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- 24971: Thomas Jefferson
- ... enacted in 1786. Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington's Cabinet. He resigned in 1793. Sharp political conflict developed, and two separate parties, the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans, began to form. Jefferson gradually assumed leadership of the Republicans, who sympathized with the revolutionary cause ... a President and a Vice President from their own party, cast a tie vote between Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The House of Representatives settled the tie. Hamilton, disliking both Jefferson and Burr, nevertheless urged Jefferson's election. When Jefferson assumed the Presidency, the crisis in France had passed. He slashed Army and Navy expenditures, cut the budget, eliminated the tax on whiskey so unpopular in the West, yet reduced the national ... Further, although the Constitution made no provision for the acquisition of new land, Jefferson suppressed his qualms over constitutionality when he had the opportunity to acquire the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803. During Jefferson's second term, he was increasingly preoccupied with keeping the Nation from involvement in the Napoleonic wars, though both England and France interfered with the neutral rights of American merchantmen. Jefferson's attempted solution, an ...
- 24972: Great Expectations
- ... real premises of which we detect only when we are startled by the conclusions. The plot of Great Expectations is also noticeable as indicating, better than any of his previous stories, the individuality of Dickens's genius. Everybody must have discerned in the action of his mind two diverging tendencies, which in this novel, are harmonized. He possess a singularly wide, clear, and minute power of accurate observation, both of things ... an absence of both directing ideas and disturbing idealizations. Everything drifts to its end, as in real life. In Great Expectations there is shown a power of external observation finer and deeper even than Thackeray's; and yet, owing to the presence of other qualities, the general impression is not one of objective reality. The author palpably uses his observations as materials for his creative faculties to work upon; he does ... which they appear than is usual with Dickens. They all combine to produce the unity of impression which the work leaves on the mind. Individually they will rank among the most original of the author's creations. Magwitch and Joe Gargery, Jaggers and Wemmick, Pip and Herbert, Wopsle, Pumblechook, and "the Aged," Miss Havisham, Estella, and Biddy, are personages which the most assiduous readers of Dickens must pronounce positive additions ...
- 24973: Overview of "Catcher in the Rye" and "Death of a Salesman"
- ... lot of inner conflict with the main character. He ended up having to go to a "headshrinker" to help him with his problems. He had no idea what to do with his life and didn't think about what he should do before he actualy did things. He did do a lot of things for other people though. He helped those nuns. He gave them ten dollers for their charity box. He also had a lot of troubles with school. He got kicked out of other schools, and he really didn't care. All he wanted was to be left alone. He did not want to talk to alot of people. He wanted to be a hermit. In the book "Death of a Salesman" there is a ... so much, that he starts to believe the lies that he is telling, and then he falls into his own trap. He wanted to be something that he was not. He knew that he couldn't be that, but he kept trying, and he kept lying. He tried and tried to be the best salesman, to die, and have the death of a salesman, but in the end, it all ...
- 24974: Canterbury Tales Wife Of Bath
- Canterbury Tales: Wife of Bath Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in 1340 (Fuller 12). Geoffrey Chaucer's fortunes were closely bound with these of John Of Gaunt, the son-in-law to the Earl of Derby (Fuller 12). Around the year 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer was charged with rape by a woman named ... gives up all his power of choice to the queen in order to live (Williams 64). The word rape is often promoted by the wife throughout the story (Williams 64). The king in the wife's tale represents authority. The king would have inflicted punishment on the knight. The queen on the other hand would have commuted his sentence to rape him back, "An eye for an eye (Williams 66)." The ... her theme, tyranny. The wife is the rapist knight herself (Williams 66). The wife having created the knight and theme of rape is a perpetual self-rapist (Williams 66). There is irony in the wife's tale. Her tale is of the antifeminist clichι, that all women in their hearts desire to be raped (Williams 67). Through her tale she fulfills her desires and resolves the oppositions that she faces ( ...
- 24975: Beowulf, Epic Hero
- ... leadership. He has many loyal men that would die for him, because he gives them something to live for, a better life style. So therefore this is what makes Beowulf one of the greatest hero s in literature. To find courage in a person these days is hard to come by. A lot of people are afraid of various things, and to be fearless is quite an honorable characteristic in one s personality, although it could get you in to trouble now a days. Because of the rise in crime in the Twentieth Century, there are many things to fear such as getting mugged, robbed, raped, killed ... one has to take risks on his own behalf to save the suffrage of others, because he wants to. Beowulf had killed many monsters before, but this was for his own safety, like the one s he fought in the sea. But Grendel was a monster that was eating his men and Beowulf was not taking that too well. " We have done this work of valor against the strength of ...
- 24976: Blindness In Oedipus The King
- ... in Sophocles tragedy Oedipus the King. First, Sophocles presents blindness as a physical disability affecting the auger Teiresias, and later Oedipus; but later, blindness comes to mean an inability to see the evil in one s actions and the consequences that ensue. The irony in this lies in the fact that Oedipus, while gifted with sight, is blind to himself, in contrast to Teiresias, blind physically, but able to see the ... sin so hidden from Oedipus and the peoples eyes was quite visible to Teiresias. What Teiresias lacked in his ability to see the world, he made up for in being able to see a person s heart - a skill that nearly cost him his life after a lengthy argument with Oedipus. Yet what distinguishes Teiresias from the others was his genuine concern for others a concern that he voiced before demolishing ... The murder of his father, Laius, and the subsequent marriage to this mother, Jocasta, further elucidate the extent of Oedipus blindness; blind in deed, reason, and consequence. Tragically, Oedipus anagnorisis occurs simultaneously with his mother s/wife s suicide. With a heart full of despair and a pair of newly opened eyes, Oedipus makes his transformation complete as he exchanges his limited physical eyesight for the spiritual sight possessed by ...
- 24977: Unemployment
- ... big issue since some people seem to think that they can stay unemployed and on welfare for their whole life and get a fair amount of money from our government. "Permanent unemployment is BAD. It's bad for people, it's bad for business and industry, it's bad for productivity and therefor prosperity" (Sartorius, unemployment 4-5). Some citizens believe that even though the current unemployment rate is only about five percent, that still is not that good considering how many ...
- 24978: Hubert H. Humphrey
- ... was the thirty eighth Vice President of the United States. He was elected along side of Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party in the year 1964. Humphrey also ran for the title of U.S. president in 1968, but was unsuccesful in his attempts. Humphrey gained his national reputation as a U.S. Senator from the years 1949-1964 and then he was senator again from 1971 until his death. Hubert Humphrey became in his later years, one of the most respected political figures. However one thing that ... help us see a better vision of what we can become. Hubert Humphrey was such a man." Humphrey begin his road to sucess at the 1948 Democratic national convention. This where he spoke of Truman's Civil Rights proposals. This lead to his election to the U.S. Senate that same year and gave him the reputation as a fire-breathing Midwestern liberal. Humphrey had a good Vice-Presidential term, ...
- 24979: Adam Smith 2
- ... started writing The Wealth of Nations in 1776. It was the first complete work on political economy. The book discusses the relationship between freedom and order, analyzes economic processes, and attacks the British mercantile system s limits on free trade. All three aspects are woven together to create a unified social theory. In France Smith met and associated with many of the leading Continental philosophers of the physiocratic school, which based ... production. This expansion would in turn create more jobs, and the national income would grow. Smith believed that free trade and a self-regulating economy would result in social progress. He criticized the British government s high tariffs and other limits on individual freedom in trade. He preached that government need only preserve law and order, enforce justice, defend the nation, and provide for a few social needs that could not be met through the market. Smith s argument for a hands off government policy toward business and his analysis of economic forces laid down the basic ideas of economic liberalism. Although this view has undergone considerable modification by economists in the ...
- 24980: Economics
- ... discriminate as macroeconomics , you can get a broader picture and grasp the basic concepts of an economy . Macroeconomics studies the study a single aspect of an economy , lets say the mining of coal . You don't research the delivery , the market' ; all you study is the actual mining process . While this may be more limited in scale , you can learn more about that specific process . You don't see the whole picture but you can find the specifics on that subject . Personally I don't think that the physiocrats theory would work . I think that if we tried to follow there theory and have the government abstain from interference , many of the smaller businesses would quickly be closed down . ...
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