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- 8101: JFK
- ... United States (1961-1963). He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917,the second oldest in a family of nine children, the son of financier Joseph P. Kennedy, who served as ambassador to Great Britain during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940. In 1941, John Kennedy joined the Navy. He became the commander of a small boat assigned to the battle in ...
- 8102: Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans
- ... born on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey. He was the son of William and Elizabeth (Fenimore) Cooper, the twelfth of thirteen children (Long, p. 9). Cooper is known as one of the first great American novelists, in many ways because he was the first American writer to gain international followers of his writing. In addition, he was perhaps the first novelist to "demonstrate...that native materials could inspire significant ...
- 8103: Dandelion Wine
- ... Summers in Green Town were very hot and winters cold. It was a town where almost everyone knew each other like a big family. In this story many problems confronted Douglas. There were many deaths, Great-Grandma, Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh and Elizabeth Ramsal, which were friends and neighbors of Douglas. A good friend of Douglas, named John Huff, moved away to Milwaukee because of a job opportunity for his father ...
- 8104: Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
- ... The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye" The forthcoming of American literature proposes two distinct Realistic novels portraying characters which are tested with a plethora of adventures. In this essay, two great American novels are compared: The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. The Adventures of Huck Finn is a novel based on the adventures of ...
- 8105: Contrasting Marlow and Kurtz and the Theme of Evil In "Heart of Darkness"
- ... today's society with the amount of civility we posses, inner darkness may arise in many ways. This is predominate in direct actions, but appropriately too through those omission. With the potential for evil so great in today's materialistic, difficult society, we find ourselves with the difficult task of taking life's many journeys and tests. Not every journey will result in goodness, and the ones that do not are ...
- 8106: John L Lewis
- ... Life, Alinsky) In the early 1930's, John played an important role in the making of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, which helped the UMWA by giving the money and aid during the depression. John launched a campaign to rebuild the UMWA with also including the before nonunion South. This campaign was trying to get the coal miners of America to regain their trust is the union. After WWII ...
- 8107: Reconstruction
- ... to rebuild their economy after the war. As a result, too many white and black farmers still lived in poverty. During Reconstruction, the most glaring political consequence of the Radical Republican efforts was that a great majority of Southern whites sided with the Democratic party. Southerners saw the Republican party as the party of the negro and corrupt white man, who hated the South. Eventually, former Confederate states were limited to ...
- 8108: Salem Witch Trials
- ... they would also accuse other innocent people of being witches. The government saw that there was no real way to make sure the person was a witch before executing them and that there was a great chance that they may be killing innocent people. People were still being accused of being witches even after the trials were suspended, but the charges were not taken seriously. Mostly all confessing witches during this ...
- 8109: Separation And Survival In
- ... all he met were a woman named Eliza and her children, Randall and Emily. Northup first encountered Randall by himself, in the slave pen in Washington, and "his mother's absence seemed to be the great and only grief in his little heart." Though his mother and sister arrived soon after, they were together only for the journey south, and were sold separately; when Northup encountered Eliza later, he described her ...
- 8110: "The Yellow Wallpaper": The Main Character and Cry for Freedom
- ... woman tells the men she is sick but they believe differently. "John is a physician, and perhaps- (I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind-) perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!"(507) The men are under the impression that what they say ...
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