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- 1421: Beloved By Toni Morisson
- Beloved is actually a quintessentially American story. Its topic slavery however may not seem to be a traditional one in American literature. The novel written by Toni Morrison is an American survivors tale, which depicts the collective experience of slavery defined by the identity of the black community in America for years. The topic of slavery continues to be a vital part of the ...
- 1422: Death Of A Salesman
- ... his knowledge of his 'father' and why he warns his father thus. Finally, to make an accurate assessment of Willy's dreams, we have to grasp and conceive the idea of Willy's dream, the American dream. In Death of a Salesman, Willy is presented as being a man who had a chance at success, but misses it and then tries to grasp at something which he can't reach. At ... a man who was 'very good with his hands', he could have been a builder, a proud lonely man who cannot see what is happening around him. He is a salesman with a dream, the American Dream, the 'only dream you can have - to come out number one man'. This dream is not unattainable as shown in the case of Charley and his son Bernard, both very successful people who are ... is not. However, from what we have done, it is not credible to state that Willy's dreams were 'wrong, all wrong' until we discuss them further. Willy's dreams are that of the great American Dream. This dream has been a common one, shared by many people, even to this day, it is the dream that Howard was given, that Bernard and Charley accomplished and that Willy and Happy ...
- 1423: Cynthia Ozick
- Cynthia Ozick was an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, poet, and translator. She considers herself an American Jewish writer. Cynthia Ozick was a writer of fiction and non-fiction, but did not bloom her career until she was 32 years old. Her literary hero was Henry James. After Cynthia Ozick finished graduate ... the Shoal had to be secured. Cynthia Ozick was upset and hurt, not because she was reprimanded for making a minor historical error, but because she was treated as a stranger. Cynthia Ozick was an American Jew, not just an American. She was treated as if she was just an American. She was also treated as if she was an American writer that had no clue what the Holocaust was ...
- 1424: Calvin Coolidge
- ... to attend college. His years in Amherst gave Coolidge "an understanding of culture, strengthened his bent toward civic service and also persuaded him of the necessity of stability and harmony in the affairs of men." ("American Presidency"). He later graduated with honors and became an scholar with an interest in law. Graduating from Amherst in 1895, Coolidge became a lawyer in the offices of John Hammond and Henry Field at Northampton Massachusetts. Though he practiced much law at Northampton, he never prospered as an attorney, yet was still able to earn enough in his practice to eventually become financially independent in such a short time. ("American Presidency"). Coolidge's association with Hammond and Field led him into politics, his second profession. Politics came very easily to Coolidge because his father was a frequent officeholder in Vermont. Hammond and Field themselves were ... leaders and found the young Coolidge a willing political apprentice. During 1896 and 1897, Coolidge was active in the Republican Party and in 1898 he was rewarded with the nomination and election as city councilman ("American Presidency"). From then on until his retirement from the presidency he was seldom out of public office. That same year, Coolidge gained a wife by the name of Grace Anna Goodhue. Grace is the ...
- 1425: Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of Union
- ... to the Penn family in England, and John Penn, who did not have much experience in politics. The slogan "JOIN OR DIE" was printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette. Franklin is also credited with the first American newspaper cartoon. It was a drawing of a snake cut into eight sections, each labeled with the initials of one of the colonies, and had the caption, "JOIN OR DIE." Everyone had his own agenda ... for a plan as "radical" as Franklin's was said to be. Many of Franklin's ideas were thought to be ahead of his time. Franklin felt that if his plan had been adopted, the American Revolution might have been avoided. The colonies would have had the strength to defend themselves. There also would have been less need for the objectionable taxation afterwards that was dictated by Parliament. Even though it ...
- 1426: As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia
- As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia As a technology, it is called multimedia. As a revolution, it is the sum of many revolutions wrapped into one: A revolution in communication that combines the audio visual power of television, the publishing power of the printing press, and the interactive power of the computer. Multimedia is the convergence of these different professions, once thought independent ... and intelligent and are now offering some of the first genres capable of attracting and holding an adult audience. Just around the corner looms the promise of interactive television, which threatens to turn the standard American couch potato into the newly rejuvenated couch commando. Through interactive television, which will actually be a combination of the telephone, computer, and television, you will have access to shopping, movies, and other types of ...
- 1427: Babe Ruth
- George Herman "Babe" Ruth was an American icon or symbol just as Uncle Sam was; the Babe started it all. He was the best pitcher in his day and still remains the strongest slugger in the game. Ruth had power, strength, an ... of baseball: Baseball to my way of thinking, is the greatest single force working for Americanization. No other game appeals so much to the foreign born youngsters and nothing, not even the schools, teaches the American spirit so quickly, or inculcates the idea of sportsmanship or fair play as thoroughly. No matter where Babe Ruth was, be it on the diamond or of the diamond, the fans respected him, forgetting his ... Benny Bengough, Hero Pennock, and Waite Itoyle. Averages were growing, bases were being circled more often, there was much more play in the outfield and 1930 became "the year of the hitter". In 1930 the American League's batting average was .288, whereas the Yankees average grew to .309, the highest in Yankee league history. At thirty-five years old, having already played for sixteen years, was at his prime. ...
- 1428: Economics
- ... in revolt, throws out all middlemen, simply takes the final step of Capitalism and seizes everything. It fights Capitalism by becoming the Super Capitalist. It is not an idle comment that George Washington in the American Revolution, the Marquis de Lafayette in the French Revolution, and Fidel Castro in the last Cuban revolution were each the richest man in the country at the time. Communism, far different from the hopes of Marx, is a tool of the rich and ...
- 1429: Woodrow Wilson - Foreign Policy
- ... problems with Britain were serious, but its troubles with Germany were worse. The Germans continued to sink ships with Americans on board. After the Sussex, a French channel streamer was sunk, killing 80 civilians, some American, Wilson declared that if these attacks did not stop "the United States would have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations"5 with Germany. In the end not even Woodrow Wilson could keep the United States out of World War I. When the Germans declared unlimited submarine warfare, Wilson knew the United States would have to get involved. Still he hesitated, hoping for some event that would make an American declaration of war unnecessary. Instead two events occurred destroying all hopes of neutrality. The first was the Zimmerman telegram. This was a message intercepted by Britain proposing a secret alliance between Germany and Mexico. The next event that pushed the US into the war was the Russian Revolution, in which Russia withdrew from the war, this meant the Allies lost a major part of their team, and without the United States, Germany would have surely won. In April 1917 Wilson asked Congress ...
- 1430: Us Presidents 30-42
- ... wings of the party. They responded especially to Roosevelt, who broke with precedent to fly to the convention and to tell the delegates, "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." 33. President - Harry S. Truman Term - April 12, 1945 to January 20, 1953 The Truman Doctrine, which granted aid to Greece and Turkey and promised assistance to other nations threatened "by armed minorities or by outside pressure"; the Marshall Plan, which used American economic resources to stimulate the recovery of European economies outside the Soviet sphere; the Berlin airlift, designed to maintain the Western presence in that city, which was surrounded by the Russian-occupied zone of Germany ... and ending poll taxes, lynching, and discrimination on public transportation. His personal concern about the problems of black Americans, as well as his quest for the black vote, and his worry about the damage that American racial practices did to the nation's image in the world moved him to act. Nearly all Southerners opposed him, however, and Southern senators filibustered effectively against his legislative proposals. In 1947, Congress overrode ...
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