.... admiration. His popularity in Erie County marked him as one of the outstanding political leaders in western New York, and in 1832 he won election to Congress on the Anti-Masonic ticket. During the 1840's Weed led the New York Whig party's liberal wing, which was hostile to slavery. Fillmore disliked slavery but disapprove of attacks on it. For he regarded the South's peculiar institution as untouchable in the states where it existed. The influx of foreigners into New York State posed another political issue, and Fillmore sympathized with those who were hostile to the recently naturalized citizens. Here, too, he differed from Weed a .....

.... Throughout his juvenile years he received an endless series of excellent marks, prizes, and congratulations. When he was eighteen, Charles applied to the Christ Church College at Oxford University. Here he studied, gave lectures and lived for the rest of his life. Again, he distinguished himself with the first class honors in math, second class in classics and the Butler scholarship. According to this scholarship, he was to remain unmarried and proceed to holy orders. Which he did, for he never married. In 1855, he was appointed lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church. A position he held until 1881. Six years later he wa .....

.... deliberately, To front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Henry left his nearby town of Concord to live at Walden Pond on July 4, 1845, Independence Day. Some have speculated that this date represents Henry's personal declaration of independence from society. Others have pointed out that July 4th was the day before his brother's birthday. By leaving for Walden on July 4th, Independence Day, Henry would have spent his first full day at Walden Pond on the anniversary of his brother's birthday. This id .....

.... his military aide. Sun sent him to the USSR to study Russia military methods and was more than willing to go. He got a good response from the people there. Not only did they give him advice but they also sent thirty or so military men as help. One of these men, named Michael Borodin suggested that they start a military academy in China. They placed it in Whampoa and named it the Whampoa Military Academy. Their main goal was to demand and deserve respect. Once opened they received 1,500 applicants. It planned to register only 300. Sun began to encourage Chiang’s participation in the Nationalist party. After Sun died in 1925, Chia .....

.... with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the dean's office that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would have happened IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have had a bit more talent....or IF the Dean had been a little less critical, the world might have been spared the nightmare into which this boy was eventually to plunge i .....

.... in one of his first sophisticated paintings, View of Cadaqués with Shadow of Mount Pani of 1917. His family noticed his artistic talent early on, and supplemented his education by allowing him to spend summer holidays with the creative family of Ramón Pichot just outside of Figueres. Pichot was a well-known artist, who maintained friendships with the likes of Pablo Picasso. All his children were musically inclined and excelled in scholarly education. This family inspired Dalí to try his hand at any type of creative expression. Dalí's proud father exhibited his son's drawings at the family home in Figueres. The attention .....

.... men. The way in which the Romans were unconsciously straying from "mos maiorum" to manipulate the course of events was disturbing. Though these actions were not entirely the "evil" work of Rome. from his earliest memories could recall nothing but hatred for Rome. ’s Father had instilled a horrifically self-destructive desire within to see the fall of Rome. This desire manifested itself during The Second Punic War, which was the ultimate fight for supremacy in the Ancient World. The victor would have control over the entire Mediterranean Sea and all of the trade routes bringing land, pride, wealth, and do .....

.... fills the receptacles, the better a teacher she is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are." (67). He also goes on to say "Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat."(67), and he refers to this as the "banking system" where the student goes "only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits."(68). This "banking system" method of teaching, really is not teach .....

.... that back in Plains. During this time he became extremely interested and involved with his community. He eventually, in 1971 he became the 76th governor of Georgia. While in office, his fellow governors selected him to serve as a chairman of the Southern Regional Education Board, the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Coastal Plains Regional Action Planning Commission, and the Southern Growth Policies Board. In 1973 he became the Democratic National Committee campaign chairman for the 1974 congressional elections. He anounced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Dcember12, 1974, and won .....

.... intelligent and endowed with the gift of Voice, he brought back with him a sharp perspective on the blights of racism and slavery. Dropped into America during the heat of reform as he was, his appearance on the scene of debate, upon his own self-emancipation, was a valuable blessing for the abolitionists. In their struggles so far, there had been many skilled arguers but few who could so convincingly portray the evils of slavery, an act which seemed to demand little short of firsthand experience, but which also required a clear understanding of it. Douglass had both, and proved himself an incredibly powerful weapon for reform. .....