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- 691: Thomas Jefferson
- ... United States (1801-1809) and author of the Declaration of Independence. He was a philosopher, educator, naturalist, politician, scientist, architect, inventor, pioneer in scientific farming, musician, and writer. Jefferson was the foremost spokesperson of his day for democracy. As president, he strengthened the powers of the executive branch of government. He was also the first president to lead a political party. Jefferson had great faith in popular rule and sought to ... passage of what were called the Intolerable Acts. One of these, the Boston Port Act, closed the harbor of Boston, Massachusetts, in retaliation for a protest incident. Jefferson was one who controversially suggested that the day the act went into effect should be declared "a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer." During 1775 and 1776 Jefferson sat in the Continental Congress. During this time the American Revolution broke out. In the congress Jefferson wrote his most famous document, the Declaration ...
- 692: The Lives of Confucius and Guatama Siddhartha
- ... very different life than that of Confucius. The Buddha was born in 566 B.C. to Queen Maya and King Suddhodana. He was given the name “Siddhartha” which means which means “ all wishes accomplished”. Seven day's after the birth, his mother, Queen Maya died. Queen Maya's younger sister, Mahapajapati, took the responsibility of raising Guatama and the King made her his second wife. Right from the birth of this ... with the prince's lonely and newly deprived life. Soon there was a following of the prince and it grew daily. The prince, knowing this, still deprived himself of meals: Going from just one a day to one a month to just eating a grain of rice a day. “He became hollow-eyed; he was barboned, and the belly and the back touched. The pains physical and mental reached the last point” (Takakusu, 27). Guatama Siddhartha realized that by practically killing himself he ...
- 693: Juvenile Delinquency
- ... from school. Children have the right to have both parents actively involved in all aspects of their lives. They have the right for parents to sit civilly at the dinner table and ask about their day. They have a right for respect and decency and they have a right to not be victimized by those people who chose to bring them into this world. They have a right to be able ... Rhoades March 11, 1999 RESOURCES 1. Kortege, Carglyn, Parenthood Training Promoted. The Register Guard, Des Moines, IA www.os/c.org/InTheNews/parenthood 2. Child Abuse Prevention Network, "Moral Development and Boys, James Garbarino, PH.D www.child.cornell.edu/npr.violentboys 3. Conseur, Amy, Rivera, Frederick P., Baronski, Robert and Irvin, Emanuel, "Maternal and Perinatal Risk Factors for Later Delinquency." Pediatrics, June, 1997, v. 99, p 785 (6) 4. Berg ... Lost Control www.fbcbaytown.org/parents 7. Boostrom, Ron, "Enduring Issues in Criminology - Opposing Viewpoints," Greenhaven Press, Inc., P.O. Box 289009, San Diego, CA 92198-9009, p. 121-125, 173-174, 180 8. MacKenzie, D.L. 1997, Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention. In Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What Looks Promising (A Report to the United States Congress), eds. L.W. Sherman, D. Gottfredson, D.MacKenzie, J. ...
- 694: Life During the Civil War
- ... march and sometimes they would just march right back to where they started(Brown, 120). There were also times when troops would march a couple of hundred yards and end up marching back the next day. It sounds as though there was a lot of unnecessary marching. There was also a lot of unnecessary shooting. There would be picket lines shooting all day every day and the occasional canon shot(Brown, 118). Sometimes there would be picket firing going on into the night(Mohr, 324). “Shelling don't scare us as it used to and if they pass us ...
- 695: Hitler
- ... of Leonding. The now lived next to a small cemetery. Adolf found school to be easy now and liked drawing. He had a photographic Memory and could probably draw just about anything he seen. One day Adolf found some of his fathers' books. He found one about the War of 1870-1871 between the Germans and Indians. He became obsessed with this book. He thought this was a great event. Hitler ... large school and didn't do very good at first. There were a lot of arguments at home between him and his father about school. Adolf didn't want to sit in an office all day. His father thought he was ridiculous and a struggle began between them. The next year at school, Hitler was the oldest boy in class. He became a Ringleader and played cowboys and Indians after school ... of the child was Adolf Hitler. He was the son a Customs official Alois Hitler, and his third wife Klara. As a young boy Adolf attendated church regularly and sang in the local choir. One day he carved a symbol into the bench which resembled the Swastika he later used as the symbol of the Nazi party. He was a pretty good student. He received good marks in most of ...
- 696: “All Summer In a Day”: Selfish and Hateful of the Human Race
- “All Summer In a Day”: Selfish and Hateful of the Human Race Imagine living your whole life without ever seeing the sun. What would it be like to see rain everyday of your life? In “All Summer In a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, that is what all the children live like except Margot. Bradbury explores what it would be like for children to be born on and live their whole lives on another planet without ... author uses foreshadowing by saying, “she was different and they knew her difference and kept away.” This foreshadowed, hinted of some future event, that Margot wasn’t going to get to see the sun that day. The author uses the sun and the rain as forms of symbolism, which is a form of imagery that the author uses to make an object, event, or character represent a concept beyond its ...
- 697: The Life of Henry Ford
- ... and they immediately accepted Henry. They all worked hard as apprentices building the large, primitive engines. Henry always thought about improving and refining the engines, but the other guys only thought about their work. One day Henry had a watch which he had taken apart. They ridiculed him for destroying the watch, but he told them that he could put it back together. He suggested that they start a watch company ... month. He had been working on his second car for 8 years. He tried to interest wealthy men in helping him manufacture cars, but they all thought it was too much of a gamble. One day he went to Coffee Jim's lunch wagon and told him of his plans for building a race car to impress people into backing his plans for building cars. Coffee Jim didn't have a wife or kids, so he gave Henry the money to build a racer. The next day, Henry quit his job and started working on his racer. He built a compact 2-cylinder engine and assembled a skeleton chassis. After a few trial runs, he decided to challenge Alexander Winton, who ...
- 698: Saint Francis of Assissi
- ... to the profession of his father, who was a merchant. Yet this he did in his own way. Merry and generous by nature, ever ready for jest and song, he roamed the town of Assisi day and night with his comrades and was most prodigal in his spending-to such and extent that he used all the money allowed him and all his earnings for banquets and festivities. For this reason ... he spoke is unknown. Because he was called ‘the Frenchman' and called his language ‘French', it is usually assumed that his dialect was that of the north and the Ile de France, not the langue d'oc of county of Toulouse, which further west towards Navarre shaded into early Spanish. But although he once himself proposed to go to Paris, most of the traces of ‘French' influence in his life seem ... Portiuncula; he was to remain there and accept postulants into the Order, while Gregory toured Italy to console the bretthren. Accourding to the first Rule, the fairs were to fast on the fourth and sixth day of the week. There might be some plausibility in the suggestion that the Roman authorities, while lacking idealism thenselves, shrewdly understood how to utilize the idealism of others, were it not that they would ...
- 699: Galicia
- ... They usually are not prejudice to any outsiders, and willing listen to their ideas. People believe that many of these traits came from the Celts who came in 1000 B.C. and ruled until A.D. 137. They seem to have many things in common with the Irish and the Scots because of this. Including a bagpipe-like instrument called a Gaita. The language of Galicia is different from the rest ... also served. Cheese is also another specialty of Galicia, a entire meal can be made up of just cheese, and not be boring! Many Gallegos have cheese and peasant bread for their lunchtime meal every day. For desserts, the Gallegos make excellant pastrys and sponge cakes, which are not found in any other part of Spain. Wine is probably the greatest thing that Galicia has to offer to the world, often ... a nice place to have an after dinner drink. While there be sure to have the breakfast buffet. It includes dishes from all over as well as local favorites. A good place to end the day is on the stone bench that is in front of the Hotel, it provides a lovely view. Shopping in the old town is also a good idea for spending a day. There is no ...
- 700: Dwight David Eisenhower
- ... to be in it for four years. It isn't going to be so bad. you've got time to think -- and besides, the pay is pretty good." One year later, on a cool, grey day, the 35th President of the United States sat at his desk in the oval office of the White House and discussed the same subject. "This job is interesting," he said in that combination of Irish ... House, Kennedy chose as his model the Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the New Deal years. He expressed admiration for Roosevelt's ability to "do" things and to "get things done," even adopted some of F.D.R.'s speech mannerisms (the cocked head, allusions to historical fact). Kennedy advisers talked about a Rooseveltian 100 days of dramatic success with Congress. But before the azaleas had bloomed in the White House garden the Roosevelt image went by the boards -- and so did the 100-day notion. "This period," says Kennedy today, with just a shade of irritation, "is entirely different from Franklin Roosevelt's day. Everyone says that Roosevelt did this and that, why don't I?" Changed Positives. ...
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