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- 591: The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
- ... but was still focused on building the nation's power from within. And along with their improvement of industry in the United States came the spark of ingenuity that found itself in the minds of great inventors like Edison and Bell. Once again maintaining the goal of "hastening and securing settlement," both men concentrated on improvements in communications, improving the transmission of light and sound (Cashman 14). The presence of these ... and basically creating a plutocracy of businessmen, another large group was entering the American melting pot in larger numbers than before. Ten million people came to the United States between 1860 and 1890, and the great majority of them had little more worth to their name save the clothes on their back and the boat ticket that had brought them to America (Cashman 86). Having nowhere to turn, the large majority ... the purchase of silver would again be raised by President Franklin Roosevelt, the Free Silver campaign of William Jennings Bryan versus the Gold Standard enforced by McKinley shows the last internal economic agitation until the great depression. The National Grange died upon McKinley's election, and "after the excitement of Bryan's Free Silver campaign died down, the agrarian ferment largely subsided" (Barck 21). The end of the old era ...
- 592: The Three Great Compromises
- The Three Great Compromises The United States of America was founded on the basis of compromise, but what does compromise really mean? According to the Webster's New World Dictionary compromise means "an adjustment of opposing principles". Political systems use compromises in daily life. The Three Great Compromises that occurred early in this nation's government were the Connecticut Compromise, the 3/5 Compromise, and finally the Commerce & Slave Trade Compromise. Were it not for these compromises the United States could still ... also wary of Congress regulating trade. The South also wished to trade slaves indefinitely. The compromise was that Congress would control trade (fairly) and the South would trade slaves for 20 more years. The three great compromises in our the history of the United States were critical to the success of the Constitution. The 3/5 Compromise, the Connecticut Compromise, and the Commerce & Slave Trade Compromise demonstrated that the Founding ...
- 593: The Great Gatsby: Jordan Baker
- The Great Gatsby: Jordan Baker Jordan Baker has a very important function in the novel The Great Gatsby as being a pro-golfer with a boyish, cynical, and self-centered attitude. One of the purposes she serves is that she narrates the story and also helps the reader to understand the other ... Jordan gets engaged to another man after not seeing Nick for a short time, leaving Nick angry, yet still “ half in love with her, and tremendously sorry” (Fitzgerald 186). The Jordan-Nick relationship creates a great subplot opposed to the main plot of this novel. Jordan is Daisy Buchanan’s longtime friend from Louisville, Kentucky, with whom Jordan often stays with because “her family is one aunt about a thousand ...
- 594: The Great Gatsby: Nick Carroway Was A Good Narrator
- The Great Gatsby: Nick Carroway Was A Good Narrator In today society, many people like to follow the current. They want to catch the wave. Which mean, it does not matter if things were good or bad, right or wrong, they just follow and do them without any thinking. Therefore, there are not too many people would like to be a normal, thoughtful nor neutral person. However, in the novel, The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald, one of the character name is Nike Carroway, he was the good and neutral narrator. It was because, in the novel, he analyzed all of the things with regard to accuracy of observation. In The Great Gatsby, when Mr.Gatsby told Vick he wanted to return the past over again with his lover- Daisy, Nike Carroway warned him to give it up, because it was impossible. Unforturately, Mr.Gatsby was ...
- 595: Great Expectations
- Great Expectation Have you ever wonder how wealth can bring a person happiness and how it can change a person or does it make that person a better person who was once poor? Driving to a ... degree plus a well-pay career bring you wealth. Being poor to wealthy or being rich and staying rich as a child to an adult, does the wealth usually bring you happiness? In the novel "Great Expectation," Pip is a character who as a child become a wealthy person from a poor background family. As he grew up in a poor childhood, an opportunity came up for him to become rich ... other hand, wealth can make a person attitude even poorer then before over greed. So I think wealth does bring a person happiness for a while and it can the person too. Bibliography the novel "Great Expectation"
- 596: Child Abuse
- ... to dominate due to their trust in adults. For example, a mother who is suffering from severe emotional problems hit her child as she tries to solve her own personal problems. Another internal cause is depression and post-natal depression. Depression and post-natal depression can cause an adult to do something irrational at the spur of the moment. For example, a mother might hit her child unintentionally in her desperate attempt to make her ...
- 597: Shakespeare In Love: A Great Movie
- Shakespeare In Love: A Great Movie For one to select a movie, for an essay, that attracts both the writer and its readers was a task to be taken with great care. Supporting one’s opinion of what is a great form of entertainment requires professional perspectives. I found a movie that was seen by many as one of the greatest movies of the year. Shakespeare In Love was not only entertaining for the present ...
- 598: Grapes of Wrath: Summary
- ... and forced to move southwest toward California in search of the “promised land” (French 5). The Dust bowl was a harsh time in the 1930’s, the United States was feeling the effects of the Great Depression, and farmers already had enough troubles dealing with the effects of industrial farming (French 200). The farmers described in the novel were sharecroppers whom had settled the land many generations before, the effects of the ... could not grow crops, if their crops died so did their source of financial income, so the banks came in an took their farms. Tom reunites with his family and begins to prepare for their great journey to California. According to pamphlets that Tom’s father, Tom Sr., had seen, the farming opportunities seem better in California, so they have chose to make this migration from Oklahoma to California in ...
- 599: The Great Gatsby's Theme
- The Great Gatsby's Theme On one level the novel comments on the careless gaiety and moral decadence of the period. It contains innumerable references to the contemporary scene. The wild extravagance of Gatsby's parties, the shallowness and aimlessness of the guests and the hint of Gatsby's involvement in crime all identify the period and the American setting. But as a piece of social commentary The Great Gatsby also describes the failure of the American dream, from the point of view that American political ideals conflict with the actual social conditions that exist. For whereas American democracy is based on the idea ... in life is totally shattered when he fails to win Daisy. His death when it comes is almost insignificant, for, with the collapse of his dream, Gatsby is already spiritually dead. As social satire, The Great Gatsby is also a comment on moral decadence in modem American society. The concern here is with the corruption of values and the decline of spiritual life - a condition which is ultimately related to ...
- 600: Aztec Indians 2
- ... a fiery rain and humans were turned into dogs, turkeys, and butterflies. The fourth sun, presided over by Clalchiuhtlicue, was a time of gathers who ate wild seeds. They were turned into fish in a great flood. (Smith 205) This cycle of creation and destruction brings us to the present reigning fifth sun. It's governing deity is Tonatiuh and its people are maize-eaters. According to Aztec myth, this world ... How could such reigning warriors believe that one day their ultimate power, the sun, would be defeated? In the second section of this paper, one will conceive a people who centered their lives around their great god the sun. Human sacrifice and warfare will show their loyalness to the sun and the power it created in the survival of the Aztec culture. Even though the acts of the Aztecs may have ... suns and the cycle that would cause their sun to one day be conquered. Pessimism and fear must have laid in the souls of the Aztec people. Perhaps this fear can help explain the Aztecs' great devotion and dependence on their gods, which will be described later through sacrificial measures. The Creation Of The Complete Sun How the gods had their beginning and where they began is not well known. ...
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