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- 1851: Joel Poinsett
- In 1825 President John Quincy Adams appointed Joel Poinsett as the first U.S. minister to Mexico. His first assignment was to persuade the Mexican government to sell the U.S. the province of Texas, thus continuing the rapid ... following his own personal agenda in regards to acquiring Mexican territories, and beginning a war to do so. Unquestionably the most important domestic issue in the years prior to the American Civil War was slavery. John C. Calhoun recognized that, ...if the treaty ending the conflict was silent on the subject of slavery in the ceded territory, the North will oppose it, and if it should prohibit slavery the South would ...
- 1852: Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney
- ... as a possible lover; he imagines her brisk, cruel response; "That is not what I meant, at all." He imagines that she will want his head on a platter and they did with the prophet John the Baptist. He also fears the ridicule and snickers of other men when she rejects him. Prufrock imagines "And would it have been worth it, after all," and if she did not reject him it ... reveal that the author feels that he is inferior to women. He does not deserve the love of a maiden, but is only suitable for a prostitute. The lines where he refers to the prophet John the Baptist and to Lazarus tells me that he has a deep interest in religion and Christianity. Religion does dictate strong views of sex and marriage, whereas a man must suppress all feelings of lust ...
- 1853: Abortion
- ... who have not performed the abortion. On the other hand, we have all seen women what have been troubled, consumed with guilt and development significant psychiatric problems following and because of abortion. I quote Ft. John L. Grady, Medical Examiner for Florida State Attorney's Office, "I believe it can be stated with certainty that abortion causes more deep-seated guilt, depression and mental illness than it ever cures". We used ... of abortion talk about fetal indications for act. Whatever abortion may do for the mother, it so very obviously cannot be therapeutic for the fetus. Death is hardly a constructive therapy. As Dr. Hellegers of John Hopkins Hospital says, "While it is easy to feel that abortion is being performed for the sake of the fetus, honesty requires us to recognize that we perform it for adults". There is no evidence ...
- 1854: Euthanasia And Suicide
- ... deadly dose must be self-administered, which means that the doctor can practice active euthanasia. Also those in support of the act, such as Jack Kevorkian, Derek Humphry, co-founder of the Hemlock Society and John Pridonoff, executive director of the Oregon based Hemlock Society all say that more than just terminally ill patients should be covered by euthanasia laws, such as those with disabilities, or who are incapacitated. Disability rights ... in two-parent\\'s working, and rising divorce rates. It also says that other studies have shown that television news stories about suicide have led to a temporary rise in suicide rates. In one article John Ashton says \\"Although some have sought to deny the link with media reportage, that there is such a link, especially for young people, seems to me to be beyond reasonable doubt. I believe that the ...
- 1855: Black Like Me
- Black Like Me This story was an excellent idea by John Griffin to expose the true racism in the South. I wonder what motivated him to change his color also. I also want to know his views on racism. I wonder if George Levitan is still ... he acts if no one will remember Griffin. While Griffin is away all this time don't people wonder where he is and why a black man in the South suddenly appears with the name John Griffin? If Griffin was just a normal person he probably could slip away with out anyone noticing, but he was an accomplished novelist who was famous in America. When Griffin looked in the mirror he ...
- 1856: Knowledge Building And Corpora
- ... of Knowledge, p 119, Harvard Business School Press, 1995. 14. Lyn Griffen, P 4, An Exploration of Computer Supported Knowledge Sharing, University of Canberra, June 1998. 15. McGee J. V., Prusak L., Managing Information Strategically, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1993. 16. Malone, T., Grant, K., Turbak, F., Brobst, S., and Cohen, M. Intelligent information sharing systems, commun. ACM 30, 5 (May 1987), P390-402. 17. Szuprowicz, B.O., The Soviet Union Trade Advisor, Expert Systems, Spring 1991. 18. Turban., Mclean., Wetherbe, 1996, Information Technology for Management, John Wiley & sons Inc., p580-597.
- 1857: Harriet Tubman
- ... then on she had awful migraines and would sometimes just collapse on the ground while she was working. She served as a field hand and house servant on a Maryland plantation. In 1844 she married John Tubman, who was a free black. In 1849 she escaped to the North, where slaves could be free before the outbreak of the American Civil war. In 1861 she made 19 trips back to help ... got them supplied, and trained a hospital staff. As Lee surrendered to General Grant, Harriet reorganized the entire hospital kitchen. She was appointed the ԤMatron of the Hospital.Ԭ Harriet later found out that her husband, John Tubman, is dead. He was shot in an argument with a plantation owner. Later, Harriet married Nelson Davis. Nelson had a disease. Harriet helped him to establish a brickyard, sometimes working at his side making ...
- 1858: The Crucible: Although Abigail and The Girls Initiate The Tragedy, Responsibility Lies With the Whole Salem Community
- ... hear. He is manipulated by Abigail, bu her innocent young girl front by incredulously questioning Proctor this child would murder his wife?' It is beyond his narrow comprehension that someone could be telling the truth. John Proctor stood up for his pride and principles. It is obvious that he would rather die with a good name within Salem than live and know that he had broken his own principles and lost ... community he would be lavelled untrustworthy and states God does not need my name nailed upon the church! God sees my name, God know how black my sins are". From these comments, we know that John Proctor is an honest and trusting man who would do anything to save the name of himself, his family and his friends - even if it would conclude in his own death - I have given you ...
- 1859: Articles Of Confederation 2
- ... passed their own currency, and therefore created inflation and made Continentals in circulation worthless. Compounded with restrictions on trade to Great Britain and down the Mississippi River, the states became mired in a heavy depression. John Fiske, of the conservative view, realized the precarious situation when he stated the Nation was under the verge of collapse and near-anarchy and that the five year period after 1783 was the most critical ... American delegates had to satisfy the needs of thirteen sovereign states, and therefore any resulting treaty was regarded by the minority as a failure. Such was the case in the Jay Gardoqui treaty in which John Jay created a deal for East Coast merchants but at the expense of the interests of the West and South. In addition, a lack of national unity allowed Britain and Spain to continue to subvert ...
- 1860: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... name was Edgar Allan Poe, he was born the son of an actress and an actor . At the age of three, Poes mother gave him up to a prosperous merchant by the name of John Allan who took care of him until he began running into gambling problems at the school which he attended in Virginia. He only attended for one year due to these troubles. Poe than began to ... to the States to enlist in the army. There he wrote and published his first book called Tamerlane and Other Poems at his own expense. After Poes leaving the army, with the help of John Allan and his fellow cadets he wrote his second book. In 1837, Poe went to New York in search of work and this is where he not only marries his cousin Virginia, but is also ...
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