Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" (1642) on the other hand, is not a biblical story, it's not really a story at all it's just a painting showing a gathering of military importance. Michelangelo's payment for his work came from the pockets of the Catholic Church unlike Rembrandt who's pay came from the pockets of the wealthy men whom he painted in this work. ... She gives a sense of mystery and poetry and makes it more than just another painting of military company, and it is odd to see a young woman among a gathering of important military officers. ... Rembrandt'...

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Hunting, gathering, and hard work amongst the men and women of the tribes was successful for them. ... Arguably, infectious diseases had the most impact on the world following the initiation of contact by Columbus and his men. ... Disease also traveled back eastward with Columbus and fellow explorers, affecting large numbers of European men and women. ... Examples of animals coming from the Old World to the New World are horses, pigs, goats, chicken, and cattle. ... A variety of plants such as rice, barley, oats, coffee, melons, and daisies were brought from the Old World to the Americas. ...

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Peter I created a society of social and honorable people, by throwing out old customs he felt were outdated and absurd, such as requiring men to maintain beards. ... Men traded their long coats in for shorter jackets, and women wore western skits, long dresses as well as gowns. ... Like neighboring European nations, women were allowed to attend church and other public gatherings. ... While Catherine clearly advocated a strong tsarist control, she also differed from Peter I, because she gave nobles power over peasants, resembling the Old Russian government. ... Petersburg with European style bu...

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" This fourth characteristic explains how activities or gatherings are executed through communication and/or text within the community. ... The four million Masons worldwide continue to help men and women face the problems of the 21st century by building bridges of brotherhood and instilling in the hearts of men ideals for a better tomorrow (Masonic Service par. 4).... After gathering further information about the Free Mason, a member provided an interview to secure that the fraternity is a discourse community. ...

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" The mediums that the preachers used to spread their messages were mostly large gatherings, where audiences counting into the 20,000s made camp to listen. The gatherings were called revivals. ... The schools were not divided by grade, which meant that older students were in the same class rooms with the younger students. ... She was a schoolteacher who knew that women and men were equal intellectually and made it her goal to prove that to the world. ... Horace Mann said, "Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men, - the...

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Natural Women Native American women have a very important role in different tribal societies, as do men. ... Women were the providers; gathering the food, trading with other tribes, making spiritual and political decisions, all while taking care of the entire family. ... She messed with evil, laughed at the old woman's advice , and dressed like a man" (62). ... Fleur kills every man that saves her from drowning, men that were trying to help her, "by saving Fleur Pillager, those two men had lost themselves" ("Fleur", 61). The men who tried to save her had good intentions, while the ...

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The feeling of being burdened and the annoyance that comes with it is brought up in other parts of the poem, in lines such as, "and I was embarrassed/by old men standing up to shake my hand/and tell me they were "sorry for my trouble."" These lines suggest that the narrator is embarrassed by his position of eldest in the family and feels a sense of patronization from the older men rather than condolence. ... Reading this piece, the poem seems to suggest that the woman feels shut out/cast out from the world, very much trapped in the role of a typical older woman. Whether the woman in the poem i...

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The Second Vatican Council, otherwise known as Vatican II, was a gathering of all the Bishops in the Catholic Church that was intended to "bring the Church up to date" (aggiornamento) as Pope John XXIII acknowledged that the Church stood in need of reinvigoration and reform. Session I was convened on October 11, 1962, which was attended by 2500 Bishops, the largest gathering in the Church's history. ... " The outdated traditions of the Church had turned many people away, which was a problem that Pope John XXIII wanted to address in order to make the message of faith more re...

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Little Saigon is: an ethnic enclave [that] not only brought new possibilities for imagining community, but it also resurrected the old capital in a new physical space, complete with cultural institutions to foster this imagined community (Nguyen 199). ... To the Vietnamese, Little Saigon expresses a distinctive and indispensable Vietnamese character, Tran- a 65-year-old Vietnamese woman says, "I don't come to buy things, I come to see people, strangers mostly, who come...to do ordinary, everyday things, but in an environment where, because of the familiarity of faces and language, w...

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During the years of slavery, education was an extremely controversial issue among these individuals. The entire nation's economy depended heavily upon the free labor of slaves, which made so many oppose the idea of abolition. The main fear in the education of slaves was that they would revolt; and t...

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A common catch phrase summarizes this idea with "behind every great man, is an even greater woman,"" meaning that in the social hierarchy where men reign supreme, the male platform is built upon the strength of the maternal, held thickly in the metaphorical womb. ... The graffiti on the walls of the servants' toilet give him oracular insight into traitorous cohorts, one of whom he serves roasted for dinner to a gathering of his generals. The unnamed General (his precise rank is General of the Universe) of an unnamed Caribbean nation, lives to be anywhere between 107 and 232 years old, si...

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The nature-nurture debate has two different ways of explaining human growth and development such as: The "nature" approach suggests that people are naturally born with certain abilities, qualities and characteristics which will determine what kind of person they will become when they're older. ... Sharon developed such hatred towards marriage that she refused to be in any relationships because she started to see every man as a monster like her farther which affected her social and love life, as she would always make an excuse not to go out with her friends to avoid being around ...

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Catholics accept the religious doctrine and beliefs without questioning thus their customs are constant, also consent of baptism, confession and communion play an important role in integrating them, whereas, Protestantism permits free enquiry which is linked with the desire for learning and gathering knowledge and knowledge is generally used to ...

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This newly formed gathering of people followed in Smith's steps as he set out to spread his word, and time and time again, in many various small towns and communities the Mormon members were teased and exiled from neighbors. ... He claimed to save all men who became lost by the confusion of religion and connection to god, and promised to deliver them to salvation from their lost state of religion. ... This became a democratization of free religion, and people began to move out of the old world and into the new world because of Whitefield's strong influence. ...

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This technique of indoctrination was really efficient, as young germans were attracted by the entertaining aspect of the Hitler Youth, making the movement a success: by 1939, 7,2 millions out of 8"millions germans aged between 10 and 18 years old were part of the Hitler Youth. ... Indeed, it states that the Nazi government "begin[s] with the child when he is three years old" and that "As soon as he begins to think, he is made to carry a little flag" which really shows the control on the germans' life "from the cradle to the grave" that is made by the Nazi Par...

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Being temporarily free from their restrictions, thousands of people comprising men and women of all ages gathered in Pagoda Park for a single purpose "to express their earnest desire for independence. ... "Within days, independence movements erupted in virtually every corner of the country, in nearly all segments of the society, with over two million directly participating in more than fifteen hundred gatherings, occurring in all but seven of Josun's 219 county administrations (Lee, 1988, p. 344). " That the Korean-Protestant people were deeply involved in orchestrating and particip...

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The Declaration attributes the roots of gender violence to historically unequal power relations between men and women, arguing that it is socially constructed and historically justified rather than natural (Coomaraswamy and Kios 1999: 183). ...

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Religious parties in Israel The religious parties aim to establish a Jewish State governed by the Jewish religious code, the Halacha. Some parties do not recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel and are thereby making a concession towards their ideology by participating to the democratic electoral proceeding. They explain it by the necessity to access to political power to create a religious State. All of them consider the pursuit of the Jewish colonization on the territory of Great Israel as legitimate ( «  Eretz Israel   ») and are opposed to the creation of a ...

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