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- 641: Walt Whitman 2
- During the time period that Walter Whitman lived, there were many controversial things happening to the American people as a whole. One of the most strenuous upon society at the time was the Civil War. The Civil War created many problems in the lives of most Americans during this time period. This war also prompted, and inspired Walt to create many of his historical works of art. The war was raging ...
- 642: Russia in 1910
- ... and nations all collapse. The end of them can be many various causes. Whether becoming to large for their good, being ruled by a series of out touch men, having too many enemies, succumbing to civil war or a combination; no country is safe. The Russia of 1910 was in horrible situation. It had all of these problems. Russia would not have existed by 1920 were it not for Vladimir Ilich Lenin ... machines, the government traded grains to other countries in exchange for machinery, though it meant more people would now starve. Compound this with the devastation and desperation brought on shortly thereafter by the first world war, and there was no confidence left in the government. Liberal constitutionalists wanted to remove the Czar and form a republic; social revolutionists tried to promote a peasant revolution. Marxist promoted a revolution among the ...
- 643: Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
- ... Bay, on Long Island. He published biographies of Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Hart Benton and works on the American West, some based on his personal experiences. In 1889 he was appointed to the U.S. Civil Service Commission. As head of the commission for much of his six years of service, Roosevelt was guided by the belief that the system was full of corruption that kept good men out of politics. During his tenure Civil Service examinations were revised, fraud was pursued, and the number of positions open to competitive examinations was doubled. In addition, women were placed on the same competitive plane as men in many positions. Roosevelt left ... payoffs to the police, of a law closing saloons and beer gardens on Sundays. President William McKinley named Roosevelt assistant secretary of the navy in 1897. In this position, Roosevelt worked behind the scenes for war against Spain, which was fighting an independence movement in Cuba. He wished to see European influence eliminated from the Caribbean islands, and he was driven by the conviction that superior nations had the right ...
- 644: John F. Kennedy
- ... one example of the President's response to a domestic issue and the President's view on foreign policy. "The Fight For Equal Rights" (Sorensen 470). In 1953 John Kennedy was adamantly in favor of civil rights legislation as a political neccessity and simply recognized that this legislation was morally correct. However in 1963 Kennedy was deeply committed to human rights. His convictions on this subject were not converted, but instead ... characteristic gradualness, logic, and cool mentality. He immediately began to implement programs that would incorporate a stronger black prescence in the legislative and judical branches of government. However an element that was seriously lacking were civil rights measures. No amount of Presidential pressure could put through the Eighty- seventh Congress a meaningful legislative package on civil rights (Sorensen 476). Kennedy responded to his situation at a press conference by saying, when I feel that there is a necessity for Congressional action, with a chance of getting that Congressional action, then ...
- 645: Hemingway
- ... met and fell for a thirty year-old nurse called Agnes Hannah. To Ernest's disappointment, Agnes was not willing to embark in a relationship. Ernest, who had not yet turned twenty, who was a war hero, a journalist and a wounded soldier, was too young for beautiful Agnes . With the will to write fiction, he moved to Chicago where most of his work was refused. He lived by writing for ... of a talented yet unacomplished artist as he faced death. The last short story to result from Africa was The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber, which seeks the meaning of courage. The Spanish Civil War became official in July, 1936. Hemingway was offered a liaison's job by the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). He accepted, much to Pauline's opposition. Being a newsman, officially he remained neutral throughout ...
- 646: The Influence of Thoreau on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... writer Leo Tolstoy, whose influence on Gandhi was profound. Gandhi also acknowledged his debt to the teachings of Christ and to the 19th-century American writer Henry David Thoreau, especially to Thoreau's famous essay Civil Disobedience. (Encarta) Gandhi thought the terms passive resistance and civil disobedience insufficient for his purpose, so he coined another term, Satyagraha, which means truth and firmness in Sanskrit. After the Boer War, in which Gandhi organized an ambulance corps for the British Army, he returned to his campaign for Indian rights in Africa. He founded a cooperative farm near Johannesburg in 1910. Four years later, the ...
- 647: The Man Who Made Ireland
- ... effort is focused on conveying Collins role in the formation of an Irish Free State and the violence that was continually linked with it. While the majority of Europe was in the trenches of World War I, the Irish were waging war on their own soil, against the British. The Anglo-Irish war which broke out in January of 1919, was typically called the "troubles" for it was more a series of ambushes, raids, assassinations, and guerrilla tactics rather than a full scale war. It was Collins ...
- 648: The Nation Takes Shape
- ... the emergence of America into six distinct evolutionary processes: The national government, our foreign relations, the expansion of the west, the growth of the economy, the expanding sectional rifts which formed the basis for the civil war, and finally the growth of a more equal democracy. Cunliffe illustrates these points as the way, The Nation Takes Shape. Cunliff first talks about the origin and growth of partisan politics. In doing so, he ... not only took their ships, but they also impressed American sailors. During all of this mayhem President Madison came to power. Because of Britain's violations of America's sailors, he asked congress to declare war against Britain. Congress voted yes to the war. Afterwards, it was named the War of 1812. After two years of fighting, General Andrew Jackson came out victorious. A treaty was signed in Belgium, and ...
- 649: Hemmingway
- ... met and fell for a thirty year-old nurse called Agnes Hannah. To Ernest's disappointment, Agnes was not willing to embark in a relationship. Ernest, who had not yet turned twenty, who was a war hero, a journalist and a wounded soldier, was too young for beautiful Agnes . With the will to write fiction, he moved to Chicago where most of his work was refused. He lived by writing for ... of a talented yet unacomplished artist as he faced death. The last short story to result from Africa was The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber, which seeks the meaning of courage. The Spanish Civil War became official in July, 1936. Hemingway was offered a liaison's job by the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). He accepted, much to Pauline's opposition. Being a newsman, officially he remained neutral throughout ...
- 650: Joan of Arc As A Leader
- ... examine would be the former President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), was one of the truly greatest leaders of all time. He led the United States to victory during the civil war (1861-1865), which was the greatest crisis in U.S. history. Lincoln helped end slavery in the nation and helped keep the American Union from splitting apart during the war. (Rolka,1994,213) An excellent example of bad leadership would be the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Iraq and Iran were at war from 1980 to 1988 the battle ended on an agreement of a ...
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