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- 2051: Ellis Island
- Ellis Island Within the shadow of the Statue of Liberty lies Ellis Island, the immigration center for the Port of New York, between 1892 and 1954. While Bartholdi's soaring statue was a world famous symbol of liberty and opportunity, the sight of Ellis Island and it's low-lying buildings also encouraged hope in the hearts and minds of the immigrant. The Native Americans named the small island ... the Indians by the governor of New Amsterdam on July 12, 1634 for certain cargoes or packages of goods. The island changed ownership many times during the colonial period. It was not until the Revolutionary War that the island was owned by Samuel Ellis. Ellis was a farmer and a merchant. He passed the island down to his relatives at his death. New York state purchased the island in 1808 and sold it to the federal government to build a fort on it. New York Harbor was being reconstructed by the federal government during that time as well. Ellis Island saw little action during the war. The army and navy hardly ever used the island. Sometimes the Army assigned recruits there.In 1835 the Navy opened a weapon head quarters on the island. The navy continued to store weapons on ...
- 2052: Consensus Historians
- ... on the respected subject of consensus history and the involvement they had made consensus history a subject still looked upon today (Sternsher pg.1). From the year 1944 to 1970 Richard Hofstadter enriched the historical world with his writings. In 1948 Hofstadter joined the faculty at Columbia University. Here Hofstadter published The American Political Traditions and the Men who made it. Many regard this book as the start of the consensus ... large part as a response to Boorstin's work" (Sternsher pg. 15). In Boorstin's work he takes on many elements of anti-progressive and left to right course of development due to the cold war. In one of his book's called, The Genius of American Politics, he points out how unique its past was. He wanted to stress that that American people, politics, and past are unlike any of the world and the people must cherish this and embrace it. In the words of J.R. Pole in the Pastmaster, "during the period when the international crisis of Cold War was compounded by the domestic ...
- 2053: Middle East And Canada
- ... Keenleyside, Soderlund, & Burton, 1985; Kirton, Barei, & Smockum, 1985; Schroeder, 1977). (3) Conflict rather than cooperation, it was hypothesized, would be the dominant orientation of the press with articles focusing on political divisions, disasters, violence and war rather than on softer news related to such subjects as culture, education and development (Cuthbert, 1980; Dewitt & Kirton, 1989; Hackett, 1989; Inyang, 1985; Onu, 1979; Schroeder, 1977; Sinclair, 1983). (4) On the perennial subject of ... developments related to hostage-takings in Lebanon. The latter period is from December 1987 to September 1988 and is one dominated by the Palestinian uprising (intifadah) in Gaza and the West Bank. During these months, world attention focused on the harsh measures employed by Israel to quell the unrest in the occupied territories, including shootings, beatings, the denial of food and the use of deportations. Accordingly, this study affords an opportunity to compare press treatment of the principal protagonists in the Middle East during periods in which each party stood before the court of world opinion as a perpetrator of violent acts, making it possible to establish if the respective events had similar or different effects on the Canadian press's tilt towards the Israelis and the Arabs/Palestinians. ...
- 2054: Fascism and its Political Ideas
- ... Political Ideas Fascism is a form of counter-revolutionary politics that first arose in the early part of the twentieth-century in Europe. It was a response to the rapid social upheaval, the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Fascism is a philosophy or a system of government the advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with ... The idea of the "overman" or superman which symbolized man at his most creative and highest intellectual capacity was brought about by Nietzsche as well. Hegal believed people should sacrifice for the community. He thought war was also necessary to unify the state, with peace bring nothing but a weak society. Hegal also sustained that laws should be made by the corporate organization of the state. Fascism values human nature ...
- 2055: Henry Ford
- A biographical look at the life, times and lessons of Henry Ford It is doubtful if any mechanical invention in the history of the world has influenced in the same length of time the lives of so many people in an important way as the motor car. So writes an American historian, thinking of the automobile alone. But it does ... hard to summarize the era in which Henry Ford lived. Chiefly because he changed the entire tone of the era in which he lived, making his career a transitional period. We will begin with the world before Ford. In the mid-latter part of the eighteen hundreds (c.1860-c.1895), the United States was still tending its wounds from the aftermath of the civil war. It was a time of rebuilding, reorganizing and a time to accept change. The country s figureheads were also changing. When the most respected of men were generals, soldiers, presidents, and war painted warriors, ...
- 2056: From The Floutings Of The Cooperative Principle To Communica
- ... in that the addresser knowingly says something he believes to be false. EXAMPLE 6 A: What if the Iraq controls the Gulf and all the oil? B: Oh come now, Hitler has won the Second World War. In reply to A's childish question (at least B thinks so), B makes a false statement about Hitler and the Second World War, by which he implicates that A' worry is unnecessary under any circumstance. And with his own knowledge about history, A will realize that B has made an intentionally wrong uttering, and then infers ...
- 2057: Franz Joseph Haydn
- ... Later on, he was employed by the Esterhazy family and was given the chance to conduct an orchestra and write symphonies. It was at this time and place that Haydn was completely isolated from the world he could experiment improve, alter, add, or cut as boldly as he pleased. This was the start of a magnificent career. To understand why Haydn was a great classical composer, it is important to understand ... a wonderfully simple hymn and used its melody as a theme for a set of variations. The emperor of Austria was so impressed that he made it the Austrian National Anthem until the end of World War I. The piano sonatas were also part of many of the new genres of music we can attribute to Haydn being that in these sonatas developed the sonata form, a type of structure and ...
- 2058: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The American Dream Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, the spokesman for the Jazz Age, ruled America s decade of prosperity and excess, which began soon after World War 1 and ended around the time of the stock market crash of 1929. The novels and stories for which he is best known examine an entire generation s search for the elusive American Dream of ... hate relationship(_______). His first stories appeared in Princeton University s literary magazine, which was edited by his friend and fellow student Edmund Wilson whom Fitzgerald considered his intellectual conscience(_______). Leaving Princeton for the army during World War 1, Fitzgerald spent his weekends in camp writing the earliest draft of his first novel. Demobilized in 1919, Fitzgerald worked briefly in New York for an adversing agency. His first story, 'Babes in ...
- 2059: Constantine The Great
- ... A.D., British troops declared that Constantine should replace his father. The Eastern emperor Galerius refused this claim and gave Constantine a lesser rank. The Emperor Constantine I was the sole ruler of the Roman world between 324 and 337 A.D. His reign was one of the most crucial of all the emperors in determining the future course of western civilization. By making Christianity the religious foundation of his domain ... on July 25th, 306. Soon after his father's death, Constantine was raised to the purple by the army. The period between 306 and 324, during Constantine s rule, was a period of constant civil war. Two sets of campaigns not only guaranteed Constantine a spot in Roman history, but also made him sole ruler of the Roman Empire. On October 28th, 312 he defeated Maxentius at The Battle of the Milvian Bridge. In 314, 316, and 324, he repeatedly defeated his last remaining rival Licinius. Once he had overcome him, he was the undisputed ruler of the Roman world. Incidentally, Maxentius and Licinius were both brothers-in-law of Constantine. Of the two campaigns, however, it was the first against Maxentius which guaranteed Constantine an important place in the history of western civilization ...
- 2060: Charles Manson
- Charles Manson: Orgins of a Madman Charles Manson is known as one of the most sinister and evil criminals of all time. He organized the murders that shocked the world and his name still strikes fear into American hearts. Manson's childhood, personality, and uncanny ability to control people led to the creation of a family-like cult and ultimately to the bloody murders of ... Crucifixion of Christ, trying to instill upon his follower's minds that he was Jesus Christ, that he was a higher power that they all needed to follow unquestionably. Manson convinced his followers that a war of the races was coming, which he named Helter Skelter. He got the name from a Beatles song, and had his followers prepare for the upcoming war by collecting guns and other weapons. Manson turned the ranch into a fortress. He started to change his following from being a group of freedom searching people into an organized army-like force. A ...
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