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- 661: The Clinton Scandal
- ... worldwide. You have wounded your political party, your Presidency, and the Office of the President. Most importantly, you have hurt the one thing that will be remembered in all of history -- your presidential legacy. History will not remember you as a President who influenced America in a positive way for all of history, but rather as a man forever linked to Kenneth Starr and Monica Lewinsky because of your inability to practice the restraint of your own deviant sexuality. In the long ...
- 662: W.B.Yeats And Leda And The Swan
- ... monumental events that Leda's offspring went on to experience (and cause), but rather on the moment of the meeting of woman and winged one. As for the classical mythological history of Leda and Zeus, Carlos Parada's Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology tells us that Zeus, in swan form, joined with Leda, on the same night that her husband had ... happen to bring about the kidnapping of Helen, the subsequent fall of Troy, and the murder of Agamemnon. Oracles often prophesied such events, and Yeats' idea of destiny and cyclical history fits in quite well with this poem. In some of Yeats' other poems, most notably in his 1920 work, "A Second Coming," he expresses his idea of history as occurring in cycles of about 2,000 years. Calling these cycles "gyres," he diagrammed them as a series of cones, attached base to base and tip to tip. ...
- 663: World Art
- The Great Ages When we think of history we don’t often think of art. We don’t realize how the history of art can help us learn more about the people, the cultures, and the belief systems of those who lived hundreds and thousands of years before us. Art has developed ... to become what is today. Art is culture, art is the essence of the people who make it and the best way to appreciate art is to look at the history of it and it’s evolvement through time. The Great Ages consists of four distinct ages: The Old Stone Age, The New Stone Age, The Bronze Age, and The ...
- 664: Why the North Won the Civil War
- Why the North Won the Civil War "In all history, no nation of mere agriculturists ever made successful war against a nation of mechanics. . . .You are bound to fail" -Union officer William Tecumseh Sherman to a Southern friend. The American ... without them the South was doomed to defeat. A wise man he was, that Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. A wise man indeed. Works Cited Angle, Paul M. A Pictorial History of the Civil War Years. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1967. Brinkley, Alan, et al. American History: A Survey. New York: McGraw, 1991. Catton, Bruce. The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1952. Unknown. The Coming Fury. Garden City, New York: ...
- 665: What Is Zen
- ... no special effort or imagination. It is not knowledge to be grasped by the brain. It is solely a practice that is the true gate to happiness, peace and freedom. History Historically, it could be said that Zen originated from the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama. Around 500 BC he was born a Sakyan prince. At the age of twenty-nine, deeply ... get into it. I remember practicing zazen or rather trying to practice zazen. I was very restless and had trouble concentrating on posture and breathing. My mind kept wandering to history tests and English essays and, needless to say, I did not expand my consciousness. I also spent some time thinking about koans (Zen riddles such as What is the sound ... forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? ). These koans also did not expand my consciousness and my mind once again wandered to history tests and English essays. I was very frustrated about my inability to be one with Zen. I spent some time thinking about this and I realized what my problem ...
- 666: Ragtime
- Up until the late 1900 s, the American populace on the whole had assumed a very optimistic view of American history. Glossing over disgraceful events, emphasizing the brighter points in our history, our culture has attempted to ignore the obvious fact that we have had, and still have, our fair share of problems. In Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow unabashedly exposes some of the worst aspects of American life in our more recent history. Doctorow doesn t hold back anything, providing detailed examples of human cruelty and sacrifice, and the evolution of American society. While critiquing American society was not the sole purpose ...
- 667: 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 ... the automobile factory that introduced mass production, a process that has changed the lineaments of our economic and social life more profoundly than any other single element in the recent history of civilization. Nearly everyone has heard of this process, yet few have any detailed or exact knowledge of its inception and development. Enter Henry Ford. The true answers of what inspired this Michigan farmer to develop a production process that was so simple, effective and efficient it changed the entire course of history. In this report, we will present a brief history of the era in which Henry Ford lived, the background from which he came, and important management trends he followed. ...
- 668: Stanley And Livingstone And Th
- ... for Westerners to discover. Every continent had been explored and now only a few little places were left to be found and charted. Their work marked the turning point in history when the world almost stopped exploring. World War 1 was coming up when Stanley brought back his news. Long before WW1 there was disagreement so many countries were too busy building their armies up and didn’t have the time or the money to explore. The discoveries Stanley and Livingstone made were incredibly important in the history and development of Africa. Besides pinpointing the source of the Nile and crossing the continent they had a lasting impression on the world. Although Africa has had a rough history especially since Stanley and Livingstone it has become more civilized and advanced in knowledge. The slave trade has stopped and many other good things have come out of it ...
- 669: The Fires Of Jubilee
- ... for almost the entire time that I was reading it. Stephen B. Oates, a prize-winning author of thirteen books and more then seventy articles, is currently a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Some of his best novels have been With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin ... aspect in opening the eyes of the American people about the concept of slavery. As I would really not consider The Fires of Jubilee a true reference guide to American history, I would consider this to be a good reference for understanding how detrimental and harmful racism can be. After all, that was what the Civil Rights was fought for, to ... in which they had taken for granted. In a sense, this story about Nat s quest for freedom correlates with the concept of probably the most important event in American history, the Revolutionary War. The theme of the book seems to be the fighting for independence. Was that not what the people of this country fought the Revolutionary War for? ...
- 670: Irish Potato Famine
- ... exported from Ireland. Meanwhile, the rest of the world ignorantly believed there was nothing they could do, because that is how the English wanted it. Americans today generally view the history of An Gorta Mor ("The Great Hunger") through cultural lenses, which tend to distort the realities of history as often as they magnify elements of truth. These lenses develop as a result of the normal processes of story telling, both oral and written, passed down from generation to generation. The images these lenses project however, can be focused on certain aspects of that history by political organizations with agendas to cover. Therefore, in an examination of the "famine", one must begin with the facts. Once the facts have been revealed, one may move ...
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