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- 11571: Biography Of Eugene Victor Deb
- ... he was elected a City Clerk, Eugene worked every night in the Brotherhood. Debs was impressing his coworkers how he worked with an insistence On 1882 convention his contribution of Brotherhood member growth gave him new prestige. Eugene Victor needed money, when in January 1884 his second term as City Clerk expired. He was broke, he ate whatever he could find and slept wherever it happened to be. In 1883 the ... he becomes a presidential candidate of the Socialist party. Debs was had been president of the Socialist party five different times: in 1900,1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920. In 1918, at the beginning of the World War I, Eugene Debs gave speech to Ohio Socialists in which he exposed the war. The federal government accused Debs under the Espionage Act. He was sent to jail for ten years. On December , 1921 ...
- 11572: Billy The Kid
- ... Henry Mccarty (most people think his name was William H. Bonney) or "Billy the Kid" as most people knew him. There is much speculation as to where Billy was born. So far, the possibilities are New York City, Indiana, and Missouri. But he did move out west with his family and eventually became a cowboy in Lincoln county, New Mexico Territory, working for cattleman J. H. Tunstall. Tunstall treated Billy like a son and Billy loved him a lot. But in February 1878, a rival cattle outfit killed Tunstall. Billy vowed vengeance on anyone ... which Billy played a major part. This "War" was actually a struggle between two rival groups of businessmen and ranchers. Murders and depredations between the two groups culminated in a three-day battle in Lincoln, New Mexico during the July of 1878. There have been many stories that Billy was in the gang that shot Sheriff Bill Brady dead, but probably isn't true, Billy the Kid was not a ...
- 11573: Ben Franklins Autobiography
- ... uncle Thomas into Benjamin himself (1310). But the ancestors perhaps are models enough, described well enough for us to understand the broader lesson: Fortune's wheel may bring any Franklin high or low into the world, but industry and ingenuity make the real difference in both personal and social success. Lest we read Franklin's history of his ancestors as a mere exercise in Franklin's own vanity (Franklin's overweening ... the values of frugality and temperance and then even leadership in bookishness. As leader of the Junto, Franklin goes on to inspire his friends to become co-builders of a subscription library and even a new nation. We gain a clearer insight into young Franklin's efficient blending of personal and community goals by examining his studies of rhetoric and religion. Any good rhetorician must be acutely aware of his audience ...
- 11574: Antigone 2
- ... same time. Later in the conversation the reader learns that Antigone has a plan to bury here brother Polynices and that she wants Ismene to help her. Ismene is scared to do this because the new king, Creon, has issued a decree that says that any person that attempts to bury the body will be sentenced to death. The fact that Antigone is going to attempt to bury the body creates ... day. Many times you hear in the news of a particular reader or country that refuses to give in or give up their pursuit of something because they don t want the rest of the world to think that they were a weaker nation. It is a common theme in today s society. The play Antigone by Sophocles is a great play. In it Sophocles uses many features that would classify ...
- 11575: Before 1640, Parliament Was No
- ... subjects "that they must not entrench her prerogatives". This again left another precedent in which parliament could directly form a constitution or redress a grievances by investigating it themselves. James inherited a Parliament with a new ideal and the means to follow this. Parliament gained new precedents from Elizabeth's reign which they would use against James, as well as the rise of new power hungry Councillors. Parliament was seen as the standard bearer for common law, and they saw James as the potential enemy. James a king who entrusted upon divinity as he explained; "King's are ...
- 11576: A Good Man Is Hard To Find Ana
- ... which O'Connor apparently believed to be more prevalent in the "glamorous" Old South. Attention to prim detail separated the grandmother from the rest of her family who seemed to be living in a different world than she. As she organized herself in preparation for the trip, her family was described as rather common people living in a frusturated middle class world. O Connor described the old woman as she settled herself comfortably, removing her white cotton gloves and putting them up with her purse on the shelf in front of the back window. The children's ... God. At this point, the Misfit also has a revelation. His lesson however, is that by killing the grandmother, he helped her find God and therefore realizes that he does have a purpose in the world, that he will have to answer to a higher power sooner or later. Flannery O'Connor was deeply concerned with the values and the direction of the youth of her time. She believed that ...
- 11577: Baseball, History Of
- ... base. In 1845, some young men in Manhattan organized themselves into the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club and wrote down the rules of the game they were playing. Twenty years later dozens of baseball clubs in New York and Brooklyn, and their journalist brethren, had made what they called the national pastime more popular than cricket, and the metropolis had become the country s first baseball powerhouse. As baseball clubs were transformed ... the division, which has continued until today. Baseball soon outdistanced other spectator sports in popularity and contributed to the sports boom of the 1880s and 1890s. Late nineteenth-century baseball resembled the Gilded Age business world. Owners moved the clubs frequently, while rival leagues sprung up and competed for players and spectators. The National League either defeated its opponents outright or incorporated them into a subordinate national structure of minor leagues ...
- 11578: Barn Burning
- ... s imagination. These families with their opposing social values spurred his imagination at a time when he wrote about the passing of a conservative, agricultural South and the opening up of the South to a new era of modernization. This depiction of the agrarian society of the Sartoris family connects Faulkner to the nostalgic yearnings for a past expressed in I'll Take My Stand, the Fugitives' manifesto of 1930, a ... at the close of the decade of the 1930s. At this time the Old South was withering away from its own decadence and sin; the old agricultural society was turning into a deathlike desert; the New Deal programs seemed unable to bring Mississippi back from the brink; the state seemed to self-destruct and turn backward socially. It was at this time that Faulkner wrote "Barn Burning," a story including all ... these social themes. Works Cited Agee, James, and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941, reprinted 1960. Faulkner, William. "Barn Burning."Harper's Magazine, June 1939, reprinted in Collected Stories, New York: Random House, 1950.
- 11579: Athens Vs. Sparta
- ... held as an example of how a community can have a brilliant answer to these questions and its neighbor can have the inverted answer just as brilliant. Works Cited Pearson, Anne. Eyewitness Books Ancient Greece. New York: Afred A Knopf, 1992. Pearson Anne. What do we know about the Greeks? New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1992. Schofield, Louise. Ancient Greece. New South Whales: Weldon Owen Pty Limited, 1997.
- 11580: Assimilation Or Accommodation
- With the end of the Seven Years War and the fall of New France in 1763, Britain assumed control of almost all of North America. The Seven Years War was for the possession of the Ohio Valley. A valley rich in the fur trade industry and land good ... the perfect solution. If everybody had virtually the same belief and was not forced to believe or behave as others, our country would then and only then become one. Even though accommodation all around the world would be ideal, it is not realistic, assimilation between different ethnic backgrounds was and still is inevitable.
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