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- 3371: Culture from Cranium
- ... revival with his mother lead by Charles Finney, the leader of a large religious movement in the northeast. Deeply moved he decided to enter the ministry. Noyes attended the Andover Theological Seminary and Yale Divinity School. It was at Yale that he started developing his controversial views, which then prevented him from being ordained. He decided that when one accepted Jesus that they were then totally without sin and had achieved ... mother and father. The Oneidians seem to have been a cheeful, relaxed people. Very few ever left the community. This is even true of the children, who were often sent away to college and graduate school. In a time of huge demographic change in the area , their community offered a sense of stability. The practice of Complex Marriage was actually the biggest deterrent. Once people became used to that, though, they ...
- 3372: Mark Twain
- ... being rejected it was being raved about by some of the great authors of that time. Huckleberry Finn was praised by T.S. Elliot, celebrated by Ernest Hemmingway and strongly recommended by thousands of high school English teachers around the country. This novel used such great characterization and humor it is often lost among the thousands of books written by the critics merely to tell their view on the book(85 ... Huck Finn was a real boy Twain grew up with in the small town of Hannible Missouri. His name was Tom Blankenship; he was in every way just like Huck: he didn't go to school, slept on doorsteps, and spent most of his time fishing and swimming. Mark wrote what Huck would do by picturing in his head what Tom would have done in that situation(Cantwell 127). Mark Twain ...
- 3373: Jane Eyre - Miss Temple's Influence on Jane
- ... poverty, lack of universal education and sexual inequality. Jane’s plight and her “dependant” status is particularly emphasised at the beginning of the novel. Miss Temple is the kind and fair-minded superintendent of Lowood School, who plays an important role in the emotional development of Jane Eyre. Miss Temple is described by Helen as being “good and very clever” and “above the rest, because she knows far more than they ... of Mr Brocklehurst, where instead of preaching restrictive and depressing doctrine, which he then proceeds to contradict, she encourages the children by “precept and example”. After the incident involving Mr Brocklehurst announcing to the whole school that Jane is a liar, the reader becomes aware of Miss Temple’s sense of natural justice, where before accepting what Mr Brocklehust has said, she inquires from Jane her version. It is of no ...
- 3374: Origins of Louis Leakey
- ... in his field. Leakey was accepted to Cambridge University in 1922, but "numerous blows to the head during the rugby season left him unable to study." He experienced recurring headaches and dizzy spells and left school to recover. This event, although bad at the time, turned out to be a great stroke of luck for Leakey. After leaving school, he immediately acquired a job as an African expert for an archaeological dig in, what is now called, Tanzania. He was to work aside dinosaur bone expert, William E. Cutler. On this mission, Leakey "learned ...
- 3375: The Life of William Shakespeare
- ... Avon. John was respected man in the town. His mother was Mary Arden. She married John in 1557. Mary was the daughter of a farmer. At the age of 7 William attended the Stratford grammar school with other boys of his social class. He was in school nine hours a day. They attended classes year around, except for three holidays. The students studied Latin, the language of Rome. They needed Satin to have a career in medicine, law, or the church. If ...
- 3376: Charles Lindbergh 2
- ... of the world s aviation heroes and an American hero, was the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. He was born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit. He went to school at the University of Wisconsin for two years, but dropped out to attend a flying school in Nebraska. He first started flying in 1922. Within four years, he was piloting a mail plane between St. Louis and Chicago. In 1919 Raymond Orteig from France offered $25,000 to the first person ...
- 3377: Pythagoras
- ... the traditional views. The union of mathematical genius and mysticism is commonly enough. Originally from Samos, Pythagoras founded at Kroton (in southern Italy) a society which was at once a religious community and a scientific school. Such a body was bound to excite jealousy and mistrust, and we hear of many struggles. Pythagoras himself had to flee from Kroton to Metapontion, where he died. It is stated that he was a ... with the senses, Plato argues, remind us of things we knew when the soul was out of the body and could perceive reality directly. There is more difficulty about the cosmology of Pythagoras. Hardly any school ever professed such reverence for its founder's authority as the Pythagoreans. 'The Master said so' was their watchword. On the other hand, few schools have shown so much capacity for progress and for adapting ...
- 3378: Aaron Burr Jr.
- ... he arrived, his little sister, named Sally, had already preceded him. Their father was the Rev. Aaron Burr; their mother, Esther Edwards Burr, daughter of the famous Jonathan Edwards, a noted divine of the Calvin school. He represented all that was austere and hopeless in Puritanism. But Aaron, Jr. inherited only one tenet out of all the rigorous dogma into which he had been born: belief in predestination! Without such belief ... Bellamy. But it soon developed that Burr's nature did not lend itself to the constricted measure of Calvinistic dogma. In 1774, he broke away from theology. He went to Litchfield, Conn., to the law school of Tapping Reeve. Here Burr studied law and was introduced to society. In April 1775, the news of the battle of Lexington came to him. In July, Burr was accompanied by Matthias Ogden at Cambridge ...
- 3379: The Progressive Era
- ... still have violation of child labor laws, even now here in the United States, child labor remains a serious problem. Many immigrant children help in the agricultural area. In many farm areas, children with miss school to help with the planting and harvesting of crops. Many children are employed in business at night with nothing but an older teen supervising them. Many of these business are ones where there is cash ... a bedtime sedative, and help us socialize at a party. It is used to celebrate holidays, accomplishments and celebrations in life. Young people think they show their maturity with alcohol, a large majority of high school children use alcohol, according to the newspapers. Alcohol is a tranquilizer you can buy without a prescription. No drug is as abused as alcohol. At least 20 million Americans are alcoholics. In the business world ...
- 3380: F.D.R. And The Work Reform Programs
- ... a day and they would receive thirty dollars a month. They sent twenty-five dollars home to their families, and kept the rest for their own expenses. This was set up to keep men in school so that they would have futures. In 1935, the National Youth Administration was set up for the younger people who needed work. This gave students part-time work, so they could stay in school and still earn money. Since there were a lot of works programs being set up, the government thought that they should set up the Fair Labor Standards Act, (FLSA.) The FLSA stated that a person ...
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