America was still a new country, and many considered it as a Garden of Eden, plentiful and wild. ... The scene suggest a loving family of valiant pioneers living off of the abundance of nature, but the importance of ugly tree remains and axes in close proximity makes the viewer wonder if Cole did not want to symbolize humanity's lackadaisical demolition of nature, the idea that humanity might be falling from grace and destroying the New Eden, and he may have wished to warn people that they should preserve an attentive balance with it. ... As Albert Boime says, "inevitably, the extermi...

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The view that the reoccupation of the Rhineland was no threat to France was heavily challenged by Anthony Eden, the foreign secretary, stating that Another idea which ought to be combatted was the prevail ant one that the occupation of the Rhineland was no threat to France. ... Therefore Eden is clearly stating that the remilitarisation f the Rhineland was indeed a clear threat to France and international peace. ...

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When the London merchants of what became the East India Company first sent ships to the East in 1601, they were not bound for India at all but for the Spice Islands of the Dutch East Indies, and the English traders who set foot on the subcontinent a little later actually sought to avoid conquest. ... The East India Company was originally conceived in September 1599, when a group of London merchants resolved to raise 30,000 for sending ships to the East to collect silks, spices and jewels "upon a purely merchantile bottom." ... By 1639, English traders were established on the east coast, too, l...

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Here she appears to represent temptation, as in the origin of sin, where Adam and Eve are tempted in the Garden of Eden, a setting also present in Coleridge's poem, in the form of the 'midnight wood23' where Christabel first prays. ...

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In all of the religions of the world, one of the primary questions that they are to answer is that of the meaning of life and life after death. As long as man has been self-aware and cognizant of the passage of time, he has operated with the knowledge that he, at some time as a mortal man, must end his life and die. He is naturally unable to ascertain the nature of his purpose in life and what may pertain after death, and soon begins to develop an explanation for what happens to him, or his essence when he passes that barrier. The early monotheists developed the most structured and defined...

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