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Henry Adams
... of women that Adams viewed with understanding were those like the Virgin Mary, who was always seen as non-sexual. For example, “America was ashamed of her…have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her” (Adams, 384). However, during this time of the technology revolution, women were beginning to be viewed differently, especially in Europe. Women were viewed as beautiful and mortal beings. People such as Rodin were representing women in paintings and sculptures sexually. Sex was becoming something more than just a means of reproduction. Suddenly Adams was far, far away from his Puritan custom-bound life.
People were no longer motivated by ...
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Neil Simon
... feminist in nature, it is difficult to determine the root of her feminist beliefs. Today's terms for first wave feminists were not used in Nellie McClung's era. Now, these activists are labeled as either maternal or equal rights feminists and such a label would seem to dictate a distinct philosophy and motives for reform. McClung is difficult to label since she seems to alternate between the two types of feminism. The discussion of first wave feminism is problematic as feminists are branded as maternal or equal rights feminists, terms which were not even applicable at the time. Maternal feminists, for example, sought the vote in order to reinforce the infl ...
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Norman Rockwell
... Rockwell was recognized as an above average illustrator with good potential. Rockwell then after developing his skills and contributing many illustrations to children’s magazines, managed to muster up the courage to show his work to a bigger periodical, the Saturday Evening Post. Happy with the quality of Rockwell’s work the Post gave Rockwell a job creating illustrations and cover art for its periodicals. This would be his arena, revealing his works to thousands of people, for over forty years. During this period Rockwell painted portraits of various celebrities and persona. Rockwell was a "people painter" and predominantly worked with the depiction o ...
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Rosa Lee Parks
... to school, but her mother got sick so she had to stay at home with her mother. Rosa then married Raymond Parks on December 18, 1932. He supported Rosa’s desire to complete her formal educaton ,and in 1934 she recieved her high school diploma.
The whole boycott started when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus when the bus- driver told her to move so a white customer could sit down. She was arrested and put in jail for sitting in the front of the bus. Four days after, the black people of Montgomery and the people from other races organized and promoted a boycott of the city bus line. For 381 days blacks walked or arrange their own rides througho ...
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Emily Dickinson 6
... Emily's mother suffered a long term of illness so she took care of her. Dickinson had an older brother, Austin, who also served as the treasurer for the college and other civic positions. Austin married Emily's best friend, Susan Gilbert. Lavinia was Emily's younger sister. She didn't marry anyone so she stayed in the family house. The three siblings shared a very close relationship. Their parents didn't have a close relationship with them, but they did love and care for them. Emily's parents made sure she had a good education. She went to a primary school for four years then she attended Amherst Academy from eighteen hundred forty through eighteen hund ...
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Andrew Jackson 2
... was one of these self-made aristocrats, a blend of pioneer and aristocrat. Jackson began his life as a commoner who after losing all of his family began studying law. In his early twenties Jackson came to Tennessee where he established himself as a lawyer. Being on of only two lawyers’ in his town, he gained wealth. After buying both land and slaves with his new wealth, he began to strengthen his position with the self-made aristocrats in his area. Soon with newfound political offices, he became a prominent member of the western aristocrats and consequently he became a first-generation aristocrat.
Jackson’s loathing of “Eastern Money Power& ...
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Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson
... a postal worker, adopted him as his own son.
Reverend Jackson finished tenth in his high school class and was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Illinois. Later, he left U. I. And enrolled in North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensburo. There he became class president and the civil rights activist began to show himself to the world. After graduating in 1964, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary until he joined the civil rights movement full time in 1965. Before graduating he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Martin Luther King Jr. King appointed him to the head of Operation Br ...
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King Henry Viiii
... By 1527 Henry had made up his mind to get rid of his wife. The
only one of Catherine's six children who survived infancy was a sickly
girl, the Princess Mary, and it was doubtful whether a woman could succeed
to the English throne. Then too, Henry had fallen in love with a lady of
the court, Anne Boleyn.
When the pope (Clement VII) would not annul his marriage, Henry turned
against Wolsey, deprived him of his office of chancellor, and had him
arrested on a charge of treason. He then obtained a divorce through Thomas
Cranmer, whom he had made archbishop of Canterbury, and it was soon
announced that he had married Anne Boleyn.
The pope was thus defied. Al ...
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Dizzy Gillespie
... to mid 50's. This was a time period in Jazz called Bebop, Bop or sometimes known as Rebop. Bebop got its name from the musical language musicians would speak to one another while trying to explain a rhythm. "Bop, Bop, Doba sho ba, Bop, Bop." this was also a common style of singing which was first introduced by Louis Armstrong, called scatting (Kerfeld, 137). This fast tempo music was pioneered by saxophonist Charlie Parker, drummer Max Roach, pianist Thelonious Monk and trumpeter "Dizzy" Gillespie. Gillespie was one of the chief innovators of this new style of music as well as an important figure to all musicians to follow him and international figure for the U ...
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Charles W. Chesnutt
... the task.”(1) At 15 Charles dropped out of school to support his family.
By the age of 16, he had come to Charlotte to teach the city's
black schoolchildren and also to support his family. He had an
intense thirst for knowledge. At a time when few educational opportunities
existed for black Americans, he studied math, music, literature and
languages. He left Charlotte to take a job as assistant principal of the State
Normal School. By age 22, he was its principal. “There's time enough, but
none to spare.”(1)
Lack of opportunity to advance led him to go to New York City
to find work at Dow, Jones and Company and also writes a financ ...
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