Daniel Webster
Born January 18, 1782, in Salisbury, New Hampshire, Daniel Webster was a central figure in the nation's history. He successfully combined his political and legal career and played a role as lawyer, congressman, orator, secretary of state, leader of two parties, and a presidential candidate. His father, recognizing that his son was more suited for scholastics than for farm life, ensured that Daniel received an education. Webster studied at the Phillips Exeter Academy before enrolling at Dartmouth in 1797. Webster eventually graduated from Dartmouth College in 1801. Webster opened a legal practice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in1807. Rising quickly as a lawyer and Federalist party leader, Webster was elected in 1812 to the U.S. House of Representatives because of his opposition to the War of 1812, which had crippled New England's shipping trade. After two more terms in the House, Webster left Congress in 1816 and moved to Boston. Over the next six years, he won major constitutional cases before the Supreme Court most notably, Dartmouth College Vs. Woodward, Gibbons Vs Ogden, and McCulloch Vs. Maryland, establishing himself as the nation's leading lawyer and an outstand outstanding orator.
In 1823, Webster was returned to Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected senator from Massachusetts. New circumstances enabled Webster to become a champion of American nationalism. With the Federalist party dead, he joined the National Republican party, allying himself with Westerner Henry CLAY and endorsing federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, the dominant economic interests of Massachusetts having shifted from shipping to manufacturing, Webster backed the high-tariff bill of that year. Angry Southern leaders condemned the tariff, and South Carolina's John C. CALHOUN argued that his state had the right to nullify the law. Replying to South Carolina's Robert HAYNE in a Senate debate in 1830, Webster triumphantly defended the Union. His words "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" won wide acclaim. Webster and President Andrew Jackson joined forces in 1833 to suppress South Carolina's attempt to nullify the tariff. But Webster and other opponents of Jackson--now known as Whigs (see WHIG PARTY, United States)--battled him on other issues, including his attack on the National Bank. Webster ran for the presidency in 1836 as one of three Whig party candidates but carried only Massachusetts. For the remainder of his career he aspired vainly to the presidency.
David Wilmot was born in Bethany, Pennsylvania, on January 20, 1814. Wilmot received his academic education in Bethany and in Aurora, New York. He was later admitted to the bar at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, in 1834. He soon began practice at Towanda, where he afterward resided. He was first brought into public notice from his support of Martin Van Buren in the presidential race of 1836. He helped to found the Republican Party and was a Republican Senator from 1861 to 1863, filling out the unexpired term of Simon Cameron. He then became a judge of the U.S. Court of Claims in 1863.
The Whigs chose Henry Clay as their representative. The Democrats chose James K. Polk, the Speaker of the House for four years. Pouk beat Clay and won the election. He said that he would protect Texas, and avoided the issue of slavery. Polk called for the reoccupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas.
Radha is emotionally detached and fairly disdainful of her husband, Shyam. Their matrimony existed only in name, without any effort on the part of Radha to keep it lively. She was unable to create a bond with him and considered that her marriage was already “fractured” as she mentioned to Chris. It is the beginning to enjoy her life and first step indirectly to voice out her travail. An affair can add excitement and a sense of purpose to life, and often this activity helps to taste up the state of achieving autonomy, from the hands of the dominati...
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States of America. His terms were served from March 4, 1829 to March 4, 1837. He was a very religious person. Jackson attended church regularly. The president opened his cabinet meetings with a prayer. When he was general, he would say a prayer before battle to his men. Jackson was the first President elected hailing west of the Appalachians. At the time he was the oldest President to be elected into office. Jackson's presidency defined itself in two central points: the “nullification crisis” and the "Bank War." Jackson took office, The "American System" program helped economic development through utilizing transportation subsidies, and through protective tariffs on imports to aid American manufacturers. A lot of Southerners believed these policies promoted Northern growth and that this was at their expense. Jackson slowed down the American System by vetoing road, and canal bills starting with the Maysville Road in 1830. In1832 South Carolina declared the tariff unconstitutional which made it null and void. The state took steps to block tariff collections within its radius. Even though Jackson favored lower tariffs, Jackson acted swiftly to uphold federal supremacy by force, or any means necessary. He declared the Union indivisible. He then branded nullification as treason. Congress reduced the tariff in 1833, defusing the crisis.
John Adams was born in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. He was a Harvard graduate who believed in independence for all. As a politician, he served two terms as the Vice President under George Washington. Being Vice President was not a good fit for Adams for he was too intelligent for the job. He told his wife, Abagail Adams, that "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived," (Whitehouse.gov). After serving as Vice President, John Adams became the second President of the United States. In addition, John Adams was part of the first and second Continental Congress and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. After serving his country for many years, he retired to his farm in Quincy, Massachusetts.
John Quincy Adams, America’s sixth President was born July 11, 1767 in Braintree, Massachusetts to the former president John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams. He was a child that grew up during the American Revolution. He was able to experience and watch the Battle of Bunker Hill with his mother from his house. John Quincy Adams did not attend school when he was young. He was tutored by his cousin and his father’s law clerk. He did not acquire a real education until he traveled with his father. When his father became the ambassador to France and also Netherlands, John Quincy accompanied him on the missions he took. While in Europe with his father he was able to attend Leiden University where he graduated in 1781.
Andrew Johnson was a Senator from North Carolina and was the only Southern Senator to stay with the Union during the Civil War. Johnson tried to continue bringing the Union back together, which agreed with Lincoln’s plan. He encouraged the Southern states to create new state governments. Where he differed from Lincoln, is where he opposed African American’s rights. The radical Republican members of Congress thought that his policies were too lenient and they opposed them. In return, Johnson went on a speaking tour to try and raise support for his plan, this failed and the Republicans won the election in both houses and put into place their own reconstruction. Eventually, Johnson and the Republican Congress were at such odds that Congress tried
Frederick Douglass had a Mistress, who started to teach him, but it was illegal. He would not have come to realize all he was missing out on if she did not give him that taste of learning. The more he learned, the more he realized that being a slave for the rest of his life was senseless. All the information he was receiving made him think more and more of being a free man. To read and learn if he went north he could be free, made him crave freedom more. Reading and writing was his way out of slavery or at least to a better situation. Malcolm X's need for education was when he realized that he could not read a full book and get an understanding of it because he did not know many words. Reading a sentence he would skip over so many words. He also admired the way a fellow inmate could hold a conversation. Realizing all the words in a dictionary and knowing that he only knew a few got to him. His curiosity took over; Malcolm started to see knowledge is power. To be a black man with knowledge made you even more powerful.
...ough. He also compares himself with his dead brother because he thinks his dad favors him since he lived through the same experiences. This survivor’s guilt is even seen in his father, since he takes out his guilt of surviving, when many of his friends and family did not, on his son. Guilt is one of the driving factors of this book, and shows how the greater society feels towards the Holocaust. Society feels guilty for not doing anything to stop the Nazis. Many people knew what was going on, yet they didn’t stop them. Even people in the Jewish community heard of what was happening, but didn’t believe them. Now after everything is said and done, the feel guilty for what happened. Just as Art feels guilty for not living through it, society as a whole feels guilty for not stepping in. No one truly survived the Holocaust since the guilt is constantly weighing on them.
One of the finest military heroes during the War of 1812, and an independent and diligent man, Andrew Jackson left a permanent influence upon American politics and presidency after he sworn in as the seventh President of the United States on March 4th, 1829. Within the eight years of presidency, Jackson engendered a potent and corrupt political party, which was composed of his supporters during the election of 1828. Consequently, his provocative and controversial behavior in office aroused his adversaries to organize the Whig party, which strongly opposed Jackson’s economic, political, and social views during his presidency. Since Jackson and the Congress did not agree with each other’s views quite often, his drive for synthesizing political
Thesis Statement: Today I want to bring to everyone’s attention about what happened in Miami in the late 70s and early 80s, and how it is the reason Miami is what it is today.
Literature is the analytical, critical, emotional and psychological expression of human life which is nothing but a bouquet of multi-coloured relationships like filial relationship, conjugal relationship and sibling relationship. Though all the relationships are important part of life yet man-woman relationship is considered the most pervading human relationship. Emphasizing the importance and value of the man-woman relationship, D.H. Lawrence, a great English novelist, points out in ‘Morality and the Novel’, “The great relationship for humanity will always be the relation between man and woman. The relation between man and man, woman and woman, parent and child will always be subsidiary.” (1972: l30)
The history of tribal oppression in India is an old one. “The Sanyasi Revolt”, “The Wahabi Movement”, and “The Naxalbari Rebellion”, are evidence of the tribal outcry that appropriately foregrounds their requirement for fundamental rights as citizens of the country. Even after sixty six years of independence, India’s rural poor and tribals are lamenting under the curbing effects of destitution, unemployment, undernourishment, illiteracy and human trafficking. For these people, the notions of liberty, equality and democracy have no meaning at all. Though the country is free from the bondage of foreign rule, their repression and prejudices still continue leaving them dependent on their new masters.
To fully understand Zimbabwe’s current situation, and the rule of Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF, it is important to first outline their rise to power. Zimbabwe’s independence came fairly late in relation to most other African nations. Furthermore, the current iteration of Zimbabwe won its independence through armed struggle. These two factors are the result of a somewhat unique situation in Zimbabwe’s colonial history. By the late 19th century what is now Zimbabwe came under the control of Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa Country. When Rhodes obtained concession over valuable mining areas from the locals he was granted a Royal Charter by the United Kingdom to incorporate all of the territory that now makes up Zambia, Zimbabwe, and parts of Mozambique into the British colony of Rhodesia. Later, the territory south of the Zambezi River would become known as Southern Rhodesia, while the territory north of the Zambezi became Northern Rhodesia.
...nst TV violence; they only regulate language and sexual content (Brown,2). The American television industry and movie industry are very prude regarding sex and language, but very permissive on the topic of violence. Many movies that have brief glimpses of nudity, or more than one use of profane language get rated R, yet action flicks with thousands of killings in them are rated PG-13 (Horn and Zeitchik, 2). Some question if the ratings would be more appropriate if the government established the regulations rather then the voluntary industry. Movies are rated by the Motion Picture Association of America, know also by the acronym MPAA. Television shows are rated by the network or broadcaster, that the show plays on. The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) rates video games but there are no set laws that prohibits children from buying games rated for adults.