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- 1661: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- ... wife’s maternal grandfather. He visited the house in the summer of 1843. The poem, however, was not written until November two years later. The poem itself is based on the words of Bridane, the French missionary, who said of eternity: “C’est une pendule don’t le balancier dit et redit sans cesse ces deux mots seulement dans le silence des tombeaux- - Toujours, jamais! Jamais, toujours! Et pendant ces effrayables revolutions, un reprouve s’ecrie, “Quelle heure est-il?” et la voix d’un autre miserable lui respond, “L’Eternite.” This French passage reads, in English: “This is a clock of which the pendulum says and repeats endlessly those two words only in the tombs’ silence,-- Always, never! Never, always! And during these frightening changes, a condemned ...
- 1662: Mercury
- ... that of the earth and it’s average density is approximately equal to that of the earth. Mercury’s magnetic field is one-hundred times weaker than that of Earth’s. Mercury has the shortest revolution of all the planets in our solar system and revolves around the sun in about eighty-eight days. Radar observations of the planet show that its period of rotation is 58.7 days, or two-thirds of its period of revolution. That means that Mercury has one and one-half days in it’s year. Mercury doesn’t have an atmosphere, but it does have a thin layer of helium. The helium is actually solar wind ...
- 1663: Western Expansion
- ... Frederick Jackson Turner says, the greatest force or influence in shaping American democracy and society had been that there was so much free land in America and this profoundly affected American society. Motives After the revolution, the winning of independence opened up the Western country and was hence followed by a steady flow of settlers to the Mississippi valley. By 1840, 10 new western states had been added to the Federal ... and their construction created a demand for cheap labor making it easier for people to get jobs now, in contrast with the cities where there was unemployment. The pioneer movement for 70 years after the revolution roughly represented the form of 3 parallel streams, flowing westwards from New England, Virginia and South Carolina. The first pioneer groups tended to move directly westward. Thus the new Englanders migrated into western New York ...
- 1664: Evelina: Madame Duval
- ... this hunger as a vehicle to justify the vicious acts performed upon Madame Duval by Captain Mirvan. The first instance of abuse occurs after Evelina and the Mirvans leave the theater. They meet a distressed French woman who seems to have lost her way. The Captain immediately insults her character because she is French. The woman, in her own defense, begins to argue with him and return his insults. When the woman calls him "a low, dirty fellow"(51), the Captain responds by "seizing both her wrists"(51). Evelina ...
- 1665: Analysis of the Red Scare
- ... this was taking place, an American Communist Party was emerging from the ashes of the former Socialist strongholds which were all along the eastern seaboard of the US. There, Russian immigrants identified with the Bolshevik revolution in Mother Russia because of their similar lives of poverty and squalor. These conditions of dispair were in part due to the exclusion of immigrants from unions and their not being permitted to vote. These ... workers. In that September, steel workers struck. All of the available blame was put upon the American Communists, although many communists tried to oppose this strike. Nationalist Americans called for a halt to this "Bolshevik Revolution" which was taking place on American soil. As a result of this panic traveling through American society, a series of bombings occurred. The Socialists were immediately assumed to be responsible. Newspapers had a field day ...
- 1666: African Americans
- ... construction, and purpose whatsoever." In spite of numerous ideological conflicts, however, the slavery system was maintained in the United States until 1865, and widespread antiblack attitudes nurtured by slavery continued thereafter. Prior to the American Revolution, slavery existed in all the colonies. The ideals of the Revolution and the limited profitability of slavery in the North resulted in its abandonment in northern states during the last quarter of the 18th century. At the same time the strength of slavery increased in the ...
- 1667: Essay on Romanticism in Frankenstein
- ... author can not help to include some aspects of the time period in which they are in. The Romantic Period had a tremendous influence on Marry Shelly's writing of the novel, Frankenstein. The Industrial Revolution in England during the late 1700's was a time of great change. The populace was moving into cities, and people were disillusioned by the destruction of nature and the living conditions in the cities ... to help society, but it turns out to be the undoing of society and himself is an example of Victors self-centeredness. His life degenerates from here on. Victor is a product of the Industrial Revolution. In reaction to people with Victor's characteristics, the Romantic Period is born. His beliefs are in science and the known world, which is the opposite of the Romantic ideal. He believes that he can ...
- 1668: Climate Change (term Paper)
- ... further, it is even more frightening to note that, while man has affected the environment throughout his stay on earth, the impact has been most intense in the relatively short industrial era. Since the industrial revolution, and over the past century in particular, man’s ecological footprint on the earth has quickly grown from that of a child to one of a giant. True, this period is heralded as an economic ... impressions of many, the environment is an immediate problem. Though environmental concerns are widespread and many, perhaps the most challenging is the significant (30%) increase in greenhouse gasses accumulated in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution. At present rates of increase, these greenhouse gasses will again double by the turn of the next century. The effects this will have on the earth’s climate remain controversial, but most agree that the ...
- 1669: A Critique of "Gone to Soldiers" by Marge Piercy
- ... connects the lives of women and men, Jews and gentiles by using family ties and steamy love affairs. The people have dramatically different profiles, some are rich some are poor, some are Americans, some are French, some are with power while others are persecuted, but everyone is connected by the war. War freed women by allowing them to work in factories and defy their husbands by hiding resisting French Jews. Piercy makes history exciting by making each character really experience love and hate and the mundane daily struggles of the individual. I completely enjoyed Gone to Soldiers, because several main characters prevented me from ...
- 1670: American Colonies
- ... change that the colonies in America had to make was to become a society quite different from that in England. By 1763 although some colonies still maintained established churches, other colonies had accomplished a virtual revolution for religious toleration and separation of church and state. During the mid-1600's England was a Christian dominated nation; the colonies, however, were mainly Puritans. When Sir Edmond Andros took over a Puritan church ... over. England could not do this because England so defined the social classes and they did not have enough land that they could give to every male and his indentured servant. In a similar economic revolution, the colonies out grew their mercantile relationship with England and developed their own expanding capitalist system. The idea of a set amount of wealth in the world and that if one were to become wealthy ...
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