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- 1151: Richard Nixon
- ... party candidate George C. Wallace. His accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program. As he had promised, he appointed Justices of conservative philosophy to the Supreme Court. One of the most dramatic events of his first term occurred in 1969, when American astronauts made the first moon landing. Some of his most acclaimed achievements came in his quest ...
- 1152: Robert Frost
- ... his examination of man in work such as Mending Wall and The Death of a Hired Man, both from North of Boston. As they walk along mending the wall, Frost and his neighbor discuss the philosophy of walls. His neighbor repeats, Good fences make good neighbor, and seems satiation with his simple premise; however, Frost insists upon looking more deeply into the maker of the rationale for wall building. Before I ...
- 1153: Ray Bradbury
- ... was released in 1953 and is set in a future when the written word is forbidden. Resisting a totalitarian state which burns all the books, a group of rebels memorize entire works of literature and philosophy. There have been many recorded reactions to this book and this is just an example from a librarian: "fired off a letter of furious protest to the wholesaler. How dare they send such a dreadful ...
- 1154: Peter The Great 3
- ... began changing things, starting with the cutting off of his beard. He also built a modern navy, as well as a modern army, and he also started new schools of navigation, mathematics, geography, politics, medicine, philosophy, and finally astronomy (2:2). He introduced the potato, and also encouraged the breeding of native Russian horses. He began the first Russian newspaper, and ordered the printing of over 600 books -- including a guide ...
- 1155: Neil Simon
- ... terms for first wave feminists were not used in Nellie McClung's era. Now, these activists are labeled as either maternal or equal rights feminists and such a label would seem to dictate a distinct philosophy and motives for reform. McClung is difficult to label since she seems to alternate between the two types of feminism. The discussion of first wave feminism is problematic as feminists are branded as maternal or ...
- 1156: Malcolm X 4
- ... Just copying the dictionary over and over again fascinated Malcolm and turned him on to bigger books and bigger things. Eventually all the reading he had gave him great knowledge in the fields of history, philosophy, and other subjects that would help him later in his life to preach and influence. The most important influence in Malcolm's life, by far was being introduced to the Muslim faith by his family ...
- 1157: Malcolm X 3
- ... to do it. "If he wanted to create some sort of peace between the two, then why would he try to create more violence to stop the existing violence." (Perry 285) They disagreed with his philosophy "by any means necessary." There are many speculations as to what would have happened had Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. joined forces. In Malcolm's eyes the main difference between himself and Martin ...
- 1158: Machiavelli And Plato
- ... dear or esteem so highly as that knowledge of the deeds of great men, which I have acquired through a long experience of modern events and a constant study of the past. (Social and Political Philosophy. Somerville and Santoni p.101) It is from this initial examination of politics from a purely scientific and rational perspective that Machiavelli has been named the founder of analysing politics as a science. However his ...
- 1159: Martin Luther King Jr. 5
- ... ordained as a minister. After his graduation from the Crozer Theological Seminary, when he began postgraduate work at Boston University, he studied the works of Indian nationalist Mohandas Gandhi, from whom he derived his own philosophy of nonviolent protest. He moved to Alabama to become pastor for a Baptist church. Just after he received his Ph.D. in 1955, King was asked to lead a bus boycott in Montgomery. It had ...
- 1160: Martin Luther King Jr. 4
- ... or else American will become a nation in constant turmoil. King bestowed his views of love, respect,and equality to his followers, eventually gaining the respect of people of all races and classes. King s philosophy of nonviolent direct action, and his strategies for racial equality,affecting the conscience of the nation and reordered its priorities. His wisdom, his words, his actions, his commitment, and his dreams for social change, are ...
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