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- 4641: Theodore Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt (October 27,1858-January 6, 1919) was born in New York into one of the old Dutch families, which had settled in America in the seventeenth century. At eighteen he entered Harvard College and spent four years there, dividing his time between books and sport ... both. After leaving Harvard he studied in Germany for almost a year and then immediately entered politics. In 1880 he married Alice Hathaway Lee and one year later he was elected to the Assembly of New York State, holding office for three years and distinguishing himself as an ardent reformer. In 1884, because of ill health and the death of his wife and his mother, Roosevelt abandoned his political work for ... in the West for many years. He became a passionate hunter, especially of big game, and an ardent believer in the wild outdoor life, which brought him health and strength. In 1886 Roosevelt returned to New York, married his childhood sweetheart Edith Carow in London, and once more plunged into politics. President Harrison, after his election in 1889, appointed Roosevelt as a member of the Civil Service Commission of which ...
- 4642: Colombia
- Colombia HISTORY Colombia was one of the first parts of the New World to be explored by the Spanish. Christopher Columbus for whom the country is named, never visited the area. In 1510 Spaniards founded Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien, the first permanent European settlement on the American mainland. In 1536 Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada explored the valley of the Magdalena and conquered the powerful Chibcha Indians and in 1538 founded New Granada and Bogota. In 1717 Bogota became the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Granada which consisted of present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. An important revolt occurred in 1810 when a junta ...
- 4643: In Depth Analysis of Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
- ... Ode on a Grecian Urn” in an attempt to find poetical existence beyond his too-short human lifetime. As Keats tries to find some sense of permanence in an ever more apparently impermanent and fleeting world, he turns to those objects which he regards to as outside of the temporality he, as a mortal man experiences: the perpetuating, generationless song of the nightingale and the “cold Pastoral” ageless marble scenes on ... Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn,” is that this particular ode inscribes a sine wave, with five distinctive points along its length. Example: First: The poet is steeped in despair brought about by the world’s unrelenting flux. Second: Upon encountering the urn, he is filled with the hope that he has found an antidote to his despair. Third: He finds that his hope is unfounded, -- that the antidote was ... he finds that it embodies a terror far more intense than the despair from which he originally sought relief; that the placebo is in fact a poison. Last: He embraces the transient condition of the world as an antidote to the terror inherent in the urn. What was interesting about Mauro’s sine-wave theory to the ode, is that the point of origin, --the poet’s initial despair from ...
- 4644: Immigration: Pro
- ... assimilation. They lived in their own communities and refused to learn the English language. But that belief like all others were false based. After the Germans and Irish started to finally assimilate we needed a new scapegoat. The next were the Italians and Jews, following them were the Catholics. Throughout history there were always someone who got the blame put on them. Lately the blame has been put upon Middle-Eastern ... With an entrepreneur mentality the newcomers open their own small businesses therefore creating much more dire needed jobs. Another advantage to having a diversity of people is there is no stagnation. There always is a new influx of people creating new technology and new ideas. In the past most of the greatest accomplishments from Americans has been from foreign born researchers. A prime example is Albert Einstein one of the foremost mathematician of all time. ...
- 4645: Alexander The Great
- ... by the ingenious tactics instilled in them by Alexander. He and his armies conquered the Persian Empire, which stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to India and formed much of what was then considered the civilized world. Through his conquests, Alexander helped spread Greek ideas, customs and laws throughout Asia and Egypt and adopted a uniform currency system to promote trade and commerce. He thus spread the rich Hellenistic culture enjoyed by the Greeks throughout the world. Alexander had a dream of the brotherhood of mankind where every person shared a common language, currency and loyalty, but he was unable to see his dream through due to an illness that claimed his ... now set forth to conquer Egypt. Upon arriving, he was welcomed as a "...divinely sent liberator from Persian rule" and was crowned pharaoh (Durant 544). While in Egypt, he founded Alexandria, which would become a world center of commerce and learning, and he visited the temple and oracle of Zues-Ammon. In 331 B.C. Alexander marched back to Asia to attack Persia. He was greeted by Darius III and ...
- 4646: George Washington: Biography
- ... Forbes against Fort Duquesne. Assured that the Virginia frontier was safe from French attack, Washington left the army in 1758 and returned to Mount Vernon, directing his attention toward restoring his neglected estate. He erected new buildings, refurnished the house, and experimented with new crops. With the support of an ever-growing circle of influential friends, he entered politics, serving in Virginia's House of Burgesses from 1759 to 1774. In January 1759 he married Marth Dandridge Curtis, a ... trying to secure urgently needed powder and other supplies. Early in March 1776, Washington occupied Dorchester Heights, effectively commanding the city and forcing the British to evacuate on March 17. He then moved to defend New York City against the combined land and sea forces of Sir William Howe. In New York he committed a military blunder but he saved his army by skillfully retreating from Manhattan into Westchester County ...
- 4647: Ulysses S. Grant
- ... precursor to the future course of international affairs. The establishment of the principle of the international arbitration through the Treaty of Washington, would later be embodied in the Hague Tribunal, the League of Nations, the World Court, and the United Nations. Grant's desire for peace was evident to me from the beginning of my research, but I did not realize how far-reaching it was until I noted the steadiness ... the use of federal troops (in the South) as gross violations of civil liberty, but they were also forced at last to give up their open hostility to equal rights and black suffrage. Announcing a "new departure," they promised to accept the finality of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments. The new departure enabled Democrats, reform Republicans, and some Republican politicians who had lost power in their party to unite against Grant's reelection. Calling themselves Liberal republicans, the dissident Republicans met...(in 1872 ) to name ...
- 4648: Justice In Herodotus And Aesch
- ... directly tells the reader his views on divine justice through the character of Solon. Solon is one of "…the great Greek teachers of that epoch." (Histories Bk 1 Ch. 29) He was traveling around the world when he paid a visit to Croesus, the King of Lydia. Croesus gave Solon a tour of the palace, and then asked Solon a question. "Well, my Athenian friend, I have heard a great deal ... the inadequacy of the old system of justice, which called for kin to avenge their relatives. The trilogy shows the transformation of justice, as it moves from the old system under old deities to the new system, the Court of the Areopagus, under a new deity, Athene. At the beginning of The Oresteia the old system of justice is firmly in place. Murder still demands blood vengeance, and there is a murder that has not been avenged, Atreus's ...
- 4649: People Always Tend To Seek The
- ... lives easier. Machines and tools have given us the ability to do more in less time giving us, at the same time, more comfort. As the technology advances, computers become faster and more powerful. These new machines are enabling us to do more in less time making our lives easier. The increased use of computers in the future, however, might have negative results and impact on our lives. In the novel Nine Tomorrows Isaac Asimov often criticizes our reliance on computers by portraying a futuristic world where computers control humans. One of the images which Asimov describes in the book is that humans might become too dependent on computers. In one of the stories, Profession, Asimov writes about people being educated ... they would only want to be educated by computer tapes. Putting in knowledge would take less time than reading books and memorizing something that would take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what computers tell them without having any choice ...
- 4650: Holdens Shithole
- By: Bob Jr. Catcher in the Rye, Holden views the world as an evil and corrupt place where there is no peace. This perception of the world does not change significantly through the novel. However as the novel progresses, Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is powerless to change this. During the short period of Holden's life covered in this book, "Holden does succeed in making us perceive that the world is crazy".1 Shortly after Holden leaves Pencey Prep he checks in to the Edmont Hotel. This is where Holden's turmoil begins. Holden spends the following evening in this hotel which was "full ...
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