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- 3291: Accomplishments of John D. Rockefeller
- ... barrels of crude oil a day and had its own cooper shop manufacturing wooden barrels. Standard prospered and, in 1882, all its properties were merged in the Standard Oil Trust, which was in effect one great company. It is estimated that Standard Oil owned three-fourths of the petroleum business in the US in the 1890s. Rockefeller recognized the difficulties of wisely applying great funds to human welfare, and he helped to define the method of scientific efficient, corporate philanthropy. The method was this: to create charitable corporations and give them title to great funds, whose managements and use would be governed by trustees and overseen by officers with specialized training and experience, withboth the trustees and officers being dedicated to continuous study of the opportunities for the ...
- 3292: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... got to me and I turned to drinking once again. My beloved wifey died January thirtieth, 1847, when she was but twenty-five. I was somewhat relieved because the stress of her illness was so great, yet the loss I suffered was much greater. After her death I found myself wanting someone to love and someone who would take care of me. This began my search for a new wife. I ... life, death and writings. Later, in the 1870s a Baltimore schoolteacher began a campaign to raise money for a monument on my grave. They also reburied Virginia’s bones alongside mine. My life was a great yet horrific one, filled with many great literary works despite the despair and despondency that I felt.
- 3293: Foreign 'Aid'?
- ... to be used for the construction of a dictator's palace. Besides the national debt, if the money was given back to the people, then we could abolish the poverty and slums of our once great country. What has foreign aid done for us? Not much, unless giving terrorists funds to buy weapons and use them against us and other countries counts. For instance, Iraqi leader Sadam Husane used to receive funding from the U.S. and other countries with the hope that he could make Iraq great. Unfortunately, it didn't work out as such, hence the Gulf War, recent withholding from weapons inspectors, and other such skirmishes. Basically, we get little from giving billions of dollars to other countries besides the ... free flow of foreign aid and start the resurrection of our own economy and put our well deserved affluence to good use and not expend it as our predecessors. We will once again be a great nation, a land of opportunity.
- 3294: Lyndon B Johnson
- ... 4 years Johnson developed a wide network of political contacts in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta Taylor, known as "Lady Bird." A warm, intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who ... a low-key campaign and overwhelmed Goldwater in the election. The Arizonan won only his home state and five others in the Deep South. Johnson's triumph in 1964 gave him a mandate for the Great Society, as he called his domestic program. Congress responded by passing the MEDICARE program, which provided health services to the elderly, approving federal aid to elementary and secondary education, supplementing the War on Poverty, and ... involved in Vietnam, racial tension sharpened at home, culminating in widespread urban race riots between 1965 and 1968. The breakdown of the interracial civil rights movement, together with the imperfections of some of Johnson's Great Society programs, resulted in Republican gains in the 1966 elections and effectively thwarted Johnson's hopes for further congressional cooperation. It was the policy of military escalation in Vietnam, however, that proved to be ...
- 3295: Karl Marx
- ... expelling the Bakuninists from the International and shortly, the International died out in New York. During the next decade of his life, his last few years, Marx was beset by what he called "chronic mental depression" and "his life turned inward toward his family." He never completed any substantial work during this time although he kept his mind active, reading and learning Russian. In 1879, Marx dictated the preamble of the ... circulation, causes more money to be printed. The one increases the effect of the other and thus, the downward spiral. Marx views revolution with two perspectives. One takes the attitude that revolution should be a great uprising like that of the French revolution. The other "conception" is that of the "permanent revolution" involving a "provisional coalition" between the low and higher classes. However, an analysis of the Communist Manifesto shows inconsistencies ...
- 3296: The Life of Jackie Robinson
- ... we shall not look upon his like again." -- Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer "He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a true American champion." -- Ronald Reagan, Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, 1986 "He led America by example. He reminded our people of what was right and he reminded them of what was wrong ... Robinson made the United States a better nation." -- Gene Budig, American League President, 1997 "He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a true American champion." -- Ronald Reagan, Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, 1986 "He led America by example. He reminded our people of what was right and he reminded them of what was wrong ... knew that education, not sports, was the key to success in life for nearly everyone. And he took that message to young people wherever he went." This supports the statement that Jackie Robinson was a great leader of his Afro-American people on, as well as, off the baseball field.Starting in high school into college, he paved the way for other athletes with his accomplishments. Minor and Major Leagues ...
- 3297: The History of the Ku Klux Klan
- ... America's society today. The Ku Klux Klan began almost accidentally during the reconstruction period after the civil war in the Southern United States. The southern people had suffered greatly from the effects of the great war. Many of them lost their homes and plantations. Many also lost friends and loved ones to the war. The people needed a release from the sorrow of everyday life. In 1865, six men from ... most feared "hate group" in the country. The men decided to make a club to help release the stress of the times. The men were all poor and could not afford to make gowns or great costumes for the group, so they decided to use linens. They wore the linens over their backs and put pillowcases on their heads. They also draped the linens over their horses. The Ku Klux Klan ... cause, he was very ill and could not handle the task. Their next choice was a man named Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest, although he wasn't as well known as General Lee, he was a great leader. He was born in Mississippi and owned a plantation. He fought for the confederate army for a long time before they recognized his abilities. Although he didn't arrive early enough to greatly ...
- 3298: Herman Melville Defined
- ... his adventures. The result was his first two well-known novels: Typee and Omoo. Shortly after this Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, and together they had four children. During his career, Melville was known as a great writer only for his early adventure novels. He was more interested in writing about “passion, innocence, religion, philosophy, and political subjects,” and refused to write, as he put it, “the other way” (13). The public ... written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb” (20). The public failed to see the greatness of the book until years later. After Moby Dick was finished, Melville slipped into a state of depression over the failure of the novel. It was unable to provide income for his family. “Dollars damn me” (20) he wrote to Hawthorne. Melville grew increasingly despondent and withdrawn, creating his wife to have him ...
- 3299: The Use Of “Foil” Characters In Shakespeare’s Hamlet
- ... prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puf’d Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour’s at stake.” These lines are describing prince Fortinbras. The reader learns that Fortinbras is a young, driven and ambitious man who will risk everything to achieve his goal, even if it is only for an “egg shell” or to preserve his honour. This is in great contrast to Hamlets actions throughout the play which seem to indicate that he does not hold his or his fathers honour very highly. Hamlet goes on to speak of the 20,000 men who ...
- 3300: William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so ... dramatist the world has ever known as well as the finest poet who has written in the English language. Many reasons can be given for Shakespeare's enormous appeal. His fame basically is from his great understanding of human nature. He was able to find universal human qualities and put them in a dramatic situation creating characters that are timeless. Yet he had the ability to create characters that are highly ... helped shape the attitudes of millions of people. His portrayal of historical figures and events have influenced our thinking more than what has been written in history books. The world has admired and respected many great writers, but only Shakespeare has generated such enormous continuing interest. My source states explanations rather than opinions on why Shakespeare's contributions to literature are so vast. My source devoted thirty pages to William ...
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