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- 1711: Henry Ford
- ... experiments, he theorized the power of steam. To prove the nature of this phenomenon, he plugged the spout of one of his mother s delicate teapots, and set it to a boil. And to the great joy of the young, giggly theorist (and dismay of his mother), the explosion sent pieces of glass and boiling water crashing around the kitchen! Miraculously the young observer was left untouched! This result is eerily ... the Detroit Edison Illuminating Company that Ford met Thomas Edison. At a convention Ford was introduced to Edison as The young fellow who s made a gas car. 5 After discussing his ideas with the great inventor, Ford was glad to hear that Edison thought his ideas had merit. Edison told him, Young man, you have it, a self-contained unit carrying its own fuel. Keep at it! 6 The meeting ... the industry in 1918-1919 and 1921-1925. The Model T, or Tin Lizzie, was a hard working, sturdy, commonplace car. Ford s dream had come true. I will build a motor car for the great multitude constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise so low in price that no man making a good salary will ...
- 1712: Defining Honor
- ... that I would probably receive very different answers. One of the reasons for this is that it often means different things in the minds of different people. For instance, we say that it was a great honor for Jim Smith to be elected captain of the football team; and then, on the other hand, we talk about a code of honor, -- or the laws of honor. What does Jim Smith's ... distinction they earn, the more honorable they feels themselves to be. This was the idea of honor existing among the ancient heathen people before the Christian era. You know that, after the fall of the great Roman Empire, there was a period of about a thousand years, when the light of civilization went out in Europe, and the darkness of ignorance and barbarism took its place. During these dark days, there ... the name of "honor" to that which weakens us, we can hardly expect to grow stronger as the years go by. The old knights had the right idea of honor, and there have been a great variety of orders of chivalry in different countries, such as those mentioned in the Boy Scout Manual; and the main idea in all of them was to hold up a standard of public service ...
- 1713: The Work of Poet and Philosoher Archibald Lampman
- ... write such popular pieces as "Heat" and "A sunset at Les Eboulements" and yet in his darkest moments we get the main topic of this essay "The City of The End of Things". Like most great poets, Lampmans moods and feelings had a direct effect on the nature and topic of his poetry. Lampman chief poetry was done after a great joy in his life, or a great sadness. Sadly, Archibald was not a rich man and lived not a happy life, and most of his poetry reflects that. "The City of The End of Things" was written in a time of ...
- 1714: Leonard Bernstein
- ... age. At the age of ten, Leonards family received a piano from an aunt who no longer needed it. She knew of Leonards love for music, but I doubt she knew what a great impact this gift would have, not only on Leonard, but also on the world of music. After the young boy began to show an interest in the instrument, a neighbor offered to give him lessons ... in Boston. At the age of seventeen, Bernstein was accepted at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was interested in many other things other than music. For example, philosophy and history were both subjects of great importance to him. After graduating from Harvard cum laude in 1939, Leonard spent a year in New York City. He met many influential people throughout the course of this year, including Aaron Copland. Aaron Copland ... both became involved in left wing politics; and both were homosexual. (Later, it was said that Bernstein was bisexual and he did marry and have a typical heterosexual relationship.) The relationship began with Bernsteins great admiration of Copland and from there they formed life long tie In 1939, Bernstein began to attend the Curtis Institute for Music in Philadelphia, which was a school for both composers and those who ...
- 1715: Of Mice and Men: Insight into the Life of the Characters
- ... However, Lennie's strength did not work with him and the result was fatal. Lennie is an extremely large man who had the strength of a bull. With the use of his strength, he was great worker but did not understand how strong he was. George explains Lennie's strength by "that big bastard can put up more grain alone than most pairs can". Through his size and his enormous amount of strength Lennie could out work the other men of the ranch by himself. Through the use of Lennie's strength he became a great worker who knew nothing more than to work. Lennie uses his abilities to work hard, but does not understand how strong he is. Without George, Lennie does not understand what to do. Lennie gets frightened ... once again just like just like a little child he held on. But he ended up breaking Curley's wife neck. As a result of his actions Lennie ended up dead. Lennie had an extremely great ability to use his strength and become a great worker. However his difficulty to understand his strength lead to his death. Unlike Lennie, Crooks potential is his knowledge, and Crooks has the ability to ...
- 1716: Events leading to the American Revolution
- Events leading to the American Revolution During the late seventeen hundreds, many tumultuous events resulted in Colonial opposition to Great Britain. The conditions of rights of the colonists will slowly be changed as the constriction of the parliament becomes more and more intolerable. During the Seven Years' War England was not only alarmed by the ... and Parliamentary Taxation committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. "I.That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the same allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body, the Parliament of Great Britain." This statement can be used as a summation of the entire document that the Stamp Act Congress had initiated. The statement depicts the colonists has having to be submissive and servile in the ...
- 1717: Notes: Americanization or Candaisnism?
- ... to control trade. *Encourage producer and consumer cooperatives. *National labour code to cope with things such as unemployment. *Public owned health and hospital services. *Amendment of the BNA so that Ottawa can deal with the depression. *Foreign policy to promote international peace. *Changes in the tax laws. *Freedom of speech and assembly. *Humanization of the law. *An emergency program to deal with things such as the depression. _This made the CCF start strong towards being a third major party. -In 1935, Stevens left the Conservative party because he was forced out and made a Reconstruction Party to help farmers and workers. -In ... made a new deal with the Americans by building dams and forming unions. -In Jan.3rd 1935, Bennet introduced unemployed insurance, a minimum wage etc.. rules to copy Roosvelt's way of getting over the depression. -Bennet then went to England for the silver jubilee of King George the 5th. _In 1935, the Regina insident took place that destroyed his reputition and cost him the title of being the PM ...
- 1718: Frederick Douglass
- ... to work in the fields. As a young child he would wonder why he was a slave, and why everyone can't be equal. His thoughts frequently came back to him, leaving him with a great hatred for slavery. In 1836, Frederick had finally had enough of his imprisonment, and attempted an escape with many other slaves. The escape was not successful, Frederick and the other slaves were sent to work in a shipyard hauling crates. Frederick worked the shipyard for two years until he had another great escape idea, this one would work though. The sailing papers of a sailor had been borrowed, and disguised as a sailor, Frederick Douglass made his escape to New Bedford, Massachusetts. Upon his arrival, Frederick took up his new assumed last name Douglass, to escape being captured. In 1841, Frederick attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket Massachusetts. Here, his impromptu speech he gave showed him to be a great speaker. The opponents of Frederick believed that he was never a slave, because of his great speaking skills and knowledge. In response to this, Frederick wrote his life story in his book _Life and ...
- 1719: Economics
- ... up, the trains somehow don't run and the bread doesn't get baked. America and England driven still by some faint remaining spark of "free enterprise" muddle along. But the economic squeeze is too great for this long to continue. Income Tax, bank and state loans, all the evils are there waiting. Sensing the coming total ownership of all, the worker even in the U.S. and England begins to ... was an hour's work a century ago. Strikes now enthusiastically paralyze anything they can. Inefficiency and inaction are the order of the day. Not clever, the Capitaliist, the Commissar (a Soviet Party Official), the Great Socialist do not believe anyone has penetrated their actual intent and so continue to twist economics about in the hope of convincing the people. They strike, won't realy work and get more inefficient. The ... reach. There are many, many variations of the same two factors, supply and demand, and these can be played on by huge industries or the State, or robbers, or beggars, or anyone wthout number. A great deal is made of "deflations" and "inflations." Great tomes are written to interpret them, but there are only two operatve laws that govern them: 1) An inflation exists where there is more money in ...
- 1720: Charles Darwin
- ... Erasmus Darwin) had offered detailed theories of evolution (Clark, 1984, pg.24-25). Therefor the idea of evolution went very far back in Western history. At that time this concept was referred to as The Great Chain Of Life and was conceived in the middle ages, based on a mixture of classical and Biblical ideas. The ranking order ranged from the "lowest" forms of life to "higher" living beings (lion), through ... notion of progress, of gradual but relentless pursuit of betterment, began to take hold in western thought. It was only natural that the ideas of change and of progress should eventually be applied to the Great Chain of Being. The natural implication of a "dynamic" chain of being was a sort of tree of life, gradually sprouting upward from basic primordial ooze, branching outward into all the varied species on our ... to its extreme one would now be under the impression that all that the past European forefathers have passed on all their acquired traits to the younger 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. ...
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