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- 1371: Enlightenment Thinkers
- ... the philosophical movement that emphasized the pursuit of knowledge through reason and refused to accept ideas on the strength of religion or tradition alone. Thinkers and philosophers of the time included, Ben Franklin, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and many more. The belief that appealed to most political figures of the time, was deism. Deism was the belief that God created the universe in such a way that no divine intervention was ... their rights to a strong ruler. In exchange, they gained law and order. Hobbes called this agreement, by which people created a government, the social contract. Hobbes basically saw people as naturally selfish and violent. John Locke was another philosopher of the Enlightenment. He viewed human nature very differently from Hobbes. Locke said a person is not born good or evil. Rather he said, people’s characters are shaped by their ... system, with its limitations on royal power. However only a few of them, notably, Locke and Rousseau, believed that people were capable of governing themselves. The others hardly had trust in humans. I find that John Locke is the most agreeable. He believes that neither humans were evil or good. The only difference is that I believe people do fall in certain categories individually. One can be good while the ...
- 1372: Crital Essay Of Jack London
- ... novels, but Jack London got a lot deeper into that concept. He was born in 1876 in San Francisco, an illegitimate child born to a single woman, but his mother did marry a man named John London, and named her son John London. This family moved a lot, but ended up in San Francisco again where John London, now known as Jack London worked in the bay patrol. Jack was one of the first ones to go to Alaska in the time of gold rush, he did not get rich with ...
- 1373: The Battle of Monocacy
- ... were in blockhouses, trenches, or any type of cover they could find on once peaceful farms. Confederate General Dodson Ramseur’s men met Wallace’s men on Georgetown Pike near the Best Farm, owned by John T. Best. The confederates took this farm and placed two batteries on it. The two batteries hammered union forces guarding a covered bridge crossing the Monocacy. Returned fire from the union troops resulted in a ... the barn, grain, and farming tools. General Robert Rodes’s, for the Confederates, men battled some union forces on the National Road. Early, believing that an attack from the front would be too dangerous, sent John McCausland’s men down Buckeystown Road to find a crossing on the Monocacy and break the union line. The confederates broke the union forces and attacked Wallace’s left side. Some of the heaviest fighting ... that day, took place at a fence between the Worthington and Thomas Farms. The union forces fought fiercely to hold their ground but the 15,000 confederate troops were just too much for them. General John Gordon’s division hosted a three pronged attack led by Terry, York, and Evans. This attack pushed Rickett’s men back towards the National road where they were joined by exhausted troops who had ...
- 1374: A New Generation
- A New Generation John F. Kennedy and a New Generation, by David Burner, discuss his presidency with regards to his youth, style and courage, as opposed to his actual achievements. Many people feel that Kennedy's term was full ... Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, which weak and accomplished little. Kennedy did not want to make his view clear because he feared the results would be a loss in some of his little support. John F. Kennedy's handling of foreign policy was of little substance. The Bay of Pigs ordeal was handed down to him from Eisenhower. Kennedy has been assured by CIA agents that the American forces that ... public. He enlightened the people with his image, and I believe he changed the stereotype of a president, but he did not create much change in the United States. This book helped me understand better John F. Kennedy's relations ships with other political representatives.
- 1375: Behind The Urals
- ... We are very fortunate to be born into a relatively high standard of living as a society, thus we cannot comprehend what it is like for countries trying to build societies from the bottom up. John Scott portrays this brilliantly in his book "Behind the Urals" as he examines individual people and their struggles as they worked in Magnitogorsk. These citizens worked in the most inhumane conditions, all with the intention ... important position as they had the responsibility to help the Soviet Union take flight as a country that could compete with other powerful countries of the world, all while working under the most inhumane conditions. John Scott moved to the Soviet Union leaving the United States and in his eyes, its unsatisfactory capitalistic way of governing. Scott may have been aided in making his decision as he saw the United States ... too very demanding. Another interesting character was the peasant who traveled for two weeks on foot with his cow. His story exemplifies the struggles that were taking place in both Europe and Asia. He, like John Scott but for different reasons, left his home, the famine, and unemployment to set out for the Soviet Union where jobs and food could be attained. Unfortunately, the peasant found nothing more than he ...
- 1376: Tale Of Two Cities Charictariz
- ... Her malignant sense of being wronged by the St. Evremondes turns her almost--but not quite--into a machine of vengeance. Dickens inserts details to humanize her: she is sensitive to cold; when the spy John Barsad enters her shop, she nods with "a stern kind of coquetry"; at the very end of the book, making tracks for Lucie's apartment, she strides with "the supple freedom" of a woman who ... red hair and outrageous bonnet, she's as good as gold, a fiercely loyal servant. Dickens places Miss Pross in the plot by means of her long-lost brother. Solomon Pross is revealed to be John Barsad, Old Bailey spy and "sheep of the prisons." Miss Pross' two defining characteristics are her devotion to Lucie and Solomon, and her stalwart Britishness. When Madame Defarge marches in, armed, to execute Lucie and ... dead. (Victorian grave robbers were in fact nicknamed "resurrection men.") One of the plot's biggest surprises hinges on Cruncher's failed attempt to unearth the body of Roger Cly, the spy who testified with John Barsad against Charles Darnay. In France, years after his graveyard expedition, Cruncher discloses that Cly's coffin contained only stones and dirt. This information enables Sydney Carton to force Barsad, Cly's partner, into ...
- 1377: Its The Earps Vs. The Clantons
- In the 1940 s, protagonists and antagonists were easily distinguished in America s Western-style films. However in John Ford s film, My Darling Clementine , which depicts the famous story of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday s character is portrayed as an elusive, somewhat ineffective man. Not until one of the final scenes does the ... persuade him that he is simply running away from himself, which most likely is the case. If there is another reason, we certainly never learn about it. After the confrontation with Clementine, Doc scoffs, Doctor John Holliday and then proceeds to smash one of his degrees in drunken frustration. Later, Wyatt has to put him to bed to keep him from doing something completely irrational. Doc does a lot of things ... s lie is cleared up and she is shot, Doc gets his chance to actually do some good. His operation seems successful, but eventually proves inadequate when Chihuahua passes away. Doc then scoffs again, Doctor John Holliday and then wonders, When do we start? referring to the gunfight versus the Clantons at the O.K. Corral. However, Doc fails (once again) in the fight because of his cough. Actually, he ...
- 1378: The Boston Massacre
- ... encouraged the colonists to remain when the British threatened them to leave. He received the first shot that was fired, that is unknown who it came from. Those who were injured included Christopher Monk and John Clark, both about seventeen years old. Edward Payne, a merchant who was innocently standing at his door and John Green, Robert Patterson, and David Parker, all dangerously wounded.6 The English Officers who were involved in the Boston Massacre were Captain Thomas Preston and eight of his men, Corporal William Wemms, Private Hugh White, Private John Carroll, Private William Warren, Private William McCauley, Private James Hartegan, Private Matthew Killroy, and Private Hugh Montgomery.2 They were all charged with murder, although only two were acquitted. Privates Matthew Kilroy and William ...
- 1379: My Autobiography
- ... spent at least two to three weeks at the beach for summer vacations. After spending the first four years of my life as an only child, I was excited to have my first baby brother, John join me on June 14, 1986. Then in November of 1986 my dad was offered a promotion, but it meant having to move to Virginia in November of 1987. After spending about 2 months in Pennsylvania with just my mother, and John, it was time for us to leave my family members who were like parents to me and my best friend Joey to come here to Virginia. Dad had gone to Virginia about 2 months before my Mom, John and I because he had to begin work right away and we didn’t have a place to stay in Virginia yet. In September of 1987 I began kindergarten at Waterloo Elementary school. On ...
- 1380: The Rise and Fall of American Communism
- ... would soon occur in every country. In 1919, two Communist parties were formed by the American radicals: the Communist Party of America, under the auspices of Charles Ruthenburg, and the Communist Labor Party, led by John Reed and Benjamin Gitlow. In this first year, Ruthenburg’s party boasted a membership of twenty-four thousand, while Reed and Gitlow’s party consisted of about ten thousand members . At first, recent immigrants from ... Nicholas N., and Eldon D.Wedlock, Jr., eds. The Tree of Liberty: A Documentary History of Rebellion and Political Crime in America. 2 vols. Rev. ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Klehr, Harvey, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov. The Secret World of American communism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Klehr, Harvey, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson. The Soviet World of American communism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Mishler, Paul C. Raising Reds. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pipes, Richard. The Russian Revolution. ...
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