I. Eugene V. Debs was a Union leader who fought for the rights of workers.
A. Since and early age he learned the values and hardships of work. He was a hard working man who stood against all forces to demand rightful rights. Eugene Debs ead many successful ands unsuccessful strikes. The government considered him a rebel and often placed him behind bars.
B. Despite all the odds Eugene Debs helped shape the America into what it is today, by struggled until the rights of workers were protected.
II. Eugene Debs grew up and began his early development into the man he would become in Terre Haute, Indiana.
A. He was born on November 5, 1855.
B. He was the son of Margurite Marie Debs and Jean Daniel Debs.
C. On November 10, 1848, his parents migrated to America. When they arrived they settled in New York where they married. His Parents were loving, caring and wise.(www.marxists.org)
D. Then on September 25, 1848 They returned to Terre Haute to raise their children. They gave birth to ten children but only six of them lived. (www.marxists.org)
E. Eugune had four sisters and one brother.
F. Eugene had a normal childhood with loving parents
G. He was taught at an early age to think about others and to care for the needs of those around him.
H. " Sincere affection gives insight, intuition, understanding, and equips for service and shuts out greed and degrading ambition for place and power"(www.marxists.org)
a. In other words, Eugene learned at a young age that he should be concerned with events occurring around him. This early instruction gave him his passion for wanting to help others.
III. At a young age, Eugenes education was inturrupted by his desire to work.
A. He went to Terre Haute Public schools.
B. At the age of fourteen he dropped out of school to work as painter in railroad yards (ffrf.org).
C. Later when he was 25 years (1870) he became fireman on the railroad and at night he went to a local business college.
D. In 1879 he became assistant editor of National Brother hood of Locomotive Fireman's magazine.
E. Eugene later became the leader for Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen(BLF) and the leader of the American Railway Union(ARU)( www.spartacus.schoolnet.co).
IV. As the leader of the ARU he organized a successful strike against the Chicago Pullman Palace Car. Because of his strong leadership skills he gained popularity. He ran for president five times losing all elections.
A. In 1894 during the pullman strike Eugene was arrested.
Eugene Debs began working on the railroads at age 14, and in 1893, at age 38, he founded the American Railway Union. The union dissolved after a violent strike in 1894. Debs served a six-month jail sentence for his participation in the strike and turned to radical politics soon after being released. Despite persecution for his political beliefs, Debs ran as the Socialist candidate for president five times. He collected 6 percent of the vote in 1912. The socialist doctrine demands state ownership and control ...
can be traced by to his grandmother who provided him with a powerful moral and
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In the summer of 1896, he entered the College of Wooster (Ohio). As a result of long and intense hours of study, his eyesight deteriorated to the point that he was forced to leave college and return to teaching. In 1898, he entered the engineering school at Ohio State, but again his poor eyesight forced him to drop out during his freshman year. For the next two years he worked on a telephone line crew, and then once again entered Ohio State, finally completing his electrical engineering degree in 1904.
Walt Whitman was born to Louisa and Walter Whitman in Long Island, New York, May 31, 1819. He was the second son from a household of nine. He was named after his father who was a farmer and Carpenter. He was born just after the end of the American Revolution. When he was four, his family and he moved to Brooklyn where he went to school until the age of eleven. He left to help support the family and got a full-time job. Whitman looked back on his childhood as generally restless and unhappy, given his families difficult economic status.
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His first job on graduating in 1938 was art director of the Junior League magazine, later he worked in the same capacity for Saks Fifth Avenue department store. At the age of 25, he quit his job and used his small savings to go to Mexico, where he painted a full year before he convinced himself he would never be more than a mediocre.
I found out that after he left New York he moved back to the Midwest. Because he saw how the love of money can ruin someone he decided not to work for his father but do something he really loved. He wanted to make a positive impact in the world as a way of making up for all the negativeness he had seen and been apart of in New York. For awhile he couldn’t figure out what that was so he he did odd jobs here and there until the Great Depression hit.
instilled in him, and more than likely it was instilled in his father by his grandfather, and so on.
Then, started doing numerous jobs after that; he lost his main job by stamping goods that were suppose to be examined but weren’t. His first wife died after less then a year of marriage, and he was separated from his second wife after three years. Throughout this time he found himself going thru scandals. He landed a job in Philadelphia as a journalist making a name for himself first for a spokesman against slavery and then as the anonymous author of Common Sense.
he really cared about the lives of these people that he didn't even know. He