The US started the 20th century as a country with enormous potential‚ and finished the century as the world’s only superpower. Yet there are two ways of looking at this powerful nation in the 1920s - as a wealthy country with a high standard of living‚ big cars and large houses‚ or as a country with many people living in poverty and some enduring terrible racism. The 1920s overview Although the USA did not enter the First World War until April 1917‚ the conflict cast a shadow over American society
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Mahatma Gandhi‚ born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi‚ came into the world on the 2nd of October‚ 1869 in Porbandar‚ Gujarat‚ India. He died on the 30th of January‚ 1948 in New Delhi‚ India. Gandhi was a great political and spiritual leader for India‚ when India was still under the rule of the British Empire. The word Mahatma means great soul. This name was not given Gandhi at birth by his parents‚ but many years later by the Indian people when they discovered they had a Mahatma in their midst. In May
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ranscendentalist Essay “Live life to the fullest.” This quote by Ernest Hemingway was made after the era of transcendentalism‚ but I believe that the idea came from the transcendentalists. In Walden‚ by Henry David Thoreau‚ he writes “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life‚ to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life‚” Among Transcendentalists’ core beliefs was an ideal spiritual state that ’transcends’ the physical and empirical and is only realized
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believers to have a special regard for the poor‚ weak‚ and disadvantaged is" one of the main themes of the Bible‚ according to Sider (78). Gandhi‚ who was not a Christian‚ explored the idea of poverty in a more socially ethical way: "According to me the economic constitution of India and for that matther of the world‚ should be such that no one
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would choose a life like this? Henry David Thoreau did‚ and he enjoyed it. Who was Henry David Thoreau‚ what did he do‚ and what did others think of his work? Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord‚ Massachusetts on July 12‚ 1817 ("Thoreau" 96)‚ on his grandmother’s farm. Thoreau‚ who was of French-Huguenot and Scottish-Quaker ancestry‚ was baptized as David Henry Thoreau‚ but at the age of twenty he legally changed his name to Henry David. Thoreau was raised with his older sister Helen‚ older
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Mohandas Karmanchad Gandhi‚ who is also known as Mahatma Gandhi ‚was the pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism. Gandhi was born on 2nd October 1869 in Porbandar‚ a coastal town in Bombay. Gandhi was raised in a Hindu bania community in coastal Gujarat. During his life time he practised to be a good Hindu by obeying all the laws and helping others. As well his devotion‚ his goal was to help the poor and protest oppressive taxation and discrimination. Through his efforts he led India to independence
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Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand) "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever walked upon this earth in flesh and blood". -Albert Einstein Throughout history most national heroes have been warriors‚ but Gandhi was a passive and peaceful preacher of morals‚ ethics‚ and beliefs. He was an outsider who ended British rule over India without striking a blow. Moreover‚ Gandhi was
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World History II Essay: Gandhi “A ’No ’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ’Yes ’ merely uttered to please‚ or worse‚ to avoid trouble.” (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) These immortal words were uttered by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Gandhi as most know him today. Gandhi was an advocate of nonviolence‚ he was at the forefront of the Free India movement of the 1930’s and 40’s and played an integral part in India becoming an independent nation. This essay will focus on a few of
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literature. Although they did not live during the same time‚ American writers Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King‚ Jr. each wrote about how a person should not follow laws that they believe to be immoral. Thoreau’s main concern pertained to the legal existence of slaves and slave-owners‚ and a century later‚ King spoke out against legal segregation in the South. In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail‚” Martin Luther King‚ Jr. shares the same attitude with Henry David Thoreau’s work‚ “Civil Disobedience”
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What Educated Women Can Do by Indira Gandhi Indira Gandhi was born November 11‚ 1917 to the parents Jawaharl and Kamala Nehru. She came from a family of power‚ as both parents were prime ministers of India‚ and her mother was a freedom fighter. Although assassinated on October 31‚ 1984 at the age of 67‚ before her passing‚ she won multiple awards and received an extensive education. Her awards include the Bharat Ratha‚ the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding‚ and the Lenin Peace
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