Lessons failed will be met again and again until they are learned. ... Scientists speculate that even the people who lived during the New Stone Age (10,000B.C.E - 5,000B.C.E) believed that once a person died, their journey had not yet concluded. 250 million Hindus and 150 million Buddhists are brought up with an understanding of re-birth, which briefly means that our spirit is continuous and requires more than one physical life to attain to a state of purity . ... Take for example the woman who had been raped when she was thirty-seven revealed that she had actually planned the event before sh...

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Repeatedly throughout history, there have been periods of unwarranted discrimination, severe catastrophes and immoral acts of prejudice - remembering these periods helps us ascertain a more powerful understanding about our history which allows us to apply the lessons learnt to both the present and the future. ... Because we take time to remember the past, when a person dies, we do not let their personal stories, histories, traditions, morals, or values die with them. ... It should be noted though, that some people may wish to forget things from the past for example, no one would want to rem...

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Long before Antonio arrives home to tell Ultima about Lupito's death, Ultima is completely aware of the event, a fact that leaves young Antonio astonished. ... Through Antonio's dream, we also learn that he knows that his brothers are going to leave their father's home again, even before they return home. As Anaya describes Antonio's dream: "Father says the freedom of the wild horse is in the Marez blood His fathers before him were vaqueros, and so he expects us to be men of the Ilano" (25). ... Antonio is a man of learning since he understands that his experiences are less...

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Benson the music master who gave the children weekly half-hour lessons in singing and reading music"(11) Mellor states. ... Before even marrying Percy Shelley, Mary had two children in the two years and five months they were traveling. One named Clara was born prematurely and died only a few weeks later in March 1815, Shannon Lawson states. ... Before William died at age three of malaria, Mary had another baby girl on September 1, 1817, who died a year later of a fever. ... Mary's marriage to Percy, six months after her waking dream, was sadly short lived when he died onboard ship in ...

• Word Count: 1927
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Neither side could have predicted that 600,000 men would die as a result of this conflict. ... However, lessons learned from the battlefield led to the U.S. ... An estimated 620,000 men died during the Civil War. Of these, twice as many Soldiers died as a result of diseases contracted while in the Army than those that died in battle (a problem exacerbated by the near complete lack of fitness or health screening among Civil War recruits).3 Twice as many men died of diseases than gunshot wounds. ... Another operation was soon performed, but the unhappy young man, under such treatment, sank away...

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Before Mulan was created Disney's Beauty and the Beast' and The Little Mermaid' had already marked a significant change in the portrayal of women, but it can still be argued that behind the audacious, attractive, and determined characters they are still happy homemakers just waiting to settle down. ... Snow White represents the submissive women before the feminist revolution and agrees to keep the house, cook, make beds, wash, sew and keep everything neat and tidy. ... It is still clear that men have control over Mulans life, and whether she is to live or die, which could b...

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Before Prohibition, many states relied heavily on excise taxes in liquor sales to fund their budgets. ... Over 10,000 people died during Prohibition from drinking wood, and toxic alcohol. ... Also many Americans died from unintentional poisoning by the federal government themselves. ... Finally, the prohibition caused many people to die from poising due to poorly and unfiltered alcohol. ... We learned a very valuable lesson from the prohibition and that is: that we can't teach anyone by completely banning or taking something they are used to away like alcohol but controlling it is very ne...

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It is important for us to learn from the mistakes from the past because it provides lessons for the future. Studying the deeds of great men before their time, a ruler can learn the reasons for victories and defeats in order to avoid imitating the wrong ways. ... The reason comes from the lessons learn out of the project. ...

• Word Count: 1926
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He is suffering at the end of the play; however, he fails to do so with dignity: "Why should I play the Roman fool and die/ On mine own sword? ... Perhaps Macbeth was correct when he said, "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player/That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/And then is heard no more-; he lived out the very lesson that he made known before his death. ...

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Brecht's politically committed play, DIE MASSNAHME (1930, The Measures Taken) reflects his anti-sentimentality and directness, in such a way that even the Communist Party was quite disturbed. ... The lesson is that the freedom of the individual must be suppressed today so the in the future mankind will be able to achieve freedom. ... Indeed "before rehearsals Brecht did not have a final text of the play but he did have a clear notion of the style he wished to impose" (Fuegi, p, 20). ...

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What if I die? What if I go out here into the middle of nowhere, land, and die. ... The lessons are simple but they have far reaching implications according to those in the Wilderness Therapy field. ... In many programs, children and parents take part in all day therapy sessions the day before and after the expeditions begin in order to allow therapists to witness the family dynamics. ...

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Training and information should be readily available before a disaster to guide the healthcare responders and hospital staff in making sound quick decisions regarding the care patients are to receive. We need to realize that in a disaster, things may not always go well; some people will die, and some will receive treatment. ... Pou administered palliative care to the dying that resulted in a double effect of the narcotics to hasten death. ...

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The student movement started with a yearning to commemorate the reformer Hu Yaobang, who had died on April 15. ... New groups of students came into the Square and were reluctant to see the movement end before they had a chance to participate. ... Student demonstrators swore an oath to die rather than retreat Ominously for the leaders, reports from some cities showed signs of a linkup between students and workers. ... The leaders drew the lesson that China must freeze political reform to avoid instability and should avoid changing its political system to resemble those of the West. ...

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When Napoleon heard that the United States population was growing rapidly, he knew it was only a matter of time before the Americans would start spilling over into the French territory, and there was little that he could do to stop them. ... Thomas Jefferson felt President Jefferson was known for being a die-hard Anti-Federalist in favor of strict interpretation of the Constitution, but he also felt strongly that this purchase was necessary if the United States had any hope of developing into a world power, so he did what to do to make the purchase happen. ...

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When looking at the life of one of history's greatest men, the lessons we might learn are countless, despite Irving Stone's fictional twists. Before we can begin to examine The Agony and the Ecstasy, we must understand Michelangelo and other artists as Stone saw them. ... As if Michael's troubles were not large enough with the constant blackmail and bickering of customers desiring to commission Michelangelo and both his biological and adopted families fighting, an obsessive monk named Savonarolla, began a massive movement for drastic political and religious reform and attacked t...

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A third of the population was under the age of 15 due to high birth rates, and a quarter of children born died before their first birthday. ... The major problem within the classroom was the fact that most Italians spoke in dialect and so conducting lessons in Italian were extremely difficult. ...

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How does a historian know when he has reached genuine testimony of an event that transpired before he himself had even existed? ... However, in stripping away the layers of subjectivity that were superimposed on the "facts" by times, places and people before him, can he simultaneously assure that these layers are not replaced with his own assumptions and interpretations in the process? ... As late as the days before the Second World War, a professional historian who studied events up to his own time was considered rash and intolerably unhistorical. At that time, scholars felt that at least a f...

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Hachiya recorded from a colleague related the story of four middle school students who huddled together in the street, and were so badly burned from the blast that they themselves knew that they would soon die. ... What I had believed before was that, like mentioned above, people too close to the hypocenter immediately died, and all others suffered prolonged internal effects later in life, years after the bomb, like tumors or terminal diseases. ... I received yet another life lesson from the reading: I completely understood the sentiments of the Japanese civilians of World War II. ...

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The 1998-2000 Ethiopia-Eritrea War had taught the TPLF dissidents enough lesson that the leader who in public was acting like he were opposed to Eritrea, was the main enemy who turned the victorious Ethiopian Army's advance around, and crowned the aggressor with a victory in an independent boundary commission he conspired to set up with the Eritrean tyrnant. ... TPLF died unceremoniously in April 2001. ... So before time runs out, the unity of the civilian and military force of the nation should gain momentum early on, before the nation faces a vendatta by a leader who has a more sini...

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Parody can be defined as the close imitation of a particular work for the purposes of ridicule or comedic effect (Merriam-Webster). With the conceptual understanding of parody as a genre, Monty Python and the Holy Grail takes the Arthurian tradition to a new level by mercilessly parodying its source...

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Sutherland was born August 13, 1883 in Gibbon, Nebraska and died in 1950. ... The members of gangs tend to be youthful, maybe, because young people have the motivation and time to experiment with alternative norms and values before accepting the responsibilities of adulthood. ...

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Vonnegut almost denounced as follows, "make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters, significant details, that it has lessons to be learned, tests to be passed, and a beginning, a middle, and an end" (215). ...

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