“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity‚” (Robert Frost) Frost chose to use poetry to express his frustration with not only society but his situation in life. Frost’s poetry was written usually related to the struggles faced in his time period‚ including but not limited to social‚ political and historical issues. The cynical mind’s work may have been shaped by; the death of numerous family members‚ his friend in the war‚ and an impoverished beginning
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these saloons. At first they didn’t get much support‚ but eventually they were able to convince people to campaign with them. One such group was the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. They were an association of women formed in the United States in 1874‚ for the advancement of temperance by
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Epson. For one week in June‚ Ascot holds the Royal Ascot and her Majesty‚ the Queen graces the event with her presence to see her horses compete. Tennis Tennis is an English adaptation of "Le jeu de paume" created in the 15th century in France. In 1874 Harry Gem is the person who invented the "modern tennis". The first tennis tournament was held in August 1876 and won by James Dwight. Wimbledon was created on 1877. There are two type of Tennis World in the United Kingdom‚ the professional tennis
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revolutions in February and October (with a great deal of political wrangling in-betweens)‚ and which eventually plunged the country into Civil War before leading to the founding of the Communist State. The Great Depression * Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)‚ a Republican‚ was president when the Great Depression began. He infamously declared in March 1930 that the U.S. had “passed the worst” and argued that the economy would sort itself out. The worst‚ however‚ had just begun and would last until
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Ex parte Crow Dog‚ 109 U.S. 556 (1883)‚ is a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that followed the death of one member of a Native American tribe at the hands of another on reservation land. Crow Dog was a member of the Brulé band of the Lakota Sioux. On August 5‚ 1881 he shot and killed Spotted Tail‚ a Lakota chief; there are different accounts of the background to the killing. The tribal council dealt with the incident according to Sioux tradition‚ and Crow Dog paid restitution to
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wanted them to be and not as popular as photomicrography‚ but they continued to experiment with the photographs and compete with each other to see who would capture the best ones. The largest international effort in astronomical photography was in 1874 when scientists from Germany‚ Britain and France entered a friendly competition to record the transit of the planet Venus across the face of the sun (Tanzi‚ 3). Photography also led to a great breakthrough in medicine through the creation of the X-ray
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William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) is one of the best known writers of the present day. He was not only a novelist‚ but also one of the most successful dramatists and short-story writer. The short-story “Louise” was published in 1936. This story is about the woman who used to get everything what she wants using her “weak heart”. The gist of the problem raised by the author in this story is relationship between people. This problem is always urgent. The main idea conveyed by the author is that
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Criticism‚ Thomas Hardy Short Story Criticism‚ and Jude the Obscure Criticism. INTRODUCTION Long considered one of England’s foremost nineteenth-century novelists‚ Hardy established his reputation with the publication of Far from the Madding Crowd in 1874. It was the first of his so-called “Wessex novels‚” set in a fictitious English county closely resembling Hardy’s native Dorsetshire. The novel‚ whose title was borrowed from Thomas Gray’s famous “Elegy in a Country Churchyard‚” initially appeared
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find again that the white settlers used force to take what was not theirs for their own prosperity‚ which would be found in the gold and minerals that were located in the Black Hills. The arrival of General Custer and his army to the Black Hills (1874)‚ in which it was formally announced that gold had been discovered in the area‚ was the first time that the Lakotas had even encountered intruders on their land. Eventually‚ the United States government‚ on February 28‚ 1877‚ passed a Congressional
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physics by his teacher Hermann Müller. Even at a young age‚ Planck was gifted when it came to music. As a child he took singing lessons‚ composed songs and operas‚ and played the piano‚ organ and cello. During his education at Munich University in 1874‚ he began his scientific career in the study of diffusion of hydrogen through heated platinum. Later he transferred to theoretical physics. One of his Munich professors‚ Phillipp von Jolly‚ advised him "in this field‚ almost everything is already discovered
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