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- 781: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... his family. Poe's mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, was a widow at the age of eighteen. Two years after his birth, she died of tuberculosis (Asselineau 409). When his mother died, Poe was adopted by John Allan (Perry XI) at the urging of Mr. Allan's wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to England. While there, Poe was sent to private schools (Asselineau 410). In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin ... he sent one poem and six stories (Asselineau 411). His story, "Ms. Found in a Bottle," won , and he received one hundred dollars for it (Targ IX). Through the influence of one of the judges, John P. Kennedy, Poe became employed as an editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, published in Richmond (Asselineau 411). Under Poe's editorship, the Messenger 's circulation rose from 500 to 3500. While in Richmond, ...
- 782: Abraham Lincoln 4
- ... of the party and was one of the authors of the removal of the capital to Springfield, where he settled in 1837. After his admission to the bar (1836), he entered into successive partnerships with John T. Stuart, Stephen T. Logan, and William Herndon, and soon won recognition as an effective and resourceful attorney. In 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd, the daughter of a prominent Kentucky banker, and despite her somewhat ... 1860 the Republicans, anxious to attract as many different factions as possible, nominated Lincoln for the presidency on a platform of slavery restriction, internal improvements, homesteads, and tariff reform. In a campaign against Douglas and John C. Breckinridge, two rival Democrats, and John Bell, of the Constitutional Union party, Lincoln won a majority of the electoral votes and was elected president. Immediately after the election, South Carolina, followed by six other Southern states, took steps to secede ...
- 783: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... by making it a more equal and progressive place. Theodore Roosevelt had several negative examples for commanding the counTheodore Roosevelty. In 1798, in the wake of the French Revolution and to stave off Republican criticism, John Adamss Federalist adminisTheodore Rooseveltation passed some of the most resTheodore Rooseveltictive acts in the United States history: the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Naturalization Act mandated that immigrants live in America 14 years before ... decried as an obviously unconstitutional infringement on civil rights and as an illegal expansion of cenTheodore Rooseveltal government. The Acts stood, however. They put many people in jail and fixed a definite black mark on John Adamss record in the service of his counTheodore Roosevelty. Andrew Jackson was a popular president, but had dangerous ideas. Jackson wanted to remove the Native Americans (particularly such Theodore Rooseveltibes as the Cherokee, the ... Theodore Rooseveltoops to walk to Oklahoma. Thousands died on what became known as the Theodore Rooseveltail of Tears. The broad license Theodore Roosevelt took with his executive powers had no such desTheodore Rooseveltuctive effects. Unlike John Adams, Roosevelt never used the government as a shield from public opinion. Unlike Andrew Jackson, he respected the people of the United States. Though Roosevelt often vehemently criticized the legislative branch, he did not ...
- 784: William Shakespeare
- ... the actual day was never officially recorded, but along with most remarkable men the power of myth and symmetry has proven irresistible, so April 23 it has become. Parents and Family Shakespeare's parents were John and Mary Shakespeare, who lived in Henley Street, in Stratford. John, the son of Richard Shakespeare, was a whittawer (a maker, worker, and seller of leather goods such as purses, belts and gloves) and a dealer in agricultural commodities. He was a solid, middle class citizen ... man on the rise. He served in Stratford government successively as a member of the Council (1557), constable (1558), chamberlain (1561), alderman (1565), and finally high bailiff (1568)--the equivalent of town mayor. About 1577 John Shakespeare's fortunes began to decline for unknown reasons. There are records of some debts he may have had, but of course, none can be verified for certain. In 1586 he was replaced as ...
- 785: Calvin Coolidge
- ... president. The road to the presidency was not a hard road for Coolidge to come by. He was born on the 4th of July in the summer of 1872 at Vermont. He was originally named John Calvin Coolidge but he later dropped the "John" (Askin 67-68). His parents were John and Victoria Coolidge. His father was a jack-of-all-trades, but was later known to be an exceptional politician. His mother loved poetry and was very beautiful, unfortunately she died when Coolidge was ...
- 786: Black Like Me: Racism Is A Foolism Misunderstanding of Man
- Black Like Me: Racism Is A Foolism Misunderstanding of Man All men are created equal... or are they? John Griffin's "Black Like Me" shows how racism is nothing more then the foolish misunderstanding of man. White's current superiority hangs in the balance as Blacks become tired of being the minority, in the ... isn't as dreadful as it was then, it still exists. The certainty of racism can't be ignored but it will soon disappear as generations mix. Racial discrepancies challenge the unity of human civilization. John Griffin had a biting curiosity which he could no longer stand. What was life truly like, for a black man in the deep south? He sought the real answer to this by darkening his skin with extreme amounts of medication. A new skin color determines everything and John is now thrown into a new world that he was in no way prepared for. He was no longer John, an average but respected white novelist, he was a black man and that is ...
- 787: The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time for the US
- ... this action by congress. Since the North had more industry, the South felt that congress was protecting the North by raising these tariffs. South Carolina was the strongest protester of these tariffs. South Carolina supported John C. Calhoun who said that a state could nullify or veto a national law within it's own boundaries. In 1832 South Carolina's state legislature declared the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 null ... 50,000 troops into South Carolina. This action scared South Carolina, and when they asked other states for help they got no promises of military aid. Finally seeing that his state was in bad shape John C. Calhoun asked Henry Clay to help him come up with compromise. They came up with a law that would lower tariff annually over a 10 year period until they were satisfactory. After the Missouri ... known as Bleeding Kansas. There were raids and murders. One group pro-slavery group destroyed the town of Lawrence and the antislavery newspaper there. As a rebuttal to this act an abolitionist from Ohio named John Brown and his sons murdered five pro- slavery activists, in Pottawatomie Creek. John Brown was a fanatical abolitionists after this massacre in Pottawatomie he moved east. He was financially supported there by other abolitionists. ...
- 788: Dystopia in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
- ... a social class already predetermined for them before birth. Their predestined lives are filled with promiscuous sex and the shunning of any type of emotions towards the opposite sex. When the "savage", otherwise known as John, is brought into this society he causes conflict. He had been raised in a much more normal (as we may call it) society and when brought to the new world he was shocked, confused and unaccepting of the new ways of living. John does not accept this new world society and goes against it. One of the first signs of dystopia being displayed in this book is introduced with a twist of hypocrisy. A main character of the ... drug named soma to run away from their unhappiness. Linda, the mother of the "savage", comes back from the reservation with Bernard. She had been the woman that the Director had mentioned before to Bernard. John was the Director's son. This in itself is a shock to everyone and a destruction of the Director's reputation. When Linda returned to the new world she was shunned for the birth ...
- 789: "A White Heron" and "The Beast in the Jungle": A Comparison and Contrast Essay
- ... be in her twenties and time is starting to pass faster making the need for a man in her life more immanent with each passing day. Suddenly one day, the right time, the right place, John Marcher enters her life forever. Just as the hunter offered bribery of money in exchange for help in securing the heron, John Marcher offered his presence in exchange for every ounce of self May Bartram would give. To the reader, this was not so attractive or tempting but to May, in consideration of the alternative, John Marcher became an obsession, even a career. Just as Sylvy would daydream, surely May would dream also, altering her real existence, feeding on her infatuation. Otherwise, the relationship, left to John Marcher, would have ...
- 790: Fidel Castro 2
- ... relations he ordered full scale mobilization of his armed forces to repel an invasion from the United States, which he correctly asserted was imminent. For at this time the Washington administration, under new President-elect Kennedy was gearing up for the Cuban exile invasion of Cuba. The fact that this secret was ill kept led to increased arms being shipped to Cuba by Russia in late 1960. President Kennedy inherited from the Eisenhower-Nixon administration the operation that became the Bay of Pigs expedition. The plan was ill conceived and a fiasco. Both Theodore Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger describe the President as the victim of a process set in motion before his inauguration and which he, in the first few weeks of his administration, was unable to arrest in spite of his misgivings. Mr. Schlesinger writes -"Kennedy saw the project in the patios of the bureaucracy as a contingency plan. He did not yet realize how contingency planning could generate its own reality." The fact is that Kennedy had promised to ...
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