In each production of Henry V, the emphasis changes: Henry can appear to be "the mirror of all Christian Kings" or as a cynic who uses the, seemingly corrupt, church to justify his actions. The play is full of noble speeches, heroic battles, and valiant English underdogs fighting their way to victory against all odds. ... The punishment for looting is hanging as decreed by the King. ... Henry has already previously warned that "We would have all such offenders so cut off," meaning that he hopes all looters will be hanged, without exception. ... When his father, Henry IV, usurped the throne fr...

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In this instance King felt that his duty to obey the laws would not serve the common good as the laws were not laid out with the common good of all of society in mind, the Negro race was set to carry a heavier burden and receive a lesser benefit. ... Martin Luther King implied that he felt that law had not been used to promote the common good of all men equally and that due to the heavier burden carried by the Negro without the benefits lavished on the white men that the Negro were owed a debt of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that they had not been allowed to achieve and that law...

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"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws," nobel peace prize winner, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed. ... Expecting their test is all around established, there are two further issues. ... Aquinas instilled that all human or positive laws were to be deduced by their compliance to the natural law. ... Natural law can be interpreted as the unwritten body of all inclusive good rule that underlie the moral and legitimate standards by which human behavior is infrequently assessed and governed. ... It supersedes all other courts. ...

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Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, is often regarded as the greatest military commanders of all time. ... For all the military accolades attributed to Alexander the Great, his self-centred attitude to kingship meant he was more concerned with his own glory than the future of the dynasty. ... The young king could not handle being associated with Philip II and was enraged by the words of one of his officers, Cleitus the Black, as he claimed that all of Alexander's successes were based on actions taken by his father. ... These achievements were not the work of F...

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As Thucydides argues, the Spartans did a superior job of net assessment in all three of these elements prior to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Spartan Strategy Sparta's King Archidamus took the realistic approach to the potential war: by realizing the inevitable failure of diplomacy efforts with Athens, he instead chose to prepare his own polis for war under the guise of these so-called diplomatic efforts. ... Archidamus knew that the Athenians were unlikely to fight an infantry-based war (Sparta's area of military expertise), as Athens' culture, military and economy ...

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Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland. ... All of the above settled in Ireland and contributed various skills and expertise such as the ability to use iron and the skill to make pottery. ... Two groups of them settled in the British Isles; The Brythoni who settled in Britain, and the Gaels who settled in parts of Scotland and all over Ireland. ... They were also one of the most democratic groups in Europe, and they valued their family above all. ... To this day, although in Northern Ireland, Armagh is indeed the religious centre of all Ireland. ...

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In the king's service, Becket, as he had always previously done, found the best way to portray his role such that it would give him even more control. ... As chancellor, he negotiated the terms of the marriage of the infant Margaret of Louis VII to the king's eldest son with the Vexin as her dowry. ... He was ruler of all the land and maintained his unquestioned power throughout the land by declaring the church a Landeskirche of which he was the supreme defender. ... William used the opportunity to keep the Church at bay and assumed personal control over all church politics, hold...

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Who we are as a person influences all the roles we undertake. ... Many theorists feel that a learning environment encourages leadership at all levels of nursing. ... The fourth discipline is team learning, where there is open and honest dialogue between all team members. ...

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In 1956, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, also directed by Ishiro Honda, was discharged in the United States as an American rendition of the first Japanese film. ... While Gojira metaphorically portrays Japan's after war injury, for example, the nuclear bombings, decimation, and annihilation, the depiction of such pivotal messages are lost in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. ... Critically, it serves as an update to the Japanese audience not to overlook the nuclear besieging and the aftermath of the bomb, not to overlook that they are all survivors along these lines to act with fearlessness...

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But that is not all, as we shall see: members of all castes including slaves were closely associated to power, as de facto ministers; which resulted in constitutional monarchies governed by councils of ministers, made up of authentic representatives of all the people. ... By definition, all slaves should make up the revolutionary class. ... The slaves of the king formed the greater part of his forces and in consequence their condition was greatly improved. ... However, the ennobling of a slave, even by the king, was impossible in Africa, in contrast to the customs of European courts. Birth app...

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As king he quickly regained control of the Angkor territory, which had been conquered by the Cham during the floundering reigns of the previous kings. ... If we observe that king Suryavarman the second intended to be entombed within central temple, it can then be assumed that he had chosen to be buried within Mount Meru, the mountain of the gods, elevating his status upon death from a king to a god, showing a level of religious devotion and arrogance incomparable to any king that ruled before or after. We can find further evidence of the King's strong religious beliefs in the temples reli...

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Leaving many with questions as to who would be Libya's next king or ruler. Under the Libyan constitution of nineteen fifty one it was stated that King Idris as-Sanusi would be the head of state. ... (Temehu) The king's government was made up of the parliament, the upper house (Senate) and the lower house (House of Representatives). ... However, resentment began to build over the increased concentration of the nation's wealth in the hands of King Idris. ... It all began in August of nineteen sixty nine when King Idris of Libya was in Turkey for medical treatment. ...

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In 1166 King Henry II made a major step by beginning to develop the idea of a more evidentiary form of settling disputes by the issuing of the Assize of Clarendon (an act of the king). ... In the twelfth century England, when the Assize was first introduced, unlike the modern-day jury, the jury was just a tool for the king; the earliest recorded juries were employed to be as mere recognitors (juror impanelled on an assize to hold a recognition in England in the period following the Norman Conquest)6, providing local knowledge, acting as witnesses and gathering information, rather than making ...

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In response to the new thinking that was sparked by the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Industrial Revolution and other changes in society, bloody and peaceful revolutions took place all over Europe. ... The king knew that they could grant him the taxing authority he wanted but also knew that he would need to compromise his powers in doing so. ... It did away with all special privileges in landed property, abolished feudalism, and vastly improved the conditions of the working class. ... The Magna Carta was a feudal document that was intended to limit the power of the king. The king of Englan...

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Now, over 180 years later, almost all countries across the world have banned slavery (Greenhaven Press). ... Human trafficking has become the "perfect crime" (King 21). ... But behind each dollar sign is a human tragedy" (King 22). ... A video camera tracked the movement of all the women and only allowed them outside thirty minutes a day. ... Our bodies were utterly sore and swollen" (King 29). ...

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All of them are ambitious" (85). ... King, author of the article "Coca-cola takes the high road" (1). ... Apply in person at: Kollision King 6127 Padre Island Hwy". ... Assuming that Kollision King placed this advertisement to recruit men, I felt as if I had been discriminated against because of my sex. ... Using Kollision King's example, the company should use the term bodywork instead of body men according to Peres (39). ...

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Sanders believes "blacks constituted an American underclass in all parts of the United States in 190013" whilst Chambers contrasts this, believing "the black codes did not technically re-establish slavery.14" Also in contrast to Sanders is Dunning who states "as the black codes were concerned, it was pointed out that they could not be alleged as a tendency to restore slavery since the offensive acts had in many of the states been repealed by the legislatures themselves and in all had been superseded by the civil rights act.15" I agree with William Dunning to an ex...

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Meanwhile, the king's new finance minister, Jacques Necker, a Swiss financial expert, delayed the effects of mercantilism by importing large amounts of grain. ... Twenty-eight days later, the Assembly showed they did not intend to do so: the government confiscated all church property in France. ... The king's guards were eventually captured and killed. ... So much of modern statism, with all of its horror and disregard for individualism, began with the French Revolution. ... Now contrast all of this with the American Revolution, more correctly called the War for Independence. ...

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Their civilization was broken down into small city-states (never more than 10,000 citizens), and all the men voted on all issues of government. ... Cicero suggested that all people have certain rights that should be preserved. ... Nobles forced King John to sign this "Great Charter" that created the English "Parliament", or law-making body, and stated that the written laws held a higher power than the king, thereby limiting the power of the Royal family and giving some of that power to the people. Later, the Petition of Right (1628) set that the King could no longer tax without parliament'...

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He argued that natural rights should be applied to all human beings, without distinctions of gender, because in nature all persons are equal. ... The National Assembly or the King never accepted this document, but its mere existence and the support that it gathered help bring women's issues on to the table. ... A second prong of marchers threatened to open fire on royal troops, insulted the king, made contemptuous references to his failure to sign the Declaration of rights, and above all demanded an interview (5). A small delegation of women- four to six- were permitted to approach t...

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Britain's economy was strong, prominent among nations in all areas of commerce, banking, and agriculture. ... The most conservative elements within the British government were enthusiastic supporters of British superiority, unabashed, fervently loyal subjects of their King, George III. ... When the result was the antithesis, it was no small wonder that when seeking causation for the loss of the colonies, the easiest attributable ideology was failure of leadership on all levels, political and military. ... They were capable and significant individuals that, despite all their combined exp...

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A logical presumption would be that nearly all human beings aspire to live the best possible life, and undoubtedly that life would be measured in happiness. ... For this to occur, philosophy must rule the city, ideally under a philosopher king. Just as reason would rule in an ideal city [run by a philosopher king], reason must also rule in the soul in order for the soul to rule the body in such a way that it can control the many individual passions and impulses of the body. ... Socrates' believes that his primary notion of justice being the greatest virtue is verified in both the soul/bo...

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Since the first horror movie in 1896, people of all ages have spent precious hours of their weekends making their way to the local cinema, spending their hard-earned money on movie tickets, finding a seat in one of many crowded rooms, and sitting down in darkness for hours, all in the hope that this newest horror release will genuinely disturb them. ... As horror veteran Stephen King puts it, the horror film "has become the modern version of the public lynching . . . It deliberately appeals to all that is worst in us" (King 498). ... Among these, Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) has...

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The epic of Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, and the Iliad, with its focus on the menis of Achilles, provide a look at heroic life and its relationship with death and immortality. ... This unified epic, where the several episodes are linked together, provides a picture of a heroic king who undergoes development and comes to some sort of understanding of the world where he lives. ... Each is the son of a goddess and a mortal man, a king, who happens to be far away from the action in the epic. ... Gilgamesh begins by outwardly stating that Gilgamesh travels far and sees all, and that his adventures ...

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According to the Prussian constitution, the parliament had neither the power to initiate legislation (unlike Canada's parliament which does have this power), nor reject legislation brought forth by the king or his ministers (the executive). ... King Wilhelm I and his minister of war rejected this liberal attempt to change the class composition of the Prussian officer corps, and the parliament threatened to veto the military budget. ... Biz now held incredible power in his hands; he could not be turfed in a popular election, he could only be dismissed by the king. ... Fear of being dumpe...

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