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- 4401: The Life of Malcolm X
- ... X was one of black America's most powerful voices. He had enormous influence among black youth and in progressive intellectual circles. He traveled widely in Europe and Africa and established his Organization of Afro-American Unity. He saw the black American struggle partly as a segment of the efforts of third world nations for human rights. In 1964, Malcolm X went on his pilgrimage to Mecca, which is obligatory for orthodox Muslims, and there he began ...
- 4402: The John Scopes Trial
- ... served on state legislature and said that the nation was built based on the Bible. Evolution denied this story and being taught, would destroy principle's of this country. After this law was passed, the American Civil Liberties Union agreed to help teachers. Once the ACLU heard of Scopes' trouble, they decided to pursue this as a test case. A local engineer recommended that the ACLU help Scopes. Scopes was arrested ... Supreme Court). July 26 Bryan dies, supposedly as a result of the strain of the fundamentalist versus modernist trial, in which he has been subjected to a withering examination by Darrow..." (Webster's Guide to American History p423.) " Nobody gives a damn about that yap schoolteacher. The thing to do is to make a fool out of Bryan." (Settle, Scopes Trial p75.) "The world shook with laughter at the spectacle Bryan ...
- 4403: Karl Marx
- ... gone through the German philosophic school and while abroad they came to the same conclusions but while Marx arrived at an understanding of the struggles and the demands of the age basis of the French Revolution, Engles did so on the basis of English industry. Friedrich Engles was born in 1820 in the Rhine Province of the Kingdom of Prussia. Like Marx he was brought up with the German philosophies of ... he discussed the issues in the manifesto with Engles. It documents the objectives and principals of the Communist League, an organization of artist and intellectuals. It was published in London in 1848, shortly before the revolution in Paris. The manifesto is divided into four parts. The first part outlines his ideas on history and a prediction on what is yet to come. He predicts a confrontation between the proletariat and the ...
- 4404: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... started drinking most of his days away. He would host wild, fancy parties and did not write at all during the next three years. At war's end, Ernest went to England and met an American foreign correspondent named Mary Welsh. He divorced Martha and married Mary in Havana, in 1946. Ernest was a man of extremes; living either in luxury or happy to do without material things. Ernest, always haunted ... of them were regular army personnel. Like Hemingway, Henry was shot in his right knee, during a battle. Both men were Americans, but a difference worth noting was that Hemingway was a driver for the American Red Cross, while Henry was a medic for the Italian Army. In real life, Hemingway met his love, Agnes, a nurse, in the hospital after being shot; Henry met his love, Catherine Barkley, also a ...
- 4405: Jacqueline Kennedy
- ... much to accompany her husband on his tours and she did despite her condition. She devised a column called Campaign Wife, which was mailed to Kennedy workers all through the country. She met with wellknown American women to discuss the place of intelligent woman in our culture. Even during the last months of her pregnancy, she made appearances at fund-raising teas and on television. That year John was elected President ... S. history. Works Cited Hall, Gordon Langley, and Ann Pinchot, Jacqueline Kennedy, New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., 1964. Kennedy, Jacqueline (Lee Bouvier) Current Biography, 1961 ed. Leamer, Lawrence, The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family, New York: Willard Books, 1994. Mills, Judie, John F. Kennedy, New York: Franklin Watts, 1988. Sorenson, Theodore C., Kennedy, New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965.
- 4406: Oral Roberts
- ... religious healing. After all it was religious healing that launched his ministry and religious healing that built the City of Faith complex in 1981 in Tulsa. Works Cited Harrell Jr., David Edwin. Oral Roberts An American Life. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985. . Sweet, Leonard I. Communication and Change in American Religious History. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1993. Sholes, Jerry. Prime-Time Religion. NY, NY: Oklahoma Book Publishing Co.,1979. Oral Roberts Religion 221 James L. Apple Heather Bramlett
- 4407: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... issues including nature, society, conspiracy and freedom. After returning to America after a visit to England, he wrote for the abolitionist cause, which was eliminating slavery. Emerson used these ideas in his 1837 lecture "The American Scholar," which he presented before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard. In it he talked about Americans becoming more intelligently independent. In a second address, commonly referred to as the "Address at Divinity College ... Emerson, Ralph Waldo." Microsoft Encarta. CD-ROM. 1998 ed. "Emerson, Ralph Waldo." Lkd. Columbia University Homepage, at "ILT Web." http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/acedemic/digitexts/emerson/bio_emerson.html Hodgins, Francis. ed. Adventures in American Literature. Orlando: Harcourt, 1989. Myerson, Joel. "Ralph Waldo Emerson." Grolier Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1993 ed.
- 4408: Accomplishments of John D. Rockefeller
- ... the trustees and officers being dedicated to continuous study of the opportunities for the best uses of the funds under their care. Rockefeller established a series of institutions that are important in the history of American philanthropy, science, and medicine and public health. Rockefeller participated in the founding of the University of Chicago. Rockefeller offered to give 600,000 dollars of the first 1 million dollars for endowment, provided the remaining ... creed. The GEB distributed 325 million dollars for the improvement of education at all levels, with emphasis upon higher education, including medical schools. In the South the GEB helped schools for both white and African-American students. In 1901 he founded the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research for the purpose of discovering the causes, manner of prevention, and the cure of disease. From its laboratories have come cures for diseases, and ...
- 4409: Ben Franklin
- ... such as; bifocal glasses, the rocking chair and his most famous experiment showing how lightening can produce electricity. Ben became a famous politician, a minister to France, and traveled to Europe and talked about the American cause. He died on April 17, 1790. QUESTIONS 1. Where did Ben live when he was young? 2. What was Ben's father's name? 3. What was his father's occupation? 4. What was ... such as; bifocal glasses, the rocking chair and his most famous experiment showing how lightening can produce electricity. Ben became a famous politician, a minister to France, and traveled to Europe and talked about the American cause. He died on April 17, 1790. QUESTIONS 1. Where did Ben live when he was young? 2. What was Ben's father's name? 3. What was his father's occupation? 4. What was ...
- 4410: Ernest Hemingway and A Farewell to Arms
- ... started drinking most of his days away. He would host wild, fancy parties and did not write at all during the next three years. At war's end, Ernest went to England and met an American foreign correspondent named Mary Welsh. He divorced Martha and married Mary in Havana, in 1946. Ernest was a man of extremes; living either in luxury or happy to do without material things. Ernest, always haunted ... of them were regular army personnel. Like Hemingway, Henry was shot in his right knee, during a battle. Both men were Americans, but a difference worth noting was that Hemingway was a driver for the American Red Cross, while Henry was a medic for the Italian Army. In real life, Hemingway met his love, Agnes, a nurse, in the hospital after being shot; Henry met his love, Catherine Barkley, also a ...
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