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- 1221: Clara Barton
- ... for good Barton headed for Washington DC. A new chapter in her life opened and she worked as a clerk in the U.S Patent Office. At age forty and at the outbreak of the Civil War Clara decided to dedicate her life to volunteer service. Throughout the war she served as an independent volunteer on the Union side. Miss Barton advertised for supplies and distributed bandages, socks, and other goods to aid the wounded soldiers. Barton delivered supplies directly to the front. ...
- 1222: Caesar
- ... Julia in 54 BC. and Crassus in 53 BC. and the great success of Caesar in Gaul eventually destroyed Caesars relationship with Pompey. On January 10, 49 BC., Caesar crossed the Italy border which started civil war. Caesars stronger army defeated Pompeys army and forced Pompey to withdraw to Greece. In 49 BC., Caesar was appointed dictator of Rome and in 44 BC. he was appointed dictator for life. While dictator, Caesar ... in Pompeys theater. After Caesars death, his adopted son Octavian took his place as dictator. Besides being a great leader, he was also an accomplished orator and writer. His two surviving works On the Gallic War and On the Civil War introduced personal war commentaries into our literature. To sum things up, Gaius Julius Caesar was a powerful leader in our history. Caesar struggled to make Rome a good place ...
- 1223: Mark Twain And Huckleberry Fin
- ... the southern society with satire. “The men took their guns [to church] ... and kept them between their knees...” was just one example. In the time of Twain’s life that he wrote this novel, the Civil War had just ended. The war had tested society’s morals. The issue of slavery was important to Twain which was the reason morals were portrayed in this way. The freedom and peacefulness of the river soon gave way to ...
- 1224: Lincoln's Battle With His Cabinet
- ... is regarded by many historians as the greatest president ever to stand at America's helm. This reputation is extremely well deserved, as Lincoln was able to preserve the Union and gain victory in the civil war, despite his fighting an uphill battle against his own presidential cabinet. Had he not been struggling against this divided government, President Lincoln could have achieved victory with extreme efficiency and a minimum of wanton bloodshed ... back for quite a scorcher." He grew so furious with the President's capable rule that he finally resigned his position (Williams 202). Another weak link in Lincoln's cabinet was his first secretary of war, Simon Cameron. He was considered an honest politician, being that he "would stay bought when he was bought." His reputation as a swindler caused dissent among the cabinet, and he permitted so much inefficiency ...
- 1225: The Monitor and the Virginia
- The Monitor and the Virginia The U.S.S Monitor and the C. S. S. Virginia were the first ironclads to grace the waters of the American Civil War. Their battle in 1862 at Newport News Point is still considered one of the best and most exciting naval engagements of all times. The reason people think of it as the battle of the "Monitor and the Merrimack" is because the Merrimack had been the Virginia's name when she was still a union ship. Since the Union won the war, they wrote the history with their name for her. When rebel forces were about to invade the port at Norfolk, the U.S.S. Merrimack along with every other ship in the yard was ...
- 1226: Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings
- ... as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy. In July of 1918 while serving along the Piave River, he was severely wounded by shrapnel and forced to return home after recuperation in January 1919. The war had left him emotionally and physically shaken, and according to some critics he began as a result "a quest for psychological and artistic freedom that was to lead him first to the secluded woods of ... in earlier years, centered around a character named Nicholas Adams, undoubtably an incarnation of Hemingway himself. Just as Hemingway before him, Nick Adams grew up around the Michigan woods, went overseas to fight in the war, was severely wounded, and returned home. Earlier stories set in Michigan, such as "Indian Camp" and "The Three-Day Blow" show a young Nick to be an impressionable adolescent trying to find his path in ... Rises, which helped to build him a reputation. The book was instantly sucsessful and made him the leader of what was called "The Lost Generation." (Grolier, 1) His 1938 play and mellodrama of the Spanish Civil War, The Fifth Column, was composed a year earlier during a stay in Madrid. In 1933-34 He went on a big-game safari in Kenya and Tanganyika where he became an avid hunter ...
- 1227: Jefferson Davis
- ... residn in 1835. He was a farmer in Mississippi from 1835 to 1845. Then he was elected to the U.S. congress. In 1846, he resigned his seat in order to serve in the Mexican War and fought at Monterrey and Buena Vista, where he was wounded. He was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1847 to 1857, and a U.S. Senator again from 1857 to 1861. As a ... He was elected to the office by popular vote for a 6-year term and was inaugurated un Richmond, Virginia, the new capital of the Confederacy. He failed to raise enough money to fight the Civil War and could not obtain help for the Confederacy from foreign governments. One of the accomplishments of Jefferson Dacis, was the raising of the Confederate army. Davis had a difficult task to preform. He was ...
- 1228: Societies Greatest Writer
- ... he viewed as selfish and domineering" (Schafer 2 of 6). After graduating from high school he worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star. He later worked as an volunteer ambulance driver during World War I. This had a profound effect on his writing, "Hemingway's wartime experiences help suggest why his writing emphasizes physical and physiological violence and the need for courage" (Young 83). Some In his later years ... s life there have been many interesting and life changing events, each of them having their own effects on his life and personality. The most profound event in his life had to have been World War I. "Of tremendous impact to Hemingway's development as a writer was his ensuing participation in World War I as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy" (Schafer 2 of 6). He was discharged from service because he was injured by a shrapnel explosion near the front lines. During his recovery he ...
- 1229: A Farewell To Arms Essay
- ... contribute to the central meaning of the work. In Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms the foil images of Italy and Switzerland help shape the theme of the book which is the cruelty of war and what it does to people. The descriptions of the two countries, Italy and Switzerland, are greatly different and represent two types of places. On one hand, Italy is a site of cruelty and death. Here is where all of the war and fighting takes place throughout the novel. The front and plains in Italy are described to be where all the death and disaster happen to the armies and the volunteers. Henry and the other men ... They were just eating some cheese and drinking some wine when they were bombed. Here many of the people lost hope and moral because of the death surrounding them. Rinaldi even told Henry that “this war is killing me, I am very depressed by it.” A major even told Henry “It has been bad. You couldn’t believe how bad it’s been. I’ve often thought you (Henry) were ...
- 1230: War And Peace
- The book “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy is a story about the lives of the Russian royal family from 1805 to 1815. This book describes things and events that happened during the war. The story begins at a cocktail party being held at the home of Anna Pavolvna in St. Petersburg. Most of the action, however takes place in Moscow, at the home of the Rostov family, and the battle front in the war with Napoleon. Their are the good people and the bad people. The good people being Natasha Rostov, a teenage girl who grows and matures throughout the book and Pierre Bezuhov, the son of Kirill ...
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