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- 1631: Galileo
- ... t in keeping with commonly accepted sciences, Galileo was driven out of Pisa in 1591. Also in 1591, Galileo¹s father died and he had to support his mother, brothers, and sisters. He got a new job at the University of Padua, part of the Venetian Republic. His 18 years there were his ³happiest of his life.² He visited Venice several times during his years as a professor at the University. In 1604 Galileo gave a lecture in Venice that a new star which appeared earlier that year was major evidence to support the new doctrine of Copernicus. He also argued that the new star went against everything the Aristotelian doctrine of the heavens said. Galileo also wrote a letter that year that contained his findings on the law ...
- 1632: Ralph Waldo Emerson 3
- ... of corrupting its members and pulling them away from self-reliance. Emerson says that society has gotten to a point where people do not even remember how to rely on themselves. People live through the world around them because they are taught to conform to the names and the customs society practices. It is a "conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members" because it takes away the individuality of its members to create a world of people who think the same and act the same. People need to practice aversion and escape the conformity that society strives on. Of course, it is very had for people to get themselves out ... what they were meant to hear and learn. They should let themselves be led into a life of self-reliance (153). A lot of people do not practice self-reliance out of fear or something new. Emerson says that "the other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word." This is not something that should deter people from self-reliance. ...
- 1633: Kate Chopin's Controversial Views
- ... independent women, however, did not dissuade her from marriage. Her marriage to Oscar Chopin by all accounts was a happy one. Taking on the role of a high society lady as well as wife and new mother, Chopin fit in well with the New Orleans culture. She enjoyed the Louisiana atmosphere so well that most of her writings were based here. Chopin continued living in Louisiana raising her six young children until the sudden death of her husband brought ... was. This challenge came out in her writing of heroines searching for self- understanding (Skaggs 3). No longer Eliza O'Flaherty's daughter or Oscar Chopin's wife, Kate Chopin was forced to find a new role for herself. Her new role would be a writer. A few key figures in her life influenced Chopin to write. Doctor Frederick Kolbemheyer was a life long friend on whose support she always ...
- 1634: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... Caulfield s actions and thoughts are the same as of many people, the difference being that Holden acts upon those thoughts and has them down in writing. Holden Caulfield is a teenager growing up in New York in the 1950s. He has been expelled from school for poor achievement and was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all. He decides to leave school a few days than what he is supposed to in an attempt to deal with his current situation. Besides, I sort of needed a little vacation. My nerves were shot. They really were. Caulfield goes to New York to take a vacation before having to face his parents inevitable wrath. During this time, he experiences a nervous breakdown that was characterized by his sudden unexplained depressions. What I really felt like, though ... being ignored which arises the thought whether society chooses to ignore the emptiness that can be shown in humans. ..but people never notice. People never notice anything. As Caulfield s condition deteriorates, he declares the world is full of phonies and that people are out there for their own gain. He is aware that most people are phonies but is not as critical of them towards the end. One aspect ...
- 1635: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt The 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the nation through the greatest war in history, World War 2. By doing this, FDR made his mark in history with his supreme leadership and optimistic views. January 30, 1882, marked the date where a political and national hero was born in Hyde Park, New York. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was his name and he was born to Sara Delano and James Roosevelt. FDR grew up in a good neighborhood, with a steady financial background in his family due to his father’s occupation as well as other inheritances. At the tender age of 5, Roosevelt’s parents knew they brought a talented young man into the world with a bright future. (Freedman, p.8-11) While growing up, Roosevelt never attended public schools, always private. In 1896, Franklin’ s parents placed him in Groton, a very exclusive prep/boarding school, located ...
- 1636: Behind The Urals
- ... Behind the Urals" as he examines individual people and their struggles as they worked in Magnitogorsk. These citizens worked in the most inhumane conditions, all with the intention to help their country develop under the new system of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had just gone through an entire turn around in their political, social, and economic spheres as they went from one extreme to another. The old Czarist government ... treating the peasantry as second-class humans rather than equals. However, when the Russian Revolution came to a head, and the Red Communists or Bolsheviks defeated the White Czarists, Russia was left with an entirely new system of thought in its government. This ideology viewed the working class and peasantry as the main citizens in their society, while the rich landowners were not nearly as powerful as they once were. Thus the workers of Magnitogorsk held a very important position as they had the responsibility to help the Soviet Union take flight as a country that could compete with other powerful countries of the world, all while working under the most inhumane conditions. John Scott moved to the Soviet Union leaving the United States and in his eyes, its unsatisfactory capitalistic way of governing. Scott may have been aided ...
- 1637: Book Report On Gods Bits Of Wo
- ... soul and spirit of the strike.) In another sense, however, the main characters of the novel are the people as a collective, the places they inhabit, and the railroad. Economic, Political, and Social Change: The world Sembene portrays is in flux, maybe even in turmoil. Economic, political, and social changes are underway. The strike intensifies the forces of change and sharpens our awareness of them. "The times were bringing forth a new breed of men, they were also bringing forth a new breed of women." The novel relies a great deal on opposition and conflict to define and dramatize the issues (tribal-modern, management-labor, men-women, French-Bambara, France-Africa, White-Black), but Sembene does' ...
- 1638: Historical Analysis On 1920s
- ... rising intolerance and isolation. Americans retreated into a provincialism evidenced by the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the anti radical hysteria of the Palmer raids, restrictive immigration laws, and prohibition. Influenza and the first world war brought an alarming amount of Americans to an early death. Racial motivated riots spread throughout the country and protests endorsing and condemning racism were the norm. Life in the south was at most times ... truly captures the Harlem Renaissance. The Boogie-woogie, the Turkey Trot, and the Big Apple are just few of the many dances that developed during the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance produced a shine of new authors during this time period. The authors knew each other well and frequently exchanged ideas. The Renaissance writers remain important not just for their own work but because the literary tradition they built would become ... the nation just how powerful they are. These hooded cowards were the cause of agony, torment, and death to many blacks and other targeted immigrants. The 1920's had a massive waves of immigration. These "new" immigrants were largely from Italy, Russia, China, and Ireland. There was mixed reaction to these incoming foreigners. While they provided industries with a cheap source of labor, Americans were both afraid of, and hostile ...
- 1639: Policy Profile Of Senator Dick
- ... and did not voluntarily leave. (101st Congress, 486) Lugar has four principle premises for good foreign policy. They are as follows: * " To defend and advance the cause of democracy, freedom, and human rights throughout the world." * "To promote prosperity and social progress through a free, open, and expanding market-oriented global economy." * "To work diplomatically to help resolve dangerous regional conflicts." * "To work to reduce and eventually eliminate the danger of ... Lugar defended the free trade accord by pointing out that U. S. exports had soared to over one billion dollars and Mexico's woes were due to mismanagement of their monetary unit and not the new agreement. Senator Lugar points out turmoil that many latin countries have faced in recent years, and states unequivocally, these problems cannot be over-looked in order to satisfy the skeptics' presumption's to free trade ... in disarming nuclear warheads, disposing of the lethal components (enriched uranium), and securing all facets of the processes. The implications, according to Lugar, are not acceptable. There are many unstable political entities in the modern world who would think nothing of perpetuating a nuclear strike, perhaps even against the U.S.. Countries such as North Korea, Iraq, and Iran are considered by many experts to be potential nuclear threats if ...
- 1640: USSR: The Doomed Empire
- ... USSR acted offensively towards each other. But the only real fact is that “one represented an open democracy and the other a closed totalitarian system” and both were the only real superpowers left standing after World War II.1 This split generated a bipolar effect bringing the entire world into a game of tug of war between the two superpowers. Throughout the four decades actual combative war never broke out but in turn a similar game of chess was played. One country would move ... not expand his weak deceitful empire throughout Europe then maybe Asia would be a good place to try. Throughout the 1950's Russia aided in developing Soviet communism throughout China, Korea, Vietnam, and smaller third World Countries such as Indonesia, India, Egypt, And Syria.1 Whether by force of influence Russia tried to set Soviet Communism up and in each place the US was also there to stop them. Tensions ...
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