The novel tells the story of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a seagull who is seized by a passion for flight. He pushes himself, learning everything he can about flying, until finally his unwillingness to conform results in his expulsion from his clan. An outcast, he continues to learn, becomes increasingly pleased with his abilities and leads an idyllic life. One day, Jonathan is met by two seagulls, who take him to a “higher plane of existence”, where he meets other gulls who love to fly. He discovers that his sheer tenacity and de ...

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull - The first part. Several early commentators, focusing mainly on the first part of the book, see it as part of the American self-help and positive thinking culture, epitomised by Norman Vincent Peale and by the New Thought movement. Some have described it as having Christian-anarchist characteristics. It has also been compared to the children's tale The Little Engine That Could. But while Jonathan Livingston Seagull may take the form of a traditional animal fable, and can be enjoyed by young children ...

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Richard Bach has claimed that he is, in a sense, not the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. He has stated that the words came to him in visions, and he merely wrote them down. [2] [3] He has made no such claims for any of his other writings. The authorship of Jonathan Livingston Seagull is discussed in The Nature of Personal Reality written by channelling Jane Roberts, whom Bach had previously visited. ...

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Bach’s Jonathan Livington Seagull has inspired the production of a motion picture of the same name, with a soundtrack by Neil Diamond. The film was made by Hall-Bartlett Productions many years before computer-generated effects were available. In order to make seagulls act on cue and perform aerobatics, Mark Smith of Escondido, California built radio-controlled gliders that looked remarkably like real seagulls from a few feet away. [4] There is also a ballet based on Jonathan Livingston Seagull.< ...

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It is commonly assumed that this teaching originated with Jesus, but some hold that it is better conceived of as an exaggerated extrapolation of previous Jewish ethical teachings in the Hebrew Bible. Similar ideas, but with a less extreme practical interpretation, can be found in the Hebrew Bible: "You shall not hate any man, Egyptian or Edomite, as they all are the works of God" (Deuteronomy 23:7) In the New Testament, Jesus admonishes his followers: "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an ey ...

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This phrase, as with much of the Sermon on the Mount, has been subjected to both literal and figurative interpretations. Turn the other cheek - Nonresistance literal interpretation. This passage has been interpreted by some as a literal injunction that if a person has been slapped in the face by another as an insult or provocation to a quarrel, one ought not to respond by hitting back or otherwise responding hurtfully. Rather, he ought to move in the other direction, presenting the other cheek (the one that has not been s ...

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Many Christians and non-Christians have criticised this teaching as unworkable in practice, and potentially immoral, as it rewards those who commit acts of violence, without countering them with self-defense or acts of justice. Advocates for nonresistance insist such criticisms of immorality fail to see the potential power of good responding to evil. Advocates of nonviolence maintain that the teaching actually does support self-defense, and in fact puts forth multiple examples ...

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For Gandhi, Truth was the sovereign principle; inclusive of many other spiritual principles and schools of thought. "...it is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography...", He adds in the introduction. And hence the title My Experiments with Truth. However, he further notes that "... [the experiments] will of course include experiments with non-violence, celibacy and ...

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War novel - Origins. The war novel's main roots lie in the epic poetry of the classical and medieval periods, especially Homer's The Iliad, Virgil's The Aeneid, the Old English saga Beowulf, and different versions of the legends of King Arthur. All of these epics were concerned with preserving the history or mythology of conflicts between different societies, while providing an accessible narrative that could reinforce the collective memory of a people. Other important influences on the war n ...

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Leon Trotsky, Frantz Fanon, Subhash Chandra Bose and Malcolm X were fervent critics of nonviolence, arguing variously that nonviolence and pacifism are an attempt to impose the morals of the bourgeoisie upon the proletariat, that violence is a necessary accompaniment to revolutionary change, or that the right to self-defence is fundamental. In the midst of violent repression of radical African Americans in the United States during the 1960s, Black Panther member George Jackson said of the nonviolent tactics of Martin Luther King, Jr.: ...

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For Gandhi, Truth was the sovereign principle; inclusive of many other spiritual principles and schools of thought. "...it is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography...", He adds in the introduction. And hence the title My Experiments with Truth. However, he further notes that "... [the experiments] will of course include experiments with non-violence, celibacy and ...

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The Story of My Experiments with Truth - Spiritual angle. In his own words Gandhi takes us through some of the experiences in his life, with each chapter forming at least one important learning lesson to him. Going through the introduction section of the autobiography may suggest what to expect during the five parts that follow. The spiritual angle becomes evident when Gandhi writes, "...What I want to achieve - What I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years - is self-realization, to see God face to face, to attain Moksha (Salvatio ...

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After its initiation, "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" remained in the making for 4-5 years (including the time while Gandhi was imprisoned at Yeravda near Pune, Maharastra), and then it first appeared as a series in the weekly Gujarati magazine Navjivan during 1925-28 which was published from Ahmedabad, India. In a book-form, it was first published (in Gujarati) by Navajivan Trust, Ahmedabad in two volumes (Vol I–602pp–1927; Vol II–608pp–1929) at a subsidized rate and has run though five editions/reprints since ...

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Mahadev Desai (1892—1942), a journalist, was born in 1892 in the Surat district of Gujarat state in India. He graduated from the Bombay University with B.A. (first class), majoring in Philosophy and Logic. This was followed by a Law degree, and in 1915 he qualified as a lawyer. Owing to his love for literature and to support his education, Mahadev Desai elected to translate John Morley's book On Compromise into Gujarati language in a competition for best Gujarati translation sponsored by Forbes Gujarati Sabha (See: Alexander ...

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The overture is a piece of program music. It opens with the somber tones of a Russian Church chant, recalling the declaration of war announced at Church services in Russia, and is then immediately followed by a solemn chant for Russian success in the war. This announcement and public reaction was captured in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. A theme of marching armies follows, carried out by the horns. The French national anthem La Marseillaise reflects the French victories in the war and the capture of Moscow in September 18 ...

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A notable feature of Kurosawa's films is the breadth of his artistic influences. Some of his plots are adaptations of William Shakespeare's works. The Bad Sleep Well is based on Hamlet, Ran is based on King Lear and Throne of Blood is based on Macbeth. Kurosawa also directed film adaptations of Russian novels, including The Idiot by Dostoevsky and The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky. Ikiru was based on Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. High and Low was based on See also:

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Winston Churchill, Clarence Darrow, David Lloyd George, George Grey, Walter Burley Griffin, Tom L. Johnson, Albert Jay Nock, Sun Yat Sen, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Herbert Simon, Francis Neilson, William F. Buckley, Jr.. In the 2004 Presidential campaign, Ralph Nader mentioned Henry George in his platform.[1] ...

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This book and its series are noted as inspiration of many later science fiction authors and scientists. Ray Bradbury and Carl Sagan note these stories as early inspiration for their work. Alexei Tolstoy's novel Aelita (1922) also presents a princess of Mars, but has a Leninist point of view. The copyright for this story has expired and, thus, now resides in the public domain. ...

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A "writer's writer," Stendhal is known more in literary circles than to the public at large. Many writers have acknowledged his influence on their work and used his technique of detailed psychological description in their own stories. Leo Tolstoy considered Stendhal an enormous influence. André Gide felt that The Red and the Black was a novel far ahead of its time, and called it a novel for readers in the 20th century. Emile Zola and his fellow Fre ...

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Crimean War - Beginning of the war. A new conflict was ostensibly provoked during the 1850s by an obscure religious dispute. Under treaties negotiated during the eighteenth century, France was the guardian of Roman Catholics in the Ottoman Empire, whilst Russia was the protector of Orthodox Christians. For several years, however, Catholic and Orthodox monks had disputed possession of the Church of the Nativity and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Palestine. During the early 1850s, the two sides made demands wh ...

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The war became infamously known for military and logistical incompetence, epitomised by the Charge of the Light Brigade which was immortalised in Tennyson's poem. Cholera undercut French preparations for the siege of Sevastopol, and a violent storm on the night of 14 November 1854 wrecked nearly thirty vessels with their precious cargoes of medical supplies, food, clothing and other necessaries. The scandalous treatment of wounded soldiers in the desperate winter that followed was reported by war correspondents for newspapers, prompting the ...

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The first major Ottoman war, the Crimean War (1854-1856), came with Russia. Like so many of the later conflicts with Europe, this one was initiated not by the Ottomans, but by the other Europeans. Russia was primarily interested in territory. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Russia had slowly been annexing Muslim states in Central Asia. By 1854, Russia found itself near the banks of the Black Sea. Anxious to annex territories in Eastern Europe, particularly the Ottoman provinces of Moldavia and Walachia (now in modern day ...

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