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- 2571: The Life Of Babe Ruth
- The Life Of Babe Ruth Babe Ruth, born George Ruth, Jr., is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. Everybody knows how great a hitter Babe was and how he virtually invented the home run. Not everybody knows how great of a pitcher Babe was, even though he was one of the best left-handed pitchers of all time. Babe had a 92 and 44 record, 67.6%, and a 2.24 career earned- run ... Herman “Babe” Ruth, Jr. When the fan's turned their collective back on baseball, the Babe emerged as the most well known and most popular figure in American culture. With his towering home runs and great all around play, he kept the fans coming to the ballpark. It is hard to believe what the world would be like without baseball and thanks to Babe Ruth we will never have to ...
- 2572: America
- ... colonies. The Stamp Act required all legal documents, licenses, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards to carry a tax stamp. The act extended to the colonies the system of stamp duties then employed in Great Britain and was intended to raise money to defray the cost of maintaining the military defenses of the colonies. Passed without debate, it aroused widespread opposition among the colonists, who argued that because they were ... cooperation among the colonies, but Benjamin Franklin's Plan of Union (Document A) for the colonies, though voted upon favorably at Albany, was refused by the colonial legislatures (and by the crown) as demanding too great a surrender of their powers. This congress showed Americans could represent themselves and did not need to be virtually represented in parliament. Colonist despised virtual representation, as evident in document "B". Edmund Burke writes "Govern ... and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced...Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will on day cause great changes in the world...." Maybe Hector really knew what he was talking about. The Americans were beginning the end of judging of their brothers and sisters from other countries. The colonies were becoming one. ...
- 2573: Dynamic Change In The U.S.
- ... by the inflation of money following the Civil War for a year or two, a spurt of extraordinary rapid growth followed, mainly in the Middle West and West. While the network of rails was spreading, great financial networks were also developing. Groups of independent railroad companies were consolidated to form railroad systems. The New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, for example, was formed by the uniting of about 200 originally ... this “beef Trust” was broken up by judicial law. Swift died in Chicago on March 29, 1903. Another man who was responsible for the inventions of many things used in our modern day and for great rise in the nations economic success after the civil war was Thomas Edison. Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. In his childhood, Edison only attended school for about three ... appointed Chevalier of the legion of Honor of France, and in 1889 was made Commander of the Legion of Honor. Later, in 1892, he was awarded the Albert Medal of the Society of Arts of Great Britain and in 1928 received the Congressional Gold Medal “for development and application of inventions that have revolutionized civilization in the last century. Throughout his life, Edison served as an American Inventor whose development ...
- 2574: Deng Xiaoping
- Deng Xiaoping China has a long history with several great leaders, but none of those leaders have even come close to being as great as Deng Xiaoping. Deng Xiaoping was a loyal communist who sacrificed his own life so his people could have a better one. During his long political career, he served as a Communist politcommissar of the ... To make Mao less "Godlike," he convinced the people that Mao did make mistakes while he was in power. Deng Xiaoping told the people that Mao's greatest mistakes were the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward Policy. After Mao was made less "godlike," it became easier to reform China. From the late 1950s to 1979, the economy of China was at a standstill. The living standard of the ...
- 2575: Emily Dickinson: Life and Her Works
- ... the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity- (Benfey 1986, 83) The "New Critics who were Allen Tate, R,P. Blackmur and Yvor Winters said this about "The Chariot" "If the word great means anything in poetry, this poem is one of the greatest in the English language. The rhythm charges with movement the pattern of suspended action back of the poem. Every image is precise and, moreover ... is wondering about the resurrection she can be witty and playful." Benfey 1986, 68) I think that this poem is very deep in meaning and makes me think a lot about the after life. With great poems about death like this it is obvious that Emily Dickinson Spent a lot of time focusing on the concepts of death, Religion and the after life. She in this poem interprets the Resurrection in ... to All- A fiction superseding Faith- By so much-as ‘twas real- (Poetry of Emily Dickinson 1996,3) Benfey says that this poem is " elegant and has a mild eroticism that reaches the level of great art in Emily Dickinson's poetry"(Benfey 1986,62) Feminist Scholars looking at this poem from a lesbian point of view feel that Emily Dickinson had a passionately intimate relationship with Susan which is ...
- 2576: American People
- ... they treat foreign people? All of these questions were in my mind when I asked my friends who were living in the United States. They and all other sources that I listened to, gave me great picture about the US. But after I came here I found out that the information I got before and the information I found after I came here though shared a lot of similarities, there were ... had lived here for years. He told me that the United States is unbelievable life. The time here goes so fast and you will enjoy your life without feeling homesick and he give me a great impression of American people and how they are helpful and always friendly. Also he tells me about the safety in his state and how you can have fun any time you want out side you ... After I lived here for two years, I see a different picture of the US. Every second I live here I learn something new about this country. Every day I live here I see the great picture of the US is become darker day after day. When I spend the first six months here I asked myself one question, Where are the real Americans that I heard about? I don' ...
- 2577: Julius Caesar and His Accomplishments
- Julius Caesar and His Accomplishments There were three Great European nations in the ancient days. The Greeks, the Carthaginians and the Romans. The Roman hero was Caeser. He was born 100 years before the Christian era. Like many of the Caesers before him, he ... to them. He cared so much for the people that his efforts for recreation caused him to fall heavily into debt. Most all loved Caesar but his worst enemies were his closest. Because of caesers great generosity towards people, he ended up in allot of trouble. He trusted his people and friends so much that he didn’t even notice that his best friend Brutus was planning to murder him. Caesar was a Military leader and led the Romans to a great victory in the Civil War. Great public thanksgiving celebrations were held in Rome for his victories, not everyone rejoiced over Caesar's conquests. Pompeii became alarmed at Caesar's success. Pompeii’s growing jealousy ...
- 2578: Chemical Engineer
- ... The career offers challenges in both science and industry. Also, the work allows for other companies to expand and hire more people. Thus, this creates new jobs. There are also disadvantages. First, there is a great responsibility placed onto the engineer. Also, there is a great deal of pressure involved with this kind of work. The future for the chemical engineer looks very promising. As new drugs and vaccines develop, the chemical engineer will be needed. This a new and exciting ... extremely important. Many colleges offer engineering programs. More specifically, most offer chemical engineering programs. MIT offers an excellent chemical engineering program. It is known world-wide for its engineering department. Carnegie Melon also has a great program. Montana University is of another college with a great engineering program. The occupation of a chemical engineer is a very exciting one. It requires a lot of responsibility and hard work. But, if ...
- 2579: Nathanial Hawthorne
- ... portraits, and it is now thought that he was a mild manic-depressive? Born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. A decendant of a long puritan line of Hathorne's. His ancestry included his great-great grandfather, John Hathorne who was a judge at the Salem witch trials 112 years before Nathanial was born. Judge John Hathorne charged many with the crime of witchcraft,and condemned them to their deaths. Nathanial ... and History of Witchcraft and Salem Village. The Maule name was derived from Thomas Maule, a Quaker merchant living in Salem at the time of the trials. In Nathanials American Notebooks he records that his great great grandfather Judge Hathorne, the judge in the witch trials, injured a neighbor named English once, who never forgave him. Yet English's daughter married Hathorne's son. In the same way, the decendants ...
- 2580: Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- ... England in 1915. While in England Eliot held many jobs to keep the payments on his 5th floor English apartment and his college tuition. Eliot quickly became popular with Britain and was known as a great poet and a literal critic. Eliot is best known for two of his works: The Waste Land (1922) and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915). Actually the Love song is the beginning of ... on. From stanzas 70 - 86 it shows what I think is his deep side and talking as if he were actually a Realist which he probably was, at least to me. He humbles himself a great deal , which is good , but talks of how things slowly fade , referring a lot to his baldness and how age takes a toll on relationships. This is my favorite part of the poem, because he ... death by saying: We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown. stanzas 129 - 131 That is a great background on how Eliot viewed life. Realistically and fading into the distance with love meaning nothing at all. Well, on to what is called T.S. Eliot’s “Waste Land”. To brief you on ...
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