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- 2301: City Of Ladies
- ... the time in which she lived, the middle to late 1300s. The lack of a positive female role model to pattern herself after made Christine a true visionary in the fight for the equal rights of women. Her original ideas and insight provided a new and more intelligent way to view females. Pizans work, The Book of the City of Ladies, provided women much needed guidance in how to ... concept. Christine de Pizan was an extraordinary woman who has yet to be fully discovered. The wit and wisdom found within The Book of the City of Ladies eclipses some contemporary literature that defends the rights of women. Although Pizans writing was done for practical reasons, survival, her work revealed a vision that women are still striving to accomplish today
- 2302: John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man
- ... like the haves verses the "have nots", and made the reader want to encourage the underdog. Steinbeck's back ground and concern for the common man made him one of the best writers for human rights. John Steinbeck was born in Salians, California and spent most of his life there or around Salians, because of that he often modeled his stories and the characters around the land he loved and the ... lowest.Steinbeck leads the reader through the lives of his characters In conclusion, John Steinbeck with his concern for man and his environment, and his broad background has made him a respected author, and human rights activist. His books are as relevant to us today as they were sixty years ago, and are also important as documentation of social history. Bibliography Benet's Readers, Encyclopedia of American Literature. 1991 ed. Bowden ...
- 2303: ABRAHAM MASLOW
- ... society. For instance, in many instances your worth is measured by how much money you make. However, in many cases people who have a lot of money may have done something morally questionable by society. Bill Gates may be a clear example of this. Here is a billionaire who is trying to make even more money by smothering the competition. How many people realize that there is no such thing as a computer without Bill Gates operating system called Windows? How many young adults are attending college because society tells them they won't be worth anything if they don't? Unfortunately, I believe that college is a higher level ...
- 2304: History of the Panama Canal
- ... could be equated as a sovereign territory equal to that of Alaska. The question here is, was he correct? LaFeber points out that, "the United States does not own the Zone or enjoy all sovereign rights in it." He uses the treaty of 1936 in Article III that states, "The Canal Zone is the territory of the Republic of Panama under the jurisdiction of the United States." The entire topic was summed up neatly by Ellsworth Bunker, a negotiator in the region, when he said, "We bought Louisiana; we bought Alaska. In Panama we bought not territory, but rights." A second important question, is the Canal a vital interest to the United States? LaFeber gives three points suggesting that it is not. First, the importance of the Canal decreased after 1974, because of the ...
- 2305: Andrew Jackson
- ... be the true self-made man that Abraham Lincoln is, in the rise to politics. Relationship Between Book & 19th Century American History This book's intricate relation to developments of the 19th century include the rights and questions of slavery, the American Frontier and its ideals of the "self-made" man, and questions about the rights of Indians to their lands. Regarding the slavery issue, the book tells clearly of Andrew Jackson's dealings as a "average" slave holding. By "average", I mean that he would probably not do anymore or ...
- 2306: Careful, He Might Hear You
- ... so that she would not be alone. When this failed there was no hope left, only desolation and a determination to become herself. PS is also affected by Vanessa's self-realisation. No longer did Bill, PS, want to be a post-scrip to his dead mother's life. By demanding that he be called by his proper given name, PS created his own identity, and discarded the burden of his mother. Maybe by carrying the name PS, Bill was constantly reminded of his late mother, and perhaps felt some responsibility towards her death. PS abided by Vanessa's advice, maybe because he felt partly responsible for Vanessa's death. The importance of identity ...
- 2307: The Art of Rock and Roll by Charles Brown
- ... Because of the cultural situation rock and roll became a focal point for rebellion. The marketing techniques were very primitive, but started to turn rock and roll into a multimillion dollar business. Chapter five discusses Bill Haley and the Comets and how they set a model for rock and roll. There is not much to be said about this chapter because Haley wasn't a great musician and others would come ... use the elements of music just right to be labeled a rock and roll musician. Chapter six talks about a person who was far more important in giving rock and roll its lasting power then Bill Haley and that person was Elvis Presley. Presley had Musical and personal qualities that far surpassed Haley. Presley opened up markets for other musicians and served as a symbol for the development of marketing techniques ...
- 2308: The Boston Tea Party
- ... The East India Company had suffered years of corruption a high scale level which had almost brought them to bankruptcy. Lord North drew up several bills in an attempt to save the company. His tea bill allowed the company to export tea from England to the colonies for free, but the colonists had to pay three pence per pound when loading in the colonies. The British government new this would make ... assumed that the revenue gained on this duty of tea would pay for the majesty's troops in the colonies. However, his plan did not pull through (in Defence of the Public Liberty). The tea bill made Ben Franklin extremely angry. Ben was a member of the house of commons where the issue of tea taxes was often discussed. Ben Franklin once said, "it was thought that at the Beginning of ...
- 2309: British Rule of The American Colonies
- ... the colonists to pay for stamps on printed documents, the Stamp Act(Higginbotham 34). The Americans had felt the taxes of Lord Grenville were a deliberate aim to disinherit the colonists by denying them the rights of the English(Blum 96). The first of these acts were the Townshend Acts. The Townshend Acts were passed in 1767 and placed new taxes on paper, paints, tea, lead and, glass. The new taxes ... and give the Roman Catholics in that province religious liberty and the double protection of French and English law. But the Quebec Act actually angered the colonists because the colonists living in Quebec were getting rights that the Americans felt were being taken away from them(Blum 106). During these years of ineffective rule, the causes of the Revolutionary War emerged. Laws and policies enacted were self-serving, causing the colonists ...
- 2310: Thomas Jefferson
- ... more advanced Patriots, grounding his position on a wide knowledge of English history and political philosophy. His biggest early contribution to the cause of the Patriots was his powerful pamphlet A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774), originally written for presentation to the Virginia convention of that year. In this he emphasized natural rights, including that of immigration, and denied parliamentary authority over the colonies, recognizing no tie with the mother country except the king. When he was a member of the Continental Congress (1775-1776), Jefferson was chosen ...
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