... Jennings. John was the first of five children to be born in his family. Hid father, Thomas, worked as a manager at a livery stable and an Inn near Moorgate London. He married his boss’s daughter, Frances Jennings in 1794. After the marriage the father’s job seemed to have improved and he was being well paid. Soon after John other children followed: George in 1797, Thomas Jr. in 1799, Edward in 1891 (who died in infancy), and the only daughter Frances in 1803. Not a lot is known about the early years if their family life. One thing was clear though; they had a very loving relationship with each other. You could tell because of his strong devotion for his br ...

... emphasize these negative traits, he was poorly educated and only interested in warlike activities. Other factors contributed to his irritability, such as "the big itch" (a skin disease he had in youth). Also, he tended to slobber, which made him humiliated and extremely sensitive to criticism. All these childhood factors added up and left Andrew Jackson as a touchy, irascible man. As the oldest man ever elected to the presidency, he was sixty-one and perhaps the most unhealthy. He had two bullets permanently lodged in him, and often spat up blood because of them. Many missions of Andrew Jackson's were self-righteous and stubborn. By his victory at the Battl ...

... family in the tradition of the Southern black ministry. Both Kings father and grandfather were Baptist preachers. At the age of eighteen he entered Morehouse College, in Atlanta. Under a special program for gifted students he received his B.A. in 1948. As an undergraduate his earlier interest in medicine and law were eliminated by a decision in his senior year to enter the ministry, as his father had urged. King spent the next three years at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa. And he received a bachelor of divinity in 1951. King first became aquatinted with Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence as well as with the thought of contemporary Protest ...

... age in 1338. Brunne translated both Handlyng Synne and Chronicle from French or Latin works, altering them considerably in the process. Like many translators of this era, Brunne took many liberties with the works he translated. He adopted for his audience (the ordinary people of England), often adding in large tracts of his own material and using simplified language that they were likely to understand. Brunne's style is sometimes cumbersome and repetitive, sometimes full of snap and punch, and often epistolary. But he always writes a good story, meant to entertain and instruct the ordinary English man or woman. Although Handlyng Synne and Chronicle are `transl ...

... used civil disobedience as a tool for social reform and consequently with great fortitude, were subject to continuous imprisonment and instances of harsh beatings. They exhibited a vow of fearlessness. They strived to eliminate discrimination and inequity in South Africa and India and they welcomed personal suffering to do so. Civil disobedience, however, would not be effective without the moral power of, and commitment to, Satyagraha. Gandhi's concept of Satyagraha was a way of living during a time of oppression, exploitation, and discrimination. It was a tactic used to appeal to people morally, rather than intimidate them violently. It literally means, "cli ...

... in the 1600's, the more popular the baroque music became. It was greatly adored by the listeners. The beauty that this type of music contained was extremely astonishing. Also the drama in this type of music and theatre was what made this time stand out from the rest. The actual term "baroque" is extracted from "baroco" which is a name used by medieval philosophers to identify a reasoning that writers of the 16th century found absurd and pointless. On the contrary, Baroque music is far from being absurd or pointless. The word "baroque" is derived from that or from the word "barrochio" that is an Italian word used since the middle ages to indicate shifty or t ...

... stranger who picked him up, telling him, “I was—working [on a farm]” (13). When he came home he got in a fight with Hannah and she told him, “Sometimes you’re almost cruelly selfish. You hurt people, deceive them,” (21). Benedict defended himself by declaring that he would never deceive her. Now knowing this Hannah asked if Benedict had been a deserter (knowing that he actually was in the army, and not a farmer). To his own sister he said, “No, Hannah! No, no!” when he had in fact deserted his post. Arnold did not admit to himself that he was a cruel and selfish man. After his fight with Hannah, he confessed to himself that he was a deserter. . Even so, he ...

... Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all." (, pg.117) The laws that are enacted are contrary to our self-interest, so without the terror of some ever-present power to instill fear in all man, we would abstain from no measure in order to preserve our own well being. In a state of war man is in "a Continual fear and danger of a violent death; and the life of man (is) solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." (. Pg. 107) The only way to prevent entering a state of war is to erect one common power, which is known as a commonwealth or sovereign, who is "One person, of whose Acts a great Multitude, by mutuall Covenants one ...

... during his lifetime for inspiring countless editorials and political cartoons. Sadly today, this part of Mark Twain's career rarely recognized. How we remember Mark Twain often tells us more about ourselves and our society than about Mark Twain himself. In Hannibal Missouri for example every year Twain's "boyhood years" are celebrated during it's annual Tom Sawyer days. No mention is made that this was a slave holding community. Twain's early experiences here provided him with the material for his anti-racist novels "Adventures of Huckleberry Fin" and "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson". Hannibal is a benchmark for the American societys' views of Twain ...

... several times during his lifetime. In the railroad industry, he was known as the great arbiter, saving several railroads with his successful reorganizations. In the steel industry, Morgan combined many holdings into one of the successful ventures of the time. In his lifetime, J.P. Morgan was certainly a captain of industry who saved the American financial system and numerous companies while overseeing one of the biggest ventures of the time. During his career, Morgan bailed out America's financial system several times. When Congress adjourned in 1877 without appropriating money to pay soldiers. Morgan came up with the $550,000-a-month payroll and set up a disbu ...