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- 3671: John Steinbeck
- ... California, the Depression, and poverty. John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize award for his book The Grapes of Wrath in 1940. He also won the Nobel Peace Prize award in 1962. He was the sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. His novel, Tortilla Flat, received the California Commonwealth Club’s annual gold medal for the best novel by a California writer. It was adopted for the stage and ... his feelings for nature and his sympathy for human beings. To be natural and not respectable, was in his fiction, the controlling force of the universe. He was best known for his basis on the American experience often with sympathetic focus on the poor, eccentric, or the dispossessed. The Grapes of Wrath, which he wrote in 1939, was his best known and most famous work. It won the Pulitzer Prize in ...
- 3672: John Quincy Adams
- ... history of the United States. John Quincy took part in more important events, and held more important positions than any person in United States history. Some of the important positions he held were he was American Ministers to four different European Countries (Hague, Prussia, Russia and England), a State Senator representing Massachusetts, peace negotiator to England, a member of the House of Representatives, Secretary of the State, and President of the ... retaliation on the British, leaders of the federalists party said that no just honorable man should attend this meeting, but John Quinsy did. John Quincy supported the bill to not let any British vessels onto American waters and end trade with them. (embargo act). This angered the Federalists. The thought that one of their own was going against them. He was thought of as a traitor to the Federalist Party and ...
- 3673: John Adams
- ... Madison then appointed him to minister to Russia in 1809. He continued to serve his country and gained a well-respected reputation. " Adding to his reputation was his brilliant and tough-minded performance as chief American peace commissioner in the negotiations at Gent that ended the War of 1812 and his effectiveness as minister to Great Britain during the last two years of the Madison administration." He continued to distinguish himself ... to Adams for his contributions to the Monroe Doctrine. "Adams also was the mind behind the Monroe Doctrine, which warned that the United States would oppose any European interference in the internal affairs of an American nation or further European colonization of territory in the Western Hemisphere." There was no doubt that Adams was a deserving candidate for the presidential election of 1824. He had held high diplomatic positions and displayed ...
- 3674: Jim Thorpe
- ... medals in the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Olympic games in Sweden and played both professional football and professional baseball. His feats on the football field put him on the 1911 and 1912 All-American football teams. In 1920 he became the first president of the American Professional Football Association (later to become the NFL). In 1951, he was one of the first men to be admitted to the National Football Foundation’s Hall of Fame. Knowing that Jim had athletic capabilities ...
- 3675: Jessie James
- Jessie James: Murdering Outlaw or American Hero There are two sides to everything. Coins have both heads and tales, the moon has a dark side and a face that we are so familiar with, and yes, the Lochness Monster has both ... There are two different schools of thought regarding James. Most people consider Jesse James a murdering outlaw who was driven by a greed for money, while others sympathize with Jesse and view him as an American hero who had no choice but to turn to crime. . Ironically Jesse’s father was a Baptist preacher, but he did not have much if any influence on Jesse considering that his mother married three ...
- 3676: Jesse Louis Jackson
- ... in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. Jackson has been called the "conscience of the nation" and "the great unifier." He is the best-known living American leader in the United States. Jesse Louis Jackson was born on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina. A woman who did other people's laundry brought him into this world. The father was her ... many times as an international diplomat in sensitive situations. In 1984, Reverend Jackson secured the release of captured Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman from Syria, as well as the release of 4 8 Cuban and Cuban-American prisoners in 1987. He was the first to bring hostages out of Kuwait and Iraq in 1990. In 1990, Jackson was elected the U.S. Senator of Washington, D.C., a position also known as ...
- 3677: Irving Penn
- ... summers from Harper's Bazaar as an office boy and apprentice artist, sketching shoes. At this time, he had no thought of becoming a photographer. Milestones In addition to his work for Vogue magazine (the American, British, and French editions) Penn has been represented in many important photographic collections, including those of the Museum of Modem Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1958, Irving Penn was named one of "The World’s 10 Greatest Photographers" in an international poll conducted by Popular Photography Magazine. Penn’s statement at the ...
- 3678: Henry David Thoreau
- ... thing, and his love of nature and of solitude, all lend a distinct individuality to his style (Pattee 226). Thoreau's good friend Bronson Alcott described his style as: More primitive and Homeric than any American, his style of thinking was robust, racy, as if Nature herself had built his sentences and seasoned the sense of his paragraphs with his own vigor and salubrity. Nothing can be spared from them; there ... deluding. It consists of eighteen essays in which Thoreau condenses his twenty-six month stay at Walden Pond into the seasons of a single year. Also, the idea is expressed in Magill's Survey of American Literature that: Walden was not a wilderness, nor was Thoreau a pioneer; his hut was within two miles of town, and while at Walden, he made almost daily visits to Concord and to his family ...
- 3679: Helen Keller
- ... National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Her involvement with this particular group seemed to be the most controversial and it infuriated her family and friends back in her home state of Alabama. The American Foundation for the Blind was founded in 1924 and asked Helen to help raise funds for the foundation. Helen agreed to campaign for the American Foundation for the Blind. She raised two million dollars and spread public awareness (Briggs 307). In 1929, the second volume of her autobiography, Midstream: My Later Life, was published. Helen continued to change the world ...
- 3680: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... of rewriting his past in order to paint a more dramatic picture of himself. Among the events he reported that have been found to be grossly untrue are his tales of being entertained by the American president Millard Fillmore and his wife in 1851, and his narrow escape from the San Francisco fire of that same year (Traill 9-13). More disturbing is when he applies these tactics to his archaeology ... the city, one frigid and one steaming. Schliemann found over forty springs there (Duchêne 43, Burg 69). Most important to Schliemann's theory was information brought to him by Frank Calvert, the son of the American vice-counsel in the Dardanelles. Calvert had been digging trenches in another area on the Troad, Hissarlik, for several years, and had discovered that it was a tell, or artificial hill, that had been built ...
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