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- 1901: Reconstruction
- ... plans were quite lenient, accepting the seceded states back into the Union even if by vote only a minority of a states white males took an oath of loyalty to the United States. However, John Wilkes Booth assassinated him before any of his plans could go into action. His replacement, vice president Andrew Johnson, a democrat, was left in a difficult predicament. Public opinion at the time favored that the ... 1861-1876. New York: Time Inc, 1974 Foner, Eric, Mahoney, Olivia. Americas Reconstruction. New York: HarperPerennial, 1995. Gillette, William. Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869-1879. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. Franklin, John Hope. Reconstruction After the Civil War. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. McPherson, James M. The Struggle for Equality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964. Davis, Burke. The Long Surrender. New York ...
- 1902: Dawn
- ... Man" decided that things had gone far enough and now he was not going to allow the English to rule any longer. The Old Man ordered that a military officer be kidnapped. They kidnapped Captain John Dawson who walked alone at night. (6) This made the country very tense. The English ordered a 24 hour curfew. They searched every house, and also arrested hundreds of suspects. Tanks were stationed at the ... was. The narrator and Gad were 2 of them. Gad and the woman were lovers. The English wanted to get hold of her identity just as bad as they wanted to know the Old Man. John and David. People from the bible. The narrator walks over to look in the mirror. He only sees eyes. He was told "Death . . . is a being without arms or legs or mouth or head; it ...
- 1903: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: Love Between Two People
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: Love Between Two People Although the subject matter of A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning could be applied to any couple pending separation, according to Izaak Walton, a seventeenth-century biographer, John Donne wrote his poem for his wife on the eve of his departure for France in 1611 (Damrosch et al. 238). In the poem, the speaker pleads with his lady to accept his departure. The ... mortal love between the speaker and his lady to a level of perfection above earthly faults. Works Cited Damrosch, L. et al., eds. Adventures in English Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1985. Donne, John. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. The Harbrace Anthology of Literature. Ed. Jon C. Scott, et al. Toronto: Harcourt Brace & Comp., 1994. 99-101.
- 1904: Puritanism
- ... trials, many were executed. The following are the documented names: Bridget Bishop, George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, George Jacobs, Sr., Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, John Proctor, Ann Pudeator, Wilmott Redd, Margaret Scott, Samuel Wardwell, Sarah Wildes, and John Willard. Almost six months after Rebecca Parris' court date, the trial of Rebecca Nurse was held. The special Court of Oyer (to hear) and Terminer (to decide) sat in Salem to hear the cases of ...
- 1905: Alcatraz Island (The Prison)
- ... others tried (Corrections 54). For example, while in the workshop one day, an inmate named Rufe Persful got hold of a hatchet. He promptly chopped off all the fingers on one hand. Another man named John Stadig pried a vein out of his wrist with a bent fork. He then bit it in half. He was stopped before he could do it to his other wrist (Stuller 88). While many people ... He hid in sand caves while deciding to swim. Finally, hungry, wet, and cold, Hamilton would sneak into a prison storeroom and fell asleep while awaiting capture. The most fabled getaway involved Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin. In 1962, using stolen tools they chipped through vents in their cells and replaced them with cardboard replicas. With dummy heads in their bunks to fool night guards, they climbed into a ...
- 1906: Cry, The Beloved Country
- ... truth in hope of lenience and pleads for a acquittal, but is punished with the most severe castigation, death. While his a accomplices are ironically acquitted. After the trial, Steven felt antipathy towards his brother, John, who tried to use chicanery to get his son out of trouble. John had told his son to tell apocryphal tales of the events that had happened on the day of the murder. After a while of contemplation, Steven goes to his brothers shop and all of a ...
- 1907: American Push For Independence
- ... dance. When I got up I thought to ride to Falling Creek but the weather threatened snow and the wind northeast, which discouraged me from my journey. About 12 o clock I went to see John and Tom plant the peach orchard where I stayed till dinner was ready .I stayed there a little time and then went to take a walk about the plantation to examine what the rest had ... Bradford illustrated the ideals that they would base their society on, using amongst yourselves civil government, and are not furnished with any persons of special eminency above the rest let your wisdom and godliness appear. John Winthrop later wrote, Thirdly, that every man might have need of other, and from hence they might be all knit more nearly together in the bonds of brotherly affection. From hence it appears plainly that ...
- 1908: The Threat of Nuclear Energy
- ... issue of plutonium getting into the human body Nader and Abbotts write: Experiments with dogs show that the inhalation of as little as three millionths of a gram of Pu-239 can cause lung cancer. John Gofman has reported that plutonium and other alpha-emitters, such as curium and americium [other products of a nuclear reaction], when in a form that cannot readily be dissolved by body fluids, represent an inhalation ... html. "Nuclear Waste: The Big Picture." 10 Nov. 1996. Available: http://www.sfo.com/~rherried/waste.html. Portzline, Scott D. "Nuclear Terrorism." 10 Nov. 1996. Available: http://www.nci.com/terrorism.html. Ralph Nader, and John Abbotts. The Menace of Atomic Energy. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1977. Silver, L. Ray. Fallout From Chernobyl. Toronto: Deneau Publishers & Company LTD, 1987. "The Problem." 10 Nov. 1996. Available: http://www.wideopen ...
- 1909: Billy Bud: Contrast Between Good and Evil
- ... evil. Billy Budd is "like a young horse fresh from the pasture suddenly inhaling a vile whiff from some chemical factory." Billy's innocence and purity is exterminated at the hands of his main enemy, John Claggort, " much such as Adam presumably might have been ere the urbane Serpent wriggled himself into his company." Claggort's " silken jet curls
and pallor tinged with a faint shade of amber skin" even denote ... Besides from the use of characterization and symbolism, Melville uses irony to portray the battle of good versus evil. Irony is used to contrast the concepts of good and evil. Billy, " the fighting peacemaker" kills John Claggort with a blow "quick as the flame from a discharged cannon." It is ironic that Billy, this innocent Christ like character loses his composure and ultimately does something evil. Through out the novel Billy ...
- 1910: Rockefeller
- John Davison Rockefeller John Davison Rockefeller is part of the family of American Industrialists, bankers, and philanthropists. Corporate development during the Industrial Revolution was made in part by entrepreneurs who were the people who took responsibility for the organization ...
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