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- 3711: Margaret Mead
- ... Columbia until 1929. Also in 1925, she began her first field work project, in the Samoan Islands. On her return to the United States in 1926, Margaret was appointed assistant curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History. Her second field work, to the Manus Tribe of the Admiralty Islands in the West Pacific Ocean, was made possible by a Social Science Research Council Fellowship in 1928 and continued into 1929. In 1930, Dr. Mead was began her third field trip, this time to study an American Indian tribe which she calls the antlers in her book reporting her findings and conclusions. Between 1931and 1933, Dr. Mead was again in the New Guinea area, investigating three contrasted tribes, the Arapesh, the Mudugmor ...
- 3712: Maurice Sendak
- Maurice Sendak may be the best-known children's author / illustrator in the world today. His artwork has become somewhat of an American icon; some even became the basis of an advertising campaign for Bell Atlantic. This extremely gifted genius was actually cultivating within Sendak since his childhood, and many different memories from his youth influenced the masterpieces ... the same pose commonly associated with Mickey Mouse. According to Sendak, the names on the food products in the kitchen are names of people associated with the production and animation of the famous mouse. Other American icons Sendak recalls from childhood appear in this book; the bakers, who originally were sketched as animals, all resemble Hardy of the comic team Laurel and Hardy. The writer was inspired to make this change ...
- 3713: Mark Twain
- ... travel around the world to speak to people. He wrote of these speeches and his travels in Innocents Abroad. This piece published in 1869, poked fun at all the European Cultures that usually impressed many American Tourists(126). After being married in 1870, his humor and satire began to improve. This is when he wrote what is thought to be his best work; pieces like : Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom ... the rest of them: exaggeration, understatement, and anticlimax(net). This use of humor and satire is, as agreed by most of the experts in that field, what made Twain one of the greatest writers of American literature.
- 3714: Malcolm X
- Malcolm X Malcolm X (born in 1925 and died in 1965), was black American leader, born in Omaha, Nebraska, as Malcolm Little. Malcolm's father, who was a Baptist minister, was an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey, a black nationalist leader of the 1920s. The family moved to Lansing ... States President John F. Kennedy was like "the chickens coming home to roost." In the following year, Malcolm broke with the Nation of Islam and formed a secular black nationalist group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). In 1964 Malcolm made a hajj (pilgrimage) to the Islamic holy city of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia. Based on this trip, and other travels to Africa and Europe, he renounced his previous teaching ...
- 3715: Lewis Latimer
- ... There was a trial, and the attempts to recapture George and return him to Virginia caused considerable agitation in Boston. When the trial judge ruled that Latimer still belonged to his Virginia owner, an African-American minister paid $400 for his release. Although free, George was still extremely poor, working as a barber, paper-hanger and in other odd jobs to support his wife, three sons, and one daughter. Lewis Latimer ... popular as it explained how an incandescent lamp produces light in an easy-to-understand manner. On February 11, 1918, Latimer became one of the 28 charter members of the Edison Pioneers, the only African-American in this prestigious, highly selective group. After leaving Edison's employ, Latimer worked for a patent consultant firm until 1922 when failing eyesight caused an end to his career. His health began to fail following ...
- 3716: Karl Marx 6
- According to the philosopher Karl Marx, the capitalist system carried within itself the seeds of its own destruction. One day, he predicted, a violent revolution would eliminate all social classes and result in a society of plenty for all. Marx believed history was moving inevitably toward a goal. But for Marx this goal was purely economic, the result of a ... he predicted, would increase their profits by paying their workers as little as possible, so workers would be increasingly impoverished. Eventually the wealth of the owners and poverty of the workers would lead to a revolution. But Karl Marx was wrong; conditions in England did not cause the proletariat (working class) to rise up and kill the bourgeoisie (prosperous middle class). Because life overall improved for the workers, there was no ...
- 3717: Jon Woo
- ... enemies while sliding backwards down a staircase. Woo is also known for the "Mexican standoff," where one or more characters have a "dead lock" on one another. This has been seen in literally dozens of American films in recent years, including Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Natural Born Killers and 2 Days in the Valley, just to name a few. Woo's innovative editing techniques, such as the use of "wipes" and freeze-frames have also become mainstays of American action cinema, as has Woo's use of slow-motion to add dramatics to his action sequences. It is because of all of these influences that many consider John Woo to be the author of ...
- 3718: James Francis
- ... 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 ...
- 3719: Joseph Stalin
- ... than twenty million innocent people. A million quotes and explanations could not ever describe how terrible Stalin s rule was. The murders, the labor camps, the fear, it has to seem so unrealistic to any American, who has always lived under a democratic government. The heinous crimes committed by Stalin are so far away from anything anyone of that sits in Lawrence Highschool complaining about having to learn about Stalin and the rest of history. Thankfully it is safe to say that hopefully nothing as horrible that which occurred in the Soviet Union from 1929 to the fall of communism, will ever happen to any American, and hopefully to no one else.
- 3720: John Locke 2
- ... again to England into Shaftesbury where he once again joined Cooper s service. Four years later, Cooper was forced to flee to Holland, where Locke, shortly after, followed him. They remained there until the Glorious Revolution of 1688. On his return to England, Locke issued many or works, the chief of these being the Two Treaties of Government, and the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. These writings were immediately successful and they ... the citizens, then they had the right to find other rulers. Locke also said that the government should be split up. There should be three branches, the legislative, executive, and the judicial. He said that revolution was not only a right but often an obligation, and he advocated a system of checks and balances in the government from these three branches. He said that the legislative should be the most powerful ...
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