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- 2291: Constitutional Convention: Day by Day Occurrences
- ... agreed the senate should instead have two members for each state instead of one. June 26 Today, more elements came out of Rodger Sherman's plan of "compromise", which Mr. James Madison (who is in great favor of this plan) has coined the phrase "The Great Compromise". Mr. Sherman now suggests if we have any law going into effect as a bill, it should pass through both houses of Congress before it can be approved by a president. I think this ... be read out and those who wish to, will sign it. After all these days since I first got here in Philadelphia, I finally got to have lunch with Mr. Franklin. It was truly a great experience talking to a man that had accomplished so much. I asked him what he thought of the constitutional work that had been done thus far. He told me he did not agree with ...
- 2292: All Men Created Equal
- ... of Independence gave mankind an endeavor to give equality to all mankind. Douglas argued that the writers only meant to give the British citizens in America equal rights to the British citizens then residing in Great Britain. Douglas' argument for this hypothesis was: "'they [the writers] referred to the white race alone, and not to the African, when they declared all men to have been created equal'" It was terribly wrong ... form of rule which infringed on those rights that mankind deserves. In fact, what worth was the Declaration eighty years after it was written if it's only purpose was as statement of independence from Great Britain? What's more, the Declaration of Independence would have given no freedoms to men residing in America if it had read, as Douglas implied, "'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all British subjects who were on this continent eighty-one years ago, were created equal to all British subjects born and then residing in Great Britain.'" To the citizen of the United States, the Fourth of July would have come to mean absolutely nothing if freedom was granted to an exclusive group of people. Though Americans were divided on ...
- 2293: Eminem
- ... with it. He isnt a very good role model, but he is funny, and couldnt care less what anybody says about him. He had a rough childhood that reflects to now, and makes great records and songs that describe his life and what has happened during it. Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on October 17, 1974 in Kansas City, Missouri. He created his own nickname, Eminem, which is ... wants his money and fame, and if I were he, she would be sitting on the doorstep, and not getting inside! However, he was stupid, and they got married. Eminem is now known as a great rapper, and is known everywhere. His latest album, The Marshall Mathers LP, came out May 23, 2000, and it is a great CD and much better than any of his others. Most great rappers are black, and everyone hassles and talks about him being white. He says that he doesnt care what anyone thinks, and ...
- 2294: Emily Dickinson
- ... 10. http://www.sappho.com/poetry/historical/ e_*censored*in.html ] Dickinson had her greatest poetic output during the Civil War. She wrote around eight hundred poems in this time. To go along with this great output came a stressful period, too. Emily went through great stress in the year eighteen hundred sixty-two because of the distance and danger threatened to her friends. Also during this time, she had persistent eye trouble, which led her in eighteen hundred sixty-four ... her lifetime. The reason so few were published was because her poetry was ahead of its time. Emily's poems were different from what the people were used to at this time. She had a great talent for writing poems, but it was not acknowledge until after her death. Here is another one of her great poems. "Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a ...
- 2295: The Press and Media Cause Rampant Swaying of the Election Votes Through Their Opinions and Reports
- ... Jefferson was quoted as saying this about the press though I determine never to put a sentence into any newspaper. I will religiously adhere to this resolution through the rest of my life and have great reason to be contented with it. Were I to undertake to answer the calumnies of the newspapers, it would be more than all my own time, and that of twenty aids could effect. For while ... against me on the same general subject." (Tebbel 1985) The press even developed a term to describe the way they felt about him "vanburenish" which meant straddling or avoiding certain issues, but still maintaining the great guy facade. The "little magician" had some Jacksonian political attributes too. He may have complained from time to time about the Albany Argus, but this paper was an important factor in his rise to power ... Mr. Van Buren consorts most naturally with the degraded and vile--for among them he is a superior... The good we desire we may not be able to attain; but the evil we dread, the great and menacing evil, the blighting disgrace of placing Martin Van Buren, illiterate, sycophant, and politically corrupt, at the head of this great republic... we can avert it and such a consummation is surely worth ...
- 2296: The Role of Decision Making in the Pre-Crisis Period of India (15 March, 1959 - 7 September, 1962)
- ... India. Of course, such an act of terror could have not started without some kind of the reason, whatever it may be. The chronological order of pre-crisis decisions taken India's authorities are of great importance. The role of the decision-makers before the time of the armed conflict had a big significance for India's position on political and economic matters in the continent of Asia. A major figure ... appointed heir and a "major architect of India's political institutions" (Brecher, 1959). Krishna Menon, "the controversial defense minister consulted in almost every issue" along with Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant was also a figure of great importance (Langyel, 1962). This importance was mainly derived from the fact that both shared the same overall world view of Nehru. However, in order to understand the cruicial importance of decision-makers, we shall looked ... could not spent considerable amount of resources for a large defense establishment. An India aligned with no Cold War Power bloc would help avoid alienating nations like former Soviet Union and China, which were of great importance to India's security. Nehru himself realized that a hostile frontier with China, for example, would mean an expenditure of all Indian resources just to defend it (Gopal, 1980). Another standard belief that ...
- 2297: King's "A Letter From Birmingham City Jail": An Analysis
- King's "A Letter From Birmingham City Jail": An Analysis Martin Luther King Jr., one of the greatest speakers for the Black civil rights movement, had written many great works in his time. Two of his pieces stand out as his greatest works, Letter from Birmingham City Jail; a letter written from a jail in Birmingham where he was arrested for demonstrating peacefully, to ... portrayed as the good man he is. In his speech, I Have a Dream, King starts by making a subtle but powerful allusion to the Gettysburg Address, when he says, "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.". Not only does King start his speech the same way Lincoln did, by using the word score to keep track of years, but he ... America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has been marked ' insufficient funds.'". Just like in the first and second paragraph, he lifts up, and then brings down; what was once great, is revealed as small. He wants to show that what the nation promised would have been great if the nation had come through with it. King's last and most prominent rhetorical device is ...
- 2298: The True Devils in Salem
- The True Devils in Salem In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the madness of the Salem witch trials is explored in great detail. There are many theories as to why the witch trials came about, the most popular of which is the girls' suppressed childhoods. However, there were other factors as well, such as Abigail Williams' affair ... claims that Putnam only wants Jacobs' land. Giles says, "If Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeit up his property - that's law! And there is none but Putnam with the coin to buy so great a piece. This man is killing his neighbors for their land!" Others also had hidden motives for accusing their neighbors. Once the accusations began, everyone had a reason to accuse someone else which is why ... hidden darkness in their hearts, and the Salem witch trials exposed and magnified the consequences of those black desires. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the madness of the Salem witch trials is explored in great detail. There are many theories as to why the witch trials came about, the most popular of which is the girls' suppressed childhoods. However, there were other factors as well, such as Abigail Williams' ...
- 2299: Arthur Miller-BIO
- ... ShaneROW@aol.com With The Death of a Salesman during the winter of 1949 on Broadway, Arthur Miller began to live as a playwright who has since been called one of this century's three great American dramatists by the people of America. The dramatist was born in Manhattan in October 17, 1915, to Isadore and Agusta Miller, a conventional, well to do Jewish couple. Young Arthur Miller was an intense ... scholar. Throughout his youth he was molded into one of the most creative playwrights America has ever seen, without these priceless childhood experiences there would have never have been the basis and foundation for his great works. During his bright career as playwright he demonstrated extreme talent on two of his greatest pieces The Crucible and the Death of a Salesman. He has also written other powerful, often mind-altering plays ... piece Death of a Salesman. And, he gained even more acclaim. Soon he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He was quickly catapulted into the realm of the great, living, American playwrights; and once was compared to Ibsen and the Greek tragedians. After his graduation from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, young Miller worked as a stock clerk in an automobile parts ...
- 2300: Nazism
- ... to study art, but he was denied the chance to join Vienna academy of fine arts. When WWI broke out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmers army as a Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature of a Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war and its consequences. He had emerged from Austria with many prejudices, including a powerful prejudice against ... was all over quickly. The war came home to Germany. Scarcely had Hitler recovered from the shock of the July 20 bombing when he was faced with the loss of France and Belgium and of great conquests in the East. Enemy troops in overwhelming numbers were converging on the Reich. By the middle of August 1944, the Russian summer offensives, beginning June 10 and unrolling one after another, had brought the ... Americans had found a tank general with the dash and flair of Rommel in Africa. After the capture of Avranches on July 30, he had left Brittany to wither on the vine and begun a great sweep around the German armies in Normandy, moving southeast to Orleans on the Loire and then due east toward the Seine south of Paris. By August 23 the Seine was reached southeast and northwest ...
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