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- 4071: 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 ...
- 4072: 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 ...
- 4073: Charles Darwin
- ... generations following them. The reasoning powers of the great philosophers, the valour of Crusading knights should have been endowed in all rather than a meagre few. According to this theory of evolution descendants could one day attain the heights Europeans had already scaled. The Lamarckian evolution had only one crucial defect, it was entirely untrue. One could cut off a rat's tail, but its offspring would have normal tails. The rules of genetics were not known in Lamarck's day, and were not known until long after Darwin's, when the pioneering work of Mendel was rediscovered at the turn of the twentieth century. But animal breeders had long since discovered certain principles of breeding ... not be able to see the entire history of evolution but from our viewpoint we have hundreds of examples of natural selection taking place all around us each and every second of each and every day. Fortunately, Charles Darwin (and maybe I should credit Alfred Lord Wallace) had the insight and boldness to conceive and develop a theory so controversial to his time and culture. Bibliography Clark, R.W. (1984). ...
- 4074: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- ... choice. He strongly disagreed with Henry's radical politics, and tried to discourage me, but I was stubborn. So, on May 1, 1840, we got married in my parents home in Johnstown. On the wedding day, we both agreed (although the minister objected) to remove the word "obey" from my vows. I refused to obey someone with whom I was entering an equal relationship. We honeymooned in London where Henry combined ... Unfortunately, Elizabeth Cady Stanton did not live long enough to vote freely. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's writings, her speeches, her enthusiasm and her life provide inspiration for generations of American feminists, even to the present day. I think that Elizabeth, were she here today, would be pleased to see her work was not in vain. And that the revolution she and other ladies of Seneca Falls began that hot July day in 1848 did not end 76 years ago when women acquired suffrage. And that her life still inspires new genrations of young women. If it were possible for me to meet with Elizabeth Cady ...
- 4075: The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
- ... water fountains, Atlanta went was as far as to have African Americans to swear to a different bible than there white counterparts in courtrooms. Du Bois was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. In 1909 he founded the National Association for the advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Americanizing consisted of making all immigrants learn English and basic laws, so that they will fit in to ... amount of Chinese immigrants. Then in 1907 Roosevelt came to an agreement with Japan to limit the amount o f immigrants. Unions where a great thing, making a minimum wage for woman, limiting the work day, and wiping out child labor, this was a great time in the US.
- 4076: The Accomplishments of Alexander the Great
- ... aware of it. Alexander delayed the attack until he had seen the battle field with his own eyes. Scanning the terrain for advantageous positions to make up for the lacking number of Macedonian forces. The day of the battle came and went with a stunning victory for Alexander. His plan was to create a rift in the center of the Persian troops. For that was where Darius was and where the ... for the purpose, to deal with the elephants when the enemy was in a state of confusion. Alexander_s men would strike the elephants with two headed axes, making them run around uncontrollably crushing frien d and foe. Although victory was inevitable for Alexander, Porus was determined to see it through until he suffered a serious shoulder wound. He, like Darius was forced to retire his elephant from the battlefield. After ...
- 4077: Stephen King: The King of Terror
- ... on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his adopted brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen's father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact on King's life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King recalls how ... in the same fashion the way it was done on the radio (Beaham 17). King's fascination with horror early on continued and was pushed along only a couple weeks after Bradbury's story. One day little Stephen was looking through his mother's books and came across one named The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. After his mother finished reading the book to him, Stephen was hooked ... experiences and observations from his life and places them into his unique works. What seems to make Stephen King's stories almost magical is that the settings of his stories are placed into common every day places. Additionally, Stephen's writings are true to life in peoples mind's because he draws upon common fears. Just as King's writing style and genre had been influenced by movies throughout his ...
- 4078: James Fenimore Cooper and His Writings
- ... nine other long works of fiction and fifteen books. He is widely read in Europe, where his Leatherstocking Tales contributed to the romantic notion of American frontier life. "English novelists such as Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence praised his work; American writers have been of differing opinions. Herman Melville admired Cooper's sea tales; Mark Twain questioned his knowledge of wilderness survival and ridiculed his handling of character and dialogue ... Leatherstocking tales reflects people by "the poetry of action, that tension of the soul between the hero each of us aspires to be and the transgressors we too often are." It is hard for modern day readers to appreciate Cooper's works for what they are. By today's standards, these novels may not be great literature, but they are an important part of the history of American literature. Readers should ...
- 4079: Thomas Paine
- ... up his act. Paine, who had been a heavy drinker had stopped drinking for a while, too. The Battle at Lexington and Concorde soon came about and nobody was too happy about it. The next day after they heard this news, a huge mob assembled outside of the state house. Thomas Paine was one of the speakers trying to calm down all of the eight-thousand people that were in front ... need a new world, or independence. At first the Pole laughed at him, but Adams liked the idea. Aitkin still tried to get Paine back because many people liked his articles and his poems he'd have in the paper. Paine still stood his ground and said no, Aitkin also didn't want Paine to hold a grudge, but Paine said he doesn't hold a grudge against anyone but himself ...
- 4080: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. During the next 4 years Johnson developed a wide network of political contacts in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta Taylor, known as "Lady Bird." A warm, intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping ... In the late 1950s, Johnson began to think seriously of running for the presidency in 1960. His record had been fairly conservative, however. Many Democratic liberals resented his friendly association with the Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower; others considered him a tool of wealthy Southwestern gas and oil interests. Either to soften this image as a conservative or in response to inner conviction, Johnson moved slightly to the left on ...
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