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- 1801: Analysis of Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
- ... the turret with a hose. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell is a poem about a soldier dying in the ball turret of a fighter plane during what was most likely World War II. The poem tells of the fear of young soldiers being sent to war and their thoughts of dying. The poem is told from the point of view of a young fighter aboard a bomber during World War II. The fighter is positioned in the ball turret which ...
- 1802: The Influence of Thoreau on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... Thoreau and coming from a rather poor family in Massachusetts, Thoreau was the only child in his family to attend college. He graduated from Harvard in 1837 and became interested in natural history, religion, and world literature. Thoreau taught briefly but was dismissed when it became known that he opposed corporal punishment. He and his brother founded their own school based on transcendentalist principles, but he still wanted to be a ... s famous essay Civil Disobedience. (Encarta) Gandhi thought the terms passive resistance and civil disobedience insufficient for his purpose, so he coined another term, Satyagraha, which means truth and firmness in Sanskrit. After the Boer War, in which Gandhi organized an ambulance corps for the British Army, he returned to his campaign for Indian rights in Africa. He founded a cooperative farm near Johannesburg in 1910. Four years later, the Union ... to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure as it ...
- 1803: The Slave Trade
- The Slave Trade As horrible as the slave trade was, it formed a vast amount of economic basis for countries everywhere. People all over the world relied on the slave trade for their financial stability. When one thinks about enslaving other human beings, it is often looked upon as cruel and inhumane. It would be comforting to know that everyone around the world would make good decisions, however, where money and commodities are considered justifiable reasons, people often looked the other way. The economic motivation behind the slave trade helps to explain why all types of slave traders ... understanding of how this came to be, one must look beyond his or her own personal beliefs and look at how many peoples of different ethnic and social backgrounds tend to operate all over the world. It can be said that it this economic motive was the reason a sense of racism towards blacks was first unleashed. Although many like to think that the slave trade began with the Europeans ...
- 1804: Harry S. Truman
- ... and all the planets had fallen on me." Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884. He grew up in Independence, and for 12 years prospered as a Missouri farmer. He went to France during World War I as a captain in the Field Artillery. Returning, he married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, and opened a haberdashery in Kansas City. Active in the Democratic Party, Truman was elected a judge of the Jackson County Court (an administrative position) in 1922. He became a Senator in 1934. During World War II he headed the Senate war investigating committee, checking into waste and corruption and saving perhaps as much as 15 billion dollars. As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in ...
- 1805: The Olympic Games
- ... for several hundred years, until they were abolished in the early Christian era. The revival of the Olympic Games took place in 1896, and since then they have been staged every fourth year, except during World War I and World War II. Perhaps the basic difference between the ancient and modern Olympics is that the former was the ancient Greeks' way of saluting their gods, whereas the modern Games are a manner of saluting ...
- 1806: Commercial Warfare
- ... term, the United States initiated a policy to retaliate against the seizure of ships by the British and French. These three dominant nations entered a period between 1806-1810, known as Commercial Warfare. The Commercial War was a response by Americans to maintain their right of neutral commerce. The Acts by the United States, the Decrees by the powerful Napoleon I, and the Parliamentary orders, throughout the period of Commercial Warfare directly led to the start of the War of 1812, and helped build the commercial future of the United States. The Peace of Amiens did not last long after its signing on March 27, 1802, to end the European wars between the ... Non-Intercourse Act. The Non-Intercourse Act was a step back on restrictions on trade enforced by the Embargo Act. Now the Embargo was only placed on France and England. Trade was reopened to the world. As a result the United States economy began to improve. An important clause in the agreement was that if either nation was to prevent the invasion of United States vessels the embargo would be ...
- 1807: The Book Of Sand
- ... in this paper, Borges wrote philosophy in a lot of his works. In The Book of Sand, infinity is depicted in the form of a mysterious book. It symbolizes man's constant search for the world's existence. Borges is saying that it is an endless search and therefore pointless. The Other is the story of Borges sitting on a bench, as he feels as though he had lived that moment ... of unlimited English books."(Here, he was referring to his father's library) He was also greatly influenced by published poets and writers who were friends of the family and often visited. In 1914, before World War I, Borges' family went to Europe where they traveled until the war was over. During these years of traveling, Borges, in his teenage years, depended a lot on the company of his readings (mainly ...
- 1808: The Holocaust
- ... the Jews were the cause of all the German troubles and were a threat to the German and Christian values. Dating back to the first century A.D. the Jews and Christians were always at war. The Jews were considered the murderers of Christ and were therefor denounced from society, rejected by the Conservatives and were not allowed to live in rural areas. As a result, the Jews began living in ... nationless parasite and were directly related to the Treaty Of Versailles. When Hitler began his move to conquer Europe, he promised that no person of Jewish background would survive. Before the start of the second world war, the Jews of Germany were excluded from public life, forbidden to have sexual relations with non-Jews, boycotted, beaten but allowed to emigrate. When the war was officially declared, emigration ended and 'the final ...
- 1809: Western Films
- ... James Brothers, the original Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Billy the Kid). Westerns are often set on the American frontier during the last part of the 19th century (1865-1900) following the Civil War, in a geographically western (trans-Mississippi) setting with romantic, sweeping frontier landscapes or rugged rural terrain. However, Westerns may extend back to the time of America's colonial period or forward to the mid-20th ... Beery who memorably portrayed a Mexican revolutionary in Viva Villa! (1934), Barbara Stanwyck as the famous gunslinger in Annie Oakley (1935) and Randolph Scott in an early large-scale version of the French and Indian War (during America's colonial period) in the film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1936). Cecil B. De Mille's stylish but historically imaginative The Plainsman (1937) starred Gary Cooper ... scale adventure westerns of the late 30s and early 40s, displaying his athleticism and romantic appeal as cavalry officer Jeb Stuart chasing abolitionist John Brown in Santa Fe Trail (1938), or as a post-Civil War Texas cattleman in Dodge City (1939), or as the flamboyant General Custer in an historically inaccurate biography from director Raoul Walsh titled They Died With Their Boots On (1941). In all three films, his ...
- 1810: Canada's Immigration From 1852-1990
- ... Canadian government was promoting it's self every where with it's fur and grains to encourage new comers and settlers that moved to the U.S. back to Canada. With the out break of World War I tension was high. This was the lowest amount of people in years (although the amount of Americans was increasing with year of the war). Once desired immigrants were now "enemy aliens". Also people from Germany, Hungry, Poland, Romania, and many others become the objects of hostility. After the war there was a huge boom in immigrants because of ...
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