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- 5431: WEB DuBois
- ... and shared his sense of cultural and spiritual tradition. In the South, he saw his people being driven to a status of little difference from slavery, and saw them terrorized at the polls. He taught school during the summers in the eastern portion of Tennessee, and saw the suffering firsthand. He then resolved to dedicate his life to fighting the terrible racial oppression that held the black people down, both economically ...
- 5432: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ... in size overlooked the Hudson River and had a breathtaking view of the Catskill mountains. He led a good life, going to well-renound private schools then graduating, to attend Harvard and later Colombia Law School. It was at this time that Roosevelt met and fell in love with Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, and the were promptly married. Attending the ceremonies was President Theodore Roosevelt. The assumption can be drawn that during ...
- 5433: Luciano
- ... shoplifting in 1907, and started his first racket during that same year. For a penny or two a day, he offered younger and smaller Jewish children his personal protection against beatings on the way to school; if they didnt pay, he beat them up. One runty boy, Meyer Lansky, refused to pay, so he and Luciano fought. It amazed Luciano how hard Lansky fought back, and they became best of ...
- 5434: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... comedy. In the book, the main character, Holden Caultfield, tells us a story about what happened during his Christmas vacation. Holden is a sixteen-year-old boy who has flunked out of a private prep school. He doesn't want his parents to find it out, so he goes to a hotel in New York City instead of going home before the Christmas holidays start. In New York many things happen ...
- 5435: The Course Of The Great Depres
- ... the Keynesian view. It is not clear if the contraction of the money supply was a cause of, or reaction to, economic weakness. Banking Panics In contradistinction to emphasis on the money supply, a third school of thought, which gives considerable weight to financial matters in explaining the Depression, focuses on banking panics and the consequences of the multitude of bank failures that occurred throughout the period. It is not, however ...
- 5436: The New Deal
- ... order to extend the benefits of wealth more equally. Many economic, political, and social factor lead up to the New Deal. When staggering statistics such as 25% unemployment, and the fact that 20% of NYC school children were underwieght and malnourished (World Book, p.200) hit the White House, the government knew something had to be done. With the economy at on all time low people wanted change, Roosevelt's legislative ...
- 5437: The Trail Of Tears
- ... the Cherokee nation in 1827 continues his roll in the land, shared with another seventy tribes. They had opened up schools in the Indian Territory to continue their education for their children. The first Cherokee school opened in 1801 when the people were learning their language. Their written language which consists of 85 characters, was said to be created by a Sequoia (1760-1843) , a Cherokee leader. Sequoia translated the Bible ...
- 5438: A Freudian Turn of the Screw
- ... It is assumed that the former governess and her lover were possibly very promiscuous in front of the children, which leads to Miles behavior at the beginning of the story. He gets sent home from school because of the obscene way he talks and acts. The third element in this psychological analogy and probably the most important is James use of a center of consciousness point of view. A center of ...
- 5439: Evaluation Of The New Deal
- ... jobs. "Black cabinets" or "black brain trust" became advisors of the president. William Hastie and Mary Leod Bethune were of the top names in this group of African Americans. They helped thousands to stay in school and learn new trades. With the help of Eleanor Roosevelt, many women took jobs at the White House. In 1936 the democratic convention declared that every platform should have an alternate of the opposite sex ...
- 5440: The Gilded Age
- ... dealt a debilitating blow to the towns economy, however the citizens found themselves with nowhere else to go. We are born in a Pullman house, fed form the Pullman shop, taught in the Pullman school, catechized in the Pullman church, and when we die we shall be buried in the Pullman cemetery and go to the Pullman hell(Meltzer151). For lack of a better action, the citizens of Pullman struck ...
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