Mark Twain: Racist Or Realist?
.... 1). In his autobiography he wrote “All negroes were friends of ours and those of our own age were inface comrades (Neider 5).” Mark Twain could not find the realistic acceptance of friendships, loyalty, and courage in the adulthood of societies, and because of this he would always use a boyhood view of the world to contrast the adult hypocracies. Mark Twain was honest and knew that he could only write from a realistic perspective and could not accept these hypocracies of society (Simpson 25).
Mark Twain had paid much attention to detail in his descriptions of the South. In 1876 he had been placed at the head of t .....
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Dr. Harvey Wiley: Courageous Pioneer And Crusader
.... were prepared to make more profit at any cost. Honest manufacturers were put at a competitive disadvantage and were forced to adopt the practices that could enable them to meet the prices of the less ethical competition. These practices were evident in the debasement of food, and in "patent" medicine.
At the turn of the century selling goods under another name, and substituting cheaper ingredients was common practice. Over-ripe apples were cooked, doctored with chemicals, and sold as "currant" "blackberry" "plum" and other fruits. Potted chicken and turkey were common products, but after analysis were found to contain no trace .....
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Henry David Thoreau
.... he can’t be bothered by outsiders and by the industrial revolution of America. He wanted to be alone and being able to concentrate on nature and his spiritual side. “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone.” I think the reason for him being in love with himself and being by himself is that he thinks you have to be alone to be able to appreciate nature. You have to imagine and go into a spiritual world to become part of nature. He wants to be alone so he can get to know who he is, by doing this he can then think abo .....
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John Paul Jones: The Undaunted Sailor
.... Paul Jones's victories were made possible through a combination of strategy, training, and preparation. Jones was notorious for maintaining professionalism and discipline among his crewmembers. Jones's crew consisted of 380 men which only 60 were Americans. The rest was comprised of men from eight different nationalities including Britain. Due to the diversity of his crew, Jones had to concentrate on training his men to work together diligently and efficiently. At every spare moment he and his crew had, Jones took advantage of it and seized the opportunity to train his men. He had his crew practice gun drills over and .....
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Helen Of Troy: The Face That Launched One Thousand Ships
.... blinded for saying that Helen went to Troy and only recovered his sight when he wrote the following Palinode (recantation):
No, that story is not true
You did not sail in the well-decked ships
Nor did you reach the citadel of Troy....
The alternative story was that Paris took a phantom off to Troy while the real Helen spent the whole period of the war in Egypt. This story is told in Euripides' Helen.
Helen (often called "Helen of Troy") was the daughter of Leda and Zeus, and was the sister of the Dioscuri and Clytemnestra. Since Zeus visited Leda in the form of a swan, Helen was often presented as being born from an egg. S .....
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Theodore Roosevelt Was Qualified For The Position Of President Of The United States
.... New York City and the Governor of New York. Roosevelt’s experience proved that he was a capable leader suited to the position of President of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt had experience and a strong will to form him into a President more than capable of leading the United States.
Roosevelt was the Secretary of the Navy and a Colonel in the United States army. He possessed a necessary grasp on military tactics, weapons, and the mindset of the troops. These abilities would enable him to effectively conduct the actions of the United States military when needed and allow Roosevelt to make decisions on military matters i .....
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Gangster Dutch Schultz's Life
.... him to get him out of the way. But before execution day arrived, Schultz was arrested for Income Tax evasion, a common tale of those days. Schultz could not foresee the outcome of the trial; so he had a steel box created by an ironworker in which he could hide some of his “treasure,” which consisted of thousand dollar bills, diamonds, gold coins, and jewelry.
Considered New York's leading gangster, he was ultimately gunned down by three rival mobsters. He survived for two days, in a guarded hospital room, where a police stenographer at his bedside took his stream-of-consciousness last words, a fevered rumination mixing the p .....
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Biography Of Ernest Rutherford
.... important work was in the identification of the alpha, beta and gamma radiation. In 1902, with the collaboration of Frederick Soddy, he enunciated and verified the 'spontaneous transformation' theory of radioactive decay, whereby a radioactive atom changes to a different atom on the emission of radiation. In 1903 Rutherford published a general paper on radioactivity and in 1904 published his first book on radioactivity.
In 1906 the then professor of physics at the University of Manchester promised to retire on the condition that Rutherford would take his place. Rutherford accepted the offer in 1907 and moved to Manchester.
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Cicero: Is Law Possible Without Virtue?
.... community, by giving it armies, judges and powers; literally giving the community of mankind the powers it lacked through Rome.
"It is, indeed, my judgement, opinion, and conviction that of all forms of government there is none which for organising, distribution of power, and respect for authority is to be compared with that constitution which our fathers received from their ancestors and have bequeathed to us... The roman commonwealth will be the model; and to it shall apply, if I can, all that I must say about the perfect state." Cicero held the meaning of constitution to be in the form of a legal document. A good constitutio .....
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William Lloyd Garrison
.... and returned to New England. in partnership with another American abolitionist, Isaac Knapp, Garrison launched The Liberator in Boston in 1831; the newspaper became one of the most influential journals in the United States .
Garrison was also a pacifist and involved in other reform movements. He was deeply convinced that slavery had to be abolished by moral force. He appealed through The Liberator and through his speeches, especially those to the clergy, for a practical application of Christianity in demanding freedom for the slaves. His campaign aroused great opposition. The state of Georgia offered (1831) a reward of $5000 for .....
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Biography Of John Dalton
.... mathematics and physical sciences at New College, Manchester. Dalton revived the atomic theory of matter (see ATOM), which he applied to a table of atomic weights and used in developing his law of partial pressures (Dalton's law). He was color-blind and studied that affliction, also known as Daltonism.
Irish author and translator from Spanish and German, born in 1814; died at Maddermarket, Norwich, 15 February, 1874. He spent his early years at Coventry, England, and was educated at Sedgley Park School. He then proceeded to Oscott College, where he was ordained priest in 1837. After serving some time on the mission at Northampt .....
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Isaac Newton
.... and again, from an open window. He would measure the length of the
jump, and measure the force of the wind.
Soon she realized that Newton was not cut out for farmwork, and
sent him back to King's School. He graduated in 1661.
When he was eighteen, he went to Trinity College. The teacher's
were impressed by him. Isaac read every book he could find, especially on
mathematics and physics. From this Newton knew most of the things they
taught, before they taught it.
In 1665, Newton worked out a basic formula called the binomial
theory. We still use that today. In that same year, Newton graduated from
Trinity College, but .....
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