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- 1071: Sparta: Uncultured Discipline
- ... to think this way, to art, music, literature and other such pursuits they donated nothing. She only had a cruel, inhuman way of life to offer, dependent on a barbaric slavery of most of her population, with only a kind of blind animal courage as a virtue. Before long the Spartan way of life was more show then substance, Sparta seemed ...
- 1072: Comparison of John F Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln's Lives
- ... of 51, Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States (O’ Sullivan 10). He led the Union to victory in the American Civil War and brought an end to slavery. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865 and was then succeeded by his vice president, Andrew Johnson. One hundred years later another president by the name of John ...
- 1073: The Life of Aristotle
- ... in some abstract form, but rather as an examination of the way in which ideals, laws, customs, and property interrelate in actual cases. He thus approved the contemporary institution of slavery but tempered his acceptance by insisting that masters should not abuse their authority, inasmuch as the interests of master and slave are the same. The Lyceum library contained a collection ...
- 1074: Freud and Marx
- ... and attempted to explain that the Proletariot class and Bourgeois class have existed in varying forms for all of mankind's history. He tried to illustrate using the example of slavery and feudalism that each time a form of oppression by a class of another class was destroyed a new form took it's place. Marx felt that it was a ...
- 1075: Thomas Jefferson
- ... here idle? What is it the gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY, Or GIVE ME DEATH!" Within the following month occurred the battle ...
- 1076: The Life of Charles Dickens
- ... to England deeply disappointed. He wrote two books expressing how he felt about the US. These books mainly criticized the US for not having a copyright law, the acceptance of slavery, and the vulgarity of the people. These books were American Notes for General Circulation (1842) and The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844). Chuzzlewit was a big failure, but ...
- 1077: Byron's Don Juan
- ... all, a legendary lover. Familiar with the Don Juan legend, Byron deliberately altered the traditional character and made him the innocent victim of womankind. He experiences love by natural disaster, slavery, war, the court, and the aristocracy. Its two main epic themes are love and war (Joseph 74). The first two cantos of the poem Byron wrote were published without an ...
- 1078: The Life of Alexander Hamilton
- ... Hamilton's mind. He also saw the darker side of international dealings, as the island was a center for the slave trade. Hamilton came away with a deep hatred of slavery, and he eventually co-founded an abolitionist society in New York. In the meantime, the youngster drank in everything he saw. Nothing Hamilton experienced ever went unused. Whereas Nicholas Cruger ...
- 1079: Henry David Thoreau
- ... Henry objected to the use of the revenues of this poll tax. The revenues were used to help finance the United States' war with Mexico and supported the enforcement of slavery laws. Henry refused to pay his taxes and refused the offers made by Sam Staples himself to pay the tax. Since Henry refused to have his tax paid, Sam Staples ...
- 1080: Walt Whitman and His Poetry
- ... was the editor of many New York papers. He studied the French language, and many of his poems contain French words. When he traveled to the New Orleans, he witnessed slavery which in turn “helped him write his poems” according to Walt Whitman. Between 1848 and 1855 he developed the style of poetry he is known for. In 1891 he finished ...
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