Electorate of Saxony Essays

  • Doubt: A Parable: Character Analysis

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    John Patrick Shanley's work, Doubt: A Parable, is a thought-provoking play that makes the reader question his or her thoughts. The story takes place in 1964, at St. Nicholas, a Catholic school and church, where accusations against Father Flynn start to arise. Main characters, Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn get into a dispute over Donald Mueller, the first and only black student in the school. The interactions between Aloysius and Flynn creates the question every reader is dying to figure out: is

  • Gottfried W. Leibniz Accomplishments

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    Gottfried W. Leibniz was born in July 1, 1646 A.D during the 17th century, in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony, and Holy Roman Empire. His parents were Friedrich Leibniz and Catherina Schumuck. His father, being a great lecture of moral philosophy, Gottfried was very clever man by knowing that he mastered Latin at the age of 8, and at the age of 12, he also mastered Greek. When he became bigger, he wanted to study logic and combine his doctrines with the theories stated by the protestant theologians

  • Pros And Cons Of Lowering The Voting Age From 18 To 16

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    life. It is said that younger generations vote less that older generations; an experiment was done in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony to truly test this theory. The turnout among 16-21 year olds was slightly below the average for the whole electorate but clearly higher by about 5 to 8 percent that among those aged 21-30. Similar results were found in Lower Saxony where 16-18 year olds vote at the level comparable to 35-45 year olds. Speaking of being comparable to adults, some individuals who

  • Why Is Germany So Important In Early Times

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    In Early Times In ancient and early medieval times, German tribes had no written language, there military history comes from Latin accounts, or archaeology. Leaving gaps in Germanic history such as the battle of the Teutoburg Forest, wars with the early Celts are still a mystery. Thought to have originated in the Nordic Bronze Age, the tribes from the north spread south crossing the River Elbe, possibly invading Celts in the Weser Basin. Roman records show the migrating Cimbri and Teutone tribes