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- 4031: Rachel Carson
- ... such environmental problems. This was obviously an inspiring thought in the mind of Rachel Carson. These types of thoughts were what inspired her to write so many books, and work so hard up until the day she passed away. This day in 1964 was a tragic one; the heavens took one of our most admired fighters in the war against pollution. Hopefully Rachel Carson’s ideas and lessons will be followed for years and years to ... were permanently shut down, and people began feeling better about the situation. After the trial there was controversy about the final rulings, and people were unhappy., They felt that the case was unfair. To this day there is still a question in peoples minds...what really did cause these children to have leukemia? We might never know. In the long run I feel we should listen to the words of ...
- 4032: Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
- ... to extend agrarianism. Hamilton used his to build economic power. Where would we be if we removed the Hamiltonian developments from America and substitute for them the Jeffersonian values? Perhaps on farms, extending agrarianism. We’d be supplying food to Europe so that they could have the factories turning out the luxuries of the world. We’d keep the disease of European urbanism away from our shores. We’d be Europe’s “bread basket.” Thomas Jefferson was the symbol of the Democratic-Republican party. He saw the purpose of the government as the protection of the individuals right to life, liberty, and the ...
- 4033: The Life and Work of Frederick Douglass
- ... association with John Brown might threaten him. He returned after several months, and aided in Abraham Lincoln's campaign for president. Frederick Douglass had many other achievements, mainly political, before dying in 1895, in Washington, D. C. Frederick Douglass's life as a slave had the greatest impact on his writings. Through slavery, Douglass was able to develop the necessary emotion and experiences for him to become a successful abolitionist writer ... Of Frederick Douglass, Douglass wrote the complete story of his miserable life as a slave and his strife to obtain freedom. The main motivational force behind his character (himself) was to make it through another day so that someday he might see freedom. The well written books that he produced were all based on his life as was Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass. These books all start with Douglass ...
- 4034: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... the personal loss to reconcile it with her belief in the wisdom of God's will. There are two homes referred to in the poem, "my dwelling place," and the "house on high erect/Fram'd by that mighty Architect." In the poem, Bradstreet states that both homes are God's. The first five stanzas of the poem relate the pleasant objects--a trunk, a chest, a table--that the poet ... even though vanquished, reasserted again and again its claims"(Blair 229). Flesh is the unsettled, questioning heart, while spirit is the settled heart. Flesh and Spirit are personified by two sisters: One flesh was call'd, who had her eye On worldly wealth and vanity; The other Spirit, who did rear Her thoughts unto a higher spere: (Blair 234) Although Bradstreet presents the correct dogma in her poem, its purpose is ... The Literature of the United States, 3rd ed. New York: New York University Press, 1966. Bowtell, Stephen. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. By a Gentlewoman in those Parts. London, 1650. Hall, David D. Puritanism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts, New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1968. Hensley, Jeannine, ed. The Works of Anne Bradstreet, Boston: Harvard University Press, 1967. Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Intellectual Life of Colonial New ...
- 4035: Alfred Tennyson and His Work
- ... aspect of the Victorian era were found in his poetry. His poetry covered a large range of subjects such as moral and religious problems in his time. His poems also discuss the events of his day - "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "The Death of the Duke of Wellington" are two poems of this type that show the emotion of the nation. Tennyson's work is appreciated perhaps for the ... The Lady of Shalott". Frequently, Tennyson's personal worries were the same as those of the time. For example, the way he describes Sir Bedivere's reaction to the death of King Arthur in "Morte D'Arthur". Tennyson expresses Sir Bedivere's problem, caught in a changing world and with stable traditions disappearing fast. "For now I see the true old times are dead..."(Culler, A. Dwight, pg. 47): And I ...
- 4036: Deng Xiaoping
- ... during the war, the Nationalists probably would have easily won. Because of Deng Xiaoping, the people of the nation were finally able to begin to modernize and enjoy a higher standard of living. From the day China became a Communist nation, to 1976 when Deng Xiaoping's superior, Mao Tse-tung dies, Deng Xiaoping did several things that greatly influence China. However, most of what happens to China during that period ... the library just a month ago. I was stumbling through the shelves looking for a biography about a famous person. I started going through each biography alphabetically. It wasn't until I reached the letter "D" that I found the biography about Deng Xiaoping. I picked up this thick book and reluctantly decided to do my term project on Deng Xiaoping. The only thing I knew about him was that he ...
- 4037: Siddhartha Gautama
- ... life on a young prince. According to custom, he married at the young age of sixteen to a girl named Yasodhara. His father had ordered that he live a life of total seclusion, but one day Siddhartha ventured out into the world and was confronted with the reality of the inevitable suffering of life. The next day, at the age of twenty-nine, he left his kingdom and new-born son to lead an modest life and determine a way to relieve universal suffering. For six years, Siddhartha meditated under a bodhi tree. But he was never fully satisfied. One day he was offered a bowl of rice from a young girl and he accepted it. In that moment, he realized that physical hardships were not the means to freedom. From then on, he encouraged ...
- 4038: Nicholas Ferrar
- ... Nicholas became spiritual leader of the community. The community was very strict under the supervision of Nicholas. They read daily offices of the Book of Common Prayer, including the recital of the complete Psalter. every day. Day and night there was at least one member of the community kneeling in prayer at the alter, that they were keeping the word, ˙Pray without ceasing˙. They taught the neighborhood children, and looked after the ... He was fleeing from defeat from the battle of Naseby and was heading north to try to enlist support from the Scots. John brought him secretly to Little Gidding and got him away the next day. The community was now in much danger. The Presbyterian Puritans were now on the rise and the community was condemned with a series of pamphlets calling them an ˙ Arminian Nunnery˙ (Ariminius was a ...
- 4039: John Paul Stevens: Biography
- ... self. In 1941, he left the University with a Phi Betta Kappa key, and a B.A. degree. He joined the navy, after the U.S entered World War 2. Stevens was stationed in Washington D.C, as a intelligence officer on the staff of admiral Chester W. Nimitz. He worked with a group assigned to break Japanese codes. for doing this, he was awarded the Bronze Star. After he returned to Chicago, (at the end of the war) he enrolled himself into Northwestern University School of Law to earn his J.D. degree, where he graduated first in his class. Not long after that, he was admitted into the Order of the Coif and the Phi Delta Phi law society. From 1947 to 48, Stevens spent the ... expert guidance from a Senior in the firm, Stevens acquired the expertise in antitrust, that law, that stood him a good stead during 51 and 52, for when he spent time on the Capitol in D.C as an associate counsel of the house Judiciary committee¹s subcommittee on the study of monopoly power and then from 1953 to 55 where he was a member of the attorney generals national ...
- 4040: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
- ... his assassin as a national hero. He was aroused by the prospect of votes for blacks, and he was determined to carry out his assassination scheme. Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. on April 14, 1865. The president died the next day (Sandburg 522). Davis was a suspect in the murder of Lincoln. The Northerners, not knowing of any details of the assassination, made him a suspect. Davis was captured and became very unpopular in the Confederacy ...
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