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- 8511: The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time for the US
- ... April 9, 1865 they General Lee was forced to surrender. After that all confederate resistance was crushed one by one. On April 14, 1865 President Lincoln and his wife went to a performance of Our American Cousin, at Ford's Theatre in Washington. This is when an actor named John Wilkes Booth shot Lincon for revenge after the souths defeat in the war. At the same time some of his friends ...
- 8512: Theodore Seuss Geisel, Better
- Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known to generations of readers all over the world as "Dr. Seuss," is the American author of many popular children’s books. Dr. Seuss’ "deft combination of easy words, swift rhymes and batty nonsense" (Horn 69) has convinced many children that reading does not have to be a boring chore ...
- 8513: Joseph Stalin
- ... of 1917 when the Bolsheviks took power Stalin became people’s Commissar of Nationalities, Stalin along with Leon Trotsky, assisted Lenin with emergency decision making during the time of the civil war. After the Russian Revolution of March 1917, he joined the editorial board of the Party Paper Pravada.(Stalin) In 1919 Stalin was an elected member of the Political Bureau. He was appointed Commissar of Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection.(Stalin ...
- 8514: Pudd’nhead Wilson
- ... he was able to change his views and actions. However, this was limited only to the stimuli that he deemed important or that touched him deeply. A major event that changed his view on African-American slaves was when Roxana (his biological mother) told him that she was his mother. This was apparent when Tom stated “And why is this awful difference made between white and black? … How hard the nigger ...
- 8515: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... Hargrove 82). On January20, 1961 Dwight Eisenhower left the office of President and was succeededby newly-elected President John F. Kennedy (Hargrove 87). In closing I believe that Dwight David Eisenhower is one of ourgreatest American heroes. Even after his presidency Eisenhower still wasone of the most popular people and admired people through the mid to late1960's. He lived on a farm in Gettesyberg Pennsylvania spending much ofhis time playing ...
- 8516: Robert Schumann
- ... Schonefeld on September 12, 1840 (Sadie 839). They had seven children. One of their sons suffered from mental problems (Slonimsky 904). In 1844, the Schumanns moved to Dresden (Sadie 842). They lived there during the revolution. (Sadie 843). Clara became a concert pianist and toured extensively while Schumann continued to compose (Slonimsky 902). They stayed there for five years and then moved to Dusselldorf to further their musical careers ( Sadie 846 ...
- 8517: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... introduced Americans to life on the Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as the father of the American short story and father of the detective story. To understand the literary contributions of Edgar Allan Poe, one must look at his early life, his literary life, and a summary of two of his famous ...
- 8518: Poems By Robert Frost And Leon
- ... deep feelings for the nature around him.Leonard Cohen also escapes into nature in his poem. When his character is riding the bus home he says to the bus driver “Lets find ourselves a tiny american fishing village, in unknown Florida” (pg144). With this quote he expresses that he is picturing a beautiful place out in the middle of no-where. A place the is beautiful and relaxing to him.In ...
- 8519: Persuasive Essay Gay And Lesbi
- ... when there is actually nothing scary or gross about them at all. "Why would God create a being that is hates? Why are straight people so afraid of gay people?," asks Paul Radcliff of the American Gay and Lesbian Task Force. If one takes this into consideration one will find his statement is true. What threat do they possess? Only people who are insecure about their own sexuality are afraid of ...
- 8520: The Electronic Computer
- ... pioneers of modern computing. The 19th century also saw the invention of Boolean algebra, which plays an important role in the design and operation of modern computers. Near the end of the 19th century, the American engineer Herman Hollerith pioneered the automatic processing of statistical and business data. Today automatic data processing is one of the major application areas for computers. Babbage's dream began to come true in the 1930s ...
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