Frank Julian Sprague was born in Milford, Connecticut in 1857. He graduated from Annapolis in 1878. He was noted for making the electric railroad. He developed his interest while he was a cadet in the U.S. Naval Academy. Frank work as Thomas Edison's assistant in 1883 and independently...

There are many ideas on how much influence experts have on a society and how much influence society has on the expert. Without one or the other, neither would exist. Either that, or this world would be quite different if it was made up of only experts or only the common citizen. If the worl...

Freedom Ads In America today, advertisements can be seen just about everywhere. They are frequently done on television, radio, and billboards; in newspapers, magazines, and catalogs; and through direct mail to consumers around the nation. The purpose of each ad is to appeal to the individual...

The murder of Martha Moxley, a wealthy, privileged 15 year old in the upscale neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut on October 30th, 1975 was an unsolved murder featured on such programs as Unsolved Mysteries, Hard Copy, and A Current Affair as well being the basis for several TV movies and inspira...

Protagonist Thomas Black Bull comes full circle in Hal Borland's novel When the Legends Die. A Ute native from Colorado, Tom spends a large portion of his childhood in the wilderness, where he befriends a bear cub and assumes the name "Bear's Brother." His affinity for nature is encouraged by his fa...

In the history of human societal development, the relationship between society and population are important elements that determine the development or stagnation of a society towards progress. It is chronicled in history that the emergence of the Industrial Revolution gave birth to population growth...

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792, in Sussex into a political and wealthy family. He was the oldest of seven children. Most of his childhood he moved throughout Field Place, Horsham, and Sussex. These appear to be the happiest years of his life. He attende...

Freedom in a World of Conformity (The Matrix) John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill and Pierre Elliot Trudeau were visionaries of the free world that drew the populace into their dreams. These great leaders did not have to thrive off conformists or tell their followers how to act, function and beh...

Banned Books Throughout the century there has existed books have books which have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. Every year, books in the U.S. and around the world are challenged. Some of the challenged books are banned, some aren't. Many were banne...

Claude McKay was born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny Ville, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, on September 15, 1890. He was born one of the eleven children of Thomas Francis McKay and Hannah Ann Elizabeth Edwards, farmers. Claude was sent at a young age to live with his oldest brother, who was a schoolteac...

James Monroe was the fifth president of the United States (1817-1825) and the last of the so-called Virginia dynasty of U.S. presidents. Monroe was president during the Era of Good Feelings. He gave lots of good impressions on people. One lady said about him: "He is tall and well formed. His d...

Little Biography Ida Tarbell: She was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania. She was born in1857-1944.She was an American writer, leader of the muckraking movement in journalism. Tarbell was an associate editor (1894-1906) of McClure's magazine (1906-1915) and editor of the American Magazine....

Introduction What is Leadership? Who, or more appropriately, what do you want in a leader? Leaders come in many shapes and sizes, flavors and colors, ideologies and theologies, but who can lead our organization? There are a number of theories on leadership. They are transactional, situational,...

The Longest Hatred-Part I How can one race be hated for so long? This question came to mind when evaluating the PBS broadcast television series on anti-Semitism, The Longest Hatred. Not understanding and having never experienced racism in my life and witnessing the testimonies of real-life sur...

He first tried the law profession by enrolling in Columbia University. He did not enjoy it and soon left school. He published his first book in 1882 it was entitled "The Naval War of 1812". He had begun work on it while still at Harvard. Then Teddy decided that he would try a ca...

The Martini is almost as American as apple pie. The journalist H. L. Mencken said that this drink was "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The writer E. B. White descibed the Martini as "the elixir of quietude," and the Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev called it "America's lethal ...

Bobby Knight, arguably the best college basketball coach ever and definitely one of the most controversial coaches ever. With a record of 661 wins and 240 losses at Indiana University as head coach, he ended his career there with a .734 % winning percentage. As I will show you, Bobby may have been c...

According to time.com (May, 2001), marijuana can be used to help patients with cancer, AID's, multiple sclerosis, epilpsy, and glaucoma. It is reported that marijuana's active ingredient, THC reduces vomiting and nausea caused by chemotherapy. For AID's patients, it improves appetite, and ...

Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (reprinted in Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson, Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 8th ed. [Fort Worth:Harcourt, 2002]77), is different than a typical Hemingway story. Hemingway is known for rugged outdo...

The French and Indian War caused the American colonies to become more unified as Americans and more distant from Britain, due to differing political, economic, and ideological relations after the war. Throughout the war the colonists wanted to head west to get away form British control. After the w...

American Literature is written by people who call themselves American and at the same time shape what it means to be American. American Literature separates itself from other forms of literature because of its individuality and most of what is written about in American literature are things that r...

Ibsen made a very controversial act, by having Nora leave her husband and her family. After first reading the play I thought that what Nora did was the right thing to do. But after thinking about I now realize that wasn't the right thing to do. Yes, Torvald was not the best husband in the world, bu...

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On January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. James Roosevelt, Franklin's father, was a prosperous railroad official and landowner(Lawson 25). His predecessors, when they came from the Netherlands, were succes Roosevelt learned from private tutors, not going to scho...

On January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. James Roosevelt, Franklin's father, was a prosperous railroad official and landowner(Lawson 25). His predecessors, when they came from the Netherlands, were succes Roosevelt learned from private tutors, not goin...