Andrew Carnegie
.... "The man who dies thus rich, dies disgraced." The picture of community service, Carnegie is quoted as saying, "Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy, and cannot be torn out. I can never be one hair’s breadth less loyal to her, or less anxious to help her in any way, than I have been since I could help anything. My treasure is still with you, and how best to serve Pittsburgh is the question which occurs to me almost every day of my life.\" Colonel James Anderson, wh .....
|
|
Arthur Miller And His Distorted Historical Accuracies
.... often asked to speak at events where similar "witch hunts" occur, acting as a sort of expert on the subject of Puritan Salem and acts of hysteria.
The question is, why is Arthur Miller revered by so many as "the man to ask" regarding the Salem Witch trials when his play had many inaccuracies, some very obvious? Miller’s play is not a historical account of the events in 1692 Salem, but rather a work of fiction. It is important to realize that what Miller wrote is not fact by revealin .....
|
|
Articles Of Confederation
.... largely ignored Congress, which was powerless to enforce cooperation, and it was therefore unable to carry out its duties; duties such as trade regulation, which began to crumble with the entrance of the articles. The United States was unable to expand their market value with the population. (Doc B) With all of the difficulty between the people and the government, it is obvious that the Articles of Confederation weakened the United States. Congress did gain some control, and did some good deeds, but their .....
|
|
Asian-Americans And Concentration Camps In WWII
.... it was better to contain a possible problem now, before the possible problem got out of control.
.....
|
|
Assassination Of President McKinley
.... man - next in line to shake the President’s hand - had already tackled him. In seconds, more than a dozen men had tackled him and were beating him up. At the same time, Secret Service officers and exposition police seized Leon and tore the gun from his hands. US Artillery soldiers beat Leon after this. McKinley, in the middle of this panic, is reported to have said, "Go easy on him, boys" (Assassination of… 2).
When news of the attack spread, the thousands in attendance began a riot; some .....
|
|
Atomic Bomb
.... would be generated. A single bomb of this type, carried by a boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.\"
Two months passed before Roosevelt finally read the letter. He ordered a committee of scientists and military officers to meet Szilard and Teller to determine whether America was capable of building a nuclear bomb. In 1940, Szilard and Teller were granted a mere $6,000 to begin experiments in nuclear fission. The duo en .....
|
|
Bay Of Pigs
.... try to attack the United States with Soviet missiles and missile launchers. Also, they were afraid that Castro might attack other Latin American countries. Both scenarios were not welcome in the United States, and the downfall of Castro and the Cuban government became the top priority of the CIA (Goode, Stephen 76). There were many Cubans that did not like Castro. They flocked to the United States in order to escape communism. These people were known as Cuban exiles (Goode, Stephen 76). On March 17, 1960 .....
|
|
Ben Franklin
.... by study of foreign languages, philosophy, and science. He repeated experiments of other scientists and added his own ideas that led to inventions of the Franklin stove, bifocal eyeglasses, and a glass harmonica. The phenomenon of electricity interested him deeply, in 1748 he turned his printing business over to his foreman, intending to devote his life to science (#5). Experiments he proposed, showed that lightning was in fact a form of electricity. Later that year his famous kite experiment, in which .....
|
|
Benedict Arnold
.... by boiling leather from their shoes. (Lake Champlain) Forty, of the fifty percent of the worn out men died before returning home. (Lake Champlain) During this time, Arnold had tremendous leadership and courage in those woods. Many people believed that they would have all perished if it were not for dauntless and extraordinary field general-ship. (Lake Champlain) The Massachusetts Committee of Safety became suspicious of Arnold’s behavior and conduct. Benedict was fed up so he resigned his commission at Cr .....
|
|
Benedict Arnold
.... petition showed the American’s appreciation of his accomplishments and good deeds. Arnold’s wife had been sick with an illness for quite some time. The news soon made it to him that Margaret had passed away. Arnold proceeded back to New Haven to bury his wife and go through her belongings. Arnold met with General Washington once again and informed him of his plan to invade Quebec City for the second time. Arnold would go up the Kennebec River into northwest Maine and would then travel through the woods, wh .....
|
|
Black Panther Party
.... and call him a \"nigger\". Huey reflected upon the mis-treatment in his book To Die for the People; \"The police were very brutal to us even at that age\" (Newton 53). Police harassment and physical abuse of Black people became part of every day life for many Blacks across the country. Although the Civil Rights movement was mainly a Southern phenomenon, the non-violent ideology and integrationist focus of the movement became according to historians Floyd W. Hayes and Francis A. C. Kiene as \"sources of .....
|
|
Boston Tea Party
.... India tea cargo ships, laden full with tea, were heading for Boston under full sail. They knew, that if the ships got unloaded and the tax would be paid, it would be a crushing defeat. The same radical group wanted to make the agents of the East India Company resign from their job in front of a big crowd, but this part didn\'t work. Over the following weeks speeches in form of propaganda were made, to get all colonists informed about the events. People even quitted drinking tea ( what they did for their .....
|
|
Bunker Hill , Battle Of
.... death and both sides being more untrusting of each other. These feelings of discontent and the growing fear of an uprising would lead the British to proceed to Lexington and Concord and destroy colonial military supplies. This left the colonists with the feeling of hatred and total malice towards the British. Because of these incidents neither side trusted the other, and had concerns that the opposition would launch an attack upon them. When the British planned to occupy Dorchester Heights on the Bost .....
|
|
Chaim Potok And The Problem Of Assimilation For The American
.... from that of European Jews, or expose themselves to secular America. Isolation is thoroughly impractical for the American Jew.
Chaim Potok’s works often focus on main characters whose talents draw them to the outside world:
When individuals are brought up in the heart of such a community or culture [as Danny’s and Reuven’s] they learn to commit themselves to its values … They see the world through the system of values of that unique community. At the same time, however, they experience important i .....
|
|
Changes In Society From American Revolution To Modern Times
.... contributed to the case of Quok Walker resulted in polarization of the people about the issue of slavery.
Although American society has evolved considerably over the past few centuries, there are still refinements needed. Our current congress, I believe, takes too long to make simple decisions. When they do, they make too general statements about it, as so to satisfy people because the people wanted a law about something, so the congress gave them one (not necessarily making any real change.) There .....
|
|
|
|
