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- 2571: Emily Dickinson
- Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was born and raised in a conventional New England home in the Mid-Eighteenth Century. Her entire family was Christian, but she alone abandoned their religion and opposed the Church. She, like many of her peers, had rejected the rigid traditional views in favor of adopting the new transcendental perspective. This emergence of Transcendentalism, Dickinson’s restrictive home life, her refusal to conform, and the smothering control of institutional religion contributed to Emily Dickinson’s attitudes toward life, death, and spirituality. Massachusetts before the transcendental period was the center of religious customs founded by the Puritans. After the Great Awakenings and subsequent religious revivals that spread across America the New Englanders began to question the old ways. What used to be a focal point of all lives became speculative and often doubted. People began to search for new meanings in life. Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
- 2572: Canada's Religion History
- ... and progressive nation.” In general, life was prosperous and secure for the Jews of mid-nineteenth century Canada. As programs and anti-Semitism became more widespread in Eastern Europe Jewish immigration into Canada increased. These new Jewish immigrants were very different from their earlier counterparts: By 1914 it was not the Anglicized, comfortable, integrated community it had been thirty years before. Rather, the majority of Canada’s Jewry were now Yiddish ... anti-Semitic thoughts and stereotypes had always been a part of French Canadian society, however, it was not until the end of the nineteenth century that they became public and widespread: These notions were not new in themselves… What was new was the presence in Quebec of a significant Jewish population. Earlier, anti-Jewish tales had been little more than the stuff of religion and folklore, unrelated to real people; they had been told less ...
- 2573: U.S. Multinational Corporations In Europe
- U.S. Multinational Corporations In Europe There are many issues that U.S. multinational corporations are facing throughout Europe and the world. There are many political and economic changes going on in Europe which United States multinational corporations must follow. Participation in international business has become a necessity for companies so companies need to realize these changes ... institutional framework for a united Europe. Under the European Union all the countries involved will share common institutions and policies, which will bring peace and prosperity to Western Europe. The European Union was created after World War II to prevent any more wars between the European countries. There are fifteen countries participating in the European Union which are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The European Union brought together a market of 370 million consumers, which share common institutions and policies. The European Union made Europe one of the world's trading powers. The European Union has also created a single market that took effect in 1993, and established a free trading environment between these countries, so there are no longer tariffs between each ...
- 2574: Famous People With Mental Illnesses
- ... on them. His motto was, ''Believe they can get well. Lionel lost his battle with schizophrenia and paranoia as he passed away in 1998. Eugene Gladstone O Neill was born on October 16th, 1888 in New York City. He was one of the most famous play writers of all time. Eugene suffered from clinical depression. Eugene often was placed in an Asylum or psychiatric hospital for numerous suicide attempts. He attended ... 1920); Anna Christie (1922); Strange Interlude (1928); and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1957). O'Neill is credited with raising American dramatic theater from its narrow origins to an art form respected around the world. He is regarded as America's premier playwright. O'Neill continued to write until 1944 when he was stricken with a debilitating muscular disease which prevented further work. Without the ability to write with his ... his ordeals. He never quite rid himself of his unique behavior, quipping that he'd "give 'em their money's worth" if the crowds came out to see him. Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848) was a world famous opera singer. Like Piersall Gaetano suffered from Bipolar depression. Death to close family members plagued Gaetano throughout his life. He met his wife Virginia Vasselli while he was in Rome in the 1820' ...
- 2575: Child Labor
- ... that their children are kicking around outside are made by children themselves, who slave away for little or no pay at all. In 1999, ap-proximately 250 million children are employed or enslaved across the world for little or no money at all (Gay 23). Imagine how these child workers are depraved from experi-ences the joys of childhood. These poor children never get to play outside or enjoy a simple game. Child labor is a harrowing experience for anyone involved in it. In order to end this travesty of child labor, the world must unite as one to create coalitions and companies that aid child laborers. All over the world children are laboring for little or no money. Desperate families sell their children in order to get a loan from corrupt employers. The child is treated like a slave; he has no say in ...
- 2576: Dams And Resources
- ... most immediate and far-reaching effects because of the huge changes it causes to river circulation system. Some 40,000 large dams, most of which were built in the past 50 years, now obstruct the world's rivers. More than 400,000 square kilometers--an area larger than Zimbabwe, and 13 times the size of Lesotho. Volta Reservoir behind Ghana's Akasombo Dam, flooded 4% of that nation's land area. In the United States, whose 5,500 large dams make it the second most dammed country in the world, we have stopped building large dams, and are now spending great amounts of money trying to fix the problems created by existing dams. Although the impacts of large dams have been well documented for some time now, in case after case, new ones are proposed whose environmental impacts are downplayed or even ignored. A suvey showed that most dams were built without the consideration of downstream effects, even when these impacts could be predicted to cause ...
- 2577: Fbi
- ... Federal investigation of a resurgent white supremacy movement also required creativity. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), dormant since the late 1800s, was revived in part to counteract the economic gains made by African Americans during World War I. The Bureau of Investigation used the Mann Act to bring Louisiana's philandering KKK "Imperial Kleagle" to justice. Through these investigations and through more traditional investigations of neutrality violations and antitrust violations, the ... Special Agents and Prohibition Agents led to a permanent name change in 1935 for the agency composed of Department of Justice's investigators: the Federal Bureau of Investigation was thus born. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the responsibilities of the FBI escalated. Subversion, sabotage, and espionage became major concerns. In addition to Agents trained in general intelligence work, at least one Agent trained in defense plant protection ... enforcement agencies. One method of continuing assistance was through the National Academy. Another was to use its greater resources to help states and localities solve their cases. At the same time, Congress gave the FBI new federal laws with which to fight civil rights violations,racketeering, and gambling. A national tragedy produced another expansion of FBI jurisdiction. When President Kennedy was assassinated, the crime was a local homicide; no federal ...
- 2578: New Jersey During the Revolution
- New Jersey During the Revolution New Jersey is called the crossroads of the American Revolution, because the armies involved crossed the state several times during the war, and it held a key geographical position at the center of the new nation. It was heavily involved in the fighting, due to the troop movements through the state, and its key geographic position between New York City and Philadelphia. New Jersey had more engagements than any ...
- 2579: Grapes Of Wrath And Jim Casy
- ... for simply being a preacher. Casy and Jesus both saw a common goodness in the average man and saw every person as holy. Both Christ and Casy faced struggles between their ideals versus the real world. (Despite Casy's honesty, goodness, and loyalty to all men, he would not earn a meal or warm place to stay. Although Jesus had many followers, still others opposed his preaching until the very end. ) These prophets attempted to disengage man from the cares of the world and create a high spiritualism that stemmed joy from misery. (All the migrants found pleasures along their trips and kept their hope and spirit throughout the journey. Thanks to Jesus, the saddest, dullest existence has ... into the wilderness to think His way out of troubles." Casy was beginning to feel confused, troubled and stressful about his faith, but when he went into the wilderness and rediscovered nature, he was a new man with a new-found faith. (Eventually Christ was no longer a Jew and strayed from the traditional Hebrew idea of God. Casy's beliefs did not precisely follow Christianity.) Like Christ, Casy was ...
- 2580: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... this crucible that his art was formed. In his short life Van Gogh wrote nearly a thousand letters, often several a day. Most were written to his brother Theo, possibly the one person in the world who understood him. Only to Theo could Van Gogh describe the impressions and feelings that boiled within him. The letters are extraordinary; literary critics have compared them to the works of the great 19th Century ... s branch office sent textbooks on anatomy and perspective. Theo suggested that Vincent join him in Paris, but Vincent seems to have been reluctant to venture into what was then the center of the art world. Instead, in the fall of 1880, he went to Brussels and moved into the cheapest hotel he could find. Vincent remained in Brussels during the winter 1880-1881, struggling with his draftsmanship and reporting his ... intense colorist of his time. He sensed that color has meaning that transcends mere visual impressions. When Van Gogh arrived in Paris in 1886, he was eager to learn and ready to be stimulated by new experiences. In two years he went through a complete change as a painter. Brightness and lightness flooded his work. He painted serene café interiors and breeze swept landscapes. The dark figures of laborers at ...
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