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- 4451: Babe Ruth
- Babe Ruth Babe Ruth is an American hero. He transformed baseball from a sport, to a national pastime when it needed it the most. Coming off of the wake of the Black Socks scandal, baseball was headed downhill. It had a bad ... just broadened my horizon as to the many aspects of his life and career in the major leagues. I would not however recommend this book to someone just looking to learn a little about this American icon. There are many books that would do this in far fewer pages, and most would probably consider this book boring with it's many little story's it delves into with great detail. However ...
- 4452: A Portrait of Duke Ellington By Tracy Frech
- A Portrait of Duke Ellington By Tracy Frech Duke Ellington is considered to be one of the greatest figures in the history of American music. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born in Washington D.C. on April 29, 1899. His parents were James Edward and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. They raised Duke as an only child, until his sister, Ruth ... night clubs and then eventually onto the concert stage. In time, jazz became a universally recognized form of art and has been said that it is the only real form that has originated from the American soul. By the 1960's Duke traveled the globe so many times that he became known as the unofficial ambassador to the United States. Duke's band had played in Russia, Japan, Latin America, the ...
- 4453: Henry David Thoreau: The Great Conservationist, Visionary, and Humanist
- ... 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 ...
- 4454: Willem De Kooning
- ... Paris to New York. Willem de Kooning was recognized as the only painter who had one foot in Europe and one in America. He combined classical European training in Holland with a love for popular American culture. The restlessness and energy of American life was a source of great inspiration and passion for him. Gary Garrells, the chief curator at the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art said, " He had the wildness of Pollock but mixed with the ...
- 4455: Daniel Webster
- ... an outstanding skilled public speaker or an orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected senator from Massachusetts. New circumstances let Daniel Webster become a champion of American nationalism. With the Federalist Party dead, he joined the National Republican party, he joined with Westerner Henry Clay and then endorsing federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, since Massachusettses had shifted the ... keep it together for a little while after until the Civil War started. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Prodigy - Grolier Electronic Publishing, 1990, W-section 2. Daniel Webster - John Melvin, Copyright 1976, Bonhill Publishing 3. Civil War Heros - American Books, 1979, p.244-247
- 4456: Richard Wright
- ... due to factors, that they have been born with, such as the environment they grew up in, who raised them, or moral ethics were instilled into their way of thinking. Richard Wright is an African-American author whose writings greatly reflected the time period in which he lived in. Native Son and Black Boy are two classic examples of Wright's works that are profoundly influenced by the era in which ... guts until they ached. I would grow dizzy and my vision would dim." In Black Boy, Wright used his own life to exemplify what qualities of imagination and intellect are necessary of a southern African-American in order to understand the meaning of his life in the United States. Black Boy also reveals it's 'author hero' as a man controlled by an absolute certainty of his own virtues. The ethics ...
- 4457: Essay on Christopher Columbus
- ... horses. Columbus had opened the seeds of change. The European society as a whole, had thought that the Europeans were doing a favor, by changing their primitive ways, when in fact, some of the Native American customs were far more superior to what the Europeans had in their own. The obstinate Europeans, did not want to make concessions because they had an assumed air of superiority. Columbus has been the all ... European civilization at the expense of the lives of the Indians. Columbus started genocide, by enslavement of the people, and the spreading of disease, which led to the demise of approximately 75% of the Native American population. Columbus had benevolent contributions, but the persecution of Native Americans does and should not condone him from his faults. Native Americans were doomed by European arrogance, brutality, and infectious diseases. Columbus' gift was slavery ...
- 4458: Adolf Hitler
- ... Bavarian and the national German governments. So as you can see Hitler was starting to get himself into trouble. On November 8, 1923, at a rally in a Munich beer hall, Hitler proclaimed a Nazi revolution. The next day he tried to seize the Bavarian government in what became known as the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler led more than 2,000 Storm Troopers in a march against the government. This led to the police opening fire and killing 16 Nazis the plot failed. Hitler was arrested and sent to jail for 5 years in prison for treason. Asa result the revolution failed. Because some Germans agreed with his ideas, Hitler was freed after only nine months. Great changes had taken place in Germany since his imprisonment. For example, most of the people had begun to get ...
- 4459: Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln Lincoln, Abraham (1809-65), 16th president of the United States (1861-65), who steered the Union to victory in the American Civil War and abolished slavery. Early Life Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, the son of Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln, pioneer farmers. At the age of two he was taken ... his assassination scheme and on April 14, 1865, shot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The president died the next day. The subject of numerous myths, Lincoln ranks with the greatest of American statesmen. His humanitarian instincts, brilliant speeches, and unusual political skill ensured his hold on the electorate and his success in saving the Union. That he also gained fame as the Great Emancipator was due to ...
- 4460: Wendell Phillips
- Wendell Phillips Wendell Phillips was born on November 29, 1811. He was a well-known American reformer. His career of attempting to reform American society spanned 47 years. He put most of his energy into opposing slavery and supporting women's right's, labor reform, and temperance. In 1865 he attacked the Constitution. He attacked it because it supported ...
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