regarded as the second best films of all time after the Shaw-shank Redemption. The Godfather employs a classic Italian-American mafia crime family in New York and Nevada. Vito Corleone as the founder of the Corleone crime family. An immigrant from Sicily who witnessed both his parents shot by a different don. He has four children and a step son whom he had adopted. Michael Corleone as the second Godfather to the Corleone crime family. Santino (Sonny) Corleone who is the eldest son and was to be the
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The relationship that a teacher and student share is of trust‚ respect and devotion. Teachers influence their students by shaping their rational and moral virtues and hence‚ play an important role in molding the society as a whole. The education system of ancient India and Greece shared some common characteristics. In both cultures‚ teachers and their disciples conglomerated at specific places earmarked for educational purposes. This is where students gained both spiritual and material education
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HELLENIC AGE PHILOSOPHY • Greeks used observation and reason to find causes for what happened • Ethics and morality • In Athens‚ Sophism- success is more important than moral truth o Rhetoric- art of skillful speaking o Socrates- Sophist‚ Athenian philosopher ▪ Socratic Method- pose series of questions to students and challenge them to examine the implications of their answers o Plato- student of Socrates ▪ Emphasized the
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Before the Congress of Vienna the French occupation had far reaching affects on Italy. The power of the Church and the Pope was reduced‚ changes were made in landownership and land was redistributed. A new middle class began to appear. Agriculture was improved and the peasants were freed from their old feudal ties and obligations. Then when Napoleon was defeated and the restoration of the old regime and monarchs was started‚ Italy again became a country divided into eleven independent states‚ excluding
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have worked in the orchard‚ Digging this hole‚ laying you into it‚ carefully packing the soil. Rain blackened the horizon‚ but cold winds kept it over the Pacific‚ And the sky above us stayed the dull gray Of an old year coming to an end. In Sicily a father plants a tree to celebrate his first son’s birth– An olive or a fig tree–a sign that the earth has one more life to bear. I would have done the same‚ proudly laying new stock into my father’s orchard‚ A green sapling rising among the twisted
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The duality of the last part in the poem - where he reflects on the pettiness of his actions - can be seen as a result of the contrast between a crisis response which is ‘appropriate’ (attacking the snake as education and social convention would prescribe)‚ and a crisis response which is ‘manly‚’ that is allowing the snake freedom to traverse the area and leave in peace. His poem manages to combine subtle observations of a short‚ tension-filled drama with the insights of a moral thinker and writer
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Carson Coats Chapter 9 Period 2A 1. Problems facing Byzantine Empire (600s-1100) - the Empire lost a lot of territory from expensive wars‚ which put them at an economic and territorial disadvantage. As a result of this‚ they had constant pressure from militaries from the north and south‚ preventing any advances from occurring. 2. Cyril and Methodius- Brothers who went on a successful mission in the Slavs of Moravia. Developed a written language called Cyrillic that was used by the Byzantine
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With reference to two volcanic events that you have studies from contrasting areas of the world‚ compare the ways in which volcanoes and their impacts have been managed. (10 marks) The TOP TIP for what the Q means? Contrasting areas = Compare = Managing impacts of volcanoes = Candidate’s Answer Mt Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines erupted in June 1991. [First volcano] Its eruption consisted of many pyroclastic flows and the large high ash clouds‚ and had severely negative impacts
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Did you know Medusa appears on the flag of Sicily? She appears on the Dohalice village of Czech Republic’s flags coat of arms also. Pablo Picasso‚ Rubens and Caravaggio have portrayed her in their work. Leonardo da Vinci once painted an oil canvas called Medusa. Medusa is considered a monster because she has the face of an ugly woman‚ hair of snakes‚ and if anyone looks into her eyes she turns them to stone. She is the daughter of Phorcys‚ god of the sea‚ and Ceto‚ a female sea god. Phorcys
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farmers gave up when the grain price decreased with the massive importation of grain from Sicily and North Africa. When they gave up they moved to cities and joined the work force there. Then‚ a change in society started to happen. The number of people in the countryside was reduced because they wanted to escape war or would rather settle in the cities than in the countryside after war. As a result‚ Rome became overpopulated. Another change that happened because of the Punic Wars was the Senate gained
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