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- 2111: Education And Egalitarianism In America
- ... The builder was the teacher. The job of the teacher was to form the child's mind by building into it the knowledge of man's cultural heritage through the teaching of such subjects as literature, history, science, and mathematics. Since the individual mind was presumably formed by building into it the products of the collective mind, methods of instruction were concerned wholly with how this was to be done. Herbart ...
- 2112: Civil War - The Myth Of The Lost Cause
- ... Other generals of the Confederacy who had died during the war followed, as did those who would pass on later. D.H. Hill, a friend of Longstreet published LAND WE LOVE, a magazine devoted to Literature, Military History and Agriculture. In 1869 Hill sold out to a Baltimore periodical, NEW ECLECTIC, which in the same year became the SOUTHERN MAGAZINE, official organ of the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. In 1871 it changed ...
- 2113: Andrew Carnegie
- ... and at his death, the last $30 million was likewise given away to foundations, charities, and pensioners. He left a mark on society not only through his enormous monetary provisions, but also with his own literature. Carnegie loved to promote his ideas and opinions in print, and has written many works outlining these philosophies, including Triumphant Democracy (1886), The Gospel of Wealth (1900), The Empire of Business (1902), Problems of Today ...
- 2114: Vietnam War - Summary Of Vietnam
- ... people began to strike out and a revolution took place to restore peace to the nation. Some key ways to get the movement attention included student activism and anti-war messages present in songs and literature. The National Guard and other patrolmen often became violent in order to gain control of situations, and several people were killed. Growing Protest of the war caused Johnson not to run for re-election in ...
- 2115: Rosa Parks
- Racism and prejudice have been dominant issues in the United States for many years. Being such a major issue is society, racism is also a major theme in one of the best pieces of American Literature, To Kill A Mockingbird. People, particularly African Americans, have been denied basic human rights such as getting a fair trial, eating in a certain restaurant, or sitting in certain seats of public buses. However, in ...
- 2116: A Consise History Of Germany
- ... The lofty cathedrals of Bamberg, Strasbourg, Naumburg, and Cologne were richly decorated with sculpture, and they were filled with light from the stained glass in their large, pointed-arched windows. French culture also affected German literature. Wandering nobles and knights, called Minnesinger, wrote and recited courtly love poems in the tradition of Provençal troubadours and French trouvères . Foremost among them were Reinmar von Hagenau and Walther von der Vogelweide. Other poets ...
- 2117: Alcoholics Anonymous
- ... work, however, involved the material in which she recorded in, and taught from, the spiritual journal she compiled between 1933 and 1939. In it, she had many comments on the Bible, Oxford Group principles, Christian literature, and most of the specific principles that wound up in the Twelve Steps (Pitman 104 &105). Bill Wilson called Anne Smith the “Mother of A.A.” and a “Founder” (Wekesser 52). In this same year ...
- 2118: A Timeline Of The Holocaust
- ... s Witnesses were banned as an organization as early as April 1933, since the beliefs of this religious group prohibited them from swearing any oath to the state or serving in the German military. Their literature was confiscated, and they lost jobs, unemployment benefits, pensions, and all social welfare benefits. Many Witnesses were sent to prisons and concentration camps in Nazi Germany and their children were sent to juvenile detention homes ...
- 2119: A Hero Among Men, A Man Among
- A Hero Among Men, A Man Among Heroes The name Ulysses instantly conjures up images of heroism and adventure. Even modern readers who are less versed in classical literature recognize the larger-than-life character, if not the specific details of this legend. It is with these associations in mind that one approaches the poetic monologue “Ulysses” by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Tennyson, hwoever, presents ...
- 2120: Origin Of The English Laguage
- ... Edward the Confessor. He had a cousin who was also a king. His cousin was William of Normandy. After Edward died in 1066 his cousin took over England. This was the end of Anglo-Saxon literature. So throughout time there has been many differnent cultures in England. All during this time in history the first form of poetry was introduced with herioc and Elegiace poetry. The Anglo-Saxon language combined with ...
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