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- 4361: The Presidency of Gerald Rudolph Ford
- The Presidency of Gerald Rudolph Ford On August 9,1974 Gerald Rudolph Ford became the first vice president in American history to succeed to the nation’s highest office because of the resignation of a president. Ford was also the first man to occupy the White House without being elected either president or Vice President. Both events resulted from two of the worst scandals in a American political history: the forced resignation of Vice President Spiro T AGNEW after he pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of income tax evasion, and Watergate affair, which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard ...
- 4362: Gertrude Stein
- ... based on her own family’s cultural history over three generations. She devised a complex narrative style that abandoned formal plotting and adopted a free prose with odd syntax and punctuation” (“Gertrude Stein” 19th Century American History 1). Leo, however, was not at all pleased with his sister’s methods. The Cubist paintings that inspired her work left Leo regarding it with scorn. Regardless of this, the apartment became a literary ... later. The salons continued, even with Leo’s absence. Artists and writers would still flock to Gertrude for advice and help on their work. The regulars would sometimes bring, or introduce by other means, young American writers in need of help. Ernest Hemingway, one of the young writers most influenced by Gertrude, was part of what she called “the lost generation.” Sent to her by Sherwood Anderson, she found him a ...
- 4363: Bob Marley
- ... Babylon By Bus and Survival. The band became the most important band on the European continent in the late seventies. Their Uprising album entered every chart in Europe. The band was even planning a new American tour, with Stevie Wonder, for the winter of 1980. Bob’s health began to go down hill but had the doctor’s approval to start the American tour. The tour started in Boston in September. During a concert in New York Bob almost fainted. The next morning he collapsed and was taken back to the hotel. A few days later doctors declared ...
- 4364: Jim Morrison and Susan Sontag
- ... was because of his psychological views of the world that inspired Jim's lyrics in his poems and music. The first of example of Jim involving existentialism in his lyrics comes from the song "An American Prayer" where Jim says "Grant us one more hour to/ perform our art/ and perfect our lives". When Jim mentions the previous lines, he is making a reference to asking God for "one more hour ... Sontag was born on January 16 1933 in New York City, Susan Sontag was the oldest daughter in her Polish Jewish family. Susan Sontag was an author of many novels, short-stories and screen plays(American Writers 451). Susan was, like Jim Morrison, raised by his aunts, uncles and other relatives. The reason for why Susan was raised by her relatives is because when she was young her father was on ...
- 4365: John Quincy Adams
- John Quincy Adams John Adams had three remarkable careers in his lifetime. One as an enemy of British oppression and champion of independence. As an American diplomat in Europe and as the first vice-president and second president of the United States. His diary, letters and speeches showed him to be very patriotic, a stong family man and tough-minded philosopher ... soldiers at their trial. He spoke out against mob violence and other forms of social disintegration. In 1774 to 1776 Adams was a deligate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. He was a champion of American rights in Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. John Adams' presidency that lasted from 1797 to 1801 was a troubled one. Adams made many contributions during his term. He gave the Government stability ...
- 4366: Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams into Reality in Much of His 19th Century Prose
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams into Reality in Much of His 19th Century Prose Nathaniel Hawthorne, a master of American fiction, often utilizes dreams within the annals of his writings to penetrate, explore and express his perceptions of the complex moral and spiritual conflicts that plague mankind. His clever, yet crucial purpose for using dreams ... his convictions. Hawthorne was at the forefront of a pioneering effort to couple biblical laws with creatively written stories as an art form. It is historically known that Hawthorne is one of the first major American writers of fiction to focus on the interio! r lives of his characters and express his biblical views through what was considered the deeper psychology of art. His son, Julian, clearly recognizes this logic and ...
- 4367: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African-American poet and an author. He was prolific at writing short stories, novels, librettos, plays, songs essays and poetry. His work was popular with black and white readers of his day, and are celebrated today by scholars and schoolchildren alike. He is accredited as being the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet. Born in Dayton. Ohio on June 27, 1872, Dunbar was raised primarily by his mother, Matilda. She worked as a washwoman. Matilda Dunbar devoted her life to raising ...
- 4368: The Beliefs of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
- The Beliefs of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes The issue of how and why government is organized was an integral part of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan and John Locke in Two Treaties on Government contributed to the thoughts to the discussion. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes lived through the civil war and was disturbed by the mess ... If any government abused these rights instead of protecting them, then the people had the right to rebel and form a new government. Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government were published after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought William of Orange and Mary to the throne, but they were written in the thrones of the Whig revolutionary plots against Charles II in the early 1680s. In this work Locke gives ...
- 4369: Irwin Allen Ginsberg
- ... movement and then into a cliche. In the early sixties, Ginsberg threw himself into the hippie scene. He and Timothy Leary worked together on Leary's new discovery, the psychedelic drug LSD. As a famous American poet, Ginsberg was able to hold audiences with important political figures all over the world, and during the 60's he took advantage of this repeatedly. He mainly just pissed off one important official after another, getting kicked out of Cuba and Prague, and annoying American conservatives. He was a familiar figure at protests against the Vietnam War, this coupled with the fact he was so open with his views helped put America in a mood which was against the war ...
- 4370: Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice
- Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice. The second Afro-American ever elected to hold the highest Judicial post in America. His story is one of uniqueness as well as perseverance, learned lessons of survival and hardships. In 1991 then President George W. Bush nominated Mr ... family to attend college, he became an activist. He became interested in the Black Panther Party; he also founded the Black Student Union in 1971 at Holy Cross. He also states he believes in the American dream, “because he has seen it in his life. While serving as Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Thomas gave speeches accusing the Republican party of “blatant indifference” toward Black voters and chastised ...
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