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- 821: Teddy Bear
- ... reforms and a strong foreign policy. He took The view that the president as a "steward of the people" should take whatever action necessary for the public good unless expressly forbidden by law or the constitution. "I did not usurp power, " he wrote, "but i did greatly broaden the use of executive power." Roosevelt's youth differed sharply from that of the log cabin Presidents. he was born in New York ...
- 822: Adolf Hitler
- ... nucleus of the Nazi "brown-shirts" (S.A.) which served as the Nazi party's army. With the loss of the war, the German monarchy came to an end and a republic was proclaimed. A constitution was written providing for a President with broad political and military power and a parliamentary democracy. A national election was held to elect 423 deputies to the National Assembly. The centrist parties swept to victory ...
- 823: Samuel Adams
- ... year in and year out on numerous committees.”(Carlson 91) Although Adams’s influence in state and national affairs waned during the 1780s, he was elected to the Massachusetts convention on the ratification of the Constitution, which he was ultimately persuaded to support even though it contradicted some Whig principles. But, as in the past, he remained wary of centralized governmental power and never became part of the Federalists, the dominant ...
- 824: Samuel Adams - American Patrio
- ... again at the Second Continental Congress where he was an advocate for independence and confederation for the American Colonies. He served Continental Congress until his return to Boston in 1781. He initially opposed the new Constitution of the United States, but finally supported its ratification in Massachusetts. Adams served as Governor of Massachusetts from 1793 to 1797. "Born in Boston, died in Boston" might be a good epitaph for Samuel Adams ...
- 825: Pompeys Rise To Political Prom
- ... many. M. Aemilius Lepidus, one of the consuls of 78 BC delivered an attack which the government repelled. But the continuous pressure revealed the weakness of the senatorial position, and the citadel of the Sullan constitution had fallen. The breakdown of the Sullan system and the rise of Pompey then forced the senate back at every point. Pompey’s contracted ties of friendship with a number of great landowners of the ...
- 826: Grace Murray Hopper
- ... the UNIVAC I, the first commercial large-scale electronic computer. She stayed untill when it was bought by Remington Rand and latter merged with Sperry Corporation. At her retirement ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Constitution in Boston, Navy Secretary John F. Lehmann Jr. presented Admiral Hopper with the Distinguished Service Medal. More than 40 colleges and universities have conferred honorary degrees on Admiral Hopper, and she has been honored by ...
- 827: Obituary On George Washington
- ... in Philadelphia to solve the problem. General Washington went and was asked to lead over the Convention. After weeks of long debates and many votes, the delegates worked out their differences. They wrote a new constitution for the nation with a democratic government. When the time came to elect a leader for the new government, George Washington was the unanimous choice. In New York City on April 30, 1789, George Washington ...
- 828: The Study Of Imagery In Adrian
- ... to the wall with a glass of water just beyond his grasp. 2) Force him to sit in a room with Ivan Braithwhite while Ivan talks about the finer details of the Labor Party s Constitution, with particular reference to Clause Four. (This is a true torture, as I can bear witness) 3) Show him a video of Pandora getting married to me. She radiant in white, me in top hat ...
- 829: The Prince
- ... The Prince and his other lesser known work The Discourses in 1513. In 1515, he wrote a comedy, La Mandragola, a satire on seduction. The Medici family consulted Machiavelli in 1519 on a new Florentine constitution. In 1520, he wrote The Life of Castruccio Castracani, a narrative essay on the life of man, who founded the state of Lucca in Tuscany, in the fourteenth century. Machiavelli published seven books in 1521 ...
- 830: Scarlet Letter Essay
- ... emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet had a [tone] of decay. As a believing Puritan, Dimmesdale saw himself as predestined for damnation. Hawthorne explained how the poor man kept silent by the very constitution of [his] nature. Dimmesdale wanted to be with Hester, but he was weak. Hawthorne spoke about Dimmesdale s bloody scourge in his closet, and how he beat himself with it. Hawthorne seemed to suggest that ...
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