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- 1371: Crises During The Presidency O
- ... protecting northern manufacturers and businessmen. Southerners thought that the industrialization of the north would lead to the downfall of the southern agrarian economy. They named the tariff the "Tariff of Abominations"(Coit 11). Vice-President John C. Calhoun of South Carolina led the movement of people who thought that "a combined geographical interest should not be able to disregard the general welfare and turn an important local interest to its own ... Cherokee Nation appealed to United States Supreme Court on the grounds that Georgia lacked jurisdiction. The case was named Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at that time was John Marshall. The lawyer for the Cherokee Nation was William Wirt, who had previously been passed over for the job of U.S. Attorney General by Jackson because he distrusted Wirt on Indian removal. When Jackson ... grew out of Georgia law forbidding whites to reside among Indians without licenses. Several missionaries, one of whom was named Worcester, appealed to the Supreme Court after their arrest for violating the law. Chief Justice John Marshall again decided against Georgia by stating that the Cherokees constituted a definite political community over which the laws of Georgia had no legal force. But again Georgia denied the authority of the Court ...
- 1372: Shakespearean Comedy 2
- ... an only child, he agrees to let Don Pedro woo Hero in his favor so she would be his wife. When Claudio and Don Pedro put their plan into action at the masked ball, Don John appears. He acts as a blocking figure in this play and causes many problems. He tells Claudio that Don Pedro wants Hero for himself, which is a lie, but Claudio acts like "easy come easy go". He is not very upset that he just lost his soon to be bride. When the truth comes out, the wedding day is set and the planning begins. Don John is once again planning to ruin things. He is a jealous, sour and unhappy person. The greenworld is also used in this play but not for festive activities. It is used for plotting bad things ... Most of the characters are fully developed, except Hero, so we can identify with their grief and then their joy. As the play comes to an end everything is wrapped in a neat package. Don John is captured and brought back to be punished, Claudio and Hero, and Beatrice and Benedick are married and the dance and the feast begin. Measure for Measure is a play that is very different ...
- 1373: Louise Brooks
- ... on Long Island. She was in many other films later after that one, including; Love ‘em and Leave ‘em, It’s the Old Army Game, and Rolled Stockings. Also the comic strip, “Dixie Dugan” by John H. Striebel made its debut. Brooks’ life as a chorus girl inspired the strip’s main character. In August 1929, she went to Paris to appear in Prix de Beaute, her final European film. It ... of working in a typical Hollywood Western whose unreality disgusted her. Unexpectedly, Over Stage Raiders turned out to be a better-than-average western and Brooks enjoyed the experience. She especially hit it off with John Wayne. “Looking up at him I thought, this is no actor but the hero of all my mythology miraculously brought to life,” Brooks said commenting about John Wayne. Her career, however, could not be similarly revived. Over Stage Raiders was her last film. She was 32 years old. Brooks lingered in Hollywood for a little over a year. She then later ...
- 1374: Illegal Immigration
- ... rapidly industrializing economy. In nations like Mexico and Vietnam, the same thing is happening today, they "are undergoing the same convulsive demographic and economic disruptions that made migrants out of so many nineteenth century Europeans" (Kennedy p.64). Those who are against the immigration of the 1990's also say that the European immigrants of the past were culturally similar to Americans, and that they were more willing to assimilate and ... friction between them and the natives. Those immigrants of the past also did not come to America and instantly throw off all semblances of their and language and society. On the contrary, according to David Kennedy, "many...exerted themselves to sustain their religions, tongues and ways of life" (Kennedy p. 64). Current opponents of mass immigration also point to the large numbers of crimes committed by immigrants. They are forgetting that the immigrants of past had similar problems. When illegal immigration is not ...
- 1375: The Beliefs of Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... achieve and how to achieve it. Non-violence was the major driving force behind his plans. King was very much aware of the power of non-violent tactics in an attempt for social changes. President Kennedy gave respect to the movement and reacted to protests in Birmingham by agreeing to submit broad civil rights legislation to Congress, which eventually passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. King had modeled his philosophy ... was in line with his values and beliefs and was presented in accordance with the task at hand which at that time was the importance of morals and ethical relativism in our society. Bibliography Ansbro, John J., Martin Luther King, Jr., The Making of a Mind, 1982, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY. Lowery, Linda, Martin Luther King Day 1987 Carolrhoda Book - Minneapolis, Minnesota McPhee, Penelope; Schulke, Flip, King Remembered 1986 W.W ...
- 1376: The Fall of South Vietnam Controversy
- ... them to cease their aggression (Spector 92). Had the intervention succeeded, say, by 1967, the public's disaffection probably would not have arisen and President Johnson would have emerged as a highly popular figure. As John F. Kennedy is supposed to have said of the reaction to the Bay of Pigs invasion : "Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan" (Prados 22). The capacity of people in a modern democracy to ...
- 1377: The Crucible
- ... seems to remember clearly. In a way, there is a biting irony in this film's having been made by a Hollywood studio, something unimaginable in the fifties. But there they are--Daniel Day-Lewis (John Proctor) scything his sea-bordered field, Joan Allen (Elizabeth) lying pregnant in the frigid jail, Winona Ryder (Abigail) stealing her minister-uncle's money majestic Paul Scofield (Judge Danforth) and his righteous empathy with the ... believed, a play became possible. Elizabeth Proctor had been the orphaned Abigail's mistress, ant they had lived together in the same small house until Elizabeth fired the girl. By this time, I was sure, John Proctor had bedded Abigail, who had to be dismissed most likely to appease Elizabeth. They was bad blood between the two women now. That Abigail started, in effect, to condemn Elizabeth to death with her ... proached the witchcraft out of nowhere or from purely social and political considerations. My own marriage of twelve years was teetering and I knew more than wished to know about where the blame lay. That John Proctor the sinner might overturn his paralyzing personal guilt and become the most forthright voice against the madness around him was a reassurance to me, and, I suppose, an inspiration: it demonstrated that a ...
- 1378: Dwight D. Eisenhower
- ... 82). He also started to build a mass network ofinterstate across the country from coast to coast (Hargrove 82). On January20, 1961 Dwight Eisenhower left the office of President and was succeededby newly-elected President John F. Kennedy (Hargrove 87). In closing I believe that Dwight David Eisenhower is one of ourgreatest American heroes. Even after his presidency Eisenhower still wasone of the most popular people and admired people through the mid to ...
- 1379: New England And The Chesapeake
- ... was a refuge for religious separatists leaving England, while people who immigrated to the Chesapeake region had no religious motives. As a result, New England formed a much more religious society then the Chesapeake region. John Winthrop states that their goal was to form "a city upon a hill", which represented a "pure" community, where Christianity would be pursued in the most correct manner. Both the Pilgrims and the Puritans were ... evolved to be simple and not elaborate as in Virginia. In the Chesapeake region almost everything was exactly opposite of New England. The immigrants were not idealists, but materialists, most of whom sought money. As John Smith mentions in his History of Virginia, many sought gold. As it can be observed from the ship's list of emigrants bound for Virginia, the immigrants were mostly young people, most of them men, and like it is stated in the same list they were all conformists of the Church of England, and unlike the Puritans, were not discriminated against back in England. As John Smith points out, many attempted to go back when they found difficulties instead of opportunities to get rich. Many others died of hunger when the Corporations that brought the settlers to America abandoned them, ...
- 1380: The Crucible
- Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, is a very powerful statement about Puritan ethics in the 17th century. The play depicts a character, John Proctor, against both his inner conscience to do what is right, and against the courts of Salem, where he is involved in a crucible to rid the city of witches. These circumstances arise for Proctor ... A tragic hero is an individual, usually the protagonist, who the audience recognizes as a "good guy," but who possesses a "character flaw" leading to his or her downfall. In the case of The Crucible, John Proctor fits this model of a tragic hero. He is the protagonist of the novel, and is seen as a good all-around person. But his character flaw, his passiveness, led to his downfall, which ... him to face, overwhelmed by the fact that his testimony may ruin the lives of others; as a result, he tears up his confession and is sent to hang. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, John Proctor, with his tragic flaw of passiveness, is a tragic hero. His passiveness—at first when he kept distance from the proceedings, when he needed to be convinced by his wife to get involved ...
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