost importance to Americans. In Langston Hughes' poem, "Freedom," he emphasizes the struggle to enjoy the freedoms that he knows are rightfully his. He reflects the American desire for freedom now when he says, "I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread." He recognizes the need for freedom in its entirety without compromise or fear. I think Langston Hughes captures the essence of the American immigrants' quest for freedom in his poem, "Freedom's Plow." He accurately describes American's as arriving with nothing but dreams and building America with the hopes of finding gre ...
... social hierarchy resided the church. Following the church were the noblemen, and behind them the noblewomen. After the nobility came the middle-class, which included male merchants and artisans succeeded by the middle-class females. The bottom rung of the social ladder consisted of black slaves. This conventional regime continued to dominate the Americas completely until the revolution sparked new standards of living for all races and sexes. Revolutionary efforts set a new course for American society. Both the poor and wealthy begun wearing homespun clothing and military leaders respected all members of the militia. Egalitarianism was on the rise, allowing w ...
... Perhaps it would not have been best for the South to have won the war, but we should respect and uphold the men who fought so bravely for their cause. The mistaken idea that the Civil War was about slavery is one of the many causes that the flag's right to be above the capitol is questioned. This mistaken idea often causes problems between the races of this state. Slavery was wrong. I would never try to justify it, because it can not be justified. It was simply wrong, God made us all equal. A human being was never intended to be treated like an animal, animals even were not meant to be treated like slaves. Slavery is a sensitive area, but the flag does not reflec ...
