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- 4371: Clara Barton
- Clara Barton Clara Barton is one of the most influential women in American History. She has many credits to her name and had numerous accomplishments in her lifetime. Clara Barton will not soon be forgotten. Clarissa Harlow Barton was born in North Oxford, Massachusetts on December 25, 1821 ... Upon returning to the United States in 1873, she began her campaign for the Treaty of Geneva and the Red Cross. The United States signed the Geneva Agreement in 1882 because of her efforts. The American Red Cross was formed and Clara Barton served as its first president. She remained the Red Cross president until 1904. Part of her job was heading up relief work for disasters such as famines, floods ...
- 4372: Should Eisenhower Be Praised for His Foreign Policies?
- Should Eisenhower Be Praised for His Foreign Policies? Eisenhower came into power at a time when American people were exasperated with Soviet relations and his fresh ideas seemed like a welcome change. Eisenhower should be praised for his initial ideas and policies. However, his one character flaw was that he could not ... to end conflict. His peaceful means of using military aid and liberal trade policies through tariff reduction as a deterrent to communism was praised, as well as his “food for Peace” program and the Inter-American Development Bank. He was always willing to negotiate with the Soviets and was even scared to use nuclear weaponry. Although all of these factors seem to make for a clever and peaceful leader they would ...
- 4373: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... always circular power returning into itself. Therein it resembles his own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he never can find- so entire, so boundless."... "The theory of books is noble." [Hodgins- 187] Taken from, "The American Scholar." "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his ... that the soul's emphasis is always right. There are many sayings about two roads you need to choose between with all things. When Emerson delivered the Phi Beta Kappa speech in 1837, called, "The American Scholar," he mentioned that in life the scholar often errs with mankind and doesn't give in to his privilege. One basic principle I would say that I like about Emerson's philosophy would be ...
- 4374: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... designed nearly a thousand structures, but he has explored the ideas of living space, landscape, and the relationship between architecture and community. Frank Lloyd Wright left behind a legacy of beautiful houses and buildings, an American style of architecture, and an example of what it means to live life based on the way things should be, not the way they are. He created some of the most monumental and intimate spaces ... 1936 to the end of his life, Frank Lloyd Wright produced work constantly. Within those years, Wright purchased 800 acres of land in Arizona to build Taliesin West, he received the gold medal of the American Institute of Architecture, finished the final plan of the Guggenheim Museum, was awarded and honorary doctorate from Yale University, and founded the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright died on April 9, 1959, in ...
- 4375: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
- ... and their property. The social contract is formed to improve things and create order. A government is formed with the basic purpose to serve the rights of the common good of the people. Locke justifies revolution if the government is not protecting the rights of the subjects. The job of the legislature is to represent the will of the majority. If the rights of the people are not protected, the legislature ... people in awe, they will continually be in war against each other. For this reason, the power of the sovereign must be absolute. His idea of government is typical to that of a fascist regime. Revolution was only justified if the people were in a state of war with the government. In Rousseau’s social contract, the individual must give up personal freedom to the general will, which is the sum ...
- 4376: Mark Twain
- ... author, lecturer, satirist, and humorist. Since his death his literary stature has further increased, with such writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner declaring his works, particularly HUCKLEBERRY FINN, a major influence on 20th-century American fiction. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi River. His writing career began shortly after the death of his father in 1847. Apprenticed first to a printer, he soon joined his brother Orion ... after establishing his own firm, Charles L. Webster and Co., published his masterpiece, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” in 1884. Increasingly involved financial problems prompted Twain to move to Europe in 1891, just after finishing “The American Claimant” (1892). In 1894, following the failure of his publishing company and of the Paige typesetting machine in which he had invested heavily, Twain was forced to declare bankruptcy. During this period he turned out ...
- 4377: William Faulkner
- ... daughter was named Alabama, and she died nine days after her birth. Jill, the second daughter, outlived her father. William Faulkner died July 6, 1962 at the age of 64. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letter in 1948 and won the Nobel Prize for Literature two years later in 1950. Although William Faulkner’s life had the same chronological events as the average person, his life ... New York, 1993. Faulkner, William. “A Rose for Emily.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 7th ed. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York: Longman, 1999. Fiedler, Leslie A. “William Faulkner: An American Dickens”. Commentary 10, (1950): 384-87. Heller, Terry. “The Telltale Hair: A Critical Study of William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’”. Arizona Quarterly 28, (1974): 301-18. Minter, David. William Faulkner: His Life and ...
- 4378: Robert Frost: Biography and Review
- ... that he would encounter. Only a year after Frost arrived in England his book “A Boy’s Will” was accepted and published. With the help of favorable reviews on both sided of the Atlantic a American publisher published his book. The Henry Holt and Company became Frosts primary American Publisher. From this Frost now had a secure reputation on two continents. In February 1915 Robert Frost and his family sailed for the United States reaching New York City two day after the publication of ...
- 4379: The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
- ... threatened.” This “melancholic” feeling developed as its own separate theme and gave way to a new type of writer known as a dark romantic. Three key dark romantics that have had a lasting effect upon American literature are Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Edgar Allan Poe has had a serious impact on American literature. His style has inspired thousands of writers. It is thought that he uses one person over and over again in his literature as the main character, himself. He uses these main characters simply as ...
- 4380: William James: The Later Years
- ... After twelve years of research, introspection, psychologizing, and writing, James completed Principles, which had been an almost intolerable burden to him. Principles was a big success, and had a lasting effect on the development of American psychology. By 1892, when James completed Jimmy, he had been teaching and writing about psychology for seventeen years, and grown tired of it. From then on he turned his creative efforts toward other things such ... accepted scientific bounds. He took a keen interest in spiritualism and "psychical" phenomena, considering them an extension of abnormal psychology; closely followed the efforts of psychical researchers and attended seances; and in 1884 founded the American Society for Psychical Research. From 1898 on, James had personal reasons to be interested in the afterlife. That year, at fifty-six, he overtaxed his heart while climbing in the Adirondacks, and thereafter had chronic ...
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