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- 1381: Alexander Hamilton
- ... for Hamilton. He would often have long fact finding missions before he came to a decision. Hamilton in his new home in New York could not pick up his newspaper without finding articles about the revolution. He would find both pro and con articles. It was not long before Hamilton put his two cents into the whole matter. After reading a pamphlet written by a loyalist who criticized the continental congress ... abandon the capital, which they did. Valley Forge and the time Hamilton spent there contributed greatly to his political outlook. While watching soldiers starve and freeze Hamilton began to think long and hard about the American government. He felt that the government was too worried about the states interest to function properly. This is when he decided they needed a strong central government. The American headquarters was filled with foreign mercenaries who would most likely share what was going on with their countrymen making America the laughing stock of the world. This would also discourage outside help because people ...
- 1382: Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-Ho
- ... shipped to a work camp in the open city of Dresden, where he helped produce vitamin supplements for pregnant women. Sheltered in an underground meat storage locker, the Hoosier soldier managed to survive a combined American/British firebombing raid that devastated the city and killed an estimated 135,000 people - more than the number of deaths in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. After the bombing, the soldier wrote ... had seen," Vonnegut noted. It took him more than twenty years, however, to produce Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death. The book was worth the wait. Released to an American society struggling to come to grips with its involvement in another war - in a small Asian country called Vietnam - Vonnegut's magnum opus struck a nerve, especially with young people on college campuses across the ... so eagerly to go to war. It is a question even Vonnegut has trouble answering. "As for my pacifism," he has said, "it is nothing if not ambivalent." When he asks himself what person in American history he would most like to have been, Vonnegut admits to nominating none other than Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin, college professor and Civil War hero whose valiant bayonet charged helped save the day for the ...
- 1383: The Assassination of MLK
- ... in the eventual death of King. Michael King, who was later known as Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929, at 501 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. His roots were in the African-American Baptist church. After his junior year at Morehouse College, Benjamin Mays influenced him to become a minister, the president of Morehouse College. (Smith 1). He studied theologies at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, and ... to return to the south. He became the pastor of Dextor Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. (Smith 2). Five days after Rosa Parks refused to obey the city's rules concerning bus segregation, African-American residents of Montgomery, Alabama launched a bus boycott. They elected Martin Luther King, Jr. as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. (Phillips 3). King received national prominence as the boycott continued, due to his personal ... Despite these actions taken against the boycott, Montgomery buses were desegregated in December of 1956. The Supreme Court had declared Alabama's laws of segregation unconstitutional. During 1957, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other African-American ministers established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As president of the organization, King emphasized the importance of African- American voting rights. (Phillips 5). King published his first book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery ...
- 1384: Thomas Edison and His Inventions
- ... the Wizard of Menlo Park, although ten years passed before the phonograph was transformed form a laboratory curiosity into a commercial product. His most famous and most commonly used invention is the incandescent light bulb. American scientists including Samuel Langley needed a highly sensitive instrument that could be used to measure minute temperature changes in heat emitted from the Suns corona during a solar eclipse along the rocky mountains on ... free and forced to develop new ideas. Few men have matched him in the positiveness of his thinking. Edison never questioned whether something might be done, only how. Edisons career, the fulfillment of the American dream of rags-to-riches through hard work and intelligence, made him a folk hero to his countrymen. In temperament he was an uninhibited egotist, at once a tyrant to his employees and their most ... forceful personality, as well as such eccentricities as his ability to catnap anywhere, contributed to his legendary status. By the time he was in his middle 30s Edison was said to be the best-known American in the world. When he died he was the venerated and mourned as the man who, more than any other, had laid the basis for the technological and social revolution of the modern electrical ...
- 1385: A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In The
- More than a half century has passed since critics and theater-goers recognized Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) as an important American playwright, whose plays fellow dramaturge David Mamet calls "the greatest dramatic poetry in the American language" (qtd. in Griffin 13). Williams's repertoire includes some 30 full-length plays, numerous short plays, two volumes of poetry, and five volumes of essays and short stories. He won two Pulitzer Prizes (for ... and these near-legends of film and stage establishes the playwright as one of the most important figures in twentieth century drama. R. Barton Palmer notes that Williams had more influence on the development of American cinema than any other twentieth century playwright. He writes: [U]nlike other noted playwrights, Williams's work strongly influenced the development of the film industry itself. Indeed, it is hard to imagine the course ...
- 1386: An Analyisis Of A Raisin In Th
- ... in America wants to achieve financial success in their life in one form or another. Sometimes living in a capitalistic society entices many to become too materialistic. This is most commonly referred to as the American Dream. For most Americans, this high status is very difficult to achieve. The play ,A Raisin in the Son,(written by Lorraine Hansberry) examines an African-American's family's struggle to break out of the poverty that is preventing them from achieving some sort of financial stability, or the American Dream. It focuses on Walter's attempt in "making it," or "being somebody." In this play Walter has become corrupted by the more Materialistic ideals of America's society The frustrations that Walter has ...
- 1387: Vonnegut's Portrayal of Society in Breakfast of Champions
- Vonnegut's Portrayal of Society in Breakfast of Champions Outline Thesis: In Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut portrays a prepackaged, robotic society, and an American culture plagued with despair, greed, and apathy. I. Introduction II. Social problems A. Racism B. Commercialism and materialism C. Violence D. Lack of culture E. Greed III. Destruction of America A. Pollution B. Destruction for ... in this country ("Briefly" 146). Vonnegut's novel is an exhibit of the flaws of a robotic, self-destructive society (Allen 107). In Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut portrays a prefabricated, unfeeling society and an American culture plagued with despair, greed, and apathy. The issue of society's flaws is a major concern of Breakfast of Champions. Such problems arise and are dealt with as failure to communicate, ecological destruction, a ... he is mentally disturbed and suffering from psycological disillusion (84). Kilgore Trout, poor and humbled by a troublesome life, is a struggling science fiction writer with only one fan (17). His books, mostly metaphorically representing American society, are rarely published. The few published works of Trout's appear in unsavory magazines and are changed and surrounded with pornographic pictures and suggestions (19). Sometimes he is not even given credit for ...
- 1388: Harper Lee: Introduction to Harper Lee
- ... into an area with large cotton plantations and small cities. Because of the necessity for cheap labor to pick and seed the cotton, Negro slavery took a strong hold there. At the outbreak of the American Revolution, there were over 500,000 slaves in this country, with by far the greatest number in the South. As time passed, plantation owners formed a landed aristocracy. The Negroes, though slaves, gained a measure of ... seemed to suffer most because they depended entirely upon their land for a living. Their crops rotted, and they had little or no money for seed. But, in 1932, a new era was ushered into American political and economic life. With Franklin Roosevelt, the federal government began to take an active interest in the workingman. Laws regulating farm production, labor unions, and social security became a part of the American ...
- 1389: Nixon's Program of Detente was the Reason for the Decline of World Conflict in the 1970's
- ... for storage of old magazines and wool sweaters, China and the U.S. are on positive relations, and Communist Russia is a thing of the past. How did this happen? During the 1970's the American people elected to power a man named Richard Nixon. In an attempt to resolve the Vietnam conflict He started a program to improve relations with the major communist powers China and Russia called detente. And ... it may have triggered a war with it's communist allies. To avoid this, Nixon knew that he must abolish the fundamental hatred of the "capitalist running dogs" in Russia and China and improve the American image. He then started an intricate plan of peace talks, contracts, and trade agreements known as detente. Russia, although a formidable military opponent, was actually suffering economically. (Toledano, 274) Full advantage of this situation was ... dollars worth of agricultural goods. (Bailey, 951) This might not have been achieved if it weren't for Nixon's visit to China some months before. Russia felt pressured into positive relations by a possible American-backed China. China and Russia, although both communist, disagreed on some of Marx's ideas, making them rivals with each other as well as the capitalist regime. (Blum, 194) The foodstuffs agreement with Russia, ...
- 1390: Black History, The Piano
- ... slaves. The piano teaches many lessons, among the most important is that you must hold on to your heritage over everything else, even economic betterment. The Piano Lesson speaks of some basic lessons of African-American culture. Wilson felt a duty toward his African's slave past. In this way his play teaches duty toward respecting your heritage, which in the tradition of great literature, is just as relevant today as in 1930. The older generation in the play, Doaker, represents a time farther back in American history and attests to the past. He tells Lymen, a friend of the family, about the piano saying " it was the story of our whole family" (p.45). Doakers job in the play is to ... other one's wishes"(p98) and staying "around here and keep you all from killing one another"(p90). Doaker is a mediating force in the play and is representative of a need in the African-American culture to sit down and discuss issues before violence erupts. Wilson uses Doaker to say Black culture needs more family orientated togetherness and a better resolution to problems. Wilson also incorporates some essential social ...
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