|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 5971 - 5980 of 18414 matching essays
- 5971: Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
- ... who dared- and seldom remarried. (Howard) In 1863, Kate had to endure more heartache. Her great-grandmother dies. During the same year, her half-brother, George, was captured as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War, contracted typhoid fever and dies. This caused Kate to go into seclusion for two years. She spent most of her time in the family attic. Missing a great deal of school at this time did ... Because she is different from the average house-lady and unwilling to force her self into that role, Edna tries to escape the typical female existence by awakening to the idea that life and the world are hers as well as a man (Kearns). Edna does not love and want the things that she should have. The things she wanted to have and love, she could not because it was not ... live: her individuality, being able to attend public places alone, and to make daily visits to a place she so enjoyed. Chopin died of a brain hemorrhage after a strenuous day at the St. Louis World's Fair, where she had been a regular visitor. Kate Chopin died on August 20, 1904. She was remembered only as one of the southern local colorists of the 1890s until "The Awakening "was ...
- 5972: Karl Marx 2
- ... and power while the proletariat shrinks, therefore increasing the gap between the two. Marx goes on to describe how this situation came about, with the industrial revolution and other factors. Modern industry has established the world-market, for which the discovery of America paved the way. This market has given an immense development to commerce, to navigation, and to communication by land. This development has, in doing so, reacted on the ... to raise So it is clear that the first step is to raise the proletariat to the ruling class, but how is this done? Marx writes that " we, traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat" (Marx, p.66). He speaks directly of violence when he says that: " ...
- 5973: John Lennon
- John Lennon Lennon was born in 1940 during the Nazi bombing of Britain and given the middle name Winston, after Prime Minister Churchill. Knowing firsthand the horror of a world at war and living through the era of Vietnam's senseless carnage as well, Lennon came to embrace and embody pacifism via such classics of the Beatles era as "All You Need Is Love" and "Strawberry Fields ... endured challenges from within and without to became one of the most touching and celebrated of 20th-century romances. They were gallantly foolish in undertaking performance art pieces - bed-ins, happenings, full-page ads declaring "War Is Over!" - to spread their message of peace. During the early Seventies Lennon fought the U.S. government to avoid deportation - a campaign of harassment by Nixon-era conservatives that was overturned by the ...
- 5974: John Harlan
- ... York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had one child. During World War II, Harlan served as a colonel in the United States Army Air Force. Harlan was in charge of the Operations Analysis Section of the Eighth Bomber Command. He was also the recipient of the American Legion of Merit and the Belgian and French Croix de Guerre. After the war, Harlan returned to his practice. From 1951 to 1953, Harlan served as a chief counsel to the New York State Crime Commission. During his time as chief counsel, Harlan helped to investigate illegal gambling, ...
- 5975: Jfk Alliance
- The dawning of the sixties erupted with John F. Kennedy as President, the beginning of an anti-war movement, and the fear of communism. It was a new decade and called for many changes, domestic and foreign. New policies were initiated in the hopes for a better economy and relations with other countries ... onset, he was concerned with foreign affairs. In his memorable inaugural address he called upon Americans "to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself."3 Kennedy felt strongly that the United Stations needed strong and creative leadership in the White House, and it would be that person s responsibility to devote his all to lead the nation back ... the United States to become a supreme nation in every sense. John F. Kennedy had many reasons and motives for initiating the Alliance for Progress. He knew it was a wise mood in the political world, which would assert his and the United States power over the southern continent. The program was inspired due to the situation in Cuba. Kennedy believed that the program could successfully counter the Communist onslaught ...
- 5976: Jean Sartre
- ... 1905 and was schooled at Evole Normale Superieure in Paris, University of Fribourg in Switzerland, and the French Institute in Berlin. From 1929 he taught philosophy at some secondary schools. Resulting in the start of World War II, he was drafted into the military. Sometime during 1940-1941 he was captured by the Germans, and was later released. After his return to France he taught in Neuilly, and Paris. He became fond ... to inconclusive and later chose Marxism over his prior beliefs. Being and Nothingness was one of Sartre early works on Existentialism. In this book he wrote that humans are the beings who create their own world by rebelling against authority and by accepting personal responsibility for their actions. I find that this belief shows that rules are not given by a Supreme Being but by the authoritarian in charge. When ...
- 5977: Jackie Robinson
- ... the electric streetcars in Brooklyn that were so dangerous that people had to be skilled dodgers of them in order not to get run over. Why was Brooklyn the place that integration could occur? After World War Two, Brooklyn had transformed from a white-middle class population to a mix of blacks, Latinos and Jews. About half of Brooklyn s population was Jewish; among the Dodger faithful, Jews were probably far more ... He could, by no means, be considered inferior. Jackie was tremendously popular. He single handedly filled up stadiums wherever the Dodgers played. He brought in record crowds to many stadiums and caused scalpers to charge World Series prices for regular games. Robinson s popularity was not confined to blacks; white fans also stormed baseball arenas to view the new sensation (Tygiel 197). He received so much fan mail that the ...
- 5978: Harry S. Truman
- ... he went to the local music teacher twice a week. He read four or five histories or biographies a week and acquired an exhaustive knowledge of great military battles and of the lives of the world s greatest leaders. In 1901, when Truman graduated from high school, his future was uncertain. College had been ruled out by his family s financial situation, and appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at ... Truman became the Grandview postmaster. In 1915 he invested in lead mines in Missouri, lost his money, and then turned to the oil fields of Oklahoma. Two years later, just before the United States entered World War I, he sold his share in the oil business and enlisted in the U.S. Army. He trained at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, but returned to Missouri to help recruit others. He was elected first ...
- 5979: Freud 2
- ... Freud was appointed a full professor at the University of Vienna. This honor was granted not in recognition of his contributions but as a result of the efforts of a highly influential patient. The medical world still regarded his work with hostility, and his next writings, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1904) and Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory (1905), only increased this antagonism. As a result Freud continued to work ... with Freud's emphasis on the sexual origin of neurosis. Freud met these setbacks by developing further his basic concepts and by elaborating his own views in many publications and lectures. After the onset of World War I Freud devoted little time to clinical observation and concentrated on the application of his theories to the interpretation of religion, mythology, art, and literature. In 1923 he was stricken with cancer of the ...
- 5980: Frank Lloyd Wright 3
- ... in Buffalo, New York; the Coonley House in Riverside, Illinois; and the Robie House in Chicago. Wright s Frederick C. Robie House, designed in 1906 for a bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer, is one of the world s most famous buildings. Magnificently corresponding, it is the essence of Wright s Prairie School style and the limit of his search for a new architecture. It is also among the last of the Prairie ... role new technology should play in any architecture for America. His Prairie home ideas were unlike any typical American house, which was seen by Wright as essentially one big box with little boxes inside. Before World War I, Wright set new directions with the development of his Prairie homes, suburban dwellings mainly in the area of Chicago. He experimented freely with the organization of plans to develop a distinctful yet unified ...
Search results 5971 - 5980 of 18414 matching essays
|
