|
|
Search results 731 - 740 of about 4850 matching term papers
- 731: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Dissident
- ... and stenographer. Aleksandr never knew his father, because he died in a hunting accident before Aleksandr was born. After his father died, the Soviet government only allowed menial employment to his mother, so his family lived in relative poverty. Other than that, Aleksandr's childhood was relatively normal. He was a member of the Pioneers, the Soviet equivalent to Boy Scouts, and later joined the Communist Youth League. At the age ... endured a concentration camp and lost everything in order to speak about what he thought without being scorned for it. This is why he is a dissident. Even though the leaders of the society he lived in didn't accept him or his ways of thinking, he did what he thought was the right thing, and didn't let anyone change his mind. Bibliography 1) "Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr" The Encyclopedia Americana. Copyright ...
- 732: The Civil Rights Movement
- ... 1954 the NAACP led by attorney Thurgood Marshall challenged the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in the famous case of Brown v. the Topeka, Kansas Board of Education. Linda Brown was a young black girl who lived in the transitional part of town between school zones. However, because she was black she was bussed to the black school. Challenging that it violated the 14th amendment Marshall eventually argued the case before the ... self-sufficiency. Carmichael and his successor as chairman of SNCC, H. Rap Brown became national symbols of black radicalism. They wanted the Civil Rights Movement to be headed by "Ghetto Negroes" because they had never lived or been influenced by the white "system." The men sought to instill pride in the black community. The Black Panther Party (BPP) picked up on Brown's "Take your gun and go get what you ...
- 733: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... was so strong that it was visible in all of his work, and still lives on today. "...having a good start, not only do I fully intend to be the greatest architect who has yet lived, but fully intend to be the greatest architect who will ever live. Yes, I intend to be the greatest architect of all time." (Frank Lloyd Wright pg. 203) Frank Lloyd Wright will forever be remembered as one of the greatest artists to have lived.
- 734: Civil War
- ... distance of 400 miles and was 60 miles wide on the way. For 32 days no news of him reached the North. He had cut himself off from his base of supplies, and his men lived on what ever they could get from the country through which they passed. On their route, the army destroyed anything and everything that they could not use but was presumed usable to the enemy. In ... when they arrived. The fires had been set to cotton bales by Confederate Calvary to prevent the Federal Army from getting them and the high winds quickly spread the fire. The controversy would be short lived as no proof would ever be presented. So with Columbia, Charleston, and Augusta all fallen, Sherman would continue his drive north toward Goldsboro. On the way, his progress would be stalled not by the Confederate ...
- 735: Native American Genocide
- ... the American West-was simple: Wipe them out. A key reason for injustices such as this was that many people considered the Native Americans as less civilized and more animalistic. They were not "savages" but lived in very well organized, stable societies spanning thousands of years. Like most people, the young high school student assumes that Indian or aboriginal people had no forms of government other than despotic chiefs. This lack ... Indians is bad enough, ignoring the current situation is worse. In this country there are still one and a half million Indian people, more than half of who live on the lands where their ancestors lived thousands of years ago. Some of these Indians maintain traditions that have survived for millennia. But, when the U.S. Government or a corporation seeks to get oil, coal or copper from Indian land, they ...
- 736: Julius Caesar
- William Shakespeare lived from 1564 to 1616. During his time, he wrote and established many plays. Although he lived about 400 years ago, his themes still have proven their universality today. A good example of this is in the play, . One of the themes in this play is that there are many methods of ...
- 737: "Paul's Case": Willa Cathers
- ... desperately wants to be a part of this world and then realizes that "this was what all the world was fighting for, he reflected, this was what all the struggle was about", once he had lived in the glorious haven of New York City. Cathers repeatedly acknowledges that during this time period Pittsburgh was a dreadful place to live in, covered in soot, dirt, and ash from many steel plants. Paul ... everything." At the Schenley Hall he was able to see "all the actors and singers of the better class" that had stayed there when they were in the city or the big manufacturers that actually lived there. Paul had wondered whether he were "destined always to shiver in the black night outside [his ugly Pittsburgh], looking up at it". Carnegie Hall was Paul's "fairy tale, and it had for him ...
- 738: The Roosevelt New Deal Program
- ... all of their savings. Many people ended up sleeping in a shelter for the unemployed and eating in soup kitchens. Seasons had a lot to do with what some people ate during the depression. They lived on farms and when the crops didn't grow their menus changed a lot. Many of these people lived in the Dust Bowl. A stretch of land in between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. The Dust Bowl was called that because of a massive drought that hit during the Great Depression years. Winds carried ...
- 739: The Life And Rule Of Cleopatra
- ... parading around in the streets of Rome with his prisoners, included in which was Cleopatra’s sister Arsinoe.( Caesar spared her life, but later she was killed by Mark Anthony at Cleopatra’s request.) Cleopatra lived in Caesar ‘s villa near Rome for almost two years. He showered her with gifts and titles. He even had a statue of her made in the temple of Venus Genetrix. His fellow Romans ... by his love for Cleopatra, unable to act or speak on his own. For three days he sat alone in her ship refusing to see or speak to her. they returned to Egypt where Anthony lived alone for a time period, which during Cleopatra prepared for an invasion by Rome. When Anthony received word that his troops and surrendered at Actium and his allies had gone over to Octavian he left ...
- 740: Isaac Newton And Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton were both the sons of farmers. Although Einstein lived in Germany and was Jewish while Newton was Catholic or Christian and lived in England. Albert taught himself geometry while Newton s family couldn t even read or write yet. As Newton was growing up one of his closest friend was a young man named Edmund Glaley. Isaac ...
Search results 731 - 740 of 4850 matching term papers
|
|
