.... nevertheless received a fine education. "To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned -- isn't that a pleasure?" Analects 1:1 He was married at the age of 19 and had one son and two daughters. During the four years immediately after his marriage, poverty compelled him to perform menial labors for the chief of the district in which he lived. HIS CARREER(S): WHERE HE PUT HIS THOUGHTS INTO ACTION. His mother died in 527 BC, and after a period of mourning he began his career as a teacher, usually traveling about and instructing the small body of disc .....

.... he created the National Farm Workers Association ( now the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO). He received help from Dolores Huerta, Gilberto Padilla, Fred Ross Sr. and many others. In the mid 1960's, the union boycotted and striked many agricultural products with progressive succes. In 1975, the California Labor Relations Act was passed largely due to the work of Chavez and the UFWA. Cesar Chavez died in 1993. Dolores Huerta was bornon April 10, 1930 in a mining town in northern New Mexico. Her father, Juan Fernandez, was a miner, field worker, union activist and State Assemblyman. Her mother, Alicia Chavez was a b .....

.... of the United States. He was born on January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio, a town of about 300 people at that time. He was the 7th child born to William and Nancy Alison McKinley (of Irish and Scotch descent). His father leased an iron foundry in Niles. William attended a one-room schoolhouse that stood on the site of this memorial. The family moved to Poland, Ohio when he was nine years old so that the children could attend a private school there called the Poland Academy. In school William enjoyed reading, debating, and public speaking. In fact, he was the president of the school’s first debate club. When he was 16 he atten .....

.... is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body, the Parliament of Great Britain." This statement can be used as a summation of the entire document that the Stamp Act Congress had initiated. The statement depicts the colonists has having to be submissive and servile in the view of Great Britain, this policy angered the colonists very much, and was another component of the transition of the colonists' rights and liberties. When the Declatory Act was passed in March of 1766, many colonies were attempting to claim that they were "seceding" from England. "Whereas several of .....

.... of 50, 80, or 150 exemplars. Abakanowicz also works in drawing, painting, choreographing dances, and architectural projects. Her work can be seen in museums all over the world. Often in her work she explores the alerted reality created by groups of sculpture in a gallery while also drawing heavily upon her personal and family history. Abakanowicz’s work demonstrates an evolution from themes to dwellings, to humans, to the primality of organic growth itself. Abakanowicz’s strong idealism and forceful speaking style suggest a productive tenacity born of a defensive self-belief. She feels “overawed by the quantity where co .....

.... federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North wanted to develop a tariff. With a high tariff, it protected the northern manufacturer. It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods. The North also wanted a good banking and currency system and federal subsidies for shipping and internal improvements. The South felt these were discriminatory and that they favored Northern commercial interests. Now the main reason for the South’s secession was the Slavery issue. T .....

.... with much of the sustaining language and metaphor of their philosophy. Among the chief proponents of , Ralph Waldo Emerson is widely regarded as its central figure and catalyzing force. Critics often cite his essay Nature and An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College as touchstones of the movement. His subsequent essays, journals, and poems are credited with giving further shape to its ideals. Emerson was also an important inspiration to such authors as Walt Whitman, who, along with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe, were strongly influenced by Transcendentalism .....

.... at making advancements in the church. Thus, the Cycle Dramas or English Passion Plays were performed with the permission and "help" of the church. It is thought that church clergy probably wrote the playlets and then gave it over to the Guilds to be performed. Although the appearance of the Cycle Dramas seems unimaginative and commonplace at a first glance, there are some striking innovations in terms of furthering a dramatic structure. This is the first time we see the use of a double plot in which the honored and revered story is compared to a similar situation but of a base (and most times, immoral) story. A perfect ex .....

.... c.Glastnost/Parestroika tore communism to pieces, ending Soviet threat 3.There was no real threat of a Chinese/Russian conflict a.Cold War created to boost National spirit/ economy b.USSR economy in shambles/ not capable of war c.Both sides knew they couldn't use "nukes" IV. Conclusion 1.US and Russia/China became significantly less of an enemy to each other & US a.Nixon represented US positively to USSR sparking Glastnost/ Parestrioka b.Brought China out of isolationism (less biochem. weapons) 2.Nixons program of detente was the reason for a decline of wor .....

.... attacking the commercial livelihood of Great Britain's merchants. It is ironic that the entire notion of privateering began in Great Britain. In 1649 a frigate named Constant-Warwick was constructed in England for a privateer in the employ of the Earl of Warwick. Seeing how profitable this investment was, a great many of the English peerage commissioned their own privateers. saw the proliferation of privateering on both the English and French coasts as each attempted to disrupt their opponent's colonial trade. American investors quickly entered this battle, commissioning ships to prey upon cargo vessels coming to and from French .....