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- 2141: Ernest Hemingway
- ... carry a wounded soldier to safety which was a hundred yards away. For his courageous action he won the Italian Medal of Valor. He spent all of his recovery time at the Ospedale Croce Rossa American, in Milan. His stay in Italy was the perfect place for his novel A farewell to arms. He was allowed to go home after his stay at the American Hospital in Italy. He returned to Oak Hill without any complaints. He lived with his mom until he refused to get a job was kicked out of the house. After that he moved to Chicago ... life. One of them was the death of one of his closest friend which died of cancer. Another shock was when he was forced to move out of his only true home during the Cuban revolution came there, and the last shock was when his black lab died, he was his one true companion. He would lie at Ernest's feet when he was writing. On April 23rd 1961, Ernest ...
- 2142: Rutherford Hayes
- ... longer intrude into every campaign, to fatalistic acceptance of the necessity of withdrawal". History professor Dan Carter replied, "I would question whether he had any political options, he did not have the support of the American people and did not have support even in his own political party". Though it seems that Hayes made a mess by invoking the end of reconstruction, it is debatable whether it was his fault or ... for the protection and welfare of the colored people, the Thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Amendments shall be sacredly observed and faithfully enforced according to their intent and meaning. Second, we all see that the tremendous revolution which has passed over the southern people has left them impoverished and prostrate, and we all are deeply solicitous to do what may constitutionally be done to make them again prosperous and happy. They need ... of having educated blacks was quite strong. Hayes said, "securing peace, prosperity, and the protection of human rights require education. As long as any considerable numbers of our countrymen are uneducated, the citizenship of every American in every state is impaired". There are many proofs that President Hayes had good intentions when making the policy to end reconstruction. His goal was to help the black man gain and maintain civil ...
- 2143: The Genre of Science Fiction
- ... the future. In Fahrenheit 451 the author Ray Bradbury makes an argument for societies need to consider that the outcomes of science fiction might become realities. The origin of science fiction “…evolved from the industrial revolution that spawned notions of the rockets, robots, time machines, computers, satellites, matter-transports, and the like” (Johnson 6). Science Fiction has dramatically changed over the years form total destruction of the earth, to more of ... not what society is telling you, which is only trying to hold you back. Montag show us how valuable freedom is by committing murder for his freedom. This book “…depicts a world in which the American dream has turned nightmare because it has been superficially understood” (Mogen 105). The main reason for Fahrenheit 451 being written is to show people that we could and may live in a world with less freedom. That people can no longer read books to become more intellectual. American has a problem of a “...materialist image of human nature and human culture reinforced through mass entertainment media” (Mogen 107). People should always contrast more deeply about people’s human values that people should ...
- 2144: Indonesia Crisis As An Example
- ... would politically reconfigure Asia. We meant this in both the international and domestic sense: Nations would behave differently after the meltdown than they did during the past generation of extraordinary prosperity. The reconfiguration of Sino-American relations is an obvious manifestation of this. But it is the domestic political changes that are the most profound and will have the most impact on international relations. It should be obvious that an economic ... communists, the Indonesian military steadily asserted itself, and under the leadership of then-Gen. Suharto, the legacy of Indonesia s founder Sukarno steadily diminished. The PLA intervened to crush the Mao-inspired Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The PLA s intervention not only stabilized a China that was oscillating out of control and moving toward chaos, but it created the framework that led to the victory of Deng Xiaoping over Maoist forces ... to achieve the same end. Thus, the Indonesian and Chinese armies had a more intimate understanding of technology and a more efficient means of organizing production than other institutions. In a China, where the Cultural Revolution had torn out the heart of the nation s managerial class, and an Indonesia in which the managerial class had either been Dutch or had emigrated, turning to the military to facilitate economic development ...
- 2145: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... the one in Washington's Union Station. During the summer, she would often get up a 5 a.m. at go to the canteen. Eleanor was offered a job of setting up canteens for the American servicemen in England, but she wasn't willing, however to give up her, now, family of five children. Franklin went to England to inspect naval bases there. Only away for two months, he returned to ... of every other First Lady this nation had ever seen. She rote articles in newspapers, talked on radio- shows, and gave on the record interviews to reporters. A member of the Daughter's of the American Revolution, she got out of the organization due to it's blatant racism. During the third term of being the First Lady, Eleanor's life changed forever. Franklin had died. She was attending a benefit ...
- 2146: First Amendment
- By: Alexander Gorokhovskiy The modern American conception of freedom of speech comes from the principles of freedom of the press, and freedom of religion as they developed in England, starting in the seventeenth century. The arguments of people like John Milton ... use the mails for the transmission of the things that were declared to be non-mailable by title 12, 2, of the Act of June 15, 1917. What happened was, that in 1917, when the American troops were away fighting the war, the general secretary of the Socialist party, Charles T. Schenck, and the members of the party mailed between 15,000 and 16,000 pamphlets to draftees. Those pamphlets described ... basement that Jacob Abrams has rented in New York City. The circulars were distributed by throwing them of the buildings and others were distributed secretly. One of the articles on the pamphlets said: “The Russian Revolution cries: Workers of the World! Awake! Rise! Put down your enemy and mine! Yes! Friends, there is only one enemy of the workers of the world and that is CAPITALISM.” Another article urged all ...
- 2147: Franklin Roosevelt 2
- Franklin Roosevelt Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Born in 1882 at Hyde ... top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed with a popular mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter the Government could legally regulate the economy. Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into arrangements for mutual action against aggressors. He also sought through neutrality legislation to keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened ...
- 2148: Rutherford B. Hayes
- ... longer intrude into every campaign, to fatalistic acceptance of the necessity of withdrawal". History professor Dan Carter replied, "I would question whether he had any political options, he did not have the support of the American people and did not have support even in his own political party". Though it seems that Hayes made a mess by invoking the end of reconstruction, it is debatable whether it was his fault or ... for the protection and welfare of the colored people, the Thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Amendments shall be sacredly observed and faithfully enforced according to their intent and meaning. Second, we all see that the tremendous revolution which has passed over the southern people has left them impoverished and prostrate, and we all are deeply solicitous to do what may constitutionally be done to make them again prosperous and happy. They need ... of having educated blacks was quite strong. Hayes said, "securing peace, prosperity, and the protection of human rights require education. As long as any considerable numbers of our countrymen are uneducated, the citizenship of every American in every state is impaired". There are many proofs that President Hayes had good intentions when making the policy to end reconstruction. His goal was to help the black man gain and maintain civil ...
- 2149: Franklin Roosevelt
- Franklin Roosevelt Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Born in 1882 at Hyde ... top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed with a popular mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter the Government could legally regulate the economy. Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into arrangements for mutual action against aggressors. He also sought through neutrality legislation to keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened ...
- 2150: William Penn
- ... Quakers left a huge impact on Pennsylvania and the entire nation. The Quakers are a religion that originated in England in protest of the Anglican Church's practices. The man in charge of this religious revolution was George Fox.1 He believed that God didn't live in churches as much as he lived in people's hearts.2 In that state of mind, he went out into the world in ... it is reasonable to call the colony that started so many great things Pennsylvania. Works Cited Baltzell, Digby E. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia. Boston: Beacon Press, 1979. Drake, Thomas E. "The Quakers." Dictionary of American History. Volume V. pp. 469-471. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. Elgin, Kathleen. The Quakers. New York: David McKay Company Inc., 1968. Fisher, Sidney G. The Quaker Colonies. New York: United States Publishers ... Indians. New Jersey: The Middle Atlantic Press, 1970 Today in History: William Penn. November 23, 1999. pp. 1-3 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct14.html Wright, Louis B. The Cultural Life of the American Colonies. London: Harper & Row, 1957.
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