Ann was entranced with the view, as were her husband and friends.

It is an understandable paradox that most American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point of view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine.

If he dwelt on the indignities he suffered he would lose all respect for her, and without the respect he might lose his view of her, too.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.

* Tacitus: Critical view, considered her vicious and had a strong disposition against her due to her femininity and influential role in politics.

Conscious of her unpopularity she banished, and afterwards put to death, three Gothic nobles whom she suspected of intriguing against her rule, and at the same time opened negotiations with the emperor Justinian I with the view of removing herself and the Gothic treasure to Constantinople.

Although a committed Christian, she has characterised the issue as one of life and death on which her view had been the same when she was agnostic.

Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).

In 1978, Joyce G. Baldwin, former principal of Trinity College, Bristol, proposed her view of the chiastic language structure for the Aramaic portion of Daniel chapters 2-7 .</ sup >

As U-27 came into view from behind Nicosian, Baralong opened fire with her three 12-pounder guns at a range of, firing 34 rounds for only a single shot from the submarine.

Love's song lyrics are predominantly told from a female's point of view, and her earlier work, particularly on Hole's first two albums, was noted for being highly aggressive and critical toward cultural definitions of women.

At the time of her death, Carolyn Beug was working on a children's book about Noah's Ark which was to be told from Noah's wife's point of view.

Another minority believed that Eddy intended various requirements for her consent ( in their view, " estoppels ") to effect the church's dissolution on her death, since they could no longer be followed literally.

In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Thus, in Steiner's view, we can overcome the subject-object divide through inner activity, even though all human experience begins by being conditioned by it.

But although cognitive psychology is concerned with all human activity rather than some fraction of it, the concern is from a particular point of view.

He says that the view that mind is an epiphenomenon of brain activity is not consistent with evolutionary theory, because if mind were functionless, it would have disappeared long ago, as it would not have been favoured by evolution.

However, the medical view is that the rush or high associated with the activity is not due to adrenaline being released as a response to fear, but due to increased levels of dopamine, endorphins and serotonin because of the high level of physical exertion.

This practice, due to its illegality, has generally become favored by groups excluded from the political mainstream ( e. g. far-left or far-right groups ) who justify their activity by pointing out that they do not have the money – or sometimes the desire – to buy advertising to get their message across, and that a " ruling class " or " establishment " control the mainstream press, systematically excluding the radical / alternative point of view.

Biologists usually view this activity as an undirected emergent property of the ecosystem ; as each individual species pursues its own self-interest, their combined actions tend to have counterbalancing effects on environmental change.

Scientists have resolved many of these questions decisively in favour of the view that the warming trend is unprecedented, that human activity is the primary cause and that it has been accurately measured.

This contrasts with teleological theories of activity, which suppose that the end is the determining factor of activity, as well as those who believe in a tabula rasa, or blank slate, view, where individuals are defined by their interactions.

On the other hand, some people adopt the view that pleasure is its own justification for sexual activity.

In this latter view, mind, instead of referring to an entity, refers to a collection of mental events experienced by a person ; society refers to a collection of persons with some shared characteristics, and geometry refers to a collection of a specific kind of intellectual activity.

Such groups view prostitution variously as a crime or as victimization, and see the term " sex work " as legitimizing criminal activity or exploitation as a type of labor.

He also posed the equation between semiosis ( the activity of interpreting signs ) and life – the view that has further developed by Copenhagen-Tartu biosemiotic school.

This view includes sequence diagrams, activity diagrams and state machine diagrams.

Recording of the noise of a thermogravimetric analysis device that is poorly isolated from a mechanical point of view ; the middle of the curve shows a lower noise, due to a lesser surrounding human activity at night.

One approach to sex education is to view it as necessary to reduce risk behaviors such as unprotected sex, and equip individuals to make informed decisions about their personal sexual activity.

Some consider the work of Paul Erdős as a whole to have advanced this view ( although he personally rejected it ) because of his uniquely broad collaborations, which prompted others to see and study " mathematics as a social activity ", e. g., via the Erdős number.

In this view, sexual activity has become separated from procreation, which led to a decline in the importance of families and to depopulation.

Group associations with a project or a set of projects provides a more holistic view of software development activity and allows project teams and individuals to better connect, collaborate, share information and expand the discussions within a wider audience.

Suggestions by Livy that the Romans banned the rites because women occupied leadership positions in the cult have been dismissed by Celia Schultz, thus: In light of view of female religious activity ... and despite the claims of Livy's narrative, it is unlikely that the gender of worshippers involved was the primary motivation behind the Senate's action.

Some have argued for a more nuanced view of Stein's collaborationist activity, arguing that it was rooted in her wartime predicament and status as a Jew in Nazi-occupied France.

France took a more openly hostile view of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's material and political assistance to the FLN, which some French analysts believed was the most important element in sustaining continued rebel activity in Algeria.

The SEZ Act, 2005, was an important bill to be passed by the Government of India in order to instill confidence in investors and signal the Government's commitment to a stable SEZ policy regime and with a view to impart stability to the SEZ regime thereby generating greater economic activity and employment through their establishment, a comprehensive draft SEZ Bill prepared after extensive discussions with the stakeholders.

In effect, the world of all things divides, on this view, into those ( like Socrates, the planet Venus, and New York City ) that have existence in the narrow sense, and those ( like Sherlock Holmes, the goddess Venus, and Minas Tirith ) that do not.

The view that the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is also the goddess Guanyin does not seem contradictory to Buddhist beliefs.

Further evidence includes the many female figurines unearthed in ancient Israel, supporting the view that Asherah functioned as a goddess and consort of Yahweh and was worshiped as the Queen of Heaven.

A reverse view was expressed by Virgil, and it is probably true that cultural contacts with the mainland brought Cybele to Crete, where she was transformed into Rhea or identified with an existing local goddess and her rites.

Coins minted at Cnossus from the fifth century showed the kneeling bull or the head of a goddess crowned with a wreath of grain and on the reverse — the " underside "— a scheme of four meander patterns joined at the centre windmill fashion, sometimes with sickle moons or with a star-rosette at the center: " it is a small view of the nocturnal world on the face of the coin that lay downward in the printing process, and is, as it were, oriented downward ".

According to the popular Western view, promoted by the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, this challenged the centuries-old claim that Emperor Shōwa and those before him were descendants of the sun goddess Amaterasu, and thus the Emperor had now publicly admitted that he was not a living god.

Here she was according to Hutton " extending " the ideas of the prominent archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans who in excavating Knossos in Crete had come to the view that prehistoric Cretans had worshipped a single mighty goddess at once virgin and mother.

In the Olympian cult, Hera's epithet Bo-opis is usually translated " ox-eyed " Hera, but the term could just as well apply if the goddess had the head of a cow, and thus the epithet reveals the presence of an earlier, though not necessarily more primitive, iconic view.

Her various epithets thus show a complex of mutually interrelated functions that in the view of G. Dumezil and V. Basanoff can be traced back to the Indoeuropean trifunctional ideology: as Regina and Moneta she is a sovereign deity, as Sespeis, Curitis ( spear holder ) and Moneta ( again ) she is an armed protectress, as Mater and Curitis ( again ) she is a goddess of the fertility and wealth of the community in her association with the curiae.

The view that she was also a Moon goddess though is no longer accepted by scholars, as such a role belongs to Diana Lucifera: through her association with the moon she governed the feminine physiological functions, menstrual cycle and pregnancy: as a rule all lunar deities are deities of childbirth.

Some scholars view this concentration of multiple functions as a typical and structural feature of the goddess, inherent to her being an expression of the nature of femininity.

In Bayet's view Juno and Hercules did superside Pilumnus and Picumnus in the role of tutelary deities of the newborn not only because of their own features of goddess of the deliverers and of apotropaic tutelary god of infants but also because of their common quality of gods of fertility.

The view of black cats being favorable creatures is attributed specifically to the Egyptian goddess Bast ( or Bastet ), the cat goddess.

Sumerians view that the village land must belong to the village god or goddess, this was the main feature of the Gavkari system where the village's preeminent deity's temple was the center of all the activities.

Anthropologists in their studies of goddesses have noted that adherents of goddesses often view their own goddess as a personal guardian or teacher.

The Rokeby Venus depicts the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility reclining languidly on her bed, her back to the viewer — in Antiquity, portrayal of Venus from a back view was a common visual and literary erotic motif — and her knees tucked.

The most accepted view is that it comes from the Hindu goddess Kali and the original name was KaliKshetra, " the place of Kali ".

In all instances but one, the frontal view, nudity, wings and the horned crown are features that occur together ; thus these images are iconographically linked in their representation of a particular goddess.