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- 2671: Thomas Jefferson
- ... rights such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and impartially selected juries. "These principles," Jefferson concluded, "form the brightest constellation, which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation
They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which we try the services of those we trust." Unfortunately for Jefferson, marinating this creed would ...
- 2672: Tom Clancy
- ... all the terrorists are killed. The last mission that they are called on in the book is in Spain, in a huge amusement park. Earlier on in the book we hear a conversation in a french high security jail, with the Jackal and his lawyer. The Jackal tells his lawyer he is sick of being in jail and to call his friends and they would know what to do. The terrorists ...
- 2673: Warren G. Harding
- Before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality...." A Democratic leader, William Gibbs McAdoo ...
- 2674: William Blake
- ... he worked in a shop until the age of 14. His family ran this shop, and later his brother and he acquired the store through inheritance. Despite those misgivings, he taught himself Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, and Italian. His English was to be often strikingly original through other people's eyes. In 1767, he wanted to become an artist at the young age of 10. In pursuit of this dream, he ...
- 2675: Luxembourg
- ... Interesting I discovered that such a small country as Luxembourg could have so much history and stay independant for over 1,000 years. GLOSSARY Ardennes: The name for the mountainous region of Luxembourg. Bon Pays: French for "good land", it refers to the fertile farmland in the southern region of Luxembourg. Expressionist Painter: An artist that paints in a style made popular after World War I, in which the painting expresses ...
- 2676: William Bradford
- ... Action; and hence, notwithstanding the Difficulties through which he passed in his Youth, he attained unto a notable Skill in Languages; the Dutch Tongue was become almost as Vernacular to him as the English; the French Tongue he could also manage; the Latin and the Greek he had Mastered; but the Hebrew he most of all studied, Because, he said, he would see with his own Eyes the Ancient Oracles of ...
- 2677: Critique Pedagogy Of Praxis
- ... a social and political view, with authority an overriding theme. The aim of institutional pedagogy is to reach social self-management. Quoting Mendel and Vogt, Gadotti extols their socialist and antiauthoritarian objectives of the pedagogical revolution in the socialist school. The chapter continues with varying concepts on self-management and its movement from theory to practice. Gadotti recounts an experimental program at the University of Geneva. He summarizes the experience and ...
- 2678: The Ideas of Government Held by Locke and Hobbes
- ... government is essentials; his rational being that, until we are in a state of war with the government, the government still has something to offer us. Locke on the contrary finds the chances involved in revolution if the rights and property of the majority are not being protected. Locke believed that people had given up some rights, but the rights that were kept were the natural rights, which included the right ...
- 2679: The Difference Between W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington's Philosophies
- ... a pioneering Pan-Africanist was memorialized by the few who understood the genius of the man neglected by the many who are afraid that his loquacious espousals would unite the oppressed throughout the world into revolution. Booker T. Washington died in 1915. So in conclusion, as you read you see that the birth, education, religion, style, philosophy, and death of the two men differ in a numerous of ways.
- 2680: Sigmund Freud
- ... gradually began to attract faithful followers and students - along with a great number of critics. While exploring the possible psychological roots of nervous disorders, Freud spent several months in Paris, studying with Jean Charcot, a French neurologist from whom he learned hypnosis. On return to Vienna, Freud began to hypnotize patients and encouraging them while under hypnosis to speak openly about themselves and the onset of their symptoms. Often the patients ...
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