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- 1681: The Declaration of Independence
- ... of Independence it states that "all men are created equal," an idea which leads to the concept that all citizens should have the same rights, responsibilities, and influence in the governing of their country. In writing the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson was trying to break his ties with the harsh and non-democratic rule of the British and begin a new, equal society and government for America. The Declaration's ... to the idea of democracy. To have a democracy that works well you must have equality between people, and the citizens must feel that the government represents their concerns. Jefferson knew this when he began writing the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence states that all men were, "endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness " and idea that ... where all men would have the opportunity to control their own destinies. Jefferson foresaw a government where individual rights would be recognized and the new government would represent the interests of all its citizens. By writing this document, Thomas Jefferson was trying to separate himself and the great country he lived in from the unfair and controlling British. He believed that it was time for America to break away from ...
- 1682: John Updike
- ... he worked as a copy boy for the Reading Eagle. As a copy boy, he wrote a few feature stories for the newspaper ("Updike,John 414). That fall he began to attend Harvard and started writing for the Harvard Lampoon a funny magazine where he was later elected the president of the magazine. On June 26, 1953 he married his wife Mary E, Pennington a fine arts major from Radcliffe, she ... 1955. He moved his family to Manhattan where he began his work at The New Yorker. 1957 son David was born and he left the staff of The New Yorker to concentrate on his own writing. May 14 1959 son Michael was born. December 15, 1960 his last child Miranda was born. In 1962 John Updike began teaching at Harvard. On April 1, 1964 elected to the American Academy of Arts ... to Pennsylvania to talk about his childhood. In 1991 he receives his second Pulitzer Prize for Odd Jobs. He is one of only three authors to receive two Pulitzers ("Updike,John 414). John Updike’s writing was very materialistic. His writing was based on his life experiences and his early years in Pennsylvania. His characters were self absorbed, ridden with guilt, concerned with their own importance and worried about death. ...
- 1683: The Writings of Pat Conroy
- ... also became captain and MVP of the basketball team (Bdd 1). While he was attending the Citadel, he learned many important lessons of life (Burns 5). Pat Conroy gained a lot of inspiration for his writing while attending college. His first book, The Boo, was published in 1970. It is based on a relationship with Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Nugent Courvoise, Assistant Commandant of Cadets, nicknamed Boo (Burns 1). It was a ... his battles with illiteracy and the school board (Burns 1). It also tells about his graduation from college and being filled with liberalism and a desire to erase racism in the South. When he began writing the book he saw it as a chance to show his disapproval of the South Carolina school system. He told an interviewer, "When I began to write the first chapters I was blazing. What concerned ... 18-story apartment building, possibly the wife in the book (Castro 1-2). Pat said that his brother's death was probably a relief to him. He reveals that he got his passion to begin writing from Thomas Wolfe in this excerpt from Beach Music: "Taking out Look Homeward, Angel, I read the magnificent first page and remembered when I had been a sixteen-year-old boy and those same ...
- 1684: Crittenden Compromise
- ... of slaves from one state to another, or to a territory, in which slaves are permitted." This amendment was especially beneficial to the South because there had long been a debate over whether slaves were personal property or not. The Constitution guarantees a citizen the right to transport personal property as he or she wishes. This article suggested that a slave was in fact personal property and thus guaranteed owners of their right to transport them. The fifth article states: "...Congress shall have power to provide by law...that the United States shall pay to the owner who shall ...
- 1685: Intertextualilty - The Mocking
- ... these issues to be dealt with in a more in depth view rather than letting the reader identify with an already prominent issue within society and then contributing the views of the author but instead writing into the story a group of common issues that help the reader to understand the issue and offer a new perspective. The style in which the author writes his or her story reflects on individual ... as such we feel closer to her and develop and bond with Scout, sharing her anxieties and fear, often forgetting that the story teller is actually scout reflecting on events passed. This effective form of writing allows for the advantages of both first person views, thoughts and expressionism to be used without being confined, the third person element gives a fresh and broader picture of the aspects of the story. The ... first person becomes difficult, the views used by Tim Winton enhance the feelings of the boy. In a novel a writer is given more of a medium to develop and disclose their opinions within their writing, In a short story the writers attitudes may seem forced and biased due to the short space of time in which they are fed to the reader. In a novel however the author may ...
- 1686: History of Computers
- ... placed on a single chip, became increasingly common. Many companies, some new to the computer field, introduced in the 1970s programmable minicomputers supplied with software packages. The size-reduction trend continued with the introduction of personal computers, which are programmable machines small enough and inexpensive enough to be purchased and used by individuals (Rogers, 153). One of the first of such machines was introduced in January 1975. Popular Electronics magazine provided ... and Steve Wozniak, founders of Apple Computer, built a much cheaper, yet more productive version of the Altair and turned their hobby into a business (Fluegelman, 16). After the introduction of the Altair 8800, the personal computer industry became a fierce battleground of competition. IBM had been the computer industry standard for well over a half-century. They held their position as the standard when they introduced their first personal computer, the IBM Model 60 in 1975 (Chposky, 156). However, the newly formed Apple Computer company was releasing its own personal computer, the Apple II (The Apple I was the first computer designed by ...
- 1687: Influences On Early American L
- ... ideals. Jefferson, a great believer in the individualistic spirit, actually sounded its death knell with his democratic ideals of rule by the majority. It is in this that you find the greatest ambivalence in his writing. Jefferson included in his desirable traits two traits, which on the surface look completely compatible, but in reality are not conducive to each other. Rule by the majority fosters interdependence between the majority and minority ... to the power of the monarchy but instead to the much greater power of a majority of his peers and is required morally to not only follow but to actively support their wishes. Jefferson’s writing was widely read and acted as a trigger in society. He put into motion the very forces which destroyed his ideal of individualism. The democracy in which he was instrumental in fostering destroyed the primary ... war, or invasion of aliens we will continue on this road to conformity no matter what our original founders intended. You can see this unintended ambiguity of Jefferson’s in almost all of his political writing. Even in the Declaration of Independence when he speaks of the “unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.” by a monarch he does not realize that this will be replaced by the unwarrantable jurisdiction of the masses ...
- 1688: John Dryden
- ... being loyal to Charles and his successor, James II. In 1663 he became happily married to Lady Elizabeth Howard, a sister of his patron. Until then he had no real source of income. He began writing plays as a source of income. His first attempt failed, but his second attempt The Rival Ladies, a tragic comedy, was a success. During the next 20 years he became an important and well-known ... was Mr. Limberham. This was unusual for this time period for a play to be banned because of it’s indecency because the Restoration was a time of change. He was also a master of writing the heroic rhymed couplets. They were extravagant and full of pageantry. One of his later tragedies, the World Well Lost, was written in blank verse and was considered one of his greatest plays and one ... considered a masterpiece. After a quarrel with Thomas Shadwell, a playwright of some talent, he wrote the mock-heroic episode Mac Fecknoe. It is amazing that he did not learn that his best talent was writing formal verse satire until he was at the age of 50. After the death of Charles II and the succession of James II, Dryden and his two sons were converted to Catholicism. He quickly ...
- 1689: Hard Drive Evolution
- ... confined to mainframe and minicomputer installations. Vast "disk farms" of giant 14 and 8 inch drives costing tens of thousands of dollars each buzzed away in the air conditioned isolation of corporate data centers. The personal computer revolution in the early 1980s changed all that, ushering in the introduction of the first small hard disk drives. The first 5.25-inch hard disk drives packed 5 to 10 MB of storage ... to 5,000 pages of double-spaced typed information, into a device the size of a small shoebox. At the time, a storage capacity of 10 MB was considered too large for a so-called "personal" computer. The first PCs used removable floppy disks as storage devices almost exclusively. The term "floppy" accurately fit the earliest 8-inch PC diskettes and the 5.25-inch diskettes that succeeded them. The inner ... plastic case, which is much more durable than the flexible covering on the larger diskettes. With the introduction of the IBM PC/XT in 1983, hard disk drives also became a standard component of most personal computers. The descriptor "hard" is used because the inner disks that hold data in a hard drive are made of an aluminum alloy. These disks, called platters, are coated with a much-improved magnetic ...
- 1690: Compare And Contrast
- Compare and Contrast of two In the story "The General History Of Virginia" by John Smith, was a story on how he made people come to the new world. John Smith style of writing was more poetic than Bradford's, John Smith used lots af adjectives. And William Bradford he was a plain writer he did not use any special words he would use normal words and to his ... things to the point. He never wanted to make anything not simple, he always wanted the reader to understand what was going on in the story instead of being lost. John Smith's purpose in writing this work was to make himself look like a hero, to make people come to the new world. In John Smith's work he always made fun of the Indians like he was the greatest one then everybody. William Bradford's purpose in writing was to teach people. He directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their ...
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