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- 10691: Frederick Douglass
- ... for two years until he had another great escape idea, this one would work though. The sailing papers of a sailor had been borrowed, and disguised as a sailor, Frederick Douglass made his escape to New Bedford, Massachusetts. Upon his arrival, Frederick took up his new assumed last name Douglass, to escape being captured. In 1841, Frederick attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket Massachusetts. Here, his impromptu speech he gave showed him to be a great speaker. The opponents of ... and Times of Frederick Douglass_. Frederick made a fatal mistake though, he had used the name of his old master on the slave plantation. Upon learning of this, his old master sent slave catchers to New England to bring him back. Fearing a life of slavery again, Frederick fled to England. Here in England, he gave many lectures on the abolitionists movement, and earned sufficient funds to buy his freedom ...
- 10692: Charles W. Chesnutt
- ... job as assistant principal of the State Normal School. By age 22, he was its principal. "There's time enough, but none to spare."(1) Lack of opportunity to advance led him to go to New York City to find work at Dow, Jones and Company and also writes a financial news column for the New York Mail and Express. Later that year his son Edwin J. Chesnutt is born. In November, he leaves New York for Cleveland where he begins to work in the accounting department of Nickel Plate Railroad Company. While in Cleveland Chesnutt studied Law. While in Cleveland Chesnutt supports his mother and father while supporting ...
- 10693: Red Badge Of Courage
- ... farm boy who decides to become a soldier. Henry, who is fighting for the Union, is very determined to become a hero, and the story depicts Henrys voyage from being a young coward, to a brave man. This voyage is the classic trip from innocence to experience. The story starts out with a heated debate between the soldiers. One boy had heard a rumor that the regiment would be moving on ... is ironic, because in the end of the book their wishes come true. When the battle starts, all the soldiers get very anxious and nervous. Tom and Henry dont turn out to be as brave as they think that they could be. While hiding, Tom finds Henry, and gives him a manila envelope of letters for his family. Tom believes that this will be his first and his last battle ... are enraged. They are determined to fight as hard as the can, with all their heart and souls. Henry and Tom prove themselves well in the battle. They steal the confederate flag, and are both brave enough to go out on the field with out weapons. After the regiment retreats, the general recognizes both soldiers as extremely brave, and comment that they are fit to be generals themselves. This final ...
- 10694: Catcher in the Rye and Generation X: Holden and Andy
- ... He explains when he says that he would like to be "a catcher in the rye", someone who protects children from the pitfalls of hypocrisy and lies, that Holden seems to think infect the adult world. As a result, Holden is very careful not to use other characters as a means for his own ends. In many ways he is unable to deflect the unexpressed pressures that every teen male feels ... Holden wants to believe exists, but understands through his cynicism, that is never has, or ever will exist. But his mistrust goes deeper. For Holden, it seemed like sex would somehow integrate him into the world at large, which he despises. Holden does not want to accept any change in his life. He sees sex as a way that society is using to lure him into being like the people that ... are abhorred, and are seen as qualities of the prudish, and/or the unattractive. Andy, the main character has a lot in common with Holden Caufield. Much like Holden, Andy becomes tired of the sexual world in which he lived. In a quote sounding a lot like Holden, Andy said, " I became nonsexual. I started to find humanity repulsive, reducing it to flanks, mounds, and secretions..." Andy also goes through ...
- 10695: The Scarlet Letter: Dimmersdale is a Coward and a Hypocrite
- ... congregation, but somehow can never quite manage this. He is a typical diagnosis of a "wuss". To some extent, Dimmesdale's story is one of a single man tempted into the depths of the hormonal world. This world, however, is a place where the society treats sexuality with ill grace. But his problem is enormously complicated by the fact of Hester's marriage (for him no technicality), and by his own image of ... dungeon of his own heart_of breathing the wild, free atmosphere of an unredeemed, unchristianized, lawless region." In short, fallen nature has set him free from his inner distress, but left him in an "unchristianized" world, a heathen world, damnation. He has given in to sin. He has, in effect, willingly agreed to commit more sins. Dimmesdale realizes he is doing this but is too much of a coward to ...
- 10696: Cloning 2
- ... more offspring derived from a single ancestor, whose genetic composition is identical to that of the ancestor. No sex is involved in the production of clones, and since sex is the normal means by which new genetic material is introduced during procreation, clones have no choice but to have the same genes as their single parent. In the same way, a clone of cells refers simply to the descendants of a ... the natural, or sometimes deliberate, splitting of a single embryo. Members of a clone are genetically identical and genetic identity has given cloning an additional more technical meaning: namely the procedures used to create a new organism whose genetic constitution is a replica of another existing individual. Such a feat can be achieved by substituting the nucleus, which contains the genes, from one of the cells making up that individual's ... s cells and so Dolly's genetic makeup was to all intents and purposes identical to her mother's. No sperm had had the opportunity to add its genetic pennysworth. However, there was nothing radically new, neither technically nor conceptually, in the way in which Dolly was made. Almost all films and documentaries on cloning still show the same footage, produced more than twenty-five years ago during unsuccessful attempts ...
- 10697: The Reformation
- ... against the emperor. The protests were very successful and the followers soon came to be known as Protestants because it has the word protest in it. After he came out of hiding, he established a new church where Lutheranism would be practice throughout Europe. Since Lutheranism spread so quickly, King Charles V tried to stop or even slow down the spread. Charles V and his armies did defeat the Protestants in ... was against the religion. Furious by the Pops refusal, King Henry created the Church of England. This church was also known as the Anglican Church. The church acquired Protestant doctrines, which meant that the new church followed Protestant faiths. This church also granted him his divorce, so the king was very pleased by how it ended up. After King Henry completed the formation of the new Anglican Church, John Calvin came along to help the growing of the church and the religion. He challenged the Catholic Church and made the Protestant Church much more powerful. In order for people to ...
- 10698: Hemp: The Truth About the Earth's Greatest Plant
- Hemp: The Truth About the Earth's Greatest Plant In a perfect world there would be a product that could serve as a fuel source, a food source, a paper source, a textile source, and this product would be easy to produce in any of its forms. Believe ... harvest where hemp is ready to harvest four times as much in just a year. In addition, hemp produces twice as much fiber per acre as cotton. Twenty five percent of all pesticides in the world are used on cotton, averaging to four pounds of chemicals per acre of cotton in the U.S. every year. Since hemp is a natural repellent to weeds and insects, it needs almost no insecticides ... varnish, ink, and plastic substitutes. One of the many high points of hemp is that it's easily grown. Unlike almost all hemp substitutes, hemp can be grown in all fifty states. During the Second World War, the government temporarily re-legalized hemp so farmers could grow it for the war effort. Hemp helped win World War II! It is high time for this country to take a second look ...
- 10699: Seeing Futher Through Tears Th
- ... Through Telescopes Romeo and Juliet is a timeless tale of lovers who's misfortune and immaturity was a cause of their own fall. The characters individually show immaturity and together demonstrate how ignorance of the world effects more than just their own lives. Romeo and Juliet, as expressed in the succeeding examples, fall in love quickly as a result of their naivety. Juliet is shown to be immature in a opening scene where her father tells the bride-seeking Paris his daughter is not old and grown-up enough to marry. "My child is yet a stranger in the world, she hath not seen the charge of fourteen years. . ." (Lines 8-9, Scene 2, Act 1). It is also shown during the balcony scene when she agrees to marry Romeo after knowing him only a ... to marry her. "If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow. . . And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay, and follow thee my lord throughout the world" (Lines 142-143, 146-147, Scene 2, Act 2). After he marriage she is told by her nurse she is to marry Paris. In a blind fury she runs to Friar Lawrence with a ...
- 10700: America's Right Turn
- ... while still supporting popular Democratic programs, "While rhetorically proclaiming that 'the era of big government is over,' Clinton also co-opted Republican positions on family values, crime, welfare reform, and a balanced budget
Thus, this New Democrat had absorbed well the chief political lesson of the day, that America's right turn had gone too far and needed to be deflected back toward the center, where most Americans felt comfortable with ... s limited agenda for change and community" (Berman 192). Berman shows how cultural and economic issues have been inextricably linked to the success of either the conservative Republicans of the liberal Democrats since Roosevelt's New Deal created a moderate welfare state. By the 1970s and 1980s, many Americans viewed social welfare programs as a problem, not a solution. A rising deficit and increasing taxes were viewed as a result of ... programs designed to aid the poor urban areas of America at the expense of the working class and middle-class Americans. Democrats in the 1980s had to face the reality that the large deficit meant new social programs could not come without increased taxes. The decline of the American labor movement also meant a fractured support base where once had been a major Democratic support force. Further, the lack of ...
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