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- 1711: Napoleon
- ... educated at the expense of King Louis XVI, at Brienne and the Ecole Militaire, in Paris. Napoleone graduated in 1785, at the age of 16, and joined the artillery as a second lieutenant. After the revolution began in France, he became a lieutenant colonel (1791) in the Corsican National Guard. However, when Corsica declared independence in 1793, Buonaperte, a Republican, and a French patriot, fled to France with his family. He ... 1795, he saved the revolutionary government by dispersing an insurgent mob in Paris. Then in 1796 he married Josephine de Beauharnais, the mother of two children and the widow of an aristocrat guillotined in the Revolution. Early in his life Napoleon was showing signs of militaristic geniuses and knowledge for formidable strategy. It was through the application of his skills, and a revolutionary style of spontaneous fighting styles than gave Napoleon ... Alps and defeating the Austrians at Marengo. He also concluded an agreement with the pope, which contributed to French domestic tranquillity and ended the quarrel with the Roman Catholic church that had arisen during the Revolution. In France, the administration was reorganized, the court system was simplified, and all schools were put under centralized control. French law was standardized in the Code Napoleon, (the civil code) and six other codes. ...
- 1712: Langston Hughes Voice Of A Tim
- ... and a People In 20th century America, the oppression facing African-Americans is possibly the most controversial and historical ever. The constant battle they have fought is voiced clearly in the works produced by African-American authors, poets, artists and musicians during and prior to the Civil Rights Movement, particularly in a period known as the Harlem Renaissance. The voice that perhaps rang the truest among all people is that of ... African-Americans would accept their preconceived place in society, many revolutionary sparks began to fly in the early 20th century. Protest groups began to form all over the nation. Many prominent leaders in the African-American community began to speak out, often times loudly, about the unjust treatment their people received. “The Great Depression of the 1930s increased black protests against discrimination, especially in northern cities. Blacks protested the refusal of ... America: the voice of a people who could not and would not be treated unequally. James Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He came from a long line of African-American activists. His grandfather, aunt, and uncle had all, in some way, made an impact on the struggle for equality. This sparked a fascination with freedom in Hughes’ young mind. Hughes attended school in Cleveland, ...
- 1713: Inventions of the Early 19th Century
- ... conditions were present that made the need for new forms of communications indispensable. Industrial society needed a method of communicating information quickly, safely and accurately. Artist- inventor Samuel F.B. Morse holds credit for devising American's first commercially successful electromagnetic telegraph (patented in January 1836). The telegraph was a device used to electrically send signals over a wire for long distances allowing an established communication link to be made from ... the safety pin, patented it, and then without hesitation sold all rights to the pin for $400. In 1846, Elias Howe invented the sewing machine which "was becoming a fixture in the homes of [all] American newlyweds." Soon to be followed by industry turning it's attention to the home by producing labor-saving appliances - novelties that soon became necessities. Charles Goodyear, one of the nineteenth century's greatest inventors and ... other uses for uncured rubber. Charles Macintosh, a chemist, patented in 1823 a fabric that included a thin layer of rubber. From this he made raincoats that in England, the climate helped satisfy purchasers. In American winters they hardened like armor, in American summers it they softened like taffy. Eldest son of Amasa Goodyear, a New Haven merchant and sometimes inventor, Charles helped his father sell a "Patented Spring Steel ...
- 1714: Colorado River
- ... was returned to its original path. This disaster alarmed the landowners of the valley. The Imperial Irrigation District of Southern California was the largest single user of Colorado River water. They campaigned for an All-American Canal. One that would divert the river above the Mexican border and leave the Mexicali desert with what they didn't use. This was met with much opposition from the largest landowner in the Mexican ... from the City of Los Angeles. The city was growing rapidly and the need for future electric power was a major concern. Water experts advocated a dam on the Colorado. Without this dam, the All-American Canal would be in danger of breaching and flooding. The two forces combined to work for a Dam in Boulder Canyon on the Colorado River. In Salt Lake City in January 1919, representatives from the ... surplus above the total of 16 million acre feet, and if this was not sufficient, the deficiency would be shared equally by the two basins. The consensus was that the river and its tributaries were American (244,000 sq. miles) originating in the United States, very little of the Colorado River was in Mexico (2,000 sq. miles), and therefore they deserved very little. Herbert Hoover stated, "We do not ...
- 1715: Marketing
- American companies take many things into consideration when marketing products in other countries. The article “Tough Cookies” by Oliver Libaw, and the article “Not so fast” by Jean-Marc Lehu discuss marketing American Products in other countries. “Tough Cookies” discussed Nabisco and their success of selling Oreos and Chips Ahoy in Mexico. “Not so fast” discussed the triumph of the store Crazy George, which is like American Rent-A-Center, in the United Kingdom and their failure in France. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was established in 1994, made it possible for Nabisco to sell their products in Mexico. ...
- 1716: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson certainly took his place in the history of American Literature . He lived in a time when romanticism was becoming a way of thinking and beginning to bloom in America, the time period known as The Romantic Age. Romantic thinking stressed on human imagination and ... influence can be found in the works of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and Robert Frost.". No doubt, Ralph Waldo Emerson was an astute and intellectual man who influenced American Literature and has rightly received the credit that he deserves from historians. He has been depicted as a leading figure in American thought and literature, or at least ranks up there with the very best. But there is so much more to Ralph Waldo Emerson when we consider the personal hardships that he had to endure ...
- 1717: Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans
- ... on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey. He was the son of William and Elizabeth (Fenimore) Cooper, the twelfth of thirteen children (Long, p. 9). Cooper is known as one of the first great American novelists, in many ways because he was the first American writer to gain international followers of his writing. In addition, he was perhaps the first novelist to "demonstrate...that native materials could inspire significant imaginative writing" (p. 13). In addition his writing, specifically The Deerslayer, present a unique view of the Native American's experiences and situation. Many critics, for example, argue that The Deerslayer presents a moral opinion about what occurred in the lives of the American Indians. Marius Bewley has said that the book shows ...
- 1718: Art Making and European Influence
- Art Making and European Influence There are many differences between the qualities of art and art-making in European American or European influenced women's cultures from those in Native American cultures. Some of the art the Europeans Americans consider "museum worthy", was originally made by Native Americans as spiritual yet household staple. In every culture art has a different function, especially between European and Native ... above listed differences from what I have learned in class as well as from the readings in Women Artists Multi-Cultural Visions and In Her Own Image. In the year 1920 that the first Native American basket, "eyes on cattle" was collected and displayed in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. To European Americans they were honoring the Native American culture. According to the book In Her Own Image, "women ...
- 1719: Frederic Douglass
- ... at an abolitionist meeting in New Bedford, Douglass saw William Lloyd Garrison, for the first time. A few days later Douglass spoke before a crowd attending the annual meeting of the Massachusetts branch of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Garrison saw Douglass's and thought he could be a speaker, so he hired him as agent for the society. His job was to talk about his life and to sell subscriptions ... catcher learned who he was. He also wanted the rest of world would to hear his story too. In May of 1845, 5,000 copies of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave was published. William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips wrote introductions to the book. Immediately it became a best seller. Federal laws gave Thomas Auld the right to seize his property, the fugitive slave Frederick ... In the summer of 1845 he decided to go to England. There he would be free from slave catchers. He had the opportunity to speak to English audiences and try to gain support for the American antislavery movement. At this time Frederick and Anna Douglass had four children. There was 6 year old Rosetta, 5 year old Lewis, 3 year old Frederick and 10 month old Charles. Leaving the family ...
- 1720: Cold War
- ... W.II caused tensions to rise between the U. S. and the Soviet Union. Fear of Communism in capitalist nations, caused the United states government to use propaganda to raise Cold War anxieties. Furthermore, the American media influenced the attitudes of Americans, making a hatred of communism spread though the nation. Thus, the United States caused the conflict known as the Cold War, through its political policy and propaganda. The political ... an enormous effect on laying the foundation for the Cold War. War time conferences such as Yalta and Terhran harshened the relationship between the communists and the capitalists. At the end of W.W.II American policy towards the Soviets changed drastically. The change in president in 1945 caused relations with Russia to worsen. Furthermore, other political contributions to the Cold War entailed the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. The ... But you demand too much of me. In other words, you demand that I renounce the interests of security of the Soviet Union, but I cannot turn against my country."(6) On the other hand, American General Lucius Clay, who was stationed in post war Germany commented " we must have the courage to proceed quickly with the establishment of a government for western Germany...42 million Germans in the British ...
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