Quotes My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the nest ... were once held in the face of much persistent inertia and doubt come within reach of being realized is a source of great satisfaction. Willy Brandt Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of you soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill Don't worry if you can't do the best thing every time- you ... a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin H...

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What is the American dream? Freedom, justice, life, and liberty are the basic elements of the American dream. America was built on these dreams. "Give me liberty or give me death" was once just a dream. Many years ago the people of the United States chose to take a risk and put their lives on the ... advances in medicine. With each new improvement, the American dream only grows stronger. Unfortunately, America has endured great pain over the years. AIDS has taken away the lives of people from all walks of life. Heart disease and cancer continue to take their toll. The Oklahoma City bombing a...

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... in their area. Winkler also had access to rare and previously unknown information, photographs and newspaper clippings he got from scholars, tour guides and local historians like Karla Vernon, Susan Block and Lewis Leigh Jr. Even though there was not a lot of ... of files on Civil War spies, which included old newspaper clippings and diaries, journals and memoirs written directly by the spies themselves. The different manuscripts, such as letters to and from Antonia Ford, Sarah Thompson's papers and other various letters and documents are found in state and national archives ... It was ...

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... three Superintendent's and six principals. I've seen strong leaders with personality differences and I've experienced weak leaders who lacked the ability to get feedback from the staff on what worked and didn't work. I've seen missions and visions that were not clear and not communicated well. I can ... their decisions and knew what they were capable of doing to complete the mission. This gave Lincoln the confidence to learn from others and gain feedback from them to make decisions. I feel that his own commanders' lack of vision and drive may have often frustrated him but ... the grace ...

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... hostile country, no such weapons were found. Instead, the nine-year invasion revamped American politics and provided Muslims with a solid foundation for their hatred towards Americans. With American troops absent from the country, Iraq has a long and arduous road ahead of rebuilding (Shanker). "Let me be clear: Iraq will be tested in the days ahead ... - by terrorism, and by those who seek to divide, by economic and social issues, by the demands of democracy itself. Challenges remain, but the US will be there to stand by the Iraqi people as they navigate those challenges to build a stro...

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... " is taking away the power of words themselves. At the time of Lincoln's speech, brothers were killing brothers, and entire families were torn asunder by a war which had threatened the very fabric of our nation. At the Battle of Gettysburg alone, more than 51,000 were killed. After the ... fell there that day. Gettysburg stands as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Only 272 words long, the Gettysburg Address was carefully crafted by Lincoln. The first draft was written in Washington, and revised in Gettysburg the night before the dedication, at the home of David Wills. ... The speak...

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... issue here, this was just one of many conflicting believes. In 1854 the Kansas/ Nebraska Act was passed, ending the fragile peace established by the Compromise of 1850. Douglas put forth the bill to organize the Kansas and Nebraska territories for settlement. He wanted to promote a railroad ... that started in Chicago, end in California and run through the Kansas territory. Southerners supported the bill because they thought that people from the slave state of Missouri would move west into Kansas so that it would become a slave state. Northerners saw the new law as a ... In May 1856 fi...

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... to approximately fifteen to twenty thousand who had gathered to hear his convocation of the cemetery. Lincoln realized that the nation must seek a transformation, away from the divisiveness and towards unity, and he freely calls on a Biblically-based use of time-based terms to connote that it is indeed divine providence ... not have died in vain. This aspect of the Gettysburg address has also been often used in major national events including the speech given by President Bush and also by Mayor Giuliani during the speeches they made at Ground Zero in downtown New York (Stow, 195 - 196). ...

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... I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Compare this with a more rhymed and classical sounding piece by Whitman's contemporary, Edgar Allan Poe, entitled "Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodious": "Ye deliverers of Athens from shame! Ye avengers of Liberty's wrongs! Endless ages shall cherish your fame embalmed in their echoing songs (Poe 50) !" One would never find ... other antiquated word. This is just another way in which Walt Whitman declared his independence and encouraged others to declare their independence by reading his writing, even though t...

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... no self worth; their identity was enveloped in their master's identity. The preservation of this belief was dependent on the illiteracy of our race. Frederick Douglass opens his narrative by highlighting how the slavery kept him from being able to identify his date of birth. He says, "I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it ... . By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to ... involved with seeing written documents that would show...

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... Maine were to enter statehood simultaneously to preserve sectional equality in the Senate. Nevertheless, in 1848 the Union acquired a huge piece of territory from Mexico. This opened new opportunities for the spread of slavery for Southerners. Because of these reasons, Congress passed the Compromise Measures of 1850 ... on January 10, Alabama on Jan 11, Georgia on January 19, Louisiana on January 26, and Texas on February 1. On February 4 delegates from all these states met in Montgomery, Alabama where they drafted a constitution for the Confederate States of America. This outraged the N...

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... Maine were to enter statehood simultaneously to preserve sectional equality in the Senate. Nevertheless, in 1848 the Union acquired a huge piece of territory from Mexico. This opened new opportunities for the spread of slavery for Southerners. Because of these reasons, Congress passed the Compromise Measures of 1850 ... on January 10, Alabama on Jan 11, Georgia on January 19, Louisiana on January 26, and Texas on February 1. On February 4 delegates from all these states met in Montgomery, Alabama where they drafted a constitution for the Confederate States of America. This outraged the N...

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... thing acuatlly led up to to the Underground Railroad. There have been slaves through most of human history. Their lives have varied from place to place and time to time, but in general a slave was someone who was "owned" by somebody else. They were treated as though they were a car, being bought and sold. Slavery was very different in early history, often ... in Africa for the slave trade never lived to see their destination. Some though did survive through this and were sold through the slave market to be bought by a white American person, but escaping from this awful treatment never e...

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Late presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln are always in the top ten of America's favorite presidents. So what was the reason for their assassination? Maybe society today does not have knowledge enough ... to make decisions, and our belief of right and wrong. Is there really a good reason Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated or was it really a freak accident that was soon regretted by the assassins? On February 12, 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County Kentucky. He later moved to Decatur Illinois. In contrast, John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 ... carefully...

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... ? I'll get to that in a second ok! I think the american dream has changed over the years. In the 1700's the american dream was simply being free. We achieved that dream by winnng the revolutionary war. That dream in my opinion is the greatest gift in the world. Toda y we have proud men and women fighting to defnd all the "little things ... beautiful women.Alot of these things to me are the american dream and th american way.In conclusion I say tht this is truly the land of oppurtunity and what your dreams are you can achieve them because nothing is impossible.This nation ha proved that m...

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... is when he points out that Lincoln stated, "I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong." Then follows it up by saying that Lincoln's conflict was that as president he could not act officially on his private judgment concerning the moral issue of slavery. McPherson relies ... that Lincoln was a conservative revolutionary. For example, when explaining how Lincoln wanted Congress to endorse his plan for gradual emancipation he showed Lincoln's seriousness by using a quote. "It is impossible to foresee all the incidents which may attend and all the ruin which may...

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... He portrays what life was like as a piece of property and tells his own interpretation of freedom. His point of view of freedom clearly differs from what the founding fathers thought it to be. Since Frederick was deprived of so much as a child, his picture of freedom is much more elemental ... and primitive to that of a wealthy white man. Due to his poor misfortune, Frederick looks at life from a different angle than the average man. In this story, Frederick realizes how he is unique from other people and uses this knowledge to fight for his own personal freedom. Frederick knew he was a ...

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... , there are several similarities that can be recognized between the two assassinations. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. He tried to begin his career in politics by running for Illinois legislature in 1832. He lost this race but in 1834 won a seat in the Lower House and served his position until 1841. Lincoln was a member of the ... House of Representatives from 1847 until 1849, and in 1956 he joined the Republican Party (Christina, n.d.). John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Massachusetts. He began his career in politics when he was elected to th...

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... surprisingly the film still holds up today. I don't believe that the story called for great acting but actors that were believable in the parts. Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves do just that and George Carlin is what I would call an actor actor, not a personality actor. He doesn't have much range ... certain straightness. The only other person of note in the movie is Joan of Arc, played by Jane Wiedlin, you might know her as one of the Go-Go's, and all female rock back from the 80s" She had very few lines in the movie so that may be the reason ... review, Hal Hinson: "Bill & Ted's Excellen...

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... another way. When all the people who work in the computer departments are laid off in the near future, hundreds of thousands of jobs will be taken from American hands and transferred to other countries. Assuming that each of these people that will be laid off have a family to support (with the average American ... 50 of a dollar "two cents for every dollar. In this double-edged sword, I find much irony "the American public has thousands of jobs stolen from them, the outsource workers might as well be working for free, and the wealthy Republican class picks adamantly at the money tree; th...

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... In his speech he makes the statement "a date which will live in infamy" which becomes a very famous quote. He makes his speech so complex by adding all of these adjectives, on how the United States of America was "suddenly" and "deliberately" attacked. As readers today reading his speech we ... working on maintaining peace. His speech is short but yet very forceful. Roosevelt also makes Japan to be this very large and powerful country, by calling them the "Empire of Japan". There is quite some repitition in his speech when he talks about how Japan not only attacked our ... how strong and...

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... life and that is what they should set forth to achieve. Nevertheless, the American Dream was taken from slaves. They were basically brainwashed that they could not live out any dreams. Frederick Douglass is a prime example that anyone can live out their American Dream. He was determined to ... that was placed in a trough. He made homemade spoons from oyster shells to eat with and wore only one linen shirt that hung to his knees. He wasn't provided any bed or warm blanket during the cold winter days. He and the other children would huddle together in the ... millions of impoverished sout...

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"The little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." A famous quote stated by President Abraham Lincoln. Harriet Beecher Stowe's, Uncle Tom's Cabin, helped to turn the tide of public opinion against slavery in the 19th century. This controversial novel was initially written to question slavery and to convince people of its wrongness. It was the first book that brought the problem of Negro slavery in America to the attention of the world. It became not only a bestseller, but a social documentary of the lives of slaves. Uncle Tom's Cabin, provides a definant protest against the soc...

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... show that while Lincoln had no intention of changing relations between the races, circumstances dictated that he needed to change them to a certain extent. This supports the original statement made by President Lincoln in 1858....

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... a huge step for African American life. The document forever freed those slaves within the Confederacy. It also allowed African Americans the chance to join both the Union ARMY and NAVY. By the end of the Civil War 200,000 black soldier's fought for the Union and freedom. This document strengthened the Union military, and also politically. Most importantly it was the ... ...

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